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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1951)
jJaaSr^SSnainiftBiH itMMSiK T* Page 4 THE BATTALION Thursday, August 23, 1951 J. M. Daniel of Bryan (left), chairman of the approaching Boy Scout finance drive in Brazos county, is shown discussing the Sam Houston Area Council 1951 drive goal with other members of the finance committee. The group met with leaders from all other districts at the Houston Club in Houston this past week. Left to right are Daniel; Jack Linn, district field executive; P. P. Butler, council finance committeeman, who pre sided at the meeting; and Kenneth Clark, Cald well, drive chairman for Burleson county. Scout Finance Campaign Mapped At Houston Meeting Initial plans for the 1951 Boy Scout Finance Campaign were made by members of the Sam Houston Area Council Finance Committee and representatives of participating communities. They met recently in Houston. Presided over by P. P Butler, Council Finance Committman, the group discussed and mapped its final program for reaching the ovei’-all Council goal of $246,302, a figure necessary to meet the ap proved budget for the coming year. The simultaneous drives are scheduled to get underway in all communities on October 9. Heading the campaign in Bryan District will be J. W. Daniel of Bryan, who attended the Friday' evening meeting in Houston. “No specific quotas have been JJSK BATTALION CLASSIFIED ADS TO jtUY, SELL, RENT OR TRADE. Rates , ... 3c a word per Insertion with a I8o minimum. Space rate in classified lection .... 60c per column-inch. Send III classified to STUDENT ACTIVITIES ♦FFICE. All ads must be received In Stu- Jent Activities office by 10 a.m. on the lay before publication. • FOR SALE • 1942 GLIDER House Trailer. Good cab inets, closets. No furnishings.. Fair .woodwork. Needs outside repair. Strong chassis,' good tires, wheels_ gain at $90. Call 6-3444 gain week-days. after 5 on PORCELAIN top kitchen table, metal kit chen cabinet, unpainted night stand, and two kitchen chairs. A-14-X College View, after 5. • FOR RENT • MODERN five-room furnished apartment. Close in. 700 East 27th. Phone 2-2015? NICELY furnished duplex, combination living room and dinette. Bedroom, bath and kitchen. 203 Bizzell St. Call 3-3562. • WANTED TO BUY • USED CLOTHES and shoes, men’s — women’s — and children’s. Curtains, spreads, dishes, cheap furniture. 502 N. Main. Bryan. Texas. Prompt Radio Service —Call— Sosolik’s Radio Service 712 S. Main St. Ph. 2-1941 Bryan SAFCTYtmtr %C0U*7ESVh ECONOMY? SAI E-T-WAY TAXI Phone 2-1400 RADIOS & REPAIRING Call For and Delivery STUDENT CO-OP • WANTED • EXPERIENCED, capable bookkeeper. Good salary, permanent Call y, per 4-1149 manent position. Good hours. 9 for appointment. WHO’S driving toward St. Louis, Chicago, Cental Illinois very soon? Young lady very will share expenses. Day phone :peni night phone 4-4431. >g 2-1! 929; • HELP WANTED • THREE STUDENTS are needed to work in the circulation department between se mesters. See Mr. Bing at Goodwin Hall. STUDENT to sell advertising for The Battalion for period of one week, from August 27 - Aug. 31. Same man can also have job of selling ads for Sep tember issue of student magazine. See Joe Arnett in Batt office, 2nd. floor Goodwin, RIGHT AWAY. LADY who can sell advertising, and who can do advertising lay-outs. Write Box 1, Battalion. • HOME REPAIR • ALL TYPES home repair work—additions, roofing, siding, painting, concrete work, atii iay. • 4-4236. and redecorating, and 30 months to pi mates call 4-9589 Low down payment For free estl- Directory of Business Services ALL LINES of Life Insurance. Homer Adams, North Gate. Call 4-1217. Seniors—Post Graduation Stud ies? For That . . . ^y^nniverianj, 'l^eJding, (JdiillJaij or Ojift Caldwell's Jewelry 112 N. Main Bryan, Tex. PHONE 2-2435 Dr. Carlton R. Lee OPTOMETRIST 203 S. Main Street Call 2-1662 for Appointment First American Life Insurance Co. in Texas - - - - At Houston Bryan-College Agency JOE DILLARD, Mgr. REPRESENTATIVES L. E. (Skeeter) Winder, ’50 John T. Knight Charles H. Sledge, ’50 H. E. Winder, ’52 306 VARISCO BLDG. PHONE 3-3700 assigned to any one particular dis trict, or community,” Butlei* point ed out in his opening remarks. “This policy, which is customary, has always been followed, since it is felt that no community would want anyone to evaluate the ser vice of Scouting in dollars and cents. Scouting asks only that those contacted give as they feel the program benefits their respec tive communities.” Of the $246,302 total, the major portion has already been pledged by the Harris County Chest. Only $64,256 is to be raised by the Com munity Campaigns in the 14 sur rounding counties. The budget items to be cared for by the campaign, include pro fessional leadership salaries and transportation, office service, field service, camp facilities and pro gram, council office operation, vol unteer training, public relations, and activities, (a division covering all extra items needed to complete a well-rounded Scouting Program.) It was pointed out that the bud get items would he greatly in creased, were it not for the consol idation of the services through a central office, operating rin Hous ton. Plans for