The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 1943 Page: 4 of 4
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Skills developed in college labora-
tories and home economies kitchens
will be needed to help feed the Na-
tion this year as women who have
never worked before, and men who
can pool their time, are urged to sign
up for Far jobs, in food processing
plants. Most of the season comes
during the period of normal Summer
college vacations. Processing is one
phase of the program to produce the
food we need for victory, and gov-
ernment agencies are cooperating to
recruit workers for both farm and
plant.
Manpower is recognized as the
most important single factor affect-
ing the ability of the food process-
ors—canners, quick-freeze and dehy-
drator operators to pack this year's
crops for the needs of the armed
forces. Lend-Lease and workers on
the home front.
By taking jobs in food processing
plants nearest their homes or schools,
university students will be doing war
work that will assure the fighting
forces the food they will need and
the home folks the quantities allow-
ed them under rationing. A dearth
of labor at harvest time will mean
shortages next Winter.
Most of the 400,000 persons need-
ed at the seasonal peak this year will
work in canneries, but about 15,000
will be needed in the far-flung
branches of the 125 frozen food pack-
ing plants. Other thousands. will
work in the approximately 200 de-
hydrating plants, where fruits and
vegetables will be dried on a scale
never before attempted. The Army
this year wants large quantities of
seven dehydrated vegetables — on-
ions,, cabbage, carrots, beets, yellow
turnips, Irish and sweet potatoes. In
addition, workers WiJJ 'be packaging
dried cranberries, dehydrated ioma-
' to juice cocktail anq powdered soups.
The Army is also .using more, froz-
en foods, ahd has apked the proces-
sors to supply 71,000,000 pounds of
frozen vegetables. Governmental re-
quirements for canned goods also
will be extremely heavy. That should
indicate the need for the recruitment
of workers this year. The greater the
number of workers, the greater the
quantity of processed food available
for civilians!
Those who want to help their
country and supplement their in-
comes by working in food processing
will learn locally particularly
through newspapers and radio, ex-
actly where and when to offer their
services. In most cases the local of-
fice of the United States Employ-
ment Service will be responsible for
recruiting cannery and^ other pioces-
sing workers, and the county Agri-
cultural Extension agent will be re-
sponsible for recruiting farm work-
ers. Procedure will vary somewhat
in different places, but these agen-
cies will pull together in community
moblization.
By Joyce Pounds
How would you feel if you woke
up one morning and found you had
been made sweetheart of the Bomba-
diers of Group 17-B, Ellington Field.
(Most of us would settle for a squad
of Frankensteins nowdays.) Never-
theless, this honor fell on the pretty
little head of our own Ruth Arbuckle.
She is a mighty little gal to be given
such a big title, but she certainly de-
serves it.
Miss Arbuckle was selected when
transportation difficuties hindered
the arrival of the original sweet
heart from Providence, Rhode Island.
After taking one look at Ruth, those
cadets decided this old war was good
for something anyway. Friday night,
a dinner party was given at the Em-
pire Room in honor of their sweet-
heart. Her escort was none other
than the boyfriend of our unfortun-
ate Rhode Island girl—Ah, but we
will never tell!
Saturday morning, a staff car, full
of escorts took Ruth out to. Ellington
Field. There she shook the hands off
of all the Colonels and high officials.
(She just will not take "no?' for an
answer.from those WACS)..She vis-
ited the high points of thegpld, ex-
amining the day-room anJPthe PX
with great relish. In fact Jne was so
RUTH ARBUCKLE
excited she fell (
course) flat on her fae
anyway — a good-!
caught her (imaging
catch you, and all
ourselves out trying
Since the day was-'
ly. of
almost
&g cadet
ing a man
knocking
a man!.,
be so stren-
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uous on Ruth, it vpiB fortunate that
lunch rolled 'round* She waited in the
cafeteri* line o*OT'*lri6srf^lI Svith'
all the cadets an® was taken to her
Picture Dt
Set by Canfhsinile
Carolyn Wells, CamBktule editor,
announced Wednesday tllp all civil-
ian students must pay theifr$1.85 for
Campanile class pictures 0j| or be-
fore Friday, July 16. No mdpey will
be accepted at Maurice i Studios.
