THE BATTALION
Page 4 THURSDAL, MARCH 10, 1949
Who’s Who at A&M
Who’s Who at A&M
Get In The Movies Free;
Operate The Projector
DONALD JARVIS
JACK QUIREY
By DAVE COSLETT
Found: One sure way to get in
to the movies free.
It’s really quite simple to be a
motion picture projectionist. After
all, what job could be simpler than
just running a motion picture pro
jector ?
Here again the answer is simple.
Plenty of jobs are a lot easier
than running the machinery be
hind A&M’s most constant means
of diversion. A short talk with the
projectionists at Guion Hall should
convince anyone of that.
In the first place, the lure of
free movies loses its power quick
ly with someone who runs the
same picture two or three times
a day for two or three days. An
avid movie fan is a rarity among
the members of this profession.
Even with the few who do enjoy
an occasional motion picture, an
extremely critical additude toward
all movies soon becomes inborn.
Served With Merrill’s Marauders . . .
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Supply Sergeant Finlay son
Expert On Aggie Vet Brass
By C. C. MUNROE
“Ask the man who owns one”
might well be paraphrased into
“Ask the man who knows them”
when any discussion comes up in
volving the quality of Aggie offi
cers in the army. And, if anyone is
interested in asking the man who
knows them, the person to see is
Master Sergeant Robert V. Fin-
layson, enlisted supply sergeant,
in Ross Hall.
He served with hundreds of A
&M graduates, mostly veterinari
ans, when he was stationed in the
China-Burma-India theater during
the war. As a second lieutenant in
the 698th. quartermaster remount
outfit, Finlayson learned more
about A&M than many a good
fish.
“I never had an Aggie for a
commanding officer,” the sarge
commented, “but I was with
them all during the war. I knew
of at least one outfit in which
every officer, including the C. 0.
Captain Gene Capton, was an
A&M graduate.”
Finlayson, as supply and animal
officer for the remount group, su
pervised the transportation of hun
dreds of mules from India into
China and Burma over the Burma
Road. He is a veteran of the Bur-
'Mg,..Campaign, having served with
the 5307th. Composite Unit, known
more popularly as Merrill’s Ma
rauders.
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The sarge signed into the army
some 12 years ago at Fort Ethan
Allen in Vermont, although at that
time he expected to do just a three
year hitch.
After coming up the ladder of
enlisted promotions, Finlayson was
promoted to Warrant Officer, jun
ior grade, and ordered overseas in
January 1943. At the time he was
assigned to the 478th. quartermas
ter truck regiment. From that out
fit he went to the 5307th.
He was commissioned as a sec
ond lieutenant in July, 1944.
His present duties here at A
&M are concerned mostly with
supply. His reportedly unlimited
knowledge of the mysteries of
the duplicates, triplicates and
quadruplicates involved in army
supply is constantly being called
upon.
Although holding a ground ser
vice job, Finlayson, who reverted
to his enlisted rank at the war’s
end, is considered supply sergeant
for both the Army and Air Forces
units at the college.
A family man, Sergeant Fin
layson and his wife Erma have
one daughter, Barbara Sue. The
family make their home in Bry
an.
Asked if he expects to continue
his career in the Army, the ser
geant said Re was. “I like working
with men and like the benefits
that army life provides such as the
retirement provision.”
He wouldn’t comment on what
he plans to do when his time for
retirement does come up, but ru
mor has it that he is considering
a project involving mules and
water buffalo. The sarge denies
any plans involving animals, but
members of the enlisted detach
ment have a different story.
Employees to Have
Party on March 17
A buttons and bows party will
be given by the College Employees
Dinner Club the night of March
17 at Sbisa Hall.
“It is not compulsory but I kinda
think it would be nice if the ladies
wear gingham dresses and the men
wear blue jeans,” Bill Armistead,
president of the club, said.
The dinner party will begin at
6:45 and tickets may be purchased
at Aggieland Inn through poon
Saturday.
The boys in the booth just don’t
look at the glamorous figures and
scenes on the screen through the
same eyes that the audience does.
Hollywood’s “stupendous produc
tions” become to them a few reels
of film that may be poorly patch
ed full of mis-placed or messed-
up signals, and devoid of good
sprocket holes.
Coupled with these worries, they
have the strain of keeping sound
at an adequate level, constantly
adjusting a carbon-arc lamp, and
making a change over every 20
Who’s Who at A&M
HAROLD OLIVER
Tellepsen Firm
Awarded Contract
Tellepsen Construction Company
of Houston has been awarded the
contract to put in the water and
sewer mains for the Experiment
Station and cotton research green
houses, Veterinary Hospital, and
Memorial Student Center.
Work was started February 21
on the Experiment Station and
cotton research green house water
and sewer mains.
