Expanded ’Mural
Program Planned
For This Spring
CLIFF ACKERMAN
Plans for one of the most ex
tensive Intramural programs in
the history of A&M will have its
initial inauguration within the next
week or so, according to an an
nouncement made by Barney
Welch, director of Intramurals.
As the students finish the gruel
ing job of registration they will
be more than ready for a little re
laxation and Intramural Athletics
will provide the needed play and
recreation.
This 1947-48 spring semester In
tramural program will have both
team sports for points leading to
the Intramural Flag and open
tournaments to take care of the
wants of all students. Team sports
will be handball, horseshoes, box
ing, wrestling, swimming and div
ing, softball, and the track meet.
Along with these there will be
the open tournaments in badminton,
golf, fencing, and weight lifting.
Entry cards for the various
sports will be sent to all Athletic
Officers and Unit Managers to
indicate whether or not each outfit
or dorm intends to enter a particul
ar sport. Those in charge are ask
ed to return these entry cards as
soon as possible so that scheduling
can be completed without delay.
If there are any suggestions or
any questions concerning the pro
gram drop in at the Intramural of
fice.
WTAW will return to the air
at 8 p. m. Friday night to broad
cast the Southern Methodist-
Texas Aggie basketball game.
Arrangements have also been
made to broadcast the Texas
Christian-TeXas Aggie game
Saturday night at the same time.
Milt Frenkel will do the play
by play and Clark Monroe will
do the color.
Intramural Notes . . .
INTRAMURAL OFFICERS MEET
Athletic Officers and Unit
Managers will meet Thursday,
February 5 at 5 o’clock in room
301 Goodwin Hall.
Only 2 Unbeaten
Teams Left in C.S.
Volleyball League
At the close of the third round
of play in the College Station Vol
leyball League, the Senators of the
American League and the Cubs of
the National League were the only
remaining undefeated teams.
The Senators, managed by Gor
don Gray, managed to down the
Yankees, Tigers, and Red Sox in
that order while the Cubs, managed
by W. R. Horsley, decisioned the
Giants, Braves, and Dodgers.
Sponsored by the Recreation
Council, the league plays each Mon
day night in the A&M Consolidated
Gym. There are twelve teams with
ten members each. At the end of
the season, the winner of the
American League will play the
winner of the National League for
the championship of College Sta
tion.
Last Monday night, the Senators
drubbed the Red Sox 15-4 and 15-
13; the Athletics defeated the Yan
kees 15-9 an 15-6; and the Tigers
edged the Indians 15-9 and 15-10.
The Cubs blanked the Dodgers
15-0 and 15-0; the Cardinals squee
zed by the Giants 14-16, 15-7, and
15-7; and the Pirates won over
the Braves 15-7, 3-15, and 15-11.
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Aggie Quintet
Host to SMU,
TCU This Week
With half of the Southwest Con
ference schedule behind them the
Texas Aggie basketball squad will
have two chances to crack into
the conference win column this
week.
The Cadet cagers will play host
to the SMU Mustangs at DeWare
Fieldhouse Friday night and Sat
urday night the busy Farmers will
entertain winless TCU.
A Maroon and White victory Fri
day night would be a big surprise
to everyone in spite of the poor
showing indicated by the Mustang
record. The Dallas quintet has won
only one game in conference com
petition while taking the count
four times. However, the Ponies
have, met the top clubs in the lea
gue and have never lost a tilt by
more than seven points. SMU’s
five began conference play by
downing TCU and then dropped a
pair of games to Arkansas 47-40
and 58 - oY. A last second goal by
Jamie Owens gave Baylor a one
point victory over the Ponies. Last
week the Mustangs gave Texas a
scare before succumbing 57-51.
Coach Marty Karow’s cagers, on
the other hand, have suffered six
consecutive setbacks. The Farmers
gave the Razorbacks plenty of
trouble in losing a two game series
to the Arkansas five and lost a
heartbreaker to Rice by two points.
But, in their other three contests,
the Aggies took decisive trimm
ings. Baylor handed the Cadet five
their worst licking of the league
campaign with a second half attack
that gave the Bears a 70-52 mar
gin.
TCU’s Horned Frog squad has
also found the road bumpy this sea
son. The Frogs have a record of
no wins and three losses. But, like
the Mustangs, TCU has looked
good even while losing. The Fort
Worth cagers have scored 145
points in their three conference
games for an average of better
than 48 points per game. The pur
ple and white quintet has allowed
its opponents 159 tallies or an
average of 53 points each tilt.
Flight Training
Open to Students
For This Semester
Flight training, sufficient for a
student to obtain his private pilot’s
license, is now open to new stu
dents. The training is given at
Easterwood Airport which is owned
and operated by the College.
