Page 4 College Station, Texas Thursday, November 15, 1962 THE BATTALIC^N
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Rings Have Many Stories 'I’o Tell
Aggie rings stolen or lost
have been recovered years later
in strange ways.
A&M rings have been recover
ed in foreign nations, various
states of this country and at
scattered points in Texas.
Take the case of the stolen
ring found beside the body of
a dead Chinese soldier in Korea
in 1953. The owner of the ring
lived in Corpus Christi and had
not seen his Class of ’45 ring
since it was stolen in 1952. The
Aggie said he put the ring in
his wife’s purse prior to going-
on a fishing trip and the purse
was stolen from their car.
A tribute to the Aggie ring
and the way Aggies feel about
it was paid by W. L. White in
his book, Queens Die Proudly.
The book wp.s published in 1943
and tells the story of a group of
B-17 Flying Fortress bombers
and their crews during the earl
iest days of World War II.
Army Air Fox-ce Officer
Frank Kurtz tells in the book
of his thoughts upon seeing his
bomber crew, including an Ag
gie, dead beside their gutted
B-47 at Clark Field in the Phil
ippine Islands. The Aggie was
Lt. Arthur Edward Cary, a
member of the Class of 1940,
who was co-pilot of “Old 99,”
as they called the plane.
“So I went down to the line
for the last time alone,” Kux-tz
said later, “and took from each
the thing I thought he valued
most . . . And when I came
to Tex (Gary) at the end of the
line — it had to be his A&M
ring, the thing he was proudest
of, and I knew he’d want to
send it to his mother.”
Another Aggie serving his na
tion during World War II left
his ring with his wife before
going overseas. Shortly after,
her purse was stolen. It was
in July of 1951 that a fornxer
student spotted the ring, learn
ed the man had no right to wear
the ring, recovered it and sent
the ring to the rightful owner.
It was not an Aggie but a
man living not far from the
campus who found a ring near
the Continental Divide in the
Colorado Rockies. The Bryan
resident found the ring while he
and his family vacationed in
Colorado.
An Aggie had lost it while
enroute to the West Coast. He
told the Association of Fox-mer
Students office that the ring
slipped from his fingers while
he and his wife played in the
snow.
“We searched the area for
about four houx-s trying to find
it,” the Aggie wrote to J. B.
Hervey, executive secretary of
the association.
There are stories from Wox-ld
War II days when the ring serv
ed as an important means of id
entification when an Aggie —
and some 20,000 of them were in
the armed forces — moved into
a new unit.
A tx-uck driver from South
Carolina wrote recently to the
office of Dean of Students J.
P. Hannigan to report finding
a ring at a truck stop in Nfew
Jersey. “The man said he had
known Aggies and knew what
their rings meant to them and
wanted us to find the owner,”
Mrs. Laura B. Bx-ady, the dean’s
secretary, explained. And they
did jxxst that, returning the ring
to its rightful owner.
Lt. John E. Harris of the
Class of ’42 was piloting a B-17
on a bomber mission to Stutt
gart, Gernxaxxy, in the spring of
1944 when whis plane was at
tacked by German fighters.
Shortly after the plane exploded.
It was after V-E Day that
U. S. Army personnel visited
the swamp where the bomber
crashed.
The remains of Lt. Harris
and two other crewmen were re-
tux-ned iix a common casket and
buried in the National Cemetery
in Louisville, Ky.
Mrs. Harx-is still mourned the
loss of her son and pondered the
question of where was the ring
which he always wore.
The years passed and in the
spring of 1952 a missionary re
turning from Africa wrote to
her. He told of meeting aboax-d
a ship a Methodist minister
from Latvia whose son-in-law
lived in Germany and, while sal
vaging the wreck of a bomber,
found an Aggie ring. The mini
ster explained that due to cus
toms regulations, they had not
sent the ring to the U. S.
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By Considering
Change In Maj^
Do those midsenxester grades
have you wondering if you want
to be a scientist after all ? Or a
mathematician, an engineer or
whatever ?
You are not alone.
“Half of all college freshmen
will change their vocational ob
jectives at least once during their
college career,” Dr. Lannes Hope,
assistant professor of psychology
and a member of the Counseling
and Testing Center staff, said Wed
nesday.
“Many students will change their
vocational objectives two or three
times.”
A basic fact which Center Direc
tor S. A. Kerley, Hope and others
strive to get across to freshmen
is that ample help is available for a
student whose midsemester grades
leave something to be desired.
“The first step,” Hope said, “is
to vex-ify if the student is doing
Kail, Bus, Boat
Federal Tax
Now Dropped
WASHINGTON (A*) _ The 10
per cent federal tax on rail, bus
and boat fares passed out of
existence at midnight Wednesday
and a similar levy oh air fares
was cut in half. As a result,
travelers can expect to save near
ly $150 million a year.
The Eastern x-ailroads and some
bus lines will boost their fares to
offset the tax change. But all air
fares will remain aL current lev
els, at least for the present.
As a result of the tax changes,
voted by Congress last summei-,
the government will incur a rev
enue loss of about $170 million a
year. Savings to the public will
be less, however, because of pax - -
tially offsetting fare increases.
THE TAX was first imposed dux--
ing World War II to raise rev
enues and at the same time dis
courage nonessential use of over
loaded tx'ansportation facilities.
It was kept on the books long
after the war because it was a po
tent producer of income. Re
ceipts from the passenger fax’e
tax have totaled nearly $4.5 bil
lion since 1941.
While the tax on rail, bus and
boat travel will be completely
eliminated, the 10 per cent air
travel tax will be replaced by a
5 per cent federal “user charge.”
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poorly because of less thanavem ■ a
ability, poor high school prepaii laffi
tion or bad study habits.”
ATTENTION CAN be ceia
ed upon helping the student
develop a “realistic appraisal]
his abilities and interests”
the first step is completed.
A number of sources of help!!
the student are on campus an
begins matching abilities andBe
terests with “picture profile; •
the requirements of jobs.” »dl
Helping the student to iin bag’
through time-tested instrument;®^
tests basic facts about his per;:®^ 1
ality pattern is a key step, ft® 0111 "
involves the student taking ser;t®
one-hour tests. B $2
“The emphasis is upon the ;!i® r t s
dent doing his own thinkinpj l rov
simply supply the facts,” Hi
said in discussing the role of til
counselor. j | r °j (
The results of the vocationalpi
ference inventory test taken gJ
ing the summer and result;j
the additional tests are explaq
to the freshman.
“Don’t expect to imraedia!|
change all of your vocational pk
' T 'ake your time.” This is key a
vice from Kerley, Hope and otle
concerned with vocational cotr;:
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Display In MSC
Features Painting
Bronze Sculpt®
Ten oil paintings and seventa
ze sculptures by artists Fredritb
mington and Charles M. Russell £
currently on display in the lobbli
the Memorial Student Center.
The exhibit will continue throij
Dec. 10.
Sponsored by the MSC creatn
arts committee, the art collect*
belongs to the Amon Carter 111
eum of Western Art in Fort
The selected works from 1
mington and Russell include see*
captured by the artists from tk
tours of the Old West, Bill ®
creative arts committee add;!
pointed out.
Hite said public school state
in the area have been invited to’
the art work.
Russell’s works include “l 1 *
for Wild Men” in bronze and‘H
dicine Man” and “Meeting in
Blizzard” in paintings.
Remington is represented w
seven paintings and six hr®
sculptures. Included are such 51
known oils as the “Horse’s m
“The Old Stage Coach” and “IW
Up Your Hands.”
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