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Caltech Announces Aero Study Grant Creation of the Howard Hughes Fellowships in Creative Aeronautics, open to advanced students at A&M and other US colleges, has been announced by Dr. Lee A. DuBridge, president of the California Institute of Technology. The fellowship grants include $1,500 to Caltech for tuition and research expenses of-f the student at the Institute, a grant of $1,500 or more, depend ing on the recipient’s qualifica tions, to each Fellow, and a salary of not less than $2,000 per year to each Fellow for actual advanced development at Hughes’ aircraft plant. A candidate’s age and the date of his bachelor’s degree will be minor factors in the judging, Du Bridge said. Exceptional candidates with no graduate study beyond a bachelor’s degree, and candidates who wish to carry on fundamental research for an additional year after receiving a doctor’s degree, will be considered. DuBridge said that the coopera tive effort of Caltech and Hughes would seek “to remedy a short age in a class of engineers upon which the future development of aeronautics depends.” He said the intention of the Fellowships is to train engineers whose knowledge of underlying physical science and mathematical tools will be adequate to deal with problems in advanced theoretical aeronautics. Applications received b e fore February 15, 1949, will be judged By a committee including repre sentatives of the California Insti tute of Technology and of Hughes. Two or three of the outstanding candidates, whose qualifications will admit them to graduate stu dy leading to the degree of Doc tor of Philosophy in Aeronautics or in Physics at Caltech, will be selected annually, DuBridge said. Application forms for the How ard Hughes Fellowships can be obtained by a request addressed to the Dean of Graduate Studies, Cal ifornia Institute of Technology, Pasadena 4, California, DuBridge said. State Supervisor Of VA to Speak Agricultural Education seniors will hear a discussion of Veteran Vocational Schools by B. B. Davis, state supervise!’ of Veterans Edu cation, Thursday evening. The discussion will be held at 5 p. m. in the Agricultural Engi neering Lecture Room, E. V. Wal ton of the Ag Ed Department said today. JOHNSON’S UPHOLSTERY SHOP SEAT OOVERS Plastic — Straw Convertible Tops Back of Eagle Office BRYAN BRYAN’S USED CAR HEADQUARTERS • Prices Slashed • Low Down-Papments • Easy Terms • Guaranteed 1948 MERCURY . . . 4-DOOR SEDAN Radio Heater, like new $1995 1948 FORD . . . 2-DOOR SEDAN Radio, Heater, Clean $1895 1948 FORD . . . 4-DOOR SEDAN Radio, Heater, Seat Cover $1795 1947 FORD . . . 2-DOOR SEDAN $1795 1947 CHEVROLET . . . CLUB COUPE $1795 1946 FORD... 2-DOOR SEDAN $14.7^ 1946 HUDSON . . . 4-DOOR SEDAN 1195 1946 CHEVROLET . . . 2- DOOR SEDAN $1495 1941 FORD . . . 3- PASS. COUPE $995 1941 FORD ... 4- DOOR SEDAN 'SI 005 1941 PONTIAC . . . 2-DOOR SEDAN $895 1940 FORD . . . 2-DOOR SEDAN $895 1940 STUDEBAKER . . . CLUB COUPE $895 1940 CHEVROLET . . . 2-DOOR SEDAN $895 1940 MERCURY . . . 4-DOOR SEDAN $1095 OVER 50 CARS & TRUCKS TO CHOOSE FROM BRYAN MOTOR COMPANY "Your Friendly Ford Dealer” 415 N. Main & Highway 6, So. Bryan, Texas “A” QMC Drops Playoff Opener To “E” Infantry “E” Infantry advanced to Intra mural semi-finals in basketball Monday night as they downed “A” QMC, 17 to 10. The game was a rough and tum ble affair that saw 19 fouls com mitted by both sides. In spite of this, no player fouled out. Scoring came the hard way for both sides. At the end of the first five-minute quarter, “E” Company led their rivals by a measly margin of 1 to 0. Half time score was 5 to 4. Hershel Jones was the infantry high point man with six points. His teammate, Jim Kelly played the best game on the court. Kelly, a short forward wiggled and worm ed his way into the basket, time after time. He scored five points. Ernie Bonham of “A” QMC topped them both with seven points. Senior Company advanced to Corps Flag Football semi-finals Monday afternoon when they de feated “D” Air Force, 12 to 0. Grona and Mattei scored TD’s for Senior Company, Grona dashing 50 yards for his and Mattei scam pering 30 yards to make another six points. Club teams ended their season in a tied up mess. Austin played El Campo in a scoreless game with both sides