Those who have not paid balance of
the partial payment made, mf^it com-
plete the payment before Friday, or.
forfeit the amount down. Monday,
July 19, is the last day that sittings
will be granted.
Navy men may make full, partial
payments at the table this coming
week, or sign a promise to pay at
future date. Sittings will be granted
for Wednesday evenings, Saturday
afternoons, and Sundays. To secure
uniformity, navy pictures will be
taken in dress blues for V-12's and
dress uniforms for the NROTC's;
Appointments should he made as
soon as possible in Sallyport.
The staff of the Campanile re-
quests that those civilian students
who have appointments on Saturday,
July 17, report to Maurice Studios
at some other time. Since Saturday
is one of the few days that navy
trainees will be able to have their
pictures taken, it is desirable to re-
serve that day for the Navy alone.
reserved- table to eat. A huge cake
was placed before her which had
"Our f>weethetrt, Group 17-B" writ-
ten orf^HfKRuth said she had steak,
chocolate-cake, and ice cream among
other things—so, boys, if jjjjpur soup
is getting «s thin as ours is|it home,
I would join the air force!
After lunch, Ellington FieBi went
on parad6 for its sweethei
they all claimed her when the$|*saw
her). The parade grounds shoo^pn-
der the force of the marching
as the roar of motors over head
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the year
27 in the
will be
since the
Institute Engineering
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30 p.m. Tuesday, July
Engineering Building,
te regular meeting pi
lenior Commons is no long'
those
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er available. A speaker will be
vided. For the information of fr
men engineers (V-12 or civil
all old members, and transfers; the
Society plans to maintain its^rev-
ious schedule in providing Speakers
and programs of engineering inter-
est, cigars, parties (similar
before rationing), the ann
quet, and the awarding of
graduating senior member
trainees *!Bay attend the
even though these meetingspo come
during study hours. Dues will be ac-
cepted at the first "meeting. A table
will be placed in Sallyport at some
later datejfor the collection of dues.
The Baptist Student Union, each
day at 22:25, conducts a prayer
meeting ft) the B.S.U. office at Aut-
ry House*.;All students are invited to
attend. The club's social plans for
the futuffd include a hay ride and a
sWinjming* party. The hay ride is to
be given "to entertain the navy men
and will be held in Post Oak. The
exact date has not been set. The
swimming party will take place at
the River Oaks Country Club. Reser-
vations tcj attend the latter affair
can be made through the BSU for
50c a pefson. As soon as enough
reservations are made the date for
the latter will be set.
The Cdfrterbury Club will hold its
first meeting of the year next week.
Election Of officers for the coming
year wiBrbe held, and plans will be
worked out to . conduct Wednesday
night dances for the naval students.
All freshmen girls will be honored
by the Girls Club at a coke party to
be give| /^Saturday from 3:30 p.m.
to 5:30 pm. at Suzanne Tracy's home,
2306 Sha&espeare.
The &r?t meeting will be held next
Friday, ittly 28, at 1:16 at Autry'
House. All girls are invited, says
Mary Jane McNair, publicity chair-
man. '
luted her. Then they aU lined up, and
Ruth revised the forces in a ear
("You know like in the Movies," she
said). She presented a cup to the
best squadron of the month and
"hung a ribbon of another." (If you
can figure that last one out, you are
a better man than I.)
That night at- the Bombardier
Dance, held at the Crystal Ball
Room ,she was presented and asked
to make an impromptu speech. She
swears she did not hear anyone clap
for her (and if you have ever heard
Ruth make a speech, you would
know why). She said to tell you all
that they sent her an orchid. At to-
day's prices, it would take a whole
squadron to do it too. We are all very
proud of Ruth, even though we do
kid her quite a bit; and to all the
Ruths all over the world, who repre-
sent the sum of what our boys are
fighting for, I say good luck, good
looks, and keep 'em flying!
