The Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1961
Number 124
Century Study Names 4 Chairmen
C. D. Calhoun Speaks
At Poultry Conference
In an industry noted for its
economic efficiency, one of the few
remaining cost-cutting routes in
the Texas broiler business is to
raise bigger birds.
C. D. Calhoun of the Calhoun
Hatchery at Tyler, a speaker at
Texas A&M’s annual Poultry Con
ference. said it is just plain cheaper
to produce heavier broilers.
Texas poultrymen have been,
and still are, finishing birds at
lighter weights compared to those
in other broiler' production regions.
The hatcheryman recommended
that Texas broiler raisers give
more consideration to the size of
their product.
The conference is a general in
formation session held each year
for hatcherymen, breeders, hatch
ery and feed servicemen, related
poultry industry personnel and
commercial producers of broilers
and eggs. Sponsors are the A&M
Poultry Science Department, Texas
Agricultural Experiment Station
and the Texas Agricultural Exten
sion Service.
Calhoun said costs of broiler
production should be measured
from the time the chicks are put
down until the packaged product
reaches the grocery shelf. Simply
figuring the cost of raising and
finishing the birds does not give
a complete picture.
He said Texas producers’ pro
duction costs compare favorably
with other southern areas, such as
Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.
But Arkansas’ cheaper feed ad
vantages enables producers there
to raise birds at about seven-
tenths of a cent per pound under
Texas costs.
Vertical integration, Calhoun
said, is not as intense in the Texas
broiler business as it is in some
other states. Texas could stand
further integration but such a
trend should not be expected to
work miracles. Intensive integra
tion does not always mean cheaper
costs.
“Some integrated operators have
become topheavy with personnel,
which has defeated their purpose,”
the speaker said.
He told conference members
that Texas is actually deficient in
broiler production, and finished
birds are being shipped in from
other areas. At the same time,
25 Texans Will
Die July 4
The director of the Texas De
partment of Public Safety an-
Doilnced today previous holiday ex
perience in Texas indicates 25 per-
Bons will meet violent death on
Ihe Fourth of July, 1961.
Col. Homer Garrison, Jr., said
the release of this official predic
tion “is intended to serve as a
challenge to all Texans to prove
our estimate is too high.”
In announcing the grim forecast,
Garrison said the DPS will place in
effect “Operation Deathwatch,” ef
fective from 12:01 a.m. to 11:59
p.m. on July 4, during which traffic
deaths, homicides and suicides, and
fatal accidents other than traffic
will be tabulated against the pre
diction.
Eleven to Be Killed
The department’s Statistical
Services Manager, N. K. Woerner,
estimates that 11 persons will be
killed in traffic accidents during
Summer BSU
Announces
Weekly Slate
Tom Harris , President of the
A&M BSU Summer Executive
Council, has announced the weekly
schedule of Baptist Student Union
activities for the remainder of the
summer.
Vesper services are scheduled
for Monday, Tuesday, and Thurs
day evenings at 6:30 p.m. in the
Baptist Student Center, 201 North
Main, College Station. Vesper co-
chairmen Judy Foster and Roy
Gibson work with Tom Harris in
planning these programs.
During the Monday evening
Vesper time, a guest program
leader speaks or leads a discussion
°a a topic of vital interest to stu
dents. A Bible study based on
Scripture passages of special in
terest to students occupies the
Vesper time on Tuesday evenings.
Thursday Vespers are devoted to
Informal discussions relating
Christian principles to current
Problems.
Friday night are reserved for
special programs and weekly mis
sion projects.
All Baptist students are invited
to take part in the Summer BSU
activities.
the 24-hour period, that five will
be victims of homicide or suicide,
and that nine will die in brownings
and other types of fatal accidents.
“The department’s purpose in
conducting such as operation is to
focus public attention on the fact
that holiday driving is more dan
gerous than usual because more
vehicles are on the highways—as
well as to compile data which is
vital to the constantly-changing
problems of traffic supervision,”
Garrison said.
