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VOLUME 46
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1947
Number 24
‘Seniors Graduating by September 1
File Now’, States Placement Office
Every senior who expects to graduate before Septem
ber 1, 1947 should file a registration record with the Place
ment Office in Room 126, Administration Building, W. R.
Horsley announced. There is no charge for this service,
and many of the present senior
class and alumni have taken ad
vantage of this opportunity to
place their professional qualifi
cations on file where they may be
supplied quickly when needed.
The Placement Office is. trying
to develop a complete file on the
qualifications and professional pro
gress of A. & &M. graduates.
When notice is received of a job
which offers an unusually good
salary and professional opportun
ity, those qualified and interested
can be notified quickly, Horsley
added.
In order to help seniors and
alumni present their qualifications
to prospective employers in well-
organized form, the Placement Of
fice prepares a set of credentials
for each man who requests it.
These credentials are developed
from the registration record and
include a personnel leaflet (de
scribing the man’s background and
training), a summary of the opin
ions of his references, a tran
script of his credits, and a letter
of recommendation from the
Placement Officer. These are
sent to the employer on request
in a distinctive cover featuring
the A. & M. colors and seaL
This service is provided without
charge except for the personnel
leaflets, which are furnished at
cost. Placement Office personnel
are also available to help^ the indi
vidual in .preparing application
letters or for interviews. It is to
the advantage of all graduates to
make use of this service.
Those students who have not
registered, are urged to do so im
mediately.
Jones Appointed
Asst. Director of
Experiment Station
Dr. Sloan E. Jones has been ap
pointed assistant director of the
A. & M. Agricultural Experiment
Station, effective January 1, Dir
ector R. D. Lewis has announced.
Dr. Jones has been superintendent
of the substation at Ysleta since
1942.
There are 34 research centers in
the Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion. These include A. & M.’s
main station, 21 substations and
12 field laboratories. As assist
ant director, Dr. Jones will visit
each of these centers several times
a year, and aid in planning, staff
ing, correlating and interpreting
their needs and activities, Director
Lewis said.
A graduate of Clemson College
and South'Carolina, Dr. Jones ob
tained his masters degree from
A. & M. in 1929 and his doctorate
at Iowa State College in 1940.
He has been a member of the Ex
periment Station staff since 1928.
First Ysleta Superintendent
When the Ysleta substation was
started, he was appointed the first
superintendent. Under his lead
ership,, the station has become out
standing in investigations relative
to long-stapled cotton, alfalfa, pro
duction of vegetable seeds, and
feeding of livestock, Director Lew
is stated.
Dr. and Mrs. Jones and their
young daughter will reside in the
Bryan-College Station community.
Chemical Engineer of Wisconsin University
To Address Groups Thursday Evening at 8
Dr. K. M. Watson of Wisconsin University’s Department
of Chemical Engineering will speak at a joint meeting of
the A. & M. Section, the Student AIChE, and the Student
Need for Workers
With Merit System
Council Announced
■♦■Affiliates of the American Chem
ical Society on Thursday, January
9. The joint session will take
place in the Chemistry Lecture
Room at 8 p. m., Fred W. Jensen,
Secretary of the Texas A. & M.
Section, has announced. Dr. Wat
son’s topic will be “Kinetics of Re
actions Catalyzed by Solids”.
The Merit System Council, serv
ing the State Department of Pub
lic Welfare and both divisions of
the Texas Unemployment Com
pensation Commission, the Unem
ployment Compensation Division
and the State Employment Serv
ice Division, is announcing Feb
ruary 8 as the date for competitive
examinations for positions for
which qualified workers are ur
gently needed. Successful candi
dates will qualify for certification
to the agencies for employment as
Field Workers, Child Welfare
Workers, Maintenance Supervisors,
Clerks, Typists, and Stenograph
ers, depending upon what exam
inations they pass.
Entrance salaries range from
$1380 for Clerk-Typists to $2160
for Maintenance Supervisors and
Clerk I. Meritorius service may
be rewarded by increases in sal-
a r y and promotion in rank,
Charles S. Gardiner, director,
announced.
Persons interested in these ex
aminations may obtain full in
formation and application blanks
by writing to the Merit System
Director, 808 Tribune, Austin 21,
Texas. All applications must be
filed in the Merit System office or
postmarked before midnight of
January 13.
