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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1953)
organ JNamed to Succeed Harrington as President ft Story in Column 5 | Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent fi Local Residents The Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1953. Published By A&M Students For 75 Years Price Five Cents ^ Kr 87: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Ag-gieland), TEXAS TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1953* Price Five Cents -nothing Rains Lift County Outlook Street Program Will Eliminate • # • ID LIEUTENANT RAYMOND C. NUTT of Bryan, r ith|the diminutive pet of pilots of the 4th fighter- Dtor wing at an air base in Korea. The lieutenant's es at 1003 Travis Street, Bryan. • « il*—: Million Pledged r Drouth Relief ,NGTON, June 30—<^P>— * Sion dollars for emergen- t relief for Texas and was promised Monday ent [Eisenhower, r 152 counties in Texas Oklahoma. inties are to be named of Agriculture Benson, I fillEith Eisenhower just be- l % announcement, said would bo taken iminedi- fgency feed products will available to livestock at a level somewhat be- pport level” for the cot- ke, corn and other feeds 7he feeds will come from of the Commodity Credit n and any losses to the , , . be made up from the ; emergency fund, ^resident will ask the Tn- ommerce Commission to s Needed ew Summer * * ;tta Spectacle permit railroads to lower freight rates on feed going into the drought area or on cattle being shipped out to regions where feed is available. Benson said that extension of credit for the farmers and ranch men will be covered in another program which hb v hopes to an nounce later this week. Benson made a personal survey of the ravages of the Texas drought last week end and talked to farmers and ranchmen. Meanwhile, Representative Clark Thompson of Galveston, Tex., an nounced a House Agriculture Sub committee will fly to Texas this week for a drought inspection. Senator Lyndon Johnson of Tex as and 11 co-sponsoring senators introduced a “Drought Disaster Relief Act.” It would authorize government loans to faihners and ranchers at four per cent interest and would provide for federal pur chase of feed and other supplies for resale to farmers. Rain fell in East Texas Monday, but there was no hope of enough to do any good in West Texas, Hie worst drouth area. Traffic Tie-ups Traffic congestion on Spence Street will be reduced when the double road, now under construc tion, is completed, according to C. K. Leighton, College Construc tion Engineer. The new thoroughfare extends south from the traffic circle, cut ting through the golf course after passing the System Administration Building. Bizzell Street will be widened in front of the building to allow ad ditional space for 45 degree angle parking, and will be extended south to Jersey Street. At this point, a safety feature of the new streets is introduced. A new section of Jersey will be built, paralleling the present street, and providing a by-pass in front of Consolidated School. The old sec tion of paving will then serve as a loading zone for. school busses. Traffic will be routed around on the new by-pass, reducing accident hazards near Consolidated. Concrete paving will be used on the double street from the traffic circle to the Administration Build ing, because of the heavier traffic in this area. The other street will be surfaced with a gravel base and asphalt top. Contractors are the L. H. Lacey Company of Dallas. The new streets, part of a mas ter development plgn of the Col lege, are scheduled for completion before September 1 at a cost of $138,775.77, Leighton said. Other improvements to be made at this time include re-surfacing of Spence Street between Lamar and Ross. The south section of Spence is to be torn out, making room for recreation grounds for the New Dorm area. Holes 9 and 18 of the golf course, cut off from the rest of the course by the n^w. double road, will become pi’acti^e greens. Two new greens to replace them have already been built. Old practice greens will be moved a short dis tance south of their present loca tion. Of/, Gas, Mineral Lease Confirmed The board of directors of the A&M has confirmed an oil, gas and mineral lease to Thomas Jor dan Inc., of 1,417 acres of land in the W. Goodrich Jones State Forest near Conroe. The bid, at public auction, was for $3 an acre, totaling $4,251. The land was conveyed to the state for the use and benefit of A&M in its reforestry demonstra tion under the Department of For estry by Richard H. John, inde pendent executor of the estate of Paulina J. John. P uluction of “Pirates of to| be presented at the ( y jl4th and 15th at 8 full swing. ner, the director, is an it summer operettas for has previously produced ’, |“Chocolate Soldier”, lafore”, and “The Mi- 1 is well known over the p director of the Singing : fSouth’s finest male e has a Master’s Degree rom North Texas State id also studied in New .vith