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THE BATTALION .
College Station, Texas Thursday, March 10, 1966 V
Tales Of Yesteryear
Civilian Puzzled
At Military Life
By MIKE BERRY
Battalion Staff Writer
A fixture of every military or
ganization since time began has
been the Civilian-in-Uniform, the
Sad Sack. At Texas A&M, he
Transportation
Conference Set
March 31 - April 1
Methods of cargo movement
will concern shippers and trans
porters at the annual Transpor
tation Conference March 31-April
1 at Texas A&M.
Sponsored by the Texas Trans
portation Institute as an educa
tional feature for business and
industry, the conference will
center on business logistics and
effective service.
Approximately 125 leaders
from the transportation industry
are expected for the conference.
B. F. Biaggini, president of
the Southern Pacific Company
since 1964, is the first speaker.
He will discuss “Selling Trans
portation in a Customer Oriented
Market.”
Biaggini joined SP in 1936 at
Ennis and rose through engineer
ing and executive ranks to vice
president at Houston in 1955. He
became a vice president in the
executive department at San
Francisco the next year, and was
elevated to executive vice presi
dent and the board of directors
in 1963.
“Buying Transportation” is the
topic of William L. Robinson,
general traffic manager for
Sears, Roebuck & Company. A
Sears employe since 1947, he
worked in catalog sales, per
sonnel and retail departments
before taking his present post in
1957.
Luncheon speaker March 31
will be W. B. Johnson, REA Ex
press board chairman. The presi
dent and chief executive officer
of Illinois Central Industries will
discuss “Educational Require
ments in the Transportation
Field.”
has been variously personified.
He has been Fish Jones, Fish
Doodle, Fish Squirt, and now,
Cadet Slouch.
One of the earliest expressions
of the puzzled civilian mind at
the rituals of military life at
A&M is recorded in the May 22,
1919 issue of The Battalion.
A letter to the editor, begins
with an original, if unflattering,
salutation: “To Hon. Editor of
the Batty-lion which are a maga
zine greatly expanded with the
male cow.”
The correspondent allows a
modest revelation: “As you no, I
have just arrived in Hon. U.S.A.
for the purpose of detaining
much ignorance and other things
from Hon. A. and M. penny
tentiary.
“First, I would require to no,
why I called “Fish” when I can
not even swim?” begins the list
of grievances.
“My anecdotes are very much
over-come with large blows
which are very pronounced upon
me, and always because of
something I have did to Hon.
Gen. Principals of which I know
nothing.
“Why there a man who always
plays tunes on a brass horn for
us to do things by ? He also
leads the Hon. muskan company
in mellowde.”
In a unique perspective of the
ceremony of retreat, he writes,
“There are other men with brass
horns who make much noise at
Hon. Retreat when all listen for
Hon. Colonel to holler. When he
holler everyone stand still and
listen for him to say more . . .
This are a very happy company
for it are always singing when
it are going to eat! I am very
misstumpified at these things.
“Yesterday I eloped off to
Hon. Bryan city to see emotion
picture show which are great
mirth. I are been feeling much
confinement and dis-ease since
my girl so far absent she cannot
come to see me dance last week.”
Some things haven’t changed
very much at A&M since 1919.
Stone Age Relics Included
In Prof 9 s Tool Collection
VOTE FOR ANDY JACKSON
The slogan is suggested by a campaign tourchlight held by
Dr. Leslie V. Hawkins. The brass torchlight is one of 800
antique tools and gadgets collected by the industrial educa
tion professor.
Water. Sewage Association
Chooses New Officers Here
W. J. Weems of Abilene be
came president of the Texas
Water and Sewage Works As
sociation Wednesday during a bus
iness meeting at the association’s
short school here.
Weems, director of water and
sewer departments at Abilene,
succeeds W. R. Hardy of Fort
W orth.
A president-elect and four vice
presidents were named at the
meeting of the 4,500-member or
ganization. Secretary G. R. Her-
zik Jr. of Austin was reappointed
for the eighth year.
Haskell R. Street of El Paso
became president-elect. He is a
member of the Public Service
Board of El Paso Water Utilities.
