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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1949)
~i N . •• •! ' I • • 'llir ■ j I •I. A • K [ Two firemen, here for the Firemen's Training School, demonstrate ijwo types mask on the left is an oxygen breathing apparatus, and the one mask. These masks will be demoastrated during the annual school, In progress this week. AH Students Study Lufkin Fields, Cattle Correspondent to the home if If -;r r ' - Eighteen members of th Animal Husbandry 406 clas, r.nd their instructors, W. Warren and Ji K. Itiggs, vis- ited the Agricultural Station at Lufkin last Saturday. The trip was made to study "the pasture improvement expert* inents and the crossbreeding experiments between t h i Brahman and Hei&fqrd breed of cattle* . ; W At the station,/W. C. Knapp station superin^ttyenVistated .that they rolled the best commnahon found thus far for this region is \i Brahman and Hereford, nut tests arc now being run-on h* /BVahman and !?5I Hereford in an attempt to develop cattle that will Efficiently produce a high quality find grade of beef juavdln. > . •:/ The cattle arfs weighed, once each month and extensive records are kept of- their gain or—loss of weight, as tyell as their weight Porter Who Found J ester Interviewed ByjHERMAN Battalion Houston Correspondent Kditor’s note: When Herman received news of Governor Jester’s death, he rushed loarding the Southern Pacific at different ihges. It ihas been de termined that the cattle at ight, as different thf Lufkin station reach their peak /■ df weight af seven years of agC| r weighing 1300 pounds dr slighUy mdre for the Brahman-Uereford . 'crossbred ccjws. The peak’ weight for the grade Hereford cows is usually tw* or throe /hundred .. pounds less. 1 f ' : ~ The part Brahman cow loses more weight during the winter than the grade Hereford, but the crossbred cow will gain imore rapid- ' '-ly in the spring of the year and be in much better conditioin in ft relatively short while. I The cross bred cows make a much better i ■' mother than the straight Hereford cow. Some of these cofvs must be milked while their calvos are small iofipreveht their udders front spoil- \ . —yj |i . , .-j \ The' superintendent also stressed that the cattlc w;ere no better than ' their pesturcs. and that their pas- ^ lures were no better quality thin y theiir cattle. This emphasizes the fact that tne improvement of the cattle depends upon",the pasture improvement. The statjion is also running ex periments on various combinations of grasses, legumes, and fertilizers which will most economically pro vide for ft greater number of ani mal units per acre. The slogan of the famitf is M a cow and ,a ralf to an acre and, a half.” ; ; TES Mankrs To Attend Conference . Three extension‘' service staff members will leave today for Tulsa, ~ Oklahoma to attend a conference dealing With future plans for trac- * tor maintenance training clinics, f The conference will bt held to- ]■ .morrow,.., j.| ; j ' \ ■ / Represoritati\’es from the exten sion aervice staffs of several south- v cm states and officials of\ the t" Stanollhd OH & Gas Company,' sponsors of the tractor j-mainten- : i hhee program for 4-tt; boys, will .fattend. V | TU* TaHrna Extension >' for this exclusive interview^ Houston, July 11: Lower number 5 on Southern Pacific’s) Austin-Houston train number j!2 is empty today. , [ Late last night, soon after J in Austin, 'Beftutord Jester, gov-4 emor of the j^lrgest arid most pro-, ductive state in the union, Slipped between the crisp, clean sheets of Lower 3, lay back arid shut, his eyes and listen rtf to the sharp metallic click ojf the wheels ay and smoothly C. f.OLLOB Gollob, The Battalion’s Houston discovered governor’s body “Special developments in fighting gasolind and oil fires are being displayed and studied at the 20th annual Firemen’s Training School,” said H. R. Brayton, drector of the school. The school has the largest attendance since it was started in 1929, with 648 registered students, 95 instructors and —4-4- fvisitors. j - ' T ‘Thesq visitors,” said Br >n, swiftly and i down the eatpahse 6f traick towards Houston and "confidential ness.” But somewhcrE between Houston and Austin the flagged "Numbe Angel of • 42” and represen tativel, rector G. CjMSibeon ccording to di- on wil3 no J. D. _dPrewitt, vice director 4andi it|te agent, W. L. Ulich, agricultural v engineer and A. H. Kracher Jr, asilsUnt state 4-H dub leader. They will return to TexMi 'Mlf; for its important passenger—the Governor w’ns needed elsewhere. Pullman