“In addition to the ‘Deathwatch,’
the department will augment the
regular Highway Patrol force with
some 150 uniformed patrolmen
from the Motor Vehicle Inspection
and License and Weight services
during the 24-hour period in an
effort to keep down the violations
that cause accidents.”
The DPS director called special
attention to the fact that the rec
ords show at least one law viola
tion is involved in most fatal acci
dents in Texas.
“With more boats on the waters
of our state than ever before,” he
continued, “extra precautions
should be taken this Fourth of
July to avoid tragedy. Boaters
should be sure there is a life pre
server for every boat occupant and,
above all, don’t overload or over
power your boat.”
Garrison also reminded boaters
that 45 miles per hour is the speed
limit for all vehicles pulling
trailers.
Photography
To Be Offered
Second Semester
Students w r ho wish to get get a
couple of hours of credit as well
as start a new and interesting
hobby at the same time, will have
this opportunity during the second
summer session.
The course that fulfills these
two desires is Journalism 315.
The course is open to all stu
dents and staff members on ap
proval of the instructor and major
advisor.
The lecture will meet MWF at
11 and the lab will be 2-5 on Tues
day and Thursday.
Due to lab space the course will
be limited to 12 students.
some Texas poultrymen are worry
ing around trying to ship broilers
to such places as California.
Another speaker, Dr. Car 1 Hess
of the U. S. Department of Agri
culture’s Southern Regional Poul
try Breeding Project at Athens,
Ga., urged poultrymen to recognize
the fact that one strain of birds
may give good production in one
type of environment but may fall
down on the job under other cir
cumstances.
For example, a highly bred layer
strain may do fine in floor houses
but lay poorly in cages.
Strong environmental and ge
netic interaction factors to watch
for in layers, Hess said, are per
cent mortality, blood meat spots
and hen house production. With
broilers, body weight and feather
ing are traits with this strong in
teraction.
“A commercial poultryman
should not only determine general
genetic worth of stocks but how
the particular strain or strains
perform under his own environ
ment,” the USD A researcher said.
“Try out several of the potentially
best stocks under your own con
ditions.”
Layers hatched in the fall and
spring- can be made to produce an
approximately equal number of
eggs under good management sys
tems, Dr. J. H. Quisenberry, head
of the A&M Department of Poultry
Science, said.
Hatching time, however, does
make a difference in egg size, the
scientist said. Spring-hatched birds
will not lay eggs much larger than
pullet sizes because of summer
heat. Full-hatched birds will con
sistently lay larger eggs.
Other speakers were George Mc
Carthy of Allied Mills, Fort Worth,
Texas; Earl Deacon, B&D Mills,
Grapevine, Texas; Joe Claybaugh,
DeKalb Agricultural Association,
DeKalk, 111.; and Monroe Fuchs,
Ideal Hatcheries, Cameron, Texas.
Other Texas A&M speakers in
cluded C. B. Ryan, Poultry Science
Department; Dr. C. F. Meinecke,
Veterinary Microbiology Depart
ment; Dr. John D. Williams, Data
Processing Center; J. H. Sorrells,
Civil Engineering Department; C.
F. Garner, entomologist; Dr. R. E.
Davies, Biochemistry and Nutrition
Department; Dr. W. F. Krueger
and Dr. R. C. Fanguy, Poultry
Science Department.
Also, Dr. C. F. Hall, Dr. A. I.
Flowers and Dr. L. C. Grumbles,
Veterinary Microbiology Depart
ment; Dr. F. A. Gardner, Poultry
Science Department; R. G. Cherry,
extension economist; and W. S.
Allen, extension agricultural engi
neer.
Ben Wormeli, extension poultry
husbandman, and Dr. Krueger,
were program Chairman.
