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.1 The Battalion Number 145: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1956 Price Five Cents Chancellor To Present Petition For $ 19 Mil lion Lab W ediies« l ay Texas Tech Backs A&M In Getting Disease Lab SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS PANEL—Panel discussions during conference. Shown are, left to right, E. A. Sahm, New Braunfels; Vivian Hackney, Marshall; George Wentz, San Marcos; W. C. Blankenship, Big Springs; Morris Jennings, San Antonio; F. J. Parnell, Jasper. Texas Educator Conference Ends With Officer Elections The annual Texas high school educators, counselors, and admini strative conferences ended at noon Wednesday with the election of of ficers. Over 400 men and women from over the state attended the three- day group discussion and confer ence talks held in the MSC. J. A. Anderson, superintendent of the Lufkin schools, was elected president of the Texas Association School Administration. Floyd Par sons, superintendent of Big Spring schools, was elected vice-president and Dr. Grady Parker, head of the Education and Psychology Depart ment, A&M, was elected secretary. The Executive committee elected include A. E. Wells, superintendent of Abilene Schools; W. H. Meyers, dean, Alvin Junior Colege; Ben Copass, superintendent of Nacog doches schools; O. Dan Carter, superintendent of Navasota schools; E. A. Broadhead, super intendent of Sonora schools; Lloyd E. Gilbert, superintendent Dayton schools and M. B. Morris, super intendent of Uvalde schools. Ben Fort of Bowie was elected president of the Texas Association of County Superintendents and Marcus Moss, supenntendent of the Houston county (Crockett) schools, was elected vice-president. The executive committee elected in clude George Wentz, San Marcos; W. F. Hancock, Cuero and Mrs. Willie Merle Hitchock, Plainview, all superintendents of county schools. The conferences held at A&M included the Texas Association of County Superintendents, Texas School Administration conference and the Texas Association for In structional Supervisors. The super visors will elect their 1957 officers later in the year. Education in the st;ite through the high school level, in both ad ministrative and education, was given a thorough going over in group discussions and talks by such men as Philip J. Hickey, superint endent of instruction of St. Louis, Mo. schools and presently president elect of the American Association of School Administrators; C. O. Campus Operetta Rehearsals Begun The Mikado, eleventh annual Summer musical is in rehearsal with a cast of 25 players. This year’s Gilbert and Sullivan pro duction is under the direction of Bill Turner, Music Director for of fice of Student Activities. A part of the Student Activities department Summer program, the Mikado will feature an orchestra composed of students and members of the community. The show will be presented Tues day and Wednesday, July tenth and eleventh at eight p. m. in the Grove. Admission to the Mikado is includ ed on student activity season tickets. Fitzwater, chief of local school ad ministration, Departmentof Health, Education and Welfare, Washing ton, D. C.; J. W. Edgar, commis sioner of education, Texas Edu cation Agency and Ralph T. Green, director, Texas Commission on Higher Education. The men and women from all over the state were greeted in a general assembly in the MSC Ball room Monday morning by E. L. Angell, assistant chancellor of the A&M College System. The Rev. A. T. Dyal, from Bay City, gave the devotion and Hickey spoke to the group on such questions as school attendance and its problems. Dining the afternoon sessions the group split into their respective conferences. Each morning the separate con ferences met as a group to hear addresses then separate into their own respective conference for dis cussion and reports in the after noons. Tuesday morning the group heard Fitzwater discuss the ques tions, “How Many Pupils Should A High School Have?” and “Mini mum Size for School Districts.” Wednesday morning Edgar and Green addressed the main group and the meetings adjourned at 12 p. m. with a Conference Summary Report and elections. G. P. Parker served as general ) chairman of the conference. Mon- 1 day morning’ main group meeting FELLOWSHIP AWARD WINNER—Carroll C. Jones re ceives congratulations from Jack Kent, chairman of Braz os County Chapter National Foundation for Infantile Parlaysis, upon his receiving a fellowship award for $600. Former Student Wins $600 Scholarship By DAVE McREYNOLDS Battalion Editor m was presided over by Connally Neal, president of the Texas As sociation of County Superintend ents. Tuesday morning howard L. Ezell, presidents of Texas Associa tion for Instructional Supervisors presided and Wednesday morning the presiding officer was