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The Battalion Number 3: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1955 Price Five Cents ANOTHER GONE—Joining the long list of buildings that have solemnly made their fare well to the physical presence of A&M is Austin hall. The building, which was built in 1888 as a companion dormitory to Pfeuffer hall, was recently sold to a Ft. Worth wrecking company and is now being razed. The Austin was built while Louis Lowry Mclnnis was chairman of the faculty at A&M at a cost of $11,000. It was first used as a dormitory, then a few years ago was turned over to storage. The razing is to be completed by Sept. 10. For Foresters A&M Has New Program Osborn Fined $50 In Dog Killing Case William F. Osborn, A&M junior electrical engineering major from Tyler, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of * willfully and maliciously kill ing a dog with intent to injure the owner. Osborn was assessed a $50 fine, plus court costs. On the afternoon of March 20, Osborn shot and killed a collie dog belonging to the family of D. Bb Burchard, head of the journalism department at A&M, as the animal was standing in its owner’s yard. Osborn said he shot the dog be cause it had molested his dog, his , wife and his children. Osborn had first been charged with destroying property, but this charge was dropped by Burchard cn the condition that Osborn would plead guilty to the charge of will fully and maliciously killing the dog. Osborn had asked for this plea of guilty in justice court in stead of going through with the district court trial. The agreement between the two parties was reach ed while the court was in the pro cess of getting a jury panel to gether. About 40 people were present for the trial. Kiwanis Club Sets Sport Shirt Day The College Station Kiwanis Club will hold its annual “Sport Shirt Day” July 12 according to ‘ Joe Sorrels, chairman of the club’s Education and Fellowship Com mittee. A contest will be held and a prize will go to the owner of the '“loudest” sport shirt. Next Tuesday, the club will have an interclub meeting with the Huntsville Kiwanis Club at Hunts ville. CS Council Sets Session Monday " The College Station City Coun cil will hold an open session at 8 Monday night on the city’s budget for 1955-56. Also, at the meeting, 4 the final plans for the new sewer age system, including the treat ment plant and outfall lines, will be presented. The plans have been blueprint ed by Homer Hunter and Asso ciates, consulting engineers of Dallas. Bookmobile Here The Carnegie Library bookmo bile will be at the crosswalk at C row, College View, Friday morning * between 10:30 and 12. Books for all reading levels can be checked out at this v time for a period of two weeks. Ernest Langford Langford Chosen AIA Fellow Ernest Langford, head of the Architectural Department at A&M, has been advanced to the rank of Fellow in the American Institute of Archi tects. Langford is in Minne apolis, Minn., for the .S^th convention of the national pro fessional society. Fellowships in the society are awarded for distinguished performance in design, edu cation, science on construc tion, public service or service to the Institute. Langford also is the mayor of the City of College Station. Two Participating At UK Workshop Howard S. Whitney and Joe E. Murphey of the Department of Ag ricultural Economics and Sociology are participating in the National Workshop on Agricultural Market ing which ends tomorrow at the University of Kentucky. Whitney is working with a group on improving storage and transportation and maintaining quality of grain and other com modities. Murphey is with a group on efficiency of dairy pro duct preparation and distribution. A&M Professors Teach At Colorado Two A&M professors will teach special courses at Colorado A&M this summer. * Drs. Tyrus R. Timm, head, and John G. McNeely of the Depart ment of Agricultural Economics and Sociology will teach summer graduate courses for three weeks as part of the Western Regional Extension School established about five years ago for county agents and other extension specialists. They left College Station yes terday, and plan to return about July 15. MSC Plans Costume Dance Monday Night Do you have a suppressed desire? Have you ever want ed to be a cockroach, or a lion tamer, or a pot plant? If you have, plan to attend the costume ball to be held from 8 to 11 p.m. Monday on the star light terrace of hte Memorial Stu dent Center. Everyone is welcome, with or without a date, as long as he has a quarter in his pocket and comes disguised as the thing he has want ed to be all his life. A highlight of the dance will be a floor show presented at 9:15 by members of the newly formed Cha Cha Cha Club. To the accompani ment of tropical Latin American music, these A&M students will demnostrate the cha cha cha, a new dance rage that seems to be sweeping the Western hemsphere. George Fabre and Fernando Mendez are the stars of the show; Bill Corrad is in charge of the production. Summer Series Movie Tonight The third movie in the Me morial Student Center’s sum mer entertainment series, ‘Three Came Home,” will be shown at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the ballroom. The film features Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, and Sessue Hayawaka. It deals with the personal history of an American woman who spends three years in a Japan ese concentration camp. Single admission will be 25 cents for those who do not have season tickets to the sum mer series. 