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.
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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.
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crystal-clear through yellow, green
and blue to black.
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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.
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