State Rehabilitation : j J _ ' ; ■ ' • In flelpmg Students 10 Ntuden l* nnw attirnding A&M, I and Abcrcroiable platw to hi* ereaae thjat nuntbor. In addition AM. Jui KlW^Lj-rj Jj Br LOUIS Monr.AN Almost without riotlce an office for the rehubQitutMn of hanf. Pbrpo«o ofrhli pru^ram of lb)* hab Illation, AliettlfOmUie aaya, is to bnabie' physk’nlty hnndleatnicd Indihrlduala to braune etnptoyHiiio. Ho tiointa out thaCthe aorvlcc ia a public Bervico; in ink same Benue aa thejHchnol Byitemai health centera, public iibrarMfe; it Is not Ity. He looks tapon vocational tiabilitation; as a ‘legal right Abercrombie graduated from A&M in 1944 In I education and rural sociology. { He borrowed money for his fi^pt three years, but for his last ] two semesters here he went, 'ttnder the same program he how serves as coan- .selor. ^ A self-styled :tt|c5deht hazard, Abercrombie jilost :his arms railroad 'Accident vin Louisis to Merving A. ' C'; 'T r i;:. ,j |_i I 1 ■;; • Counselor Specializes to Help Themselves Pi t K-f" ■ I' • : mil.. -jr /• v. t 4^ |. : jJ : (■.. ber. li the offica also The office e inent to deter toremiM t»f men .applying for rt hnlililtatio) aeijvice. froiji teat re* Bulls aiul intcfvlewa Abercrombie serve# Winn Junior College in Hrenhamj Hraaoa. OHihea, Burle son ; and Washing to# countlee. [•ohioins timing eouip- ni|l»ie ahiliUOw ana In- liTfiy f ‘ i i|Vice, r rot tvlews; Ah deter mi hek what training procedure should be used iU help the Individ ual In nbulnlng employment. Tui tion In c< llegei or bOBlneBs, trade or tochnlcil school may be paid by (he rehnb lltnUen office if It ap peals that the itralnlhg-will enable the indivl lunlJHe liecome employ able and nelt-sppporltng. Other BervtceN available to thoee who need tlma include ■•ttfVkM ~ or ho« period W reduce pitaliznt Where it or reim i T t will substantially ove a static dl#-' bracenl wheel chairs, or surgery talization for a snort i ability. | j, g: Congress. paised the first Voca tional IRcjhabilijtatiori Act in 1920 but it wga not until -1943 when Public {Law 13 was passed that the scope of the program - was greatly -f - „ , E ^ expanded. All imen and women in I) in a Louisiana in this area jover 16 years of age who 1935. Before thgi he had been have a pOrmanient static disability struck by lightning and pronounc- which is an employment handicap ed dead by a pnjysician. To-the are eligible for services offered by doctor’s dismay, Abercrombie sur- A be rc non bie’s office if they can be vived the bolti, although it caused made em doyabk by the services, deafness in his bright ear. His Abercr >mbie| feels that there are father and one of liis brothers have many people in this area who are also been struck by lightning. eligible fjor the service he renders The Rehabilitation office of : but who io not know about it Em- College Station handles the busi- ployment or vocational handicaps ness, of rehabilitation for about that might make a person eligible for the service are arrested pul monary tuberculosis, diabetes, ner- diMfunotion or disfiguration, ex treme deafpess, severe speech Im pediment, 'osteomyelitis, curvature of the spine, organic heart disease, tuberculosis of the bone, and other dinabilitieii resulting from disease, accidents or congenital conditions. .Among AAM graduates that have received. rehabilitation servi ces U an engineering graduate who was employed by an engineering •firm In Oklahoma aa a salesman. Abeitromblr reports many other cmo’S of disabled men who were trained at AAM and went into Jobs at h good Munr upon graduation. AnMMF! of the AAM graduates went into Journalism upon comple tion of vrork here. After rehabilitation and place ment, Abercrombie’s Job ia offi cially finished, but he gains much