Battalion
Number 9: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1955
Price Five Cents
24 Students
Taking Special
English Course
Twenty-four students from
12 Latin American countries
are currently enrolled in a
special summer school English
course at A&M, preparatory
to regular matriculation in Sep
tember. The number represents
the largest beginning group en
rolled since the special instruction
course began about 12 summers
ago.
Instructional supervision is being
given by J. J. Woolket, head of the
modern languages department, who
handles the speech and pronuncia
tion phase of the course, and J. N.
Shepperd, English department, who
instructs the new students in Eng
lish composition.
Students registered for the spe
cial coui'se are Louis R. Villafane,
Gerado Suarez-Vazquez, Frederick
H. Barreda, Francisco R. Gonzalez
and Alfonso Flores, Puerto Rico;
Carlos Salinas, Enrique Endara
and Jorge Coronel, Bolivia; Hu-
berto Campos, Mario Zapata, Hugo
Martin and Felipe Beltran, Peru;
Jose Artola and Claudio Gonzalez,
Mexico; Miguel Irias and Luis A.
Peralta, Nicaragua.
Jose Vargas and Claudio Paiva,
Brazil; Roberto Prudencio, El Sal
vador; Luis M. Soler, Cuba; Marco
A. Segnini, Costa Rica; Cornelio A.
Guzman, Venezuela; Jose M. Saenz,
Colombia; and Horacio M. Eche
varria, Argentina.
Special Vet Courses
Held This Week
The fourth and final summer
course in a series of one-day con
tinuation courses for post-grad
uate veterinarians was held this
week at A&M with six practicing
veterinarians registered.
Purpose of the course is to keep
practicing veterinarians of the
state abreast of the latest meth
ods of diagnosing and treating
diseases of animals through use of
laboratory tests. Sponsored by
the A&M School of Veterinary
Medicine, the fourth course was
under the direction of Dr. R. J.
Beamer, small animal clinic, and
specialized in diseases and sui'gery
of the eye.
Enrolled in the course were Dr.
Doyle W. Dodd and Dr. R. A. Cul
pepper, San Antonio; Dr. Derew
Ward, Fort Worth; Dr. G. D.
Stallworth, Austin; Dr. C. D.
Brown, Amarillo and Dr. W. F.
Julliff, San Angelo.
Twelve additional courses are
planned during the next school
year, beginning in October.
The landlocked salmon does not
like warm or tainted water. The
lakes he inhabits must be pure
and deep.
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SIDEWALK CAPITAL OF WORLD—Maybe, but not quite. A&M does have a lot of
sidewalks, some finished like the one on the left side of the picture. Across the street,
workmen are laying forms for new curbing and beyond that is part of Guion Hall’s new
sidewalks. It’s all a part of the work, $30,000 worth, being done this summer to beau
tify the campus, with new sidewalks, new curbing, new sidewalks, landscaping, and new
sidewalks.
Two Steers
Helping Pull
Bandivagon
A&M’s band fund for the
UCLA trip recently received
a couple of “Trojan Horse”
gifts.
A man from Big Spring—a
Texas Ex — has contributed
one cent toward the $21,000
needed, with an accompanying
note to the effect that the trip
be one-way.
A more generous Teasipper
from Houston has given $1 for
the trip, with the same senti
ments expressed in an attach
ed letter.
Dr. David H. Morgan, presi
dent of A&M, who is heading
the fund drive, has set aside a
separate fund for the money
received from “friends of
A&M” at Austin.
The total for the band fund
through yesterday morning
was $10,390.51.
Professor Made
Brigadier General
Spencer J. Buchanan, professor
of civil engineering at A&M, has
been promoted to the rank of brig
adier general in the U. S. Army
Reserves.
A resident of College Station,
Buchanan commands the 420th
Engineer Brigade, USAR, located
here.