community finance programs will be announced with in a week or so, it was stated, in cluding names of special gifts chairmen, division chairmen and team captains. DeMolays to Leave For State Conclave Four members of the Brazos Chapter, Order of DeMolay, will leave tomorrow morning to attend the Texas State Conclave held in Houston, Aug. 24-27. Frank S. Vaden III, Donald Bur- chard, John B. Wolton, Jr., and Jimmy D. Boswell plan to make the trip. The group will be ac companied by Ran Boswell, ad visor. Headquarters for the conclave will be in the Rice Hotel. One wing has been reserved for 400 DeMo lays expected to attend from all parts of Texas. About that Lube Job . .. • If you’ve been put ting it off, let us re mind you of this: For want of a few ounces of lubricant, many a car has been laid up for weeks with expen sive repairs! D o n’t gamble! Drive up right away! A ^KEEP IT RIGHT Inside and Out. DRIVE UP AT TOM McCALL’S PHILLIPS 66 SERVICE STATION College Station, Texas Hwy. 6—N. Corner of Campus PHONE 4-4792 Duval Ranchers Tried Cannon In Drouth of 60 Years Ago Corpus Christi, Tex., Aug. 23— (/P)—There’s nothing new about at tempts to make rain fall on dry farmland. Had you been passing through Duval County on a quiet April day 60 years ago, you might have been knocked off your feet by an explosion. Jonas Weil of Corpus Christi was there, a youngster just out of school. He was secretary for the group, mostly army personnel, who tried to make rain fall. Weil says rain fell. Duval County in 1891 was in the throes of the severest drouth in its history. Cattle were dying by the thousands. Their carcasses lined the banks of the Nueces Riv er, where they garnered in hopes of water. Ranchers had heard of experi ments carried on by the army at El Paso and Midland in which ex plosives were fired into the at mosphere in the hope they would cause rainfall. The theory result ed from records showing above average rainfall where battles had been fought. Duval County ranchers had to pay all the expenses of the experi ment there. The army, with all its paraphernalia, weather experts, and newspapermen, arrived in Du val County and pitched camp a few miles out of San Diego on the Col lins ranch. For weeks the weather experts watched the skies, waiting for the right clouds. In April the clouds came. Small cloth bags were then filled with powder and soak ed in nitroglycerine. A cumber some cannon that guarded the King- ranch headquarters was hauled to the site. A huge cypress cistern, filled with water, was loaded with iron shavings picked up from blacksmith shops. A meteorologist made frequent trips aloft in a captive balloon to look things over. Finally the big day arrived. The powder-filled bags were made ready, the old cannon was put in place; and a large quantity of sulphuric acid was poured into the cistern water and iron shavings to create a gas with which to fill huge baloons that were to be sent aloft and exploded. At a signal, pandemonium broke loose. The bags of powder were Stinky Checked On Night Prowl James Lytle froze in his tracks. The midnight oil had burned to the two o’clock level, when he heard the bumping scrape of a disturbed garbage can in the hall of Dorm 15. Rising to investigate, he stop ped when the soft pad-pad of small black feet checked at his open door, while two beady eyes peered from beneath the white splash that cen tered the curiosity-wrinkled black forehead. Sniffing tentatively, the young black and white creature decided that further inspection was in or der. Entering the room he fluffed up has fur and stood in the breeze of the pre-vet’s desk fan. Lytle had remained motionless but he stiffened in fear when his pencil clattered to the floor from sweaty fingertips. The black and white tail became rigidly perpen dicular as angry claws rattled against the cement and white fangs were bared. No stench filled the room, how ever; and Lytle watched his un welcome visitor amble through the door and down the hall with con siderable relief. Stinky the skunk was just visiting. exploded; the high-flying balloons began to burst. Weil had been put in charge of the cannon, and he fired away like a defender of the Bastille. One of the balloons floated off horizontally instead of rising. When it exploded, every tent in the camp was knocked over. Shortly the bombardment was over and the weary, powder-smoked rainmakers waited results. Oni- mous clouds gathered. And, says Weil, it began to rain. How much it rained, Weil didn’t say. But he remembers that water Boston. rushing down a ravine forced sold iers and other members of the group to move their tents to high er ground. This year another group of rain makers is in Texas, seeding clouds with silver iodide. Ranchers in Jim Hogg and Brooks counties have formed an organization. Weil’s nephew, Alex Weil, who operates a large ranch in Jim Hogg county, is secretary. Weil also has a grand son, Edwin Kessler III—majoring in meteorology at the Massachu setts Institute of Technology in Iranians Stand Pat Final Disagreement Reached in Oil Talks Tehran, Iran, Aug. 23— ( SP>— British-Iranian oil talks, fostered by American envoy Averell Harri- man and carefully nursed through 18 days of ups and downs, col lapsed in a final