Number 76: Volume 55
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1956
SPEAKERS—Dr. M. T. Harrington, left, chancellor of the A&M College System, will de
liver the commencement address and Dr. Robert I. Kahn, right, Rabbi, Congregation
Emanu El, Houston, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon, at the graduation ceremon
ies, Friday in Guion Hall. There are 287 candidates for degrees, including 39 for ad
vanced degrees.
Candidates lasted
241- To Receive Degrees
Reed, Nowak
To Lead Off
TEES Series
Bob H. Reed, associate re
search architect and Matthew
A. Nowak, research assistant,
will lead off the Texas Engi
neering Experiment Station’s
1956 series of monthly staff meet
ings with a talk on “Natural Light
ing- Studies by Means of Models.”
The meeting will be held at 4
p.m. tomorrow in Room 140 of the
Petroleum Geology building on the
campus.
The speaker's will be introduced
by Dr. A. W. Melloh, vice-director
of the station.
Since 1949, the Texas Engineer
ing Experiment Station has con
ducted a program of research on
problems of natural lighting, na-
trrral ventilation, and sound con
trol in the design of buildings, par
ticularly public school buildngs, for
Texas conditions. One of the sig
nificant products of this research
has been the development of facil
ities and techniques for studying
both the distribution of daylight
within and the natural air move
ment through buildings by means
of scale models. The application
of these techniques to a variety of
practical daylighting problems will
be discussed by Reed and Nowak.
The meeting is open to all inter
ested persons.
Graduate Lecture
Dr. Robert Stoneley, Department
of Geology and Geophysics, Cam
bridge University, Cambridge,Eng
land, will present a graduate lec
ture in the Biological Sciences
Building at 8 tomorrow night.
Members of the faculty, staff,
graduate students and general
public are cordially invited.
Eai’l Rudder, recently appointed
State Land Commissioner, asked
the College Station Kiwanis Club
yesterday to “keep a close surveil
lance on his conduct as commission
er, and do the same for all other
public officials.”
“We have literally built the
foundation upon which the state
rests today by trading public
lands,” said Rudder. “The Land
Office has the momentous task of
administei-ing and watching over
these lands.”
Rudder said most of the incom
petence that has marked the Land
Office’s sub-agency, the Veteran’s
Land Program, stemmed from poor
appraisal systems used in the past.
“We now employ some of the
best soil experts in the state, and
we expect to improve the program,”
Rudder said.
Rudder, a Brigadier General in
the Army Reserves, was awarded
several honors for his service in
Germany during Woi'ld War II. He
Two hundred and forty-one stu
dents are candidates for degrees
for the Friday graduation ceremo
nies. This is the first January
graduation service in more than 10
years.
Names of candidates and degrees
to be received are as follows:
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Jesse Lane Fletcher, John Vin
cent Halick, Robert Henry Harms,
Richard Lewis Jacobs, Lewis John
son, Minton Jones Kelly, Robert
was the subject of ah ai'ticle in Life
magazine entitled “A Veteran and
his Son Visit Normandy Ten Years
Later,” telling of a recent trip
with his son to the D-Day beach
at Normandy on the tenth anni
versary of the landing.
Freshmen Ousted
For Stealing Books
Two A&M freshmen have been
indefinitely suspended, with their
suspension suspended until the end
of this semester, for selling stolen
books at local bookstores.
The two students, members of
Squadron 24, admitted entering
Bagley Hall, the Academic Build
ing and Buildings A, B and C and
taking books which they -later sold
under forged names at local stores.
Entry to the buildings was gain
ed by forcing locked doors of win
dows with a knife.
Lee Reddish, Wifki Shakir El
Shamma, David Kershaw Stokes,
Jr., Ensel Coolidge Stutts, Darol
Duane Travis, Johannes Petrus
Van Buijtenen, and John Frank
Woodham.
MASTER OF EDUCATION
Ulrich Wilson Crow
MASTER OF SCIENCE
Byron Hubert Anderson, William
Douglas Baker, Jr., Henry Kinsolv
ing Bas*, James Robert Blar'd,
Thomas Ray Garter, Guillermo C.
Corral-Franco, Glenn Allen Davis,
Richard Harvey Davis, Jr., Don A.
Duncan.
Bernard Edward Dunkle, Har
old Eugene Grelen, William Bell
Hayes, Hussein Helmy, Thomas
Daniel Hinesly, William Low Hoff
man, Andrew Crenan Hudson,
Thomas Phillip Hunt, Paul W. Luk-
ens, Lloyd Theodore McBeth.
Jes David Mclver, William
Smith McLaughlin, Jr., Julius Mar
cus, Charles Standish Miller, Don
ald Edward Napp, Robert Andrew
Noble, Leonard Vasco Packett, Jr.,
Wilfred Leo Polzer, Albert Wil
liamson Rollins, Fathi Mabmoud
Salama, Joe Weldon Streetman,
Denton Robert Wieland.
SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
Agricultural Administration
Carlos Humberto Cantu, Howai'd
Franklin Mims Childers, Raymond
Arthur Dietrich, Donald Jean Gor
don, Thomas D. Longbrake, Rob
ert Bruce McCoi'mick, Jr., James
Rod Martin, Richard Vaughn Staf
ford, Josiah Wistar Woi'thington,
James Hai'old Wuensche.
Agricultural Education
Hugh Lester Byrd, Joe C. Garza,
Stewai’t Darden Hervey, Jr., Wil
liam Riley Pence, Jr., Oren Carl
Remmers, Doyle Lane Smith.
Agricultural Engineering
George Williams Moses.
Agriculture Journalism
Russell William Condon and
George Tipton Smith.
Agriculture
Agronomy
Anthony E. Campos-Grace, Gor
don Bodo Doebbler, Jerry Davis
McGuire, Paul Henry Mohle.
Animal Husbandry
William Luther Allred, William
Robert Barnes, Donald Cicei'o
Boehnke, Robert Joseph Bruni,
Robert Walker Caldwell, Jr., David
Dean Cooper, Samuel Thomas
Grissom.
James . Henry Harrison, Edward
Lloyd Joyce, Billy Wylie Lockhead,
Wilburn Durwood Love, Charles
Henry McKay, Teddy Burk Mit
chell, Gene Pryor Reag’an.
Bobby Leon Southall, Billy Hugh
Steele, James Samuel Williams, Jr.,
Lawrence Edward Winkler.
(See GRADUATES, Page 2)
Weather Today
SHOWERS
Forecast for College Station is
continued cloudiness with possible
showers. Yesterday’s high of 47
degrees dropped to 33 degrees at 7
a.m. today. Temperature at 10:30
this morning was 35 degrees.
Morgan, Davis
Return From Talks
Dr. David H. Morgan, president
of the College, and Col. Joe E.
Davis, commandant, were to return
to A&M today after attending a
conference of the heads of “essen
tially military colleges” in Wash
ington, D.C.
They left Monday for the meet
ing at the request of Milton G.
Baker, chairman of the Reserve
Forces Policy Board. This was the
first time that heads of military
colleges were invited to come to a
meeting at the request of the De
partment of Defense. No informa
tion is yet available as to what
action, if any, was taken concern
ing the type of full-time ROTC
program offered by military col
leges.
Dr. Morgan will speak to mem-
bers of the Houston Rotary Club
tomorrow, and has another speech
in Houston Jan. 24. He wall also
make a talk to the Bi*yan Chamber
of Commerce Jan. 31.
HOW ABOUT THAT—Gene King, center Meats Team coach, explains the rules of
judging meat to his senior team. From left to right are J. M. Lebo, Ken Killion, King, J.
A. Loftis and Robert Caldwell. The team placed fourth at the Intercollegiate Meats Judg
ing Contest in Chicago, Ill., Nov. 29. Killion placed high individual in beef judging and
the A&M team copped first place in that division at the contest.
Land Commissioner
Urges Surveillance
Mid-Term Graduates
Have Services Friday
Defense School
Hears Director
Stress Planning
“You and I are battling
public apathy,” C. D. Layne,
director, Civil Defense Activi
ties, Texas Department of
Public Safety, Austin, told
registrants to the seventh Texas
Rescue Training School being held
here this week.
Speaking to students taking part
in the week-long school, Layne, us
ing- the topic, “Organization and
Coordination of Training,” empha
sized that pre-planning and lead
ership is essential in order to car
ry out and discharge responsibili
ties to the people, of Texas.
“There is no substitute for abil
ity,” he declared. “Each of you
v>avo certain native and inherent
abilities which you coordinate
through training with acquii-ed
abilities to do a far more effective
job of service to your community
and state. In time of disaster, peo
ple live or die according to the
skills which you may learn here
and apply to the disaster situa
tion.”
The trainees ar§ being schooled
in the various phases of disaster
and the proper use of relief equip
ment, ending- Friday evening in a
three-hour demonstration of com
bined rescue operations carried out
under simulated disaster condi
tions. The “school” will be held
on “disaster street” in the Texas
Firemen’s Training School area
northeast of the campus.
Kahn, Harrington
Will Be Speakers
Baccalaureate services will begin at 10 a.m. Friday in
Guion Hall with Rabbi Robert I. Kahn of Houston delivering
the sermon. Chancellor M. T. Harrington of the A&M College
System will deliver the commencement address which be
gins at 6 :30 that night.
Rabbi Kahn, spiritual leader of Congregation Fmanu El
of Houston, is a native of Iowa. He received his B. A. Degree
from the University of Cincinnati and was ordained by the
Hebrew Union College as Rabbi. He came to Houston in
1935.
In 1944, Congregation Emanu El was organized under his
leadership with 190 charter member-families. It has grown
: — ♦to include nearly 900 families
No Wonder
We Have
A Surplus
Quite often the Agricultural
Information Office provides us
with a whole bagful of infor
mation to pass on to readers.
