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Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16,1960
Number 84
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Agricultural Convocation
Joe Joyce, chairman of the Ag Council, pre- Convocation last night in the Memorial Stu-
sents an attendance gavel to Weldon Barnes, dent Center. Attendance was based on an
president of the Entomology Society for the index,
best group attendance at the Agricultural
I Promote College
A&M Chamber
Begins Plans
By BEN TRAIL
Assistant News Editor
The A&M Student Chamber of Commerce will begin full
scale planning operations to promote A&M when the organiza
tion holds its first meeting Thursday, March 17, under new
organization, at 7:30, p. m. in the lecture room of the Biologi
cal Sciences Building, according to>
For Army Cadets,
Federal Inspection Slated
March 31-April 1 at A&M
Annual Federal Inspection for
the A&M Department of Military
Science and Tactics is scheduled
for March 31-April 1, Capt. John
W. Simmons, public information
officer, said yesterday.
The inspection team will arrive
on the campus Wednesday even
ing, March 30, and will begin their
inspection tour Thursday morning,
Simmons said.
Briefings
Inculded on the itinerary for
the inspection are briefings by
Cadet Colonel of the Corps Wil
liam B. Heye and Col. Frank El
der, professor of military science
and tactics, and confei’ences with
President Earl Rudder, Dean of
Students James R. Hannigan and
Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant.
Visit Classes
The inspectors will visit military
science classrooms throughout the
day Thursday.
Also scheduled for the officers
is a luncheon with President Rud
der at noon.
Ranks Inspections
All Army cadets will have an in
spection In ranks Thursday after
noon from 5:30-6:30 in dormitory
areas. During the inspection, ca
dets will be asked questions con
cerning the operation of the M-l
rifle, government and military of-
ARS Official Talks
To Kiwanis Group
By BOB SAILE
Battalion Staff Writer
Dr. Herman A. Rodenhiser, assistant administrator of
the Agricultural Research Service in Washington, was the
guest speaker at a meeting of the College Station Kiwanis
Club Tuesday at noon.
Rodenhiser spoke on the U.
Department of Agriculture’s re-
seai’ch program, designed to com
bat and prevent wheat rust in the
United States.
The luncheon meeting was held
in the Assembly Room of the Me
morial Student Center. K. A. Man
ning was master of ceremonies.
10-Minute Film
Prior to Rodenhiser’s talk, the
Kiwanians watched a 10-minute
film showing the life cycle and
destruction caused by wheat rust.
The film illustrated spread of the
rust and efforts to curb this spread.
The film showed the work of re
search men to combat the disease
by means of breeding rust-resis
tant wheat hybrids.
Immediately after the film, Mau
rice Futrell, instructor in the De
partment of Plant Physiology and
Pathology, introduced Rodenhiser.
Rodenhiser told the group that
research workers in the USD A
Correction
Lloyd Stafford was elected head
of the Memorial Student Center
Radio Committee by 'the MSC
Council Monday night and not of
the Public Relations Committee as
reported in Tuesday’s issue of The
Battalion.
Paul Heye was named head of
the Public Relations Committee to
succeed Jack Hartsfield and will
take office immediately.
have made “a lot of progress” in
the fight against wheat rust.
New faces of wheat, barley and
oat rust have thrown us back some
what,” he said, “but rust resistant
wheat hybrids are now being de
veloped to fight these new races.”
Rodenhiser pointed out rust is
also prevalent 4n other countries,
and the United States, he said, is
sending resistant varieties of wheat
to other countries. World-wide re
search is being conducted, he added,
in the form of international wheat
nurseries.
“Funds from the sale of surplus
grain are being used to fight wheat
rust in the United States,” he said.
Began in 1923
Rodenhiser began his USDA ca
reer in the summer of 1923 as an
agent in the Bureau of Plant In-
dusti’y. In 1950, he was made re
sponsible for developing a coopera
tive test program in Latin Ameri
can countries to determine sources
of resistance to stem rust in small
grains.
Rodenhiser was appointed to his
present position in 1958.