waving equal penetra tions. However Austin will meet Vet Medicine Club tentatively Wed nesday afternoon to decide B League championship. Range and Forestry downed FFA 6 to 0 and will meet Rio Grande Club in League C playoffs sometime later this week. Intramural Calendar Here’s the lineup on Intramu ral playoffs for the remainder of the week. Tuesday, the 11th, “E” Infan try meets “A” QMC and Senior Company meets “B” Field in the semi-finals of Flag Football. “A” ASA goes against “A” In fantry in Basketball quarterfi nals. Wednesday, the 12th, “A” QMC and “C” Infantry in Vol leyball quarterfinals. Senior Company meets “A” Infantry in Volleyball. Thursday, the 13th, “A” Transport meets winner of Sen ior Company versus “A” Infan try Volleyball game. Friday, the 14th, Tennis fi nals finds “A” Infantry versus “C” Infantry. Basektball semi-finals will be played on Monday, January 17. A&M Yearbook Run-off (Scratch all but your choice) Aggieland 1949 (Year Changes Annually) Final Review Spirit of Aggieland Signature Residence The ballot is provided for those students who do not live in one of the bachelor dormitories. In order for the ballot to be valid and counted, it must be signed legibly by the student. Ballots may be placed in the ballot box in the Student Activities Office, Room 209, Goodwin Hall, or mailed through the Faculty Exchange in the Academic Building, postage free, to the Student Activities Office. Deadline for submitting or mailing ballots is 5 p.m. Tuesday, January 11. Aggie Ex Turns Arabian King’s Desert Into A Thriving Garden In the ancient oil-rrich kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a Cooke County farmer is demonstrating how American agri cultural methods can turn a desert into a garden. He is Ken Edwards, Aggie-ex, and a former district county agent in the Lubbock area. Edwards heads a group of 22 technicians, most of them from Texas, who have been4 commissioned by King Ibn Sand to convert his land of the Old Testa ment into a modern, self-suffiicent agricultural country, capable of producing all the food it needs in stead of the trickling 20 per cent it now raises. How the Americans have suc ceeded is told in the January is sue of Country Gentlemen in an article titled, “The King’s Coun ty Agents.” Photographs of Ed wards, conferring with the King, and of some of the other Texans engaged in the project illustrate the article. It is chiefly the story of A1 Kharj, the 3000-acre experiment station in the desert, where the Americans are growing melonTt, fruits, vegetables, and wheat, all to a King’s taste. As the article points out, when King Ibn Saud saw A1 Kharj he became so enthusiastic that he took steps immediately to spread the system throughout his land. Public ly he paid this tribute to Edwards and his group. “The advancement and promo tion of my country can best be maintained by the development of agriculture and adoption of mod ern agricultural methods, as far as the nature of our country per mits. Mr. Edwards and bis Ameri cans are doing profitable and praiseworthy jobs, which I appre ciate deeply.” What’s Cooking AAUW, 7:30 . m., Monday, As sembly Room of YMCA. AG ENGINEERING SOCIETY, 6 p.m. Tuesday. Ag Engineering Building. (Annual barbeque. Wives and dates invited.) AGGIE RUTH CIRCLE, A&M METHODIST CHURCH, 7:30 p. m., Tuesday, Mrs. Walter Dickens, Golden Rule Poultry Farm. AGRONOMY SOCIETY, 7:30 p. m., Tuesday, A&I Lecture Room. Election of King Cotton. BUSINESS SOCIETY, 7:30 p. m. Tuesday, Room 23, Building K. GALVESTON CLUB, 7:30 p. m., Thursday, Room 129, Academic Building. GEOLOGY CLUB, 7:30 p. m., Tuesday, Petroleum Engineering Lecture Room. JUNIOR AVMA, 7:30 p.m., Tues day. LUTHERAN STUDENT ASSO CIATION, 7:30 p. m., Wednesday, Lutheran Student Center. NAVARRO COUNTY CLUB, 7 p. m., Thursday, Room 228, Aca demic Building. SUL ROSS RESEARCH CLUB, 7:30 p. m., Wednesday, CE Lec ture Room. SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 5 p. m., Friday, Administration Building. Yearbook picture. STUDENT AGRICULTURAL COUNCIL, 8:15 p. m., Tuesday, YMCA. Ag Council picture will be made. TAU BETA PI, 5 p. m., Wednes day, Steps of Chemistry Building. Meeting afterwards. VM ’51 WIVES CLUB, 7:30 p. m., Wednesday, 330 Foster Ave. BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION FREE FREE GREASE JOB for every oil change is now given by Virgil E. Gage’s Gulf Station. Drive in Today. Today. GAGE’S Gulf Station Quick, Efficient Service Highway 6, South LI’L ABNER Choice of Two— By A1 Capp JUST TAKE A FAST GLANCE. AT THIS ONE, SIR . r . r WE'RE HAVING A HARD TIME HOLDING HER" IT WILL BE A RELIEF TO GET RID OF HER—AS SOON AS The Battalion CLASSIFIED ADS Page 6 TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1949 SELL WITH A BATTALION CLASSI FIED AD. Rates ... 