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Rainfall And Snow Can Be Artificial Hfeavy irainfall, snow, and the dissipation of cloud formations have all been accomplished by the application of dry ice in a powder ed form to certain types of clouds. At a meeting of the American Meteorological Society and the In stitute of Aeronautical Sciences Dr. Irving Langmuir, associate di rector of the General Electric Com pany’s research laboratory, re vealed that extensive cloud study has been made by General Electric in conjunction with the Army Sig nal Corps and the Office of Naval Research. Dr. Langmuir said that the seeding of clouds with dry ice might prove of economic value by enabling certain areas to produce crops in normally dry seasons. Rain is artificially produced by seeding cloud areas with dry ice which will change those areas into billions of ice crystals. As the crystals fall below the freezing line, they melt and the resulting water starts an automatic chain reaction rainfall, Dr. Langmuir said. Adam Injured By Fall While Enroute to La. D. A. “Andy” Adam, extension radio editor, is in St. Joseph’s hos pital in Houston with serious neck and back injuries sustained in a fall January 30, Louis Franke, ex tension editor, said recently. “Andy” Adam and Ken Gaten in charge of the new USD A radio service were enroute to Baton Rouge, Louisiana to attend a meet ing of the Southern Agricultural Workers. In changing trains at Houston Adam slipped and fell on the ice covered pavement. He went on to Baton Rouge, but began to suffer severe pains and was brought back to Houston Wed nesday morning, accompanied by Jerry Seaman, Chicago, in Texas to make a report of the National Wool Growers Association meeting in San Antonio. His report will be broadcast over the NBC national farm and home hour. Adam had planned to interview Stanley Davis of the Texas Agricultural Experi ment Station on this broadcast. Mrs. Adam, who joined her hus band upon his return to Houston, called Frances Arnold, assistant editor, and reported that Xrays showed that Adams has a broken neck and possible back in juries. He will be hospitalized for at least a month. A high degree of success :has. been achieved with the experiments and in 35 cloud-seeding flights positive indications of cloud modi fication or conversion into rain or snow were obtained. In discussing the cloud dispersion experiments, Dr. Langmuir said that definite patterns were cut in layers of stratus clouds by the dry ice method. Portions of the clouds so treated completely disappeared within forty minutes, leaving breaks in the clouds through which the ground was distinctly visible. Dr. Vincent J. Schaeber, in an other talk, explained his theory by which he hopes to simulate ar tificially in the laboratory differ ent types of clouds for the purpose of gaining greater knowledge of cloud behavior. “The end result of these research studies is the attempt to reach a better understanding of the vari ous pysical processes which com bine to cause the genesis, growth, maturity and decline of clouds and in particular the basic features which combine to form various types of precipitation,” Dr. Schae fer said. Jarvis Miller Heads Methodist Student Board Jarvis Miller was elected chair man of the Student Board of Ste wards of the A&M Methodist Church Thursday night, according to Gerald York, publicity chairman. Other officers elected were Bob by Bland, vice-chairman; Cleve Walkup, secretary, and Jody Dam- eron, treasurer and chairman of the finance committee. Committee chairmen named were Chuck Pickens, study and worship; Howard Holloway, fellows h i p; Charles Hendricks, ushering; Ger ald York, publicity; Herbert Kauff man, building and grounds; Jimmy Harris, social actions; Don Jarvis and Tom Price, music; and Sam Barnes, evangelism. Associate Pastor Asbury Lenno£ pointed out that this new student board would be in charge of all student work in the church. Other members of the board in clude Leland Neeper, Louis Young blood, Dick Scott, Paul Walenfelsz, Tom Ogden, George Thomas, Rob ert Hinckley, Charles Owens, Wal do Henslee, Correll Blair, Ted Pit- zer, Guy Daniel, Fred Davis, John Olson, Don Kaspar, Tom Field, and Ken Garrett. W '' + . ! ' ''i MR. AND MRS. TOM TAYLOR are the co-owners of Taylor’s Variety Store which opened in,’ its new North Gate location last week. Ramblers Are In Search of Talent Page 4 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1949 By BUDDY LUCE “My kingdom Tor a fiddler,” is the cry echoed by the remains of A&M’s gift to the world of music, the Aggie Ramblers, as they comb the campus for recruits. Fiddlers, steel guitar players, and accord ionists with hillbilly ears are in great demand. The gist of the situation is that the ranks of the Ramblers have been thinned to the barest of mini- mums by the foi’ces of graduation, matrimony, and other powers be yond the control of ordinary “hoo- mans.” A course in personnel manage ment and membership in Petrillo’s union should be the requirements for all band leaders. Keeping to gether such a small group of only five musicians has been for the What Price Cowpokery? Champ Cowboy to Swap Spurs for Shot