Fred Waring. i Barron, “Billie Jean”, ; director this year. She he lead in most of the iriven in previous years, gl-nlughl in the Bryan School 5^1 is now a private music d director of the First 1 () Church Choir in Bryan. (JO^e setting will be design- Wimdabelle Wise. Miss from Hobbs, New Mex- n|J|lnd I college at TSCW in nbw advertising man- iester’s Smart Shop, in 0 poll 11 P Husick will assist with truction. George hails ston and has his degree from A&M. He is tak- nJlJlite work this summer v ix-wise taking an active dent activities. - . Armistead Is Named Dean Of Veterinary Medicine Dr. W. W. Armistead, 36-year- old professor of Veterinary Medi cine and Surgery at A&M Satur day was named Dean of Vetei-inai-y Medicine," to head the combined teaching, research and extension activities in this field for the A&M System. On September 1 he will succeed Dean I. B. Boughton, who has asked to be relieved of his executive duties because of his health. Dr. Boughton will devote his time to teaching and research. Dr. Ax-mistead, whose appoint ment was jointly x’ecommended by the heads of the Agidcultural Ex- pei’iment Station, Agricultural Ex tension Sex-vice, School of Agx-icul- ture and the vice-chancellor for Agriculture, with approval of the chancellor, was named to his new position by the boax-d of directors of A&M. A native of Detroit, Michigaxx, Dr. Armistead x-eceived his high school education in Texas, gradu ating fx-om John H. Reagan High School in Houston. He received his D.V.M. degree from A&M in 1938, x-eceived a Master of Science from Ohio State University iix 1950 i and has just returned from the, University of Minnesota, where he completed coux-se work, residence and preliminary examinations for his Ph.D. The new head of Veterinary Medicine for the A&M System spent two years in private prac tice at Dallas, upon graduation from college, then returned to A&M as an instructor in 1490. He was promoted to assistant profes sor in 1942 before entering mili- tax-y service with the Vetex-inary Cox-ps as a first lieutenant. He attained the x-ank of major before his discharge in 1946, after service including Noxth Africa and Italy. He became a full professor in 1947. Dr. Ax-mistead is a well-known contx-ibutor to technical publica tions in his field and since 1950 has been one of the three editors of The North American Vetex-ina- i-ian, technical journal published monthly at Evanston, Illinois. Ac tive in many scientific organiza tions, Dx\ Armistead served as president of the State Veterinax-y Medical Association of Texas in 1947-48. Dining Schedule Altered by MSC The MSC dining room will be closed on Satuxdays and will be open only for noon and evening meals on Sundays for the re mainder of the summer. The building will be closed completely after 5 p.m. on July 3 and all day July 4. Beginning July 5, the main lounge and din ing room will open at 11:30 a.m. and will close at 2:30 p.m. This will be the only ax-ea open, ex cept the fountain room which will be open fx-om 3:30 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. On July 11, however, the din ing x*oom ’will be open because of a swimming meet being held here. Reason for the dining room’s close is because many summer students go home on weekends and it is not px-actical to remain open, said Wayne Stax-k, MSC director. Rural Churches Open Three-day Program Today Participants in the Eighth An nual Rural Church Program at A&M—expected to be the largest in the program’s history — began arriving Tuesday for a busy three days. Aside fx-om the regular’ discus sions and conferences pertaining to improvement methods for xural churches—the conference topic is “How to Develop a Stable Farm Population and Permanent Rui’al Civilizatioxx”—they will hear out standing industx-ialists and busi ness leaders; watch prizes and cer tificates awarded to wiixners of the State Church Improvement Con test, and hear plans for sending a shipload of supplies to refugees in Gei-many. “Px-e-x-egistration for the confer ence was considerably larger than any in the px-eceding seven confer ences,” Dr. Dan Russell, chairman of the program, said. Outstanding business leaders who will appear on the program include E. B. Gei-many, president of Lone Star Steel Co., R. R. “Bob” Smith, oil opex-ator and civic leader in Houston; John Harmon of the Southern Manufactux-ing Association; William Shepard of Alcoa, and Dooley Dawson of the Second National Bank of Houston. Awards in the state Church Im provement Coxxtest, sponsored by Seax-s, Roebuck and Co., will be presented during a luncheon Wed nesday. Executive Board membex-s and guests of the Christian Rux-al Overseas Pi’ogram attended a din ner Tuesday to plan the sending of a shipload of supplies to refugee families in Germany. The ship, to leave the port of Houston about Aug. 1, will carry powdered milk, butter, cheese, wheat, rice, cocoa, old clothes and other supplies. In addition, 65 dairy heifers will be aboax-d for distribixtion among