satisfaction from seeing men he has counseled go into successful occupations. Abercrombie received a graduate certificate of social work from Louisiana State University after graduation from AAM. Later he came back to AAM for graduate work in rural sociology. He has been employed in public welfare work in Shreveport, Louisiana and as a probation officer in Houston’s Pelchin Faith Home and Childrens Bureau.. • •, j • j j • ; !: » ij ,1 i rvJ ^Wq .1' Prior to establishment of the College Station Office, Aber crombie served the College Sta tion area out of Waco on an iti nerant basis. The office was first : |located in Bizzell Hall on the campus but was moved to a permanent location in the PMA jBfuyding in November. Included in the office equipment is a telephone rack that enables Abercrombie to take notes on tele phone conversations. Andy Ander son, outdoor sports editor for.the Houston Press, helped design the instrument Abercrombie, his wife and four months old • daughter have made their home in this area since the office was moved here from Waco. Page 4 {t VI:- T f* mu — " SB! ov JPPW ECffMBER 16, 194S ^. 1 ' . -*• '5-* zzlen tion counselor, and james: m* Abercrombie, state re MRS. DOROTHIf iR. SHIPPER, secretary ^heck the files Of one of theiii clients who is attending A&M under the state rehabilitation program for the. training of disabled persons. WHITE HOUSE | I WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 <**>— Senator-elect Lyndon Johnson (D- Tcx) was a White House caller yesterday. After conferring with President Truman, Johnson told newsmen ho hud discussed proposed dams for the Colorado and Guadalupe rivers. Johnson said he had talked with Mai. Truman on the subject when the chief executive was In Texas, ami that he wanted to “bring him up to data.” He would not ela borate. j Johnson said the president "was very proud of the results”' of soil and water - conservation develop ments along the lower Colorado River in Texas, which he saw on his Texas tour. ^ ’I also told him the people were very grateful for his interest in developing the Brazos River Val ley. We also discussed plans for the Canadian River, Trinity, and other watersheds in Texas where flood control and soil conservation programs are in the offing.” ill' ''4 rV p > " r -,K| ‘j I;; -ji Santa Headquarters i3l L.s..-' Bring your ‘ Children ■( to Visit ; ' 1 ^anta ij 4 : ,; :[l.. || ,J il HE Is HERE! Thursday... Friday I Saturday 3 J?.M. TILL DARK ■ til 1 ; j , 608 S. Ave. * if f \: i T! 41 JOYCE’S TOGS’N "Bryan’s Most Complete Childrens Store” PrV P V]i - IV : P By DAVE C08LKTT Crazy from the hudkCflome beslde/t u drunk earthtibakc in T< fornia muat have afoot L week bi'caune thingspavrn’t jbHih ho pexeeable outside the Brnshs hot toms. fh:-: •]| A glance at hulletiwt front AP wire will Bubptfditttcptlfir stalomeni. It seems. ibid Jhe-wftkl er Isn’t the only eiity|u»l (jliil this week. Take the ,td front fdmnampla:! Vi 21 • f! |j Ft. Worth leads thif Sjirade wih two juicy news Itetnfc ^rlrst, a (fl- y*a‘r^)id mother wadllttflcrUdllyii a Twrint County gitkitij .iurV: bn chargee that she murttwed hcrhuli- bandj daughter and Mdipln-lnw by "mingling n strychnii» : ili thelRroe taken by the three. "Tjie-ilndictblinht, by the way, came atyDtH by Of fer through the newspaper to ap pear before the gratid jury so jUmt ihMiai-BMiM n. W'Hiem pjiRji ammsJr a fie News imlicted, ■ k in tried am lly cloarad, ft Worth MMaNMNl ted by the police tf disturbing the aiing the liquor is la Itself ia not i«pt for the fact t* happened to he i OMtrtct attomry f liquor control PjH ]: ■ also has Cnntrlbu .Tit emissal iiesday's rathe ■' A hulletl’ revealed ths [hit of KrnnkliT through a ent Iwft wit i'h in woKMess cheeks q ids, -Kflcinls had m the! 4 1 l i ( /. } Ji ' • / 1. J ■ ■ ’ ;> .. \ ' . . ; • *[{ H. J. MACK, left from Gatesville and J. T. MOORE, from Dallas inspect the vegetable display at the Horticulture Show, / The two students are members of the Horticulture Society. 