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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1947)
Page Fnnr THE BATTALION, College Station (Aggieland), Texas, Saturday, May 10, 1947 Eight Education Courses To Be Offered in Summer Terms Eight courses in education will be offered by the department of education and psychology during the summer terms, George B. Wil cox, head of the department, has announced. “Administration of Local School Finance” is a study of school funds Nine Grants In Research Made Grants of more than $40,- 000 have been made recently to the Agricultural Experi ment Station for support of research in the field of nutrition and biochemistry. Most of this money will be used to support research fellowships, according to an experiment station spokesman. Net amounts of the grants, their donors and the pur pose for which the grants were made are as follows: $15,000 from Swift and Com pany for studies on the methods of supplying phosphorous to cat tle on ranges deficient in this element by application of fertil izer and feeding; $1,500 from the National Live Stock and Meat Board for work on the retention of the B vitamins in meat during stewing; $3,000 from the National Live Stock and Meat Board for work on the effect of meat in the diet on reproduction and growth; $4,000 from the Nutrition Foun dation for investigations on the mechanism of action of vitamin B on the synthesis of proteins; $5,000 from Dow Chemical Company for research on the role of magnesium in herbivor ous animals; $3,400 from American Meat In stitute for research on the amino acid composition of meat; $800 from Lederle Laboratories for work on the role of folic acid in nu trition of the turkey; $6,000 from Arnold Dryer Company for studies on dehydra tion processes and their affects on nutritive values of forages; $2,000 from the US Public Health Service for nutritional work. Examinations Now Open for Auditor, Deputy Collector A civil service examination for zone deputy collector and office auditor is now open, according to H. N. Yardley, local secretary of the US Civil Service Examiners. No written tests are required. Applicants must be between the ages of 18 and 62, not applicable to persons entitled to veteran prefer ences. The position of zone deputy collector and office auditor pays $2644.80 per annum. Applications and further infor mation may be secured from Sec retary Yardley, whose office is in the local post office. All applica tions must be on file with the Reg ional Director, 14th Regional Of fice of the US Civil Service Com mission, 210 South Harwood St., Dallas 1, not later than May 19. First Post-War Air Conditioning Short Course Set June 8-11 Post-war revival of annual air- conditioning short courses has been announced, with the next confer ence set for June 8-11. The courses, open to all interest ed in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning, were inauguarated in 1939, but interrupted by the war. Prof. Wayne Long, member of the course executive committee, said that the three Texas chap ters of the American Society of Heating, Ventilating and Air-Con ditioning Engineers, in coopera tion with the A. & M. course. In formation may be obtained from Long or from B. P. Fisher, South ern Furnace and Supply Company, Houston. Air Reserves Turn In Summer Schedule In order that plans for sum mer flying training may be made, all Air-Reserve Officers should submit schedules of available per iods during the first summer term, it was announced yesterday. It is requested that this infor mation be made available as soon as possible. Those concerned should turn in this schedule to the chairman of the Air-Reserve Com mittee, Bill Aven, Room 28, Leg gett Hall, or turn it in at the next meeting of the Reserve Officers Association on Monday, May 12. The meeting will begin at 7:15 p. m. in Sbisa Hall. Vet Wives Elect Summer Officers In a Tuesday night meeting of the Veterans’ Wives Club, Mrs. JoAnn Barron was elected presi dent for the summer semester. Mrs. Pat Sparks was chosen vice- president; Mrs. Ray Buie, secre tary; Mrs. Dorothy Birkner, trea surer; Mrs. Lib Ackerman, re porter; Mrs. Shirley Fillingim, historian; and Mrs. Naomi Sim mons, parliamentarian. The next business meeting of the wives club will be held on June 10. on the local level, containing dis cussions of sources, budgeting and systems of accounting as related to school efficency. “The School Plant” is a study of plans for de termining the extent of present and future buildings and equipment needs of a school unit, efficiency o fthe present plant, operation and maintenance and planning the building program. Both will be taught by Wilcox. Other courses to be offered in