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ROOM 5, ADMINISTRATION BLDG.—2275 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 15, 1943- YOLUME 43—NUMBER 8.

Yell Practice To Be Held Thursday Night At 6:30

—Picture Courtesy Beaumont EnterpriseFOUR FIGHTIN’ AGGIES—Pictured above are Aviation Cadet Pete Cokinos, station­ed in Florida; Capt. Jimmie Cokinos, of the field artillery, Fort Bliss; Mike Cokinos, in officers candidate school, at Fort Sill; and Mike Cokinos, also of officers candidate school, Fort Sill; seated with their father in the background at their room at 947 Hazel Ave., Beaumont. The four fightin’ Cokinos are all graduates of A. & M. College.

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Four Brothers, All Aggies, Wear The Uniform of the United States-ArmyAggie Is Graduated

Bob Lowry, ’45, Accepted To West Point Academy

Pvt. Robert M. Lowry, ’45, has been accepted as a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., and is to be admitted to the academy July 1. Lowry, who was a member of H Coast Artillery while attending A. & M., has been at Camp Roberts, California, since he was inducted into the Army last month.

Entering A. & M. in June, 1941, Lowry had just completed his jun­ior year in electrical engineering when he was called.

Pvt. Lowry is to receive his hon­orable discharge from the Army this month and may get to visit his home ip Ballinger before going to West Point.

Extension Service Aiding in Soldier Relief Problem

Home demonstration club women in 19 central and west Texas coun­ties have been helping meet the recreational needs of service men in their vicinity. These 4,000 club women pooled their efforts through their local county home demonstra­tion councils to assist men who are patients at the Camp Bowie Army base hospital near Brown- wood.

In this program they successful­ly have followed the recommenda­tion of their state organization, the Texas Home Demonstration Association, says Maurine H6arn, district agent for the A. and M. College Extension Service, who supervises home domnstration work in District 7. All gifts were sent to the American Red Cross for dis­tribution.

Prom club women, the recrea­tion center of the Camp Bowie hospital has received eight card tables, two divans, four end tab­les, three smoking stands, two magazine racks, a floor • lamp, three serving trays, 13 pairs of book-ends^ flower vases, 26 waste baskets, and 413 ash trays. To provide reading matter, the wom­en furnished 118 books, plus two Bibles, and gave subscriptions to 15 magazines.

Supplies contributed for use dur­ing parties and other entertain­ments included 682 water glasses, 305 cup towels, 153 candy and bon bon dishes, and a variety of other utensils. Other recreational gifts were 50 decks of playing cards, a radio, 135 phonograph records, and 136 games including checkers, dom­inoes, jig-saw puzzles, chess, Chinese checkers, bingo, and cro­quet.

For the comfort of the patients, the women provided 58 lap robes, 77 pillows, 87 pillow cases, and 816 individual gifts, varying from sewing kits to hair tonic.

A. & M. Radio Club To Meet Wednesday Night, 7:01) o’Clock

All students interested in ap­pearing on the radio or in learn­ing to operate radio controls are invited to attend the meeting of the A. & M. Radio Club Wednes­day night at 7:00 p. m. in the WTAW studios, third floor of the Administration building. Radio experience is not necessary; freshmen are urged to be there.

The club will have a place for radio operators, script writers, announcers, and actors in short radio skits.

The meeting will be over in time for students to make CQ.

During 1942, American forces stationed in Australia and New Zeeland received through reverse Lend-Lease 80 million pounds of fruits and vegetables and 30 mil­lion pounds of beef, veal, lamb, and mutton.

From Carlsbad Air Field, Bombardier

Unique- anjong schools of the Army Air Forces is the naviga­tion school at the Carlsbad Army Air Field, Carlsbad, New Mexico.

Included among the graduates was Second Lieutenant John D. Mc­Donald, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. John D. McDonald of 1410 N. Queen St., Palestine, Texas.

Lt. McDonald recently received his bombardier wings upon grad­uation from the Albuquerque, New Mexico Bombardier School.

All students at the Carlsbad school—the only one of its kind- are commissioned bombardiers who came to Carlsbad to receive a special intensified course in “dead reckoning” navigation. With this additional training they are able to direct a plane to its objective and also drop the bombs on the precise spot most beneficial to the United Nation’s war effor.

