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THE BATTALION Thursday, -April 12, 1951 Page 6 Even Jokes Are Readable Spindielop Oil Discovery Featured in New Engineer By WILLIAM DICKENS Battalion Staff W'riter The historical Spindletop, oil his tory’s most amazing field, is fea tured in the latest issue of the Engineer, which is just off the presses and ready for distribution. The article by Herbert G. Mills, senior Geo. E. major, takes the reader back to the year 1901 when the history making Anthpny F. Lucas well, located on a low hill south of Beaumont, unleashed the mightiest supply of oil the world had even seen. Tracing the developments be fore the great strike on Jan. 10 1901, Mills shows the struggle of the men who made Spindletop famous throughout the world. Only a few men were responsi ble for the new development and Patillo Higgins of Beaumont was the first to become interested in the low mound south of town. Con vinced there was oil at Spindletop, he made unsuccessful attempts to drill the hill after forming the Gladys City Oil, Gas and Manu facturing Company. Captain Anthony F. Lucas, a salt mining engineer in Louisiana, heat'd of Higgins efforts and be came interested. After securing a lease from Higgins, he attempted to drill the well and failed. Being broke, Lucas searched for more funds and later convinced a firm in Corsicana that oil existed in the region. The drilling of the second well was a difficult task with only three men to do the job of twelve and with Funds which would per mit drilling only with the barest necessities. With a colorful description of the drilling of the second well, Mills relates the continuous efforts and hardships suffered before an oil producing sand was struck at 1,020 feet. From the discovery of oil, Mills describes in his article how the “boom” affected the people around the surrounding areas, which was even greater than the California Gold Kush. Giving statistics on the Spindle top field up to 1950, the article provides educational and interest ing reading about one of the ele ments which have added to the progress and growth of our state. The prize winning speech of the National ASCE Convention prepared by James M. Tidwell, class of ’46, is included in this month’s issue. The speech, entitled “Rapid De termination of Certain Physical Properties in the Compaction of Eastern Embankments,” won first place in a local contest, first place in the Texas section contest in San Antonio, and first place in the regional meet, which was the high est the paper could go.' Although the paper was present ed as a speech, the wording has not been altered in the magazine presentation and readers will real ize why it won highest honors. A personality article about A. R. 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This article is the sixth in a series of similar articles which aid students to become better acquainted with their instructors “Critical Shortage of Engineers,” also by Brown, is presented to ans wer the question, “Will 1 get a job when I graduate?” Brown states statistics and uses a descriptive chart to show the reader that engineering graduates are plentiful now and will continue to be so, as seen by the drop in en gineering freshman enrolling in college each day. Providing light, amusing enter tainment, Jackson Stansbury, sen ior architecture major, provides two pages of illustrated cartoons about “The Architect Answers the Civil Engineer.” Hodg es Is Speaker At Science Meet “Several methods of using citan- ium tetrachloride smoke to mea sure low air speeds of the oi'der of 100 feet per minute are develop ed,” H. D. Hodges of the Depart ment of Physics, said recently Hodges, speaking at the opening sessions of the Texas Academy of Sciences regional meeting, held at A&M said, “one method is to form a step in a stream of titanium tet rachloride smoke by suddenly mov ing downward the stick from which the smoke is flowing. “A modification of this method is to form a small globule of smoke which presents a more definite point to be timed over a measured course. Another method is to form very fine smoke streamers by al lowing small droplets of titanium tetrachloride to fall under the force of gravity,” Hodges pointed out. Education Board Gives Aid to Prairie View The General Education Board has made available to Prairie View A&M, $1,000 or as much thereof as may be necessary, to ward workshops for teachers of elementary subjects and in library service, Dr. E. B. Evans, presi dent, Prairie View, said today. The