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The Battalion Number 14: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS,THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1955 Price Five Cents 1,359 Children Register At Consolidated Today was the first com plete school day for 1,359 Col lege Station school children, who registered yesterday morning. Total enrollment in the white school is 1,137. This represents an increase of 17.5 per cent over the first day last year, and 16 per cent over the average enrollment last year. Enrollment at Lincoln School is 222, a four per cent decrease from the first day last year, and a 35.6 decrease from the avei’age enroll ment throughout the year. The en rollment is expected to increase rapidly, however, during the next 30 days. Five hundred and seve,n register ed in the white elementary school, with 113 in the first grade, 146 in the second, 129 in the third and 119 in the fourth. In the fifth grade are 115 pupils; in the sixth, 110; 97 in the seventh and 81 in the eighth, making a total of 403 in the junior high school. Of the 227 registered in the high school, 53 are seniors, 58 juniors, 46 sophomores and 70 freshmen. A&M Consolidated On TV Program Some College Station residents didn’t like the radical design of- the new high school buildings at A&M Consolidated, but experts in this field take a different view. Classrooms scenes at the school will be featured on Edward R. Mui’- row’s CBS television show “See It Now” late this fall or early spring. Cameramen were there last week end to photograph a hastily group ed class, Robert Knapp’s English I section, in class room auction. A geometry class and the band work ing out were also photographed. The school has been picked by the School Buildings Division of the Texas Education Agency as one of 12 outstanding new school buildings erected in Texas since the end of World War II. National notice will also be di rected toward Consolidated through several pages of color photographs scheduled to appear in the October issue of McCall’s magazine. 5,182 Visit Here During August A total of 5,182 visitors were on the campus of A&M College dur ing the month of August. For the months of June, July and Au gust, 9,584 visitors were on the campus. The August total includes 4,867 attending the 25th anniversary of the American International Luther Church conference. The visitors attended short cour ses and conferences. Health Report One case of polio was reported in College Station for the week ending Sept. 3, 1955, along with eight of diarrhea, five of strept throat, and two of pneumonia. In Bryan were 11 of strept throat, nine of diarrhea, six of influenza, four of mumps, thi’ee each of syph ilis and gonorrhea, ande on each of dysentery, tuberculosis and typhoid fever. Weather Today STILL NOT OPEN—Even bowling alleys need repairs once in a while, but eager bowlers like Lucy Rogers, Mary Beth Hagler and Mary Lou Ergle sure have missed getting their pins. They almost decided to storm the fort, but the MSC bowling alley door held too well. Oh, well, that was Tuesday and these three juniors at A&M Consolidated High School are now back in school. The alleys will be reopened Monday. Class Of ’59, 2,000 Strong, Expected On Campus Friday Orientation to Include A&M Consolidated Reception Monday Honors Teachers Teachers of the A&M Consoli dated Schools will be honored guests at a reception held by the Mothers and Dads Club, Monday evening from 7:30 to 9. “This is an informal reception,” said Mrs. Joe E. Davis, general chairman, “which we hope every parent of Consolidated students will attend so that teachers, school officials and parents may become better acquainted and establish a closer home and school relation ship.” First greetings will be extended by Mrs. Raymond Hite, president of the club; Dr. Les Richardson, superintendent of the school; and Dr. J. S. Rogers, president of the school board, at the program which will be held on the Patranella Me morial Slab. Also taking part in the official Tours Today, Tomorrow Cotton Course on Campus What is being done in the lab oratory, at the experiment station and on the farm to improve cotton and methods of producing it is be ing seen during the ninth annual Beltwide Mechanization Confer ence, which began here Wednesday and ends tomprrow. Two tours are on the program. This afternoon, conferees will see the principal cotton research facil ities of A&M and a demonstration of experimental cotton production equipment. Early tomorrow morning they will board buses for a trip through the Blackland area between College Station and Temple. After visiting and lunching at the Lankart Seed farm, near Waco, they will Havel to Temple to view a demonstration of modern cotton production ma chinery. Basic work in hybridizing cotton species, initiated by the late Dr. J. O. Beasley, is being carried on CLKAR Clear to partly cloudy all day long. Yesterday’s high was 94 de grees; low this morning, 69 de grees. Mothers and Dads To Begin Sales Sales of magazine subscriptions and Christmas cards, sponsored each year by the Mothers and Dads Club, will begin soon, according to Mrs. R. V. Hite, president. Mrs. C. D. Lundergan is chair man of magazine sales. Anyone who wishes to start or renew a sub scription to any magazine can do so by calling her or Mrs. W. L. Zingery. or Mrs. J. B. Nemec. Mrs. M. C. Schrader, chairman of Christmas