Glass By BILL BILLINGSLEY Put away your cap pistols, kid dies, the Lone Ranger is just a farce. You know how he and Ton to are always riding over the hill into the setting sun? Well, they aren’t really riding away into another ad venture next week - which - y o u - should-be-sure-and-hear- a n d-also- eat-Puffie-Toasties’ like the man says. We found out recently that they’re just knocking off for a short beer. This unnerving revelation came from Denver, the tall, cool, rugged city which is supposed to produce cowboys that answer the same gen eral description. But here is the ungarnished truth as issued by the Associated Press: “There’s no ranch waiting at the end of the rodeo trail for Gerald Roberts. The nation’s top cowboy is saving his money for a night club. The 28 year old Strong City, Kansas, cowpoke was picked the best all-around cowboy for 1948 by the Rodeo Cowboys Association with a total of 21,776 points—one for each dollar he won.” A night club! What has Ameri can cowpokery come to? How the Wild West’s Winchester wielders of days gone by must shiver in their saddles at this latest tra- versity on their good name! When William S. Hart raced an oncoming locomotive to rescue the fair damsel from her cross-tie crad- dle, provided through the courtesy of the villianous Jack Dalton, was it all done to procure pesos for a pilsner palace? As Tom Mix plinked 13 succes sive painted savages with his six shooter with one hand and dealt himself a round of cold deck stud with the other, was his mind on the weeks paycheck from Republic, which he would promptly plunk down for a payment on a drink dispensery ? And while Buck Jones was splin tering assorted furniture over the heads of the meanest looking set of heavies the casting office could dig up, did he mutter in his beard, “Each one I maim, each one I kill makes another payment on Jones’ Bar and Grill?” No! Several thousand times, no! The horse-borne heroes of days gone by were above that sort of thing. Theirs was a more noble cause. But perhaps we’re allowing fool- Ex-Aggie Exhibits Prize Angus Herd Arnold Spitzer, former student from Meridian, won his nineteenth blue ribbon Wednesday at the Southwestern Fat Stock Show in Fort Worth. Spitzer, manager of the J. Gar ret Tolan Farm, won the blue rib bon with a herd of Aberdeen An gus cattle. While an animal husbandry ma jor at A&M in 1936, Spitzer first hit the exhibition circuit with the Sunbeam Farms of Miami, Okla. While at A&M Spitzer was a member of both junior and senior livestock judging teams. Every Student A Businessman... WITH A $32,840 PROFIT Every student shares the profits of the Exchange Store, because by his purchases at the store which serves Texas Aggies he is helping to build a greater future for Texas A.&M. College. The Exchange Store Profits of $32,840 for the fiscal year of 1947 - 48 will be divided between the Mem orial Student Center Operating Fund and Student Welfare . . . The Exchange Profits are your Profits The Exchange Store “Serving Texas Aggies” BOOKS ^ : SUPPLIES AND MATERIALS STATIONERY CLOTHING PERSONAL NEED! ish sentiment to interfere with re ality. After all, 21,000 potatoes would buy lots of Old Fashion glasses. And, too, you probably wouldn’t get half so saddle sore on a chromium bar stool as on Five Minutes to Midnight. This old bus iness of coming out of chute num ber 9 on Turpentine isn’t all the RCA’s publicity department would have us believe. And after trying to bulldog one of Madison Square Garden’s range hardened steers under 9 seconds for three seasons, it might be pleasant to watch one of your cus tomers wrestling the same critter on a platter with French fries. Even if the contesting customer got a “dog fall”—you still get the day money. Tilling the soil with your hands is fine; but soiling your hands with a till is much more profit able. It was really romantic when a strong son of the outdoors used to say, “Reach for the sky and hand over that gold dust, this is a stick up!” But now it’s so much easier to say, “That check will be $642.23, Barnes Joins Department of Visual Aids Walter Nelson Barnes has been named assistant director of the department of photo graphic and visual aids labor atory of A&M. He will be in charge of motion picture and film strips section, which includes utili zation, and production and distri bution, Howard Berry, director of the department announced. Barnes came to A&M from In diana University where he was supervisor of photographic service in the audio visual center. He is a graduate of the University of Tex as and the University of Chicago. The author of several publications, he has been staff photographer to the research museum, Globe, Ari zona, and technical representative of the Eastman Kodak Co. His publications include Respon sibilities of a Producer in Univer sity Film Production, Audio Visual Guide; A University Should Pro duce 16 mm. Films, School and So ciety; Teachers Can Make Film strips, a series, part one in Audio- Visual Guide for March. Barnes is a native Texan. Born at Smithville, he attended Breck- enridge high school in San Antonio where his parents live. Senior Accountant Will Join College Insurance Agency John K. Carr, 