NCAA
Places A&M On "All-Sports’ Probation
The Battalion
Number 126: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1956
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Ira G. Adams
Services Held
For I. G. Adams,
Economic Prof
Services were held this af
ternoon at 2 p.m. at the A&M
Presbyterian church for Ira
G. Adams, economics profes
sor, who died late Monday
night in a Bryan hospital.
Interment will
be in the College
Station City
cemetei-y under
the direction of
Hillier Funeral
Home of Bryan.
A native o f
Monroe City In
diana, Adams
came to A&M in
1927 as an instructor in economics.
In 1935 he was made a full pro
fessor.
In 1923 he received his AB de
gree from Evansville, Ind. college
and his AM degree from the Uni
versity of Minnesota in 1938. He
taught at Wentworth Military
Academy, Lexington, Missouri, in
1925 and was a graduate assistant
at the University of Minnesota in
1931.
Adams was active in civic and
church affairs, a Mason, and a
member of the College Station
Presbyterian church. He also was
a member of the American Eco
nomics Association, Industrial Re
lations Research Association,
Southwestern Social Science Asso
ciation, American Association of
University Professors, and Lamb
da Chi Alpha.
He is survived by his wife and
two children: Jean, 18, a freshman
student at North Texas State Col
lege, and Andy, 12, seventh grade
student at A&M Consolidated. The
family lives at 304 Ayrshire in
College Station.
Show Judges
Selected For
Southwestern
Judges for the annual Little
Southwestern Livestock show,
sponsored by the Saddle and
Sirloin Club, to be held here
May 12 have been announced.
Judging the Grand Champion
Showman at the finals Saturday
night will be Harry Gayden from
Houston. Gayden is a member of
the American Brahman Breeders
Association. Raymond Hicks, from
Bandera, will judge the sheep div
ision show. Roy Snyder, meat
specialist from the Extension Serv
ice here at A&M, will judge the
Horse Show and L. J. Christian,
from Wise Ranch, will judge the
Beef Cattle show.
“The Little Southwestern is not
a judge of livestock, but rather a
show to judge the student showing
the animal,” said Kenneth Lewis,
general superintendent.
“Each participant will be judged
as to how well he can handle the
animal, how well he has prepared
the animal for the show and their
general overall showmanship,”
Lewis added.
Student officials for the show
are Lewis, general superintendent;
L. W. (Caddo) Waldrip, assistant
general superintendent; Jerry
Keith, superintendent of Beef
Cattle Division and T. M. Holt
will be his assistant; Pete Wheeler,
superintendent of the Horse Divis
ion and assisting him will be Bob
by Wakefield. Don Dierschke, su
perintendent of the Sheep Division
and J. C. Gregory will serve as his
assistant; Charley Cypert, superin
tendent of the Swine Division and
Don Johnson as assistant.
Wagnon Will Head
Lubbock SP Club
Members of the Lubbock-South
Plains hometown club elected offi
cers for 1956-67 at. their meeting
in the MSC last Thursday night.
Heading the club for next year
will be William W. Wagnon, junior
dairy manufacturing student from
Muleshoe.
Recruiting Violations
Of Footballers Blamed
BASIC DIVISION SLIDE RULE CHAMPS—Paul Wilson, Manuel Salinas, John McNutt,
Jack Bryant, Florenzio Gutierrez, and James Graham are shown in the order they fin
ished (and left to right) in the Basic Division part of the' twenty-eighth annual slide
rule contest held yesterday.
Experiment Station Receives
Gran is -In-A i d. Gifts, Loans
Two grants-in-aid, the renewal
of three others, the extension of
another two loans and two gifts to
the Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station have been announced by Di
rector R. D. Lewis.
The new grants are for $500 each
and were made by E. I. Du Pont
Nemours and Company of Wil
mington, Del., through W. J. Lati-
more, assistant director of sales,
Grasselli Chemicals Department.
One will be used to support re
search on the control of mesquite.