Dinner at Aggieland Inn
There will be the usual dinner
in honor of the speaker for mem
bers of the three groups and their
wives, at the Aggieland Inn at
6:30 p. m.
Dr. Watson has writen numer
ous papers and articles dealing
with Process Engineering and is
the co-author of the text, ’’Indus
trial Chemical Calculations.” He
has had extensive experience since
1930 in the petroleum industry,
with the Gulf Oil Corporation, and
Universal Oil Products Company,
and at present is a consultant for
the Research and Development De
partment of the Sinclair Refining
Company.
Lecture Topics
In his lecture Dr. Watson will
discuss the problems associated
with reactions occuring at the sur
face of solid catalyst particles. The
catalysic problem is complicated by
problems of diffusion to and from
the catalyst particle and within
the pores of the particle, and also
by a sequence of chemical steps or
dinarily considered to involve ac
tivated absorption of the reactants,
reaction on the catalyst surface,
and desorption of the products.
The meeting is open to the pub
lic.
Even in China
Twelve-Year-Olds Whistle It
From “The Christian Evangel”
Morris S. Burton, an Ex-Aggie,
an official of the Gulf States Tele
phone Co., of Tyler, Texas, told
us a very interesting Aggie story
the other day. We pass it on to
you. Here is the story:
I am sorry I cannot name the
Aggie involved. I met him only
on one occasion at Kaufman, Tex
as at which time he told me the
story. All I can remember is that
he was a Lt. Colonel. He lived at
Denton, Texas and I think he was
of the class of ’40.
The Lt. Colonel, an Ex-Aggie,
was flying over China on a .very
important mission. It was under
stood that he would be flying over
territory in which if he had to land
it would probably mean death. Un
fortunately engine trouble devel
oped. They tried every way to
keep from having to land but with
out success. They landed. He
worked feverishly to repair the
ship expecting to be shot any mo
ment. Suddenly a twelve year old
Chinese boy came walking toward
him directly from the woods near
by . They were startled to hear
him whistling the old Aggie war
song. He said his first thought
was he was losing his mind. He
could not believe what was hap
pening. But the boy came direct
ly to them and stopped whistling
and began to make signs of peace
and to follow him. They went to
a village nearby where they were
royally received and were given
a great welcome.
Here is the explanation: A
Chinese student had attended A
& M College and caught the Aggie
spirit. He went home and taught
the village the old Aggie war song
and told them if an American
plane ever landed to start singing
or whistling the old Aggie song
for there would probably be an
Aggie on it. The Aggie spirit
had reached the heart of China
and paved the way for safety and
not death. Probably the old Ag
gie War Hymn was never more
welcomed.
Town Hall Presents . . . This Month
Frankie Masters
To Play Feb. 22
TITO GUIZAR, who is pic
tured above, will appear on the
stage of Guion Hall on January
30 or 31, under the auspices of
Frankie Masters and his or
chestra have been booked for
George Washington’s Birthday
Ball, Joe Skiles, director of Stu
dent Activities, has announced.
This all-college dance will be
held Saturday evening, Feb
ruary 22, in Sbisa Hall, with
dancing from 9 to 12.
On the night before this dance,
the Freshman Ball will take
place.
Washington Rural
Health Consultant
To Speak Jan. 8-9
Miss Elin Anderson, Rural
Health Consultant of the Federal
Extension Service, Washington, D.
C., will be in College Station, Jan
uary 8 and 9 to speak at the gen
eral staff conference of the A. &
M. College Extension Service.
Miss Anderson will discuss Ex
tension activities in rural health.
The State Health Department, the
health specialist of the Farm Home
Administration, the Texas Rural
Health Committee and the Brazos
County Medical Association have
been extended invitations to hear
Miss Anderson talk and participate
in the discussion following.
A native of Canada, Miss Ander
son did rural health work in sev
eral Canadian provinces before
coming to the United States. She
has also traveled extensively in the
Scandinavian countries to observe
and gain an understanding of the
problems of rural health in those
nations.
Taking her M. A. degree in so
ciology from Columbia University
in 1929, Miss Anderson conducted
studies on rural health problems
in Vermont from 1929 to 1936. In
1939 she initiated a project Medi
cal Care and Health for Rural
people under the auspices of the
Nebraska Extension Service. She
joined the Federal Extension staff
in 1946, coming from the Farm
Foundation in Chicago where she
headed the Rural Health and Med
ical Services project since 1939.