23, senior account ing student from Bryan, will join the American General Life Insur ance Company on March 1, accord ing to Sidney L. Loveless, College Station agent for the firm. Carr will be on part-time basis until June, at which time he will be a full-time representative asso ciated with the College Station agency. On March 1, the American General will open a branch office in Rooms 37 and 38, Astin Build ing, in Bryan. Carr entered A&M in the Class of 1946,* but his education was in terrupted by military service. He served four years in the Navy and was discharged with the grade of lieutenant, junior grade. The son of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Shepperd of Bryan, Carr is a mem ber of the Accounting Society, Brazos County Reserve Officers’ Association. Ramblers nothing but an enact ment of the old song “Here Today and' Gone Tomorrow.” The beginning of the fall se mester found the group fully equipped with steel guitar, fiddle, base fiddle, electric guitar, ac cordion and other diversions from these time-tested weapons. The end of the semester found two Ramblers trying to keep up a tune and enough noise to make themselves heard over WTAW. A guitar and base fiddle still furnish accompaniment for a few song sessions on the little 5-watter in College Station. Somewhere among the piles of humanity on the campus there should be a granpa-tutored Aggie who doesn’t see anything wrong with “dragging a horse’s tail a- cross the insides of a cat.” The Ramblers need recruits to stay in the music making racket. Any tuneful wanderers interest ed in helping the shortage of hillbilly and western music on the campus should get in touch with Buddy Luce in Room C-9, Walton Hall or most any afternoon dur ing the week at The Battalion office. As long as the guitar strings and the tonsils hold out, the Ramblers or “Rambler,” whichever the case may be, will hold forth over WT AW with any and everything from “Life Gets Teejus” to a guitar ver sion of “Ida Red.” CHARLIE OPERSTENY and his son CHARLES reopened the community’s oldest grocery and the community’s newest store when Charlie’s Food Market officially reopened last week. Government Survey Reveals Demand for College Graduate Caltech Opens Rivalry For Hughes Awards Advanced technical stu dents at A&M may apply for the Howard Hughes Fellow ships in Creative Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Lee A. Du- Bridge, president of Caltech, announced recently. Dr. DuBridge says that the awards are open to persons who school at Caltech, are qualified to enter the graduate \ The awards consist of a gift of !61,500 to Caltech to cover tuition and research expenses; a gift to each fellow of $1,500 or more, de pending on his qualifications; and a salary of not less than $2,000 to each recipient for actual develop ment work at Hughes’ Culver City, California, aircraft plant. Applications received before Feb ruary 15, 1949, will be considered by a committee including repre sentatives of Caltech and Howard Hughes. Awards will be announced by April 1, 1949, and those selected will begin the program July 1, 1949, with a 10-week project at the Hughes’ plant, DuBridge said. Following the summer period, the fellows will be enrolled at Cal tech in a program of study and re search and will continue with their project work with the aircraft en gineers. Aplications for the fellowships are available from the Dean of Graduate Studies, California Insti tute of Technology, Pasadena V, California, DuBridge stated. L M. Blank Named f r Pathology Head Dr. L. M. Blank, plant patholo gist for the USDA and the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, has been elected president of the Southern Division of the American Phytopathological Society. The Southern Division of this society includes persons interested in plant diseases and their control who are located in the area below a line from Arizona northeast to Maryland. New officers were elected by the society at its annual meeting held in Baton Rouge, La., in connection with the yearly meeting of the Southern Agricultural Workers As sociation. At the meeting Dr. Blank pre sented two scientific papers which dealt with the bacterial blight dis ease of cotton. The next few years will see an increased demand foi college graduates in the fields of medicine, psychology, kin dergarten and elementary school teaching and certain phases of electricity, J. R. Varnel, veterans advisor, has announced. At the same time, Varnell said, competition will grow keener for positions in the fields "f of engineering, chemistry, phar- EE Relay Course Planned in March The electrical engineering de partment is sponsoring a short course on protective relays March 14, 15 and 16, according to an an nouncement by L. M. Haupt, chair man of the course. The meetings will be conducted in Bolton Hall with different speak ers presiding. Approximately 150 electrical en gineers are expected to attend, He concluded. macy, law, and personnel rela tions. Varnell cited these conclusions from a report prepared for the Veterans Administration by the Occupational Outlook Service, Bu reau of Labor Statistics, U. S. Department of Labor. The study is being used by VA advisory and guidance officers as an aid in counseling disabled veterans planning to take educa tional and training courses. The report concluded that: 1. The demand for health ser vice is outstripping the supply of newly graduated doctors and den tists. 