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V The Battalion Number 5: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 7,1955 Price Five Cents Firemen’s Training School Opens Soon The 26th annual Texas Fire men’s Training School, to be held at A&M July 10-15, will '•have 110 instructors for the hundreds of firemen due to | attend. The training course will be held on a special 26-acre area Y adjoining the campus. Conducted by the Texas Engi neering Extension Service under the auspices of the State Firemen and Fire Marshals Association and in cooperation with the trade and industrial department of the Texas Education Agency, the school will have about 14 pumper trucks avail able from fire departments and in dustries throughout the state to demonstrate latest fire fighting techniques. Expendable materials | and fuels to be consumed at the ; training school are being donated by industries of the state. Col. H. R. Brayton, chief of fire- ' men training for the T.E.E.S., will direct the school, during which in tensive training in latest methods of combatting every conceivable type of fire will be featm-ed. Fire displays will include the burning of two four-room houses, an airplane fuselage, high pressure oil still, oil tank trucks and many chemical fires. Supplementary instruction in dis aster rescue operations will be add ed this year to prepare firemen to assist their community in time of natural disaster or enemy air at tack. One of the immediate benefits Texas cities have derived from the training school is a saving of more 4 than two million dollars in fire in surance ratings by receiving credit from the state fire insui’ance com mission for sending fire depart- lent members to the school, Bray- pointed out. Safety Course Opens Here Soon The supervisor training depart ment of the Engineering Exten sion Service will hold its sixth course for safety supervisors July 18-22 on the A&M campus. The course is designed to train job supervisors and newly ap pointed safety supervisors in or ganizing and conducting an effec tive program of accident preven tion and to give the experienced safety engineer an opportunity to review new techniques. There have been many requests , for another course of this type / from companies who were repre- sented in our earlier courses and | who have additional personnel whom they desire to attend, ac cording to L. K. Jones, chief of * supervisor training for T.E.E.S. A&M Press Moving To New Quarlers At The Grove Thursday, July 7 — “War Paint” with Robert Stack and Joan Taylor. Monday, July 11—No movie. Tuesday, July 12 — “Hit the Deck” with local cost. Wednesday, July 13 — “Hit the Deck”. READY FOR MOVE—Although Roy Goode, front, and Raymond Duckett, pressman and pressroom foreman with the A&M Press, are ready for move to the spacious new quarters of the Press, the work is still going on. The some what hampered and crowded conditions for working shown above are eliminated in the new building. A picture of the new A&M Press building is at the lower righthand corner of the picture above. Second Term Students May Pay Fees July 13 2,770 Visit Here During June A total of 2,770 visitors were on the campus in June. They were here to attend short courses and other set conferences. The 4-H Roundup attracted the largest number of visitors, 1,600, while the Texas School Adminis trators, County Superintendents and Supervisors, had 400 in at- jjjtendance. The Tenth Annual Rural Church conference attracted 250 visitors and 225 attended the Tex as Veterinary Medicine Association Conference. The other meets included the Texas Rescue Training School. Poultry short course, Poultry Breeders and Hatchery school Brazos County’s annual livestock and pasture field day, Pest Control Operators conference, and Tornado conference. All students who expect to at tend the second term of the sum mer session should pay fees and reserve rooms beginning at 8 a.m. Wednesday, July 13. Students should follow the following pro cedure: • World War II. veterans .(not Korean) will secure fee waiver slips from the Veteran’s Adviser’s office, room 102, Goodwin Hall. • Korean veterans who have not signed enrollment papers for the MSC Has Dance, Movie Next W eek A dance Monday night and a movie Tuesday night will highlight activities at the Memorial Student Center next week. The movie, to be shown at 7:30 p.m. in the ballroom as a part of the summer film series, .is “The Blue Veil,” the stoi’y of a war widow who becomes a children’s governess, first because she has to earn a living, and then because she comes to love her work. The film stars Jane Wyman as the gov erness, and Charles Laughton, Joan Blondell, Richard Carlson, Agnes Moorhead, Don Taylor and Audrey Trotter. The dance Monday night will be on the starlight terrace from 8 to 11 