Show r 4 I The Student Life September 1948 Page Three Ag Military Unit Officials Eye Grows From Peacetime 24 to 1200 Cadets From 24 cadets to 1200 is the growth of the Utah State Reserve Officers’ Training corps during the past two 'years according to the biennial report of the U S A C military science department submitted to Franklin S Harris U S A C president by Col E W Timberlake ' the basis ot applications for admission to date at Utah State college officials predict an increase in registration for On USAC this fall They report that top - ranking national forecasters do not expect the peactime draft to cause a decrease in enrollment in American colleges and universities com- mandant period the During the two-yecorps of cadets has grown from a battalion to a regiment of' four battalions Quartermaster and air force units were added Sept 1 1946 and the curriculum for all ar Latest issue of me publication “Educational Trends” indicates that college students who are enrolled on or before Sept 22 of this year will be deferred for tTie entire scholastic year ROTC units expanded The- - publication also states that Among the 1200 men taking the best advice that school men ROTC last year at USAC 'yg can give to a young man worried was-foreiupany of middle-easter- n abut the draft is to plan their students numbering 75 school careers as if the draft law cadets were not in effect Education Plans ‘Superior Rating Department rating of “superior” Although the draft may disrupt was awarded to USAC and the the educational plans of many and were corps sponsors regiment young men education authorities authorized to wear a gold wreath point out that an even greater on their uniforms In the May number of men will be disrupted gone! The historic old huge brick chimney in the process of being by going 1947 inspection the highest rating Going anxiety uncertainty and “waitsmokestack at Utah State was tumbled The photo razed At the bottom is the work at the base to be called” Some eligible existing at the time “excellent” above and to the right some of the rubble afterwards ing arranged by Brunson Studio shows the was given youths may never be called by In both the 1947 and 1948 their draft boards for a variety the of inspections reasons Aggie regit ment and sponsor corps were Several frequently asked queschosen among the highest 10 tions concerning education and the (Continued trom Page One) of ROTC units in the nation and draft were answered by “EducaUSAC was designed as an “honhave been installed in the en- tional Trends” as follows: or” military institution A minor earthquake was recorded on the Utah State trances Q What are the conditions under During the biennium the USAC seismograph-when-thwhich students are deferred? Floor Improved huge brick smokestack crashed to military Science department has the Floor of the third story of the A A high school or other student ground ’south of the college heating plant graduated' and commissioned’ 200 ' ! Word is being renailed and asphalt in secondary school pursuing a fullspread through the grapevine of the campus that main reserve officers and will commistile laid A new hallway and of- time course of instruction may be chimney was to be toppled and a large crowd fice sion 250 reserve officers annually the 80-foin the com- deferred until the time of his grad-uato- n are hereafter Col Timberlake re- of college officials professors students and employes merce being placedAcoustic wall-bcar- d or until he ceases satisfacdepartment ported that since the college began gathered to see the old landmark fall is being installed on the torily to pursue such course or offering a major in military Among the spectators on hand4-waceilings of room with adding ma until he - attains his twentieth— science USAC students have rechines typewriters and other ma- birthday College students pursuing R O Larson college custodian ceived far1 more than their proporchines' satisfactorily a full time course tion of direct' commissions in the who also saw the chimney built of a Installation fireproof vault may be deferred only until the regular army among the 300 col- The little eld gentleman who downstairs and a proscenium on end of the academic year leges and universities in the Sixth came to USAC back in 1890 figimScientific Courses ’recent graduates of Utah the auditorium stage are other Four ' army area in old main ures that the smokestack was built Q Are college students who are provements State have been admitted to the Four buildings given enrolled in scientific medical or 1911 1912 about or was built While "It Worth Stanford graduate school of busi- to the temporary the Training government engineerng courses deferred as a by college Concerning the importance of right after the Smart gym” he ness administration at Palo Alto ere being repaired by maintain- group? military training Col Timberlake recalls “by the same contractor1 Calif according to Prof V D ance crews They will be used for No As in the last draft there stated “The physical training the Mr and ’Mrs J L Hunnel anc Gardner acting dean of the school veterinary science and forestry are no group deferments If the poise of body and mind the habits Ellie Napier of the International of commerce classes local board finds that a youth’s of discipline courtesy and respect Engineering and Maintainance Co They are Melvin Hulme Joseph Curbing has been installed in “activity in study research medifor constituted authority obtained of Salt Lake prepared the chimney A Anderson Boyd Christensen