Visit to Huntsville
Earlier in the meeting, Dave
Franklin announced an inter-club
visit will be made Monday to the
Kiwanis Club in Huntsville.
Jim Cooper also made a short
announcement, in which he urged
all members of the group to step
up ticket sales for the club’s com
ing Pancake Supper.
ficials and related subjects, said
Capt. Simmons.
Friday morning the inspectors
will confer on their findings, which
will be followed by a critique for
officers of the A&M instructor
unit.
Conference
After the critique, the team
chief and Col. Elder will confer
with President Rudder on the
findings of the inspection.
The inspection team will be
headed by Col. Douglas Stevens,
Artillery, Fort Bliss. Other mem
bers of the team include: Lt. Col.
Roger R. Kemm, General Staff,
Infantry, reserve section; Lt. Col.
Marlon L. Ellison, General Staff,
Artillery, G-3 section;
Lt. Col. Jerry M. Smith, Gen
eral Staff, Infantry, G-l section;
Lt. Col. Clark Webber, General
Staff, Armor, G-3 section; Lt. Col.
John H. Campbell, General Staff,
Infantry, reserve forces section;
Lt. Col. Robert M. Milam, General
Staff, Artillery, reserve forces
section; Maj. Emmet M. Atteberry,
General Staff, Infantry, G-2 sec
tion; and Maj. Walton S. Olson,
General Staff, Infantry, G-2 sec
tion.
Singing Cadets
Ready For Tour
Of South Texas
A&M’s Singing Cadets today
were making final preparations for
a concert tour of south Texas
points Thursday, according to Dr.
William Turner, director of the
group.
The Cadets will leave by char
tered bus at noon Thursday and
journey to Gonzales for a concert
at the ^Gonzales High School audi
torium at 8 that night.
Friday the cadets will perform at
an assembly at the West Columbia
High School at 1:30 p.m.
The group will wind up its tour
Friday night with a concert at the
Refugio High School Auditorium
at 8 to bring the tour to a close.
The cadets will return to A&M
Sunday, Turner said.
New Singing Cadet uniforms will
be worn for the first time, he ad
ded.
Some 50 members of the group
will make the trip Turner said.
Officers of the Singing Cadets
include: David Bunting, president;
John Lenamon, vice president; Lar
ry Leighton, business manager;
Carlos Worley, reporter-historian
and Jack Harrington, librarian.
Clifford W. Lane, Jr., student or
ganizer of the group.
Student Delegates
Lane stated the chamber of
commerce would be composed of
student delegates from the differ
ent departments on the campus.
Each department has been invited
to appoint one junior and senior
per degree option as delegates to
the student organization.
Lane said, “Too many people
who visit the campus see only the
MSC and a group of friendly ca
dets. They leave thinking that
A&M is a military college that
teaches only agriculture.”
Under Student Activities
Organized under the Department
of Student Activities, Lane said
the Student Chamber of Commerce
would strictly be a student effort
to; present material about each of
the departments to interested peo
ple or to organizations that could
use the information.
The student delegates wil be
able to accumulate material about
their departments and then pass
it on to organizations such as
hometown clubs. The hometown
clubs will then be able to give a
complete and correct picture of
A&M to prospective students.
Lane said he hopes the organ
ization wil become a source where
organizations like hometown clubs
can come for information and ideas
on how to present a better picture
of A&M.
The Student Chamber of Com
merce plans to organize around a
committee system. So far, accord
ing to Lane, hometown club, spec
ial project, and information com
mittees are being planned. The
information committee will woi’k
with the oth&r departmental dele
gates in organizing information
pamphlets about each department.
They also plan to place an infor
mation rack, filled with these
pamphlets, some place on the cam
pus where visitors can take them
home.
Lane said other Texas univer
sities and colleges have success
fully organize dstudent groups like
the A&M Student Chamber of
Commerce.
Departmental Delegates
Departmental delegates to the
student chamber of commerce
far are:
Department of Aeronautical En
gineering—E. C. Aldrige and Lar
ry K. Leighton. Department of
Agricultural Engineering—Billy J.
Barfield and Alan D. Brashears.
Division of Architecture—John H.