3$ a word per insertion with a 25^ minimum. Space rates in Classified Section . . . 60<f per column inch. Send all classifieds with remittance to the Student Activities Office. All ads should be turned in by 10:00 a.m. of the day before publication. BUSINESS SERVICES NIGHT CLASSES in bookkeeping, short hand, and typing start November 1st at McKenzie-Baldwin Business College. En rollments will be taken October 15th. Dial 2-6655. TYPING—Phone 2-6988. FOR RENT FOR RENT—Comfortable furnished room, adjoining bath. Near campus. Professor or graduate student preferred. Phone 4-9724. FOR SALE FOR SALE—Breakfast set; bed, chest and night stand. See at B-12-A, College View after 5 :00. Blue Norther Brings Sleet, Fog Freezing Rain to Most of Texas By The Associated Press Freezing rain gripped most of central Texas early today while the northern half of the state shivered in light sleet. At 12:30 a.m. the temperature had dropped to 12 degrees at Amarillo with light sleet. The latest cold wave enveloped all of the state except 4the extreme south, but was not as severe as expected. Temperatures this morning geenrally were some what higher than yesterday. The weather bureau reported freezing rain at Waco where the temperature was 31 degrees and at Austin where the temperature was 33. San Antonio, which likes to know itself as the “city where sun shine spends the winter” had a wintry 39 degrees and light rain. The blue norther, which had made highway travel hazardous in West Texas and in the Panhandle, had not reached the coast early this morning. It was only 60 de grees at Houston, 62 at Galveston, 58 at Corpus Christi and at Brownsville, at the tip of Texas, it was a balmy 69. The norther has claimed two lives since moving into the state early Sunday. The two victims of the norther were Robert Boyce, who froze to death in Borger Sunday, and Fred T. Stricklin, 30, Lubbock, killed early yesterday when his car skid ded and overturned on icy pave ment near Lubbock. The weather bureau expected temperatures to tumble to near ze ro in the Panhandle today. And it predicted “bad weather at least until the middle of the week.” Snow, sleet or freezing rain was reported yesterday at Amarillo, Clarendon, Wichita Falls, Guada lupe Pass, Big Spring, Abilene, Midland and Dallas. The forecast for West Texas was occasional snow in the Pan handle and South Plains and freezing rain elsewhere today. Minimums of three to ten de grees above zero were expected in the Panhandle and South Plains, with 12-18 elsewhere. Freezing rain was predicted for north and west central East Texas FOR SALE—Retina Camera, 35 mm., 3.5 lens. 1948 jeep, 5,000 miles, good heater, canvas top, 700x15 tires, practically new. Trailer Area 5, No. V-l. P. O. Box 4423. FOR SALE—1937 Chevrolet 2-door sedan with RCA Victor radio and heater, in- nerspring mattress and springs, studio couch, traveler portable radio, new method gas cook range, J. C. Higgins tennis racket. All items are in excellent condition. See L. D. Lewis, College View, C-ll-Y. FOR SALE—1941 Hot Point 8 ft. refrig erator. Good condition—$135.00. See A- 4-W, College View. FOR SALE or TRADE—Reconditioned 18 ft. house trailer for sale or will trade for 1941 car. Includes 9x16 room. Trailer Q-4, Area 5. Box 2228. and rain elsewhere today. Volley Ball Play To Start Monday The College Station Recreation Council Volleyball play will start Monday, January 17, at the Consol idated School Gymnasium. Teams from the military, Ag. Experiment Station, Science, Phys ical Education, Civil and Mechani cal Engineering, Business and Ac counting, Animal Husbandry and Genetics, Ag. Eco. and Sociology, Goodwin Hall, Administration Building, North Gate, and Gradu ate Students have already entered. Games will be held every Monday night. If you and your department, building or