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THE
BATTALION
Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 131: Volume 58
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1959
Price Five Cents
65 High Schools Represented
Journalism ‘Shop’
To Open Monday
Three hundred and forty-seven
delegates from sixty-five high
schools in forty-four cities of Tex
as will begin registering Sunday
for the first annual High School
Journalism Workshop, Aug. 10-14.
Delegates will be here from all
over the state with the largest
concentration of students and
teachers from the Houston, San
Antonio and Fort Worth areas. One
delegation will come from Broad-
us, Mont.
Presented by the Department of
Journalism and the Department
of Education and Psychology, the
workshop is co-sponsored by the
Texas Daily Newspaper Assn, and
the Texas Press Assn.
Two sections are scheduled for
the workshop which will open with
a luncheon at 12:30 p.m. Monday,
Aug. 10, and close with a luncheon
and graduation exercises at 12:30
p.m. Friday, Aug. 14.
One section, under the guidance
of Mrs. Edith ‘King of San An
tonio College, will be concerned
with school newspaper problems.
The second section, which will be
led by Dr. Otha Spencer of East
Texas State College, will cover
yearbook planning and produc
tion.
“This will be a concentrated
course of instruction in funda
mentals of high school journalis
tic work,” Prof. Donald D. Bur-
chard, head of the A&M Depart
ment of Journalism and director
of the workshop, said.
Delegates will be incoming staff
members of school newspapers
|md yearbooks, and their teachers.
Most of the students will be sen
iors.
Leading newspaper men will dis
cuss their specialties and then
confer with the students and
teachers on ways to adapt these
professional principles to the
school field, Burchard explained.
Among the newspaper men who
will participate in the workshop
are Phil North, vice-president of
the Fort Worth Star Telegram
and president of the Texas Daily
Newspaper Association; Murray
Neal, city editor, Waco News-
Tribune; Bill Rives, sports editor,
Dallas Morning News; James Wag
ner, managing editor, Houston
Press; Jack Donahue, managing
editor, Post, and Betty Rose Crav
ens, women’s editor, Houston
Chronicle.
Gen. O. P. Weyland
. leader of men retires
Gen. O. P. Weyland Retires
After Thirty-Six Years Duty
Gen. O. P. (Opie) Weyland,
Commanding Officer of the Tacti
cal Air Command, one of the na
tion’s top military officials and
a product of A&M, retired last
Friday, July 31, after 3G years of
distinguished service to his coun
try.
Gen. Weyland was the speaker
for the commissioning exercises
held here last June.
Born in Riverside, Cal., Jan. 27,
1902, Weyland, graduated from
A&M in 1923 with a bachelor of
science degree in mechanical en-
ginlering. In 1945 A&M conferr
ed ^n honorary LL D. upon its
honored and distinguished former
student.
Gen. Weyland was commissioned
a second lieutenant in the Air Re
serves in 1923 and was assigned
to the 12th Observation Squadron.
In 1927 he became an instructor at
the advanced flying school at Kelly
Field where he served until 1931.
Recorder
Featured
A unique musical instrument,
the recorder, and a well-known
local pianist will combine for the
seventh presentation of the Mem
orial Student Center Summer Mus-
Champs Crowned
At Tennis Tourney
The third annual Recreation
Council Summer Tennis Tourna
ment came to a close Saturday as
the remaining singles’ title and
nine of ten doubles’ championships
were decided.
The final doubles division was
called because of darkness and
will be played Tuesday.
Mike Mills and David Riedel
teamed to down a team of Mark
Riedel and Rick Crow 6-1, 7-5 in
the finals of the boys’ doubles
while Jackie Barton and Vicky
Vrooman defeated Pat Calliham
and Nancy Jones 6-3, 6-2 in the
girls’ division.
Ronny Bolen and Joe Joyer used
6-2, 6-2 scores to eliminate Jim
Mills and Bobby Whiting in the
12-13 year old division as Sharon
Yeager and Kim Alexander down
ed Miss Vrooman and Miss Barton
6-4, 6-1 in the girls’ division/
Jody Rush and Joe Joyer picked
up the 14-15 division crown when
they defeated Bryan Coon and
Tommy Kerley 6-4, 7-9, 6-3. In
the girls’ division Judy Morgan
and Eleanor Worley took the title
from Miss Yeager and Miss Alex
ander 6-2, 7-9, 6-3.
Rush teamed with Bolen in the
16-18 division to defeat Andy An
derson and Tomy Wilson 6-2, 6-1
while Elaine Nedbalek and Mar
garet Chapman proved too much
for Jane Fisher and Linda Potts
by a 6-1, 6-2 count.