The rugged course of study in­cludes athletics, military hygiene, first aid, and military drill, besides academic courses in meteorology, vectors, aircraft instruments, map reading, and map projections. The­oretical problems are worked out in the class, followed by practice bombing missions where the theory is put to the test of actual flying conditions.

Lt. McDonald is a former stu­dent of A. & M. College.

Precision sighting of Garand semiautomatic rifles in quantity production for the U. S. Armed Forces can now be done with mir­rors and without firing a shot through the use of a new equip­ment developed by the General Electric Company.

Officially known as an “Optical Rifle Sighting Gage,” the equip­ment will save up to 13 rounds of ammunition formerly used in sight­ing each gun, and will permit a girl to do the job in less than two minutes per rifle, about half the time it took two men by the old method. Moreover, the optical equipment requires less room than the average domestic kitchen, whereas sighting by firing requires a 100-yard rifle range.

When sighted by the optical gage, all the rifle “fires” is a light ray at a mirrored target approxi­mately six feet in front of it. The ray is caught by another mirror on the gage equipment at the op­erator’s eye level, and thrown onto

Radio “Hams” To Meet Wednesday Near Dorm 1 and 2

A general get-together of all hams stationed at College Station, whether in the Radio Operators, Radio Materiels, or other schools here on the campus, will be held Wednesday, June 16th, at 1900 be­tween Dorms 1 and 2. A picture of the group is to be taken for the American Radio Relay League’s Magazine “QST.”

A ham is a slightly eccentric individual who sits up all night re­designing and rebuilding his set and transmitter, commonly called his “rig,” and spends all day re­arranging his antenna, only to talk to somebody a thousand miles away for a few minutes.

The record of the hams of the nation during emergency conlmuni- cation situations that result from disrupted transihission facilities due to floods, earthquakes, sleet storms, and blizzards have saved thousands of dollars and very like­ly hundreds of lives. A large ma­jority of the eighty thousand hams throughout the United States are now engaged in radio or electrical work, either in the armed forces or on the home front in defense plants, radio schools and other war industries.

a ground glass screen in the image of a cross. Superimposing this image upon another cross on the ground glass correctly positions the rifle, and the gun is then sighted by adjusting its rear sight so that its shadow, magnified 25 times on the screen of a projector directly above it, is in the same relative position as the shadow of the front sight, similarly magni­fied on another projector above it.

The idea of the optical sighting gage was conceived by N. F. Barnes and K. R. Geiser of Gen­eral Electric’s general engineering laboratory. Mr. Barnes worked out the optics of the equipment, and C. B. Sitterson, another member of the laboratory, handled the me­chanical engineering for its devel­opment. The equipment was de­signed by William Fears, also of the G-E laboratory. Although the optical sighting gage was built specifically for the Garand rifle,

(See NEW SIGHTING, Page 4)

Beaumont and Texas A. & M. are descendants of the “Fighting Greeks” and are now either offi­cers or officer candidates in the United States army. Pete, 26, com­pleted A. & M. in 1939; Jimmie, 25, in 1940; and Mike, 23, this year. Andy, 21, entered the army a few months before completing his senior work, but will be given his degree. Mike was captain of this year’s Aggie basketball team. The two older Cokinos boys al­ready hold commissions in the va­rious branches of the army, while the two younger are in officer candidate school at Fort Sill, Okla­homa.

Their father, P. D. Cokinos, fought with the Greek army against Turkey and Bulgaria in the War of 1912-13. He came from northwest Greece to the United States in 1907. He left the “old country” because Preveza, his home town, was under Turkish domination at that time. He, like many other Greeks, came to the United States in search of free­dom.

Landing first in Galveston, Mr. Cokinos moved to Beaumont with­in a few months and remained there until 1912 when, accompa­nied by his two brothers, returned to Greece to help his native land against the Turks and Bulgarians. As soon as the war was over he returned to the United States, but went back to Greece and was mar­ried in 1915. No sooner than the marriage ceremony was over, Mr. Cokinos and his bride crossed the Atlantic, returning to Beaumont.

It was here all four of the boys, now wearing the khaki of the United States army, were bom. A daughter, Helen, is a student in Lamar College.

The Cokinos from the beginning were determined to give their children the best education pos­sible, so as they were graduated from the Beaumont city school system they were sent to A. & M.

The Four Fightin’ Americans came from a family that knows what freedom and liberty mean and are willing to defend these principles with everything they have.

