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THE BATTALION
Tuesday, July 21, 1953
Dowdy Begins Career
As Tall Tale Teller
Cattlemen
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the regulations that only persons
who would take a “pauper’s oath”
would be eligible. He urged imme
diate modification.
In Washington Eep. W. R. Poage
(Dem.) of Texas commented that
the directive amounted to a “paup
er’s oath” in his opinion. He and
Rep. Clark Fisher- (Dem.) of Tex
as criticized the regulation as be
ing "discriminatory.”
McCan said that othex-wise the
drouth relief program appeared to
be working smoothly with feed-
stuffs moving rapidly into the
drouth ai - ea. He said the commit
tee would make evexy effort to
see that disti'ibution was equitable
both as to counties and to indi
viduals in the counties.
“But unless we can get this di
rective changed it looks like there
won’t be too many eligible to re
ceive aid,” McCan said.
McCan said he relayed the wii’e
from Coke on to county chah'man
without comment as soon as it was
x’eceived since as head of a USDA
committee he was obligated to fol
low the insti’uctions.
In Wichita Falls, Waller Foster,
chaii'man of the Wichita County
committee, said that a carload of
x-elief feed that was to be distrib-
Play Night Open
To All - White
All students, faculty, and facul
ty childi’en are invited to attend
the Play Nite each Wednesday
night at the Grove, Spike White
has announced.
Skating, pingpong, badminton,
shuffle boaid, volleyball and danc
ing ai'e available, and skates may
be i-ented for a nominal fee, White
said.
Activities begin at 7:45 and last
until 10:00 p.m.
uted Tuesday would stand on the
By Drouth
The yearly 130 - million pound
pecan industry in Texas has not
been seriously harmed to date by
the drouth, Harry Cross of Green
ville, president of the Federated
Pecan Growers’ Association of the
United States said this week at
A&M.
“Howevei-,” he said, “the ef
fects of the drouth will not be
known for another year.”
The pecan industry, which is
“gi’owing by leaps and bounds in
Texas,” Ci'oss declared, “thidves
in the x-ive bottoms and in sub-
iringated lands.” There are some
set-out oi'chai'ds, too, he pointed
out.
The annual production of pecans
in the United States is 130 mil
lion pounds, Ci’oss said and the
average price per pound is 25
cents.
“Demand for Texas pecans is
greater than the supply, due to
the high calory content. Eighty
per cent of the pecans produced
in Texas ai’e from native trees,”
he pointed out.
There ax-e thousands upon
thousands of acres of undeveloped
pecan trees in Texas ready to be
tapped, representing a varitable
gold mine, Ci’oss said. “Trees 30
to 40 years old, four to an acre,
will produce 500 pounds of pecans
a tree per yeai’,” he declared.
Aggie-Ex Holder
Solos for Navy
Naval Aviation Cadet George R.
Holder, of 4710 Homei’, Dallas, and
foi'mer Aggie, recently made his
first solo flight at the Naval Aux-
iliai’y Station, Whiting Field, Fla.
Accoi’ding to an official navy
news release, he will now receive
instructions in precision air work
and aex-obatics along with his reg
ular solo flights.
tracks at Iowa Pai'k until applica
tions could be reconsidexed.
Officials said the order would
virtually eliminate about 90 per
cent of the applicants in Wichita
County because most of them are
big operators and xeadily admit
they won’t go out of business with
out the feed.
In Washington the Agriculture
Department said earlier that in an
nouncing the feed px'ogram it said
it was designed to “maintahx basic
fo\mdation herds for those bonafide
farmers and stockmen who do not
have finances to purchase feed at
px-evailing market px-ices to main
tain such herds and remain in the
livestock business with a reason
able chance for successful opex'a-
tions.”
Taylor Graduated
From Bryan AFB
Second Lieutenant Carter G.
Taylor, whose hometown address
is 402 S. Main St., Irving, Texas,
was the 1,000th pilot to be gx-ad-
uated from the Bx-yan Air Fox - ce
Base basic jet pilot school since
the activation of the base. He
was awax-ded the silver wings of
an Air Fox-ce pilot at ceremonies
thex'e on July 15.
Lt. Taylox’, 23, graduated from
Nox-th Dallas High School in 1947
and x-eceived his Bachelor of Sci-
exxce degx-ee in chemical engineei’-
ing fx-om A&M in 1951.
Entering the aviation cadet pro
gram in May 1952, Lt. Taylox' was
fix-st assigned to Stallings Air
Base, N. C., for px*imary pilot tx-ain-
ing. Fx'om there he transferred
to Bryan AFB, for basic single
engine (jet) tx-aining.