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Letters—
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wise member or rushee should know
that naturalness is the most desir-
able quality. And, as for the "seniors
going to beautiful pieces" and the
rushees with the "rubber-stamp
smiles," I am sure the seniors ap-
preciate the faint praise; and with
shortage of rubber, even rubber-
amp smiles should be in .demand,
iously though, much of the vi-
of the freshmen can be ac-
ted to the newness of the school
complete change from their
hoo|. lifei fi —'
odious comparison" that tWc
of the letter was so loath «o
is just that—odious. I ani
rmly convinced that anyone witfy
sense of duty and loyalty to his
country has been touched personally
by the existing war. But to return
to rushing—these rush activities are
only a part of a society's yearly pro-
gram. The club has as one of its
chief aims, the gift of a scholarship.
It promotes worthy causes—such as
last year's 'stamp and bond dance
and. the Stamp and Bond Wagon. It
contributes to needy institutions and
to the Community Chest.. Our gov-
ernment has asked us to ^ive freely
of our time and energy toward pro-
moting a successful war effort, but
it has always emphasized that it
wanted its citizens to continue their
lives as normally and as happily as
they could.
To carry out the suggestion to ad-
mit members a year later would
mean only a prolongment of the
present limited rush period. Rushing
would be spread over the span of a
year, and a practice of that sort
would be most unnecessary and cost-
ly.
Rushing has been greatly minim-
ized and simplified, but each has
The impact of war nuncd
suspension for the duration of a
number of college paptrs. Among
them are three diiltan.
The Daily Pennsylvania!*,, of the
University of Pennsylvania, closed
up shop with its issue of Friday,
May 14, six days after the Yale
Daily News announced its suspen-
sion. The Harvard Crimson has not
been published since May 27.
Yale University will publish a
bulletin in place of the daily, and a
committee has been appointed at the
University of Pennsylvania to as-
sume charge of "any periodical re-
placing the Pennsylvanian that may
be authorized by the University."
The Daily Pennsylvanian, in not-
ing its temporary passing .stated:
"With this issue the Daily Pennsyl-
vanian concludes 60 years of contin-
uous service to the University and
ceases publication until victory. Al-
though the students' official organ
survived the Spanish-American and
First World War, this greatest of all
wars has asserted itself so power-
fully on the Pennsylvania campus
that the paper has been forced into
inactivity along with many of the
other peacetime activities of the
students."
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V-12 Announces
Cadet Officers
The following cadet officers were
announced by the Navy to head the
second battalion: Battalion Comdr.,
H. M. Cron; Battalion Sub. Comdr.,
R. P. Adams; Battalion Adjutant, E.
A. Bartsch; Battalion Commissary
Officer, C. K. Fleming! Comdr.
(Third Company," G. M. GSfton; and
Comdr. Fourth Company, F. R. Con-
rads. Platoon Commanders are K.
W. Hayes, G. E. Cook, P. J. Jordan,
R. B. Johns.
\ The third battalion officers are as
fallows: Battalion Comdr., D. E.
Hawkins; Battalion Sub Comdr., R.
K. Tre.ichler; Battalion Adjutant, H.
E. Nixson; Battalion Communica-
tions Officer, R. B. Stelzer; Battal-
ion Chief Petty Officer, C. B. Malm-
berg; Comdr. Fifth Company, D. C.
Recjgrove; and Comdr. Sixth Com-
pany, J. H. Vogt. Platoon command-
ers are J. B. Mackenzie, C. L. Story,
R. C. Whealock, and R. A. Lawrence.
brought a gradual improvement of
the rush rules by the Tri-Lit Coun-
cil.
Sincerely,
James Barnes
President of EBLS
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