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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1948)
•• KM*. 1 v.. -''s * I : t[ •r-: - -b enti i ion m Fire i to v .Ate and its f: i is-natioija] ngjto .Herat o — \ chief | ng tr fire Pre)|enti' fiere l ist i lecturers fo ■ the u ns one _ .N men’s Schools at which 89 Texas fire- mostly fron volunteer de partments, received training in the iques of fire ighting. "Tm 'Firemen’s S chool concluded its sessions Friday w^en the men took finaj exam jiations. Cities whose fire fighters have jassed ‘e cdurae at A4M get siecial t an <heir insvlrayce ratfs. t he Firemen’s Training S<hool was founded in 11930, and has since served as *\ nod el for s imi lar schools in other states, ac cording to Bond. iThe'rju.S- Air Fcrcet also nijze the fexas school! as “1 i. i ft and this y Sa i: : l- reven- Train- of oos- fpr the socia- hais been pre« of the nineteen is Adolph Sol- fefe' 1 guin, p esident of the en’g anc Fire Marshal’s Texi is. In addition to the summer course the Firemen’s Schbol division of A&M conducts training schools in various communities a]l j year round, >with five fv 11-time instruc tors. Ejach man con lucis classes on a “circuitj” consist ng of five cifc- J tjance of each other, ijsiaeh city is} visited once a week for five week! .Most of these courses aife for mixed departments ies, within a short i other. lEaeh city is , :. f u; [W0L to H. R. 3rayton, Tdirectpr of thj school lan< former A&iM chen^isti professor. The A}r Farce j me came from 14 states, and repne|- sejited thc fire-figi iting forces such ■ installations is Scott Fiel< Bellvilfe, Illinois and Lowfery Field , The Texas Fireiien’s School had 589 year, Ifrom 283 cijti with 176 men freps the f&'st class in said. Of the present 75 percent were „ the first time. J On the :other hand,! one of the -^iremeft-injstructors sent far mrery one , annual! sessions. He dom pared 96 cities in >30, Brayton year’s class,, attending for "t ; yeral paid firemen but m - r i . a e/number of volunteers; r. Special courses are also give* for professional fire companies in larger cities. Altogether abon L 200 Texas fire departments are taught by the traveling instruct tors each year. AH the instruct tors are former firemen. Several national and state au thorities addressed the riremeifs School this year. State authority included Olin Culberson, Railroad Commissioner; Joe S. Fletcher, as sistant director, Texas Depart ment of Public Safety; and G. 111. Kfntz, supervising engineer, U. S Bureau of Mines, Dallas. -National authorities included 1 Alfred Fleming of New York, rector of conservation, Natidi Board of Fire Underwriters a Bond. . —' Bond is also secretary of the fire services section of President Truman’s National Committed for Fire Prevention, and report ed that Texas is cooperating witljr that national group. ' Teaching of fire prevention jin teachers’ colleges/ so that tpe teachers may in turn pass' the ini- formation on to their pupils was among additional steps urged tyy Bond for Texas. He also urged that uniform pgy scales be established for firemen of all departments. It should lf>e possible, Bond said, for a fireman to go “up the ladder” in promo tions by moving from one fire de partment to another as openings become available, rather than in spending an entire career in the fire department of a single city. Establishment of rural fire pro tection districts, id cooperation with the Forest Service, was urged by Bond. He also pointed out the necessity of disaster relief plan ning, similar to civil defense woiik. The Department^ of National De fense has set up an agency to create civil defense planning on j a National level, and a ^report fro(m Washington on what the Federal Government must do will be made shortly, said Bond. “The best defense against hi^h explosives, incendiaries and atom bombs is plenty of space between building. You have, fortunately lots of space in' Texas,” Bond com mented. 1 •-w- III ; Ik'. mm H . T GLADYS'SWARTHOUT, mezzo-soprano, is another of the Town Hall features for this coming season. She will appear here March 22, 1949. * * ' * Cadets at Fort /~0 a *■ 1 Wk * V V ' !' '< T- T DEUCTOUS :OLP WATERMELON SUGED or WHOLE GUARANTEED y Pnm r Melon Garden way: y 2 way Bryan & College .f k' JUEY CL I < I ? 1 ! ; . “t\yin Indurance — Layette Lay Away Plan” * ■ j- i' i —i . i < . 