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PUBLISHED IN THE [NfEREST OF A GREATER A & M COUBGB , , ,
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland)^ TEXAS. MONDAY. SEPTEMBB& 13, 1948
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V ; TORONTO, Sept' li -ilAPU:
new possible wny : of tracing
- fantile pralysir vtrnal in the
man body was opened |erf Friday.
Two research : sclent stsj showed
pictures of tiny dots t mt| may bje
polio virus moving inside a nerve'.
If these dots actually i re the virus
the pictures are an in poijtant dithl-,
f livery. ^ J J
They might be a qew way
leant how tknrirus gjets into
body and how itimoves along ne:
pathways to dp its da nafe.
The photographs were (made
Dr. E. DeRobertiis and Franci
0. Schmitt of the Mb
Institute of T*^ 0 ! 0 ?.
powerful electroin mien seppe. Th'
weflre'showni to the ele :tron mic:
scope society of Amer ca.
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AUTO TlMElPfAYMElNT
RULES CLARIFIED
WASHINGTON, Sej t. |13 —^
These new fedfral raseii'e board
vul<$ for fiuyfttsg autcmabiles or
the 4nataIIment ; plau will! go into
affect September 20:
A! down payment df
the cash price imust >e
pre-1938 models}' used )'r
models, pc other new ca:
For 11938-48 , model
’ down, ipayniemt 'inust b 5
third the ieash price nr
iil value.
#e aftejr
the ‘'‘average ret
1 r Jf the ; balanc
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erm Enrollment
8023 For Main Camp
;n
lone-third
ade oin
ew 1949
irs the
ither one
me-third
ic down
months
ess tbian 41,000.!
3il Value?’ is .dp-
king (fficial pride
e bjadi -rabid
, „ th itsii announcement of
thp" new jmstallfient r«gu|ations.
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PRESS CARD AT OLYMPICS
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COLLEGE STATIOBf, ^ept. 18*-
/daily neWspao .
is a gaudy littje thinj: in maropn
T;white. ! T x ; [
t: won't even : get thi holder into
iletic events bn Kyis Field, A|jfe,
M'b own football stadiim*
But Bob “Sack” Spoede, 20,
senior from Sam Antttniq, used it
to!gqod advantage in London dur
ing a recept European itour. He
flashed the gabdy pocietjsize ci
dt the World Jo‘
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3-Day Leader
School Here
Approximately 175 new ca
det officers and non-commis-
aioned officers have just com
pleted a three-day leadership
school here on the campus, Lt.
Col. Joe Davis, assistant com
mandant, announced yester
day. : . [ ~
At;this school the future cadet
officers /were reminded of their
dutieb and the things that were
expected" of them during the com
ing semesters.;
In one of the primary talks giv
en the students,, Colonel H. L.
Boatyer, new commandant of the
college, set forth his policies which
he said would not deviate from
those used by Colonel Meloy, form
er commandant. *
President F. C. Bolton, in his
addfess welcomed the cadets and
told; them that much responsibi
lity; was being placed on their
shoulders this year. He also said
that some educators thought A
&M) had outgrown the Cadet
Corps but that he thought the
Corps was a vital part of the
school.
Lieutenant Colonel Sam Hill, A
&M Chaplain, told the future lead
ers pf their spiritual and moral
duties as cadet officers and non-
coms^ t. V ' v*. 7
i won’t be completed for two months | due to the minute stage, a big- During the three-day course the
Aggieland's own Metropolitan t the Guion Hall manager, . Tom time show business fly-loft has' students were conducted through
Opera'House—that’s Guion Hall to p uddy, says that the silver screen been built. « , the College Hospital and its func-
Mets Attend M b S f„ §§
Number oi Vet freshmen
AGGIES OF ’52, the Freshmen at the Annex, wbrk against time in aptitude test given in
Annex Gymnasium. Tests had to be passed before the Freshmen could register.
Legit Productions Coining. ♦.
‘Gunyan’ Gets Face Lifted,
But Show Will Still Go On
By CHUCK MAISEL
Aggieland’s own Metroi
you—has had something hew ad
ded to the tune of 35,000 well-
spent dollars during the summer
months. The entertainment center
is undergoing a much needed face
lifting.
