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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.