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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1955)
Union Fee Election Set for September The Board of Directors last ■weekend authorized that an elec tion be held among the students to find out if they want an union fee,, the revenue from which to go to the maintenance of the Memorial Student Center. The election will be held for two days during the week beginning September 26. The fee carries a maximum of $2 a semester during regular terms and $1 per summer semester. To go in effect, a ma jority of the student body would have to vote favorably for the fee. Even if the fee is approved by the students, the revenue from it will not take up the slack between expected income and expenses for the MSC next year. J. Wayne Stark, MSC director, said the fee would provide about $27,000, but that the MSC needs Fruit Laboratory Okayed by Board Construction of a fruit and vege table processing laboratory, which will be a research and instruction center on better handling of Texas grown produce, was authorized by action of the Board of Directors of the A&M System. The board awarded a contract to build the new laboratory to Oscar T. Chapman, of Ennis, on a low bid of $86,673. The laboratory will be located on the A&M campus, and will be used for research work on methods of canning, storing, and preserv ing marketable Texas crops. It will also be used for instruction of students in new techniques of can ning, storing, preserving, freezing and marketing produce. The laboratory will fit a major need in foods technology studies for a center where both research and instruction can be combined in one building. President Visits Dr. David H. Morgan, president of A&M, will makt a visit Wed nesday to the Fort Lee Va., Army BOTC summer camp. Twenty-one quartermaster cadets from A&M are at the camp. about $60,000 to keep providing the service it now has. Stark said that the budget for next year is roughly $900,000 for expenses and $840,000 for revenues. “The fee would pay about one-half of the difference between the ex penses and revenues,” he said. The rest of the money to oper ate on next year will have to come out of the reserve fund for depre ciation which, for the first time, the MSC was able to save last year. Further details of the election will be published in The Battalion at a later date. Scholarship Fund Given As Memorial A endowed scholarship fund as a memorial to his father has been given to A&M by Leonard Sinclair Hobbs, 1916 graduate of the college and one of the nation’s top aviation en gineers. The Charles S. Hobbs Endowed Scholarship Fund was accepted for the college last week by the Board of Directors of the A&M College System, meeting at College Sta tion. It will be used in the Op portunity Award program of A&M. The fund was established through a gift of 110 shares of common stock of the General Motors Cor poration, currently valued at $10,- 500. Hobbs was a 1916 graduate in mechanical engineering of A&M. He is regarded as one of the na tion’s top aviation engineers, hold er of the 1953 Collier Trophy in Aviation, and at present the vice- president for engineering of Uni ted Aircraft Corporation of Hart ford, Conn. Hobbs was awarded the Collier Trophy for his leadership in de veloping the J-57 dual-compressor gas turbine power plant for high speed aircraft. This engine pow ered the North American F-100, Super Sabre, at supersonic speeds in level flight—the first achieve ment of its kind by conventional aircraft. FREE TRY FOR ACCURACY WITH GREATER DISTANCE Play at Cool • . . CHEK-UR-GOLF MINIATURE GOLF COURSE Hiway 21 at 25th St. Open Every Evening—6 to 11 —Clip This Ad—Good for One Free Game With One Paid Game— A&M Board Thursday, .Time 30, 1955 THE BATTALION ^T- JPagg 3 (Continued from Page 1) The Board also passed a resolu tion putting travel payment on a per diem basis of $7 per day in Texas and $9 per day out of state. Contracts awarded by the Board concerning A&M are as follows: To J. S. Copeland Electric Co., Houston, for electrical switchboard and switch gear for College power plant, substation, cables and pow erlines—$264,892. To Carl C. Cox, consulting en gineer, Amarillo, for design, plans, inspection and supervision of pow er plant improvements—$34,327. To Braden Wire Works, San Antonip, for locker room equip ment for White Coliseum—$29,488. Contracts confirmed by the Board are: B-W Construction Co., Bryan, for remodeling Exchange Store—$49,- 499. W. C. Wallace Co., Houston, for interior painting of three dormi tories—$15,057. R. B. Butler, Inc., Bryan, for sidewalks, curbs and gutters—$29,- 870.60. Chancellor M. T. Harrington was authorized to award contract for addition to the college laundry for which $40,000 was appropriated in February. Allocations of funds approved by Board: Continuing improvement pro gram in agricultural areas, for year beginning Sept. 1—$200,000. For furniture and equipment for the Highway Research building— $5,000. Board Approves System Promotions A number of promotions in the Texas A&M College System were approved June 25, by the board of directors, meeting at A&M. The Promotions include: Tarle- ton State College, Arts and Sci ences, Mathematics, Dennie May Jones, to professor. Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Agronomy, John B. Page, professor and head, Anton J. Bock- holt, instructor; Poultry Husban dry, Bobby L. Reid, assistant pro fessor. - Texas Agricultural Extension Service, James E. Anderson, as sociate county agricultural agent, ranch development; Bobbie J. Grif fin, assistant poultry husbandman; Ralph L. Jones, associate county agricultural agent, irrigation; S. L. Mullins Jr., Eugene L. Spaniel and Charles R. Beedy, county agri cultural agents. Texas Forest Service, Forest Products Department, Paul R. Kra mer to head; District No. 1, Lin den, Lewill E. Horsman, district forester. Gilchrist Named Chancellor Emeritus Gibb Gil christ of the A&M system has been named a member of the water con servation committee of the East Texas Chamber of Commerce, it has been announced by Charles F. Hawn of Athens, president of the East Texas Chamber. YOU'LL ENJOY THIS SUMMER'S VACATION MORE BECAUSE YOU PLANNED FOR IT* Have you planned for your retirement years when every day will be a,vacation? W. D. Kutaeh L» 302 Varisco Bldg., Bryan, Ph. 2-1235 W. DEE KUTACH AREA LEADER Cheat Southern Z>Jfe Insurance Company found* d 1909 Q/fJe* • J/vuttoM* Tex** Plans and preliminary expenses for remodeling four former veter inary medicine buildings for the use of the Civil Engineering De partment—$4,000. To complete installation of a storage tank and compressor at the Engineering building for the Aeronautical Engineering Depart ment—$600. Relocating streets, building side walks and parking areas near White Coliseum and in new Vet Medicine area—$80,000. (A few other actions taken by the Board of Directors are in sep arate stories in this paper.) A&M Press Moves Next Week The A&M Press is scheduled to move into its new quarters near the shacks across from the College power plant starting Tuesday, ac cording to J. Frank Tucker, man ager of the Press. The lighter equipment will be moved first, and after Thursday’s press run of The Battalion, the press will be dismantled and trans ported to the new building. The new quarters are of a pro duction line type, with the shop set up so that the orders come in the front door and flow smoothly toward the back, emerging as a finished project. The old location of the Press was in the basement of Goodwin Hall. Student Publications, Stu dent Activities, the Housing Of fice, Office of Student Affairs, and the Campus Security Office will remain in Goodwin for the present. All of these offices are destined to move into the YMCA building at a later date. Miss Ann Fleming Girls In Government A “four-day politician” spoke to the College Station Kiwanis Club Tuesday about her experiences at Girls State, the annual event at which outstanding girls from high schools all over Texas gather to learn more about the working of city, county and state government. Miss Ann Fleming, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Fleming of College tSation and a senior next year at A&M Consolidated High School, was a representative this year to the organization. J. B. Carroll, also from Consolidated, at tended Boys State this year. He was to have spoken at Tuesday’s Kiwanis meeting, but was not able to attend. Girls State was held at the School for the Blind in Austin and was attended by 360 girls, plus around 100 adult supervisors and counselors. The girls were at Aus tin 10 days, the sixth through the sixteenth of this month. City government was the first program taken up, Miss Fleming said. After an organizational Gilbert Approved The State Board of Engineering Examiners recently approved J. K. Gilbert, assistant research en gineer at the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, for registra tion. He is now a registered pro fessional engineer in the field of electircal engineering. Mr. Gilbert has charge of research on non destructive testing of welds being conducted for the Texas Highway Department. speech and study, 100 city officers were elected. The group also studied political parties, and as each girl registered, she was assigned to one of two political parties represented—Fed eralist or Nationalist. Three party officials—chairman, vice-chairman and whip—were elected, she said. The next type of government to be studied was that of counties, and after a study of this govern ment, 65 county officers were elect ed. Following the study of county government, the group undertook Gifts, Grants Accepted by Board Gifts and grants in aid totalling $283,357.34 made by individuals and coi’porations to the work of various parts of the Texas A&M College System were accepted by the System’s board of directors at their meeting here last weekend. Included in the list were grants in support of chemical research at A&M totalling $106,320 and gifts to the college, primarily for schol arships, totalling $82,225.60. Grants in support of agricultural research of the Texas Agricultural Experi ment Station totalling $45,766.19 and equipment valued at $730.55 for research use was accepted. Prairie View A&M College receiv ed gifts of $115.00 and Arlington State College received an airplane and other equipment for aeronaut ical instruction. to find out what makes our state government function. Because of the size of this study, the program was divided into individual school ing in the three branches—legis lative, executive and judicial. The girls had a House of Rep resentatives and a Senate. Miss Fleming was in the House. Speak er for this study was Jim Lindsey, Speaker of the House in the Texas Legislature. Five legislative ses sions were held, Miss Fleming said, with one of them in the state cap- itol. For the executive program, speakers were Texas Governor Al lan Shivers and Attorney General John Ben Sheppard, both of whom told the girls of the need for every one to vote every year, not just in the presidential elections. For state elections, candidates had to file three days before elec tion date. Following filings came campaigns, the primary election and run-off elections. Finally, 15 state officers were elected. Miss Fleming was elected chairman of the State Highway Commission. The girls served in their new of fices for the last four days of the meeting. Library Schedule Here is the schedule which the college library will follow during the holiday weekend: Saturday, July 2—8 a.m. to 12 noon. Sunday, July 3—Closed. Monday, July 4—Closed. DEADLINE: JULY 31 ' i \ C \ V 1 •T'tT *■ V ;■ * tt 7 ? r * .. ••i*- ? c ■ Season Tickets for Faculty 4 Big Home Games Oct. 1 . . . Houston Sept. 22 . . . Baylor Nov. 5 . . . r SMU Nov. 24 . . . Texas Only $13.00 Applications fox top priority seats must be sent to the Athletic Department by July 31st. Faculty and employees also will be admitted to all other athletic department events throughout the school year if they purchase a season book. (Top priority will not apply to single game purchases.) Each faculty member and employee will be limited to two season books. Texas A & M Athletic Depa rtm ent College Station, Texas Phones 4-5394 and 4-1233 ....