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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1954)
6i Tuesday, August 24,1954 THE BATTALION Page 3 n among rd Coif'-— is hcldstji r Dean* >00,000, nad sidcnt fci prograi . Herbert! )arts of «!■ mg; Ing, not swimming,” nd F. McAllister Jr., •ch geologist of the iy department, speak- g with an aqualung, down 150 feet or so in diere you are suspend- is, going up, down, for- ;k with a flip of your et is more like flying ling,” he says, nng, McAllister, who ie sedimentology divis- department’s new ma- ory at Galveston, took eo shots with a hand- need for much more jgraphy under water,” , He has taken shots i of a submarine canyon 650 feet below water in horizontally another camera suspended rface by wire rope, appeared on television s Angeles with his un- ension Annual ly Picnic an 150 Agricultur- sion service staff and their families the annual Exten- ice club picnic Mon- 16, on the grounds of out little house, i E. Hutchison, incom- nt, welcomed guests ntatives from the A&- G. G. Gibson introduced members and their fam- ire Garland Hoffman, Davis, Benjamin C. Jack Barton, and Marie iitchison next presented littec who hjid worked for the picnic. They W. N. Williamson and Randolph, co-chairmen; . Hickerson; and Miss lackwell. 7 the Extension Service open its year’s activities a at the Memorial Stu- :er. It’s Like Flying, Not Swimming Ry ;inW 1 By TH' FIGH FIN d ctHI] out 1 SEND lb rjM' eck Plans Completion or the eleventh Religious week, Feb. 20-25, are completion, according to Gay, general secretary ICA. John E. Hines, bishop co- fthe Episcopal diocese of is been selected for the ker. Hines has appeared tnes here as a speaker, ministers and laymen selected to conduct the d discussion groups that held each evening in the s. len will live in the dorm- uring that week, and ailablc to all students who sted in the program. 1 By Wal ry Group Sponsor Meet persons are expected here 0 for the poultry short onsored by the poultry 1 department, ramell will be chairman uvse, which will be con- t the Reid Poultry labora- By derwater slides and has given stereo slide shows, pi’ojecting un dersea scenes in three dimensions and in color as a public service of Scripps Intitution of Oceano graphy, California. Taught Skin-Diving In addition to doing research in and some teaching of geology at Scripps, McAllister taught skin- diving and aqualuing diving al though he had never done either before joining Scripps three years ago. He warns that no one should dive with an aqualung in water deeper than 10 feet unless he has receiv ed thorough training, regardless of how much swimming and skin- diving experience he has had. “Paralysis and death,” he says, “can result from diving with the aqualung unless the diver is ‘checked out’ in its use by an ex perienced aqualung diver.” He has no tales of terrible dan ger under the sea. He has dived for abalone and on occasion brought up sand sharks of several varie ties, which he takes by hand to avoid injuring them. “These sharks, up to three or four feet long, are not particularly dangerous, although the angel shark has sharp teeth 'and can in flict a nasty wound,” he said. McAllister made underwater shots at Midway island and in the open ocean during one leg of a 16,00-mile Pacific expedition last year. The expedition was made aboard the Stephen F. Baird, Scripps’ oceanographic vessel. The ship surveyed a little known area of the North Pacific and es pecially part of the Japan or Kuro- shio system of currents. It travel ed from San Francisco to the Aleutian Islands, went within sight of the Russian coast, along the Japanese coast, by Midway island, ?r , '^ 'm ^ •• • ■:%: "Hr-* k&y mmi- HOME BASE—This is the A. A. Jakkula, the oceanography department’s research schooner, used as a home base for diving research of the type done by Raymond Mc Allister, new head of the department’s, sedimentology division. A&M Press Gets Lithograph Press The A&M Press will receive a new lithograph press sometime in September. The 14 by 20 inch offset litho graph press will provide faster and better publications for A&M and the rest of system, said Frank Tucker, manager of the A&M Press. Offset lithography is a type of printing that reproduces from a photograph of the material to be' printed. The A&M Press plans to add a larger press of this type in the fu ture, if the demand for publica tions increases, Tucker said. pneers Course bets 500 500 persons are expected Ja highway engineers short lept. 7-9. y sponsored by the civil en- department and the Tex- vay department, the course :t in the Memorial Student Community Chest Survey Is Made A group appointed by the Bryan Chamber of Commerce is making a survey among local businessmen to determine hoYV much support they can give the Community Chest drive this year. Last year’s drive fell short of its goal, and the survey is an attempt to find out before the drive starts how much support will be given, said Jack Springer, C of C man ager. The study group is expected to report by the end of the week. MSC Has Five-State Photograph Exhibit The Memorial Student Center has the top 20 photographs from the last fivq annual conventions of the Southwestern Photographers association on exhibit. Five states^—Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkan sas—are represented by the South western Photographers association. Gene Supthen, a former stu dent, brought the exhibit here. He worked for the MSC after grad uation in 1952, but now works for the Aggieland Studio. The exhibit will be continued through this week. The annual art exhibit sponsored by the MSC Art group at the end of each summer school session will not be held until mid-September, said Mrs. Ralph L. Terry, advisor and instructor of the Group. Mrs. Terry said that because of the photography exhibit spon sored by the same group in the Center, there will not be sufficient time to put on an art exhibit be fore school is out. Beson will be chairman meeting. 