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By RAY WILLIAMS
Have' you ever come home at
night dejected and all out of
sorts jUst because you couldn’t
solve that ‘ole algebra problem?
Just listen my friend, for your
worries are over.
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BRYAN, TEXAS
JOIN THE MARCH OF DIMES
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only solve two simultaneous equa
tions but can also solve jlnjost an
infinite number of them. All that
has to be done, is to sc t up the
equation to be worked iq an equiv
alent electric circuit and, presto,
you havejyour answer, i
The “Lraln” is known as an
Alternating Current Network
Calculator. It was built! by the
Westinghouse Electric ] Co. - In
1947 and is owned by the A&M
Research Foundation.
Installation of the Calculator
began in April 1947, and, the first
problem was.- worked out in.. June
of the same year- The E 3 depart
ment, including some stutlents, did
the entire job of install! ig it. At
the present, the estimated value
is in the neighborhood of $250,000.
The calculator is the only one
of its kind in Texas, ami is the
largest In the U.8. other than one
in the Westinghouse main factory.
It has 4,170 plugs, switches, re-
ststors, readers' a n d capacitors,
each Wiving its own job, i
Supervisor of the foundation
project is L. M. Hauip, ,J<>hn’'Deni
son is in charge of operation, and
ho is assisted by Douglas. Johnson,
and Bill Evans, both electrical en
gineering graduate students.
This project was made possible
P«
by 11 power companies
who are
Radios to Replace
Phones in Towers
The Texas Forest Service, a
part of .the A&M System, is con
verting from ' telephone j to radio
communication. Plans sell ap
proximately 2,000 pole ! miles of
telephone wire have beeri made by
the Forest Service because of this
change. > 1
^ Fire fighting vehicles of the
Forest Service already are equip
ped with radio comrmuriiQation.
Radios will be installed in the
lookout towers after the sale of
telephone lines is comn eted.
;Ice storm damage to telephone
liifes sometimes is a menace to
forest fire control wort because
vital communications ar; disrupt
ed for weeks, J. O. Burr side, For
est Fire Control Department Head,
said recently.
Greater use of radio w 11 also re
duce the cost of maintaining tele
phone lines and right-o -way and
extension of communications to
new areas, he added.
located in this section ofi the coun
try. Each company iwnjght time,
which was to be used in working
their individual problems.
The sum of all these investments
totaled enough to buy the Calcula-
tor. The charge now made for non-
momber Companies is $100 a day.
This amount seerm large, but
when you consider th it one com
pany, on its first trip here,
saved from $250,000 to $300,000
through the work of tie calcu
lator, you may realise why ihis
price is actuary very reasonable.
Theoretically! the “b rain” can
solve power network problems in
volving areas as large u» the state
of Texas, and it’s done it.
Just| recently, the staff worked
out a problem covcri hg*; parts of
four States.
WhJn the Calcula toi staff is
asked (how long it would have tak
en to 1 do tliis unnlytiwilly, they
just smile and say "If jt could be
worked at all, it would ti ke; yearR.”
Water and Sewage
Course Scheduled
An experimental ciurjse in wat
er-works mathematics, iwhich will
last for three weeks, [started Mon
day in Houston by tjhe; Industrial
Extension Service according to Di
rector E. L. Williams.
“Principles of mathematics
applied to water-Works problems,”
Willianis said. “At the end of this
experimental course live iwill deter
mine needs for othejr Courses at
various levels, depending upon the
education of each student.”
. Because 60 students, have en
rolled, the classes have been divid
ed into four division^ of 15 each.
Classes are conducted on Mon
days through Fridays in the city
hall by J. E. Williams, E E. S. in
structor.
COMING TO CUION H
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Coming to Guion Hall
Capricorn” starring
technicolor. “Under
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included in
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of income ar®
and need not be
ur tax return,
not required
to pay tax on lilyidunds from thslr
tari
veterans and tnalr famil
government payments
le to
with
the exception of retirement pay
which Is not for disability.