Mrs. Taylor, the former Betty
Jo Boswell, has been making her
home at 506 N. College Ave.,
Bx-yan, while Lt. Taylox- has been
taking pilot training. Lt. Taylor
has beexx granted a delay enroute
before x-epox-ting to another Air
Force base for advanced jet tx-ain
ing.
Says Cross
The pecan industx-y hx Texas got
its commercial start in 1885, when
E. E. Riesen of San Saba did the
first propagation work. His son,
E. G. Riesen has carried on this
industry since his father’s death.
Four to five million pounds of
pecans are produced yearly in the
San Saba axea.
In Texas the pecan industry is
healthy and wealthy—and growing,
Cross said.
More than 100 persons re
presenting every phase' of the in
dustry are attending the 32nd an
nual convention of the Texas
Pecan Gx-owex-s’ Association being-
held here. Ted Bx-umbalow of
Gx-eenville, is president, Cross vice-
px-esident and John E. Hutchison
of A&M’s department of horti
culture, is secretary-treasurer.
Former Aggie Gets
.Navy Wings, Bars
Lieutenant William J. Nox-th, Jx\,
fox-mer Aggie, recently was awax-d-
ed the “Wings of Gold” of a naval
aviatox-, and a commission as a
Second Lieutenant ixx the Marines.
Lt. Nox-th, son of Mx-. and Mx-s.
W. J. Nox-th of Route 2B, Waxa-
hachie, will go to Corpus Chxlsti
for further tx-aining befox-e x-eport-
ing for duty at the Max-ine Corps
Air Station, El Tox-o, Calif.
He attended A&M prior to en-
tex-ing the Naval Aviation Cadet
px-ogi-am thi*ough the Naval Air
Station, Dallas.
Cex-emonies wex-e attended by his
parents and financee Betty Wil
liams, who pinned Lt. Nox-th’s
wings on his unifox-m after the
presentation was made by Rear
Admiral J. P. Whitney, USN, Chief
of the Naval Air Basic Training
Station at Pensacola, Fla.
By TEX EASLEY
AP Special Washingtoxx Service
Washington, July —(iP)—Some
of the best story tellex-s Congress
has ever seen have come from
East Texas, and fx-eshman Rep.
John Dowdy of Athens is off to
a good stax-t.
For example, Dowdy got up dur
ing a House floor debate to op
pose the cx-eation of a new Assist
ant Postmaster General position
paying $15,000 yearly.
He pointed out sevex-al pertinent
facts, observing that the govern
ment laid off 20,000 employees ixx
Mai-ch as an economy move, but
that dux-ing the same month sal
aries incx-eased by 60 million dol-
lax-s.
A lot of new high-salaried jobs
already had been created during
the past few months, he said.
These included one new secx-etax-y-
ship paying $22,500 a year; two
new undex-secretax-yships, $17,000
yeax-ly each; 12 new assistant sec-
x-etax-y positioxxs, $15,000 each; one
Protection Of
Elderly Patient
Is Health Aim
The State Department of Health
moved recently to make sure that
all nux-sing and convalescent homes
in Texas are looking after the
health and safety of their elderly
x*esi dents.
Acting under authority granted
by the last legislatux-e, the health
department mailed licensing appli
cation forms to several hundred
operators, all of whom must xxow
conform to humane standards of
opex-ation or close their doox-s.
As state health officex-, Dr. Geo.
W. Cox is administrator of the new
licensing law. These are its terms:
Any establishment which pro
vides services which meet some
need beyond basic provisions of
food and shelter and laundry, must
apply for an operation license from
the State Depax-tment of Health.
Hospitals, hotels and similar in
stitutions ai - e not included. Nor
are homes conducted by or for ad
herents of a religious order who
depend exclusively on prayer or
spix-itual means for healing.
Application fees have been set
by the legislatux-e at $25 per yeax - ,
plus $1 for each bed maintained by
the home. Eees will be applied to
paying administx-ative costs of the
law.
The health agency has the auth
ority to make inspections on homes
and to x-evoke licenses for shoddy
opex-ation. Home operators can file
grievance complaints in district
court in any instance of unfair ox-
arbitrary treatment by the admin-
istratox-s of the law.
1. There are vacancies on the
faculty of the Rio Grande City
Independent School District, Rio
Grande City, Texas, for teachex-s
of social sciexxce, physical educa
tion for boys, math and sciexxce.
History, economics, physical edu
cation, mathematics and biology
majors may qualify for these var
ious teaching positions.
2. East Centx-al State College at
Ada, Oklahoma is ixx need of a
young man with a Master’s Degree
or Doctox-’s Degx-ee to teach Phy
sics dux ing the two semestex s 1953-
54, in place of one of their regular
faculty members who is in mili-
taxy service at px-esent. Thex-e is
a possibility that the position might
prove to be a permanent one if
they find the right man.