3 A&M Military Members Honored National Defense service medals were presented to three members of the Military Department last week during Army Day cei*emonies which commemorated the 180 th birthday of the United States ar my. The medals represented serv ice on active duty in the armed forces during the Korean war. The medals were presented to M/Sgt. Adrian E. Miller, M/Sgt. Allen M. Linton and Sgt. 1/c Ver iest S. Warner Jr. Col. Delmer P. Anderson, professor of military science and tactics, made the pre sentation. Potts Ends Course Dr. R. C. Potts of the Agron omy Department will end a five- day pasture short course tomor- rom at Refugio. The course that Potts has been teaching is part of A&M’s adult education activities as the state’s land-grant college. Basic training for professional foresters will be offered irt Texas for the first time this year through a new two-year forestry program at A&M. The course of study will be op ened to enrollees in September, and will provide two years training. On completion of the program, stu dents will be able to transfer with out loss of credits to one of the seven southern colleges now opera ting accredited schools for profes sional foresters. Students will al so be eligible to apply for out-of- state aid to defray costs of tuition and transportation to these forest ry schools. The program was established at A&M to answer numbers of re quests from forest industries of the state. It will be administered within the college’s Department of Range and Forestry. Dr. Vernon A. Young, head of Davis Elected ASM President Dr. William B. Davis, head of the Wildlife Management Depart ment, has been elected president of the American Society of Mam- malogists at the 35th annual meet ing held at the University of Southern California in Los Ange les. He succeeds William H. Burt of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor Mich. the department, declares there is a strong demand for professional foresters in Texas and throughout the South, from government and private industry. “In Texas,” he states, “we have one of the fastest growing forest areas of the nation. Rapid timber growth, plus increased numbers of privately operated tree farms, and expansion of Texas forest products industries all have combined to cre ate strong demands for profession al forester graduates.” At n|esent Texas has the great est nuiSber of privately owned tree farms of any state in the nation. It has more than 10,500,000 acres of commercially valuable pine- hardwood forests. Value of forest industries and products is more than $530,000,000 and more than 50,000 Texans now work in forest industries. Despite the value of forest pro ducts, Dr. Young points out that the southwest has little pre-train- At The Grove Thursday, June 23—“Come Fill the Cup” i with James Cagney. Monday, June 27—“Witness to Murder” with Guy Merrill and Barbara Stanwick. Tuesday, June 28 — “Betrayed” with Clark Gable, Lana Turner and Victor Mature. Wednesday, June 29—“Take Me to Town” with Ann Sheiddan and Sterling Hayden. ing facilities for professional for esters. The basic course at A&M will meet a strong need for such train ing, he said, “. . . and this institu tion is the logical place for such training—since we are in a position to give all the basic types of cour ses necessary.” Use of the two-year plan means students can be given preparatory work without addition of instruc tors, major equipment, or addition al major expense to the college or the state. Courses now offered at the college will be arranged to fit into the program so that students can complete their junior and sen ior years at accredited schools of forestry. Professional forester trainees will take basic arts and sciences courses, some engineering, plant studies, introductory forestry and dendrology (science of tree growth) before transferring to more ad vanced schools. On completion of their four years of schooling, they will be eligible for Civil Service examinations for ratings as professional foresters, or for employment in industries re quiring such professionally trained men. Directors To Meet The board of directors of the A&M College System Avill hold their regular meeting June 25 at 9 a.m., on the campus. No Charges Yet Filed On Spanking No charges have yet been filed against the 20-year-old Bryan youth who confessed to spanking four College Sta tion children last week. County Attorney John M. Bar ron said that investigations are be ing made on the youth’s case, and that the boy is now undergoing diagnosis by a psychiatrist. He said no legal action would be tak en until these investigations have been completed. The incident occurred Wednes day afternoon a week ago on a creek bank a few yards off High way 6 south on Jersey Street in College Station. The youth was playing golf on the A&M course, when he noticed the children, a girl and two boys, 11-years-old, and another girl, 8, playing under the bridge on Jersey St. He said he went to wain them about snakes he had seen in the creek, but that when he got there he suddenly got the urge to spank them. He said that he was jailed in California while he