In the Veteran’s division, Jack
Scott and Tex Isbell defeated R.
W. Mitchell and Robert Budwine
6-4, 6-4.
The senior division, 19-29, is as
yet undecided. When darkness
halted play, Don Avera and Rush
were meeting Bill Lyons and Dan
Shaefer with the scores posted of
1-6, 6-2, 7-7.
The 16-18 girls’ singles crown
went to Margaret Chapman by a
5-7, 6-3, 6-4 win over Elaine Ned
balek.
Artists, Pianist
in MS C Sunday
ic Series at 4 p.m. Sunday in the
Main Lounge.
Recorder artists will be Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Hostetler and
Joanne Hertzler. Sarah Watts will
present a piano recital.
Accompanying Hostetler on sol
os will be Mrs. H. A. Luther. MSC
Directorate hostess for the after
noon will be Myrna McGuire.
The instrument to be used by
Mr. and Mrs. Hostetler and Miss
Hertzler is a musical instrument
of 12th century origin. Until the
development of the - transverse
flute in the later part of the 17th
century, the recorder held undis
puted position as the flute in com
mon use. In Handel’s sonatas as
well as in music by Bach, when the
term “flute” is indicated, the music
is intended to be performed on the
recorder.
The term “recorder” is from an
old English verb meaning “to war
ble like a bird.” Known for its soft,
sweet and melodious sound, the
recorder has a range of a little
over two octaves.
The three recoi’der artists are
graduates of Goshen College in
Goshen, Ind., with Mr. and Mrs.
Hostetler holding degrees from
other colleges as well. Mrs. Host
etler received a B.A. in Education
degree from Goshen and her Mas
ter’s from Ball State Teachers
College in Munice, Indiana.
Holding a Bachelor of Arts in
Music degree from Goshen, Host
etler received his Bachelor of
Science and Master of Science de
grees in Home Economics from
Purdue University. He is now em
ployed by the Home Economics
Department of the Texas Agricul
tural Experiment Station.
Miss Hertzler is a 1958 grad
uate of Goshen College and Gosh
en College School of Nursing with
two degrees, a Bachelor of Science
in Elementary Education and a
Bachelor of Science in Nursing
Education.
All three musicians participated
in music activities while in college.
They became interested in playing-
recorder after hearing the Trap
family in Goshen, and since that
time have played with several
chamber groups in Goshen and
Lafayette, Ind.
Miss Watts, a Bryan resident,
holds a Bachelor of Music degree
from Baylor University, where her
major field of study was piano.
She has also done two years grad
uate work and was an instructor
two years at Baylor. She now
teaches piano in Bryan.
For her program Miss Watts has
selected “A Sigh” by Liszt, Chop
in’s “Waltz in C Sharp Minor” and
“Postludium” by Dohnanyi.
The final summer program will
be presented by Carolyn Wilson,
soprano, and Charles Mitchell,
Jr., baritone, Sunday, Aug. 16.
Sarah Watts
. . . pianist
‘Filthy’ Magazines
Abashed at Meeting
Mrs. William E. Kidd, a local
housewife, spoke to the College
Station Kiwanis Club Tuesday in
the Memorial Student Center on
the bad influence of “filthy” mag
azines sold in the College Station
area.
Mrs. Kidd asked the Kiwanians
to back a possible city ordinance
that would do away with the mag
azines. After investigating a num
ber of the magazines the Kiwan
ians agreed to back such an or
dinance. .
Richard Vrooman, professor in
the Division of Architecture, head
ed the weekly program with a
talk on “Interior Decoration.”
In 1937 he attended the Air
Corps Tactical School at Maxwell
Field, Ala. From 1939 to 1941 he
was assistant to the chief of Avia
tion Division in the National
Guard Bureau at Washington, D.
C. He later served as commanding-
officer of the 16th Pursuit Group
in the Panama Canal Zone.
In Nov. 1943 he went overseas,
now a brigadier general, as coifn-
manding general of the XIX Tact
ical Air Command. In all, Gen.
Weyland participated in six major
campaigns of World War II.
Gen. George S. Patton, who was
a close friend, referred to Gen.
Weyland as “the best damn gen
eral in the Air Corps.”
In June, 1945 he was named
.Assistant Commandant of the
Command and General Staff
School at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
After the reorganization of the
Air Force as a separate part of
the armed forces, Gen. Weyland
became USAF Director of Plans
and Operations in 1947.
It was during the Korean con
flict when Gen. Weyland com
manded the United Nations Air
Forces that he received his four-
star generalship.
He guided and assisted the Jap
anese in the reorganization of
their air force. Through this su
perb work he became known as
“the father of the New Japanese
Air Force.”