card sales, has an nounced that neighborhood coffees for examining and ordering cards will begin soon. Everyone who wishes to buy cards through the club should watch for the date of the coffee in their neighborhood, she said. In addition to the reg ular day-time coffees, there will be two in the evening for people who work. Other members of the committee for Christmas card sales are Mes- dames Phillip Goode, Sid Loveless, Garlyn Hoffman. O. C. Cooper and R. O. Reid. Express Office Closes Doors Because of the discontinuing of the daytime trains through College Station, the railway expi'ess office here has been closed. Residents of College Station who wish to send parcels via railway express can call the Bryan office, 2-2309, before 3 p.m. and have a truck come out to pick up their shipment. at the Beasley Laboratory, one of the points to be visited on the cam pus tour. The laboratory and its two greenhouses provide facilities for year-round research on live cotton plants. Dr. H. P. Smith of the Depart- riient of Agricultural Engineering is in charge of the demonstration of experimental equipment. This System Staff Can Get Social Security Employees of all parts of the A&M System are eligible for Federal Old Age Assist ance and Survivors’ Insur ance, under a ruling by the Attorney General of Texas Sept. 2. This information and all avail able details concerning the pro gram were included in a letter from the office of the chancellor to presidents and directors of the System Wednesday. There is still some question con cerning the coverage of the follow ing groups of employees: • Cooperative fedei-al employees who are eligible to participate in Federal Civil Service Retirement. • Students enrolled in colleges and regularly attending classes. A student is defined as a person whose primary connection with the System is that of attaining an edu cation and not that of earning a livelihood. • Agricultural workers who earn less, or are expected to earn less, than $100 in any one calendar year. Arp Award Given To A. F. DeWerth Professor A. F. DeWerth, head of the Department of Floriculture and Landscape Architecture at A&M, has received the Arp Nur sery Award for meritorious ser vice to the nursery industry of Tex as. The award—a large silver punch bowl and a certificate of achieve ment — was presented by Clark Kidd of Tyler during the annual convention of the Texas Associa tion of Nurserymen. Kidd was the recipient of last year’s award. The Arp Award is given each year to the man who has contrib uted most to the advancement of the nursery industry in Texas. This was the first time it was awarded to someone other than a commer cial nurseryman. includes machines for stalk dis posal and other practices generally employed in Texas cotton produc tion. The tour through the Blackland area will be under the direction of J. E. Roberts, farm service man ager at A&M. All commercially available makes of mechanical strippers and pick ers will be operated in the demon stration at the Temple Experiment Station tomorrow afternoon, in charge of Dr. E. D. Cook, agron omist. The show will feature chemical defoliation, desiccation and harvesting with the stripper- type machine. More than 500 persons are at tending the conference, which is being sponsored by the National Cotton Council in cooperation with the A&M System, Farm Equipment Institute, U. S. Department of Ag riculture and Cotton Belt land grant colleges. Post Office Sets 3-Point Program The public can help get better mail service by cooperating with the Post Office Department’s “3- Point Program,” Acting Postmas ter N. L. McCullough said recent ly- The “3-Point Program” invol ves: • The sorting of mail into local and out-of-town bundles, with reg ular 3-cent mail separated from air mail. Post offices will furnish without charge labels reading “all for out-of-town” and “all for local delivery.” • The tying and bundling of mail by those who mail in quan tity. The postmaster said, “This sorting procedure is normally rela tively convenient for business firms, but it becomes extremely time-consuming when it must be done in the post office. • The earlier mailing of letters and parcels. McCullough said, “If more mail would be deposited earl ier in the day, peak loads would be reduced and a larger proportion of mail could be dispatched by earlier trains, planes and motor vehicles, thus assuring earlier de livery.” greeting wil be Mrs. Rowena Cres- well and Mrs. George Huebner, the principal and the vice-president of the elementary school; Taylor Rie del and Mrs. Walter Varvel, the principal and the vice-president for the junior high; and J. J. Skri- vanek and Mrs. J. G. McGuire, the principal and the vice-president of the senior high. Maj. D. Phillips, the club treas urer, will accept 50 cents club dues. At this time the club will display magazines and Christmas cards. Proceeds from these sales are used by the club for promotion of school activities and projecets. Mrs. Les Richardson and Mrs. Taylor Riedel will preside at the punch bowls. Mrs. Henry Phillips is in charge of table decorations while the fol lowing committee handles arrange ments and refreshments: Mesdames Joe Fagan, Wayne Stark, Spike White, Taylor Wilkins, John Mc- Cannon and Marion Pugh. In the event of rain, the recep tion will be held in the school gym nasium. Supervisors Meet Here Next Week A 40-hour general course in sup ervision will be given at A&M Sept. 12-16. The course will be conducted by the Engineering Ex tension Seiwice with L. K. Jonas in charge. The course is for supervisors, superintendents, managers, fore men, personnel men, gang pushers, squad foremen and their assistants. Topics to be covered include com pany organization and communi cations, the supervisor’s part in management, duties and responsi bilities of the supervisor and others. CHANGES IN SCHEDULE OF CLASSES Fall Semester 1955 Modern Course 385 French. 