and front of the main and adjacent cal scientific or other endeavor is in the ROTC more than compen- for toppling in a period of three Louis Hickman buildings It will define' lawn areas necessary in the nation’s health or hours They removed Mr Anderson graduated from make the road safer and more interest” sate for the money time and effort and one-ha- lf that person may be de’ k the school of commerce in 1947 devoted to this form of training bricks from three sides of the and scenic and will provide better ferred Such a student must apply brick wall substituting The students of today trained for for the past several months has drainage to the local board for deferment braces to hold the weight been business manager of the the obligations of citizenship hold and his status as a student will Quonset Ilut in their minds the future welfare of the chimney L R Chumney state industrial school in Ogden A quonset hut will be erected have to be certifed by the school official of the company gave the Mr Hickman is a 1947 graduate behind the main for use and security of our country” by the Q Under what conditions are The military science building signal that lighted a fire in the of the school of engineering art department and another is ROTC members deferred? built in 1940 to house training braces Mr Christensen and Mr Hulme eing set up west of the technology A An individual who on June facilities for one ROTC unit with As the" fire was lighted in the were graduates of the class of building to be used as a 24 1948 was enrolled in the purchasing four instructors and 500 cadets braces and excitement rippled 1948 wai ehouse advanced course senior division has undergone interior changes in through the crowd Mrs Hunnel ROTC or naval ROTC is deferred the past two years to facilitate the calmly predicted when the chimfrom induction until the completraining of three ROTC units with ney would fail—and hers turned tion of his course so long as he 28 instructors and 1200 cadets as out to be the most accurate esticontinues satisfactorily to pursue well as an increase in armament mate his work These individuals howaviation and quartermaster equipThe old brick chimney with the ever may be ordered to active ment from the value of $400000 letters UAC near the top was a Military science students of Utah California UCLA San Francisco duty upon graduation to $500000 landmark in Logan for many years State took the lead at summer university Gonzaga University of An individual who after June encampments in Washington and Nevada University of Oregon 24 1948 is se!ectedfor ROTC or California according to Col E Oregon State college University of its counterpart of the air force or W Timberlake head of the USAC State navy is deferred until his graduaWashington Washington ROTC department He returned college and the University of Utah tion He must however make a an from written statement to serve for a recently inspection of as well as Utah State the ground force ROTC summer period of two years upon compleApproximately 50 Aggies Member camp at Fort Lewis Wash USAC their lieutenant’s commis- tion of his course students also participated in the sions at the close' of Fort Lewis Plssocided Golleftide Press Foreign Students air force ROTC camp at March comp on July 30 Two hundred Q Are foreign exchange students Entered c second class mail matter Sept 1908 aT Logan Utah onder the Air Force base Calif ethers will return to the college in the U S required to register? act of Mar 2 1870 Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage is in Sec Of the top ten men graduating for their final A They should go to their local 1103 Act of Oct 3 1927 year of ROTC be110-at Lewis Fort USAC News Rooms Campus Commons Building 110-Telephone Campus placed eight ginning’ this fall draft boards and establish the con’ 75 after 4 p m Wednesday telephone 50 Of the top ten graduating from Aggie students at both camps dition under which they are in this Mail subsciiption rate 5100 Student subscriptions from student body fees March base USAC placed nine maintained their per year high military country The local board will deWith one exception all 250 Aggies The Student Life is a member of the Associated Collegiate Press Representas reputation representatives of cide whether they should register ed for national advertising by Nationrl Advertising SStvice Inc enrolled were in the upper third an “honor college” according to Q Will selectees be eligible for “Letters to the editor" and all other contributions are welcome They of the Timlist Col Col in Timberlake In athletics and a “G I bill of rights” including graduating should be addressed to: Sludent Life Editor Campus and placed Campus mail box postoffice in The Mam postage free or left at the Student Life office said berlake military competition with cadets school benefits after their period in C ommons colROTC 1000 from other colleges EDITOR-IN-CHIEApproximately F LOUIS BATE they took of service? students received more than of the A The law says nothing about their lege share practical FAY BUSINESS MANAGER JONES fvld Lewis at Fort in some honors and training They Proof staff: Barbara Lamb Helen Coburn things swept G I benefits except reemployment were from Stanford University of the field the colonel stated rights to former jobs gn an-nu- al College Land Mark Crashes Causes Minor Earfhquake Building Plans e ot s -- Stanford Accepts 4 Ag Graduates -- foot-thic- two-by'fo- i ur Aggie ROTC Cadefs Garner Top Honors of Encampment Iht Student re-cti- ed A B - |