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SECTION II
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1955
Scholarship Given
By Former S Indent
STRIPPED OF CITIZENSHIP—Jesus Valadez, a native-born Texan whose citizenship
has been taken away by immigration authorities, is shown above with members of his
family at their home near Navasota. Immigration authorities charged that he “wilfully
remained out of the country to avoid military service and ordered him expatriated,
The attorney for Valdez, a farmer, said the decision will be appealed. Above in back
row from left to right are Mrs. Valadez with Jesus, Jr., in her arms, Valadez, and son
Norbert. In front from left to right are Marie, Hector, Marta, Verta and Rolando.
The couple also has another child, not in the picture.
Band Makes Plans For UCLA Trip
The ti’aining; officer of the Roy
al Thailand Police Force has. made
a contribution to A&M, to be used
as a scholarship honoring' Mr. and
Mrs. Jesse FI. Jones of Houston.
Ernest Jefferson Cheek, 1950
Dean Trotter
Offers Help
For Students
A wide variety of graduate
fellowships and assistantships
are available in the Graduate
School here, Dean Ide P. Trot
ter has announced.
These fellowships and scholar
ships are available in the fields
of agriculture, biological science,
engineering, physical science and
business administration.
A graduate fellow devotes full
time—16 semester hours maximum
—to study and research. The sti
pend varies with the appointment
and will range fi’om $1,000 to
$2,250. All graduate assistants,
rendering half time service, may
carry a maximum of 12 semester
hours of academic work.
Graduate teaching assistants re
ceive $1,200 for nine months during
their first year. After satisfac
torily completing two semesters of
a graduate program, they may re
ceive $1,350, Trotter said.
''Research assistantships, in co
operation with the Agricultural Ex
periment station and the Engi-
neei-ing Experiment station, are
available to qualified students.
These are usually 12-month ap
pointments ranging from $1,500
upward.
I A & M graduate, now a captain
| in the Royal Army of Thailand
and in charge of police force train
ing, made the contribution" . . .
to thank properly” Jones for help
given Cheek in his senior year at
A&M.
Cheek received $335 back in his
senior year as a reward for
achievement. This record is an
annual grant from Jones to some
senior who has made an outstand
ing record in college despite se
vere financial handicap. Cheek was
given the money on the basis of
his having worked an average of
60 hours a week during His three
previous college years, while car
rying a full load of subjects and
maintaining an exceptionally high
grade average.
He is the youngest of 11 child-
re?i of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Cheek
of Commanche.
Following his graduation from
A&M, he went to work for an ex
port firm and in 1951 was sent to
Thailand.
Possessed of exceptional lin
guistic ability he soon mastered
the language of the country. He
liked the people and Thailand; the
liking was evidently mutual for
within a few month he was given
a contract with His Royal Majes
ty’s Government as police training
officer, and was made an honorary
captain in the Royal Army pf Thai
land.
In November and December of
1954 he returned to the United
States accompanied by Gen. Phao
Sriyonald, deprity premier and di
rector general of the Thai police
force. On this tour he and the
deputy premier visited various mil
itary posts and the Seiwice Acad
emies at West Point and Annapol-
(See SCHOLARSHIP, Page , 4)
The A&M band is making plans
for the longest out-of-state trip in
its history next year.
The band will go to the A&M-
UCLA football game in Los An
geles, Calif., the Aggies’ first game
of the season.
All 240 marching members of the
band will make the week-long trip,
said Col. E. V. Adams, band direc
tor. Adams said the band would
spend a week preparing for the
trip, which will probably be made
by chartered bus.
“YOUTH” MUST BE SERVED
SAN FRANCISCO — Four old
golf devotees say the game keeps
them ypung. They play Lincoln
park five times a week and shoot
around 80. They are Dr. Leon J.
Richardson, 87; Chester Murphy,
82; Capt. Richard Smith, 80, and
the youngest, Ernie Doidge, 79,
called “Junior.”
Emotional Makeup
Helps To Produce
Acciden tPron en ess
AUSTIN — Does someone in
your family—or perhaps you your
self—seeYn to have repeated acci
dents ?
It could be due to “accident
pi'oneness.”
That’s the phrase coined by the
experts—psychologists, industrial
ists, physicians, insurance men and
othei's on the theory that many ac
cidents result from the victim’s
emotional make-up.
Studies by agencies interested in
health and safety have shown that
relatively few people are respon
sible for a high percentage of ac
cidents. Conclusion: a person who
has one accident is more likely to
be involved in another than a per
son who has had none at all.
State Department of Health
studies confirm this. For exam
ple:
A public utility company, trying
to cut accident rates among truck
drivers, ordered an investigation
of every factor which could be con
tributing, from weather to reaction
time of drivers.
Truck accidents increased de
spite an intense educational cam
paign. But when drivers with
bad records were shifted to other
jobs, the company’s driver accident
rate fell to a fifth of the former
rate.
The transferred drivers ? They
kept on having accidents in their
new jobs and at home.
The experts have traced definite
personality patterns in accident
prone people. Almost invariably
they are impetuous, following im
pulses without deliberation or plan
ning. Their decisiveness is, in re
ality, a didve for independence and
self-i’eliance in the situation of the
moment.
For the most part they have a
history of neurotic traits in child
hood. They simply reach a point,
in their failure to handle an emo
tional situation, when an unpleas
ant happening becomes a physical
and emotional necessity.
Result: an “accident.”
While admitting the part acci
dent proneness plays, Texas State
Health Officer Henry A. Holle
would stress environmental haz
ards and biologic conditions like
fatigue, temporary stress- pro
duced inattention, impaired vision
or hearing, and underlying disease.
“Too much emphasis on accident
proneness tends to obscure the
need of correcting defects in indus
trial equipment, slum housing, in
efficient traffic systems, and inad
equate playgrounds.”
Ag Ed Juniors
To Observe
High Schools
Thirty-five agricultural ed
ucation juniors will visit 29
high schools all over the state
for a week of observation
training, beginning Feb. 21.
The purpose of the week, a part
of the agricultural education
course, is to acquaint students
with methods of organizing and
conducting vocational agriculture
classes and supervising field trips
and projects, said E. V. Walton,
head of the agricultural education
department.
High schools send invitations to
the agricultural education depart
ment here each year, and the de
partment pviblishes this list for
the. student to choose the school
he wants to visit.
Since the students must pay
their own housing, food and trans
portation, most students pick
schools near their hometown if
possible, Walton said.
The students keep a day-by-day
account of the week of training
and are required to write a de
tailed report when they get back
to school.
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