This work is being done at the Sptir
substation.
The second will be used to sup
port research on the use of herbi
cides for the control of brush on
rangelands. This work is to be
conducted in the Department of
Range and Forestry under" the di
rection of Robert A. Darrow.
Extra Invitations
Ready For Seniors
Additional graduation announce
ments will be available at the Stu
dent Activity Office around May
5-6 for seniors that failed to place
orders.
According to Mrs. Doris Bahl-
mann, cashier-bookkeeper of Stu
dent Activities, reservations will
not be taken for announcements.
The announcements will be sold on
a first come first serve basis.
Mrs. Bahlman said that orders
will be placed for the three types
of announcements. The types are:
leather bound 75 cents each; card
board bound 40 cents each and
French fold 10 cents each.
Seniors obtaining these addition
al announcements must have their
name cards printed at private
printers. No further orders will
be placed for name cards by Stu
dent Activities.
Drum MajorPicked
For Next Year
Gary W. December was recom
mended to the commandant as
drum major of the Consolidated
Band for next year.
Jay G. Cloud and John M. Corn
wall were recomtnended as drum
majors of the Maroon Band and
White Band respectively.
A selection committee made up
of representatives of all four class
es in the band judged the try-outs
that were held last week. Students
that tried out were J. G. Cloud,
B. G. Cloud, K. A. Stevens, A. E.
Guevara, H. L. Brown, G. W. De
cember, J. M. Cornwall, F. E. Lar
kin, C. C. Koehler, L. M. Wester,
and A. O. Ferguson.
The renewals included two to the
Department of Entomology. The
Velsicol Chemical Corporation of
Chicago has made available $1,000
to the Department and $400 to the
Weslaco substation to support
studies on the value of heptachlor
for cotton and soil insect control.
Dr. J. C. Gaines, head of the De
partment and Dr. G. P. Wene at
the Weslaco station are supervising
the studies.
The second renewal to the De
partment was made by the Free
port Sulphur Company of New Or
leans, Louisiana. The $500 renewal
will be used to continue cotton in
sect control investigations under
Dr. Gaines’ supervision.
The third renewal was made by
the American Chemical Paint Com
pany of Ambler, Pennsylvania, for
$1,500 for a graduate research as
sistant to study cotton defoliants
and regrowth inhibitors under the
supervision of Dr. W. C. Hall of the
Depai-tment of Plant Physiology
and Pathology.
The extension of a grant-in-aid
for $3,700 made by the Pioneer Hi-
Bred Corn Co. of Des Moines, Iowa,
is being used to support studies on
chicken blood groups. Dr. W. E.
Briles of the Department of Poul
Awards Given In
Slide Rule Contest
Winners were announced yester
day in the twenty-eighth annual
Slide Rule Contest, at the award
ceremony in Guion Hall.
Taking high-point honors were
Ben L: Williams, Non-Basic Di
vision; Wilfred E. Cleland, ME 101
course group; W. H. Clayton, in
structors of highest point scorers
and Paul M. Wilson, Basic Divis-
Plaques were awarded to the 79
entrants, ash trays went to the
winners of each coui'se-group, and
the top scorers were presented
slide rules, record albums, and
gift certificates.
College Dean J. P. Abbott pre
sided at the ceremony. Col. Joe
Davis, commandant, presented
souvenir awards, and department
heads passed out awards in their
course-groups.
C. W. Crawford, of the ME de
partment and N. W. Rhodes of the
EE department spoke to the group
briefly before the ceremony.
Weather Today
THUNDER SHOWERS
Cloudy with occasional scattered
thunder showers is forcasted for
College Station today. Yesterdays
high of 85 degrees dropped to 61
degrees last night. Temperature
at 10:30 this morning was 69 de
grees.
try Husbandry is supeiwising the
studies.