Vice presidents are J. D. Henry
of Dallas, Hugh McPhillips of
Committee Considers
Senior Class Gift
The Senior Class Gift Commit
tee is meeting each week to
suggest a class gift to the uni
versity.
Class members with gift ideas
may contact Andy Cronk, Glenn
Dromgoole, Tom Murrah or John
Moore.
Port Arthur, James Pirkle of
McCamey and Gilbert O. Baird of
Taft. Henry is district division
supervisor of Dallas City Water
Works. McPhillips serves on
the City Water Department of
Port Arthur and Pirkle and
are water supervisors.
Herzik, state sanitation engi
neer of the Department of Health,
is only the second secretary of
the 48-year-old association. He
has been secretary since 1959,
succeeding V. M. Ehlers, who was
secretary the' first 41 years.
State Senator Jack Strong, who
discussed state water legislation
with the association, said only
statesmanship will provide the
answers to Texas’ future water
demand.
A Texas A&M industrial edu
cation professor teaches history,
and has ready-made training aids.
Dr. Leslie V. Hawkins collects
old tools.
From Mexico to Pennsylvania
and Oregon, Pakistan, India and
Saipan, the industrial arts pro
fessor has gathered tools. His
relics of bygone workshops date
from the Stone Age.
Part of his 800 specimen collec
tion will be exhibited in Hunts
ville April 3, at the annual cele
bration of the birthday of Sam
Houston’s wife. Mrs. Grace
Longino, Sam Houston Shrine
director, invited Hawkins to dis
play his ancient tools.
Scattered from here to yon,
stored in footlockers, cabinets
and closets at his home and de
partment, the collection is at
Hawkins’ fingertips.
The director of an annual
Texas Industrial Arts Associa
tion Conference held at A&M
points proudly to a wooden
treadle lathe, crossbow, bow drill
from India, gold pan from Ore
gon and a kerosene “magic
lantern,” forerunner of today’s
35 millimeter slide projector.
And he has chests full of saws,
planes, dividers, hand and bar
Mrs. A&M Contest
Slated Saturday
Thirteen finalists for Mrs.
A&M will vie for the crown Sat
urday night at a dance in the
Memorial Student Center Ball
room.
Finalists were chosen from 30
entries. Their identities will re
main secret until Saturday night,
announced Joy Cator, president
of the sponsoring Aggie Wives’
Council.
Mrs. A&M will receive a silver
tray, a bouquet or roses, a hair
piece, and a portrait. Two run-
nersup will be named.
clamps, chisels, screw-drivers,
hammers, planes and bolt
wrenches.
“Each of these things tells a
story of its own,” Hawkins com
mented. “Each item is a lesson
in history, a story of man’s
struggle to reach the ‘good life.’
“Each tool represents slow,
methodical progress toward pro
viding a better standard of liv
ing,” the states’ industrial arts
“Teacher of the Year” explained.
One gadget no completely-
equipped kitchen of the 1880s
would be without is described as
a “mechanical engineer’s night
mare.” The hand-operated gear
is fastened to a kitchen table and
automatically peels apples.
“The man who designed it
probably made himself a lot of
apple cider before he got it
adjusted,” Hawkins grinned.
He has a tri-square made en
tirely of wood, fastened together
with three wooden pegs.
“I don’t know whether nails
were unavailable, or whether the
builder was too poor to afford
them,” Hawkins mused.
Molding cutters, a type of
plane, fills about 100 spaces in
Hawkins’ collection. They were
constructed for 100 different
purposes.
“The tool was made for the
job to be done,” the educator ex
plained. Age of many of his tools,
such as the molding cutter, can
be generally ascertained. He has
a metal device, a shaper, that
took the molding cutter’s place in
1875.
Some items are still usable and
actually in use in old woodwork
ing shops. Craftsmen still use
the wooden plane, Hawkins noted,
because rosin in worked wood
sticks to metal planes.
In most cases there is no
method of determining age, origin
or value of the tools.
Only quick action has pre
served some items. A student’s
father was cleaning a shed and
found the “magic lantern.” It
was to be thrown away, but the
Aggie said no. He presented it
to his prof.
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For County Clerk:
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