Improvements _ijV- ii j wm ? i' ME Shops Finished i ‘ / '/■ l ‘ if j A five year improvement « program for the Mechanical Engineering ShopsJcime to a successful close this month apd \ the result is a set of shops with the most up-to- date equipment inVthe coun- tt’y C. W. CraWford, head of the ME department, said yes terday^ ; ■ The ^>lan was drawn up in 1944 by members of th* department with the idea of improving the fa cilities then available, H j' \ Foremost among the problems at hand, said Crawford, Was that of obtaining new equipment for the shops. In this connection R. W. Downard, head of the shops, submitted a Unique plan . which proved to be the best one possible rctlms i j.r under the existing circumstances of very little money and future Overcrowded classes. Pr 1 * Equipment Sold Downard suggested that the M. E. Department place on sale 40% of its equipment which hdd become 1 obsolete but which would bring maximum revenue due to the shor tage of machinery brought on by the war. Iji The money brought in by this sale was to be placed in, a special fund for ruse on only. | j . Downard’s plan further stipula fed that this fund could be put to excellent use after the war when surplus machinery front; govern ment sponsored war plants, was ■put on the market at low prices. Immediately the unforseeable question-arose as to what would happen in the event that no sur plus equipment^appeared for sale, and it was generally conceded that the M. E. Department would.be back whetfe- it started 20 years ago, Crawford said. However, it was decided that-the gamble was worth a trjf and we began convincing the poWers-that- Shop improvement was not thi only part of the plan, Cra- continued, as much work wiajdone In strengthening ithe curriculum. New and more beneficial courses were put in and the existing ones were improved. Uj ■' One important addition to the M. E. department is the vibrations laboratory, Crawford said. For a while it looked as if we wouldn’t get one, because the instruments were too'expenaive due to their del icate nature, but the ordinance corps of the army established a laboratory here and placed it un der the directorship of the M- E department.. Search for MatetteU ij Immediately after the- 1 * a* if PS % i# ,^JSi Crawford traveled to all parts of the country in search of materials, and his chase o: efforts resulted in the pur- ot machinery valued at imes that sold earlier by many, tim the department. Had this plan not succeeded, Crawford continued, the students not only wouldn’t have had the new single unit equipment but the old belt-driven machines would have been lost in the shuffle also. Many such incidents have aided us in achieving our original goal, Crawford said, but a lot of hard war' witll i work and worry went right along with it We’re not through yet, shop equipment but the major headaches are over the plan as a whole ha^ stuck pretty close to the original sched ule and is far enough along that we can breathe easy. One valuable addition to the de partment in the last few years is the course on Marine Engineering arid Naval Architecture, j Bishop] Smith To Officiate Jj ■V •v yra w- be that we hid a good ford added. Plan a Success Tfie 'result was a success than was ever; expected and we are extremely 'proud of Ih Ceremony far greater ik |g| ' mm & i> mm t \ : ■ Mm (i as Second Lieutenants, Field rve, are John W. Flanagan, far S. Kirkland, third from left; and M Use], on the right. Administering the oath is Major Neal C. Galloway, assistant PMS&T, University of Oklahoma. Flanagan, Kirkland, and Malsel are June graduates of A&M. Never H id It So Easy — 'li- logistsi Attend Summer ip in ‘Heart of Texas 9 4 bur present shop, he said. A further improvement in shop conditions is the paint job on Inside: The Pittsburg Paint r\- on the Pittsburg Paint Co. ; submitted a color scheme which would improve working conditions by lessening eyestrain ajnd elimi nating certain dangers by painting moving and dangerous I parts of -the machinery a bright c'olori fshop A. Frank Smith of this area, will officiate Sun day afternooq at the, ground breaking ceremony to mark the beginning of construction on the new jFnsst Methodist Cpurch in Bryan. By PATRICK RAMSE One-half of the senior geology students of Teicas A&M are now at summer can p with heaquarters at Curtis Fiftlq, 3 miles North of Brady, “the heart of Texas.” The self-styled “Smith’s For eign Legion” Jander the direction of Professor