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Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1954
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:e work.
>, Jean, have three
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ence, but current interest within
the state in brucellosis and the
various poultry diseases is expected
to focus attention on those phases
of the program.
Dr. C. A. Brandly of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin will speak
twice on the poultry, first to out
line the current situation, and later
to offer his ideas of future devel
opments in the field.
Dr. L. M. Hutchings of Purdue
university also will speak twice.
He will discuss enteric diseases of
swine and swine brucellosis.
Several other well-known author
ities also will appear on the pro
gram. They include Dr. R. E. Rug-
gles, a Moline, Ill., veterinary prac
titioner; Dr. V. L. Tharp of the
Ohio State university; Dr. Clifford
Snyder, University of Texas Medi
cal Branch at Galveston, a plastic
surgeon, and Dr. H. E. Redmond of
A&M.
Dean W. W. Armistead of the
School of Veterinary Medicine will
welcome the group to the campus.
Since a Texas State Veterinary
Medical association meeting will be
held during this period, a two-day
program also has been planned for
the Ladies’ Auxiliary.
Tornados To Be
Meeting Topic
Everything about tornados will
be discussed at the last meeting
of the College Station branch of
the American Meteorological So
ciety at 7:45 p.m. Friday in room
107 of the Biological Sciences
building.
Dr. W. H. Nedderman* will report
on a preliminary investigation of
the college facilities for tornado
shelters.
William P. Elliot will show col
ored slides pf cloud sequences, and
Dr. John C. Freeman jr. will show
radar pictures and movies of Texas
tornados.
The public is invited to the meet
ing.
Carrier Needed
For Post Office
The US Civil Service commis
sion has announced examinations
for a substitute clerk-carrier for
the College Station ppgt office.
The job will pay $1.61% an hour,
and closing date for application
will be June 29.
Further information and appli
cation forms may be obtained at
the post office or from the regional
director, eighth civil service region,
room 809, 1114 Commerce street,
Dallas.
ig Get Votes
aiiroad Fight
Tune 2—bP)—Rob-
on a key 800,000
tie for control of
Central Railroad
ay-
tors tallying prox-
>jected a manage-
iny other of the validity of
poodJsof shares cast by
o ' oung.
on a , „
. t spokesman for
sales le* the | decision, de-
the trenC' ! “all practical pur-
’ ii W on was “°ver and
ully 11 , Central President
in its fitl'promptly declared
T 01) |; continue its legal
^ ‘ ' ,ie counting of the
es: thf
id feeld' e laborious count
,on in an Albany
• lection inspectors
hnouncement other
s statement on the
/es. 1 The annual
es you'
^ § Leading
. n County
rently the leading
toliege Station and
|g to the w r eekly
mnty health unit
:ases of mumps in
and 15 in Bryan,
i :t with 13 cases in
rand 5 in Bryan.
.»a also had one case
e 2-Wb case of tubercu-
n
meeting which started with a stor
my session last Wednesday, will
be resumed Tuesday noon at the
office of the railroad’s secretary
in Albany. Whether the tally will
have been completed by then was
not known.
Young claimed at the meeting
Wednesday that, with the 800,000
shares, his side had cast 3,500,000
votes — more than half of the
6,447,410 shares outstanding.
The controversial block of shares,
the biggest outstanding, was pur
chased by Clint W. Murchison and
Sid W. Richardson, Texas friends
of Young, from the Chesapeake &
Ohio Railway, Young’s foi’mer rail
road. The stock had been held in
trusteeship by the Chase National
Bank of New York, and the Central
contended that the bank had no
right to appoint a proxy for voting
the shares at the annual meeting.
The election inspectors three
college law professors — remarked
that they were not expressing any
conclusion “about the merits of the
underlying issues.”
The 800,000 shares were cast by
Donald H. Carter, proxy by sub
stitution for Murchison and Rich
ardson.
“The inspectors are of the opin
ion,” they went on, “that they are
bound by the records of the New
York Central Railroad Company
showing that the Chase National
Bank is the record holder as trus
tee of the 800,000 shares which are
the subject of this challenge and
that so far as the relevant docu
ments are concerned, Mr. Carter
is the duly authorized proxy for
these shares.”
BOTTLE BABY—Bugs is a lucky bunny. Rescued from
dogs that gobbled up his three brothers and sisters, Bugs
is being raised on a bottle by Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Bird and
their two children, of Corpus Christi.
Summer School Starts;
1,500 Expected Here
E. L. Williams
Extension Leader Retires
E. L. (Ed) Williams, head of the
statewide engineering extension
work of the A&M System, has re
tired, effective June 1, because of
poor health.
One of the most widely known
leaders in his field, Williams pio
neered in the establishment of vo
cational teacher training before
joining the A&M staff in 1925.
He has headed the industrial voca
tional teaeher training and exten
sion courses for Texas industrial
and municipal workers since com
ing here.
He has been operating' head of
the Engineering Extension serv
ice, with the title of vice-director,
since its organization as a part
of the System in 1948.