3. A graduate civil engineer who
has had tx-ajixing in municipal exx-
gineering and design wox-k is need
ed by the City of Victoria, Texas.
This job will eventually lead to
the position of City Engineer. Ex-
pex-ience is not xxecessax-y.
4. There is a regular teaching
position open as of September 15
for a pex-son to teach accountixxg,
business machines, and related sub
jects at Texas State College fox*
Woxxxexx at Denton, Texas. Posi
tion will carx-y the rank of In-
stx-uctor or Assistant Px-ofessor de
pending upon qualifications. They
prefer someone straight fx-om col
lege with a Doctorate, second px-e-
ference would be someone with a
Mastex*s and C.P.A., and minimum
x-equirement would be the Master’s
ixx Business Education.
5. Axx instx-uctor for high school
xxxath with a minor in mechaxxical
dx-awixxg is xxeeded at Westex-n Mil
itary Academy at Alton, Illinois.
Western has a stx-ong math tradi
tion x-equiring four yeax-s of high
school math and needs a man to
fit into such a progx-am. They
will pay tx-aveling expexxses fox-
candidates to investigate the school
and cax-ry on coxxfex-ences.
6. Burbank High School at San
Antonio, Texas has an opening On
their faculty for a journalism ;
teacher.
new commissioner, $14,800; one
new managing dix-ectox-, $17,500,
and one new deputy dix-ectox-, $16,-
000.
“The matter of cx-eating all these
new bux-eaucx-acies,”* Dowdy con
tinued, “x-eminds me of a stox-y I
heard not long ago about an argu
ment between a sux-geon, an engi
neer, and a bureaucrat as to which
of their px-ofessions was the first
to be known in the history of man.
“The surgeon maintained it was
the surgeons because the fii*st
thing recorded in the Bible is about
God opex-ating on Adam, removing
the x-ib and cx-eating Eve.
“The engineer said ‘no’, that en-
gineex-s came before physicians and
sux-geons because you will recall
that the Bible states that God
cx-eated the earth out of chaos.
“The bux-eaucrat spoke up and
s^id: ‘We came fii-st, because we
created chaos’.’’
CS Florists
Go to School
In Ft. Worth
Most people go to conventions
to have a little fun, but two
College Station flox-ists went to
a convention last week to go to
school.
They were Mr. A. F. DeWex-th
and Mx-. Leon J. Tolle of A&M.
A school of design boasting a
faculty of the nation’s outstand
ing floral designex-s was the fea
ture of the 40th annual conven
tion of the Texas State Florists
Association July 13, 14 and 15
in Fort Worth. More than 1,000
Texas florists attended the state
wide meeting.
In addition, Prof. Paul R.
Krone of the depax-tment of hor
ticulture at Michigan State Col
lege and Tolle of A&M depart
ment of floi'iculture conducted
seminars on various phases of
x-unning an efficient flower shop.
Featured as instructors at the
design school wex-e flox-al special
ists from New York, Illinois,
Georgia and Texas, who bx-ought
the latest ideas in floral design
to the convention.
Instxuctors pointed out that
floral arrangements ax-e not
hodge-podge affairs but ax-e ac
tually problems in engineering.
They also reported that tx-adi-
tion is being discax-ded in bx-idal
bouquets and that the old-fash
ioned bulky bouquet of lilies of
the valley and white x-oses is
being replaced by the stylized
bouquet designed fox* the indi
vidual bxide. Pastel coloi-s are
replacing the traditional white,
and many bx-ides are making use
of Happiness Roses, a red, vel
vety flowex - , in planning their
wedding bouquets.
7. The Big Spx-ing Independent
School Disti'ict, Big Spx-ing, Texas
is in need of a physics-chemistry
combination teacher and mathe
matics teacher in their Senior High
School, and a mathematics teacher
in their Junior High School. Math
ematics, chemistx-y and physics ma
jors may qualify.
8. There ax-e two openings for
merchandisers with the Dr. Pepper
Company in Dallas. They prefer
single men between ages of 24
and 35 and they must have “sales
aptitude” and a desix-e for a sales
career. Thex-e will be a tx-aining
period of appi-oximately thx*ee
weeks in Dallas. Duties would be
contacting chain stoi*e buyex-s, mex--
chandising managers, etc . with
vax-ious promotional plans and con
tacting retail stox-e management
explaining vax-ious sales px-omo-
tions. There is an extensive amount
of travel involved and automobile
and expenses are furnished. Busi
ness administx-ation and agi-icul-
tural economics majoi's may quali
fy.
Seed Varieties
Developed Here
Shown Seedsmen
The development of new vax-iet-
ies of seeds by A&M scientists was
shown some 30 seedsmen from
over the state at the Seedsmen’s
Shoi*t Coux-se held hei-e recently.
The new varieties include those
of coin, wheat, grasses and oats.
