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Battalion Editorials
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1954
Air Force Should Follow
Army Commission Plan
The Army-Navy-Air Force Journal’s es
timation that the Air Force will only accept
7,000 officers during the next fiscal year
makes the commission situation here more
doubtful than ever before.
This figure includes all officers, not just
AFROTC cadets. If the Journal is right,
this means that many students who would
have received commissions will not get them.
A total of 16,000 students taking Air Sci
ence will be graduated in June, according to
Air University figures. In December Air
University stated that it intended commis
sioning 8,500 of these students.
The December figure for AFROTC cadets
outnumbers this latest prediction which in
cludes all officers by 1,500. To meet the
Journal’s number, the cuts in student offi
cers would have to be great. And A&M is
only one college out of hundreds which now
offers Air Science.
The Air Force plans to give the surplus
graduates certificates of completion. These
students will enter the service as enlisted
men. After two year’s service they will be
offered a commission. But during those two
years, they wilf not hold the privileges they
expected when signing their contracts.
However army surplus cadets may re
ceive a much more attractive reward for
their ROTC training, according to the Jour
nal. The Army expects a 10,000 surplus of
students graduating from colleges this June.
The Army plan would commission these
students.. They would serve as \little as a
90-day indoctrination period. Then they
would go into active reserve units as civilians
for the remainder of their two year’s service.
It would be fairer to AFROTC students,
if the Air Force would also adopt such a
plan. Much of the trust and respect the
service has lost in colleges would be regained.
Blood Center Praises A&M
For Cooperation in Donating
The Waco Blood Center recently, praised
A&M for its cooperation in the November
blood drive. The compliments appeared in a
recent edition of The Longhorn Trail, pub
lished by the Center.
In that drive, A&M students and faculty
donated 258 pints of blood. Sixty-five of
these were used to replace blood from the
center used to save Cadet Charles Arnold’s
life. Arnold was seriously injured last se
mester in a car wreck near Waco.
The magazine stated that the center’s
work here “was a joy for the nurses, custo
dians and all concerned.” It explained that
the blood unit had more donors than it could
take.
“The operation was coordinated beauti
fully and the Bloodmobile crew is looking
forward eagerly to our next visit to College
Station,” the magazine said.
“The ‘esprit de corps’ demonstrated by
the students and faculty was in line with the
time-hallowed A&M tradition. Each stu
dent wished to be the one to repay for Cadet
Arnold.”
Another blood drive will be held March 2.
We hope the student body will show the
same interest that it did during the Novem
ber donations. No more worthy cause exists
than one which helps save human Inc.
Draft Laws - 10
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(Editor’s note: This is the
final of a slvYs of 10 articles
on the draft laws and hov. (hey
affect persons of draft age,)
Ignorance of the law excuses no'
one.
That is something everybody has
heard, and it applies to a draft
board’s deliberations abd"" actions,
as. well as to any other agency set
up to administer public law.
. The law make:; it thUt rer-ponsi-
bilily r" the individual registrant
to' do everything that live law re
quires of him. The law requires him
to do these tiling:; within a/e.ertain
time limit. If he doesn’t do them,
he can lose- many privileges and
rights given him under the law.
“It is the duty of every man re
gistered with a draft board to be
alert and protect his rights under
the law,” advises Brig. Gen. Paul
L. Wakefield, state director of se
lective service.
“Certainly it is the moral re
sponsibility of parents to have tneir
sons make themselves rv/nre t-f the
necessity of complying with all
provisions < f ftnv and regulations,”
he says.
“It is too bad that registrants,
parents, and .employers of ten sleep
on their rights until it is too late,
or extremely difficult under • our
regulations, to do anything about
their cases,” he says.
Wakefield says that sometimes a
registrant, parents, or an employer
never request a filling at tlv- hoar;!
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Registered men, parents
employers should begin to c
themselves about the selective ser
vice lav.- and regulations im
mediately after men register,
Wakefield points out.
The state draft director reminds
all registrants, their parents, em
ployers, public officials and citizens
in general.that the doors of Texas
draft boards are always open to
tell the people how to get informa
tion and help with draft problems.
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©Fet,. 5—Firestone Tire & Rubber
Company will interview spring and
summer graduates at all degree
levels- in business administration,
econo m i c s and agricultural
economics. They will be interview
ing at this time for prospective
sales trainees.
© Feb. 5-Airher-Danieis-Midland
Company will interview chemistry
(organic), chemical engineering
and business administration ma
jors. Chemists would go into
research work, chemical engineers
would go into plant operation and
manageme.nl. or process develop
ment and engineering -'70i k and
business administration m a j o r s
would go into sales.