On January 10, Miss Anderson
will go to Waco to speak at the
annual meeting of the Texas Ag
ricultural Workers Association.
Town Hall. He will be accom
panied by a troupe of 15 Latin
American entertainers on both
matinee and evening perform
ances.
Aggies Line Coach
May Have Quit\
Says Houston Post
The following is a quote from
the Monday sports column of
Bruce Layer, sports editor of the
Houston Post:
“According to the dope “Un
cle Bill” Jam<js, the likeable line
mentor at A. & M., is planning
to retire from coaching to de-
LINE COACH ? ? ?
vote all of his time to his boys
camp in the hill country.”
The Battalion has had informa
tion of this sort ever since Thanks
giving Day, but has withheld it
pending release from “authorita
tive sources”. A telegram query
ing Uncle Bill regarding his res
ignation has never been answered.
Also a telephone conversation with
C. W. Crawford, chairman of the
Athletic Council, failed to reveal
anything.
Kiwanis Trustee to
Speak January 8 in
Sbisa Hall at 7:15
Joe O. Naylor, Kiwanis Inter
national trustee, will address the
Kiwanis club of College Station at
its second anniversary program
Wednesday evening, January 8, at
7:15 o’clock in Sbisa Hall.
W. D. “Bill” Whalen, district
governor, will install new officers,
which will include Joe Sorrels,
president; Paul Ballance and Sid
ney L. Loveless, vice-presidents; S.
M. Cleland, secretary; and N. D.
Durst, treasurer.
Col. Adcock Speaks
To Brazos Reserve
Officers Wednesday
Col. Tom Adcock of the Military
Science Department will be guest
speaker at a regular meeting of
the Brazos County chapter of the
Reserve Officers Association. The
meeting will be held January 8,
at 7:30 p. m. in the Petroleum En
gineering lecture room.
Regular meetings have been
changed from the second Tuesday
to the second Wednesday of each
month.
AVC Pushes Army
Pay System for Vets
The American Veterans Com
mittee (AVC) has urged the Vet
erans Administration to adopt a
decentralized system of paying
subsistence allowances to veter
ans attending colleges similar to
the payroll system used in the
Army so that the payments can be
promptly made.
An investigation led by Chat
Paterson, AVC’s national repre
sentative, has revealed that by the
present method veterans are un
necessarily late receiving their
checks. The AVC recommended
that a qualified disbursing officer
be appointed to make payments of
allowances directly to student vet
erans; that payroll lists be pre
pared monthly from the records
of the local VA office; that the
disbursing officer receive a sin
gle check from the Treasury cov
ering the entire payroll; and that
the disbursing officer make cash
payments as idicated on the pay
roll. The AVC is working, also
for an increase in subsistence al
lowances to $100 for single men
and $125 for married men, with
an additional allowance of $25 for
each child.
Possibility High of Norton’s
Becoming U. of C. Coach
Reports Place Aggie Coach and McKeever, of Cornell,
University, As Top Men of List for California Job
A story from San Francisco states that
speculation is high concerning the possibili
ty of Coach Homer Norton’s becoming avail
able for the football coaching job at the Uni
versity of California. This announcement
Physics Dept. Gets
Spectrograph from
Aviation Factory
Research and Teaching
Made Possible By New
Laboratory Equipment
Spectrographic equipment, which
during the war was used to test
the aluminum and steel that went
into North American Aviation's
Mustang fighters, is now in opera
tion on the A. & M. campus. The
complete laboratory was purchased
by the college under the govern
ment’s surplus property program,
and has been set up in the Physics
building, for use both in research
and in teaching a course in indus
trial spectrography.
The installation consists of four
units: the Dietert spectrograph
itself; two transformers which
produce the high voltage neces- TT T'k
sary for vaporizing metal, and an JLjOCIVC JJOVITIS
analyzer which makes possible
rapid interpretation of results.
Heart of the apparatus is a steel
mirror which has been engraved
with an incredible 24,000 lines to
the inch.
The main unit, similar in prin
cipal to glass-prism spectrometers,
makes photographs of the spec
trum of vaporized metals, including
ultra-violet and infra-red bands.