jAortejr Charlie Jimcrson of Houston, 661 year old veteran of 37 years service with the Pull- mah company, was the last person to sec the Govetjnor alive, and the first to see him 'dead. Seated in the spic and span par lor of his neat, whitewashejjl bung alow, a home j which/ spoke of “humble thrift njnd homely cares,” Charliq was visibly affected by the death of the Goyemor. Dufing his year and a half on the Austin- Housbn run, Charlie attended Governor Jester each time the chief executive of Texas traveled ,on Train 42. i ' jit! .. • In a voice thajt was low, heavy, restrained, Charlie recalled, “The Gov’rijor. made one las’ trip before this one. He waslwith his wife, and he hald Ichfer 6 then, too, and his wife hadflower 6.” Here Charlie’s wife broke in. Small, pltimpi wi|th her sparse grey hair piled loosley on top jof her head, she was acutely aware of the seriousness of the occasion: "Charlie used to tell mq he loved the governor, add I’d tell v him he was jus’ sayin' that cause the governor rode in his car.v But Charlie would ids’ shake his head, and get mad, and then tell >qe that the gov’nor alius’ had a nice idling to, say to evy’body and that Her-voice was high, soft, and she spoke with genuine feeling, meas uring »each word carefully before Uttering it. If. 1 Charlie wiped his bald pate, Which was glistening with sweat, id falteringly recounted h|a story a Ut- ie up his berth, and he went right to bed. He lef a.,call for me to get him up at 7:30. jThia morning I went to his berth audlahook the curtain, and I called that it was time for him to get upi . “I didn’ hear him move, so J 88 Fooler Joins vary Staff Hits J’Nell Fowler has been ap- reader’s advisor in the System, Paul S. announced to* " ? J Fowler, a native of Van, be has served ae librarian tk« Overton Independent District for the past two Regrtratio Begins in jSbisa Monday at 8j Repfistration for the second semester of summer school will be held at Sbisa Hal! Monday, July 18, bepinnin^ at 8 a. m., H. L. Heaton, regisi- trar, announced today. The entire proceedings will ifeke place in Sbisa. This includes pay ment of fees, housing assignments, and issuance of book requisitionfl to veterans,: X : H s. Students will register alphabet ically according to the following schedule: 8:(j0 to 9:00—All whose sur names begin with E, F, G, H, L J, K.i , 9:00 to 10:00—All whose names begin with A, B, p, D. 10:00 to 11:00—All whose sur names begin with S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z. '|[ ' 11:00 to 12:00—All whose sur names begin with L, N, O, P, Q, R. The same proceedurc as has been followed in the past will be used this time, said Heaton. Those start dents who do not pay their fees before hand may do so at Sbisa before registering., Assignment cards must be obtained before be ginning to register, and after the card is signed by the dean of the students school it must be handed in at the registrar's desk in the Sbisa Hall annex. Students would save themselves a lot of trouble by obtaining a summer school bulletin from the registrar’s office and reading it thoroughly before going over to register, said Heaton. Also much of the confusion could be avoided of thEse students who could, would pay their fees" at the fiscal office before Monday, Tleaton concluded. Thompson Will Be At p-H Club Camp Uel D. Thompson, assistant ex^ Soon there was lots of ,po-liccmen! tension animal husbandman, A&M, and doctors and reporters, and I j has been granted authorization to had to go to the po-liee station and attend the Dallam county 4-H club make a statement. Then 1 heard camp whieh will be hold hear Eagle that it was n heart attack that Nest,! New Mexico from, July 21- “havc come from all parts country to attend' this s<‘ visitor, Leopold Castillo, is from Cnrnca$, Venezuela, and is the safety engineer for th<A Venezuelan f’ovemment. Another risitor, Safe ty Engineer W. M/ Welch of the National Furriers Aftsociatlon, romesf from New 7 York City.” New Pumps ;\j. I Two new pumps have been ob- tained for the school, Brayton said. A new type pumper truck with n J-stafge pump has been obtained front the General Detroit Company. This pump operates on both high and low pressure. The'other pump er truck, manufactured by Bean Company, is similar to the crash trucks and Will operate on as much as 8,000 lbs. pressure. L ■ i Other new fire fighting equip ment which has been developed within the past two years is being used; by the school. Such equip ment as the dry powder extinguish ers, the liquid foam extinguishers, and the wetting agents arc being Used. The wetting agents are an orgapic compound which, when mixed with water, breaks the sur face tension Of the water, allowing it to, seep into the center of such objects as cotton bales. Chemical Extinguishers “Methods which have been in use throughout the country are also taught,” said Brayton. The Carbon di-oxide extinguishers, the carbon tetrachloride extinguishers, xtinguishers, i pump cans led back the curtain and took liiri by one han’, and shook him ■entle like and said ’Gov’nor," it’s 'me to get up.’ Then l grabbed >th bans and did the same thing. “I got nervous when he / still idn’ move and I called Mr. Pierce he conductor (C. D. Pierce of ouston). He tried to ynfike the ov’nor, and couldn’ either. He felt is pulse and rolled back His eye- ids (Here Charlie demonstrated hesc procedures on himsqlf) and said to mo, ‘Charlie, I think he’s dead.’ He went and got a po-lico- man (Patrolman W. B. Hawkins, one of Jester's bodyguards)!. Pretty the soda and acid and even the 6-gallo) are being useiq. According to. Brayton, this school is being run, differently from most schools of this type. The students ' A JuBHKuJf wf? ;HWS, fpP- 'he and Florence Zticker, duo lak music itr schedul exaim., Blanc] of cliassical and popular musie in the Grove tonight at 8:13. The pianists, will present a program program was previously sched changed because of final for pi tomorrow night i took the gov’nor.” He paused here, dropped his eyes to the floor mom- entariljV looked up, and, his voice quavering, said, ‘Til miss the Chief.” Yes Charlie, and sb will six and ft half million other people in Tex- ns. 28. according to an announce ment! made by Extension Director G. G. Gibson. Thompson will have a part on the damp 1 program and he also plans "to work in several Panhandle eountjes while in that section of 4 4 a drill anif 8 hours of assemblies and lectures. Ten walkie-talkies arc being used in the field. A monitor radio, tuned to the frequency used by the walkie-talkies, is situated in Bizzell Hall. All accidents will be picked up by the monitor and ambulance service will be dispatch ed to the ! scene'. I No Red Cross Class "Although Harris Burton of the Midwest Branch of the American National Red Cross: is here to teach a first-aid class, it has been cancelled,” Brayton stated. "There was no demand fori the class this The third oldest school of its kind in the United States, it is held under the auspices of the State Fjremen’s and Fire Marshal’s Association. Upon completion of the coprse, written .examinations will be given,, which, if passed, will help that representatives’ city by lowering the fire insurance rates by as much as 3 pereent. New Member List Announced By Scholarship Honor Society _ __ Fifty new members havii J>een elected to the (scholarship hours Of actual Honorary Society, W. A.' yarvel, psychology professor, an nounced today.: \ Seniors elected) to the society had grade' point ratios of 2 or better and Juniors had grade point i/a|tios of 2.25. f Juniors also must' nave completed District Agents To Attend Cami Extension district agents Knox Parr and Doris Loggitt ha^e been granted authorization for/ out-of- state travel from their/ official headquarters at Amarillo/ to Gir- mhron. New/Mexico and Return for the purpose of attending/ the Dis trict One 4-H camp. ;/ The trip to Cimarqn will bo made on July 31. They rtill return to their headquarters iin Amarillo on August 4. j A. ll. Walker, extension range specialist, and C. W. Simmons, ex tension forester both j from A&M have been authorized tip attend the District One 4-H Camp. ?>. , Director G. G. Gfbson of the Texas Extension Sendee made the announcements. j Spits Way to Fame A Visiting Fireman’s Tale Or, Hangfire’s Hot Demis By W. K. COLVILLE Visiting fireman—one of Ameri ca’s greatest institutions. When pple pie, hot dogs. Coney Island n Sundays, craps, and other note- orthy Americanisms have oeased > exist, firemen, will still visit. Communism, Socialism, and Cap- lism will soon go to the bottom f the heap, and Visiting Fireman- ism will arise to take its; long awaited plqce. May they never run out of places to visit. When one speaks of firemen, visiting or otherwise, the name of Hangfirc , Lucifer must not be emitted. He was the staunchest ire-fighter of the all, the Casey Tones of the fire-fighting profes- iiori. It was Lucifer who first dis covered that water repelled fire. After years of research it cama to him one day in a fit of genius. was three years old at the time, and on a camping spree at Lake Water, a state resort con structed by clogging up Houston’s storm-sewage system with dis carded Dallas newspapers. 