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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS. THURSDAY AUGUST 12, 1954
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fograms.
with Dr. Scion-
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Ruddph Ganz,
Chicago Musical
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of Mi :s Thomas,
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res programs are
ry informal basis
rpose in mind to
over Ian hour of
e Center,” said
MSCl summer ac-
perspns attended
cital program.
early this month for Europe. His
wife and six children went to his
permanent home in South Carolina
and will join him later at his over
seas station.
Myers, who graduated from The
Citadel in 1930, spent 32 months
of Woidd War II in the European
and Far East theaters. He was in
tegrated into the regular army in
1946 and came to A&M in 1949 as
senior instructor in antiaircraft ar
tillery. He was named PMS&T in
1951.
Offer is a native of Utah and
the son of a regular army officer.
He entered West Point in 1934
and has been on active duty con
tinuously since then. He served at
Fort Penning, Ga.; Fort Knox, Ky.;
and Fort Custer, Mich., before
moving with the Fifth Division to
Iceland, Ireland, North Africa and
Italy.
Following the war Offer was on
duty in the Pentagon, Washington,
for nearly five years and returned
to Italy in 1950 with the military
advisoi-y gi’oup at Rome until Au
gust 1953. Fpr the past year he
has attended the Command and
General Staff college at Fort Leav
enworth, Kan.
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to the graduating
yersity of Houston
;he commencement
50 graduating stu-
len auditorium.
;hur S. Knapp of
il church will give
nd benediction.
Dinner Honors
Dean Barlow
Dean of Engineering How
ard W. Barlow will be honored
tonight at a going-away din
ner in the assembly room of
the Memorial Student Center.
The engineering school fac
ulty is giving the dinner for
Barlow, who will leave A&M in
September to take a new job
at Washington State college.
The engineering department
heads will speak briefly at the
dinner.
Col. Robert D. Offer
New PMS&T
Bait To Publish
New Student Issue
The Battalion will publish a
special edition next Thursday for
A&M’s new students.
The three-section issue will be
sent to all persons who have noti
fied the Registrar that they in
tend to enroll here in September.
The issue will also be distribu-
Donations Pay
In TV for MSC
TV is in the MSC now, with
funds from several different
sources and volunteer labor result
ing in one set in operation, one to
be operating within a week, and
connections for six more.
The operating set is a table
model in the fountain room, and
the other set is a console model,
E MSC—Looking over one of the television sets
norial Student Center are some of the people re-
jjiiifoii their being there. They are (left to right)
ferryman, chief engineer for radio station WT-
donated time to work on electrical connections;
rgJois, MSC summer activities chairman; ano
itzen of the electrical engineering department,
of the president’s committee on television for the
npus.
which will be put in the lounge.
The sets are connected to two
antennas on top of the White coli
seum. They are tuned to four
channels — stations in Galveston,
Houston, Austin, and Temple. J.
Wayne Stark, MSC director, said
the antennas could be changed to
other stations with a minimum of
work.
Antenna connections for televi
sion sets are in the lounge, the
social room, the ballroom, the as
sembly room, the starlight terrace,
room 3-D, and the fountain room.
There are two connections in the
fountain room, so two sets can. be
used there for big events like the
world series and football games,
Stark said.
The two television sets the MSC
now has were donated, one by
Sears, Roebuck and Company, and
one by Jack Finney, member of
the A&M system board of direc
tors.
Funds for the antenna system
and other costs came from more
than 35 mother’s clubs over the
state, individual gifts, a lost and
found auction, and the student
drive conducted by Charlie Parker.
Southwestern Gets
Work Contract
The Southwestern States Tele
phone company, with headquarters
in Brownwood, and the Communica
tion Workers of America, C.I.O.,
have signed a new work contract
after 14 days of negotiation, C. T.
Strickland, general manager of the
telephone company, announced to
day.
Strickland stated the new con
tract provided a wage increase as
well as several additional fringe
benefits. He also expressed ap
preciation for the fair and co-op
erative attitude of the company
employees.
This contracrt covers approxi
mately 1,000 workers in Arkansas,
Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.
ted locally, and to the Battalion’s
other regular subscribers.