The water and sewer mains for
the Experiment Station and cotton
research green houses will cost
$9,489; the Veterinary Hospital,
$2,434; the Memorial Student Cen
ter, $1,912.25.
The Tellepsen Construction Com
pany’s contract includes installing
the water and sewer mains to the
entomology field laboratory and
green house, new poultry farm,
and beef cattle center, all of which
are to be west of the railroad track.
minutes. The latter item, the
change-over, usually proves quite
interesting to visitors to a pro
jection booth and quite nerve-
wracking to embryo projectionist.
For the benefit of those who
don’t know, the feature length 35
mm film comes in reels with an
average running length of about
18 minutes. The average theater
program consists of the showing
of about five or six of these reels,
one of which is usually made up
of news, trailers (pre-vues, that
is), and a short subject or cartoon.
During the showing of the fea
ture the projectionist must change
from one projector to the other
without the audience detecting the
move. This is accomplished through
the aid of change-over signals and
light blocks.
The first step consists of “fir
ing the arc” or igniting the car
bon arc lamp, the source of light
for the projector. Next, the projec
tor jockey eyes the right-hand,
upper corner of the screen for the
first signal, a small circle which
1 appears on the screen warning him
| that the reel showing at the pres-
i ent time has just about run out.
When he sees the first signal,
! he starts the motor of the idle
projector and moves his hand to
the sound switch. A few seconds
I later another signal, exactly like
i the first, appears on the screen.
At the sight of this second sig
nal, the projectionist touches a
contraption which blocks the light
from one machine and allows light
from the freshly-threaded machine
to hit the screen. Simultaneously,
he switches the sound from one
machine to the other. When done
expertly, the process results in
change from one machine to the
other that leaves the .audience none
the wiser.
Ghanging-over calls for good
co-ordination and relaxed nerves.
The novice in the projection booth
seldom possesses either.
Add to this little job, the tasl^
of threading up a machine, patch
ing film and the countless other
little things that make up the bulk
of the work for the boys in the
booth and you’ll understand why
their job isn’t simple.
As long as things run smoothly,
the experienced projectionist works
hard for less than five minutes out
of every twenty. But when those
gremlins invade the booth, our
hero has to work hard and fast.
The strain caused by a short shut-
down more than makes up for the
leisure enjoyed by the projection
ist in his luckier moments.
Next time the-screen goes blank,
therefore, just, sit back and relax.
Instead of whistling and stomping
your feet, think for a minute about
that fellow in the upper rear of
the theater who is about to have
a nervous breakdown trying to get
things running again. Then ask
yourself, “Is it worth that kind of
a job just to see a free movie?”
McGrail to Speak
At AFS Meeting
C. R. McGrail, president of the
Texaloy Foundry Go. of San An
tonio, will address the student
chapter of the American Foundry-
men’s Society, Thursday night at
7:30 in the Mechanical Engineering
Building.
McGrail’s subject will be “Al
loys of Cast Iron.”
According to B. D. Stone, chair
man of the local chapter, McGrail
is one of the most prominent foun-
drymen in the country.
McGrail is the present Chairman
of the Educational Committee of
the American Foundrymen’s So
ciety and is a past National Chair
man of the society.
A duchess for the Cotton Ball
will be selected at the meeting,
Stone said.
The military department’s expert on supply and requisition. MASTER SERGEANT ROBERT
V. FINLAYSON, is also considered by members of the enlisted detachment as their outstanding au
thority on the subject of mule transportation. During the war, he served as a Warrant Officer with
a quartermaster remount outfit that transported hundreds of mules from India to China and Burma.
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Galveston Club To
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Final plans for the Easter par
ty of the Galveston Club will be
discussed Thursday night at 7:30
in Room 129, Academic Building,
Jack Gernard, club reporter, said
today.
The club will organize a soft-
ball team, Gernard added.
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Loveless to Talk
At Reserve Meet
Lt. Col. Sid L. Loveless, cavalry
reserve, will discuss National Serv
ice Life Insurance Thursday night
at a meeting of the Brazos County
Chapter of the Reserve Officers
Association at 7:30 in the Petro
leum Engineering Lecture Room.
According to Dick Hervey, sec
retary-treasurer of the organiza
tion, the 479th Composite Group
and the 305th Composite Air Re
serve also will meet with the As
sociation.
Hervey asked that members of
these organizations be present.
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Patrick W. Marks, ’48, from
Caldwell has entered the Army on
a three year tour of extended ac
tive duty at Fort Bolivar, Virginia,
Colonel O. B. Abbott, executive for
the Texas Military District, said
today.
At present Marks is a second
lieutenant in the Corps of Engi
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Guion Hall projectionists thread their machine in preparation for showing the next reel of
film. Tommy Strother, kneeling and adjusting the carbon arc lamp, has graduated and taken a job r
as a salesman for a motion picture supply house.
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