Ijred JS. Smith have been hard at i day of camp. The iverage working day is feleven hours ling, whije the aver age sleeping might is only six hours.! jBut fr >m our great benev- :ome the inspiring ive never had it so rork since the first ^>lent leader iwords, “you h easy.” At 8, night life the eager roc) want to make ogy 300’s heai starts and all hounds who do not ah| A or B in Geol- for Brady. Kuiken Studies Radioisotopes The ceremony will be held at 3 p.rni on the corner of 28th and Houston Street, according to the; Rey. Harry V. Rankin, pastor of] the First Methodist Church jn 'Biryan. ' | Bishop Smith will preach at the 9 a.m. and the 11 a.m ytrvices After arriying at the souare, things it, or Dr, Kenneth A. ; Kuiken, §*, Sunday - morning, Rankin said, j Edward Bodet of Hoimtoi signed the new Goth' builain Reverent tilfM ].i :ig which Will seat 1,000 poo- c and will be air-conditlonod. The there are exactly three to do, sit on it, look at walk around it. The dateablt* women are divided into two gr< ups: the ones too young to be i lurried and the ones who can’t get married. Due to the ; lact that some of the s, dads, girls,- read all names have been ;hiit section, but both men’s mothei The Battalion del leted from groups arei di biochemist, for the Agricult ural Experiment Btktion, is in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, stu- ^anctuary, educational wing, a qtfori Evenr girl town fe gr»e library Will be built ^ before tht dying the techniques of using radioistopes in research. ■Ii k ■j-4 Dr. Kuiken, who plans to use radioisotopes dn metabolism studies of farm animals, is among the 32 scientists enrolled in tjhe ninth of a series of 30-day courses offered by the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies. | „ The Institute, comprised of 24 Southern universities,; conducts., a broad program of research, train ing and education in ; the nuclear sciences through a contact with the Atomic Energy Commission. The laboratories and -facilities available in the program are among the finest of their kind in the world. Radioistopes are atoms which give off radiation and thus enable scientists, using a Geiger Counter, to trace them through complicated chemical and biological processes. As a result, radioistopes have been called the most important research tool to be developed since the in vention of the microscope. : - w / • The most economical method for producing radioistopes is to sub ject small quantities of an element present church is removed, j , Ten months will be required fe finish the building. The public is invited to attend t h-e grqund-breaking ceremony, Reverend Rankin syid. his ted. 60 Years Priesthood in fee county was in us when we arrived. a and “Do Al; do you know know Red?” i if some other ge« mapped this area g r^et instead of the expected hugs kisses we we ic greeted with, you know B g Chria; do yOt It neems ologista hn< before us. Paul Enlod wak well equipped for the first day in the: field with compass, hand level, knife, ham mer, acid bottle and binoculari. Late in the evening when he was finally found he said, “Gee this is easy country to get lost in.” Wednesday night he had the first quiz, or should I say the first quiz had us. It was a typ ical, straight forward^ Ron-am biguous, strictly lecture note quiz. Seriously speaking though, the people, of Brady have been won derful to us and the only thing we lack is, mail, so if you happen to know any of the members of this forgotten legion, please write in care of,Texas A&M College, Curtis Field, Brady, Texas. Gibson Is Named j ‘Man of theJhhM ie College Station c jitger received a boost salary last night council meeting, oun was called to disc ttT, I 50 municipal eight citizens regained after he' G. G. Gibson, director of the Tex as Extension Service, has been named “Man of the Mon1|h” for August by the East Texas Chamb-, er of Commerce. Gibson, a native of Trinity, be came the active head of the largest agricultural extension service in the world on June 1. The Texas Extension Service has approxi mately 800 employees including all county personnel, headquarters, and pie clerical staffs. B. S. Degree at A&M He is one of the youngest state extension; service ' directors in America. Gibson received his B. S. in agriculture from A&M in 1929 find in 1930 received an M. S. from Iowa Sta^ College. After attending the Universihi of Texas law school during 1933-35, he was admitted and licensed as an attorney