Students may register for the
course prior to February 16 at the
Aeronautical Engineering Building
next to the Petroleum Engineering
Building or at the airport. The
course is listed as Aeronautical En
gineering 221, but all students are
eligible, except freshman.
The Veterans Administration
will pay the fee of war veteran
students if the veteran has suffi
cient eligibility to complete his
schooling and an excess amount of
approximately six months. The
cost of the training for non-veteran
students is $410.60.
A minimum of 35 flight hours
is required and the maximum num
ber of flight hours is 45. Ground
school is approximately 50 hours.
The flight training is under the
direction of Guy Smith, manager
of Easterwood Airport. The ground
work is given at night and the
flight instruction is arranged so
that it will not interfere with the
student’s class work. Transporta
tion to and from the airport is
furnished free.
Six hundred students have en
rolled in the flight training course
since it was established eight years
ago. There has not been a serious
accident at the airport since its
establishment.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1948
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AGGIE-BEAR REUNION—The two basketball games between Baylor and A. & M.
at Waco were a reunion for the DeWITT family. Three brothers did the playing while
sister and mother handled the “rooting” chores. JOHN, 19, (left) was in the Aggie B
squad line-up against DAVID, 24, (right) who was on the Baylor B team. BILL, 20,
(center) was a starter for the Baylor Bears against the Aggie varsity. Sister SARAH
is next to JOHN and mother is second from right.
Baylor won both games. All the DeWITT brothers played at Waco High School and
all were on district championships.
Sweden Leads in Olympics;
Girl Skaters Perform Today
ST. MORITZ, SWITZERLAND,
Feb. 4 —UP)—A second American
moved within sight of a champion
ship today while Norway was edg
ing temporarily past Sweden for
the team lead in the fifth winter
Olympics.
The daring veteran of the skele
ton bobsled, Jack Heaton of New
Haven, Conn., turned in three fast
heats down the suicidal open ice
tunnels to gain a second place tie
at the halfway point of the Cresta
run.
Heaton’s accumulated time of
two minutes, 23.2 seconds, shared
by Nino Bibbia of Italy, was
only two-tenths of a second back
of the leader, John Crammond,
British broker and Naval officer.
Richard Button, 18-year old
Englewood, N. J., figure skating-
stylist, virtually assured himself
a championship when he led yester
day through the compulsory figure
tests—half of the title competition.
Free skating, Button’s specialty,
is on schedule tomorrow.
These were other developments:
1. The United States’ Amateur
Hockey Association team won its
third game in four starts, defeat
ing Sweden, 5 to 2, to remain in
the running for the title in the un
official ice hockey round robin.
Unbeaten Canada defeated Italy,
21 to 1.
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2. On the strength of its ski
victory Sweden supplanted Nor
way in the see-saw unofficial
team standings, 49 points to the
Norwegians’ 39'/z
3. John Werket, the 23-year-old
Minneapolis youth who was sixth
in the 1,500 meter speed skating-
test yesterday, fell back in the
longer 10,000 meter (6 1-4 mile
test).
Women’s figure skating, in which
the United States is conceddd a
good chance, topped yesterday’s
program. The ladies will do com
pulsory figures.
Barbara Ann Scott of Canada,
the world’s champion, is favorite
in this event while American hopes
rest with Gretchen Merrill, Boston,
Eileen Seigh, Brooklyn and Yvonne
Sherman, New York.
Delaware Official
To Speak at AlChE
Banquet Saturday
Dr. Allan P. Colburn, assistant
to the president at the University
of Delaware and formerly of Du
Pont Corporation, will be guest
speaker at an AIChE Banquet Sat
urday evening at 6 in Sbisa Hall.
All chemical engineering stu
dents who plan to attend are ad
vised to notify the secretary in
the department office before noon,
Friday.
This will be the first banquet
of the AIChE this year.
Aggie Joins Ranks
Of Rice Prospects
Joel Hunt, former A. & M. star
who recently resigned as assistant
football coach at Louisiana State
University has added his name to
the growing list of prospects for
the head coach vacancy at the Uni
versity of Houston.
Swimming Team Will Show Off
Stars Tonight In Exhibition
First Meet Against D.A.C. Saturday
An intra-squad exhibition meet will be held tonight at
7:30 in the P. L. Downs Jr. Natatorium as the swimming
team prepares for its first home match Saturday with thq
Dallas Aquatic Club.
Last year the Aggie splashers took two decisions over
the Dallasites, both by a seven-4
point margin. Speedster Jimmy
Flowers helped the Cadet team
last year, and it remains to be
seen whether his absence this sea-
will weaken the squad’s
son
strength. Last week the Dallas
Club beat Baylor’s team by a 35-
point margin.
