Improvements
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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
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under the existing circumstances
of very little money and future
Overcrowded classes.
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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
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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
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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
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ford added.
Plan a Success
Tfie 'result was a
success than was ever; expected
and we are extremely 'proud of
Ih Ceremony
far greater
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(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
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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.
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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.
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• 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
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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
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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
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45 Years of perviee Here
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to neutron bombardment in. the
uranium chain-reacting pile -pres-
ent at the Oak Ridge National
laboratory. . j t
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WEATHER
r, i EAST TEXAS—Partly cloudy
this afternoon, tonight and Satur-
s' 1 /day; scattered thundershowers
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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.
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markable
wanted (
of what
in a hi
it what
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to come to Texi
t he had heard
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The Father
exas because
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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
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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<re pioneer days, but
i
he said.
ti r Gleissner spent
half years in T<
ours,
..^— —,, where he started a
parochial scHool which is still in
existence. Sifationed at Hearne for
the next seten years, The Father
said that he lived there because it
was a cential railroad point for
the missions he visited. His mission
territory e: tended from Mexia
south to Wi Her near Houston.
Moving lo Bryaii in T904, he
said, “We thought A&M was a
big school with Its 400 enroll-
* told os
we-
cam;
cons:
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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<rtified public
accountant certificates.
: Farrar is an assoc ate professor
tind Packenham an assistant pro
fessor. Lott , is now connected with
A Chicago concern.
' The Department olj Business and
The cotton was classed
dling inch staple.
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ionaeigneur J. B. GHnsaer, Catholic
ear af priesthood on July 10 this
1889 and has served Bryan for 45 yean.
608 East 20th street la Bryan.
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