refugee fami lies placed on German farms. Local Democrats To Hear National Chieftain Thursday Local Democrats will have axx op portunity to hear Stephen A. Mit chell, National Democx-atic Chair man, at a luncheon Thursday at 1 p.m. in the Maggie Pax-ker dining hall in Bryan. Monday in Abilene, Mitchell op ened his six-day tour of Texas by asking Texans to return to the par ty and regain their con gx-essional prestige. Stating that Texas could be proud of having the minority leaders in both houses, Mitchell ad ded that the state Could have the majox-ity leaders in a Democratic- controlled Congress. The invitations sent out by Judge W. S. Barron call fox’ reservations for the luncheon to be made with him no latex’ than Tuesday. There was some comment that this lunch eon may finally sepax-ate the Dem ocrats from the Republicans in this area. 3 Inch Downpour Restores Life to Crops, Grasslands Fireworks Display Set For City Picnic A fireworks display will high light the College Station commun ity picnic to be held Thui-sday, at the Consolidated A&M High School football field. A softball game, starting at 5:15 p.m., will be the first event of the evening. It will be played by the two leading teams in the College Station Recreation Council Soft- ball League. The picnic will stax-t at 7:15 p.m. Each family is expected to bxing their own picnic supper and blank ets which they may wish to spx-ead. Refx-eshments will be available and xnay be pux’chased at the picnic. A fix-eworks display, beginning at 8:15 p.xn. will be held on the football field. Raymond Rogers will be in chai’ge of the display. In line with the many requests turned in by the College'Station citizens, every attempt is being made to have a bigger and better display than was exhibited last year, announced R. L. Skrabanek, picnic committee chaix-man. About 1,000 pex-sons attended last year. Every year a number of young sters substain injuries fx-om im proper handling of firewox-ks, and College Station x’esidents have reasons for not allowing their children to buy them. This year, however, they have a good substitute for the tradmorial July 4th celebration in the fire wox-ks display. The display will be properly han dled under adult supexwision arid the sponsox-ing, Recreation Council has assux-ed the city that it is a safe and sane way to get the best results oxxt of fire works. Dr. David Morgan Brazos County fax-mex-s and stockmen wex-e breathing a lot easier Txxesday after soothing rains Monday measuring as much as four inches in places x-estox-ed life to parched crops and grasslands. The rains started to fall at 12 midnight Sunday and by 5 p.m. Monday weather bux-eaU officials at Eastex-wood Airpox-t had record ed three inches. Scattered thun dershowers were .px-edicted to con tinue Tuesday. Rainfall varying from one to four inches was reported in most areas over the eastern half of Texas. Farmexs along the Bi'azos River who have rain gauges on their propexty reported as much as four inches. Austin had more than an inch and Dallas, .98 inches. Most immediate consequence of the downpour, outside of breaking a loxxg heat wave and sending many x-esidents x-ushing to close their windows, was an upsurge of cattle pxices in Brenham. It was report ed that in the Bx-enham Auction Rixxg Monday px-ices jumped on an average of $2.50 per head. A sizeable dent was made in the neax’ly three-month-old drouth with new corn and gx-ain sorghum crops standing to benefit the most. The cotton ci-op was also given a boost. “The lain certainly came at a most oppox-tune time,” said G. G. Mrs. Slaughter Resigns Position In Student Center Mi's. Myx-tle Slaughter, executive house keeper of the MSC, resigned effective July 1, announced Wayne Stai'k, director of the MSC. Mrs. Slaughter has been em ployed by the MSC as the execu tive house keeper since October of 1951. She came to the MSC from the Los Angeles, Califoxnia area whex-e she had been employed by St. Vin cent’s Hospital in Long Beach, The Community Hospital, Los An geles, The Kplani Hospital, Hono lulu, Hawaii, and othei’s. Active in community affairs, she has participated in the Daughters of the Amex-ican Republic, Bi’yafi and College Station Business and Professional Club, The Knife and Foxk Club, and The St. Thomas Episcopal Church of Bx-yan and College Station. “Mrs. Slaughter has wox-ked hax-d and has shown untiring de votion to duty,” commented Stark. Her plans at present are to re- tux-n to her home in Los Angeles. Mrs. Slaughter’s successor has not been announced. Gibson, head of the extension serv ice, “and has saved untold dollars on cx-ops and grasslands.” Re garding an estimated amount of rain needed to break the dx-outh, Gibson laughed and said: “We just need mox-e.” Farmers wex-e of mixed opin ions as they saw the water fall. George G. Chance, 102 South Park er, remarked: “It’s just a life- saver.” Others said the same and still others merely gx-inned. Thex-mometex-s wex-e sent spin ning by the cool