p.m. The Capers Combo will furnish the music, and there will be a floor show. Admission is 25 cents per person; as always, every one who wants to come without a date is encouraged to do so. second six weeks should report to the Veteran’s Adviser’s office and sign the papers. • All pay fees at the Fiscal Of fice in the Administration build ing. Rooms will be reserved at the Housing office in Goodwin accord ing to the following schedule: Students who wish to reserve the rooms they now have may reserve their rooms between 8 a.m. July 13, and 5 p.m. July 14. Students wishing to move to a different room in their present dormitory may also reserve rooms during this time. They must present a room change slip signed by the dormi tory housemaster. All other students may register for rooms on a first come, first served basis from 8 a.m. Friday, July !£, until noon the next day. Day students, including those living in college apartments, may save time in the registration pro cedure by paying fees early. All students now living in college dor mitories must secure a day student permit from the Housing Office be fore paying fees. NEW A&M PRESS BUILDING Air-Conditioned. Humidity Controlled, and Spacious Tuesday, Wednesday Musical To Be at Grove Had Long Broadway Run On Tuesday and Wednesday nights of next week, College Sta tion will have the opportunity to enjoy the community production of “Hit the Deck,” a musical comedy which enjoyed a long run on Broad way in the early 1930’s. Bill Turner, director of the pro duction, thinks that “Hit the Deck” will be even better than the 1953 staging of “The Pirates of Pen zance,” which he thinks was the best musical comedy ever shown here in the summers. “We have the best chorus' we’ve ever had,” he said, “and Mrs. Joe Barron, the assistant director, is doing a won derful job with the choreography.” Both performances will begin at 8 p.m. in The Grove. Admission New Dean, Kaiiiin, Has Assumed Duties Dr. Robert B. Kamm assumed tions dealing with student life out- his duties as Dean of Personnel side the classroom. Services at A&M July 1. A newly created post, the personnel ser vices dean will head all oi’ganiza- Band Boosters Set Square Dance The A&M Consolidated Band Boosters Club will sponsor a square dance at 8 p.m., Saturday, 16, at The Grove. JA Callers will be Manning Smith, 1 Sam Kennedy, Carl Lyman and | Miss Lucille Moore. I Admission will be 50 cents per person. Refreshments will be sold at the dance, and all proceeds will go to pay for uniforms for the A&M Consolidated Band. FIRST DAY PHOTO—The new Dean of Student Personnel Services, Dr. Robert M. Kamm, met The Battalion on his first day of duty at A&M by being photographed by a prac ticing amateur comeraman. The picture turned out, so The Battalion takes this way to welcome the new dean. Dr. Kamm is located in the Student Activities Office, Good win Hall. He assumed his new duties last Friday. Dr. Kamm was Dean of Stu dents at Drake University, Des- Moines, Iowa, for several years before taking the new position here. A native of West Union, Iowa, he was graduated from Iowa State Teachers College in 1940, re ceived his M.A. degree from the University of Minnesota in 1946 and his Ph.D. from Minnesota in 1948. His major fields of study were in higher education, guidance and student personnel administra tion. The new Dean of Student Per sonnel Services is listed in “Who’s Who in America” and in “Who’s Who in Amei'ican Education.” He has published numerous articles on guidance, psychology and re lated fields. He is married and has | two children, a daughter, 7, and a son, 16 months. At present, Dr. Kamm is located in the student activities office, sec ond floor of Goodwin Hall. Diarrhea Leads Diarrhea was the leading disease in the College Station-Bryan area last week with 13 cases reported to the County Health Unit. Strept throat was second with eight cases. charge for those who do not have season tickets to the Grove will be 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children. Tickets may be bought in advance at the Student Activities Office or may be pur chased at the door. The heroine is Looloo Marin, at tractive owner of a coffeehouse which was originally her home but was remodeled after the death of her father. Looloo is very much in love with Bilge Smith, a sailor who unfortunately does not seem to feel the same way about her. Believing that the way to a man’s heart is through his stom ach, Looloo prepares a grand din ner for Bilge, hoping that he’ll be more inclined to marriage. But all is in vain, and he shoves off again, leaving her. Looloo is, warn ed against falling in love with sail ors by her cook, Lavinia, whom sailors call “Dracula’s mother-in- law.” After six months Looloo sees Bilge again, this time because of her own