500 Hours Course 386 German. 500 Hours Course 388 Russian. 500 Hours Languages — Readings in Credit 1 or 2. to be arranged. — Reading s in Credit 1 or 2. to be arranged. — Readings in Credit 1 or 2. to be arranged. Tests, Assemblies Approximately 2,000 freshmen students, members of the Class of ’59, are expected to arrive on the campus to morrow for the beginning of Orientation Week. A large group of cadet officers and civilian leaders came back to the college yesterday for their brief training period. They will remain here during freshmen week to help the ne”\v students adjust to life at A&M. As soon as the freshmen arrive here, they will receive their housing assignments. Throughout the first part of the week they will have identification photographs made, and military students will be issued their uniforms. One of the first, and most important, things that they will do is take a round of ex-4 aminations given by the Ba- i Khaki Seen On Campus Once Again The khaki-curtain has drawn around A&M once more as the student cadre of the Corps of Cadets poured onto the cam pus for orientation classes yes terday and today. Commandant Joe Davis is in charge of the orientation which is designed to teach the new student officers what their duties will be in leading the corps this year. Leading the parade of new cadet officers here include the corps commander for the com ing year. Cadets here include the entire corps staff, regi mental commanders and their sergeant-majors, battalion commanders and their ser geant-majors, and company and squadron commanders with their first sergeants. sic Division. These are psy- cological, ability, and achieve ment tests, designed to help counselors in the Basic Division advise the students more intelli gently on their courses of study and possible vocations. The main social event of the week will be the Open House and Reception, which will last from 2 Reception Sunday, which will last from 2 to 4 p.m., students will be introduced to President and Mrs. David H. Morgan and to Dr. and Mrs. Robert B. Kamm. Kamm is the new dean of student personnel services. Here they will also meet other deans and their wives and heads and directors of many of the col lege’s departments. The various committees of the Center will have booths and displays in the ball room, and freshmen who are inter ested in working with any of these groups can volunteer then. Also on hand to greet the freshmen will be several local high school girls from College Station and Bryan. Saturday night will be devoted to religious gatherings. After an assembly at the Grove, where they will be addressed by J. Gordon Gay, secretai'y of the YMCA, stu dents will be taken to the churches of their choice, where the ministers and congi-egations have planned get-acquainted parties. Throughout the week students will hear addresses by the presi dent, the dean of the college, and other administrators of the college, as well as student leaders. These speakers will attempt to prepare the freshmen for college life and the problems that naturally arise when a student leaves home and high school and has to adjust to harder courses, group living and an entirely different environment. During the latter part of the week students will confer with counselors from the Basic Divis ion and members of the faculty about courses of study. Those who have not yet made up their mind as to what they will study at A&M will be given opportunity to dis cuss their dilemmas with advisors and teachers. Denton R. Wieland Given Fellowship Denton R. Wieland of Falfurrias has been awarded a fellowship for a year’s postgraduate work in pe troleum production engineering at A&M. The fellowship was awarded under a grant of the Shell Com panies Foundation, Inc. The fellowship will provide funds for personal expenses and also will pay tutition and fees. In addition. Shell will provide a grant to the college as a cost-of-education sup plement. Wieland eniolled at A&M in 1945, but left to enter the armed services in 1946. He was discharg ed from the Air Force with the rank of sergeant in 1949. After working in the oil fields as a roughneck he re-entered A&M in 1953. He plans to work toward a doctorate. Jiin^ Comes Back Glenn Jung has rejoined the De partment of Oceanography at A&M as research associate. He received his Ph.D. from A&M in August of this year. He had been studying at the University of Oslo in Nor way on a Fullbright award. OUR HERO—Undaunted by the truck bunting to his right, the unknown fireman bi a - ly douses the burning hay at a fire on the college farms about 3:30 Monday att * The driver of the truck, S. F. Abbott of the forage section of the Agronomy Depai » had backed his truck up to a drainage ditch to dump some hay. The wheels spun, P from the exhaust caught the hay on fire and the fire destroyed the vehicle, rue from the A&M Fire Department rushed to put out the truck fire.