Although the beauty
For years now, the college
lawyers have been ready to han
dle cases where young Aggie
heads have been cracked by fall-
begi
treatment ^
cony railing. This danger has
Olympi cs-t-ahd
-gsjte attendant lookei, and smd
“do-/ -
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JAYTON, Oi,
te Air Force said Saturday it
set an aerial photogrjiphiic rec
by filming a gtrip oil the Unit)ed
States Ttomc epast to edast in.; a
single fliglL... . , . ,
Photographers of the aiir mater
ial. command jot nearby, Wright
Field, shot, 325 feet of film-3S)0'
individual J !phqitograpiiSr-j- m the
Sept. 1 flight from Sa :ta; Barbara,
lif., to ^itchtell AicjFijrce Bade,
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The air fdree photogiraphers flew
the 2,700 miles' at 40,0 )0 feet, with
a tn-mestrOgon K-17 cabiera In
stallation’ t [firing ahprbximately!
each 50 seconds. Suci 4 camejra,
cojiaisting df three six-inch camer-
aositioried so the} record tjiho
frdmAhoijSzon to horizon, pic
tures abouli 13jD squats miles with
eaich photograph. ,
RS ‘SjU.HE’
EiiATOM SHC1
GT|pN, SesL
spy investigators
eelend tl at fan army
expert oh iktomic en< rgt is “cier-
tain” Russian! agents si ole sotme
wartime atom bomb see'ets.
1 Furtherinom Rep^ ■* Va 1 (R-Ilh)
said in a statement, hia high of
fiter was so concerned lover “the
intense activity of Russian espion-
heir eifoi
arc! sFTei
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ctrate atomic
that he perso
activities to
Roosevelt, puu
Truman, f
* Vail did pot
said he had
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Bolton Speaks
To Annex Fish
In First Meet
ffe^You are joining a group
illustrious in war and in
peaQe, in engineering and in
-lit agriculture/’ President F. C.
oirfi 1 Bolton toldl 1,250 A&M fresh-
men last Monday night.
T/m’
The last hour of the course was
'spent in an open discussion in
which student* cleared up ques
tion* relating to their dutiei of
th® coining semester.
been removed with the installa- dent’Actiyities; ^ ;
ticn of a new railing which .ac
cording to Puddy, Aggie feet
can never tear asunder.
Ere the job is completed, a fire
proofed front curtain and new
grand drapes will be set up. A
more modem public address ‘sys
tem and, 1 a new Wurlitzer organ
are ready for installation also.
An intricate light control panel
that would give Billy Rose a thrill
has already been put in.
Another safety feature is the
fjre flue which keeps all blazes
backstage. '
Besides the desired legitimate
shows, Puddy says that students
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air reserve
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operate
each fr
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Officer 1
tified under
hearings} of I
rican Acttvities.
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first
full-i
one
the NMvyfsaii
ient, -thie Navy said,
le experiment be-
establis lesj-the policy
off operation
or n|val
13 -JJP>
)e-
rve group
simulated
Exercises at the Annex marked
the formal opening' of A&M’s
1948-49 school year and the first
official appearance of Bolton in
his new role as president of A&M
College. , ■
One thousand two hundred sev
enty-one freshmen are nowjiving
at the Annex, the largest"group
ever to be housed there.- /
Tyree Bell, Dallas,! member of
the board Of directors, and a ’13
graduate, discussed A&M tradition
with the freshmen.
- “Even after spending a single
night on the A&M Campus, you
will always be an Aggie,” he said.
He defined tradition as “prac
tices with a worthwhile purpose
that have persisted through use
and acceptance," and said that
genuine tradition can , be pointed
to with pride and need no defense.
As an example he cited honorable
military service and comradeship
and spirit of friendliness as the top
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1 “You will hear many things
called tradition which don’t mea
sure Up,” Bell warned the fresh
men. “Don’t be afraid to change
them. The" senior class which
graduated this spring was one
of the greatest ever to leave this
college, because'it met the great
■ challenge and was not afraid to
make changes.”
M. T; Harrington, dean of Arts
and Sciences and acting deah. of
the college, and an A&M freshman
-30 years ago, reported that the
first two classes at the Annex had
been the “pace-makers” scholasti
cally. Last year’s annex class had
the smallest dftp rate of any
class in history, Harrington
will continue to offer the finest
in movie entertainment. While the
work' - is going on, the hall will be
opened only at nights and Satur
days and Sundays with show time
'inning at 6 p. ro. on the week-
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The first change, that will be’
noticed by the observant return
ing student is the removal of the
old Corinthian columns which for
merly stood on either side of the
stage. The stage itself has been
widened - from the oft complained
about 21 feet to a spacious 38
feet. This puts it on par! with
stages in most of the nation's lar
ger theaters.
