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Page 6 TH^ BATTAlJQN Tyes^ay May A 20 Minute Ride Staff Member Becomes 6 FTP® I iger BOOKS WANTED • Sell Your Books For Cash ® We Will Buy Any Book That Can Be • We Are In The Market For Your Text Resold Anywhere In The U.S.A. Books © OUR PRICES-‘50% of List On Titles That Are To Be Reused Here. High est Available National W holesale Price On Dropped Titles And Old Editions BEFORE YOU SELL .... GET OUR PRICES The Exchange Store “Serving Texas Aggies” By JON KINSLOW Battalion Managing Editor Now I can say I’m a true Tiger because I have flown more than 500 miles an hour in a jet. It all happened Saturday gs a part of Bryan air force base’s celebration of Armed Forces day. Newspapers in this area were ask ed to send a representative to take a ride in one of the T-33 jet train ers. By casting of the black spot of death, I drew the assignment for The Battalion. Having never flown in anything more powerful than a souped-up automobile, I didn’t know just what to expect. I had heard that taking your first flight in a jet was the best way to start, since “you didn’t feel a thing.” At first I was puzzl ed as to just what that meant. Saturday morning I went to BAFB, complete with photograp her. When I reached the pre-ar ranged meeting point with Lt. Mc Carthy, who was in charge of the flights, all I found was several air force men standing around looking me over, like an under taker measui’ing a prospective client for a casket. I started to feel uncomfortable. We Get Outfitted It wasn’t long, however, until Lt. McCarthy arrived and they began to outfit us for the flight. The apparel consisted of a hel met resembling one used for play ing football and an oxygen mask. Straps were adjusted and screws replaced and then it was tested. For a test, an airman put his hand over the end of the tube and told me to breathe. Since he had his hand over the opening, this was impossible, so he decided it was all right, mainly because of the air force blue color of my face. From there we went to Base Operations for more flying gear. On the way over, I was told tales calculated, I suppose, to frighten me. If the ride over had lasted much longer, I might have been scared, but as it was they didn’t worry me too much. More Apparel Once in Base Operations we sat. And we sat some more. Finally, parachutes and seat cushions were issued and after a very quick check by the flight surgeon we were ready to go. Walking out on the flight line, all I could see was T-33’s. The pilot assured me he was most competen, since he had been fly ing jets for eight years. After what seemed a three-mile hike, we reached our destination, number 441. Laying his hand on the plane, the pilot said, ‘‘$100,000 of aluminum”. This sounded pretty substantial. Then came a short drill on the use of the parachute the govern ment had been so gracious to loan me. That part I memorized very thoroughly. Up the fragile ladder and into the cockpit—a tight squeeze con sidering the chute on my back. I settled down while I was given an- - Battalion Classifieds - BtJV, SEL1., RENT OR TRADE. Rates ... 3c a word per Insertion with a *6c minimum. Space rate In classified jectlon .... flOc per column-inch. Send all classified to STUDENT ACTIVITIES OFFICE. All ads must be received In Student Activities Office by 10 &.m. on the day before publication. • FOR SALE • '39 OLDSMOBILE club coupe. Good motor, radio, heater. $95. Contact room 208, Bizzell hall. MG SPORT CAR. Late 1952 model in excellent condition. 4-1210 or 4-7966. KENMORE WASHER. Must sell by Friday. B-2-X, College View. Good condition. Can be seen at APT. WASHER and wringer, like new, $20; 28'’ bicycle, $12; youth bed, $20; double bed, $30; 11 cu. ft. Philco re frigerator, $90. D-7-Z College View. Ph. 6-3093. BOOTS—Size 8% or 9. Calf 14%”, Serge, khaki, pink boot pants. Summer serge blouse, green blouse. Akard 8-214. (1) REMINGTON typewriter, 13”, elite type. Sealed bids will be received in the office of the Auditor, College Adminis tration building until 10 a.m.. May 24. 1954. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids and to waive any and all technicalities. Address Auditor, A&M College of Texas, College Station, Tex as, for further information. BENDIX Ecconomat washing machine, $50. B-12-D. PUREBRED Siamese kittens. Two months old. Phone 6-3893 after 5. BOOK SALE-—Spanking new original ed itions. 79c each. Three for $2.00, Shaf fer’s Book Store, North Gate. LUCCESE BOOTS. 10y 2 C-14i4 calf, $35; pink boot pants, 30” waist $10; Khaki boot pants, 30” waist $5. All of above worn one year. Immediate possession See anytime before 19 May. Thompson, C-15-C, College View. Dr. Carlton R. Lee OPTOMETRIST 803A East 26th (JhII 2-1662 for Appointment (Across from Court House) LOST K&E SLIDE RULE, David Cline printed under flap. If found return to M.E. office. • FOR RENT • ONE BEDROOM furnished duplex apt. North Gate. Available June 1. Con tact owner. 418 College Main. Phone 4-1197. LARGE three room apartment partly fur nished. North Gate. Utilities paid. $50 per month. 