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.