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 '' + . !
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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.
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