workshops will be held at Prairie View this summer, Dr. Evans said. Debaters Win, Lose 3 Traveler Talks Turkey In Southern Tourney Three members of the A&M de bate team returned recently from the Southern Speech Association Debate Tournament at the Univer sity of Florida in Gainesville where they posted three victories against three defeats. Debaters who made the six day trip were James Farmer, Dan Dav is, and Douglass Hearne. They were accompanied by H. E. Hierth of the English department as fac ulty sponsor. Win Three In the six rounds of debate dur ing the two day meet, A&M won over Florida Southern, Texas Tech, and Furman University, The Ag gies lost to Abilene Christian, Southeastern Oklahoma, and David Libscomb. Final tabulations, which are bas ed on individual speaker ratings and the won-lost record, have not been compiled yet. Aggie individ ual ratings, which were high, will be included in a detailed record of What’s Cooking AGGIELAND STAFF, Thursday, 7:30 p.m. 2nd Floor, Goodwin Hall, pictures for the Aggieland will bp tcikpn CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGAN IZATION, Thursday, 5:30 p. m. YMCA Lobby Election of tempor ary officers. CORPUS CHRIST I CLUB, Thursday 7:15 p. m. Room 3B, MSG Selection of the Cotton Ball Duchess. EAST TEXAS CLUB, Thursday, 7:30 p. m. YMCA Reading Room. FOUR STATES CLUB, Thurs day 7:30 p. m. Room 106 Academic Building. HILLEL CLUB, Friday, 7:15 p. m. YMCA Chapel. LAND OF THE LAKES CLUB, Thursday, 7:15 p. m. Room 305 Goodwin. MILAM COUNTY CLUB, Thurs day. 7:30 p. m. YMCA Reading Room. PANHANDLE CLUB, Thurs day, 7:15 p. m. Room 103 Aca demic. RIO GRANDE VALLEY CLUB, Thursday, 7:30 p. m. Assembly Room YMCA. SOUTH TEXAS TRI-COUNTY CLUB, Tuesday, 7:15 p. m. Room 303 Goodwin. Selection of the Cot ton Ball Duchess. TABLE TENNIS CLUB, Thurs day 5 p. m. MSC Games Room. Will send team 1-10 for competition with TU, Saturday at 2 p. m. THE BATTALION STAFF, Thursday, 7:30 p. m. Battalion of ficers. Picture for Aggieland ’51 will be made. VETS WIVES BRIDGE CLUB, Thursday, 7:30 p. m. MSC. USE BATTALION CLASSIFIED ADS TO BUY, SELL, RENT OR TRADE. Rates . ... 3c a word per insertion with a 25e minimum. Spaee rate in classified section .... 00c per column-inch. Send all elasslfled to STUDENT ACTIVITIES OFFICE. All ads must be received In Stu dent Activities office by 10 a.m. on the day before publication. • FOR RENT • NICK LARGK 3-bedroom house, hardwood floors, glassed-in den, double garage, 301 Jackson St. 2 blocks from Consol idated School. Call 6-1654 for appoint ment. • FOR SALE • ARGUS C-3 35MM Camera practically new with flash attachment. DeJur Light- meter. $50.00, Thompson, B-2-W, Col lege View. TRAILER and 2-room addition. Ideal for lake cabin. Top condition. Good fur niture. 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WL Stated meeting Thursday April 12, 7:00 p.m. S. R. Wright, W.M. N. M. McGinnis, See. Prompt Radio Service —Call— Sosollk’s Radio Service 712 S. Main St Ph. 2-1941 Bryan Official Notice Senior ring orders for the class of 1932 will be accepted in the Registrar’s Office after May 1. These rings will be de livered at the Registrar’s Office to the owners alter August 5, 1951. They may be mailed to the student for an additional charge of 25 cents. These rings can not be mailed to summer camp addresses. All rings must be paid for in full when the order is placed. The ring window is open each week day from 8 a.m. to 12 noon. H. L. Heaton Registrar The School of Military Science and Tac tics is studying the advisability of offering one semester for credit of MS II and AS II to be completed during the two summer school terms of twelve weeks total to only those cadets who will be academically qual ified for advanced contract next fall except that they lack only one semester of Basic Military Science. Accordingly, any student in this situation is requested to report in writing to his MS or AS instructor by 9 April 1951 whether he (1) will probably take or (2) will definitely take such a course, if offered. The report should also include expected academic standing (hours, grade points, ratio, classification, and ma jor course) and completed Military Science semesters as of the end of the present spring semester. Th feasibility of offering such a course can only be determined from a study of these reports. It must be borne In mind that the spirit behind the offering of summer school ROTO work is to bring into step the academic and military instruction of our students or to shorten the duration of their college