Thursday, September 15, 1955
THE BATTALION
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Water Course Here Monday
Experts on all phases of the
state’s water problem will pool
information at a three-day con
ference on “Water for Texas,” Sep
tember 19-21, at A&M College.
Geologists, engineers, hydrolo
gists, meteorologists, industrial
water specialists, reservoir opera
tors and city and state officials
will attend sessions of the con
ference. It is the first state-wide
meeting on all phases of the wa
ter problem, except legal, held in
Texas.
Purpose of the conference is to
gather information on Texas water
now scattered among various per
sons and organizations, and to put
this information together in such
form that it can be used by all
organizations concerned with find
ing an answer to the- state’s num
ber one problem.
Gibb Gilchrist, former chancel
lor of the A&M System and gener
al chairman for the conference, has
declared that no concerted ap-
Adams Appointed
CS Postmaster
An Aggie-Ex, Homer Adams,
class of ’47, is the new postmaster
at College Station. He assumed
his new duties this month on tem
porary appointment by Postmaster
General Summerfield.
Adams succeeds Dr. T. O. Walton
who retired as postmaster in March
of last year. N. L. McCullough
had been acting postmaster since
that time, until Adams took over
the job. McCullough has returned
to his former position as assistant
postmaster.
Chairman of the county Republi
can Committee during the past
year, Adams resigned from the
party post upon receiving his ap
pointment and is no& devoting full
time to postal duties, leaving his
real estate and insurance for his
wife to run.
proach to solving the state’s water
problem is possible until enough
real facts are gathered to provide
Texans with the background for
good water management.
“Proper management can make
sufficient water available to Tex
as—now and in the future,” Mr.
Gilchrist has stated, “but we must
first have all the basic data, all the
unchallenged facts and figures.
This is true of any business or en
terprise.
“This conference will seek to
locate and make inventories of all
known, reliable material on Texas
Schedule
For Fall
Semester
The student schedule for the fall
semester at A&M is as follows:
Sept. 16, registration of new
basic division students who have
done no college work, 8 a.m. to 5
p.m.
Sept. 17, registration of all other
students, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sept. 24, la:st day for enrolling
in the college for the fall semester
or for adding new courses.
Oct. 1, last day for dropping
courses with no grades.
Oct. 15, official corps trip to
Fort Worth.
Nov. 12, official corps trip to
Houston.
Nov. 14, mid-semester grade re
ports.
Nov. 24-27, Thanksgiving holi
days.
Dee. 17, beginning of Christmas
recess, 12 noon.
Jan 2, end of Christmas recess,
8 a.m.
Jan. 23, first day of semester
examinations.
Jan 28, last day of semester ex
aminations.
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water resources, and to survey the of water to varying types of row
needs for additional information,”
he said.
Water experts already know that
the state receives more than
enough water annually, but of the
326,000,000 acre feet only a small
fraction is actually used. Runoff,
evaporation, poor quality, and plain
waste account for a loss of water
that is more than sufficient to
meet the needs of all Texans.
Magnitude of the problem that
will be given a going over at the
three-day conference is reflected
in the fact that Texans now use
99 times as much water as in 1900
—on the same annual rainfall.
Industrial expansion, increasing
population, and intensified irriga
tion have brought new water man
agement problems to Texas, all of
which will be discussed at the con
ference.
Program chairman for the con
ference is Paul Weaver, long-time
chief geologist for the Gulf Oil
Corporation and now a distin
guished graduate professor at
A&M.
Participants at the sessions will
hear technical discussions cover
ing a range of water problems
from salt pollutions in irrigated
areas to proper rate of application
YMCA To Get
Offices Now
In Goodwin
The remodeled, when fin
ished, YMCA building at
A&M College will provide of
fice facilities for several de
partments presently located
in Goodwin Hall, W. H. Badgett,
manager of physical plants, has
announced. Work on the building,
being remodeled at an estimated
$150,000, will be completed early
in January.
Offices of Student publications,
Housing, Campus Security and
Student Affairs will be located in
the basement. The main floor,
plus a second floor section added to
the former chapel area, 'will be de
voted to YMCA activities. The
rest of the second floor .will Jbe
given to the office of the dean of
student personnel services, Dr.
Robert B. Kamm and to student ac
tivities office.
New front steps will be built and
an elevator added to the building,
Badgett said. Present plans are
to continue use of the third floor
as dormitory rooms.