Among other major Item* of in
come free from tax are;
1. Money on a life insurance pol
icy paid to you upon' Uin death
of the insured person. (However,
money paid to you as a policy
holder ih endowment insurance
is taxable to the extent tpat the
amount received is greater than
the premiums paid for the policy.)
2. Social Security benefit pay
ments from the Federal Govern
ment or from a state under the
Federal Social Security program.
3. Money or other property re
ceived as a gift, bequest; or in
heritance. (However, income later
derived from such property such
as dividends and interest is sub
ject to income tax.)
4. Money received through
health or accident insurance or un
der workmen’s compensation laws
for personal injury or sickness.
Since Jan. 1, 1949, all military
service pay has been taxable. Ser
vice pay received from Dec. 31,
1940 to Jan. 1, 1949, by a person
below the rank of a commissioned
officer was not taxable. Officers
formerly received a special exemp
tion of $1,500 of service pay.
Some annuity income is hot tax
able. Some is taxable. Reporting
annuity income is a very compli
cated job, and taxpayers may need
the help of a collector’s office or
other reputable tax authority.
Some kinds of interest payments
received by taxpayers are “'free
from tax. Among these afe:
1. Interest on obligations
(bonds) of a state, territory or
any political sub-division thereof,
of the District of Columbia or
possessions of the United! States.
2. Interest on obligations of the.
United States issued before March
1, 1941, to the exteht provided in
the federal laws authorizing their
issue.
3. Interest on qbligationis issued
before March 1, ip41, of a corpora
tion organized under an act of
Congress if such corporation is
an instrumentality of !th«j United
States,
4. Interest on not exceeding
$5,00(1 of United States i savings
bonds (at cost) and treasury bonds
at face value which were issued
before March 1, 1941. I
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Piano Duo Presents
Friday Program
Appleton aiid Field, duo piano
team, will appear Friday, Feb. 24,
at Stephen F. Austin High
School in Bryan under the aus
pices of the Bryan Artists Ser
ies.
Michael Field was at first a
disappointment to his father be
cause of his refusal to : practice
on the violin, his fatherts favor
ite instrument. Instead, young
Mike spent most of his time at
the home of an aunt listjening to
his cousins practicing qn their
piano^
After very much persuasion,
Field Sr. gave in to his son’s wish
and bought a piano. Whep the in
structor arrived, she was sur
prised' to find that her student
could, already play each one of
the compositions he had heard
his c^Usins playing.
The^talented pianist studied with
Carl Friedberg after his entry into
the Jiiiliard Graduate School.
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shocked television viewers saw the
New_ York, Feb. 84—(A0.—La-
verne
idol of Plain
tortlMr . ^
last night In a 10th round knock
out loss to Oeorgie Small of
Brooklyn.
The end came at 13:00 p.m. with
the patient in a deep coma at St.
Clare’s hospital where he had been
taken' on - a stretcher from St.
Nicholaft anna.
"The patient whs in a deep co
ma," the hospital report read, “and
then was respiratory fallurti with
final cessation of heart action due
to the after effects of a cerebral
hcmmnrhegr and brain damage."
Huddled at the bedside In stun
ned silence were the boxer’s wife,
Evelyn, and his manager, Johnny
Abood, who handled Roach's career
since his days with the Cherry
Point, N.C., marines. Yesterday
was his 24th birthday.
Dr. Vincent A. Nardiello, New
York State Athletic Commission
physician, and four other doctors
attended the stricken athlete after
his last fight.
Only a handful, 1.832, waded
through sleet and snow to see the
middleweight battle. Hundreds of
thousands and perhaps millioits of
Cameras focused on Roach's cor
ner for several minutes as hla
handlers and doctors worked over
him following the knockout.
'The District Attorney’s office
announced a full |h vestige tlon of
the fight that resulted In boxing's
first fatality of-1950. Ring Maga
zine records show 1$ fight dsatke
lest year. |
Detective Lieutenant Henry Dev
lin, of the New York CH^ police,
seld ell pereone concerned with
the bout would be questioned at
the District Attorney's office to
morrow morn pig. He said hoi had
seen the match and “there does
not appear to be any negligence at
this Jimc."