Research Turns Up
New Purification Unit
A table-top water purification
plant, costing $1,500 and able to
do the work of a $50,000 installa
tion, has been built at A&M in a
research project aimed at faster,
simpler and cheaper water purifi
cation.
The miniature plant can handle
10,000,000 gallons of water a day.
It was built during work aimed at
finding faster and less expensive
Mostly cloudy, with thunder
storms and rain showers in the
area until 8:30 p.m. Yesterday’s
high temperature was a cool 92;
low today, 76.
methods of using activated silica in
“settling out” small particles of
foreign matter from water sup
plies.
The new process uses “waste”
gases from engines which are in
common use at city and industrial
water treatment plants, instead of
expensive pure carbon dioxide or
sulfuric acid. One untrained oper
ator can handle the continuous pro
duction process — displacing from
two to four operators needed in the
orthodox treatments used in many
major cities.
Dr. R. V. Andrews, formerly of
the Chemical Engineering Depart
ment, who headed the research,
says the new method can mean a
saving of $70,000 to $80,000 a year
for some cities in labor costs alone.
Size of the new unit means it can
be set up in a fraction of the space
formerly required for silica treat
ment plants.
Use of activated silica to settle
foreign particles suspended in wa
ter is of particular importance to
cities and industries which get their
water supplies from lakes, rivers
and above ground reservoirs. Dr.
Andrews says.
Cities and plants using pure well
water will have little use for the
new process.
During Summer
$30,000 Planned
For Bea u tifica lion
About $30,000 will be spent at
A&M during the summer months
as part of the sidewalking and
landscaping plan which began two
years ago in the Academic Building
area, according to W. H. Badgett,
manager, of physical plants. The
end Of the project is pot in sight
he said, but the aim is to carry
out a long range campus beautifi
cation program which includes side
walks, parking areas, landscaping,
trees and shrubs for the entii'e
campus.
Work already completed or plan
ned for the summer includes resur
facing the sidewalk and entrance
area of Guion Hall, laying a 10-foot
walk on the east side of the difll
field, surfacing areas on the east
side of the Memorial Student Cen
ter where walking traffic prevents
a planting program, curbing and
black-topping the street between
Cushing Library and the Texas
Engineers Libi*ary and laying a
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Miss Janet Folweiler
Sings at Hideaway Dance
Hideaway Dance
To Feature Singer
Miss Janet Folweiler, a senior at
A&M Consolidated High School,
will be featured on the floor show
at the Hideaway dance Monday
night. Accompanied by Miss Eve
Porter of Bryan, she will sing sev
eral popular songs.
The dance, which will last from
8 to 11 p.m., will be held in the
dining room of the Memorial Stu
dent Center. The Capers Combo
will furnish the music, and admis
sion will be 25 cents.
The MSC Program Committee is
planning a western dance for Mon
day, August 15. Everyone is to
come in western costumes, and the
floor show will include hillbilly en
tertainers.
sidewalk which begins at the south
east corner of Walton Hall and
runs to the North Gate.
“The paving and sidewalks being
laid this summer are a part of the
program which will include land
scaping, replanting and erection of
entrance markers at the north and
east sides of the campus,” Badgett
said.
Four parking lots will be black-
topped and a new parking area
added south of White Coliseum dur
ing the summer, and larger park
ing areas will be opened to foot
ball crowds.
Lowrey To Head
Professional Club
Maxk Lowrey, industrial teach
er trainer of the Engineering Ex
tension Service of the A&M Sys
tem, was recently named president
of the Sigma Chapter of the Iota
Lambda Sigma Fraternity, a pro
fessional organization whose mem
bers are outstanding teachers, su
pervisors and administrators of in
dustrial-vocational subjects in
trade and industrial education in
Texas.
Other fraternity officers named
were: Vice-President, Jesse Car-
rell, coordinator of Industrial Co
operative Training, Waco Technical
High School; Secretary-Treasurer,
Joe L. Reed, teacher trainer of the
University of Texas, Austin; Mar
shal, Lawrence Matthews, Metal
Trades, Martin High School, La
redo; Historian, Ed Shive, coordi
nator, Industrial Cooperative Train
ing, Lubbock High School.