'i » 1 ' . i- I '• ' ^ i . ' i i , If . * . • ce’s Toys ? n Togs 108 fi. College L t "1 :ii — i 1 : -!• U’T EARANCE CLOTHES 1 ■■7 i/i Off Chobse your children’s summer $eeds at drastically reduced prices— — 1 ! I I--; !r Phone 2-2864 i- . .i ■ I . j’.;, • ' •»> THE B ETTEB 1 . ~1 • • j ; • Not SAVE With,.. SAVITONE Service M j- • TYPE DRY CLEANING More dirt removed jr • No dry cleaning odor • No perspiration odtflrs L .'“i f. 1 f t \- Piet T rii .. . Cleaners j. “We Pick Up & Deliver” ' u.; S. College Rd. '! s. specialise in reweavinjg draperies, blankets, I quflts and comforters Phone 2-8665 L7 3 \ir ,1 ]7 V T *. :: !-:■ ... -r raperies, \ cleaned” • v ■’ , . Movie Star, B-29 Encountered At Ft. Sill ROTC Summer Camp - By LARRY GOODWYN ! 1 j After three weeks of almost continual bombardment of facts and figures albout Anti-Aircraft Artillery, the cadets at Sill ran into their “old faithful,” the 105 mm howitzer as the final phase of camp training in field artillery gunnery last week. The windup of 90mm AAA training was featured by gun drifts in which squads of 10 men-* T i— — each were timed in emplacing and march-ordering the 90mm gun. Four Aggies were on the winning squad in emplacement competition and three more on the group which established the lowest time for march ordering the weapon. ' On July 19 Burth French, for tunate holder of Battalion Com mander for a three-day period, became the official escort of Miss Jacqueline White, Holly wood starlet, visiting Ft. Sill where her latest picture, “Re turn of the Bad Men,” is having its premiere. Miss White, who plays opposite Randolph Scott in the nicture which has its setting in Oklahoma, pre sented the ribbon for winning the Battalion review to Battery C of the ROTC Cadet Battalion—then became the “dat"” of French for the remainder of the evenine. For French, first sergeant of B Battery at A&M last year, the occasion marked his second first of eamn—two weeks previously he had the highest score in the Bat talion in firing the caliber 30 car bine . on the range—but there is little doubt' which “first” he de rived the most eniovment from. Aggies nominated the annual ee’imming ebamoionsbins held at Sill .Jiilv 11. Seven of the ten mem bers of the B Ratterv team hailed from A&M: Bill Townsend. Herb Walne, Adolnh Thomae. Corkv White. Lav^repce Williams. John Standefer, Larry Kinard and Boh Holmes. i A Battery, which placed second was comuosed of five Aggies: Paul w ivel. Burt French. -Tapk O'd^ev. Dallas Stites. and Jimmv Hartt. while four more were on the C Bat tery team: Jimmy Stephens. Har- 4,1./'' — For Your Visual Problems Consult Dr. Carlton R. Lee OPTOMETRIST 203 S. Main — Bryan Phone 2-1662 For MODEL AIRPLANE SFPPLIES Jones Sporting Goods 80.3 S. Main Bryan Ph. 2-2832 old Zietman, Dick Plock, Bull Mitchell and Bill, Hayes. In addition, Johnny Heeman and Allen Self, both Aggies, gave an exhibition of diving—both good and bad—with Heeman pro viding the former and Self t|ie latter. a They even have Aggie-Exes i in Oklahoma. This fact became ojnly too well known to Aggie cadets; at Ft. Sill this week when the Aggie} Alumni Cftib of Lawton, Oklahoma, completed plans to toss a barbeque July 14 for cadets in camp. At least six Aggies at Sill who will receive their commissions at the end of camp July 31 pl^n to go on active duty at Camp Carson, Colorado, fof two weeks of mountain training. They art: Raymond Horany, Fred Hughes, .TohnnV Heeman. Art MoeUer, Pete Richey, and A1 Davis. The government isn’t sparing the dollars when ft comes to training its ROTC cadets. Just in order to make visual tracking more life like. the army decided to send a B-29 aloft for cadets to sight dnd “fire” on. Where did the pique come from? Spokarfe, Washington! ——' !, (( Texas Counties Studied by Paine / The statistical phase of a stqdy of the resources and industries of six east Texas counties has bqen completed by L> S. Paine of the Agricultural Economics ahtj So ciology Department. The counties are Newton, Jas per, Tyler, Liberty, Hardin and Orange. This background study is( ainied at determining what fnrmei/s lo cated in the area are doing, hpw they are doing it and the economic and social results. 