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THE BATTALION Page 4 TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1949 GEORGE W. BARNES, left, who is a longtime worker with the Texas cattle industry poses beside a portrait of himself with DR. J. C. MILLER, head of the Animal Husbandry Department. The portrait will be hung in the Animal Industries Building. American Scientists May Be Working on Thinking Missle By ELTON C. FAY WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (A 5 )— American military scientists ap pear to be working on the idea of a “thinking” guided missile that will identify the intended target from a picture, then attack it. A hint of this uncanny flying monster with a brain was con tained in a “glossary of guided missile terms” made public to night by the research and devel opment board. The glossary’s reference to the project was terse, saying merely this: “Guidance, homing, active — a system of homing guidance where in both the source, for illuminat ing the target, and the receiver are carried within the missile.” The definition seemed to relate to an idea which some scientists have considered. Roughly, it is as follows: A guided missile (it could be a rocket or merely a pilotless plane, is fitted with a television set and a picture of an intended PH Staff Member To Enter Service Lieutenant Colonel Lee E. James of the Poultry Husbandry Depart ment will enter active duty with the Army beginning January 14, according to Captain Albert W. Stockell, local Organized Reserve Instructor. James will be assigned to duty in Greece and will have the rank of major of Infantry. A 1936 graduate of A&M, James who is an active member of 479th Composite Group, began his World War II duty in March 1941, serv ing as S-3, Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga. He later served in China and was separated in March 1946 as an Infantry Lieutenant Colonel. target—perhaps an aerial pho tograph of a city. The missile is launched in the general direction of the target. When it arrives at a point where the pattern of the picture matches what its tel evision “eye” sees, the missile “homes in” on the target. This explanation is vastly over simplified. Involved are thousands of complex eelctronic elements ac tuating computing devices which make instantaneous but complicat ed reckonings; link the “eye” and the “brain” of the missile to its controlsrely back to the base from which the missile was launch ed information on where it is and what it “sees.” This uncanny and awesome weapon is only one of a number of variations of “homing” guided missiles, projected or in experimen tal existence. Houston Has Jobs For 3 AH Seniors The Houston Fat Stock Show requests the services of three ani mal husbandry seniors for each week of the two week show, ac cording to Dr. J. C. Miller, head of the Animal Husbandry Depart ment. Interested seniors may obtain application blanks from the Ani mal Husbandry Office on the sec ond floor of the AI Building. Tripucka Tops BIRMINGHAM, Ala. —(£>)—The 117 yards Georgia’s Johnny Rauch lost from scrimmage in 1948 did not keep him from being the top total offense back of the South eastern Conference. Rauch passed for 1,307 yards for a net of 1,190. He nosed out Tulane’s Eddie Price who picked up 1,178 yards, all by the'foot route. King Cotton to Be Named Today By Agronomy Society King Cotton, who will reign at the 1949 Cotton Pageant and Style Show and the Cotton Ball, will be elected at 7:30 p. m., Tuesday, at the regular meeting of the Agro nomy Society in the A. & I. Lec ture Room, Virgil Caraway, presi dent of the organization, has an nounced. Caraway said that officers of the society for the spring semester also would be elected. After the election, Dr. Ide P. Trotter, Director of the Extension Service, will show films of his recent world tour, Caraway con cluded. . f Market Survey Will ContinueThis Week By GEORGE CHARLTON Ten per cent of all A&M students will be queried dur ing the next few days by interviewers for the Student Pub lications College Market Survey. Three corps regiments were surveyed during the past week in a preliminary poll. The remainder of the cadet corps will be .surveyed this week* : together with veterans on the cam pus and at the annex, married students in college owned apart ments and day students. Original plans called for inter viewing 227 cadets on the campus, 247 veterans living on the campus, 139 day students, and 84 married veterans living in college housing. At the Bryan Field annex, 121 students are to be interviewed— 111 cadets and 10 married veter ans. Plans are to interview 139 day students. The survey is aimed at finding out how much money is spent by A&M cadets during a 12 months period and for what it is spent. The subject matter of the ques tions varies from college expenses to recreational expenses. The names of persons inter viewed in the survey are not re corded since the purpose of the survey is to reveal the buying trends of students as a group rather than individuals. Not only does the survey aim to find out how much or how many of a specific item are used at A&M but it aims to find out specifically what brand names are most popu lar and why. Director Roland Bing of Student Publications said today the survey forms will