184 A&M Students Named For Scholarship Honor Society Otis L. Robinson. WlHh* 1 ” P- mon, F. J. Safftrrphs Jr., Tl as R. Salters, Anthimj I., ardo, Benjamin E. Bch Wilburn E. Schulti, Dough Sewell, f. William Sejiforth, E. Shula, Robert B. Simi Vernon Smith, Robert L. Gene R. Summer! Terrell, arid Irvin ], More members fnoitt.tho School Of Engineering ar4 WllliapJ F. omas Jv., Ge« T P Tittle, Everett B. iTrirher, Phone 2-2864 The list of men recently elected to the Scholarship Honor Society has been re leased by Dr. W. A. Varvel, professor of Psychology. The men of this list were elected on the basty; of their records through the first six weeks of the sumfhar session. Membership in tlte Honor Socie ty is detenrtjned by the following requirements; Seniors must have completed at least si* semesters with q grade point ratio, of 2 or above. Juniors must have comple ted five semesters with a grade point tytiio of 2.26 or «bov<\ Any student who satifies these require ments and ty not included in the of\ list should contact Dr, Varvel the office of the Department Harry G. Boy ton, Richard D. Branum, Jack E. Brown, Quen- ton S. Bullock, Truman M. Byrd, Richard J. Carlton, Raymond M. Champion, Billy L; Couch, John Hall D* Gurno, arid Billie L. Dickenson. Also from the School of Engi neering are James H. Dismukes Jr. N. E. Eberspacher, Richard M. Ed- miston, Glenn Ellis, Harold B. Em ery, Robert B, Evans III, Wm. L. Evans .Kenneth E. Foster, Robert I). Foster, Giliig I* Fromme, Leon ard M. Gnbert, Houston I,. Gaddy Jr„ Oscar M, Garcia, Edwin G. Gibson, Vrirnnni H. Goodwin Jr., Gqorgu G, Greenwell, Erasmo T. Guerrero, Ripley B. Harwood, Wll- Education and Psychology, Room Hiam, H, Hawes, Norman C. lleffron 102, Academic Building. | . | Havty Ed. Howard, 1) 1). Itull, Ji DUes of the society are one dollar, and memherN receive a membership certificate and auto matic eligibility to purchase a key. A meeting of the society has been scheduled for shortly after the h^lidaya at which the new officers wiii be elected, Var vel added. Members of the Society from the Reboot of Agricultye include Robert F. Anderson. Joseph T. Asher, John; T. Atkinson, Albert Y. Blankenship, Lytle H. Blan kenship. Thcrin D. Carrol, Lem uel R. Case, Carl M. Cater, Har old E. Clark. Jack D. Crout, James F. Davis Jr., George K. Desha, Jack W. Donaldson, Wm. Leopold Fivel. Alonzo W. Gates, Charles Wayland Green, Patrick B. Hall, Webster M. Hutto, Ray ford G. Kay, Henry J. Keller, and James P. Kelley Jr. Others in the School of Agri culture are Carl R. Kemplin, Terrell T. McGee, Travis McD. McKenzie, Truman G. Martin, Rayburn E. Morgan; John D. Nixon, Charles H. Noland, John nie C. Oswald, Daniel C. Pfann- stiel, Grady E. Russell, Horace D. Stearman, William E. Steele Jr., James R. Stroope, Billy G. Survant, James F. Whaley, and Alfred L. Wheeler Jr. Members frdm the School of Arts and Sciences include Rich mond 0. Bennett, Jim M. Bevans Jr., Clifton J. Bolner, Paul H. Bow- din Jr., Roger R. Bradford, John F. Couch, John Ed. Dieb, James H. Edgar Jr., Antonio Haddad, Bur ton W. Hlnk Jr., Edward A. Hinkle, R. B. Krause, Herbert W. McDon ald, Noel F. Miller, Harry G. Mor gan, Donald L. Peters, Benjamin G. Sanders, John B. Singletary, James Neil Smith,.Clifford A. Tay lor,! Carroll C. Trail, and Lftvcllo Wolf. From the School of Engineer ing, 112 men are member*. These include William C. Abbey, James W. Alexander, Robert G. Alex ander, Maury A. Huhln. Henry C. Rail, Elbert