'f j Paine is placing snecial jempha- sis on the growing dairy industry in that part of the state. The cw- clnding phase of the study Will in volve field tests of the secondary data already summarized. i* Sill Praised By Commander The 250 Artillery cadets at Fort Sill, nearing the If way mark in their ncentrated training pro- received high praise both the camp executive, Col. L. Milbum, and the instruc- responsible for the various ihases -of the camp, recently. In addition to getting practical aihing in latest artillery techni- _ es the cadets are being given ihances to serve in various com- and positions. Colonel Milburn stated that the irit of the potential artillery of- icers is high. He said much in terest has been shown in such sub jects as communications, camou flage, anti-aircraft artillery drill and practice firing, and selection nd occupation of anti-aircraft ar- llery positions. Intensive field ar- llery training got under way last eek. Interest in camp activity does not; stop at the conclusion of the day’s training. An athletic pro gram featuring inter-battery com petition in softball, volley ball, swimming and boxing is in pro gress. A daily newspaper which Covers the camp activity is publish ed by the cadets after their regu lar duties are completed. The camp executive stated; “I feel that we have one of the finest groups of ROTC cadets it has been Jny privilege to serve with.” -LETTERS- (Continued from Page 2) price range.” 5 . Campus, but if you have ever walked ft, you will know, as I know, that it isn’t an iota less than a full 5 mile walk. After two weeks of walking to work, home for lunch, back to work, then home agairi at 5, I felt sure there must be an easier way. I’ve told myself over and over that it isn’t actu ally the walking that bothers me, it’s the principle of the thing. It is all those people driving by swoosh in their cars with a big empty seat. That really gets me! I’ve convinced myself that they may be justified, but I haven’t convinced my legs yet —they ache every night. You won’t believe it, but of the nine next-door neighbors, not a single one’s destination coincides even remotely with mine. So I walk. As I said, I didn’t mind it so much at first — communing with Mother Nature so early in the morning, but the novelty soon wore off, and I found myself look ing back wistfully whenever I heard a car coming. Thhy usually kept right on going, too. I I did get a ride one morning which restored by faith in the goodness of humanity, but it was only a temporary restora tion. A sweet old lady, who was taking her laundry to the Laun-. romat, picked me up. She took me nearly all the way down there before she could find a place to stop and let me out. I was further away from rtiy work than when I caught the ride. So, please, driver, if you see some poor struggling creature hob bling aj^ng on her knees (I’ve walked off up to there) lie : good to me. If you can’t give me a lift, then please don’t splash wa ter on me as you go by. I \ Name withheld by Request. DR. N. B. i McNUTT DENTIST OfficeUn Parker Building ' Over Canady's Pharmacy Phone 2-1457 Bryan, Texas :-i i ~ n \ , •! •' • Blilfe •■■‘v V v» svy.'sw •[•■•■.•Xsv v ; - * ilillllH BOWLES-DAVIS FLYING SERVICE 1 FLIGHT INSTRUCTION AND PLANE RENTAL 7 AT REASONABLE RATES ' . ' ■ 4- j ' • ■ " • " , -•i ■ 7}' - \> . • ’• ‘ '' ' “ Aeronca and Stearman Planes' v . Special Solo Course $60 Charter Trips Passenger Rides UMBERLAKE AIRPORT i , ■ , . ■ ' 4' . Mi. N. of North Gate on Old College Road fir , y i\ THf BATH' rates WITH 1 ^ u<f 1 if l' l! ! 7 ;’s that?”' he inquired, ne of the pistons sticking?” “Nope” replied his still astoun ded neighbor, “that npise is old Henry Ford's board of director* turninsr over in their rrhyesP’ 7? :tF ; 1 Corpse, 3 Murderers in Houston ii By T. J. BILLINGSLEY • In Houston practically anything can happen. Some things practical ly happen. Lots of things happen that aren’t practical. Last week was no exception. The weekly murder came off on schedule. A young lady pictur esquely dubbed the “Queen of the Beaumont Highway” was still more picturesquely bumped off on the road of the same name. The gendarmes have three sus pects, each of which cheferfully admits that he did the woman in. The minions of the law have sent the murder slug along to a balis- tics expert to determine the win ning contestant. The protectors of the peace had other troubles too. '; A lady summoned the radio pa trol to her uptown residence to remove a horse she found stand ing on the back porch when she returned home from a shopping tour. What with the recent horse meat scandal the poor critter was probably only looking for the kitchen to