The service, with 35. full-time in
structors, conducts classes through
out the state in which more than
10,000 industrial and municipal
workers are enrolled each year.
It also supplies on-the-job training
and aid to industrial vocational
teachers in Texas schools.
Included in its operations are
the annual Firemen’s Training
school, the Texas Police Training
school and training of foremen and
other supervisors for Texas indus
tries, -with courses at all levels
from workmen to executives.
The Engineering Extension serv
ice trains waterworks and sewage
plant operators, rural electric line
crews, personnel for hotels, laun-
drieds and.other service industries,
railroad and utility supervisors and
supplies texts and training aids
for apprentice courses in many of
the trades.
Williams came to Texas in Oc
tober of 1925 from Pennsylvania,
where he had established several
of that state’s first vocational
training courses in the high
Weather Today
CLEAR
Clear with possible partly cloud/
this afternoon. Minimum tempera
ture this morning, 68; maximum
yesterday, 95. .17 rain at the air
port last night.
schools. At A&M he rebuilt the
college’s industrial education de
partment, serving as head of that
department until 1940, when it was
combined with the newly created
Industrial Extension service, which
he also headed. He was named
vice-director of the Engineering
Extension service, an outgrowth of
the earlier organization, when it
was created by the System board.
Continually seeking new means
of meeting the need for Texas-
trained personnel to fill the jobs
in a growing Texas industrial econ
omy, Williams is credited with a
number of “firsts” in Texas college
circles. He created the first col
lege courses on an extension basis
E. L. Williams
Retiring
Forestry Group
Completes Meeting
A Southwide committee concern
ed with forest tree improvement
completed its three-day conference
here Friday. Dr. C. M. Kaufman,
director of the School of Forestry
at the University of Florida, is
chairman of the group.
Repi’esentatives from federal and
state agencies and pulpwood and
lumber industries attended. The
Texas Forest service was host for
the meetings.
Plans were announced for a third
Southwide meeting next January
in New Orleans. The committee,
according to Kaufman, functions
“to write information and stimu
late interest in forest tree im
provement.”
Forest service personnel attend
ing the meetings were Dr. A. D.
Folweiler, director of the Texas
service; D. A. Anderson, head of
the research and education depart
ment and member of the commit
tee; Dr. Bruce Zobel and Ray God
dard, silviculturists.
Registration Set
Monday in Sbisa
Summer school begins Monday for A&M, with about
1,500 students expected on the main campus, and about 85
freshmen expected at the Junction Adjunct of the Basic
Division.
Registration for students on the main campus will be
gin at 8 a.m. Monday, with classes to start Tuesday. The six-
week first term will end July 16.
Registration will be in Sbisa hall. All schedule cards
will be released at 8 a.m., and the registration is expected
to be over by noon.
The summer school students will live in dormitories 14,
15, 16, and Bizzell hall. The second and third floors of
dormitory 16 will be reserved
for members of the Cotton
course; here this summer.
Besides the 85 new fresh
men, the Junction Adjunct
will house 45 geology students and
35 civil engineering students. The
number of freshmen is slightly
less than last year’s enrollment,
according to John Bertrand, dean
of the Basic Division.
The Junction schedule is the
same as the main campus sche
dule, with the term beginning Mon
day and ending July 16. The first
two days at Junction are used in
testing and counseling for the
freshmen, so classes will not be
gin until Wednesday.
C. H. Ransdell, assistant dean of
the Basic Division, will be in
charge of the Adjunct.
Adjunct Instructors
Basic Division personnel there
will be F. E. McFarland, voca
tional and. camp counselor; Dr.
A. J. Kingston, vocational and re
medial reading counselor; and S.
A. Kurley, vocational counselor.
H. B. Segrest and Les Palmer
Will be in charge of the physical
education and recreation program.
Louie Hauer yrill be in charge
of English instruction, with Sid
Cox and Robert Feragen as teach
ers.
R. R. Lyle will be in charge of
mathematics instruction, with J. L.
Shawn and L. M. Hovorak as
teachers.
The second summer term on the
main campus and the Adjunct will
begin July 19 and end Aug. 27.
Local Boy
Uninjured In
Carrier Blast
Wilbert Sanders, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Louis Sanders of
Route 1, Bryan, was aboard
the carrier Bennington last
week when an explosion killed
99 crew members.
But Sanders is all right. His
parents received a telegram
from the navy the day after
the explosion, telling them
their son was not hurt.
The boy’s father is a janitor
in the Chemistry building.
for college credit at A&M in 1926;
the first graduate courses on an
extension basis in 1929 and the
college’s first “course on wheels”
in 1930.
During World War II, Williams’
organization played an important
role, in training Texans for newly-
created war industry jobs. It op
erated branch schools at Grand
Prairie, Cuero and Inks Lake,
training workers for aviation
plants, shipyards and other war
industries and instituting course^
to train handicapped veterans foir
vocations within their physical ca
pabilities. Industrial safety, fore-
manship and supervision courses
were conducted in practically all
industrial centers of the state. At
one time the department took over
three business colleges in Houston
and the top floor of a leading San
Antonio hotel for its night classes.