Lewis said the loans were made
by Max Blau of Follett, Tex., one
registered yearling Hereford bull
for use in connection with the beef
cattle impi'ovement studies at the
McGregor substation. The second
by the International Harvester Co.
of Houston consisted of equipment
for uise in the pink bollworm work
being done by the Department of
Agricultural Engineering heie. A
rotary cutter, shredding attachment
and driver shield comprise the loan.
The two gifts to the Station were
both made by the same concern,
The Brown Company, Bermico Di
vision, Boston, Mass, and consisted
of irrigation pipe and accessories
and labor and supplies for install
ing the pipe. This equipment will
be used on the Lubbock substation
in connection with irrigation
studies.
Correction
The 1956 Aggie Follies will
be presented May 11, 12, the
Friday and Saturday before
Mother’s Day. Yesterday’s
story in The Battalion stated
that the Follies would be this
weekend. This was an erron
eous statement.
No National Competition
For A&M During Next Year
NEW ORLEANS—The National Athletic Association’s
Council yesterday placed Texas A&M, Kansas and Mississippi
College on probation for violation of NCAA rules.
All of the probations are effective immediately and are
for one-year, except in the case of Texas A&M.
Texas A&M was the only school drawing a penalty in
addition to the probation. The Southwest Conference school
was placed on probation until May 14, 1957.
During that period it was declared ineligible to enter
athletes “or teams in national collegiate championship com
petition and those invitational events which cooperate with
the NCAA in the administration of its enforcement program.”
Morgan Says
4 Violations
Corrected'
When contacted this moni-
ing and asked about the NCAA
probation, President David H.
Morgan, said “The recoi-d
shows that technicality con
cerning method of awarding
scholarships was corrected as
soon at it was called to our
attention.”
“There has not been a single
case involving recruitment dur
ing the past yeai’,” Morgan
said.
When A&M was placed on
probation by the Southwest
Conference last May, Morgan
stated that “We have been
charged with violation of con
ference recruiting regulations
and the duly constituted au
thorities of the conference
haVe assessed the penalties
which they deemed proper. It is
our responsibilities to make
certain that there are no vio
lations in the futui-e. We ac
cept this responsibility.”
Saying that “this statement
still stands,” President Mor
gan pointed out that the re-
• cord shows the institution has
lived up to this statement fully
and added: “We will continue
to do so.”
Hurley Poem Wins
Charles Lee Hui'ley of the Eng
lish department has won first prize
for his poem “The Waltz” in the
April song lyric contest of the
Poetry Society of Texas.
The NCAA Council said
Texas A&M was found guilty,
during April 1955, of offering
at least two prospective stu
dent athletes “financial aid in
excess of that permitted by this
association and the Southwest Ath
letic Conference.”
A&M also violated an NCAA
rule in that a representative of the
college, not a staff member, gave
a prospective student athlete a
cash payment to sign a letter of
intent to enroll, the NCAA said.
The school also violated a section
of the NCAA Constitution when the
Athletic Council of Texas A&M, in
stead of the Faculty Scholai-ship
Awards Committee, awarded
grants-in-aid to athletes.
Walter Byers, executive director
of the NCAA, said the NCAA was
aided in its investigation of Texas
A&M by the Southwest Conference,
which last year placed the school
on probation. The dates for the
end of the probationary period set
by both groups are the same.
On the award of scholarships by
the Athletic Council of Texas A&M
the NCAA body said this practice
had been corrected to comply with
NCAA rules.
Regarding the cash payment to
a prospective student by a Texas
A&M representative, the NCAA
noted that the representative had
worked so closely with the school
staff member that He had the let
ter of intent in his possession.
Byers told newsmen that all of
the violations occurred before
June 9, 1955, when the NCAA sent
out a letter to all members advis
ing that the enforcement program
had reached maturity and fewer
excuses for violations would be ac
cepted.
He said violations occurring aft
er that date will be penalized more
severely.
Today the Council is expected to
review alleged violations which
have occurred since last June 9.