clude: “Tests and Measurements”, a study of tests commonly given to secondary school pupils; “Coun seling and Guidance”, for teachers interested in some phase of stu dent personnel, work; “Curriculum Development”, giving special em phasis to conversation of resour ces; “Audio-Visual Education”, de signed for administrators and teachers desiring to acquire a work ing knowledge of the techniques employed in the use of sound mo tion pictures. Two courses, “Read ing” and “Speech”, will be taught by Mrs. Fred Sloop, first grade teacher of the A. & M. Consolida ted School. Guest instructors for the sum mer terms will include, in addition to Mrs. Sloop, W. R. Carmichael, principal of Stephen F. Austin High School in Bryan; R. W. Ar nold, vice-president and dean of boys of Thomas Jefferson High School, San Antonio; W. F. Archi bald, director of the East Texas Bureau of Visual Education, Kil gore; Dr. T. D. Brooks, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences; A. O. Bird, superintendent of schools at Gonzales; A. M. Tate, superintendent of the Marlin Schools; and Richard Bowles, prin cipal of Pease School in Austin. Additional information may be obtained from George B. Wilcox, of the department of educa- and psychology. Library Exhibits Seized Documents A two-day exhibition and demon stration of abstract patents and other scientific and industrial doc uments seized from the Germans Italians, and Japanese in more than 300 industrial and scientific fields, including mechanical, electrical, chemical and other types of inven tions and reports, will be held at the college library today and to morrow. The exhibition sponsored jointly with the college and the Technical Services of the US Department of Commerce, includes pamphlets, in dexes, miniature drawings, and booklets on the more than 4500 enemy patents now available to the American industry on a non-royalty and non-exclusive basis. No working models will be shown however. The bibliographic and reference division of the Depart ment of Commerce is a new source of scientific and technical infor mation for American business and industry, it was stated. Representatives of the Depart ment of Commerce will be present and will discuss with interested per sons the patents and scientific re ports. Short Cource Plans Near Completion Final plans are now underway for the annual poultry short course to be held on the campus June 2-21, according to E. D. Parnell of the poultry husbandry department. From indications there will be a large attendance this year, Par nell said. Persons who attend the three-weeks course will have dor mitory facilities to stay in, he ad ded. Participants in the short course will study feeding, breeding, and improvement of farm flocks. Those enrolled may qualify as flock se lecting agents and pullorum test ing agents for chicken flocks eith er the first or second week, while turkey selecting and blood collec ting agents may qualify the third week, Parnell explained. Last year’s short attendance was well over 100, with 60 agents qual ifying. This course is open to both men and women. Brazos Barbecue Tickets on Sale Tickets are now on sale for the annual barbecue of the Brazos County A. & M. Club honoring Aggie participants in intercolle giate winter and spring sports and coaches. It will be held at 7 p.m. May 19 at the Bryan Country Club. Ticket distributing points in Bryan are Canady’s and Roman Pharmacies, W S D, Waldrop’s, and Hotard’s. In College Sta tion, tickets may be secured at Lipscomb’s and Aggieland Phar macies, Casey’s, WSD, Waldrop’s and Loupot’s. After the barbecue, coaches will announce lettermen in bas ketball, baseball, track, golf, ten nis, and other sports. High Mass Tomorrow To Include Choir For the first time since pre war days, high mass will be held at 8 o’clock tomorrow morning at St. Mary’s Chapel in which a choir has participated. Fath er Edward Matoka, assistant pastor, has been devoting much of his time to the development of a choir, which will make its first appearance at the Mother’s ay Service. CLASSIFIED ADS ATTENTION ENGINEERS: Get your engineers’ math chart at the Exchange Store. THE SCRIBE SHOP—Typing, mimeo graphing, drawing. Phone 2-670B. 1007 E. 23rd, Bryan. REPAIRS: Radio and refrigerator sales and service. All work guaranteed. LEONARDS East Gate Ph. 4-1240 New and refresher classes starting now at McKenzie-Baldwin Business College in shorthand, typewriting and associated sub jects. Phone 2-6665 for information. FOR SALE: 2 bicycles ; B-flat trumpet; Photographic Darkroom equipment & sup plies ; Zeiss Ikonta B Camera; Radio & Record Player; 6 cu. ft Icebox. 213 N. Munnerlyn Drive or Box 2159 College. FOR SALE: 2 bedroom prefabricated house with large screened porch. Deliveriy in August. Unfurnished or partly fur nished. 