“I only wish I had more sons to fight for this country,” Mr. Co­kinos commented. “I would be ashamed of any boy of mine who was not anxious to fight for his native land.”

STUDENTS HELP ON FARMS Sixty-nine Colgate students and

475 Naval Flight Preparatory School cadets are in a pool organ­ized by Colgate University to help on the farms this summer. Forty- four farmers in the Hamilton, N. Y., area will have their manpower problem lightened by the coopera­tive efforts of the students.

New Sighting Development Adjusts The Sights on Garand Rifle Without Shots

College Heads Are In Favor of Heavy Sports Program

What contribution do sports make to the war effort?

By an overwhelming majority, presidents, athletic directors and coaches of Texas colleges say it’s plenty, and not just because of physical development.

Many AnswersAnswering a questionnaire they

set forth many benefits and here are some of them:

1. Furnish leadership and initia­tive.

2. Agility, coordination and quick-thinking — military necessi­ties.

3. Necessary for morale of work­ers at home; help relieve the ten­sion for soldiers and sailors who follow their favorite sports via newspaper and radio.

4. Engender the competitive spir­it, a powerful factor in winning a war.

5. Help overcome the restless spirit so prevalent in wartime.

There were some who did not think sports make a cont ribution to the war effort. For instance H. W. Stilwell, president of Texar­kana Junior college, while favor­ing a strong program of physical training, through intercollegiate and interscholastic sports not only make no contribution but actually detract. President L. W. Hartsfield of Hillsboro Junior college marked “none” on his questionnaire.

Hartsfield added that he could see little reason for continuing in­tercollegiate athletics under the present emergency. “It seems out of line to attempt this part of the program in the face of the numer­ous restrictions which have been placed upon travel,” he wrote. “Undoubtedly, this is a violation of the spirit of the ODT program.”

The strongest recommendation in favor of sports as a contribu­tion came from Morley Jennings, athletic director of Texas Tech. Jennings said:

“I would dread to think of the physical condition of our youths had it not been for our competitive sports programs in universities, colleges and high schools. Al­though it is true that only the good athletes can make the teams, .the achievements of individual ath­letes and teams have inspired American youth of all ages to emu­late and copy, thus giving a tre­mendous, unplanned impetus for their physical development which has not been universally acknowl­edged. Of all the groups, the ath­letes are, with few exceptions, the first to enter the armed forces and a large majority are officers and leaders. Their competitive experi­ence has been invaluable in the present crisis.”

John E. Gray, president of La­mar college (Beaumont), said he thought sports contributed in giv-

To Be Held On Grass Beside Walton Hall

Thursday night there will be yell practice on the grass between Walton Hall and the Hospital. It will start at 6:30 and break up at 6:55 in time for everyone to get in for Call to Quarters.

John Thomas, James Landers, Billy Terrell, and Ben Fortson have been appointed to serve in the capacity as yell leaders for this first in a series of yell practices to be held this semester. Later on there will be an election to deter­mine the permanent leaders.

-E. E. McQuillert, class of 1920,

Dobie To Speak To College Professors At Banquet June 22

J. Frank Dobie, well known author and lecturer, has accept­ed an invitation to address the annual banquet meeting of the A. & M. Chapter of the American Association of University Pro­fessors. This meeting is to be held on Tuesday evening, June 22, and as in the past, will be open to the public.

Dobie has gained wide fame as a result of his work in the field of Texas and Southwestern folklore. He has edited the pub­lications of the Southwestern Folklore Society for many years and is the author of a number of books. Best known among his books are “A Vaquero of the Brush Country,” “Yaqui Gold and Apache Silver” and “The Long­horns.”

The AAUP always makes an effort to obtain a distinguished speaker for the annual banquet. In past years they have brought to the campus the presidents of the University of Texas, Rice In­stitute, Texas College of Arts and Industries, and the Director of the Hogg Foundation, as well as other well known Texans.

The public is invited to join in the welcome to Prof. Dobie. A good time will be had by all.

Horse and Buggy Era Returns To Campus

When President Erb of the Uni­versity of Oregon took decisive gasoline-saving action, and ban­ned the use of automobiles, stu­dents resorted to old-fashioned transportation methods. Farmers, it is reported, are swamped with requests for the use of horse-and- buggy, and now the borrowers gaily drive about town in Victor­ian style.

ing physical vigor and Competitive attitudes to the contestants but “necessity of morale for the gen­eral public is bunk.”*

J. J. Delaney, president of Schreiner Institute, agreed with Gray. He said he thought the con­tribution was “very little except to improve physical fitness.”