The analyzer unit makes possible
a quick check of the spectrum of
the sample against a standard,
leading to computation of wave
length (chemical composition) and
density. Similar devices are used
in many industrial plants today
by metalurgists, and the “spectro-
graphist’ has become a key man
in many industries.
TwelfthWildlife
Conference To Be
Held February 3-5
Headquarters in San
Antonio’s Plaza Hotel
Incentives for wildlife and The
more lasting benefits of good land
use will be stressed in the Twelfth
North American Wildlife Confer
ence, to be held February 3-5 in
San Antonio, Texas. This an
nouncement was made known re
cently by Walter P. Taylor, unit
leader of the U. S. Department
of the Interior.
The series of meetings has
been correlated for summariza
tion by Aldo Leopold under the
general theme, .“Americans,
Wildlife, and Their Land”.
Four speakers will be scheduled
for each of the General meetings,
and six for each of the Technical
sessons.
The Wildlife Conference, prob
ably the most important *of its
kind ever held in the Southwest,
will be held in San Antonio’s Plaza
Hotel. Persons interested in at
tending the meeting are reminded
to make reservations early.
Houston ASHVE
To Hold Talks
With Students
A group of Houston engineers
will be the guests of the A. & M.
Student Chapter of the ASHVE,
for a round table discussion of the
heating and ventalilation field,
Thursday night, January 9 at 7:30
in Sbisa Hall. ,
The engineers, headed by Burt
Fisher, are all members of the
American Society of Heating and
Ventilating Engineers. They plan
to hold a general survey of the
air conditioning and heating fields
so that undergraduate students,
who are undecided in their major
course, may see what these oppor
tunities have in store for them.
Each engineer will hold a ques
tion and answer session which
should last about twenty minutes
and students will move from table
to table. Topics to be discussed
include; air distribution, centrifu
gal and reciprocating compressor
systems, direct fired gas heating,
steam and hot water heating, con
trols and materials specifications.
The idea for the program was
originated by Key W. Ryan, pres
ident of the A. & M. Chapter.
Visiting engineers are Burt Fish
er, A. D. Barnes, Fred Brandt, and
Reg F. Taylor.
Fiscal Office Accepts
Fees Beginning Tomorrow
Beginning at 8 a. m., Wed
nesday, January 8, students
now enrolled may pay their fees
at the Fiscal office for the
spring semester. These fees
should be paid prior to January
22, it was stated.
For veteran students fee
waiver slips may be secured
from the Veterans Advisor’s of
fice, beginning at the same
hour.
After payment of fees, dor
mitory students should report
to Room 100, Goodwin Hall and
make room reservations for
next semester.
came as a result of Coach Norton’s West
coast team victory over the Eastern team by
a score of 13-9 in the Shrine game.
A recent sportscast over a San Antonio
radio station broadcast an interview with
Norton. Upon being asked by the
reporter, “Have you been offered
the California coaching job?” the
Aggie football coach replied, “I
have no statement to make at this
time. I’m leaving for New York
and the National Coaches Associa
tion meeting. And any statement
will have to wait until after that
time.”
To add further confusion, it
is widely known that the Board
of Regents of the University of
California at Berkely have sent
their track coach Brutus Hamil
ton to the National Coaches As
sociation with the purpose in
mind of selecting the most likely
applicant.
In outlining the qualifications
Married Vets
Turn Okies to
The largest “moving day” in
the history of A. & M. will come
between January 17 and 24, ac
cording to college housing author
ities. Hart and Walton Halls will
be vacated by veteran families and
made available for single students.
Students having apartments and
graduating in January are asked
to be ready to move on January 17.
All other students in Hart and
Walton Halls must be moved by
January 24. However, college
housing authorities urge them to
be ready to move between January
17 and 24. Letters will be sent
directing these students, and
apartments will be ready to move
into from the halls.
Some of the new apartments on
the old polo grounds will be ready
for occupancy on January 17.
These are to be equipped with part
of the furniture used in Hart and
Walton Halls.
It’s Confoosing But
Amoosing, the Batey-
Baty Sports Question
Is it Baty or Batey who is mak
ing those basketball points for the
Texas Aggies so far this season?
It is Batey—Bill Batey, of Moul
ton, Texas, and not Buryi Baty, of
Paris, Texas, who was the Aggies’
touchdown passer in football this
past season. Although they spell
the names differently, they are
pronounced the same.