MSC Film Today;
Two Showings
The Memorial Student Center’s
Summer Series will present the
film “Here Comes Mr. Jordan”
at 2 and 7:30 p.m. today in the
MSC ballroom.
The movie features Robert
Montgomery; also included in the
cast are Claude Rains and Ed
ward Everett Horton.
Admission is 25 cents or by
season ticket.
At The Grove
Thursday, Aug. 4—“Victory at
Sea.”
Monday, Aug. 8—“Taza, Son of
Cochise” with Rock Hudson.
Tuesday, Aug. 9—Cornel Wilde
and Steve Cochran in “Operation
Secret.”
Wednesday, Aug. 10—“War Ar
row,” starring Jeff Chandler and
Maureen O’Hara.
Thursday, Aug. 11—“Abbott and
Costello Meet Captain Kidd,” also
with Charles Laughton.
Yearbook Space Rates
Lower For Next Year
Reserve Unit
Leaves Sunday
For Training
Members of Headquarters
and Headquarters Company,
420th Engineer Brigade, will
leave Sunday for their annual
summer camp at Wolters Air
Force Base, Texas, for a 15-day
training period. This Army Re
serve unit is composed of men in
the College Station-Bryan area.
Activities to be undertaken will
include the completion of an air
strip started at last year’s camp,
layout and construction of a can
tonment area around the airfield
and construction of roads and taxi
ways adjacent to the airfield loca
tion.
The 420th is commanded by Brig.
Gen. Spencer J. Buchanan; Capt.
James O’Connell is Hq. & Hq. Co.
commander. Other local members
of the unit include Majors Edsel
J. Burkhart, Jack A. Dabbs, Doil
S. Hammons, Samuel T. Keim Jr.
and William Nash; Captains Tho
mas Benson and Elmon E. Schau-
dies.
Lieutenants Raymond A. Guy,
Robert Long, Louis Stuart Jr.,
Henry Wickes and Robert Schleid-
er Jr. Other members are Master
Sergeants J. A. Loftis, Dave Snook
and Walter Jones; Sgt. 1. C. Her
bert Barrett; Sgt. Bill Lightfoot;
Corporals Lester G. Chandler, Ed
mond Dayton and Roy D. Gual;
and Private First-Class Earl Brown
and Delmar Crenshaw.
Dierschke Gets
$500 Scholarship
Donald Joe Dierschke, senior ag
riculture student at A&M, has
been awarded a $500 Ralston Pur
ina scholarship for the coming
school year.
One scholarship amounting to
$500 is awarded each year to a
student at 48 land grant colleges
in this country and three colleges
in Canada.
The recipient must be in the up
per 25 per cent of his class. Other
qualities that enter into his selec
tion include campus leadership,
character and sincerity of purpose
in agriculture.
Dierschke’s home is at Rowena,
Tex. He is majoring in animal
husbandry.
A &M Presiden t
Returns to Office
Dr. David H. Morgan, A&M’s
president, has returned to his
office after a period of conva
lescence following minor surgery
at a hospital in Temple. Dr.
Morgan has been maintaining
office hours at his home on the
campus during this time, and
reports that he “feels fine and
has been impatient to return to
his office.”
Home Specialist
Joins TAES
Mass Harriet Brigham of Lin-
coin, Neb., joined the Texas Agri
cultural Extension Service Aug. 1
as home management specialist.
According to Director G. G. Gib
son, Miss Brigham will hold a
temporary appointment as a re
placement for Miss Minnie Bell,
who has been granted a leave of
absence to do special work in Mex
ico.
Miss Brigham holds a B.S. de
gree from Columbia University and
an M.S. from Iowa State College,
both in the field of home manage
ment. Since 1953 she has served
as a specialist on the Extension
Service staff of the University of
Nebraska.