Brown, Dan Brents, Gerald J. Roy
and Kenneth Bobo. Department of
Biology—Don Reynolds, Edward
Winchester, Terry Pollard, Harvey
Farber, Larry Adams, Tom Aus-
(See A&M CHAMBER Page 3)
Junior Pics
Deadline Set
Thursday at 5
Juniors have until Thursday
to turn in pictures of girls to
be entered in judging for the
Junior Sweetheart to be selected
at the Junior Banquet and Ball
Saturday, March 26.
The pictures must be turned
in to the Cashier’s Office in the
ground level of the Memorial
Student Center by Thursday at
5.
Tickets for the Junior Ban
quet and Ball are now on sale
at the Cashier’s Window in the
ground level of the Memorial
Student Center.
Tickets for the banquet, to he
held in Duncan Dining Hall, will
cost $1.50 per person. Tickets
to the ball will also be $1.50 per
person.
“The Collegians,” from Prair
ie View A&M College will pro
vide music for the dance.
Tuesday, March 22, is the last
day for purchasing tickets for
the banquet. Dance tickets will
be available up until the time of
the dance.
MSC To Show
Peck-Jones Film
“Man in the Grey Flannel Suit”
starting Gregory Peck and Jenni
fer Jones will be the presentation
of the Memorial Student Center
Film Society on Thursday at 7:30
p.m. in the MSC Ballroom.
The movie is based on the wide
ly-read novel by Sloan Wilson
about an average husband and
wife facing up to one particular
and unique crisis with a courage
and intelligence that sets them
apart.
Over Ten Per Cent
Included in DS’s
By BOB SLOAN
Assistant News Editor
The overall grade point ratio for civilian students for the
1959-60 Fall Semester was 1.57, according to figures released
by Bennie A. Zinn, Director of Student Affairs.
The grade reports included the averages of all civilian
and day students residing in college housing but was incom
plete with respect to graduate students and students living
in private homes, according to Zinn.
‘Only About One-Fifth ..
“We are usually able to collect only about one-fifth of
the grade reports from students taking graduate courses, day
students living at home and students going to school only
part time or taking less than 12 semester hours,” Zinn said.
There were 2,045 civilians^
who reported their fall semes
ter grades to the office of
Student Affairs, including 174
Freshmen, 301 sophomores,
518 juniors, 734 seniors and 318
fifth, sixth and graduate students.
Legett Tops
Legett Hall led the civilian dor
mitories with an average GPR of
1.71 for the five classes. Running
a close second for the highest
average GPR were students living
in College View and Project House
with a 1.69 overall grade point
ratio.
The fifth, sixth and graduate
students led the rest of the civil
ians with a class GPR of 1.95.
Graduates living in Legett Hall had
the highest average GPR with a
2.40. Bizzell Hall was second with
a 2.35 GPR.
Senior civilians followed the
graduates with a class grade point
Army Junior
Suspended
An Army ROTC junior was sus
pended from A&M for the duration
of the semester by action of a mili
tary panel last week,
Official charges against him
were article 11-A in the Articles
of the Cadet Corps and Paragraph
46-2 (a) in the College Regula
tions, according to Dean of Stu
dents James P. Hannigan.
WCivilian Grades Story
Class
Number
GPR
Freshmen
174
1.13
Sophomores ..
301....
1.32
Juniors
518
1.51
Seniors
734
1.67
Fifth, Sixth
Graduates
318
1.95
2,045
1.57
’60-’61 Editor Filings Close;
Applicant Names Released
Editor filings closed yesterday
for the 1960-61 school year for the
six publications of the Department
of Student Publications.
Filings included applications for
editorships of The Battalion, The
Aggieland, The Texas A&M Re
view, The Engineer, The Agricul
turist and The Southwestern Vet
erinarian.
Bill Hicklin, junior journalism
major from Corpus Christi, and
Robbie Godwin, junior journalism
major from Robert Lee, filed for
position as next year’s editor of
The Battalion.
Jim Gibson, junior journalism
major from San Antonio, filed for
editor of The Texas A&M Review.