213 N. Munnerlyn Drive. FOR SALE: One bedroom house partly furnished. Priced to sell. Call after 5 p.m. 206 So. Munnerlyn Village. FOR SALE: One year old, 16 x 32 prefab house, complete with car shed, two porches. $2,750.00. See at 204 Cooner St. after 6:00 p.m. FOR SALE: House trailer—Built-in bed, 150 c.f. storage, electric cooking stove. See Stout by Aggie Service Station. $400.00. FOR SALE: Slightly used baby buggy. Project house 3-C. Student’s wife wants ride between Bry an and Campus. Phone Mrs. Frazer, 2-5194 between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Used 4-burner table top range. Reduced price $50.00. Apt. D-3-A, College View. G. I. Joe and his jouncing jeep. It speeds, it bucks, it twists, it whirls. He will make you laugh: this little hero is yours to keep at Joyces Toy House. 608 South College, Bryan. SENIORS—Get your new and re-newals on magazines at special student rates be fore leaving school. Johnston’s Magazine Agency at College Book Store. Box 284. Phone 4-8814. Gottlieb Elected Hillel President Richard Gottlieb was elected president of the Hillel Club for the coming year at a Wednesday night meeting of the group. J. Y. Golden was named vice-president, and Richard I. Alterman was elec ted secretary. Stanley Weiss was chosen 'treasurer, and the parlia mentarian position went to Julius Bloom. This was the last meeting of the current semester for the Hillel Club. VS A Secretary Also Public Stenographer Mrs. Betty Hartsfield, secretary for the Veteran Students Associa tion in Room 207, Goodwin Hall, is available as a public stenograph er for theme typing and similar work. By this arrangement the association is able to keep the of fice open during the school day. Students to St. Louis AIChE Meet Selected Two student delegates to the convention of the Aemrican Insti tute of Chemical Engineers, to be held next week at St. Louis, were chosen here yesterday. They are Charles R. Thomas of Altus, Oklahoma, and William J. Terrell of Navasota, senior stu dents who, will motor to St. Louis to attend the convention next Sunday through Wednesday. —AWARDS— (Continued from Page 1) program. The main purpose of the Sch olarship Committee has always been to help those boys who would otherwise be unable to get to finish a college education with out financial assistance. There has been a noted increase in the amount of available funds the last year. With this continued assistance from former students and industrial concerns, the Committee will be able to offer more and better awards from year to year. Students interested in any phase of awards can secure com plete information from R. G. Perryman, Office of the Regis trar, in the Administration Build ing. “He’s a lawyer—and he says I’m the first case he ever lost’’ Ways to Tackle Problem Bring In Personality By Science Service CHICAGO, ILL., May 9—How you solve your personal problems tells what kind of personality you have. This new way to size your self up and sort out your friends was proposed to the Midwestern Psychological Association here this morning by Prof. Robert H. Seashore, of Northwestern Univer sity. It is a better way to pigeon hole individuals than the old way of sorting them into go-getters or solitary thinkers. It would ser ve psychiatrist better than the classical medical division into schizophrenic, manic-depressive, and paranoid. Everybody, at one time or an other, uses all these ways of tackl ing problems. Which one is your favorite ? Direct attack. The person who goes straight at the trouble, work ing all the harder, or improving his technique when things are too difficult. Going around. This man dodges obstacles and tries a new approach when one method doesn’t seem to work. Escape. He ignores problems or stalls for time until something happens to relieve him of the prob lem. Diversion. He throws up a smoke screen in the form of a temper tantrum to distract attention from the main issue. “Sour grapes”. This man pre tends to himself and others that the question wasn’t very import ant anyway—that he never really wanted to do it. “Basking”. He hangs around with successful people so that he will get the credit for their bright ideas. “Passing the buck.” He blames failures on other people or cir cumstances. Spotlight Seeking. When he can’t succeed, he tries to get at tention, even if it is unfavorable because it is better than being ignored. Giving up. He acts childish or plays sick in order that people will not expect him to solve the prob lem Forgetting. Daydreaming. He ignores real problems while he dreams of imaginary successes. Model Airplanes ' To Fly Today On Baseball Field The