and councellor at law by the Supreme Court of Texas on December 16, 1935. the meeting to salary increases other measures. A police car and a trojmfui is provide d the cit e meet iss the It mdget, but discuss thelj and several budget, however, *e of the meeting 01 uniformed pa-), for in the membera; Ited to thia! ieMal b|£ffei it would ho Were spent < were spent on ther more ur-f t that at least The tajl. red-headed, slow-talk- ’■ friends Chanute Aggies in Front With ‘Rams’ and in Intramural Play By BERT HUEBNER high hurdles and placed fourth in J-.. . ''A «-v> « « -n A A ‘ -m A. A It si Vi «*s^ n A 41«A+ 4 Wl SI {M f wa « 1 **0 1 Chanute Field Batt Correspondent The Aggies certainly are out in front here, or perhaps I should say they lead all the rest. In this outfit four Aggies lead the "gig” list and the other five are far from being "low men on the totem pole.” But receiving rams isn’t the on ly field In which the Aggies excel. Aggies on F Squadron's champion ship intramural softball team in clude Jack England, cf ; Abel Cruz, of; Dave Cravey, of;; Ty Collins, 3b; Maurice Dobbs, of; John Kib- be, of; and Dave Collier, manager and catcher. This team is scheduled to! play the Chanute Field championship softball team. Niifk Holland and Dick Harris of Squadron H were members of the Championship Volleyball team. > nr tad neth Huddleston, also of ron H, won both thellow and the broad jump at the intramural track megt. Now comes the ridiculous part of this report. As of last week there were only six men out of the 800 here that still had a perfect score in the maintenance school, and lo and behold, there were three Ag gies names on that list. E. J. Hatzenbuehler, W. T. Har ris, and R. H. Harris were the geniuses!?). If you know them as well as I do, you can draw your own conclusionh as to just how they did this. Lt. Col. Dexter L. Hodge, for mer PMS&T for Air at A&M, was on the base last week. He is at present the director of the Air ROTC for the Continental Air Command, and was on u tour of all of the bases training ROTC men this sumrher, Just one more week and we’ll be heading back south of the Mason- Dixon line. However, there may be a few of Us here for a few more weeks—talking off rams. ing Texan, known to hi as “Hoot,” served as| dairy special ist with the Iowa State College be fore coming to the Texas Agri cultural Extension Service ih 1935 as an assistant dairyman. In 1943- 44 he was manager of tjie Neale Dairy Farm near Waco. He then returned to the extension service as dairy husbandman, which pos ition he held until he was named director. The author of a number of out standing extension publications the dairy field, Gibson in Texas for his practical to agricultural problems farm owner and believes serving and utilizing the of his farm. 4-H Interests . Gibson has long been interested in the feral youth of Texas, and dairy work among the j 4-H club boys and girls of the state has increased considerably as a result of his work. The 4-H enrollment in this particular field piore than doubled during the time ]he was on thfe staff and the quality of 4-H G. G. Gibson, director of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, has been mimed “Man of the Month" by the East Tex as Chamber of Commerce. owned animals has greatly im proved. : I ; Dairy cattle judging cohtests for 4-H members have been one of his favorite ’projects and thfee years in is known approach He is a in con- resources ago the national winning team iat the All-American Jersey Show came from Texas, j Dairy herd improvemeht associ ations were directed by Gibson for several years, and He is itill called upon for advice arid ^guidance [by those charged with the I responsi bility of doing the testing work for the dairymen. * . ; The training schools for the herd improvement field men held hiere have made it posible for these men to dp a .better job in the counties where they work. Up Through Ranks Gibson came up through the ranks and is therefore] well ac quainted with the riiany and varied are! faced daily] by Vance to Attend United Nations organize tji Rev. (yleissner Completes Endrizzi Receives / ] \ 1 •>|. ■ Nicholson Award 45 Years of perviee Here - 1 to neutron bombardment in. the uranium chain-reacting pile -pres- ent at the Oak Ridge National laboratory. . j t 4- i •- WEATHER r, i EAST TEXAS—Partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Satur- s' 1 /day; scattered thundershowers 1 .. :-‘~7 n mostly