Foreseeing the booking of many
costume plays and musicals! which
had/to be turned down in the past
Leland Appointed
To NACA Council
For Second Term
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T. W.’; Leland, head of the De
partment of Business and Account
ing, has been named a Member of
the .committee on research of the
National Association of Cost Ac
countants for a second term. The
appointment was made by Clinton
Bennett, NACA president, j /
Dr.'Leland, president of the exec
utive committee of the American
Accounting Association, was the
official introduction speaker at the
annual meeting of the association
in Memphis, Tenn., earlier this
month. He also presided at the ban
quet and business meeting.
During: the previous year in
which Lelknd served on the com
mittee, three reports werej publish
ed on the uses and application^of
standard costs. In the current year
the committee plans to conclude the
series with a case study of an ac
tual standard cost plan and to en
gage in a study covering the va
riation of costs with volume and
uses of costs variation data.
The committee has as its respon
sibility research in the field of in
dustrial accounting and the out
lining of objectives, the selection. The Batt Sports Staff will
of areas for study, the assignment ■ "be heavily stocked with writ-
tions| and services to the students
were- explained,
The entertainment and recrea
tion offered on the campus through
ing plaster from the ancient bal- Student Activities was explained
by G.
G. White, director of Stu-
oatner Receives
Congratulations ,
From Mountbatten
Lord Mountbatten of Burma,
, | former viceroji of India and corn-
may hold hope m their hearts for mander ; in-chief of the Southeast
the eventual showing of first-run
movies at Guion.
He said that the distributors are
impressed with the fact that Gun
yan is the largest movie house
between Houston and Dallas, but
they can’t quiteTigure why a city
of population 2|l00 would have a
theatre with 2000 seating capacity.
‘EXPECT THE WORSE’
GENERALS WARN ARMY
atural Cas Study
s had ‘ J
IS Award Established
wi mr-
ii Sat-
The feat of fche Dal asjNayal Re
serve Detach] fm “ T ‘
is “a smiSll-:
type
reftuireme it
ining.!j;
f 103
nd 56
Augurt
leers, 180
ier plirtes
to Sep-|
CoUege Night i
Will Be Tuesday
x,
College Night ‘ will be held
Tuesday night at 7:15 in front
of Goodwin HalL ,
President F. C. Belton, Ath
letic Director W. R. Carml
the coachii
of the foot!
troduced.
... Carmichael,
ng staff and members
itoall team will he in-
of studies to the research staff,
the development of conclusions bas
ed on data supplied by the research
staff. It also includes the review
and revision of reports and find*
ings, and the general supervision
direction of work in this field.
Establishment of a graduate fel
lowship for study, and research in
the field of natural gas transmis
sion by the Tennessee Gas Trans
mission Company of Houston has
been announced by President F. C.
Bolton and Harold Vance, head of
the Department of Petroleum En
gineering. t 4
Candidates for the fellowship
may pe graduates of any ! accred
ited college or university. Selec
tion of the fellowship recipient will
be made by Vance in consultation
with officials of the Tennessee Gas
Transmission Company.
GRAFENWOEHR, Ger., Sept. 13
—(A?)— Two American generals
told officers of the U. S. First
Infantry Division Saturday to ex
pect the worst if war breaks out
in Europe, saying American sol
diers hick the planes and guns
that make up a real punch.
The speakers were Maj. Gen;
Frank W. Milburn, division com
mander, and Brig. Gen. John Me-
Kee, former commander of the 87th j and; China.
Asia’ command during World War
II, has sent congratulations to Col,
Hkydon L. Boatner on his appoint
ment as commandant of cadets at
A&M.
Lord Mountbatten and Col. Boat
ner fought together in the second
Burma campaign which brought to
Mountbatten the latter part of his
title; bestowed on him by the Jung
of England. ;
“I. congratulate you on your new
appointment as commandant and
professor of military science and
tactics at Texas A&M College,”
wrote Lord Mountbatten from Lon
don. “Every other man I met in
the American army seemed to come
from Texas, so you certainly seem
to have gone to the right place.”
Col. Boatner accompanied Gen.
Stilwell to Burma and served
throughout the war in that country
He became comman-
ills
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Some 8023 students had registered at A&M t)y
to H. L. Heaton, registrar. About 150 more are
pus and 12 at the Annex. i ' j
This figure represents a drop of six students f
ed on the initial registration days.
Longhorn Editors Plan Ful:
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Pictorial Coverage of Year
By PHIL KOONCE
The Longhorn is the student’s
Beat record of his by-gone years at
A&M. Edited entirely by students,
it presents a pictorial account of
the school year and includes pic
tures of students, athletic events,
senior favorites, administrators of
the college ,and campus activities.