Q Feb. 8—Graduates in the electri
cal, mechanical or industrial .engi
neering field:; at all degree levels'
nr be jntr ■ Vi ■ wed by Westnrn
Union Telegrap i Company. At this
time (hoy iur.e opening's in then'
Operating, Plant and Engineering,
Development and Research and
International Communications De
partments. Those openings are in
the south as well as in all other
major sections of the country.
® Feb. 8&9—-Chance Vought will
i n t e r v i e w 7 aeronautical, archi
tectural, civil, c-iedrieal and me
chanical'engine ring majors at all
de$fc-' levels, v ."id * ailyi rc d d i-
git:' 4 inf mathiSni&lfirj “f^pplicmits
will be consider."! for direct as
signment in their field::; of speciali
zation, and will be eligible lor
placement in diie of t!r:r training
programs of the Engineering
organisation to par! icionto in The
research, dsiign and devcioiuncnt
of military aircraft.
®Fcb. 3&9..— Monsanto Chemical
Company will interview men train
ed in njcohariicaJ or chemical engi
neering, or chemistry, at.all degree
levels who finish this spring and
and summer. They have available
some two-hundred positions of
various types for college graduates
at'all Monsanto locations with the
exception
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SAVED BY VET—Bobby Ray of Lubbock listens to the braathing of Terry, his pet
monkey, who stopped breathing for eight hours after a veterinarian had given him anes
thetic to pull some teeth. Three hours of pullmotor respiration by the fire department
failed, but another veterinarian, Dr. H. M. Byrd, applied artificial respiration and revived
the monkey.
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© Feb. 10—The Hughes Tool Com-
pHiiy will interview mechanical and
industrial engineering majorsjat all
degree levels who graduate this
spring or summer. College grad
uates arc first employed as Junior
Engineers with asignment to a
practical Engineer^ Training Por-
gram involving on-the-job training
in successive phases of product de
sign and manufacture.
® Feb. 10—The Sperry Gyroscope
Company will intelAievv graduates
at all degree levels in mechanical,
electrical, industrial and aeronauti
cal engineering, physics and mathe
matics. They have openings for
qualified men in such fields as
aerodynamics, chemical analysis,
electrical measurements, etc.
® Feb. 10 & 11-General Electric
representatives will i n t e r v i e w
spring andAn’.' Unor graduates rl
all degree levels, as follows: On
the 10th, chemical engineers and
.chemistry majors will be inter
viewed for various C. E. programs.
Also on the 10th, business admini
stration, economics and agricultur
al economics majors will be in
terviewed (’or candidates for their
Business Training, Course. On the
10th and 11th, elcctt i-tl, mochani-;
cal and industrial engine "ing and
physics majors will be interviewed
for various phases cf work with
G. E.
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civil and 'a-'r mauti il
majors at all degree
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Editors The* Battalion
Tonight, Tuesday, while at Silxcr
Taps we witnessed one of the most
discourteous acts a person can do.
This person wore his fatigue hat
while Silver Taps was being play
ed. Perhaps this was -due to
ignorance or to forgetfulness but in
either case we think that a person
should have more respect for the
occasion.
Jack Collins ’54
James Collins ’54
Joseph Robisheaux ’54
Tom O. Moisslcr ’54
NEW DELHI, India —CP) —A
gaunt, snarling lad dubbed the
“wolf boy” is providing medical
authorities in Lucknow with the
twin ■problems of keeping' him alive
and determining his background.
The Joctors said today the boy,
who walks on all fours, wolfs down
raw meat and laps water like an
animal, is 9 years old. With his
hair loiig and matted, he was
found mysteriously in a railway
freight car Jan; 17. Though def
initely a human, doctors conjec
ture that he was reared by animals.
The boy was removed to the Bal-
rampur Hospital in Lucknow, in
noflh-central India, where symp
toms of a serious circulatory ail
ment were noted.
Much against his will, he is being
fed cooked meat, milk, porridge,
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fruit juices and pancakes, as well
as the raw meat he likes.
Despite more than two weeks of
hospital care, however, he still lies
huddled weakly in his bed, giving;
an occasional snarl and trying t()|j
bite attendants. He cringes from
light. He shows little interest in
his surrounding until raw meat is
produced. This he devours avidly. 1 ?
The hospital superintendent, Dr,
D. N. Sharma, said massage wilH
be used in an effort to restore the
boy to normal human shape.
“Ho has serious contracture of
(lie muscles of the limbs and flex
ion at both elbow and knee joints,^®
Dr. Sharma said.
►Surgical reconstruction to enabli
him to walk upright is planned' ►
after the massage treatments build
up his physical sti'cngih.
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100 meeting, Tuesday, Thursday, Satflrdaii
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