inraftfr- n o o n s’ nbt much change in tempera turea; moderate southeast winds oh the coast' WEST TEX AS — Consider able cloudiness with scattered t it u n d • r - , showers this - afternoon, to - night and Saturday; warmer in landle and South Plains in By LOUISE JONES Few Texans have such a recoi of service as the Rt. Rev. B. Gleissner, Catholic priest in and College Station. ' true Texan, ne came here in pioneer days and passed his 60th year of priesthood on;July, 10 this year. He has spent 45 y^ars of that time in Bryan. During that time Monseigneur Gleissner has been father, guidi 1 and friend to people *11 over th state. Coming to Tekas in! „ he spent 14 years working in Tex as missions; he has started several parochial schools; and he ha| lived to see his beginning A&M con gregation of 6 Catholic Aggies in crease to well over a thousand ■people. rlj!" . TTTm The 84 year old Father is modest man who speaks wjt energy and enthusiasnm of hi work. ' ijlj I “J decided to come to i*f Uni States,” he said, “to help- pries] in the German-speaking commu ties.” Born in Bavaria, a section southern Germany, the Father studied in Holland and comple his education at Niagara Univ site in New York when he was 24. Monseigneur Gleissner recalled that he was the only; i German- boy among his Irifih tes. *1 certainly learned 100ns. ;T,: ■ j ith!” a markable wanted ( of what in a hi it what »?.v r •v ; 1 rkable to say, 1 to come to Texi t he had heard ■ 111 The Father exas because »i»»t .’I • :• told : ne that if you wanted ywhi re in Texas, you had :e an ix to cut down the trees land n ake a road as you went; they talked of rattlesnakes as big as trei s,” he said. Ordained in the Galveston diocese on July 10, 1889, he . _ , ii found a Tfcxas full of many iWI six miles office and horso out of He remembe: “ed that the trip from Caldwell to buggy took weather. happy ones, . Monseigne seven and a near , Waco. jple hadn’t spoken things that of. Father Gleissner lived for a time fiom the nearest post < ften had to pull his mires in wet weather. Bryan via horse and three hours in good IT'.'"' “Those w i;. ment, and f anyone had told Fatiher Gleissner organized fetHttho first dehorn national church on the ilt lough his congregation for awhile, Sjnce there was vuairci, ,1 fourth floi ing in thV arc grew. mass was held on of the academic build- loor hitpeture department. "Having just conducted Bryan, I often had mass in . . run up the four flights ^of stafirs ] !|to be on time.” The rapid pace began to get rather tiresome so eventually mass was changed to the CE building. “It was about 20 years before ■we got our own chapel,” The Fath er explained. The Knights of Col- umbus financed it. I \ He added thai 300 person the new chapel filled. “Now we| don’t have enough room.” ! ' • j . \ T T^oV+i/Mxl a in 1 room.” Particularly vivid in The Fath er’s memory was the influenza! ep idemic at A&M after the first world war. Flu was a dread sick- ess then due to lack of medical the hor- col- through, but it was ys who often developed pneumonia. Today Monseigneur Gleissner ' i of the six Catb- ' ial school . Uon. Five Aggies John E. Endrizzi, senior Agron omy student from Dallas, has been named recipient of the Robert Nicholson graduate fellowship in plant and seed breeding here. The award honors the late Rob ert Nicholson of Dallas, a pioneer in the - development of the seed business in the Southwest, Endrizzi will do graduate study to prepare himself for scientific field work on the production of better seeds from forage crops. Endrizzi entered A&M in June, 1946, after serving 32 monjhs in the Coast Artillery. He is a veteran of 16 months combat service in .the Pacific area and holds the Philippine Liberation Ribbon. A candidate for a degree this August, Endrizzi has served as the president of the Agronomy Society and as a member of the Agronomy Council. B. F, Vance, chairman of the State Production and Marketing Association, will leave Bryan Saturday, August 6, to attend the Social and Economic Council of ithe Unit ed Nations at Lake] Success, August 17 through September 0. ' t - j j I]*. !