Nucleus Members
Chosen By Hall
Four chairmen and nucleus committee members to spear
head an extensive college-wide self-study as part of the Cen
tury Study were named today by Dr. Wayne C. Hall, chair
man of the Committee on Aspirations at Texas A&M.
Chairman of the study group which will evaluate resi
dent instruction and student life is Dr. G. M. Watkins, direc
tor of agricultural instruction.
Dr. H. O. Kunkel, professor of animal husbandry and
bio-chemistry and nutrition, will chair the study group con
cerned with research.
Chairing the study group which will scrutinize exten
sion is F. J. Konecny of the Engineering Extension Service,
and C. A. Roeber, College bus-"* *
iness manager, will guide the
Dr. Wayne C. Hall
Chairman on Aspiration Committee
Wider Participation
Urged at Beef Meet
CS Lions Club To
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Sell Barbecue At
Fireworks Display
The College Station Lions Club
will provide for a community sup
per before the fireworks display
that will be held at the Consoli
dated High School football stadium
July 4.
The fireworks will begin at 8
p.m. and are sponsoi-ed by the
College Station Recreation Council,
but the food will go on sale at
5:30.
Plates of barbecued chicken will
be served along with all the trim
mings. In addition to the plates,
the Lions will sell hot dogs, soft
drinks, cake and watermelon.
R. D. Gaul, chairman of pub
licity, invited the public to be on
hand for the meal and display.
The proceeds of the food sales
will be used for community proj
ects.
Recommendations to encourage
wider beef cattle producer pax-tici-
pation in improvement progx-ams
were outlined by a Texas Agricul
tural Extension Service animal
husbandman.
L. A. Maddox, Jr., speaking at
the International Beef Perform
ance Congress and sixth annual
convention of the Performance
Registry International June 21-23
at Texas A&M, said more cattle
men need to be included in PRI
programs if a real showing is to
be made..
He urged the members to work
closer with state beef cattle im
provement associations; to revise
PRI rules to allow additional par
ticipation in cui’rent Performance
Registry programs; stai’t a carcass
certification system; and to strive
for larger participation among
commercial cattlemen.
The specialist emphasized the
commercial cattleman angle. The
way the PRI is now organized,
rules are set up mostly for pi’o-
ducers of registex-ed beef cattle.
Host organizations for the con
ference were the Texas Beef Cattle
Dr. W. E. Street
Receives Service
Award From ASEE
Dr. W. E. Street ,head, Depart
ment of Engineering Gi;aphics,
Texas A&M, has been named win
ner of a Distinguished Service
Award from the American Society
for Engineering Education.
The award was presented to
Dr. Street at the Engineering
Graphics Division dinner Wednes
day night at the 1961 annual meet
ing of ASEE, held at the Uni
versity of Kentucky in Lexington.
Dr. Street, who has been head
of the department at Texas A&M
for 20 years, was cited “for many
distinguished services” during 32
years of membership in the ASEE
by the Society’s Division of Engi
neering Gi-aphics.
Before assuming his present
post at A&M, Dr. Street was for
13 years teacher, principal, and
superintendent in public school
systems; he has sexwed as a con
sultant and professional engineer
since graduation from Texas Tech
nological College in 1930, and in
1947 he was awai’ded an honox-ary
doctor’s degree in engineering edu
cation by Hax-ding College.
Improvement Association, the
A&M Department of Animal Hus
bandry and the Performance Reg
istry International.
The Perfor-mance Registry pro
gram’s purpose is to certify beef
animals with outstanding produc
tion records. PRI is an organiza
tion which develops cattle perform
ance rules, issues performance cex*-
tificates and tries to put into effect
recent research findings.
Maddox said the PRI has been
woi’king with weaning weights,
i-ates of gain over a 140-day feed
ing period, and weights of cattle
at 1 year of age.
Dr. O. D. Butlex% head of the
A&M Department of Animal Hus
bandry, introduced proposed beef
carcass standards for PRI work.
If the standai'ds are adopted, the
organization would have another
testing tool in its efforts to put
higher quality meat on the dinner
table.