aid the Battalion and other student publications in putt ing their advertising on a scien tific basis. Questionnaires for the survey were supplied by the National Ad vertising Service, Inc., of New York City. The same questionnaire is being used on other college campuses throughout the nation. When the survey is completed it will be pos sible to compare the buying trends of students at A&M with those on campuses in other parts of the country. Not all of the questions on the four-page questionnaire are ap plicable to all students. For ex ample: Question 8 asks, “About hp\v often do you give yourself a horiie permanent? How often do you go to a beauty parlor?” Students filling in the question naires are asked to leave blank such questions. Veterans wives are being con tacted in the survey. The aim of the survey is to contact and find out the buying habits of married veterans and their wives. Married veterans contacted, will be asked questions concerning the buying habits of their wives. Sections of the survey are en titled; “Background Facts,” “Your Personal Habits,” “Your Leisure Activities,” “May We Look in Your Wardrobe?” “Ladies, May we come in to Your Boudoir?” “Gen tlemen, May We Look at Your Dresser?”, “Items of Ownership,” “Money Matters,” and “Future Plans.” Questionnaires will be tabulated locally and then sent to New York for retabulation. Publication of Many Books By Texans Planned for ’49 By MARTHA COLE The first of a dozen or so books expected this year from the prolific pens of Texas authors came out in January. Another is definite for March. Writers have just begun to tap the well of Texas material— The birth pangs of Texas—ranch lore — oil booms — Mexican prob- Business Society To Hear Engineer Carrington Mason, industrial en gineer for Converted Rice Incor porated, will speak on “Job Eva luation in Office and Industry” at the Business Society meeting at 7:30 p. m., tonight, Room 23, Building K, Jim Mattuy, reporter for the organization, announced. He said that an election of offi cers will also be held to fill the vacancies of those graduating. Sapphires range in color from crystal-clear through yellow, green and blue to black. Join the MARCH OF DIMES *; JANUARY mmmm ; 0 £ A ; HI 4 5 6 7 ru El 10 12 11 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 lems—cotton plantations —modern problems of city life — the dust bowl—all these and more. The first book by a Texas author this year was set in the ranching hill country around Llano. Fred Gipson, the author, said he left two Texas newspapers and got fir ed from one, then went back to his homeland on a ranch near Mason. His “Hound-dog Man” came out Jan. 5. It’s good reading. The sim ple back-woods story tells about a 12-year-old boy who wanted his own hound dog. Coming out this spring is a book about bull fights in Mexico by an other Texan—Tom Lea of El Paso. The Texan who won the top award of the Texas Institute of Letters last year is a professor of history at Southern Methodist University—Dr. Herbert Gam- brell. His prize winner, “Anson Jones, Last President of Texas,” is both a history of Texas back in its republic days and the story of a man whose biography reads like fiction. Runner-up among prose books at the institute was “Heaven’s Table land,” by Vance Johnson. Johnson had lived in the Texas Panhandle long enough to know of what he wrote—the Dust Bowl. Another award winner announc ed at the institute was David West- heimer, who wrote “Summer of The Water.” Westheimer won the McMurry bookshop award for best first novel. His was a story of a young Negro woman’s unsuccess ful struggle to maintain her integ rity in her relations with the white family which she served. A whole town paused and took note of another book which came out Nov. 18. That also was the 84th birthday of the book’s au thor—i-Judge A. W. Neville of Paris, Tex. His book—“Red Riv er Valley, Then and Now” is a collection and expansion of col umns he has written for the Paris News. Other books by Texans or for mer Texans during 1948 include: “The Ring and the Cross,” by Robert Tylee, the story of a war profiteer in a Texas shipbuilding city called Congrcaye a “Devil Take a Whittier,” by Weldon Stone, a tale of back- woods Arkansas. Stone was a member of the English Depart ment at A&M for a number of years. He left A&M in 1946. “The Alamo,” by John Myer Myers, an informal history. “The Bell Ringers,” by Vern Swartsfager, curate of St. Mat thews Cathedral in Dallas. It is about boys and girls headed for crime. “Fair Havens,” by B. C. Jeffer son, editorial writer on The Dal las Times Herald. It is a story of life in the early days of East Texas. “High John The Conqueror,” by John Wilson, a student at Southern Methodist University. “Jeff, Milton,” “A Good Man With A Gun,” by J. Evetts Haley, the story of a pioneer peace offi cer in West Texas and New Mex ico. “I Shook The Hand,” by Har old V. Ratliff, sports editor of The Associated Press in Texas. “Garner of Texas,” by Bascom N. Timmons, another Texas news paperman who works in Washing ton. Timmons’ biography of the former vice president, John Nance Garner of Uvalde,, Tex., is the fh’st to be written on Garner. “Words To That Effect,” by John Gould of Wichita Falls, another newspaperman. A former Texan, Martha Cheav- ens, laid the