1 \ Hangfire dove to the bottom with the intent of smoking a chan nel cat oat of his lair. For the portion of three hoars and “ - triad id vain sn it hit hint to tbjT interprets declared to ! tbi few disinte rose . & world, and a spectators, that "you, can fight fire with water, yet!” From then on, Hangiire’s entire life was devoted to fighting: fire. But befqre I go on, let me touch briefly on the background of Hang- fire Lucifer, before his momentous discovery. Hangfire Lucifer was born in the back of a Conestoga wagon fleeing pell-mell before a prairie fire. Missfire, Hangfire’s courageous btft firm father took Mrs. Lucifer out of the traces for the appro priate length of time. Hangfire ofteh: joked about this, "Damn fire nearly caught us,” he would laugh. His birth was Hangfire’s foun dation for hatred of blazes of any sort, but the psychological ef fect on Rangy’s mind caused by the death (of both his parents probably had more to do with it than anything. ! i When he was two and a half, his parents! had a slight tiff over who was going to get the tail of the chicken that Hangy had stolen from a neighborhood Things led to things, dawn, Hangfire his tracks. He earned his livelihood by sitting in front of the local beer joint, (appropriately named, "the Beer Joint”) spitting on smolder ing cigarette butts. On his more liquid days, he spat on cigar butts. The citizens were amazed at his accuracy. They came from all over town to flip their butts at his feet, and listened with appreciative ears at the following sizzle. When Hang- fire was ankle-deep in cigarette butte, he gathered them up in a croker-sack (an article indispens able to Southerners) and sold them to the local Fortunate Strik J tory.' , ■ \ Then one day fortune smil< was a day of festivity, of-visiting firemen were in They were having the usual en races, and were all lined !j! race to a blazing Zip the outskirts nded, the trucks poatijland all kl to "The Beer JWnt” The ick that put out the blaze was RonSon, Texas, a few steins, this ' watching 11 a few more, i their own. in town, astride Firej madly after the trucks with shouts of, “Save some for The!" When Hangfire reached man hood, his pay was raised to four dollars, and he was allowed tp ride on one of the trucksi His joy know no boupds. In memory of the oc casion ; and the extravagant in crease in wage, Haiijgfire journey ed to (Greece and ipit down the Vesuvius crater. From then! on he went to bigger and braver deeds, •i Who, but Hangfirie Ludfer, put out the; Chicago and! San Francisco fires, singlehanded?! The: London disaster might have .had a differ ent ending if Hangfire had been around; at the timej* f ] . / “Damn cow” he tsed to; sby. These and many h 10re I intrepid acta of fire-fighting are owed to Lucifer. He was th|j greatest of them all, but alas, l/fcc ail!.men of exceptional genius, . He wiss found one ed crisp in his own frozen in the glass* of water o' Oh, ironic fi a habit of bcdThtod « He forgot b had bean ^ too Wm«lf Into Red before omirig, burn- m, hte arm pouring a W-ir fire had :y novels in long, black Either racy , w H&nirfire the nether ' r. i bow our and third e Fines and sing of "Keep Nr” i five , semesters Work in order to be eligible for the society, Yarvel / fl ’ \ ( New members df the Society may purchase kqys at the Caldwell according to company had if the names of Jewelers in B Varval. He said been given a list the eligible v stud« Certificates/of Membership will be prepared dt a ciost of 1 dollar. The; fee is payable tin the .Psychol ogy Department in room 102 of; tho Academic Building, said Var- velW Graduating seniors may have their certificates mailed to -them by leaving! their .address at the office when they part their mem bership fee; Officers/for the society will be elected in/ a meetmd to he held in the Fail, Varvel said. ‘ Since the minimum grade point average for Tau Beta Pi, Honor ary Engineering Fraternity,. and the Scholarship |Honor! Society arc; the same, all men elected to Tau Beta Pi are also eligible for the! Honor Society. J In adcition to those qualifying, because hey arc members of Tau' ’Beta Pi, the following men are ’J l>eing nctified of their eligibility j* for the Honor Society! jin the School of Agriculture, Bill R. Elsworth, B. Freeman, Jr. Blanche and Florence Zuck- i er, younpr duo-pianists, will jj give a concert of classical and H popular selections in the Gi tonight at 8:15.' J- i j; Their previously ajinoubcod jlip- piiarance has boon chanjred fW>ni Thursday to Wednesday, C. ! (L White, director of Student Activ ities, said yesterday. !. . •/■ / ,1 The program that the girl* trill " present Is evidence of the breadth ;; and .versatility of jthehr tntfi White said. Tney will, begin wi Bach's “Fugue, in G Minor,” { bert's “FAntasic in F. Minor,” •Tjargo al Factotaim” (from "Barber/ of Seville” by Ross During the. second part of program they will play “The 1 by'Glinka and 'rtVhltz” by Russian composer Seho.»tekoVichL ■ who also wrote “Fiddle Paddle,”, !