In continuous publication. since
1903, the Longhotti has pioneered
in the field of showing a full year’s
activities. Originally delivered in
the spring, it is now distributed at
the beginning of the’fall semester.
The change in delivery date now
makes it! possible to include sports
activities that were necessarily ex
cluded in the ones delivered in the
spring. T .'
The ’48 Longhorn's 560 pages
make it the largest in the history
of the school Its editors were
Bobby Lee Williamson and Hen
ry T. “Tommy” John. Delivery
is expected early tHis month.
Work on the ’49 Longhorn will
begin soon. Editors will be Tru
man Martin and Earl Rose. Others
of the Longhorn staff have not
been named, but it is expected that
they will be in the near future.
The Ageieland Studio will pho
tograph all students for the coming
year’s annual. A schedule for to is
activity will be announced later.
The ’49 yewrbook promises to be
outstanding in that It will incor
porate many new features, one of
which will be a few four-color
plates. Also to be included are in
formal pictures taken at summer
camps.
Rose requests all those having
such pictures and wanting them
to be in the Longhorn to bring
them ip as soon as possible.
Staff members are needed to
help get the ’49 Longhorn start
ed. All who are interested should
contact the Longhorn office on the
second floor, Goodwin Hall.
lumber
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Annex
t trday
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last
; !ont
to U
is' ihov
en ■
re Ut
ration of cadet fresh-
nijfn at the Annex increased to
TRUMAN MARI
Corps Longhorn Co-
year when 8029 register-
afternoon, according
late on the cam
ming a downward trend,
mt drop in any one group
by the enrollment of veU
Tuntn. Only 87 veterans
at;the Annex in coin
to 178 last year and 799 in
1&65 drier «
figure of 948 last. v
bout 262$ summer school stu-
injcluding old students and
n atl letes weif register-
ugust 211, ,1352 Annex fresh-
istered September 10, and
Jstered on the main cam-
4 ember 11.
... increase in enrollment thin
ye r for non-veteran freshmen di
re |t from high school upsets a
tr nd that has been going on for
th ! lasit few years. In 1940 this
gr wp numbered 1773. By 1946 tho
fi| ure had dropped to 1217 and
by 1947 to 948.
3 -
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ing back to past years;
Is bui
igh of 8632 student* reg<
lands out with the all
„ 'earl ROSE,
■ Longhorn Co-Editor
Field, a de-activated air
Infantry Division.
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dant at A&M Aug. 16.
Housing facilities were provided^
at Curtia J
base
Aproximately 60 students at
tended the camp during the two
semesters.
Professor S. A. Lynch, head of
the geology deartment, planned
the operations of both camps. As-
T
Big Battalion Sports Staff To
Cover Fall Aggie Athletics
ers this fall, and will be one of
the largest in many years.
In addition to several returning
writers, two men were added this
summer, and at least a pair of
writers from the Little Batt at
the Annex will join the main ad
dition. |
A total of 12 men will man the
three typewriters in the sport*
section. Art Howard is still en
trenched as sports editor, and will
have as hi* top assistant* Don
Engelking and Larry Goodwyn. In
ddition to the regular football
news, the sport* staff will work
on the morning radio program over
WTAW and handle the weekly
Quarterback Club. „ j
A series of features on play
ers and incidents of bygone days,
of Aggie football is planned for
the fall, as well as on present
players and coaches.
ENGELKING is one of the more
experienced men on the staff, bav-
'
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ing served as sports editor fori LARRY GOODWYN is starting
the last t w o I his third year with the sports de-
mmrM
summers. Don | partment,
is a track spe
cialist, and will
^ cover the cross-
.m
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country team in
a&iition to his
other duties.
Engelk i n g
was primarily
r e s p o nSible
for promot
ing the seleC-
. tion of a cam-
ENGELKING p U8 . gt*r
softball team this summer, and
did a lot of work on the large
pre-registration edition. He is a
senior in the C. E. Department
BOB “SACK” SPOEDE is a
returning member of the sports
staff. This summer he visited his
family in Germany, and saw'
part of the Olympics in England.
Spoede will publish a series of
articles on his experiences in
both countries. His other duties
will include reporting the fresh
man grid team and helping to
cover intramural athletics.
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and is also assistant
editor of • the
Comment a t o f.