• Recommended by the Depart ment of Agriculture, Vance will take part in the conferences con cerning land fesouroes throughout the world. Methods of soil con servation, such as those now being promoted by the PMA, will be dis cussed. [ Some of these practices include terracing, contour farming, proper fertilization, growing of cover Crops and construction of farm hjasStvotrs. ' . Vance will appear on the pro gram at the Watermelon Festival in Atlanta, Texas at which Rep, Wright Patman will preside. From Atlanta,. Vance will go to Wash ington, D. C., where he will attend a conference on August 9th and loth with officials of the Depart ment of Agriculture. . Vance will be accompanied by his wife and their three children, Betty, Buddy and Billy. While in the Northest, the Vanices will visit Niagara Falls, Canada, and other scenic spots. problems that the personnel in he now directs. He is a family ipan and is fety proud of his three daughters. His wife, although a native of Iowa, has about been converted into a full' fledged Texan after 15 years in Texas! . Ml \\' J ; Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist, in making the announcement of Gib son’s appointment said, f’Gibsof is well fitted for this post,” saying instead tha betfer if the money tra’fic lights and gei t problems. It wap pointed o one patrolman waf necessary [In Co lege Station as the traffic prob lem was becoming J acute. As an exs hpii trucks jthat come wepe Indicated. Tw«»-Man Force A previously pr police force has an 1 it has been dei stf .ble liee Norwooi mple, the speeding of the Grey- rid buses and Some of the through bete Abandoned .sed two-man SI | kbaindoned, ‘ded that Cpn- iil patrol col- ol col lege Station streets in f a patrol Ca ’ with a three-* ly radio which will keep him in cinstant contact with the Bryan police station; T sheriffs office and. :he State Hi| wi,y patrol. • il i'- . Bryan’s broadcatsting facilit have been made available: to Cc lege Statiph at a fcost not to ex ceed $25 a month tind a direct wire from' the city Office at Col lege the Bryan pphce station" will be arranged if poss :b e. Mayop Langforl missed the meeting in order ;b ipe wiih his brother, Clyde Langford of Cor pus Christi, who was in Houston yesterday 'fop a ch :ck up oh & r - cent throat open.tion!. Doctq pronounced the bj ejl'atjion a Mrs. S. W. Bii sing! that a pamphlet bl .printed by city for distribution to all new cl izjens to make known the ifaelUt that are available. She also i tat many people Were here use they wanted to be people of should talk morej al ppi L. P. Gabbard th e interests of the c ed by the co-ordjna' ties of the school bot ber of Commerce cpuncil. This ope e job of an intra \ I Illeke th ints such as schbols, c) / TfTr Activities Oo- ested that' be explolt- pf ac the Chi tiejn would ife committee j fiade up of member i above organization, Gkbha: Other noteworthy itjomi' from the rd sajid. rin- the Other noteworthy item budget arp; $2,300 ter- a di digging maphlne/ $2,800 for small tractors/ $700 fori a new “He h#s been thoroughly tfelncd in agriculture and'in the extension service and we bcljieve that he ||wlll small tractors/ $' dilator in the cli y off ■ ‘V 1 -. I, lead the Extension Servijc^ Cftpjjlbly and efficiently.'' new office furin|ture firid the $2 per year Increase in tljie city mi) ager’s salary. Latest Pol/o Figures ce, $300 GROVE SCHE1 Friday, August 5 - Square dancing. Saturday, August sTpancc with Aggie Combo. [ Sunday,[August 7—Skatingv if ‘ Monday, August 8—Bingo. T , i Washingtonf-iA')—Latest figures On polio show/ 8,299 cases through July 30, us Compured witlv 6,793' (luring the sarne period last; [year, ! Also, the fiumber qf new] cases Reported in Ithe July 24-30 week 4ras 1,963 ai compand with 1,889 the worn ww*k last ydar ne that en^ed Sept, •r st year 18. L f (the. ■ '■hJ ri im First Dallas County Bale Brings $1,339 Three Local Men Pass CPA Exams 1.1 the “bij tlon are noir are in gation others Porte. and training at His congregations have become so big that he has Father Timm Valenta and Father Edward Mat- acha to help him. - } v i congre- Ifive Dallas, Aug. 5——Dallas County’s first cotton bale of 1949 sold for $1.17 a pound Wednesday on thq floor of the Dallas cotton exchange—highest price paid for a first bale in the history of the ex change. C. C. Witherspoon of Fer ris, who produced the bale, was smiling as Jack Allen, Vice-presi dent of Eugene B. Smith & Com pany made the final bid. It meant that, with premiums added by members of the exchange, he pocketed a total of $1,339.92 for the 526-pound bale. W. F. Farrar and E. S. Pack- enham of the Department of Busi ness and Accounting, and E. H. Lott, who served as graduate as sistant for two years, have passed the May, 1949 CPA examination find will be issued c