The edition will have from 16 to
20 pages and will cover every
facet of the school.
One section will be devoted to
sports, and the other two will con
tain stories on the operation of
the school, activities, churches, his
tory, and general information for
the new student.
Complete picture coverage will
be included.
College Station and Bryan ad
vertisers will have a chance to tell
the new students what their stores
have to offer.
Since the special edition will al
so be the regular Thursday Battal
ion, it will have two “front pages”,
one for the new students, and an
other for the local news that would
normally be in that day’s paper.
The regular summer Battalion
staff, Editor Harri Baker and
Womans Editor Kerstin Ekfelt,
will put out the special, assisted
by Carl Jobe, assistant manager of
student publications, and Jones
Ramsey, sports publicity director.
Dick Clark and Oscar Garcia
are the advertising salesmen for
the special edition.
Eleven Students
Plan IE Tour
Eleven A&M industrial engineer
ing students will leave Aug. 27 for
a tour of industries in the mid
west.
The tour is sponsored by the
Mid-Continent company of Fort
Worth. Kenneth Davis is presi
dent of the company.
The students, who will be sen
iors next year, will visit Inter
national Harvester, the Ford Motor
Car company engine plant, Proctor
and Gamble, Anheuser-Busch, Ral
ston Purina, General Motors, Mo
torola, Lincoln Electric, and others.
Cities on the tour include Chi
cago, Milwaukee, Detroit, Cincin
nati, St. Louis, and others. The
students will stay in university
dormitories.
They will return Sept. 17, the
day before registration.
Strep Throat
High On List
Strep throat is still the leading
ailment in the College Station-Bry-
an area, with 4 cases reported in
College Station and 22 in Bry an -
Other diseases reported in Col
lege Station, according to the
weekly Bryan-Brazos county health
report, wei’e mumps, pneumonia,
and polio, one case each.
Band Boosters Dance
Will Be Tomorrow
A&M May
Share FOA
Contract
Probability of the A&M
System sharing with Mexico
in another $2,000,000 contract
of the U. S. Foreign Opera
tions administration is fore
seen by D. W. Williams, vice chan
cellor for agriculture.
Already signed is a $1,700,000
agreement with East Pakistan and
within the next 60 days System-
personnel will go to the University
of Dacca. These will be agricul
tural, engineering and education
specialists to work in the various
schools .of the Middle East country.
Williams will go to Mexico early
in August to pursue the negotia
tions with authorities for an FOA
contract that will link A&M with
Antonio Narro Agricultural college
at Saltillo.
He will be accompanied by Dr.
Guy W. Adriance, head of the hor
ticulture department, and A. H.
Walker of the Range and Forestry
Extension service.
The Mexican government has
asked for aid in establishment of
a system of agricultural services
in the State of* Coahuila. These
would be patterned after the land-
grant system in the United States,
providing a college, an experiment
station and an extension service
much like those operating here.
*
The proposed contract with the
Mexican government, Williams
said, will call for a U. S. contribu
tion of about $750,000 with Mexico
to expend $2 for each $1 of the
American grant.
Teachers Meet
Scheduled Here
More than 100 vocational agri
culture teachers from all over the
state, and teacher trainers from
eight colleges are expected to at
tend the Conference for Teacher
Trainers here Aug. 18-19.
Dean C. N. Shepardson of the
School of Agriculture will welcome
the group to the campus. Dr. J.
W. Griggs, superintendent of
schools at Huntsville, and George
Hurt, acting state director of vo
cational agricultural education, also
will address the group.
E. V. Walton, head of the agri
cultural education department, said
the program has been planned to
give maximum participation to all
members attending the conference.
Texas A&M, Prairie View A&M,
Texas Technological college and
five teachers’ colleges will be rep
resented. Walton said.
Boogie Busters To Play;
Proceeds for Uniforms
The A&M Consolidated Band Boosters club is giving a
summer dance under the stars tomorrow night for College
Station people and anyone else who wants to come, with all
proceeds to go to the fund to buy uniforms for CHS’ Tiger
band.
The dance, which will be in the Grove from 8 to 11 p.m.,
will feature an international floor show and music by Bud
Barlow and the Brazos Bottom Boogie Busters.