An English ma
jor, Goodwyn is
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Junior Geology Majors S
Nursing Field Trip Woun
7 O." . ;T . ■ j * ,,,
Junior geology students, back from summer cnipj a
a two weeks recuperation period are still nursing 4°^
bruises and barbed-wire^scratches.
This summer course; required of all geology nujq,
tween the junior and senior years, was held at Brad ft
Lau; en
id
at A&M, while 1942 had
ghest. pre-war total with
cimately 7000.
ie next year, 1943, the reg-
figures totalled only 1800
it juniors and seniors* mkl
lied to active duty. ; /
■hii year’sl figures, broken down
*c! sols, will be released some
October, Heaton has an-
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m
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rative
o Bolton /
Elkins assumed his
idministrative as-
C; Bolton, presi-
tM, Monday.
. I been associate pto-
i in the Business and Ac-
liig Department,) and will coii-7
to teach in that department
hejad
■and
sisting him were Dr. Carl
professor of ipineralgy, wHo
ed the first six weeks ct
professor T. J. Parker, p< tjtolei
geologist, who had chafgp
second camp. -
The purpose of thia cot
to give students a chaiici
into practical use the U it i
had been reading about i i
The majority opinion of t|i|
was that they btraejl
this six weeks than thje)
any other course,
Field work was carried
8 a. m. to 6 p. m. The iji
which consisted of dra'
and writing reports ,usdd
from 7 to 12 p. m. H nf
some nights several stui
ied on until breakfaslj (tl
morning.
During the course j>f
weeks camp two side
_ taken. The first trip Ca
one of the most students into North Tejja i
1 versatile men on Arbuckle Mountains
the staff and is
well known for
his barbed type
writer.
Larry is an
authority on al
most every ma
jor sport and
GOODWYN » com-
4 plete file of sta
tistics and players in his head.
This fall he will prepare the se
ries of historical articles for the
sports page. ,
BILL THORNTON will be in
charge of publicity for the intra-
mural sports this fall. This &
Thofriton’s third year on the in
tramural staff, and he ia taking
over the publicity job handled by
Cliff Ackerman last year. Bill did
a fine job reporting softball this
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While on this trip * 1
furnished two nights b
leton Agricultural Colli
North Texas Agricultui*
The other night was spjeijr
fur, Oklahoma.
The second trip, tak^n
end of the camp, wap to
Bend of West Texas. 1
The time on this
spent mainly around the
Alpine. While here, .the
were conducted throng i
Donald Observatory v
pressed some of them nter
the geology^of the sn
territory.
'sj Starangely enough,'
their fill of chicken
and french fried poty'
was probably because
was served at least fpup
week.
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from
six
lehto
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Elkins
fusor '
c#nti:
C w watiaa m vuav' ucp«»a vuavaak \
m tiime.
He toeeived his BA in 1983 and
IBH1936 from A&M. He was
aduate assistant in 1833 and did
,0. work at Columbia University
)om 1936 to 1938.
A vjejieran" of World War U, he
is separated from the service as
lieutenant colonel in 1945. He
»S ohi the faculty of the collage,
1:935 until called into the
* a reserve officer in April
ltd w*s overseas 30 months
land, Envland, Africa and
ith tie First Armored Dl-
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Elkin* is married and has a Son
a|ji(l t\, o daughters. .
He (is a member of the Reserve
(fflcelra’ At sociation, Sul Rbss
1 odge AFAiAM No. 1300, W. T.
y ustin Chapter and Councjj, The
I Inighlt* Templar, Southwest’Foot*,
ball Officiars Association, Am4ri-
can Management Association. Dal-
1 a Peraonndl Association and T«x^
— Association. ’> 1 L ; -
is in the Academic
¥
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"ffil offioi
$bi!diing,
o$ta
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1 enn
lined
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Appointed
est Service
Kirbyville
K
, »
ore H. Silker, associate for-
vicu|turist with the Tenn’es-
Valley Authority at Norris
' iee for the past seven veara,
e Texas Forest Service as
hnician at Kirbyville
on iSept 10, according to
nderson, acting director,
wilj devote a portion of
in assisting 1 the Expert-
with agricultural re
's which bear a re la-
forestry, Anderson said,
r received his bachelor of
degree in forestry from
te n 1940 and his master’s
forest range manage-
re ip 1941.
associate forester with the
Valley Authority for*
tilona’division, Silker had
Unit work in silvicultur-
stigations dealing with Ten-
Val ey problems in raforo-
, timber atand improvement;
g, n^w*lre*ipeyatlon, im-
iRodies.
84 years old, married
th* father of thro*
silvical ro-
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