initiative. With the help of a ship captain, she is hostess at a party for all sailors named Smith. After numerous introduc tions, the one and only Smith- for her comes aboard. This time he does ask her to marry him, but when she tells him that she has ac quired a freighter, he says angrily that he will not take money from a woman, and he withdraws his proposal. * After 35 years of wandering, the A&M Press has finally found a real home. Sticking strictly to facts, a department of the A&M system that has been pushed and pulled into and out of one corner or another of the campus for years is now ready to move into quarters built specifically for it. Tuesday of this week, the equipment now located in the basement of Goodwin Hall found itself being dismantled, be ing made more easily transportable for a short journey across the campus—a journey that has taken many years to realize. The actual moving of the Press will begin today. This issue of The Battalion is the last one to come out of the base ment of Goodwin. By next week the press will have been overhauled and cleaned, and lodged in its new resting place in the shiny new building across from the A&M power plant. The work of hauling the equipment is being done by the J. B. Beard Transfer and Storage Co., Bryan. The schedule was plan ned so that as much as possible of the Press’ work could be continued during the change. The A&M Press was established in 1920 as a service department of the college. It has been located in various spots around the campus— in the Mechanical Engineering Shops, the basement of the old Ad ministration Building, and in 1947 was moved to its present (or “past present”) location in Goodwin. Un til the new building was construct ed, the Press had never had a home of its own. Not Enough Room With the huge job of handling system publication jobs (the Press does about $240,000 business of sys tem work each year, according to R. Henderson Shuffler, director of "■-information and publicity fof the A&M System), the Goodwin loca tion was felt to be unsuitable for the expansion some day planned for this department. In June of 1953, an expert from the Engineer ing Education Department of the American Type Founders Co. was brought in to make a study of the plant as it was in Goodwin, the work it was doing at the time, and the work it was expected to do in the future. A production-flow floor plan was made for a new plant, with the shop so arranged that the work would be done at maximum efficiency. Shuffler explained that the pkm included present and expected equipment. “The building was then designed to fit the floor plan,” he said. 20,900 Sq. Ft. The new quarters have 20,900 square feet of floor space, with di mensions just slightly over 100 by 200 feet. Total cost for the con- struction was $277,888, Shuffler said. This includes air condition ing, humidity control and modern lighting. Adams and Adams, Ar chitects, Dallas, did the designing of the building, and the construc tion contract was awarded to the Martin Semands Co. of Conroe. The work started last October, tak ing about 10 months to complete. The present investment in equip ment for the Press is about $138,500, Shuffler said. The new building has facilities that will en able the printing of books to be done there, he aded. When this will be, he explained, is not known, as it depends upon when funds for such a project would be available and the chances of making a go of this type of work would have to be (See PRESS, Page 2) Further complications and Loo- loo’s maneuvering to get her man result in a very entertaining story. Such hit songs as “Sometimes I’m Happy,” “Hallelujah,” and “Harbor of my Heart” are fea tured in the musical, which was written by Fields and Youman. Looloo Martin is played by Miss Coralyn Thurman, a graduate of (See HIT THE DECK, Page 5) Weather Today Camille Kennedy In Musical Comedy Director of the musical comedy “Hit the Deck,” which will be at The Grove Tuesday and Wednes day, is Bill Turner, A&M music director. Rifle Example Set By Capt. I lord Cadre personnel of the Aberdeen Proving Ground’s 1955 ROTC sum mer camp are setting a good ey- ample on the rifle range for the future officers now undergoing six weeks of training at the Maryland camp. Among the leading scorers in last week’s pre-camp qualification firing was Capt. Asa A. Hord of the Military Science Department at A&M. Showing the cadets “just how it’s done,” Capt. Hord fired a 198 out of a possible 200 score. It will be partly cloudy all day, [ A former maintenance officer | clearing shortly after dark. Ses- with the 24th Infantry division in j terday’s maximum temperature j Korea, he, his wife and three child- was 96 degrees, and this morning’s ren, live at 1021 College Station. Harrington in low was 72. There was no precipi tation.