In 1954 Gen. Weyland assumed
the position of Commander of Air
Tactical Command.
He is married to the former
Katheryn Houston McFarland of
San Antonio and Houston. They
have one daughter, Mary Kathryn
who is married to Lt. Benjamin
E. Tabler of the U. S. Navy.
Legislature Passes
Appropriations Bill;
College Gets Increase
Work Begins
On Highway
Next Week
The Texas Highway Department
has announced that construction
will begin next week on Loop 158
(East 25th Street) beginning at
State Highway 21 and continuing
to State Highway 6 (College Ave
nue) in Bryan.
The construction will consist of
grading, storm sewers, curb and
gutter, adding flexible base and
resurfacing with hot-mix asphaltic
concrete pavement. When com
pleted, the highway will be 64
feet wide and will provide for
four through lanes and a parallel
pai’king lane along each curb.
A similar type section was re
cently constructed on Texas Ave
nue. The Texas Highway Depart
ment, and the contractors, R. B.
Butler, Inc., Bryan, and the Jar-
bet Company of San Antonio, ex
pect the project to be completed
by late winter.
C. B. Thames, District Engineer
of the Texas Highway Department
in Bryan, explained that through
highway traffic on Loop 158 will
be detoured and routed along San
Jacinto Avenue (State Highway
21) and College Avenue (State
Highway 6) during cnstruction of
the project. Route signs will be
installed by the Texas Highway
Department along the detour
route.
$81,944 More Seen
For Next Two Years
The general revenue appropria
tion bill for the next two years,
reported out of conference com
mittee Wednesday afternoon and
approved by the Senate passed by
the House of Representatives to
day.
An analysis of general revenue
appropriation provided in the
bill, for the coming year (1959-60)
as compared with the current year
(1958-59), for those parts of the
Dean Hannigan
Honored Recently
James P. Hannigan, Dean of
Students at A&M, was recently
honored at a ceremony at Fort
Sam Houston in San Antonio at a
ceremony celebrating his retire
ment from the Armed Forces on
July 4.
Hannigan will begin his duties
at A&M tomorrow. He will be in
charge of coordinating student ac
tivities with Col. Joe Davis, Com
mandant of the Corps, and Bennie
Zinn, Director of Student Person
nel Services.
The ceremony in his honor end
ed thirty years of service that
Hannigan gave in the Armed For
ces.
When he assumes his position
at A&M he will reside at 411
Crescent St. in Bryan with his
wife, Doris, and their two sons,
James and Thomas.
Texas A. and M. System headquar
tered here, follows.
System offices, $236,833 from
$236,833, no change; A & M
College, $4,767,769 from $4,685,825,
increased $81,944; Agricultural Ex
periment Station, $2,109,489 from
$1,818,279, increased $291,210; Ag
ricultural Extension Service, $1,-
516,353 from $1,203,583, increased
$312,770; Rodent and Predatory
Animal Control, $304,000 from
$304,000, no change; Engineering
Experiment Station, $275,727 from
$228,500, increased $47,227; Engi
neering Extension Service, $116,-
341 from $116,341, no change; Tex
as Forest Service, $804,480 from
$766,171, increased $38,309.
Council Discusses
CS Streets, Lights
The City Council covered sev
eral important business items at
its July meeting Friday night, -in
cluding action on the street im
provement program, the partial re
modeling of the City Hall build
ing, and the installation of two
traffic signal lights on Highway
6.
The Council awarded the con
tract for paving and widening Lee
Street to Porterfield Asphalt Co.
of Bryan for $18,099, the lowest
of two bids received. The other
bid was for $21,141.25 from Jar-
bet Co. of San Antonio.
Work began on this project lit
tle more than a week ago when the
Tankers Continue
Top Performance
Art Adamson’s College Station
Swim Club members made a good
showing at the Gulf Assn. Jr.
Olympics which was held at the
Dad’s Club in Houston last Wed
nesday and Thursday.
In the midget division Dianne
Bell, Virginia Patterson, Martha
Lawrence and Kathy Myers took
first place in the 100 yard medly
relay. The team broke the old
record and set a new time of 1:
21.7 and later bettered its own
record to 1:21.5.
Paul Fagan, David Brusse,
Scott Hervey and Stephen Henry
took third place in the 100 yard
free relay.
Dianne Bell won third place in
the 25 yard backstroke and Kay
Callahan ranked third in the 25
yard butterfly. Iran Coi-busier
followed Dianne Bell with a fourth
place in the 25 yard backstroke.
The fourth place 100 yard re
layers were Dianne Bell, Kathy
Myers, Kay Callahan and Ma,rtha
Lawrence.