scene of her novel, “Crosswinds,” in Eagle Pass, down on the Texas-Mexican border. Boyce House, Texas raconteur, gathered in tall tales of all the states in his new volume, “Laugh Parade of The States.” The annual daedalian quaretr- ly poetry award offered by Tex as State College for Women for the best book of poetry by a Texan went to Vaida Stewart Montgomery for her volume “Hail for Rain.” Other volumes of poetry by Tex ans in 1948 included “The Crystal Fountain” by Grace Noll Crowell, “Answer In The Night” by Lexie Dean Robertson and “The Under side of Leaves” by Mary Beth WOMAN FLIER SETS ALTITUDE RECORD MIAMI, Jan. 11 (A 5 ) —Betty Skelton, 22-year-old Tampa, Fla., pilot, Saturday set an unofficial national altitude record for light aircraft by climbing to 25,760 feet in a piper PA-11 aircraft. The previous record of 24,400 feet was set before the war. Miss Skelton’s flight highlighted the second day of the 17th annual Miami All American Air Maneuv ers. Earlier, a pair of Wisconsin speed pilots—Steve Wittman and Bill Brennand-—moved into the finals of the $10,000 continental trophy race for midget planes. Ken Edwards, center, former Texas district county agent who heads a U. S. agricultural mission in Saudi Arabia, explains Ameri can farm methods to King Ibn Saud, seated, and a member of the King’s staff. Collegiate Rodeos Form Association Intercollegiate Rodeos are now being organized to form a Na tional Intercollegiate Rodeo As sociation, according to Charlie Rankin, local publicity director. Purpose of the Intercollegiate Rodeo Association, Rankin said, is to standardize all college rodeos, to establish uniform eligibility re quirements and scholastic stand ards for team membership, and to standardize the awarding of prizes. Jack Kingsberry, president of the Saddle and Sirloin Club, has been selected by the members of the rodeo team to represent A&M at the Constitutional Intercollegi ate Rodeo meeting. Date and place of the meeting has not been an nounced. ENLISTMENTS UP, DRAFTS CANCELLED WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 —(A 3 )— With voluntary enlistments up, the Army said Saturday it will draft no men in either February or Mar. A call for 5.000 men next month was cancelled. Secretary of the Army Royall said voluntary enlistments and re enlistments have been averaging 35,000 a month, filling all require ments. Tau Beta Pi Photo Slated Wednesday The Tau Beta Pi yearbook picture will be taken at 5 p. m. Wednesday on the steps of the Chemistry Building. Immediately after the' picture, the society will hold a brief meet- World Events Talk To Be Given Here By Colonel Poland Colonel E. L. Poland, assistant chief of staff of the Fourth Army, will give an illustrated lecture, “What’s Happening in the World Today,” in the Assembly Hall, at 7:30 p.m., today. he talk will be the first in a series of lectures on international affairs and scientific develop ments. These talks are sponsored by the Military Department and are aimed to assist students in piecing together world-wide mili tary and political conditions. Colonel Poland has been in the Army 30 years and has attended the Infantry School, Chemical War fare School, and the Command and General Staff School. His tours of duty include Pana ma, Hawaii, and Korea. During the war he was Chief of Staff of the 90th Division. The lecture will also serve as the regular meeting of the Brazos County ROA, 479th Composite Group, 305th Air Reserve Group and the Naval ROISfS Chapter. The Thursday meetings of these groups will not be held and those attend ing the lecture will receive credit for inactive duty service points. The meeting is open to members of the faculty and staff, reserve officers, and members of the com munity. Artificial Breeding Course to Be Held A training school for technicians in artificial insemination of dairy cattle will be held at A&M Jan uary 10-14. Trainees registered January 10 in the library of the dairy de partment in the Agricultural Building. Richard E. Burleson, assistant dairy htisbandman, is chairman of the course. Sapphires and rubies are basi cally the same stone, the differ ing in the Petroleum Lecture Room, ence being only in the color. MONROE SOLOIST—Featur-*> ed with the VAUGHN MONROE orchestra here February 12 will be RICHARD HAYMAN, above magic-tone harmonica player. The Monroe troupe will present a program in Guion Hall pre ceding the Military Ball in Sbisa Hall. Scholarship Honor Society to Elect Officers Tonight The Scholarship Honor Society will elect officers at 7 p. m., Tues day in the Physics Lecture Room, W. A. Varvel, faculty sponsor for the society, said yesterday. He also announced 16 recent ap pointments to the Society. • New members are: James E. Cummens, Chester A. Havard, Rob ert W. Tidwell, John M. Wallace, and Robert S. Weynand, School of Agriculture; Norman E. Halbrooks Hayden Hodges, Nicodemus Kutac and David Schwartz, Jr., School "of Arts and Sciences; Guy H. Ahem, Charles R. Bond, Jr., Anthony C. Cannata, Joseph J. Cavall, John W. Cooke, Robert C. Hornburg, and James A. McCulley, School of Engineering. THIS GREAT NEW MODERN CIGARETTE FACTORY to meet the increasing demand for the Milder cigarette from smokers all over MAKE YOURS THE M I LDE R CIGARETTE Copyrkbt 1J49. Liogitt & Miras Tcracco Cc,