have a few words with a stablemate. Across town the men In blue had a little variety from the usual procedure of moving automobiles from off pedestrians. A motorist reversed things by complaining that there was a man sleeping on top of his sedan. When they re moved the body it explained that it had been counteracting the heat by taking a few nips of some aged* in-the-weed Nectar of Blue Grass. He remembered nothing until a few pink elephants later when he was awakened by the officers of the law with his pockets. inside out and his mind containing a little less. The gendarmes shrugged their shoulders and bade him be on his way. The Houston Post’s man of many answers, Mr. H. Mewhinney was fresh from settling a dispute over whether or not a bus driver is deserving of a cup of coffee at the end of his run and was devot ing his question and answer column to the problem of whether a night- hawk was a nighthawk or a bull bat. A reader wondered what the birds wheeling around in the sky at dusk were. Mr, M. said they were bull bats. Ten thousand irate readers arose.and said they were no such thing but rather (a) nighthawks, (b) banded flycatch ers, and (c) some latin name two columns wide. j ^ H. M. layed back at them by saying that he was a country boy at heart, and that all rural lads knew a bull bat was a bull bat. The dissenting readers concluded that H. M. was full of one, had had the other in his belfry and the argument was still raging when last-I bought a Post. r - (, * The birds incidentally, were still flying about, oblivious of all the furor they had fostered. And out on South Main where a new Ford was selling on the used car lots for $3,200 a dealer was auctioning off a .shiny Ford. But it wasn’t quite new in the true R. C. ECHOLS Realtor Over Canady’s Pharmacy Bryan Phone 2-6454 i ■■ ■jA. ,CE CBEa p M OF ,S Y o N UR T TONOUE AT THE TIP OT TOOK Bat It oftan and you’ll got"- * I VITAMIN A ... . keeps the eyes m condition «nd body tissues in good repair; also i promotes growth. AIBOFLAVIN ».. Nourishes the body ceHs and generates vitality. THIAMIN . . . , , Increases the appetite by help- - ing to burn the food we eat and keeps our nerves healthy. j . Strengthens teeth and bones. eat ice cream often for good health SHEER PLEASURE ii i i ■ | TT i. dr.. ]• i sense of the word. It was “T” that had been cratid farmers bom for all thfsei Back in the days w! car makers were puttfni new gear shifts on t‘ the aforementioned had feared that he learn to drive one of th< led contraptions and I three new Model “T’s” them in his bam to b« one at a time. He unfo only outlasted two of the third one fell into tl one of the South Main Mol chants who sensed it’j value and put it ojn block. After the nostalgic i had looked it over for knocked it down for a to a man who gays he cars. 7 i i ' ^ 1 As the proud owner prize away one of the thought he heard a scraping r L m tfie auc dfovie pr Bryfin The “Aero BAN i r The banks will be cl on account a legal holijl 7 /IIM ■yiijn. and College Station iurdayv July 24, 1948 ni'stifii over in their graves! 1 down town the natives icur- past the new building skele- .fflknowing only one thing foe “ WdlP * •’ as tooi in Texas tOOi m. surp. Besides Auction Proceeds to Loan Fund Public auction for lost and found articles turned into the Security . Office was held July 9 in the Sto* . dent Labor Office in Goodwin Hall- . ' . : ■ George A. Long, Student Loan Administrator, was auctioneer for the 1 ijlay. ] , Bidding was slow, but the ma-r jority of the articles were sold. Prices offered ranged from five cents, for a tie clasp‘ to eight doH- ars for a leather jacket. ; Total sales amounted to $50.85, and Long said that this money would be put into one of the stu dent loan funds. Future auctions will be held for unclaimed items that ire turned into the office, with therproaeeds from each, sale ^going to Btuam! fit loan funds. ... M NT FAERlfc SHOPPE islFftm tjie Post Office” 7' Phone 2-1645 / . '■ ! ' / • St !l ■ : .L* ! . [ 7 } .. 0LIDAY .. !l rimary Election, •v'. ational bank tIional bank final cl ^ » 1 1 •. j Of MEN’S Sl| CLOTHING land IF Smartly ityljwi, Clothing posal; Choose ^ at these 7 ^29.50 Suj Is *p<»1.50 Suks • $35.00 S • $37.50 S • $38.50 Si • $44J .50 Suil .00 Si .00 Si .00 Si Special Reductioi ( STRAW H SWIM •i; •\- - V N<i»w NoW i l i Vi ■r ■:.< \ 4 BANK & TRUST CO. 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