Chapel in the Sky ... Page 2 Editorial Texas AiM The B Norton Developments Page 1 Item 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” JamnY ffeet Tom 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.