fx-ont. Students who went to bed the night before sweating from heat woke up the next mox-ning feeling unseasonably chilly. Some students even thought ■of bx-inging out blankets. The x-ain also brought a few minor inconveniences. Around the campus, groans could be heard from those students who got “stuck” going to classes. Othex-s who tided to make it back to the dormitory wex-e seen with that “washed out appearance.” Slippei'y streets in Dallas caus ed 40 minor traffic accidents Mon day afternoon. However, most people were elat ed to see the rainfall. General opinion was that “these sunny days ax-e all x’ight but it wouldn’t take many of them to x-uin us all.” Turkish Group Studying Farm Methods Here A gx-oup of 25 Turkish farm di rectors, veterinai’ians and animal husbandry specialists arrived on the A&M campus June 22. They ax-e participating in a se ries of studies Which will bring more than 60 Turkish agricultural leaders to the United States this summer under the auspices of the Mutual Security Agency and the Turkish govex-nment. The 25-man gx-oup includes 10 state farm dix-ectors studying crop production, soil improvement tech niques and modex-n methods of seed production, and 15 vetex-inaxians and livestock farm directox-s ex amining livestock production and breeding methods and the eradica tion and control of animal diseases. The veterinax-ians and livestock bx-eeding farm directors are fol lowing a joint itinerary, and are scheduled to make both combined studies and individual observations within each sub-group. After pai’- ticipating in a program here, which lasts until July 31, their itinex-ax-y continues as follows: Colox-ado A&M College, Fort Col lins, Colo., Aug. 3-14; University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyo., Aug. 17-28. Morgan Named A&M Head Dr. David Hitchens Morgan, 44- yeax-old native Virginian, was named Saturday to become the 14th px-esident of A&M. He will take office on Sept. 1, when Dr. M. T. Harx-ington steps up from the col lege presidency to chancellox-ship of the A&M System. Dr. Morgan has been a member of the A&M staff since August of 1952, coming here from Colorado A&M where he was dean of the college. At the Colorado school John 0. Chenault Designs Church John O. Chenault, ’49, designed the recently opened educational building of the Woodlawn Chi’istian Chux-ch, San Antonio, which is fea tured in the cux-x-ent issue of World Call, intex-national magazine for Disciples of Christ. The article contains several photographs of the interior of the building, and cites the attx-active yet inexpensive materials used in the structure. Chenault is married to the for mer Miss Alice Tiek of East Alton, 111., and they live in San Antonio with their three children. His parents ax*e Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Chenault, College Hills in College Station. he had sex-ved six and a half years, x-ising from the position of head of the Department of Psychology and Education and director of the sum mer school to that of Dean of the College and Dean of the Gi’aduate School. Born Jan. 2, 1909, at Portsmouth, Va., he received his education in Califox-nia, graduating from the Pasadena Junior College in 1930, taking his A.B. in mathematics at Occidental College in 1932 and his M.A. in mathematics at the Uni versity of California in 1933. He took his Ph. D. in Educational Ad ministration from the University of California in 1938. The president-elect of A&M is married and has two daughters, Ann, 3 8, and Dale, 12. Mrs. Mor- Heat Beater Bob Mayfield, College Station poultryman, spi’inkles the roofs of his poultx-y houses in oxder to keep the houses cooler. At the present time only two lawn spx-inkling-type hoses are be ing used on two houses. The hoses are attached to the x-idge row on top of the house so the water may run off carrying as much heat as possible. The system has only been in op eration a short time, therefore no results have been obtained, accord ing to Mayfield. gan is a native New Yoxker, gx-ad- uate of New Yox-k State College, with a Masters degree fx-om Van- dei-bilt and post-graduate study abroad. Dr. Morgan is an elder of the Presbyterian Church at Col lege Station. In addition to affil iations with many scientific and learned societies he is on the coun cil of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies. This year he was selected by the student newspapex-. The Battalion, as one of the six outstanding membex-s of the college faculty. Camera Club Meets Tonight The MSC Camex-a Club will hold an oi’ganizational meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday night in the Social Room of the MSC. W. H. (Bill) Clayton, graduate student and president of the MSC Camera Club, will preside at the meeting. This will be an organi zational meeting for students and faculty members who wish to par ticipate in photogx-aphy. The hours that the dark room will be open will be discussed at the meeting according to Wayne Stark, MSG Director.