2. Despite a record - breaking number of awards of bachelor de grees' in psychology in the past year, the need for psychology ex perts is still great. 3. In the next 10 year’s, one mil lion teachers must be trained if goals of educational leaders are to be met. 4. There will be a “moderate increase” in employment in the electric utility industry over the next decade. 5. Despite employment oppor tunities in electrical engineering, engineering graduates generally will find stiffen competition for jobs. 6. There is increasing competi tion for jobs among chemists with only bachelors’ degrees, but hold ers of advanced degrees have bet- Stephens to Leave A&M for Research Work in England Dr. Stanley G. Stephens, cyto geneticist, in cotton research at A &M, resigned January 30 to accept a position as head of cereal in vestigations work with the Plant Breeding Institute of Cambridge, ingland. Cotton research everywhere will be the loser,” said Director R. D. Lewis of the Agricultural Experi ment Station. “Dr. Stephens made numerous significant contributions to our program, and did basic work on many important studies which the younger men who have worked with him will carry to completion.” Dr. Stephens is a native of Eng land and completed work in nat ural science at Cambridge in 1934. He received his doctorate in gene tics from the University of Edin burg in 1942 while assistant gene ticist for the Scottish plant breed ing station. After four years with the Em pire Cotton Growing Corporation in Trinidad, B. W. L, he came to the United States in 1945 as research associate with the Carnegie Insti tute in Washington, D. C. Stephens plans to keep in touch with Texas cotton workers and “looks forward to the time when there will be frequent interchange of ideas, materials and personnel between all the major institutions where cotton research is carried on. This is not a mere gesture of good will,” he said. “All of us have much to gain from such an ar rangement at this stage when the most interesting developments are still to be made.” MIXED DRINK LAW BILLED IN HOUSE AUSTIN, Feb. 8 —(A>)— A bill permitting sale of Liquor by the drink was filed Saturday for inti'o- duction in the House of Represen tatives. ter chances. 7. Pharmacy graduates are stil. in strong demand but the 195C graduating number probably wil be twice the 1948 total of 1,971 and larger graduating classes ar( in prospect for several years. 8. ' “Many law graduates are al ready having trouble getting posi tions. The number of bachelors’ de grees in law, already at a peak oi 10,025 this year, is expected tc rise even further because of a rec ord enrollment of more than 50,- 000.” 9. Job chances for newcomers ir the personnel field are “not expec ted to be good” in the near future the report stated. $100 Prize Up For Top Essay On Ventilation One hundred dollars will be of fered for the best essay entitled “Why I chose Air Conditioning Engineering As My Profession,’ L. S. O’Bannon, mechanical engi neering department, announced to day. The contest is being conducted for the first time this year, and is " eing held in conjunction with th< ’ifth Annual Air Conditioning, con ference to be held on the Campus Mnrch 28-30, O’Bannon said. The person writing the best es say will present his paper at ths Conference. Deadline date for sub mitting an essay in the contest is March 15. Fifteen hundred to 200( words has been set as the lengtl for the essays, O’Bannon said. Judges for the contest will be the conference chairman and th( presidents of the Houston, Dallas San Antonio, and Shreveport chap ters of the American Society oi Heating and Ventilating Engineers Only students who are members of an ASHVE student chapter al their school are eligible for th( contest. O’Bannon asked that anyone in- terested in submitting an essay ir the contest contact him in roon 104, mechanical engineering shop Non»student chapter members maj also, come by for information or elegibility requirements, he added Senior Vet Meds Elect Louisianan Frank Bryson of Shreveport, La. was elected president of the veteri nary senior class for the spring semester at a recent meeting. Other officers of the class ar< Jack Fuller, vice-president, anc Ray Hargis, secretary-treasurer. Officers elected to the Junioi AVMA were Joe Cox and Johi Wilkins, council; Joe Doak, pro gram; John Gupton, membershii and finance; Mahlon Huffman, pub licity; Dee Jenkins, social; anc Leon Gibbs, special. Overstreet Wins * Bull Riding First Maxie Overstreet, a sophomore veteran student from Haslet, wot first place in Brahman Bull riding last Friday at the Southwesten Exposition and Fat Stock Show a Fort Worth. Overstreet is a mem ber of the Aggie Rodeo Club. ARMY LOU Loupot's TRADING POST North Gate Want’s to THANK YOU AGGIES For letting hom serve you with Books and School Supplies during the opening week of the semester. “Trade With Lou — He’s Right With You”