14 A&M Cadets At March Camp Fourteen AFROTC cadets from A&M are at March air force base, California, for the four-week air force camp. The students are John E. Bow les, Charles Donohue, Roy Gage, James Jansa, Jack Luker, Thomas Maples, Paul Ross, Alan Soefje, William Wellburn, Charlie Bond, Larry Milam, James Seymour, Glenn Wise, and Lemuel Barclay. NOTICE TRIANGLE DINING ROOM Full Course Dinners 9 P.M. ^ Every Day DYERS'FUR STORAGE HATTERS DIAL 1 2-1585 210 S. Main Bryan Fho. 2-1584 This month...our 1,000,000"' PASSENGER boards PIONEER ] AIR LINES! Lester R Dollison of / Amarillo, Texas steps aboardj , m Pioneer Air Liner as our l ‘ 1,000,000th passenger/ ji j M He’ll Get There Faster and Fresher.. Wouldn’t YOU like to Fly Pioneer anjj • arrive fresher — ride in clean, pleasant comfort |f • solve the problem of traveling with children e arrive 3 times faster —avoid monotonous, dangerous highway travel i • arrive with economy — save travel money with Pioneer’s family fare plan — or 10% on your return trip ticket _ flights timed to go wh%B ^ yow wgnt to go tg DALLAS 1 hr. 28 mins. Lv 7:05 am, 1:45 pm HOUSTON 42 minutes Lv 3:36 pm, 8:51 pm AMARILLO 5 hrs., 5 mins. Lv 7:05 am, 1:45 pm CALL 4-5054 the Hawaiian islands and back to the California coast. In thq North Pacific the ship’s scientific crew made hydrographic observations and took biological samples in an unexplored area, known as a “holiday” area in oceanographic tei’ms. Research vessels had traveled over this re gion and observed at widely sepa rated stations, but this was the first concentrated study of it. Japanese Stops The expedition made stops of a week and three or four days at Tokyo and Kobe. At the two cities the approximately 35 crew men were welcomed by everyone, the Japanese being vitally inter ested in oceanography. The em peror himself entertained a painty from the Baird. Other hosts who took members of the expedition to kabuki plays and into their homes were members of fedei-al institu tions and schools such as the Uni versity of Tokyo and individual scientists. The Baird party appeared on radio and television programs, was shot for newsreels and written up for the newspapers. Visitors thronged the ship wherever it was docked. “The keys to the country were handed to us,” McAllister said. Dr. Hiroshi Niino, geological oceanographer from the Univer sity of Tokyo, made the leg of the cruise from Tokyo to Hawaii. Af ter flying on to the United States, Dr. Niino visited and lectured at A&M; and at the University of Texas 'in March of this year. Before going to Scripps, McAll ister did oceanographic work in the Weingarten’s Will Open Sept. 2 The new Weingarten’s grocery store in Bryan will open about Sept. 2, according to Gilbert Orsak, store manager. The $250,000 store will have nine departments — grocery, meat, pro duce, drug, home center, fountaiji, tobacco, courtesy booth, and deli catessen. It will hire 55 local persons. Great Lakes under Dr. Jack L. Hough of the University of Illi nois. He received his MS degree in geology from that school, hav ing made a study of annual layer ed clays in southei’n Canada as part of his work for the degree. He holds a BS degree in agricul ture from Cornell university, where he made an airphoto interpreta tion study of beaches in the Aleu tian Islands in 1948. He is a vet eran of World War II, having served in the African and Euro pean campaigns. McAllister, his wife and two children will be here a month or while he familiarize shimself with the department’s program before they move to Galveston. Foreign Students Will Total 140 The enrollment of foreign stu dents at A&M this fall will be ap proximately 140, said Bennie Zinn, counselor for veterans and foreign students. The present statistics show that 50 of the 140 students will be from the Latin American countries. Mexico will be represented by 25 of these 50 students. The other Latin American countries which will be represented here this fall are Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Cuba, Honduras, Panama, Guatemala, Venezuela, Paraguay, and Colombia. The majority of the students en tering A&M from Latin America are undergraduates'. One-third of them will be here on scholarships. The other two-thirds will be sub sidized by their governments, by fellowships, or by their parents. Some of the scholarships are made possible, through the college, by large companies which operate in ternationally. Out of the 18 new Latin Amer ican students taking the prepara tory course in English this sum mer, only about 20 per cent will get to take the required number of hours this fall during the first semester. About half will get to take 15 hours, and the remainder will get to take about 12 hours, said Joseph J. Woolket, head of the modern language department. Foreign students other than those other ment from Latin America will number about 90. The other foreign coun tries that will be represented are Pakistan, Ind : "’hina, Egypt, Is rael, Philippir ’ghanistan, Ko rea, Iraq, Soi ; ca, Switzer land, Spain, Er nd Canada. Only about Oi ^ ? the 90 will be on scholars.' four-fifths will be o\ subsidies and parent The Latin American enter as undergraduate > but all other foreign student^ for graduate work only. Th trance requirements are very for all foreign students other tha those from the Latin Ameri countries. An average of about 30 to percent of the Latin American s dents finish here. The other foreig students have an average of abou 99 percent completions here. Th main reason for the low percent age of completion of the Latiij American students is their Englis speaking handicap, Zinn said. Out of the entire group of for eign students, about one-third of them take engineering, and the rest take agriculture. There will be a meeting of all foreign students on Sept. 22, fol lowing the opening of the fall se mester. This is to acquaint them with the social customs and regulations of the college. Assistance of differ ent kinds will be discussed at this meeting. Tomorrow Morning 10:00 a.m. COME TO BRYAN AND HEAR RALPH YARBOROUGH . Open Air Meeting West 26th St. - Between By Canady’s Pharmacy Main & Bryan TONIGHT 8:00 P.M. Judge Jim Sewell well known blind hero of World War II will speak for Ralph Yarborough at the Bryan City Hall in the Council Room. All Democrats wel come. (Paid Political Adv.)