6-2332. FRONT BEDROOM, adjoining bath for weekend guests. Phone 2-7913 after 5:30 p.m. NICE front apartment, furnished, private bath and garage. Available June 1. Near East Gate. Ph. 4-8742. NICE THREE ROOM furnished apartment, just off A&M campus. Large cook rooms, plenty of cabinet and closet space. Nice furniture. Phone 6-3776 or inquire 601 Montclair by Southside grocery. FURNISHED APARTMENT near campus, utilities paid. 203 Fairview. Phone 4-9956. Furn ished 4-4364. 4-room apartment. Phone AVAILABLE June 1. Four rooms. Nice ly furnished apartments in College Hills, summer rates. Ph. 4-7666. • SPECIAL NOTICE • LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING or care for work ing mother’s children. Phone 3-6139. NEED CASH? Get our offer on the text books you don’t need. Shaffer’s Book store, North Gate. <m. ROSS (.OPGR NO 1300 A.F. * A.M Called meeting. Thursday May 20. 6:30 p.m. Work in M.M. Degree. Ed Madeley, W.M. N. M. McGinnis, Sec’y. TERRY’S ART SHOP Framing and Artist Supplies Pho. 3544 2617 Hwy. 6 S. BRYAN Official Notice All classes will be dismissed between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Thurs day. May 20, in order that faculty and students may participate in the Inaugura tion of President David H. Morgan. J. P. Abbott Dean of the College NOTICE TO JUNE GRADUATES At 8 a.m. Thursday, May 20, there will be posted on a bulletin Hoard in the Reg istrar’s office a list of those candidates who have completed all acadmic require ments for a degree. Every candidate is urged to consult this list to determine his academic status. H. L. Heaton. Registrar RENTAL caps and gowns for Faculty, of ficial delegates and candidates for de grees are now being delivered from the second floor of the Exchange store build ing. AT 9 a.m. THURSDAY. May 20. all un delivered regalia for the Inauguration will be moved to DeWare field house and can be picked up there. AT 5 P.M. FRIDAY, May 21, all unde livered regalia for graduation exercises will be moved to DeWare field house for delivery there. ALL PERSONS using rented regalia for the inauguration and who will not re use it for graduation are requested to turn in regalia at DeWare field house immediately following the Inauguration. ALL OTHER persons using rented regalia are requested to turn it in at DeWare field house immediately following grad uation exercises. ALL RENTED regalia must be packed and reshipped on the 10:18 a.m. train Sat urday. • WANTED • RIDE to New York City or vicinity, some time after May 26. Will share expenses and driving. Contact R. T. Foust, D-8- C College View. ADS FOR THE BATTALION Classified section. Buy, sell or trade quickly and easily. For service call 4-{>324 or 4-1149 • Blue line prints • Blue prints • Photostats SCOATES INDUSTRIES Phone 8-6887 firill onpiow £0 get out of the "n a hurry, Via the ejection jhis I also learned thorough- ally,, f would; hate to have the &edt 'it is some- a complicated procedure, |ig shot o’ut qf; a gun. On^^we were’ both settled, the pilot , f ^aved hist -artns and the ertgihe^tarted. We began taxiing down ffNe runway*, and I began to get tn£$feel °f a Tiger. Once we r4ache«^the end and were ready fdj’ tak^.ff; the cockpit was closed apd thei refrigeration unit was turned It seemed as if the tem- peratui,ve^dropped 50 degrees. Fastd!r j and faster the ground flteyi h^j.'l and soon we were air- b<i)fe. , • Bankihg away from the field, I noticed a ; '. lake, to the left of the plane. The pilot told me it was the Alcoa Aluminum plant. The First Roll Suddenly, the world turned up side down- and the pilot said, “Rolls easily, doesn’t it k ” Ap-*' parently £5. While we were high above the muddy Brazos, I asked how fast we were going. “About 526 mile per hour,” he said casually over the intercom. I thought that was pretty fast to be talking so casually, but I soon learned to get used to it. The pilot seemed to take great delight in doing all sorts of odd maneuvers. Each time he would complete one, he would ask if 1 was all right. Although it may have been a disappointment to him, I always managed to answer, “Yes.” Dive-Bombing Houses I was shown how to make a dive- bombing run and we completely “destroyed” a farmhouse and a railroad bridge. Each time we dived, the dive brakes shook the plane as if it was goin to tear apart. We did everything from a simple turn to a combination half loop- half roll. Still, not once did I gray out or get sick. (The captain later remarked that I had a strong stomach. ‘Had’ is right.) All too soon we were coming in low over the road in preparation for a landing. Then I felt the wheels touch and the roughness of the runway. We slowed, turned, and taxied back into our original position. I unhooked a maze of wires, buckles and straps and climbed out down the fragile ladder. The pilot shook my hand as if to doubt the fact that I had lived through it. The Happy Tiger Parachute in hand I strode away from the plane, happy with the feeling that I, the man who didn’t get an air force contract, had been a Tiger for 20 minutes. There was one thing I learned Saturday. One of the men at the base said, “This Tiger campaign is so much noise. It’s the good pilots that live long, not the Tigers.” TIGER HAT—Jon Kinslow, Battalion managing editor, is fitted with a flight helmet and oxygen mask in preparation for his flight in a T-33 Saturday. The flight was part of the Armed Forces day activities. DYERS'FUR STORAGE HATTERS 210 S. 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