Filing for editor of The Agri
culturist for 1960-61 were Harry
Harrington, sophomore wildlife
management major from Houston;
William Harrison, Jr., sophomore
agricultural economics major from
Colombus; and Walter Ray Willms,
junior plant and soil sciences maj
or from Colombus.
Persons applying for editorship
of Aggieland ’61 included Dick
McGauhy, junior architecture con
struction major from Kansas City;
Jack Russell, junior finance major
from Dallas, and John Dodge, Jr.,
junior mechanical engineering maj
or from Beaumont.
Joseph Smith, junior veterinary
medicine major from Big Spring,
filed for editorship of the South
western Veterinarian.
Nominations for the 1960-61 edi
tors will be made to the Students
Publications Board at the April 5
meeting and the board’s recom
mendations will be forwarded to
the Deans of the four degree
granting schools and to President
Earl Rudder for approval, accord
ing to L. A. Duewall, Director of
Student Publications.
Appointment of editors for 1960-
61 will be made April 15 and new
editors will assume their duties
May 1, said Duewall.
Minimum requirements for be
ing named to an editorship include:
being junior or senior classifica
tion, freedom from academic and
disciplinary probation, must have
clearly demonstrated above aver
age achievement and ability and a
minimum of one year’s experience
on the staff of any publication and
proven ability to carry on the work
of publication in a manner deemed
creditable by the Student Publica
tions Board.
Applicants for editorship of The
Battalion and The Aggieland filed
through Duewall; Dr. A. L. Ben
nett, professor in the Department
of English, received applications
for editorship of The Texas A&M
Review; applications for editorship
of The Engineer were received by
K. J. Koenig in the Department of
Petroleum Engineering; and Dr. E.
D. McMurry of the School of Vet
erinary Medicine received filings
for editorship of the Southwestern
Veterinarian.
ratio of 1.67. Then came the jun
iors with a 1.51, sophomores with a
1.32 and the freshmen with a 1.13
GPR.
Milner Hall seniors were high
among the civilian dormitories with
a 1.72 GPR. Puryear and Mitchell
seniors tied for second with a 1.65.
High From Milner
High juniors came from Milner
Hall, posting a 1.69. Legett Hall
juniors had a 1.64 GPR to cinch the
second place position.
Civilian sophomores with the
highest grade point ratio, a 1.50,
came from Legett Hall. Second
place went to College View-Project
House sophomores with a 1.44.
Legett Hall was again high with
a 1.77 GPR for their freshmen.
Freshmen from Puryear Hall with
a 1.37 came in second.
Bizzell Low
Low civilian dormitory for all
classes was Bizzell Hall with a
1.25 average GPR. Low freshmen
came from Milner Hall with a .91
grade point ratio. Sophomores from
(See CIVILIAN GRADES ^age 3)
Wings, Brigades
Name Four Junior
Sergeant Majors
Sergeant majors for the two
wings and two brigades in the
Corps of Cadets have been an
nounced by Col. Frank S. Vaden,
assistant commandant.
Interviews to select the Corps
of Cadets sergeant major are
underway.
Kenneth J. Demel was named
1st Wing sergeant major; Bob
by J. McDaniel was named 2nd
Wing sergeant major; Richard
Meadows was named 1st Brigade
sergeant major; and Sonny Todd
was named 2nd Brigade sergeant
major.
Normally the sergeant major
assumes command of the unit
for the following school year.
Interviews were started Fri
day, March 4, to select the ser
geant major for the Corps of
Cadets. Approximately 15 jun
iors were interviewed in the
first set of interviews.
Five juniors have been se
lected from the original group
for final interviews. The five
and the units include: Harvey
Barber, Corps Staff; Sydney
Heaton, Corps Staff; Branley
Laycock, Corps Staff; Richard
Meadows, 1st Brigade Staff;
and Bobby McDaniel, 2nd Wing
Staff.
The Corps of Cadets sergeant
major will be named later.
Wing, Brigade Sergeant Majors
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Kenneth Demel
... 1st Wing
Bob McDaniel
... 2nd Wing
Richard Meadows
... 1st Brigade
Sonny Todd
... 2nd Brigade