| and their own arrangement* of "Night and Day, J ’ "jump Boogie,”) rtnd a "Gershwin Portfolio.” wmgm | : Start Career lowing a career, they children. Although jl ‘ ilnterestcd in the piant. might have remained undeveloped bad it not been for an elderly iEu- J ropcan musician. He heard youngsters playinjg a toy p one day as ho passed theiri.wii and decided to ; ffiv(!Stiga‘te. result was thq beginning of formal piano study lis gcholai students with the musician, cording to White. Proving apt pupil?, Blanche Florence soon entered the York College of Music where tW interests expanded. Blanche beg! intense cello study while Floren studied voice with a Metropqlita Opera singer, However the girl Were still unaware of their futuri career as a team, said White. Florence took two. years of pre- rnedical^work at Huiiter College while Blanche won a| four ^y<fnr, full-tuition scholarship to ^Tew York University. The Zuckcrs qgree that this was the most trying time 'of their lives, that they "put in yearn under the strain that .comes of not knowing what we wrtre of what, wc were going to be/’ Piano Chosen j The force of the piano/ proved strongest. As the young women began to experiment on their own with the two-piano inqedijlim they decided it would become their car eer, White continued. / , i During the war the sisters mad# a rigorous tour of the country playing at the Stage, po,6r Canteen, veterans’ hospitals, and service camps. Their enthusiastic audiences /numbered 10,000 at many concerts, he said/ •/ yi. 7 '( ; People hot having; yellow fee slips must bring their own chairs, White said. ■bi but was is F. N4n*ton, Harold E. Phillipsj, William E. Prather, EWel‘ ell A. Rogh ers, Hehry A. Simpson, Clay F. Sparks Jr., James M. Sullivan Jri, Bill J. Varnado, John E. Wateoft, and i Oita< R. Knuze were sete Selected from the School of Ar and Sconces w’era Kenneth Bon Herbert Beutel Jr., -David! Bowei* Jr., John Carr, James Cashioh, Ralph Duke, Charles Dwyer, Paul Ellis Jri, George Kadera, John Knapp, Joe Knowles, R. E. Mc- Callum, Thomas Miller, James Morse, Joe Mullins, B. H. Nash, Bruce Newton, and Lucian Pink- stqnl, . | : Also j [elected from the School of Arts and Sciences weyo Johb Purgasort, Jack Quiery, Robert Rhwsbni J. B. Rochelle, J. G>. Sav ins, R. W. Shroeder, R. E. Short, •harles Stephenson, John Taylor, ‘‘ait, Jim Wheeler, and right. ' e School of Engineering, ne, Emmet Ingram, atthews, Stephen Pearce, r Jr., add Fred Vance ted. d Lewis Arthur From George Wilbhr Curtis were' sol I i iii ieat Forecast WASHINGTON, July 13- Thc Agriculture Department \ forcart t iia year’s corn cri 3,630,185j000 bushels and the ,188,0{KbOOO busbeiroh f July l qonditionB. what’s Cooking C-16-X, College View. Summer Storage Room in Dorm 16 baggage storage tcilding ■ A students not atte: ■ l * 11. • room for the second summer term is being set up In the Gun Room of Dormitory IQ by the Agronomy •Society.] I . 1 It will l)e open Friday after-- noon, July 15, from 1 p. m. «ntU p. m. Lamps will be stored at 40q each and all/other baggage | will be stored at 4p<‘ per piece for ] la^es R‘.¥ieldingrc! containers not exceeding two cubic portionate rates. Bicycles will be stored for one dollar each and all baggage will be stored at student’^ own risk wfth storage charges to be paid at time of storing. [ The announcement was Vnado by Assistant Dean of Men, Benriie Zinn, who added lhat all revenue received from the storage room will be placed In the Agronomy Society’s treasury r ' A Revival Services At Baptist Church ! Revival wood from Ji J. Hugh; church, announced, assisted by Al Jo history major from the Cotton- held Robert the w ill be 1 vetaN(4zt Mexja, who history major irom aicxat,/ wn« will be inJcharge of the transpor tation and;visitation at the rewvat I! Hughes,! a veterinary nedlelne r froth Dickension, is ih charge the singing and Johnstjon is to with the vouth. Two services will one at 11 a. m. 8:30 p. m.M be hed daily, and another at ft .'a