The following is the latest.
“Two members of the Texas
A&M dairy herd recently top
ped 17,000 pounds of milk in
300 days of milking for official
production record purposes, ac
cording to the Holstein-Frie-
sian Association.
“Agtex Burke Maiden, seven
years, five months old when the
test began, gave 17,604 pounds
of milk, 610 pounds butterfat,
on twice-a-day milking.
“Agtex Suzone Supreme
Ormsby Fayne, nine years,
nine months, gave 17,604
pounds of milk, 578 pounds
butterfat.”
A bovine bonanza!
News of the World
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Congressional
committees laid plans yesterday to
obtain testimony from Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway, who has charged
that politics prompted the Eisen
hower administration to make dan
gerous cuts in the Ai’my. Rep.
Sikes (D-Fla) said he would invite
Ridgway to appear before a House
appropriations subcommittee which
he heads to go into charges made
by the general in a magazine ar
ticle.
★ ★ ★
OTTAWA—The Canadian gov
ernment “is giving careful con
sideration” to recognition of Red
Plant Identifiers
To Enter Contest
China. This was announced to
Parliament yesterday by Foreign
Secretary Lester B. Pearson, who
visited Moscow last summer and
came back with a warning to the
West that a bitter period of com
petition with communism lay
ahead. Yesterday Pearson made
only a terse answer to a question
in the House of Commons, and
gave no inkling how fast his
country would move on the recog
nition question.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON — President Ei
senhower will addi'ess Republican
i-allies throughout the counti-y Fri
day night—his first political speech
since his September heart attack.
James C. Hagerty, White House
press secretary, said in announcing
this that he does not look for the
President to disclose then whether
or not he will seek reelection.
andjias erected one of the na
tion’s outstanding contempor
ary buildings for worship and
education.
Rabbi Kahn has been active in
the general Jewish and civic com
munity. He is a Rqtarian, a Scot
tish Rite Mason and has been Pres
ident of the Houston Lodge B’nai
B’rith, of the Kail ah of Texas
Rabbis, of the Religious Education
Association. He now seiwes on the
Board of Traveller’s Aid, Boy
Scouts and Community Council.
His wife is the former Miss Ro-
zelle Rosenthal of Dallas. They
have three childi’en: Alfred, Ed
ward and Sharon.
Chancellor Harrington came to
A&M, as a student, in 1918. He re
ceived his B. S. and M. S. degrees
in chemical engineering here and
was- granted his Ph. D. in chemis
try at Iowa State College in 1941.
He also did graduate work at Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology^
Univei’sity of Michigan and Uni
versity of Southern California.
He taught here for 25 years and
also for one year at Iowa State.
Other experience includes two
years with the Texas Company as
an analytical chemist and three
months with Lone Star Gas Com
pany as a chemist.
Dr. Harrington served as pres
ident of the college from 1950-53,
when he Avas named chancellor of
the A&M College System. He is
the first graduate of A&M College
to sei’ve as its president and chan
cellor.
He is a member of the Southern
Regional Education Board, Execu
tive Committee Land-Grant Col
leges and Unriersities, President
Southern Association of Land-
Grant Colleges and State UnWersi-
ties, Texas Advisory Committee on
Atomic Energy, American Chemi
cal Society, Sigma Xi, Phi-Lamb
da Upsilon, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kap
pa Phi and Phi Eta Sigma.
His community activities include
former member of the City Council,
of this city; College Station De-
A^elopment Association; Bryan-Col-
lege Station Rotary Club; Sol Ross
Lodge No. 1300, A. F. & A. M.,
College Station.
The story in Tuesday’s Battalion
about the grass judging team en
tering a national contest in Den
ver, Colo., Saturday had some mis
takes. The true story is as follo\\ r s.
The A&M Plant Identification
Team will leave here Saturday for
a plant identification contest in
Denver, Colo., held in conjunction
with a meeting of the American
Society of Range Management. The
team, composed of Fritz Landei’s,
Claude Alexander, Da\4d Faucet
and Ronnie Gardner, will return to
A&M Jan. 29. Don Huss is coach
and club sponsor of the Range and
Forestry Club.
Money for this trip was obtained
from profits from a turkey shoot,
sponsored by the R.&F. Club, last
year.
Seniors To Pay
Aggieland Mailing
Graduating seniors should de
posit their Aggieland mailing fee
with the Student Publications Of
fice before leaving the campus.
The office, which is located on
the second floor of Goodwin Hall,
is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every
day except Saturday when it is
closed all day. Amount of the fee
is based on the distance the book
has to be mailed.
AGGIE BUTLERS—The problem of changing- sets in the
highly successful Aggie Players’ presentation of Oscar
Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” is solved by
the quartet above. Left to right, Roy Eckard, Clint White,
Jerry Neighbors and Don Powell work—but don’t speak.
“Earnest” has one more show tonight at 8 in the ball
room of the MSC. Tickets are 50 and 75 cents. Vic Wien-
ing is directing, and performing, in the comedy.