THE BATTALION
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Thursday, August 13, 1953
BAYLOR TOWERS BEING TORN DOWN—The stately spires that have dominated the
Baylor University campus in Waco since 1886 are bowing to the cause of safety. Pres
ident W. R. White says the historic towers, atop Old Main building and Georgia Burleson
Hall for Women, are being torn down on the recommendation of architectural engineers
and with the conviction “safety is more important than sentiment.” The tower struc
ture, including a dozen pinnacles, will be sheared off even with the roofs of the two
three-story buildings. Dr. White said that a study of the safety of the aged towers was
prompted by the May 11 tornado that wreaked destruction on other parts of Waco. The
University hopes to replace the historic brick buildings with new structures “within the
next few years”. Reinforced towers similar to the old spires will be considered.
Dallas Man Keeps Business
Up To Snuff . . . With Snuff
DALLAS—O^—R. H. Stanley of
Dallas is a fellow who keeps his
business right up to snuff. That’s
what it is—snuff.
If you’re a silk-stocking type
who sneezes at the very word
snuff, you may be surprised to
learn it’s big business in Texas.
Tremendous, Stanley calls it. Tex
ans buy “a little better than three
million pounds a year,” and not
all of the buyers are country
folks.
“A good bit is sold right here
in Dallas,” Stanley said, “mostly
to working people, but not all
of it.”
For example his company—he’s
district sales manager—rran an es
say contest on “Why I Like
Snuff,” and got three entries from
Dallas’ swankiest neighborhood.
Stanley checked them personally.
Two entries were from/ ladies
who said certainly they use snuff
while directing the servants around
their elaborate homes. The third
was from a little girl who was
just trying to win a prize.
The silk-stocking entries didn’t
win, but he doesn’t recall who did.
The heaviest snuff consuming is
in East Texas, and “the farther
north you go the thinner it’s popu
lated with snuff users.”
East Texas Best
Stanley thinks East Texas is
the best snuff territory because
“primarily it’s a farmer’s habit.”
East Texas is where the cotton
and corn farms are concentrated.
There’s less use of snuff by West
Texas rapchers and farmers. They
chew a lot of tobacco, though.
The only reason Stanley can
think of for the differences is
that in West Texas they have a
lot of dust storms and, brother,
you’ve got to have something in
your mouths when the dust is
blowing.
“When you use snuff you just
run your tongue over it when you
want to get the flavor. But to
bacco keeps your mouth working
and more moist.”
He said 1950 was a big year
for the snuff business in Texas.
The reason seemed to be that his
company sent a lot of samples to
oil refineries, where smoking isn’t
allowed.
A lot of refi nery workers took
up the snuff habit. “We made
big inroads in the tobacco chew-
ers,” Stanley said.
“You see, when you use snuff
you don’t have a big wad of to
bacco in your cheek. When you’ve
chewed the flavor out of tobacco
all you have left is an old, bitter
cud. But as long as you’ve got
one grain of snuff in your mouth
you get the flavor.”
South Texas is a little better
for snuff sales than West Texas.
“A good bit” is sold around Hous
ton, but the closer you get to the
Mexican border the more sales
thin out. Most Latin-Americans
smoke, rather than dip or chew.
Negroes are “great contributors”
to the snuff business.
•Stanley claims his firm (Ameri
can Snuff Co.) sells 96 per cent
of the snuff in Texas.
It Is Dry
It is a dry snuff, ground finer
than flour. The finer it’s ground
the more easily it packs down.
Texans usually put a pinch of it
under the lower lip or between
the jaw teeth and cheek.
Another popular method is to
peel a hackberry twig, chew the
end into a brush, dip your snuff
and scrub it over your teeth. It
has to be a hackberry twig. Dur-
© The Forest Products Division
of Olin Industries, Inc., located at
Shreveport, Louisiana, is going to
initiate its first sales training pro
gram on September 1, and they are
interested in interviewing men be
tween the ages of twenty-six and
thirty, preferably those with a lib
eral arts background, for this pro
gram. The program will be a
well-rounded coverage of all of
the division activities, some of the
activities in the other divisions, as
well as a concentrated series of
case studies, conferences, and on-
the-job training. At the end of
the training period trainees will be
assigned to a territory under the
guidance of a district manager.
• Mechanical and industrial en
gineering majors may qualify for
the sales vacancy in the Houston
office of the George J. Fix Com
pany. Applicants must have an en
gineering background, preferably
mechanical, and a good sales per
sonality. Work would be selling
mechanical power transmission
and materials handling equipment.
ing the depression farmers some
times brushed their teeth with
hackberry twigs. They make use-
able brushes.
Sniffing snuff is not the Texas
way of doing it. Stanley knows
of about 50 Italians who sniff
snuff, though. That takes a coars
er grind than the dipping kind.
During the war, the Italians could
not get Italian snuff, so his com
pany started making a coarse grind
to accommodate them.