Rehabilitation Work In Tunisia Already Under Way With 0FRR0 Aiding Military

The Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations an­no unced today that its operations in Tunisia now have been central­ized at field mission headquarters in the city of Tunis.

Members of the OFRRO field mission, assisting the military de­tachment which has primary re­sponsibility for relief during the initial stages of liberation, moved into major cities of Tunisia im­mediately after cessation of mili­tary operations. Distribution of food and clothing to civilian popu­lations of Tunisia was begun in such centers as Sousse, Sfax, and Gabes even before the final Allied victory in Tunisia.

Fred H. Hoehler, Chief of Mis­sion for OFRRO in North Africa, appointed E. Reeseman Fryer to take charge of Tunisian operations. Fryer is assisted by a civilian staff of 10 OFRRO field workers, additional personnel assigned by the military, and national person­nel assigned by the local French

authorities. Paul W. Gordon, also a member of the OFRRO North African mission, is assisting Fry­er, supervising activities to assist the military in Southern Tunisia.

Fryer, who has been attached to the Tunisian mission since late last winter, was formerly Deputy Director of the War Relocation Authority and previously was Re­gional Director of that agency at San Francisco. Prior to that serv­ice he was General Superintendent of the Navajo Office of Indian Affairs at Window Rock, Arizona. His home is in San Francisco.

Preliminary reports from the field indicate that plans for dis­tribution of essential supplies to distressed civilians in Tunisia were executed close on the heels of Allied military operations in that area. While Gordon was co­operating with military authorities of the British and United States armies in Southern Tunisia and

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will be the principal speaker and will explain some of the tradi­tions and customs of -A. and M. to the new freshmen, most of whom have never attended an Aggie Yell Practice.

The band will be present and will play the Spirit of Aggieland, the Aggie War Hymn and other school songs.

According to Major Joe. E. Davis, Assistant Commandant, if this Yell Practice goes off al­right there will be several more this semester. One thing Major Davis stressed was that there shall be no running after it breaks up. The band will play the Spirit of Aggieland softly while the Aggies , will walk quietly back to their dormitories. During the speaking between yells and songs, everyone will stand up straight but when the yells are in progress, everyone will “hump it’ ’in true Aggie style.

Those freshmen who have never seen an Aggie Yell Practice are asked to leam as many of the yells and songs as possible be­fore Thursday.

This Yell Practice will be dif­ferent from most of iicse the upperclassmen remember from the past semesters, but it is ne­cessary that these changes be made in order to have the Prac­tices at all. As Major Davis, who is also an ex-Aggie, stated Sun­day, all of the Yell Practices held when he was going to school here were in this fashion and there was no humping except during the actual yelling.

The purpose of this Yell Prac­tice is to show some of the new students a little of the spirit that Aggieland has always been so noted for. It’^ success depends on the extent of cooperation of all and everyone is asked to do his best, because if this one is sat­isfactory there will be more to follow and the permanent Yell Leaders will be elected by pop­ular vote.

Methodists of State Raise Money For Church At A. & M.

Sunday has been designated as A. and M. Church Day” in Meth­odist churches throughout Texas when pastors will present to their congregations the need for ade­quate church facilities for Method­ist boys at Texas A. and M. Col­lege.

The proposed plant will have a church auditorium, of cathedral type, with a seating capacity of 850. In addition there will be a social center, an educational unit, and provision is being made to house four boys from the Method­ist home at Waco while attend­ing the college. Total cost of the structure will be about $125,000.

Bishop Frank A. Smith, Hous­ton, and Bishop Ivan Lee Holt, DaUas, will lead the campaign. Dr. Glenn Flinn, executive sec­retary of the Texas Weslyan Foundation, is state director, and will be assisted by a committee in each of the five Texas con­ferences of the Methodist church. The Fort Worth area committee includes Rev. W. Ward, pas­tor of Polytechnic Church, chair­man; Rev. Warren Johonston, First Church; Rev. L. Bowman Craven, Boulevard Church; Mel Faulk, and Judge John Speer.— Fort Worth Star-Telegram.