Local TEC Office
Gets 250 Jobs
The Bryan office' of Texas Em
ployment Commission placed 250
men and women in new and non-
fa'rm jobs while 6,663 agriculture
workers were placed during the
month.
Most of the agriculture workers
were cotton harvest hands recruit
ed for fai-mei-s operating in the
five-county area served by the Bry
an office.
•The influx of cotton haiwest
hands in the area upped the in
crease somewhat in employment in
retail establishments. Contract
construction continued to furnish
new job openings.
Sept. 1 there were 329 applicants
seeking employment at the Bryan
office to the 334 applicants on
Aug. 1.
There was little change in the
number of claimants for unemploy
ment benefits. On Sept. 1, 102
claimants to the 108 claimants on
Aug. 1.
A&M Has Two
Lost and Founds
There are two lost and found
offices on the campus.
One is operated by the Campus
Security Office, which is located
on the first floor of Goodwin Hall.
The other is in the Memorial
Student Center. Articles are
turned in to the main desk and
may be redeemed there.
crops; from industrial re-cycling
of water to finance problems in
water research.
Informal panel sessions will be
held each afternoon.
Pilot School
Covered
By G.L Bill
Veterans may use the G. I.
Bill for training in the Agri
cultural Pilot School to begin
Oct. 31 at A&M.
Fred E. Weick, head of the
Personal Aircraft Research Cen
ter who will head the school, said
that according to a recent letter
from the Veterans Administration,
Korean veterans eligible for train
ing under Public Law 550 may
claim benefit for the pilot school.
Only a few places remain open in
the first class—which will be the
only one offered this year, Weick
said.
Those who wish to enter the
school should file advance regis
tration immediately. Payment un
der the G. I. Bill for schooling will
amount to approximately three-
fourths of all expenses for the fly
ing course, and approximately the
full amount for the non-flying
course.
Registration will begin Oct. 31
in room 102 of the Engineering
Building. Classes will begin at 10
a.m. that day and extend through
Saturday, Dec. 10.
Requirements for the flying por
tion of the school include a com
mercial pilot’s license and a mini
mum of 500 hours solo time in
flight, with a substantial part of
this in planes under 500 horse
power—or sponsorship by a mem
ber of the Texas Aerial Applica
tor’s Association.
Benefit payments for veterans
attending the school will be made
within about 20 days after the
course, provided request is filed
30 days before the course begins.
Bennie A. Zinn, head of student
affairs at A&M, will handle VA
matters dealing with course.
28 States
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Out-of-Staters Want Aggies
Out-of-state business, industry
and state and federal agencies
were heavy bidders this year for
graduates of A&M College.
A report just released from the
college placement office shows that
of 196 company representatives in
terviewing graduates on the col-
Schedule Change
For Three Classes
There is a slight change in the
schedule of classes for the com
ing fall semester. This change, in
the Modern Languages Depart
ment, differs from the course
schedule booklet as follows:
Course 385 — Readings in
French; credit 1 or 2 hours.
Course 386—Readings in Ger
man; credit 1 or 2 hours.
Course 388—Readings in Rus
sian; credit 1 or 2 hours.
All of the above are section 500
and hours are to be arranged for
all of them.
The 425,000-mile network of
natural gas transport lines ax - e
composed of underground pipes
crisscrossing the United States.
lege campus, about half represen
ted firms or agencies outside of
Texas. Organizations from 28
states and the District of Colum
bia interviewed 1954-55 graduates
of A&M. A major percentage of
the representatives came from
heavy industry, chemical and air
craft industries.
New Y'oi'k and New Jersey had
a dozen job interviewers on the
campus during the year; fourteen
California firms hunted Texas stu
dents.
During the year 1,175 individual
employers contacted the placement
office with job calls, and 4,400 stu
dent interviews were arranged and
2,500 referrals made in person or
by mail.
The office reported starting sal
aries this year slightly higher, re
flecting a general raise by most
major oil companies during the
year.
Out-of-state job offers came
from Maryland, California, Wis
consin, Pennsylvania, Louisiana,
New York, Tennessee, New Jer
sey, Ohio, North Carolina, New
Mexico, Washington, Missouri,
Kentucky, Oklahoma, Illinois, Kan-
s a s, Arkansas, Massachusetts,
Georgia, Virginia, Connecticut, Io
wa, Minnesota, Alabama, Florida,
and Washington, D.C.
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