was in the navy about two years ago for the same type of action. He was discharged as a result of being convicted on (See SPANKING, Page 2) Rupel Elected ADSA Director Dr. I. W. Rupel, head of the Dairy Husbandry Department, has been elected a director of the American Dairy Science Associa tion. Dr. Rupel is a native of Walker- ton, Ind. He holds the BS degree from the University of Illinois (1923), and the MS and Ph.D. de grees from the University of Wis consin, (1924-1932). He is a member of the board of directors and the executive com mittee, Texas Division, American Dairymen’s Association; is an of ficial judge for all dairy breeds of cattle, and is a member of four honorary and scholastic fraterni ties. He recently was appointed to the College Feeds Survey Commit tee of the American Feed Manu facturers Association for 1955-56. MSC Gets Pianos The Memorial Student Center has recently acquired three new pianos, said J. Wayne Stark, direc tor. A baby grand Baldwin is now in the assembly room; and a Stien- way baby grand piano is in the piano room instead of the old up right piano that was there. The piano which was moved around the building wherever it was need ed has been replaced with a new upright instrument. Adjunct Closes Breach Between High School, College The Junction Adjunct of A&M opened its first 1955 summer ses sion June 6, with a second term to follow July 18. This summer program is a part of the services offered by the Ba sic Division the non-degree grant ing school at A&M. The idea be hind the adjunct is to bridge the gap between high school and col lege by combining study, counsel and reci'eation. The campsite is 411 acres on the South Llano river in the heart of the Texas Hill Country, about one mile from the city of Junction. Complete recreational and educa tional facilities are provided at this location. The water of the river is cool and clear, being fed by 700 springs; and the banks are covered with large pecan and wal nut trees. The housing and classroom area is well above the highwater line, and all furnishings are modern. Electric lights are available throughout the area, and all build ings have concrete floors, steel frames and corrugated asbestos roofs. The students are housed in screened, fireproof cabins, with 12 students in each cabin. The class room building contains offices a library and a medical clinic as well as classrooms. A small lounge and picnic ground are available for visiting parents. Besides being a liaison between high school and 'college, the camp serves as headquarters for ad vanced summer practice courses in civil engineering and geology. This summer, 32 CE students and 29 geology students are at the sum mer practice at the adjunct. According to the acting dean of the Basic Division, C. H. Ransdell, who is the overall head of the camp, the first term is full, but a few more students will be taken for the second semester. “Students who have been at the adjunct have shown themselves better able to adapt to college and have made comparatively better grades than students who have not attended the camp,” Ransdell said. “These results were from personal tests we have conducted and are still conducting,” he explained. Students have an organized in ter-cabin competitive intramural program including softball, bas ketball, ping pong, swimming, div ing and volleyball. Talent shows and a 16mm feature length motion picture each week offer additional entertainment. School nights, the hours be tween 7:15 and 10:30 are desig nated as “quiet hours,” reserved entirely for study. Students carry a maximum of 7 hours each semes ter. For beginning students, the courses offered which carry col lege credit are English, algebra and trigonometry; basic 101 and 102; and physical education. Two preparatory courses are offered which do not count toward A&M degree requirements. These are fundamentals of writing (Eng lish) and general mathematics. The staff for the first term is as follows: S. A. Kerly, director; Frank Mc Farland, director of group guid ance; R. E. Miller, counselor of remedial reading; Herman Segrest, director of recreation; Clay George, camp counselor; Di\ J. E. Wied- man, physician from Junction; Mrs. Jean Dagen, nurse; and Miss Jan Hill, secretary. On the freshman staff are L. F. Hauer, in charge of English; H. S. Creswell, English; R. W. Feragen, English; J. L. Shawn in charge of mathematics; C. M. Pearcy, math ematics; Segrest, in charge of phy sical education; and Paul M. An drews, physical education. J. A. Orr is in charge of civil engineering, assisted by E. L. Har rington. Horace R. Blank is in charge of geology, and he is as sisted by Peter Dehlinger. Weather Today PARTLY CLOUDY The weather forecast for today is partly cloudy skies, with widely scattered thundershowers in the area. Yesterday’s high temperature was 81; low this morning was 64. Rainfall during the past 24 hours was .34 inches. COOL CLASSES—If they can’t stay cool outside, then it must be impossible. These are students at a physical edu cation class at the Junction camp. PE is part of the re quired program for beginning students at the adjunct. JUNCTION ADJUNCT—Here is an overall shot of the summer camp at Junction. The living quarters are located above the high-water mark at the adjunct on the South Llano river in the heart of the Texas Hill Country.