disagreement Wednesday. Iron-willed Premier Mohammed Massadegh announced after a 90- minute meeting with British Cab inet Minister Richard Stokes that “we reached no agreement with respect to British management” of the nationalized oil industry. Stokes, fully expecting the breakdown, already had an nounced he is flying back to London early today, leaving this neighbor of Russia to its own chaotic oil affairs. Harriman, showing the strain of his work since mid- July in bring ing the British and Iranians to gether, said he would fly back to Washington soon and report to President Truman. Harriman had no comment on the break-down after Mossadegh remained unmoved in their final talk. The presidential envoy, who came here five weeks ago on or ders from Mr. Truman, had tried to convince Mossadegh that Iran should agree on a workable plan to cooperate with the British in pro duction and sale of Iranian oil. Just before Stokes left the last talk with Mossadegh, the Premier handed Stokes what Mossadegh called new proposals. They were broadcast a few min utes later over the government radio but were deemed to be no retreat from the previous drastic oil nationalization measures that the British found unacceptable. The broadcast Mossadegh pro posals said Iran would agree to formation of a “trustworthy organ ization” for oil administration if Britain accepted Iran’s proposals for compensation for nationalized property and sale of oil. Gordon Gay Enjoys Trip to Colorado J. Gordon Gay, associate secre tary of the local Y. M. C. A., has returned to his duties after spend ing a three weeks vacation in Colo rado. Gay was accompanied by his wife and two youngest sons, Mich ael, nine, and David, six. Their vacation was spent at the Y. M. C. A. encampment at Estes Park, Colorado. Gay said there were about 1000 people vacationing at the encampment when they were there. The vacation was fine, he said. Before you leave the campus come by and leave your Lay-A- Way book order. Go home assured that the books you need will be waiting for you when you return this fall. Don’t take a chance on having to wait in line for your books. A table is set up in front of The Exchange Store, for your convenience, to accept your Lay- A-Way book orders. THE EXCHANGE STORE “Serving Texas Aggies” This was Mossadegh’s first known disposition to consider the administrative organization, but apparently the conditions were re jected by Stokes. Mossadegh’s three-point propos al: • Former customers would be given priority to buy in the same amounts they had as customers of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. This point was ignored in Britain's proposal to set up a purchasing and distributing agency on a SO SO basis with Iran. • Foreign oil experts would he hired under individual contracts with the Iranian govemment under the same pay privileges the AIOC offered. Additional technicians would be hired from countries hav ing no political interests in Iran. • The government was prepared to consider possible claims of the AIOC for compensation for na tionalized property. (The British cabinet took “the necessary decisions” Wednesday in anticipation of the break, official London sources said. (The decisions, still secret, pre sumably answered the big question: Will British forces occupy Abadan, the Iranian oil refining center? The government announced last month its forces would occupy Abadan under certain circumstan ces—which were not defined.) Movies Added to Film Library The Department of Agricultural Education has released a new sup plementary catalogue of films. Re cently, 35 new copies of movies were added to its film library, in cluding “Disease, the Working Rustlex-,” “Today’s Chisholm Trail,” “The New Way to Greater Educa tion,” “The South Grows Green,” and “No Hand Stripping,” accordr ing to W. W. Mclh-oy, Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Education. The library of the department now contains around 310 rolls of film, 13 film strips, and 20 sets of slides, which are used by Agricul tural Education majors who are practice teaching, and by veterans’ vocational agriculture and high school vocational agriculture teach- An incx-easing demand for this training aid has been noted with each passing season, said Mcllroy. Films were shown to 2,892 audi ences or more than 6,500 people in 1948; they were shown to 6,586 audiexxces or more than 118,000 needs to know for civil defense. people in 1950. At present, films ai-e booked as far ahead as the middle of next yeai\ First Aid Course Will Carry Credit A course in first aid, designated P. E. 21'6, will be offex-ed for cre dit duixing both semestei’s this coming year. It will be taught on Tuesdays from 3-5 by W. M. Dow ell. A standard, advanced and in- stractors course will be offex-ed. Upon satisfactoxy completion of the course the student will be exx- titled to a first aid card. The course is approved by the American Red Cross. It is parti cularly suited for engineers and agx-icultux'ists. Civil Defense authox-ities ax*e anxious to have at least one per son of every 20 in a community trained in first aid. This course is in line with the things that one ■ ; r- - v .. I IVe’ve Moved... 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