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. WINS POPULARITY CONTEST NO, the man in this picture is not upside down! You must bs reading this standing on your head. Little wonder you can’t pass the Finger-Nail Test. Better straighten up and streak down to the corner drug store for a bottle or tube of Wildroot Cream-Oil Hair Tonic. Just a spot of Wildroot Cream-Oil grooms your hair neatly and naturally -gives it that neat, well-groomed “college” man look. Relieves annoy ing dryness and removes loose, ugly dandruff . . . It s non alcoholic, so don’t try drinking it. Remember, however, it contains soothing Lanolin. Get Wildroot Cream-Oil hair tonic today and see for yourself why it’s “again and again the choice of men who put good grooming first.” For gen erous trial supply free, send this ad with your name and address to Wildroot Co., tie., Dept. C-D, Buffalo II, N. Y. WHERE THERE’S COKE THERE'S HOSPITALITY Ask for it either way ... loth trade-marks mean the same thing. BOTUED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY Bryan Coco-Cola Bottling Company © 1948, The Coca-Cola Company 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. dTi Battalion •Sport S WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1948 Page 3 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. We have a complete line of FURNITURE HARDWARE DESK LAMPS LIGHT BULBS in fact, everything for room & home. HENRY A. MILLER CO. HARDWARE & FURNITURE N. Gate — 4-1145 Valentine Candies ARE NOW ON DISPLAY—ORDERS WILL BE GIFT WRAPPED FREE FOR MAILING New names for the College Confectioneries will be chosen by student members of the Student Life Committee at their next meet ing. COLLEGE CONFECTIONERIES ATTENTION Residents of College Station <>=£] (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- nical service men who worked in close cooperation with leading textile nftinu- facturers during commercial trials'. G. W. Fassett, B.S. in Chemistry, Augustana '36, and W, A. Franfa, M.S. in Chomisa! Engineering, North Dakota ’34, inspect woven fabric made from PMA sized nylon warp in Du Pont Ex* perimental Weaving Laboratory. 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. Questions College Men ask about working with Du Pont Where would my job be? Openings for technical graduates may exist in any one of the 38 Du Pont research lab oratories or 85 manufacturing plants. Every effort is made to place men in positions for which they are best suited and in the sec tion of the country which they prefer. Write for booklet, “The Du Pont Company and the College Graduate,” 2521-B Nemours Building, Wilmington 98, Delaware. mm R £G.U. s. PAT.OFf- BETTER THINGS FOR BETTER LIVING ...THROUGH CHEMISTRY More facts about Du Pont — Listen to "Cavalcade of America,” Mondays, y P. M., CS T on NBC