Virginia Patterson took fifth
place in the 25 yard breaststroke.
The junior division, composed of
12 year olds and under, got its
share of winnings.
Babara Ewens, Suzanne Medlen,
Sharon Covey and Quxie Doi’an
took fourth place in the junior di
vision of the 200 yard medly re
lay. Charles Castle, Tommy Ka-
han, Bi’uce Riggs and Renn Law
rence also took a fourth place in
the 200 yard medly relay.
Sharon Covey placed fourth in
the 50 yard butterfly and fifth
in the fifty yard freestyle.
Charles Castle took fifth in the
fifty yard backstroke.
All divisions of the swim club
will participate in the Golfcrest
International. Swimming Meet at
Houston this Friday and Satur
day, Aug. 7-8.
Coach Adamson said that he is
sending 51 members which will
represent the midget, junior, inter
mediate and the senior men and
women’s divisions.
city spent sevei'al days clearing
trees and other obstructions from
the Lee Street right-of-way.
In other street business City
Manager Ran Boswell reported to
the Council that only 57 per cent
of the necessary money has been
collected thus far for the Walton
Drive and Kyle Avenue project.
The Council authorized the ad
vertisement for bids for this pro
ject, and also ordered that letters
be written to those who have not
paid their share for the improve
ments.
The last item of street improve
ment business on the agenda was
the acceptance of five new street
improvement petitions. The Coun
cil directed the City Manager to
contact property owners involved
in these proposed projects to see
how many will be able to pay cash
for the improvements.
Concerning the partial remodel
ing of the City Hall building, the
Council accepted a bid of $7,900
from the B. and W. Construction
Co. of Bryan for the improve
ments.
The project includes the con
struction of a council room and
two new offices in the present
building. The three new rooms
will be built into space now used
for equipment storage.
Three other bids were received
for this project: Andrews and Par
ker for $8,300; L. V. Haltom $8,-
263, and Marion Pugh Lumber Co.
fr $9,564.70.
In the discussion of two new
traffic signal lights for Highway
6, Mayor Earnest Langford 'bold
the Council that A&M College had
agreed to install the signals if the
city would pay for them.
The Council had in hand an of
fer for the type lights recommend
ed by the State Highway Depart
ment for $11,326. The Council vo
ted to advertise for bids for the
lights, then to accept the $11,326
offer if a lower bid is not made.
A&M Experts
To Attend Meet
Of Ag Teachers
Agricultural specialists from
A&M will take an active part in
the conference for Vocational Ag
riculture Teachers to be held in
Fort Worth, next week Aug. 11-14.
Mm-e than 900 vocational agri
culture teachers are due to attend
the conference.
A&M specialists will serve as
leaders and consultants for work
shops sponsored by the Texas Edu
cation Agency. “The workshops
will provide technical and profes
sional assistance to teachers who
have a need of improvement in any
of several areas of training to be
offered,” John Holcomb, executive
secretary of the Association,
points out.
The technical information is de
signed to benefit the mort than
40,000 high school students of vo-
catioinal agriculture in Texas as
well as the thousands of adults
with whom the state’s more than
900 vocational agriculture teach
ers work.
“The 1959 conference of voca
tional agriculture teachers to be
held in Fort Worth August 11-14,
offers opportunity for the teach
ers to secure the latest on techni
cal agricultural information,” Hol
comb says. “At the same time
they exchange ideas and look into
the new in teaching procedures,
visual aids, Future Farmer Chap
ter operation, adult education and
other ‘shoptalk.’ The state meet
ing also affords an opportunity
for the Vocational Agriculture
Teachers Assn, of Texas to hold
its membership meetings and
meetings of its board of directors.
There the policies of the organi
zation are adopted and plans for
their being carried out are devel
oped.
“The conference will be guided
by the personnel of the Agricul
ture Education Division of the
Texas Education Agency, headed
by George Hurt, the director. The
Association is headed by Pres. H.
G. Barber of Floydada and a 30-
man board of directors.”
J. R. Jackson, associate profes
sor in the A&M Department of
Agricultural Education, will be a
chairman, and Dr. Earl Knebel,
assistant professor in the same de
partment, will be a consultant for
a workshop session on “A Re
search Study of Young Farmer
Education in Texas.”
In a workshop session on beef
cattle, latest information on grad
ing and selecting beef cattle, in
cluding performance and fertility
testing and the Brucellosis pro
gram will be given by W. T. Ber
ry, Dr. A. M. Sorenson, L. D.
Wythe and Dr. G. T. King, all of
A&M’s Department of Animal
Husbandry. They will be consul-
l tants for the workshop.