A native of Sherman City, Mich.,
Williams grew up in the industrial
city of Muskegon and graduated
from the Hackley Manual Train
ing Normal in 1915. He took his
BS degree in industrial education
from the University of Pittsburg
in 1925, after work at the Univer
sity of Wisconsin, Carnegie Insti
tute of Technology and Pennsyl
vania State college. He received
his MS degree from A&M in 1930.
His industrial experience included
work as a machine operator, mill
wright, draftsman, carpenter, saw
mill operator and machinist.
Williams served as president of
the National Association of Indus
trial Teacher-Trainers in 1945,
president of the American Voca
tional Association in 1949, and has
held high offices in many other
state and national associations in
his field.
Magazine Plans
FFA Coverage
The A&M Agriculturist, student
publication for the students of ag
riculture, is expanding its cover
age and circulation to cover high
school Future Farmers of America
chapters.
In a letter to all vocational agri
culture teacher’s in the state, F. E.
(Sonny) Tutt, editor of the maga
zine for next year, requested that
the teachers send to the magazine
news of their FFA chapters, to be
used in a special FFA section of
each issue of the Agriculturist.
The letter also offers the teach
ers the chance to buy a subscription
to the magazine for their classes.
“We believe our magazine has
information that will be useful to
Future Farmers as well as giving
those who are interested in going
to college an insight on the work
ings of an agricultural college,”
Tutt said.
The Agriculturist is published
four times a year. Subscription
rates are one dollar a year.
OSTRICH GROWS UP
DETROIT UP)—The Detroit Zoo
says its baby ostrich, OScar, is
the only one ever raised success
fully in a northern zoo. Now
6% feet tall, Oscar pecked his
way out of a king-size egg last
September. He was only 12 inches
tall then.
Florists Told
Shrubs Are
Big Business
Ornamental shrubs are a
multi-million dollar business
in Texas each year, according
to L. J. Tolle jr. of the flori
culture and landscape archi
tecture department here.
Tolle, speaking to more than 100
florists and nurserymen attending
the annual short course for com
mercial nurserymen, told the group
that sale of ornamentals last year
topped five and one-half million-
dollars in the state. Title of his
subject was “Economic Status of
the Nursery Industry in Texas.”
Frank Cornelius of Houston,
president of the Texas Association
of Nurserymen, greeted the group
to . get the program under way.
After a general session in which
Tolle spoke, Ralph E. Gunn of
Houston, chairman of the Research
and Education committee of TAN,
discussed the short course and Roy
C. Garrett of the agricultural en
gineering department spoke on “Ir
rigation Practices and Costs,” the
meeting split into specific sections
for more detailed discussions.
Specific sessions of the short
course are Growers’, Landscape,
and Retail. A general session yes
terday closed the meeting.
The annual short course is con
ducted by the floriculture and land
scape architecture department in
cooperation with the Texas Asso
ciation of Nurserymen.
A. F. DeWerth heads the spons
oring department.
Call An Ambulance
LONG BEACH, Calif. 6S 5 ) — A
runaway ambulance, its brakes use
less, rolled more than 60 miles an
hour down the main coast highway
and came to a stop without injur
ing the driver or the three occu
pants.
Fire chief R. A. Jenkins Said
the ambulance even got a green
light at one intersection. Unaware
that the vehicle was out of control,
the two patients thanked the
driver for the fast ride.
The ambulance was towed to a
garage for repairs to a ripped
brake lining.
Moore Gets Medal
For Korean Service
A former ROTC instructor here
has received the Bronze Star medal
for “meritorious service” in Korea.
He is Lt. Col. Leslie S. Moore
of Bryan. He was cited for his
work in X corps’ chemical section
from November of 1953 to April
of 1954.
His duties included supervising
corps defense against possible rad
iological, bacteriological or chemi
cal attack, and helping train the
newly-formed First Republic of
Korea Army in the use of flame
throwers, chemical grenades and
other weapons.
Moore’s wife, Margaret, lives at
722 Garden Acres Blvd. in Bryan.
He is the son of Mrs. C. M. Moore
of Comanche.
Moore, a former student of Bay
lor university and Tarleton State
college, was Tarleton’s registrar a?
a civilian.
POSTED BY MAIL
FARMINGTON, Conn. UP) ^
State Rep. W. Sheffield Cowles,
ona tour of Europe, sent a post
card from Seville, Spain, to his
Erving Pruyn of Colebrook.
When he returned home, Cowles
found a postcard from Pruyn in
the mail that had accumulated
while he was away. Pruyn had
sent it to Cowles from Seville.
DECORATiiiD—Lt. Col. Leslie Moore of Bryan (right), re
ceives the Bronze Star medal from his commander, Col.
Creighton Abrams.