The current cage sensation, Bill
Batey, came to_ the Aggies this
year after making a name for him
self during the war with Corpus
Christi Naval Air Station. He
stopped briefly at the University
of Texas and then, with permis
sion, moved over to Aggieland.
Buryi Baty, although a eager in
high school, has not tried college
basketball, and Bill Batey, although
a gridder at Moulton, did not try
football in college.
So to straighten out the matter
—Bill Batey does not play football
and Buryi Baty does not play
basketball
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rvists of
Tomorrow
enlisted reserve per-
Enlistd
Air Corl
Air Corps
sonnel will hold an organization
meeting in the Assembly Hall,
Wednesday evening, January 8, at
7:30 p. m. All those who are in
terested should be present.
that they, the Board of Regents,
expected of their new coach, these
two were paramount: “He must
be able to work in harmony with
the alumni, student body, and fac
ulty; he must not expect a salary
higher than that received by the
university president.”
Hot stove league reports have
Coach Norton and Ed McKeever,
formerly of Cornell University,
as the top men in line for the
California job.
McKeever, who formerly played
and coached for Pete Cawthon at
Texas Tech, was assistant coach
at Boston College and Notre Dame.
He became head coach at Notre
Dame when Frank Leahy went
into the service during World War
II, leaving there to become head
coach at Cornell. McKeever’s con
tract at Cornell was understood to
be good for a lifetime.
Cornell is noted for keeping its
football coaches for a great length
of time. The only two coaches
that Cornell ever had guiding the
destinies of its football team were
Gil Dobie and Carl Snaveley.
Snavely left that school for North
Carolina of his own free will.
Coach McKeever is said to
have resigned at Cornell because
he felt that the alumni were not
giving him proper support in the
matter of securing players.
State Athletes to
Be Guests at 2nd
Football Banquet
Highschool athletes from
all parts of Texas will be
guests of- the Brazos County
A. & M. Club at the Second
Annual Football Party, to be
held in Sbisa Hall Saturday
night.
Additional entertainment f e a-
tures have been announced by the
committee in charge. The famous
A Cappella Choir of Stephen F.
Austin High School, Bryan, will
sing a number of selections, includ
ing “The Spirit of Aggieland.”
This choir has received national
recognition, and is booked to ap
pear in as far away cities as San
Francisco this year. The Aggie
land Orchestra will play dinner
music and for the dance, which will
follow the presentation of football
letters. W. R. “Bill” Carmichael,
principal of the Stephen F.
Austin High School in Bryan, will
be toastmaster.
As previously announced, Eddie
Dyer, manager of the w o r 1 d’s
champion St. Louis Cardinals, will
be the speaker of the evening.
During the program the win
ners of the Lipscomb-Munnerlyn
Most Valuable and Co-Captain tro
phies and the Bert Pfaff Best
Blocker trophy will be presented.
The team has not elected the hon
orary captains for the past sea
son, and the selections will be an
nounced by one of the players.
Semester’s Final Examination Schedule
Final examinations for this semester will be held from January
17-22, inclusive. The
iods as follows:
week will be divided into ten
examination
per-
Period
Date
Hours
K
Januax-y 17, Friday
8-11
a.m.
L
January 17, Fi'iday
1- 4
p.m.
M
January 18, Saturday
8-11
a.m.
N
. January 18, Saturday
1- 4
p.m.
P
January 20, Monday
8-11
a.m.
R
Januax-y 20, Monday
January 21, Tuesday
1- 4
p.m.
S
8-11
a.m.
T
January 21, Tuesday
January 22, Wednesday
1- 4
p.m.
V
8-11
a.m.
W
January 22, Wednesday
1- 4
p.m.
The letter at the
end of each section number designates the
per-
iod of the week for the final examination of each course. For ex
ample, for Mathematics 305, section 500L, the letter “L” indicates that
the final examination in this course will be held during the second per
iod of final examination week, which is 1 p.m. Friday, January 17.
Since there are no final examinations in courses that are strictly lab
oratory, the lettex “X” is used at the end of the section number of such
courses. *
No final examinations are officially scheduled for Thursday, Jan
uary 23; however, a schedule for students with conflicting exams will
be announced by the Registrar’s office. Conflicts will be taken after
January 23.