A little damp snuff is sold in
Texas but Texans prefer dry. The
dry climate seems to make it hard
to keep damp snuff fresh. It has
never been introduced in Texas on
a large scale, but in recent years
new arrivals from the north have
caused use of damp snuff to
spread some. “A lot of Swedes
come down here for industrial
work, and they use it,” Stanley
said.
As. far as he* knows, Texans
don’t use fancy snuff boxes any
more. “And we don’t encourage
it,” he said. “They consume a lot
more snuff if they don’t have to
carry it around in fancy little
boxes.”
© Green Brothers of Dallas,
suppliers of laboratory equipment
and supplies are in the market for
two salesmen; one to handle the
West Texas area and one to op
erate out of Dallas. They prefer
men trained in chemistry or chem
ical engineering who are familiar
with laboratory equipment, but will
consider others if they are familiar
with this field.
• The Sprague Electric Com
pany is trying to locate a young
physical chemist or chemical engi
neer to become a resident engineer
at their new plant at West Jeffer
son, North Carolina. The candi
date for this position wolld receive
specialized training at their plant
in North Adams, Massachusetts.
© Electrical, mechanical, civil
and industrial engineering majors
may qualify for sales engineering
openings with Dykes Company,
Inc. tt Shreveport, Louisiana. There
is a training program which con
sists of actual work with the me
chanics installing heating and air
conditioning systems, work on the
drafting board with the duct lay
out draftsmen, .work with senior
sales engineers in the field actually
contacting customers, and attend
ing meetings at which both techni-
c;il and sales aspects of the busi
ness aie discussed.
• Three civil engineers are
needed for design engineering
work in the office of the Harris
County Flood Control at Houston.
Work would be straightening, mov
ing and deepening the bayous for
flood control.
Police School
Set September 7
The next class in the Texas Mu
nicipal Police School to be held
at A&M will commence Sept. 7
and end Oct. 2, E. L. Williams,
vice director of the Texas Engi
neering Extension Service, opera
tors of the school, announced today.
Enrollment is limited to 24 men.
Texas law enforcement practices
are taught by outstanding exper
ienced Texas law enforcement men,
Williams says.
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'‘Signs of Life 9
Should Be Read
“If all drivers strictly observed
‘Signs of Life’, the nation’s traffic
accident rate might be cut in half.”
This prediction made today by
Col. E. B. Tilley of Houston, Pres
ident of the Texas Safety Associa
tion, and Services Advisor for the
Gulf Oil Corporation, was based on
the fact that more than half of the
drivers involved in fatal accidents
in 1952 were violating one or more
traffic laws.
“Many of these accidents involved
violations of traffic signs, signals
and pavement markings, according
to statistics from the National
Safety Council,” he said. “If these
posted warnings had been observed,
the accidents might never have
happened.
For this reason the Texas Safe-
ey Association is cooperating with
the Depai’tment of Public Safety in
carrying out a traffic safety pro
gram in Texas during August,
based on the “Signs of Life” theme,
Col. Tilley said.
“The purpose of this program,”
he said, “is to bring to public at
tention the need for heeding traf
fic signs, signals and pavement
markings, the ‘Signs of Life’ de
signed to protect motorists and
pedestrians.”
Most frequent violations of traf
fic signs, signals and markings, as
listed by Col. Tilley, are:
1. Exceeding speed limit.
2. Failure to keep right of center
line.
3. Improper passing.
4. Disregrding warning sign.
5. Disregarding stop sign.
6. Disregarding signal or officer.
“Proper observance of ‘Signs of
Life’ will do much to cut the na
tion’s traffic death toll,” he said.
He also reminded drivers that
speed too fast for conditions, a vi
olation in itself, can destroy the
protection offered by signs.
“If the driver is going too fast
to see them, they won’t help him, of
course,” he explained. “Also, al
though the speeding driver may see
them, he sometimes is going so
fast that he does not have time to
follow their warnings.”
“One of the best pieces of safety
advice a motorist can get,” “Col.
Tilley said,” is contained in the
August slogan of the Texas Safety
Association and the Department of
Public Safety,” “Signs of Life—
Know Them, Obey Them!”
Entomology Croup
Tests Bug Poisons
New types of cotton poisons pre
pared by various chemical compan
ies are being tested daily at the
Bureau of Entomology and Plant
Quarantine laboratory located just
west of the campus. The tests are
being conducted under the direc
tion of Dr. E. E. Ivy supervisor of
the project and Mr. A. L. Scales
who is director at the laboratory.
Most of the field work at present
is in connection with boll weevil
and cotton leafworm poisons.
The tests are set up by spraying
or dusting individual cotton plants
with the new poisons and then
carefully encaging the plants with
a known number of insects. These
cages are then inspected daily and
the number of dead insects is re
corded. At the end of five days
there is a final check after which
the results are combined and re
turned to the chemical company.
With the use of this informa
tion the companies will know the
performance of the new poisons
and thereby can determine their
value as future insecticides.
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