car eers. The operation of the Selective Service Act and the reputation of this college makes us look with disfavor upon any innovation in our Military Science instruc tion which would prolong the college car eer of any individual beyond the normal duration. H. L. Boatner Colonel Infantry PMS&T, School of Militarq Scienc* standings to be mailed to each participating school. The information which will he mailed to each school will include comments by the judges, who de- livired a fifteen minute critique at the conclusion of each debate. The reason for the decision, given each debate will also he included. No trophies or medals were given in any division of the meet. Experimentation in forms of de bate, pitted teams against one an other in two rounds of direct clash debate in which, after a preliminary period of analysis, debaters spoke directly on individual issues with a decision rendered after each clash. Split Decision The Aggies took a split deci sion in this form of debate. This year’s Southern Association meet was labeled educational and experimental. An annual affair, the meet includes individual contests, a student congress, and a conven tion. Twenty-one Southern and South eastern schools were represented in the tournament. The four schools from Texas were A&M, Abilene Christian, Texas Tech, and South west Texas State College. Ag Journalists Get Stories Published Earl Newsom, assistant profes sor in the journalism department, said today three of his agricultural journalism students have had stor ies published in farm magazines. Martin Schrank, senior Ag Ed student had the story, “Fresh Beef Eveiy Week,” published in the Farm and Ranch magazine. Wayne Thompson wrote on the butter fat test and Harold Loesch wrote on the farm pond. Both Thompson and Loesch’s stories were published in the Progressive Farmer: Turks Agricultural Set-up Has Its Faults Says Smith “The people of Turkey have not yet advanced far enough in the use of modern farming equipment to raise their standard of living much over what it was prior to the be ginning of World War II.” This factor alone, said Harris P. Smith, of the Texas Agriculture Experiment Station, is the main fault in the Turkish agricultural set-up. Smith, who has been on leave from the Experiment Station for the past year, has returned to the campus after an extensive study of Turkish farming problem and the Turkish people. While in Europe, he served as Special Advisor to the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture. Many other problems besides the mechanization of farm equip ment are proving to be a handi cap to the improvement of Tur key’s farming methods, the re turned visitor to that nation com mented. .The Turks, for example, still use the wooden plow on their farms. This farming implement was aban doned in the United States many years ago, Smith explained. Also their transportation facil ities are such that fast delivery of American farm machinery is impossible. “Supply centers and distribution points will have to be built and maintained if the individual Turk ish farmer is to be supplied with the machinery necessary to harvest his crops and develop his farm,” Smith pointed out. Most of the people, and espec ially the farmers, are conscienti ous and eager to learn about new methods to improve the standard of living, which is considerably lower than that of the United States. A large majority of the nation’s leaders are educated in Amei’ican colleges and universities, Smith said. Improvement of the Turkish farming practices, on a large scale, will probably take a long time, he said. This is because Turkey is a nation containing 2,500,000 farms in an area no larger than that of Texas and Oklahoma combined. In the rural areas, the custom among the farm owners is to div ide the farm among the sons. After several generations of this land dividing, there are so many people on the original ten or 15 acre farm that no one has much room to grow crops. Smith left the college last March, and flew from New York to Istanbul. He returned to the United States by steamship early this month. The traveler, who came to A&M in 1919 as an instructor in the Agricultural Engineering depart ment, received his MS degree here* in 1926. In 1930, ho transferred from the Agricultural Engineering Department to the experiment sta tion, with which he has been as* sociated ever since. He received a professional degree in agricultural engineering in 1940. OPENING TONIGHT The New . . . 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