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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.