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Local Unit Commanding Offi
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The r#c«nUy. actlvntied nlr re.
serve unit tor the Bryun-College
Stntlon area, Flight A of the 9807th
Volunteer Ahr Reserve Training
Squadron, met Monday night ut
College Station. Before the reor
ganization of the Air Force Re
serve, Flight A was the 305th
Composite Squadron.
Major Marvin J. Birdwell of
Bryan, is commanding officer of
the local unit, urged a larger at
tendance at the meetings in order
that the unit might secure full
benefit from .the new reserve pro
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Attending the meeting to help
with the organization of the new
unit w>rfe Col. Olin Bell,; of the
Humble Oil and Refining Com
pany. Bell is also commanding of
ficer of the Air Reserve group
which includes the 9807th Squad
ron. Lt. Slater from Twelfth Air
Force Headquarters in San An
tonio, liaison officer for the var
ious reserve units in this group, wj£s
also presented.
Col. Bell discussed the aims of
the new reserve program, and em
phasized the fact there is now a
definite program for air reservists.
If attendance is adequate, he said,
training flights within the unit
may be set up for instruction and
training in the individual reser
vist’s specialty.
Lt. Slater explained that hie
job is to maintain a close con
tact between the reserve units and
the regular Air Force, and said
that he will attend at least one
of the local unit’s meetings each
month in order to accomplish this
purpose.
He explained the point system by
which a reservist may accumulate
points toward promotion and re
tirement. A minimum of thirty
points, .he said, are necessary per
year to retain assignment in the
volunteer reserve, and a minimum
of fifty points per yogr are needed
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Points are giv»n for attendance
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1; Lt. Slater stressed the need for
more airmen, as well as officers, in
the local unit! in order to carry
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out the program successfully.
Ellis Countymei
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k re-organizational meeting of
the Ellis County A&M Club will
be held Thursday night after yell
practice in Room 307 of the Aca
demic Building, acting secretary
Bob Gammon saifl today.
The club was. disbanded last
year, Gammon said, but the chap
ter has been reaffirmed by Student
Activifi^s office and now must be
reaffirmed by the club.
. All students, either married or
single, from any part of Ellis
County are invited to the meeting,
ihe concluded.
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A local rider in the sky parts company with his steer at the 1948
Aggie Rodeo in the Animal Husbandry Pavilion. This year’s
rodeo opens Friday night otr a two night run.
Nice Old Lady Knits, Reads
Picks Pockets,! Burglarizes
BERKELEY Calif., Oct. 12 —
(JP).—There’s a sweet-faced little
old lady in jail here who brags
about crime the way most women
her age talk of sewing or knitting.
She was booked ai) Mrs. Frances
Worthington, 73, wanted at'Lan-
sing, Kans., for violation pf parole
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from the Kansas State ipqustrial
a well-ithurhb<id Bible
Closing
yesterday, she reitvlnlsced to re
porters: about her j full and active
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"You know, my dtqir, I'm one of
the most accomplished pickpockets
In the world. I»! forty years I
have taken close ti<> half a million
dollars.
"It’s been a wonderful life,’’ she
Sighed. "Travel |nd fun. The
police are all suchj gentleman and
my Bible comforts! me." j
1 Mrs. Worthington was pluekqd
uff n train here ajnd "invited”! to
spend 60 days in the Berkeley Jail.
Police InspectoH E. F. Parker
said the grandmotherly woman pad
A&M and ‘Pinky’ Play
Host to Lissie Boys
Members of the Lissie BoyadUb
of Lissie, made a tour of the cam
pus Saturday. P. L. Downs, Jr.,
was in charge of arrangements
The group included Butclj Her
man, Joe Schindler, John Adkins,
Dan Gerston, Victor Gorman, Les
ter Herman, Horald Miller, Arthur
Anderson, Jimmy Adkins, Claude
Briggs, Harry Anderson, Emmett
Anderson, Drank Gosnejy;, Jimmie
Bell.
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been arrested 24 times since 1910
on charges ranging from shoplift
ing to arson and grand larceny.
Southern Pacific agents in
clined to think the total might be
even higher.
They said!for years she criss
crossed the j country on various
trains, picking a pocket here, rob
bing a store there, reading her
Bible everywhere,
In her Jail: cell, Mrs. Worthing
ton commented:
"I'Ve had lauch fun. The Lord
used to sit Ion my shoulder and
say 'don't d<> that’ and I'd steal,
but I Just couldn't pay attention.
"And 1 get such comfort from
my favorite Bible passage: The
Lord Is my Shepherd; I shall not
want. 1 never have wanted, eith
er."