One of the main attx*actions of
the meeting was an evaluation of
live slaughter steers, a feature
handled by Frank Ox-ts of the A&M
Animal Husbandry Department.
The animals were then slaugh
tered and the carcasses studied
by the group.
group concerned with serv
ices.
Dr. Hall emphasized the im
portance of these groups and their
efforts to the ultimate goal of the
Centuxy Study. “These chairmen
and their nucleus committees with
the broad-based suppox-t from the
general faculty and staff will, by
a large measure, determine the ef
fectiveness of the entire study
effort, he said.
Sevex-al dgys earlier, a question
naire was circulated to each fac
ulty and staff member requesting
suggested topics which should be
included in the study, and also to
encourage voluntaxy participation
in the evaluation program.
“We want to encourage each
faculty and staff xnember to com
plete this questionnaire, along with
his or her commitment to sei’ve on
one of the four study groups, and
return it to the Century Study of
fice by August 1,” Dr. Hall said,
He added that bi’oad participation
is necesary to make the study both
compi’ehensive and fi’uitful.
On July 25, a symposium will
be held to help orient the various
study groups on their mission.
Three keynote speakers will head
the inoiming session, with after
noon meetings devoted to question
and answer discussions under the
leadership of the speakers. De
tails of the symposium, along with
the speakei’s and their topics will
be announced soon. The sympos
ium will be open to all faculty and
staff membei’s.
Named to Group I—Resident In
struction and Student Life—were:
C. D. Holland, chemical engineer
ing; Roy Axfoi'd, nuclear engi
neering; M. R. Calliham, veteri-
nax ; y medicine and surgex-y; W. E.
Whittington, business administra
tion; H. L. Heaton, registrar and
dix-ector of admissions; H. E. Jo-
ham, plant physiology; R. D. Lew
is, Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station; E. R. Keown, math
ematics; Haskell Monroe, History;
and B. A. Zinn, student affairs.
Student appointees to this gi’oup
are Michael J. Carlo, Sydney N.
Heaton, Herman R. Adams, Mar-
(See COMMITTEE, on Page 4)
Neelley Speaks
At San Antonio
Convention
Charles E. Neelley, assistant i’e-
search engineer and supervisor of
the Fan Testing Laboratox-y of the
Texas Engineering Experiment
Station, was among speakers at
the 67th Annual Convention of the
International Oil Mill Superinten
dents’ Association in San Antonio
June 25-27.
Mr. Neelley discussed “Selec
tion and Application of Fans” for
use in aerating oilseeds and grains.
He cited considerations for selec
tion of a fan as pressure, capacity,
efficiency, and horsepower. The
latter two points, according to Mr.
Neelley, are most impoirtant to
the oil mill operator because they
concern operating cost.
In his prepared text, he present
ed “fan laws” and diagrams to
illustrate selection criteria and to
show the woi’k of the Fan Testing
Laboratory.
Eastman Awards
Chemistry Prof
Fellowship .
The Texas Eastman Company
Fellowship for a pre-doctoral stu
dent in chemisti’y has been award
ed to Aris Merijanian of Bryan,
Prof. J. B. Beckham of the Chem
istry Department, Texas A&M, has
announced.
This fellowship carries a stipend
of $3,000 for a 12-month appoint
ment plus $1,000 to the Depart
ment of Chemistry for supplies
and equipment to aid in the re-
seax’ch program.
James B. Beal Jr. and Frank M.
Simpson Jr., also of Bryan, shai’e
the Dow Chemical Company grad
uate summer fellowship during the
current summer session, Professor
Beckham says.
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Appreciation Plaque
Dr. Daniel R. Russell, professor of rural soc- the Rural Church Conference held on the
iology, (left), receives a plaque from Chan- campus. Dr. Russell was the chairman of
cellor M. T. Harrington, on behalf of the the conference.
Baptist ministers that recently attended