R. Hauirh, Ken neth L. Berglund, Jack U. Hlann, C, M. Boatwright Jr., Kenneth II, Hobkoff, Everett A. Boyd, HOLIDAY 6 ; v ■ Good Smoking “V Hohhler. Charles I*. David K, Howell, Richard JumVH A. Hunter, Benju- min F. Huss, Jules J. Jacquin Jr., Jerome C. Kearby, William A. Keeler, Robert L. Klein and James W. Knox. Other members of the Society from the School of Engineering are Billy Langford, Lindsay f. Lipscomb, George A. I-owes, By ron L. Lyday, Hugh W. McClen- key, William C. McCord, Edwin McGhee, Charles 1. McGinnis, William J. Mannas, Harold D. Maylberry, Richard I). Melear, John H. Miller, Lucian L. Mor gan, Answell R. Morse, Jon Tho mas Moss, Charles G. Munden, George C. Murtishaw, Edward J. Operateny, Homer C. Osborne, August J. Otte, A ,G. Pinson, James V, Proffitt, Alton H. Pur dy, Edwin P, Redondo, Bob Har old Reed, Richard i C. Richardson. John J. Rlha, Cloyd M. Roberta, Thomas ;J^., Georgfc|L?riefe]j[ iJi D. Tittle, Everett B. ;Tqrher, f*b.' Ft Unrierriner Jr., Wi|UaJh E. « er,: Arnold M. Walkojy, Thi R. Wathen, Paul L^Wbardej ly W. Weinlaml Williarii E. er, James M. Willrama.'Bill Ui w™ Richard O. Worngt, .Hubert H. Wright, and Fifed A; 1 ; Zimmerman jr. fiM m: Scholarship Hrinqr Society members from the School .of Veterinary MedieijiC iticlui roy H. fiiebcl, James. E. 1 Robert Hunger JjL jRobei Kilgore Jr., “ ^ ' Jr., Thomas Me Ada Giebel, James. E. Hobon, /Hanger Jg t , 4tobqi¥ If* Jr., RobirtjfW. Lowe, >mas W. Lylo^, A«le w C. .Hubert ro is ti big Intonuitional Truck doing a biV job taking huge logs out of tho woods to a sawmill where they will bo cut inttrJumlier for much-needed homes, I s Li*; mm i a si K IS i&J. ,3 w Applied social scienc 1. Customers 2. Employes ~ 3* Stockholdc , f t IP : Li 1 •j'; ; r • 1 ,1 I j : j . ' i J -i r I f 'r j* [\: t takes big companies to turn out nnd service equipment like this. At International Harvester we have the idea that when a company grows be^ yond a certain size, it becomes a social aa well as InufineHs institution. And that aa a soclhl institution it has cer tain well-dehned responsibilities, 80 we like to think that this picture is an illustration of applied Httcial science, Tho employes built the truck, but it would not have been built if the customers had not wanted to buy it, nor would it have been built if the stockholders had not furnished Har- .* veater with the necessary capital. At International Harveeter we be lieve that our business should be run not for any one of these groups alone, but for ajl of them together .. . cus tomer, employe, and stockholder. For our employes, this policy means providing well-paid jobs to the largest Dumber of men and women who can U : I ' • 'i-; ■ hi p Jgl ■ __ be productively employed. Todajj we have more than 90,000 empinyes.' 10 " fore the war we had 60,000. The aver age straight-time hourly earningifi. of our factory employes have inert 02.6'I since 1941. For our customers, it means jprof > ducing the host possible goods |iiU(t stirvices at the lowest possible loistl:, Our margin of profit on siiIon tuti|iy ls ; one-third leas than in 1941, For our stockholders, it me. fair return for the savings they invested in our Company. Divl on common stock in 1947 were lent to 6% on. the book v compared with 4% in 1941.' ' '' >h ll:, |B ' i,/ INTERNATIONAL i/1 ■/ Cwhpkny da ftitr taxfH, in ach dollar of ' le reg ird I prolilt. ijtii a rHHii»|. ni M "'■V i i f- i whole had pr 17, of 5H cent lies. We b('li( this as a rcaso* | continuing al ibid profit th] for Interim Hot tfl^jagahj in ilila past year, panic customers, or sNjtikboMers in gr |.qaoN» p for everyone. ubl v to continue miblo profit .with oac in the future j ■ • ; . »n> wmi—HM—iwva—u—wwr< >I>:1 m I \M LINOIS i ■■niMiHnamni w>r..i