Battalion Quarterback Club
Aggie AH Student
Has Own Ranches
Rodolfo Perdomo, animal hus
bandry student from Central
America, has his post-graduate
work all cut out for him, helping
manage 30,000 acres in Central
America.
Perdomo pnd his brother own
three ranches near Guatemala city,
two for beef cattle and one for
dairy cattle. <r
Perdomo, bom in Guatemala, en
tered Allen Academy to learn the |
English language in 1946. In July
he took a sixtweeks English course j
Offered here especially Wr Latin-
American students. That fall he
Officially entered A&M.
Lt. Blackburn Sent
To Serve in Japan
First Lt. Thomas W. Blackburn
Jr., former student at A&iM, recent
ly arrived at Yokota Air Force
Base to continue his tour of duty
in Japan, pccording to a public
information office release from
Yokota Air Force Base.
Lt. Bjackburn, 26 year old son
of Col. T. \V. Blackburn of the
Hist Fighter Wing at Kirkland
AFB, was stationed with the 6403rd
personnel Section at Zwma, Japan
at the time of his transfer.
A war veteran of Po Valley,
North Appenines, Rhineland and
the aerial offense of the Balkan's,
i,t. Blackburn entered the military
service in October 1942 after grad
uating fnwn the Riverside High
ScihooT In California In 1941 and
attending A&M In 1941-42, He
left A&M to enter Officers Can
didate School. He received h I s
ccinmlHsioh as a second lieutenant
ImJune 19(13 and his present gnide
In May off '44.
Urbanization
Called Reagent
Of Agriculture
"The principal factor
af
fecting the agricultural eco
nomy of Texa* are the indua*
triulization of agricultural oc
cupations and the movement
of large portions of the rural pop
ulation to cities in search of more
lucrative employment with these
industries/’ said C. N. Chepard-
son, Dean of Agriculaure, at the
Texas Nutrition Conference Thurs
day afternoon.
Mechanization of farming meth
ods and new knowledge of how to
improve and increase grass crops
were also brought out by Shepard-
son is important factors influence
ing Texas’ agricultural economy.
“A good exeample of a farm oc
cupation which has been commer
cialized is the fluid milk industry,”
said Shepardson. He remarked that
some 20 years ago the average
dairy herd consisted of about six
cows and that outside of larger
cities there was no dairy distribu
tion. “Today one finds herds with
as many a 200 cows, and rural
milk distribution isgreatly improv
ed.”
"Mechanization in cotton produc
tion is increasing daily in impor
tance", Shepardson said. "When
the cotton picker is perfected, it
will give the large operutor a de
cided advantage over the marl oper
ating on a small basis whe can
not afford one.”
An interesting point brought out
by Shepardson in his talk, was that
“A good example of a farm oc
cupation which has been commer-
even though most fanning enter
prises a^e being run on a. commer
cialized basis, the size of farms,
on an average, have pot changed.
"This can be accounted for by the
increase!! number of part time far
mers and by the fact that full
time farm operators have enlarged
their fajcilities/* he said.
Engineer Scholarship
Awarded ME Senior
Uvalde Stocrmcr, mechanical en-
gineerlng senior, has been awarded
a scholarship for his senior year.
The Texas Foundries Inc.,. Lufkin,
selects an outstanding engineering
student each year, whose prime in
terest is foundry work for the
scholarship.
Stocrmcr, due to bo graduated
in June, is chairman of the student
chapter of the American Foundry-
men’s Society, one of seven In the
United "tates.
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Announcing
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STUDENT FACULTY
DIRECTORY
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and leave your name and address. Your
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The Grea
By WILLIAM 1). MORGAN
New York, Oct. 2(1 <*•) Twenty
years ago thia week the stock mar
ket crashed In a tragic ending to
an era of prosperity.
The Goolidge bull market died a
violent death that shocked and
thia nation ami financial
throughout the world. .
no standard by which
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to maaaura the aelling panic which
crept Into Wall Stmt In cat-like
alienee and rlppfd the financial dis
trict wide open.
Described in Kenernlitles, the
market value of the nation’* pro
ductive machinery plunged, in a
matter of minutes, by billions of
dollars. The decline lasted for
three long heart-breaking year*.
In human tarms tho losses could
measured
n the bunkr
iatrucilon of
foreclosed mo
;tickets. It co
:lil the delibertt
the new poor
US Civil Service Commission
To Give Vacancy Examinations
The Civil Service Commission
has announced examinations for
filling vacancies of several types
in the Federal Service.
Examinations are being given
for the positions of office machine
opertors (including adding, address
ing, bookkeeping, billing, calculat
ing, card punch, graphotype, dupli
eating photostat, blueprint, offset,
tabulating equipment and mach
ines and miscellaneous office ap
pliances). Entrance salaries range
from |2,086 to $5,232 per year.