Master of ceremonies for the floor show will be Capt.
Joe Brooks of Bryan air force base. Lyn Byron and her
can-can line—Sue Gustafson, Dorothy Burns, Eve Porter, and
Sadi Mitchelini—will perform.
First Lt. Michael Vaskov,
Hall of Fame
Honors Aggie
'Jarrin ’fawn ’
John Kimbrough, the “Jar
ring’ .Jawn” fullback of the
famed 1939-40 A&M football
team, has been named to the
Football Hall of Fame.
Another Texan, former SMU
head coach Ray Morrison, was
also named in the first selec
tions in three years.
In all, 40 college football
players and coaches were se
lected to have their names en
shrined in the proposed Hall
of Fame.
The Hall will be built on the
campus of Rutgers university,
where the first intercollegiate
football game, Rutgers vs.
Princeton, was played 85 years
ago.
Business Wives
Set First Dance
The Business Wives club will
have a dinner and dance Saturday
night at Maggie Parker’s.
Dinner will be at 8 p.m., and the
dancing will start after dinner.
This is the first of a proposed
series of club dances, with about
one every two or three months,
said Mrs. Joy Jones, president.
Invited to the dance are all busi
ness majors and their wives. Res
ervations should be called in to
Mrs. Cynthia Allen, 4-4919, not
later than Friday.
Mrs. Jeanette Williams is chair
man of the dance committee.
Barton Becomes
Conservation Man
Jack H. Barton, assistant agron
omist, with headquarters at Wes
laco since 1952, will become soil
and water conservation specialist
for the Agricultural Extension
Service. His headquarters will be
at College Station.
also from Bryari AFB, will
sing, as will Mrs. Andre Clas-
ens. Mrs. Clasens’ husband is
Bryan AFB’s Belgium liaison
officer.
A group of local girls will pre
sent their own interpretation of
the Negro spiritual “Dry Bones.”
Singers will be Jenny Gorman,
Aileen Gunn, Bonnie Florer, Mary
Jo Johnston, Eleanor Butt, Jane
Galls, Pearl Smith, Joan Herman,
Diane Carroll, Rosilind Eskew and
Gete Bean.
Taking the parts of the bones
will be Jan Allen, Mary Bowland,
Peggy Cooke, Pat Crockett, Sue
Gustafson, Pat Higgens, Barbara
Mason, Sadi Michelini, Jeanne Po
sey, Barbara Steger, and Flo Wiz-
oreck.
The Brazos Bottom Boogie Bust
ers is a faculty orchestra organized
by Dean of Engineering Howard
(Bud) Barlow. It was first start
ed in 1946, and made its first ap
pearance at Open House day that
year.
The only two members of tha
original group left are Barlow and
D. R. Lee, assistant professor in
the chemistry department.
Almost all of the members of
the seven-piece combo have had
professional musical experience.
Barlow worked his way through
Purdue university as a jazz drum
mer in the ’20’s, and Lee has play
ed accordian with Louie Prima.
R. B. Alexander, also with the
chemistry department, played in
Prima’s band. He plays the sax
ophone.
Dr. E. H. Kirk, a Bryan doctor,
played trumpet for Les Brown’s
band. George Reynolds of the
oceanography department, who
plays bass, spends his spare time
giving band instrument lessons to
local boys and girls.
L. E. Spangler of the horticul
ture department, and R. J. Bald-
auf of the biology department,
pianist, round out the combo.
Mrs. Jimmie Howard, wife of
Maj. John P. Howard of Bryan
AFB, is the singer with the band.
She has had several years profes
sional experience, and is also di
recting the floor show.
Mrs. Wesley Smith is president
of the Band Boosters club and Dr.
Luther Jones is chairman of the
finance committee.
(See DANCE, Page 2)
PRACTICE SESSION — Members of the floor show cast for tomorrow night’s band
benefit dance practice at the A&M Consolidated auditorium. They are (left to right) Mrs.
Sarah June Goode, accompanist; Joe B. Brooks, master of ceremonies; Michael Vaskov,
.singer; and George Reynolds, accompanist.