She is a member of the Amer
ican and Nebraska Home Econom
ics Association, the American Red
Cross, Phi Epsilon Omicron and
Delta Sigma Epsilon.
Three New Groups
Will Be Charged
In a sweeping move Tuesday, the Student Publications
Board reduced the rates for 99 clubs and organizations for
space in the 1956 yearbook.
At the same time it was decided that ROTC units, civilian
dorms and intercollegiate athletics must pay for space in the
next Aggieland.
The action was taken following a recommendation for
such a move by Ross Strader, manager of Student Publica
tions, who has just completed a 100-school survey to study
the basis for charging for space in yearbooks throughout the
United States.
Although the space rates have been under discussion for
some time, the Publications
Cub S*ack Has
Camping Trip
Tomorrow
An overnight camping trip
for all Cub Scouts of Pack 802
at College Station and their
fathers will be held tomorrow
at Pleasant Acres, west of the
city.
Activities for the trip will in
clude a fishing derby, beginning
at 4 p.m., under the direction of
John B. Longley. Prizes will be
given to the scout catching the
first fish, biggest fish and the
most fish. The prizes have been
donated by Ed Garner and A. M.
Waldrop.
After the derby the Cubs and
their families will have a picnic
supper, followed by a regular Pack
meeting. At this meeting, scouts
of Pack 802 who are eligible will
be inducted into the Boy Scouts in
the first Webelos Ceremony for
the pack. The Order of the Arrow
ceremony will be conducted, and
an Arrow Emblem made by Henry
Jones of College Station, a mem
ber of the first scout troop in
Texas, will be presented.
After camping out, the scouts
will cook their breakfast over a
campfire the next morning and
will leave before 8:30 a.m., when
rifle firing begins on near-by Twin
City range.
Health Report
Eleven cases of strept throat
were reported by the County Health
unit in the College Station area for
the week ending July 30. Six cases
of diarrhea, three of influenza, and
one of gonorrhea were also report
ed.
Board ordered a survey made
in April following a protest
by Town Hall and Aggie Play
ers staffs who were charged
for space for the first time in the
1955 Aggieland.
The Aggie Players withdrew
from the book because of the
charges.
It was claimed by both groups
that the charges were inconsistent
and therefore unfair.
The board, Tuesday, in an effort
to broaden the base and to make the
charges for space as fair as pos
sible, moved to charge all groups
which have dues, charge admis
sions or have an appropriate othel
source of revenue.
The new plan would specifically
include ROTC units, civilian dorm*
and intercollegiate sports.
Intramural sports were skipped
over, the board deciding their
source of revenue prevented the
payment of such charges.
Rates for the 99 clubs and or
ganizations that have been paying
regularly for space in the annual
were reduced from $55 to $50 per
page and from $35 to $30 per half
page. The reduction amounts to 9
per cent and 14.3 per cent respec
tively.
Groups requiring more than two
pages of space in the annual will
now pay $50 for the first two
pages; $45 for the next four pages;
and $30 for each page above six
pages.
The ROTC units and civilian
dorms will be treated by units and
groups and will not get the ad
vantage of multiple page rates.
The Athletic Department’s bill
for the usual 75 pages that hav«
been free in the past will amount
to $2,350.
The added income from the new
groups being charged, less the re
duction in rates benefiting all oth
er groups, is expected to add about
$3,500 in additional revenue for tha
Aggieland.
(See PUBLICATIONS, Page 2)
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MISSES AMERICA, 1970 ?7— Th ® youlhful Jeg artistis
above, who hold the title “Misses Texas J »
represented the adjunct recently at the °P e JU
Kimble County Swimming Pool in Juncton. f
old. Lane (left) and Lynn (right) are the daughters
Mr. and Mrs. Frank McFarland of College Station. Ihe r
father is with A&M’s Basic Division.