The factox-s of px-oduction, insect
control and use of fertilizer was
also outlined at the meeting.
Some of the new varieties will
be x-eady for use soon, while others
will be x-eady within the next two
years.
A new variety of oats seed,
pax-ticularly for south Texas, dx-ew
widespx-ead interest, Dr. R. C. Potts ;
cf A&M’s agronomy department,
announced. Dr. Potts was in charge
of the short course.
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BIRTH OF A LAKE—The reservoir site constructed for Lake Stamford,
welcomed its first supply of water from flooding tributaries after heavy rak,
the southeastern Haskell county area and sent the water gushing into t ; . w bln
lake, bone dry until last Tuesday, eventually will supply water to Stamforc, x t meet
and to the new West Texas Utilities Co. generating plant. i;
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Spudders Hand Agronomy Departma
Bryan Majors
5th Loss in Row
Search for Bruch id
Axx easy grounder to shortstop
Chico Bax-cello suddenly bounded
high over his head, and the gates
were opened to a deluge of seven
uneax-ned runs in the second inning
as the Wichita Falls Spuddex-s
rolled to a 10-4 win last night at
Travis Park.
The loss was the fifth straight
for the Majox-s, and the eighth in
their last nine staxts.
Southpaw Charlie Higham went
the distance for the Spudders,
scattex-ing nine hits while walking
two and sticking out six. Joe
Pipak, the first of four Bryan
pitchers, was charged with the
loss. Pipak walked in two xuns
before being relieved by Richard
Flynn, but Flynn walked in the
third run of the inning.
Wichita Falls combined 13 hits
with seven walks to pick up the
win.
The two teams meet tonight in
the sex-ies finale,' followed by a
two-game stand with Texarkana
on Wednesday and Thursday and
Longview on Friday and Saturday
to wind up the seven day home
stand for the Majoi's.
Small Animal
Clinic Moves
The Small Animal Clinic will
move to new quarters with the
rest of the Vetex-inary activities,
W. W. Armistead, professor of
vetex-inary medicine and surgery
has announced.
“The exact date of the move is
not yet known, but the goal is to
be in the new buildings by fall,”
said Armistead. The clinic will be
operated continuously, even dur
ing the move, he added.
The clinic is operated as part of
the training course by the depart
ment of medicine and surgery,
headed by Professor A. A. Lenert.
West Pointer Fuller
Tours Army Bases
Vetch Bruchid, discovered in
vetch seed grown in Texas last
year, is now found in most locali
ties in the state, according to C.
E. Watson of the agronomy de
partment.
The Bruchid similar to a weevil,
devours the inside of the vetch
seed, destxoying the embryo.
No known control for the insect
is yet available. Until a few years
ago, Oregon and some Eastern
states prouced large quantities of
vetch, but the Bruchid has drasti
cally x-educed px-oduction in those
areas. Texas seed growers have
been supplying vetch seed for ship
ment to these areas, but the in
festation hex-e may slow down pro
duction in this state.
Seed Testing Program
The Texas vetch seed testing
program for this summer has been
in full operation since June 1, said
Watson, who is in charge of the
state vetch testing laboratory
located in the agronomy depart
ment. Testing will continue into
September for this fall’s seed
ing.
Each year, $3,000 is appropriat
ed for salaries of supervisor and
helper in the laboratory. Individual
seed tests cost the state approxi
mately one dollar. Last season,
1,700 vetch samples were tested,
and the number will probably run
as high this year Watson said.
The purpose of the testing
progx-am is to determine the purity
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Garza Serves
With 4 X’ Corps
Aggie-ex Leonard H. Fullex-, Jr.,
a senior at West Point, recently
made a tour of Army and Air Fox-ce
Bases with his class.
Fuiier : s pax-ents live in McAles-
ter, Okla.
The senior class visited Wright-
Patterson Air Foxce Base in Day-
ton, Ohio, the Armor School at
Fort Knox, Ky., the Artillery
School at Fort Sill, Okla., the In
fantry School at Fort Benning, Ga.,
and the Guided Missile Center at
Fort Bliss, Texas, during their fly
ing tour.
Cadet Fuller will spend the bal
ance of the summer tx-aining new
plebes and sophomoi-es at Camp
Buckner.
Private First Class Joseph D.
Garza, an Aggie-ex, is serving in
Korea with the “X” Corps.
His parents are Mx-. and Mx-s.
Cx-istobal Garza of Carrizo Spi-ings.
Garza is a ballistics specialist
in the corps’ 8221st Army Unit.
He has been awax-ded the UN and
Korean Service Ribbons.
The “X” Cox-ps is one of thx-ee
corps in the combat zone. Special
units attached to the Corps per
form duties for some or all of the
combat organizations under its
command.
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