Industrial Education De partment and the Bryan American Legion Post are sponsoring a model airplane contest starting at 11a.m. today on the baseball field. The first event will be hand- launched and rubberd-powered gli ders. This event open to juniors up to the age of 16, will last until 2 p.m. The second event from 2 to 5 p. m. will be the controlled model event. It will consist of both speed and stunt contests and is open to juniors and seniors alike. Starting at 5 p.m. the free- flight gas models will perform, and there will be an endurance contest of rubber-powered models. This event will be held on the field across the tracks from the base ball field. Merchandise prizes will be a- warded to the winners of the first, second and third places in each contest. The public is invited to attend. —AERO— (Continued from Page 1) rapidly expanding aerodynamics program in accordance with plans made at the tme he first came here. I have known Mr. Brush for more than ten years and he comes to us extremely well re commended as one to coordinate our entire aeronautical program.” Television In Theaters Promised PHILADELPHIA, May 9—Tele vision on the theater screen is a promise for the near future. Moving pictures 10 by 7.5 feet were shown here at Franklin Institute in a recent demonstration by Radio Corporation of America. There is much to be done before the system can be put into gen eral use, but the equipment now developed points the way. These large-size pictures were put on the viewing screen by a projection system that depends upon a spheri cal mirror. They were enlarge ments of what would appear normally on the face of the tele vision viewing tube. The spherical mirror reflective projection system is somewhat similar to the arrangement in the Schmidt type astronomical tele scope. With a more powerful pro jector than the one demonstrated here, pictures 20 by 15 feet have been produced, RCA scientists state. They were of brightness and detail suitable for theater use. ★ The large-screen system em ploys the same all-electronic sim ultaneous method of color televis ion developed by RCA. This, how ever, is still in the laboratory stage although sufficiently far advanc ed to prove it to be practical. Several years will probably be required for its development to equal the status of present black- and-white television, according to Dr. V. K. Zworykin of RCA. In this color process, three sep arate colors are transmitted at the same instant over adjoining television channels of the same band-width used in standard tele vision. Then, at the all-electronic receiver which has a new type of receiver-projector, the three colors are applied to kenescopes, or pic ture tubes, one with a red phos phor face, one blue and the other green. The three pictures are pro jected on the screen superimpos ed on each other to form a single image blended in the same colors as the original. New Submarines To Harness Atom Power The submarine of tomorrow, a true underwater fish, will be a dif ferent kind of steel fish. It will be run by atomic power and will be able to cruise completely sub merged for weeks at a time. The old submarines of the last war are now obsolete victims of engineering progress. From the atomic bomb there will be snatched the power of fis sion, and from the Germans there wil be adapted an air-snatching device, the snorkel, and a radically streamlined hull for speed. The Navy has no intention of waiting for atomic energy before building new submarines. Al ready, plans have been made for underwater craft that will, in part at least, be less easily destroyed by present-known anti-submarine measures. They will be better able to withstand atomic bomb explos ions from lessons learned from the Bikini tests, and they will in corporate German U-boat develop ments made too late in the war to be of much help to the Nazis. Math Donation To Initiate Contest A gift of $1,000 from the estate of the late Dr. Hillel Halperin has been received by the mathematics department, it was announced to day. Income from the bequest will be used for an annual mathematics contest prize. In addition, the estate of Dr. Halperin, a mathematician who served on the faculty from 1920 until his death in 1945, has given the college YMCA a new motion picture projector. A CORDIAL GREETING AMERICAN GENERAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Houston, Texas CENTRAL TEXAS DIVISION, College Station, Texas FORD MUNNERLYN, District Manager Associates: COLSON & CO. Sidney L. Loveless, ’38 Agents Harry Hooker, ’35 W. N. (Flop) Colson, ’40 Insurance of All Kinds M. M. (Rip) Erskine Over Aggieland Studio H. E. Burgess, ’29 PHONES Weldon L. Maples, ’43 Office Residence Ray Smith 4-1132 2-8544