Chairman Eddie Eagan of the
New York State Athletic Commie-
sion called an open hearing for
10:00 a.m. tomorrow. He said a er outclassed opponents
Mayo, Morgner
Speak oh Eeo
Club Program
Dr. T. F. Mayo spoke on
the disadvantages of capital
ism, and Professor Aurelius
Morgner spoke on the national
debt, in a two part program
of the Economics Club Tuesday
night in the YMCA chapel.
Dr. Mayo, head oif the English
Department, listed several “social
costs" of our American capitalis
tic system, in which “business is
privately owned and run for prof
it”. A certain part of our crime
and inequality of social opportun
ity may be traced to our system,
he said.
Mayo cited the Harvard report
oh the high cost of education as
evidence of the inequality of social
opportunities. It costs $90 a year
to send a child to high school,
Mayo said, and the cost is pro
hibitive to many poorer class fam
ilies in bur economic system.
As an example of what he called
the two inherent, opposing urges
in everyone, Mayo described the
pig and artist In every person. Our |
system tends to make the pig, or
basely possessive Instincts, grow
Unit y, he continued, while the ar
tist, o«f finer senses, become apolo
getic.
Emphasizing that he was not
condemning the system, Muyo con
cluded that even though our sys
tem may be the best for our coun
try, ‘[wc must not be blinded of Its
costs by its advantages".
Professor Morgner, of the Eco
nomics Department, said the av
erage Citizen places too much em
phasis on the national debt.
Oversize national debts arc noth
ing new, Morgner said, pointing out
the 1695 English debt that arose
to tremendous proportions during
a century of war and war prepara
tion. Their debt was so huge as
j to require 50% of the tax reVemie
| to cover |the interest on the debt.
I It was 9 r /r of the national income
; as compared to our present debt [
which is only 2.5% of the nation’s
I income.
“Nations do not go bankrupt
from national debts,” Morgner
said, “because governments, un
like individuals, can tax or create
money.”
We have more to fear, he con
tinued, from inflation or unem
ployment resulting from clearing
a natiorial debt.
Both speakers were introduced
by club president Bill Turley.
preliminary examination indicated
no infraction of the commission
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Small, shaken by the fatal acci
dent, said, "I thought he W a a
fresher than I was.”
jLater Small said that he had
cancelled a scheduled appearance
fob a preliminary match on the
Charlie FUsari - J!
gram in Madison
March 10.
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Flood pro- peared to be off In hie timing. .
Garden,
bed besting
career. This was e f
fore Cerdan won the
title.
Cerdan, who died In la plane
crash last fall, crushed Roach with
superior punching txtwsr, | After
tble disastrous eetbadk. Roach lost
a few bouts and "retired'’ for Id
A terrific right hand punch
the Jaw, Just «e Roach wee
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- count -- ,
. Roach, actlrtf
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epun weakly a d
le back. Out co d
Fullam'a count. I > .
Seconds later, Small b *tterf<l
Roach to the canvas again and he
collapsed flat on hie back. R«'*
eroe Fullam quickly stopped tie
fight without a count, reachiif
children to Maplewood, NJu for t -‘ >m,r
another try. Not athce Lew Jen-
i tile sprawling plaii
Roach
kins has the sprawlii
Texes developed a ahi
dreamed he would next.
Three out-of-town victories ey
ing plains of
tamp., 1
preceded
lest night's test with Smell, a. bril
liant young boxer-puncher with
a knockout wallop.
Scorecards of both judges and
referee Frank Fullam had the Tex
an out front in the first nine rounds
of hla last fight. Early in the bat
tle he outpunched Small with a
solid left/ hook although he ap-
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immediately.
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to his corner
ed hie eyes,
er he said,
happen.”
Two or three times he started to
was half-dr*
rams to and
liking to hie 1
“damn it, this would
ere up but sagged
the stool. Dr.
red and eat down On
. Mardiello quickly,
ijection and ordered
gave him an Inject
a stretcher.
Roach was placed under an oxy
gen tent and fed through the veins.
He was unconscious from the-time
he left the ring on a stretched.
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