geographical area wish to enter a team, contact Spike White at Student Activities Office before Wednesday night, Janu ary 12. Pictures Due Of Senior Favorites Pictures of senior favorites to be put into the ‘Longhorn’ are due before February 1, Earl Rose, co editor of the ‘Longhorn,’ announc ed today. The pictures should be glossy prints, five by seven inches in size, and should be turned in to Helen Roberts on the second floor of Goodwin Hall, WHAT KIND? PANUCO, Mex., Jan. 10 —(/Pi- Scientists exploring a buried city near here report the discovery of an ancient outdoor ball court com plete with scoreboard. Roberto Pavon, Mexican arche ologist, estimated the court was 2,000 years old. He said three tem ples were found near the court. FOR SALE—Large Kelvinator refrigera tor, Model FM, 7 months old. Perfect condition. Will sell $50.00 below list price. Harvey Chelf, Apt. D-9-Y, Col lege View. FOR SALE—1948 Ford station wagon. Excellent condition, one owner, 17,000 honest miles. 4-8084. Charles William Kreps free show at Campus. FOR SALE—4 room house. Small down payment; best buy in town. 1907 Ross, Bryan, Texas. FOR SALE—Montgomery-Ward one wheel trailer with canvas top and frame— $50.00. Neill Singleton, 223 S. Munner- lyn, Bryan. FOR SALE—Small Leonard refrigerator in good condition. See at Trailer F-3. FOR SALE—Refrigerator, 10 ft. G. E. Used 4 months. Graduating. See at C- 13-A, College View. Box 6674, College Station. FOR SALE—Norge refrigerator—$100.00, newly overhauled with guarantee. Large bookcase, medium size desk; must go. Apt. C-3-Z, College View. FOR SALE—Studio couch, used one year. $25.00. See at Apt. C-14-B, College View. FOR SALE—Two study tables. See at B- 18-Y, College View. FOR SALE—1948 Fleetiine Aero sedan complete with accessories. See at 419 Foster Ave., College Station. Benjamin Franklin Edwards free show at Campus. FOR SALE—’47 Buick special sedanette. Exceptionally clean, mechanically per fect. Priced for uick sale—$1,950.00. If you can find the same value cheaper, I’ll gd down in my price. B-8-Z, College View. FOR SALE—1940 Chevrolet Tudor, good condition. One owner. Phone 4-8044. GRADUATING—For sa'le, white breakfast table, 4 chairs, bunk bed and mattress. Williams, B-18-A, College View. FOR SALE—1938 Ford Tudor Sedan. Mo tor, body and tires good. $490.00. See at Apt. A-14-W, College View. STUDIO COUCH and G. E. refrigerator for sale. B-7-Y, College View. MISCELLANEOUS VACANCY for one child 2 or above in day nursery. Mrs. Presswood, 301 West Park Place, College Station. CHIROPRACTOR Geo. W. Buchanan, D.C. COLONIC X-RAY 305 E. 28th St. Phone 2-6243 SEAT COVERS Plastic or Straw JOHNSON’S UPHOLSTERY SHOP Back of “Eagle” Office Bryan, Texas Phone 2-1232 EXPERT SHOE REPAIRS While You Wait Cowboy boots made to order JONES BOOT SHOP Southside BUY YOUR G. E. RADIO TODAY Portables—Table Models Consoles $19.95 and up McCULLOCH-DANSBY APPLIANCE STORE Bryan W.S.D. CLOTHIERS College Station TRY OUR DELICIOUS 65^ LUNCH Preared with the most modern and sanitary grill equipment made SMITTY’S COLLEGE GRILL North Gate OLD FURNITURE MADE NEW We Specialize in Refinishing Antiques and Venetian Blinds F. L. SUMMERS Furniture Refinishing Painting Contractor 3200 Highway 6, S. Ph. 4-4682 WE SELL Model Airplane Supplies Architectural Balsa Wood SHAFFER’S BOOK STORE North Gate Phone 4-8814 SENIORS Get your Life, Time and Fortune magazine before leaving school Life, 1 year $4.75 Time, 1 year 5.00 Fortune, 1 year 7.50 Johnson’s Magazine Agency, Box 284, College Station, Texas Qiftsi 1 BROCK DINNERWARE In Desert Colors LAMPS, VASES, NOVELTIES Choice Selections of Finer Merchandise ML Co. Main and North Gate Phone 4-1145 STORAGE Store Your Furniture, Foot Lockers, etc. at BURGESS-PUGH Fireproof Warehouse 3 blocks south of Kyle Field on old Highway 6 Phone 4-4236 H. E. BURGESS ’29 MARION PUGH ’41 GRAND OPENING OF THE AGGIE RADIO AND APPLIANCE STORE THURSDAY, JAN. 11 1040,6 p. m. FREE! FREE! FREE! In addition to the display of this area’s most modern electrical appliances, we will give away one automatic toaster, one table model radio, two record albums, and one waffle iron. Drawing to be held at the end of our big opening week January 13 to 20. You do not have to be present at the drawing to win, just sign our guest register as you enter.