Coach Art Adamson has de-
vided the team into two squads
to increase competition.
Danny Green will captain one
team and Bernie Syfan the other.
Green’s team is the favorite as it
will have a large number of regu
lar starters on it.
The 400 yd. relay race will be
the big event of the night with
Green, Riley, Fisher, and Sum
mers against Syfan, Vardaman,
Westervelt, and Knox.
In the breaststroke Gene Sum
mers of the greens will be pitted
against Dick Lee. Backstroking
for. the fins, Syfan’s team, will be
Reeves, Houser and Spencer a-
gainst Fisher, McKenzie and
Kruse.
Coach Adamson has moved Sy
fan from his usual distance runs
to the 50 and 100 yd. dashes.
This will pit the two team cap
tains against each other, and
may provide the margin of vic
tory for the winner’s team.
Also in the dashes will be Wes
tervelt, Clevenger and Fisher, and
any of these men could provide an
upset by beating the team leaders.
Another good match will be the
medely relay, with Kruse, Sum
mers and Fleming of the greens
up against the fine team of Lee,
Spencer, and Knox. The greens
are favored in this event with fleet
Summers slated to pick up a! few
extra yards for his team.
Diver Johnny Heeman will be
hard pressed to hold his No. 1
spot with Scotty Potter, Bill
Strait, Jim Bennett, and Mac Mc
Cullough all pressing hard.
No American has ever won an
Olympic figure skating event in
either skiing or hockey.
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(4) Optimum concentrations of PMA
and the various plasticizers had to be
determined, and application tempera
tures worked out for the different types
of fabrics (satins, twills, taffetas, etc.)
to be sized.
The basic reactions involved in mak
ing methacrylic acid monomer are
straightforward:
Weaving of nylon yarn required the
development of special sizing material
(CHshCO + HCN -
(acetone)
(CH 3 ) 2 C(OH)CN +
IhO.thSO!
■> (CH 3 ) 2 C(OH)CN
(acetone cyanohydrin)
Problem solved by Du Pont men
with many types of training
Each new product that is created in the
laboratory seems to bring with it a
new set of problems to challenge the
ingenuity of the scientist. An outstand
ing instance of this is nylon. To make
practicable the wteaving of nylon into
textiles, it was necessary to develop
an entirely new slasher sizing material
—a coating to make the filaments ad
here to one another, protect the yarn
from abrasion and keep it clean. Sizes
used on other fibers proved unsatisfac
tory on nylon, because of its unique
chemical composition.
Five candidates were exhaustively
tested by Du Pont men. Best by far
proved to be polymethacrylic acid
(PMA), [CH 2 =C(CH 3 )COOH] x , possi
bly because its acidic nature is favorable
to hydrogen bonding with the polya
mide structure of nylon.
Many technical problems involved
(1) After weaving, sizing has to be re
moved by water. PMA dissolves in
water readily up to 10% at room tem
peratures, but precipitates between 70-
80° C. A way had to be found to prevent
precipitation at the normal scouring
temperature of 100° C.
(2) PMA sets to a brittle, glassy
material on fibers, giving a harsh wrap.
Suitable plasticizers such as sulfonated
vegetable and mineral oils, glycols and
other polyhydric alcohols had to be
found to correct this condition and permit
stretching and flexing of the yarn with
out film impairment.
(3) Good dispersing agents were nec
essary so that the powdered PMA would
not agglomerate as it dissolved in the
sizing bath.
> H 2 C=C(CH 3 )COOH
(methacrylic acid monomer)
But several technical difficulties in the
manufacture of the polymer had to be
overcome:
(1) The distillation of the monomer
has to he controlled carefully to keep
it from polymerizing in the still head.
(2) The monomer must be obtained
free of any color-forming impurities that
might cause permanent discoloration of
the fabric by the final polymer solution.
(3) Polymerization of the monomer
must be carefully regulated to get re
producible results and constant molec
ular weight. This is important because
the molecular weight of the PMA de
termines the viscosity of the size.
(4) Drying the polymer presented
unusual difficulties. A special study was
made to find an economical drying proc
ess that would give a uniform, finely
divided product adapted to rapid solu
tion.
Credit for the development of PMA
textile sizing, is shared by Du Pont
men with many types of training—
chemists, physicists, chemical engineers
and textile experts, as well as the tesh-
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cooperation with leading textile nftinu-
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North Dakota ’34, inspect woven fabric made
from PMA sized nylon warp in Du Pont Ex*
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J. M. Griffing, Ph.D. (Organic), Columbia '45, and A. Descheemaeker, B.S. in Chemical Engineering,
Lehigh '41, inspect PMA size solution and check nylon warp at head end of a slasher. In slasher sizing,
entire warp is coated rather than a single thread.
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