Aggieland Editors
Selected For ’57
Section editors have been select
ed for the Aggieland ’57, according
to Don C. Burt, editor of next
year’s Aggieland.
The editors and their jobs are as
follows: Jim Stewart, assistant edi
tor; Don Weber, business manager;
Billy Carter and David Cox, class
editors; Meade Bailey, civilian edi
tor; Elendall Rand, sports editor;
Bill Meals, activities editor; Alex
Clark and Bill Hampton, military
editors; Jim Teague, club editor;
and Roy Davis, index editor.
“We have openings for photog-
raphers of all kinds,” said Burt,”
“mostly good ones and with expe
rience.”
Anyone interested can leave their
names with Student Publications
Office on the ground floor of the
YMCA.
DON'T THROW IT OUT OF GEAR—Miss Judy Fuller,
from Rice Institute, demonstrates the proper form to use
around the machine shop during her recent visit here for
the American Society of Mechanical Engineers competition.
She won third place in the contest. Judy will be the first
woman engineer to graduate from Rice when she gets her
degree in mechanical engineering this spring.
LA A (rives Quizzes
A Civil Aeronautics Administra
tion agent will be at Coulter Field
in Bryan from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Thursday, according to Dick Card-
well, manager of the airport. The
Flying Kadets
Enter National
Flying Contest
The Flying Kadets, A&M
flying club, left today for Nor
man, Okla., to compete in the
National Intercollegiate Fly
ing Association’s Annual
meet.
This is the second year that A&M
students have entered the contest
in which 30 colleges and univer
sities in the United States are
matching the flying skill of their
flying clubs. One club plays host
each year and is responsible for
planning and coordinating the
meet.
The University of Oklahoma is
the host college this year. TCU
played host to the collegiate avia-
toi*s last year. The meet will be
held May 3 through 6. Events in
clude power-off spot landings, pow
er-on spot landings, short field
landings, and bomb dropping.
Aggies competing in the 1956
meet include Tyree Hardy, Rusty
Wells, Bill Scherer, A1 Muller, Don
Arneson, Bud Johnson, and Ed Riv
ers. Joe Brusse, with aircraft re
search at Easterwood airport, will
accompany the club members.
Some of the teams competing
will be from Maryland, Southern
California, Texas, Oklahoma, Illi
nois, Minnesota, St. Louis, Denver,
TCU, MacAlester College of Min
nesota, Tennessee A&L, Stephens
College, SMU, and UCLA.
Final Plans
Being Laid <
For Field Day
Final plans for the jumual
City Farm and Ranch Club
Field Day at A&M May 17
now are being completed. i
More than 200 members of
clubs and agricultural departments
of chambers of commerce are ex
pected to visit the campus on that
day'. For the past two such field
day r s, attendance has been around
300 for each.
A similar turn-out is expected
this y r ear, according to Dr. R. C.
Potts, assistant dean of agricul
ture, who is charge of the pro
gram.
Because of the important role
which agriculture plays in the lives
of every Texan, and because Texas
A&M’s activities in agriculture
span such a broad field, no attempt
will be made on any given field
day’ to show visitors all phases of
agricultural work at the college
Dr. Potts said. “Such a program
would be like an aerial view of
the campus,” he added. “You
could see there was something
there, and that something was go
ing on—but you couldn’t tell what
it was or who was doing it.”
Instead, each year a different
group of departments provide the
program. This keeps a fresh pro
gram—with enough detail into the
workings of each phase of agricul
ture—available each year, even for
those who have- attended all the
earlier field days. Departments are
chosen in such a way that activities
and subject-matter fields on any
given program are different enough
to be interesting to the entire
group, no matter where individual
interest lie.
This year the program will be
provided by the Departments of
Agricultural Economics and So-
* ciology, Agricultural Education,
; Wildlife Management, and Flori
culture and Landscape Architec-
agent will issue student flying per- ture. Because of expressed inter
mits and give flying instruction est, the Department of Animal
quizzes. Husbandry also will contribute.