The Civil Service advises tha
there is still a need for applican
to fill vacancies in the position:
of Appraiser and Construetiorj
Analyst at entrance salaries rang
ing from $3,727.20 to $5,232 per
annum, ualified applicants ard
urged to file for these examinaj
tions.
Employment for these position*
will be with various federal agen
cies in Texas.
Examinations are announced for
translator, boiler fireman, and pa
tent advisor positions in Washing,
ton D. C. and vicinity.
To qualify for the translator
positions, which pay from $2,724
to $8,509 a year, all applicants
must pass a written general test
in English. Eligible competitors in
this test who apply for the French,
German, Italiuh, Portuguese, and
Spanish languages will be give a
written test in translating as noon
there after as is practicable. In
addition to passing the written test,
applicants for all positions, pay
ing from $3,727 to $H,609 a year
must have had experience In gen
eral non-t«chnical translation ojr
In supervision of translation work.
The boiler fireman Jobs pay
from $2,152 to $2,573 a year. No
writtel test will be given, but an-
plicants must have had from six
to 18 months experience In firing
stationary steam boilers or locomo
tive boilers. For the higher paying ;
jobs, experience must have been:
acquired on boilers operating at
15 gauge pressure or higher.
Age limits for these positions,
18 to 62 years, will be waived for
veterans. J h 1, ’
Applications for the Translator
evamination must be received ini
the commission’s Washington of
fice not later than November 15
applications for the Boiler Fire
man examination not later than
November 8, 1949: j
Application forms ;for all posi
tions and other information may b<
obtained from thei Regional DU
rector, 14th U. S. Cjvil Service Re:
gion, 210 South . Marwood Street^
Dallas 1, Texas; or from Roger
W. Jackson at the College Statioit
Post Office.
Fort Worth Club
Elects Officers
The Ft. Worth A&M Club ha»
elected its officers for the 194iif
60 school year.
Joe Simpson, senior . animi l
husbandry major, was elected preii
ident. Simpson, a captain bn the
battalion staff, is in "D"j Con*
pany Infantry. ■ j
Others elected are Tbhpny Brool *
man, vice-president, iaenior bus *
ness major; Wallace Hooper, se i
rotary, Junior chemical englnee -
ing major; Bill Thompson, trea t-
urer, Junior chemical engineering
major; Jim Mugrudor, social so'<
retarjf, senior education major;;
Jimmy Woodall, reporter, senlpti
animal husbandry major, and Pa
Hendrix, sergeant-at-arms, fres
mM geology major, j
.■ Woodall urged all students fro
Ft. Worth and vicinity to atte»|d
the meetings. u '
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haggard
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faces of
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of little
av«r the
iirw pwrj iei umu ur
the pathetic bev llderment
peoph hnd big eoplo all
oduntbj.
Tin prelude' td panic wn* enough
tojul the 10011 ‘astute flhancia!
men. GovenjmW and bualness
Raders palntikl the future In rO*y
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Th*re were k |Vw people I
agreed, but
suspicion.
People beggM
stole money jtdi p
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were vleWi
borro
uy stocks.
nt of
red to
total of brokieij*" loans,
which indicate*! the umou|t
stbek bought Io0 [credit, s^alp
an astronomical figure, 1
Stock prices! advanced until many
were simply abilurb in relation to
the ability of aj given company tb
earn money apd pay dividends. ^
The week whSch
ended October
19, 1929, was: at\ bad wjeek| for the
market—but ndi- too bad.]
Then next /wjbek panic Sjtruqk!
The bottom literally dropped out
of the market.' The ticker tape,
poupding out. p ilivion for specula
tors all over (H 1 world, ran hours
behind the market's close in order
to catch up Wi ih an avalanche at
transactions. Nearly 13,000,000
share* of stock changed hands.
The city’s b g bankers got to
gether. finally :'i emerged. Witjh an
r -v-ich certainly
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announcement! f; which
seemed a masterpiece of under
statement. Thdy found, It seems,
“a little distress selling.”
The market {rallied for a while
but oil Mondays* and Tuesday, Oct.
20 and 29,'the dlimax was reached.
Stocks of the jcPuoti y’s leading in
dustries collapsed. Sales bh ’jblack
Tuesday" totaled more than 16,.
000,000 share*.|
That was thh day the 'insiders,
The bij? money tpen, the million.
ttlfes, ; saw thfrir fortubes melt
away, The little fellows had ul*
ready been s4l|! out. The big fob
lows 'lusted u ;few days longep.
JolinsonjCo* Group
Choolgeff fOf f icfcrs
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meeting Thun 11
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The club ^IJIhneet tn Room 22
Academic Building, beginning
7:80 p.m„ a
Plans for a p
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