M. B. Morris, 1956 presidentof the Texas School Administration Conference. I Carroll C. Jones hasn’t been the type to let misfortune keep him down. He has bounced back after severe injuries suffered in a far wreck four years ago and is now a junior at the University of Tex as Medical School in Galveston. Jones was awarded a March of Dimes Fellowship in research by the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis for $600, announ ced Brazos County Chairman Jack Kent Tuesday night. The fellowship will go toward financing a 12-weeks research pro ject by Jones at medical school. Jones’ award is one of four pre sented by the National Foundation in the state, said Kent. “These fellowships are given to two candidates from each approv ed medical school of the nation who have completed at least one year of their medical course and who will devote two to three months full-time to research,” Kent add ed. Jones has just completed his sophomore year in medical school and was returning to Galveston to continue work on his research from Fort Worth where he had taken the first half of the State Board Examination for Medical Doctors. Jones’ research this summer is “The purpose,” Jones added, “is to increase the basic knowledge of the medical profession. The work is so correlated that you never know what you might find.” Jones was injured in a car wreck May 18, 1952, just before he was to receive his bachelor of science degree from A&M. He lay in bed until November of that year when he recovered his strength enough to work with Dr. Howard Gravitt, of the Biology Depart ment at A<^M, and worked toward his MS degree. He received that in 1954 and entered Medical school in the fall of 1954. Jones made straight “A”s in all his courses his freshman year at Galveston ami his thesis for his MS was printed and widely read. The subject was “Tissue Abnor malities in Newborn Rats from Vitamin B,., Deficient Mothers.” Jones has two years remaining in Galveston school and plans to Chancellor M. T. Harrington, D. W. Williams, vice-chan cellor for agriculture and Dr. W. W. Armistead, Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine will leave College Station Tues day, June 26, for St. Louis, Mo. where they will meet with the Site Committee of the United States Department of Agri culture. The A&M System representatives will go before the site committee Wednesday, June 27 in connection with trying to get the proposed $18,915,000 federal cattle disease labor atory “established on or adjacent to land controlled by the A&M College.” Dr. E. M. Jones, president of Texas Tech, in a letter to ♦Rep. George Mahon of the 19th District and to A&M of ficials has declared that “ . . if at any point or any particular we can add to the strength of A&M’s application in behalf of es tablishing the pi’oject in Texas, we shall be pleased to have the priv- iledge.” The new laboratory stems from a proposal by the USDA that such facilities be located at the Agri cultural Research Center, Belts- ville, Md., and the $18,915,000 was included in appropriation requests for construction purposes. Con gress generally favored the re quest for new facilities, but at a location other than Beltsville. The suggestion was made that the USDA, in cooperation with the livestock industry and allied in terests, select a site located close to centers of livestock production, near, or in conjunction with, one of the State Land Grant Colleges having a strong veterinary pro gram and away from metropolitan areas. Sorrels Speaks On Kiwanian Achievements College Station Kiwanians ob served their own eleventh birthday as a civic organization of the com munity at their regular meeting Tuesday in the MSC Assembly Room. “Eleven Years of Kiwanis at Col lege . Station” was the topic for a speech given by Joe Sorrels. Sor rels was presented to the club by presiding officer, John Longley, who described him as “Mi 1 . Kiwanis of College Station.” A charter member of the club and a past-president Soirels des cribed five ideals of-the Kiwanis Club, the largest of which, in his opinion, “being a part of an organi zation rendering service to the community.” In listing achievements over the years of the local organization Sor rels said that the Crippled Chil drens’ Clinic, sponsored by the organization, was the height of their achievements to date. “A man never stands straighten than when he is helping a crippled j child,” quoted Sorrels. He went on to add that there is a “warm glow j in my heart when I see a smile on | the face of some child that has | benefited by one of our programs.” The local organization was grant- ! ed a charter on Jan. 9, 1945 with 121 charter members. Visiting Kiwanians were in- The site committee was then set up and consists of the following men: Site Committee GOLD MEDAL WINNER—H. P. Smith, of the Agricul tural Experiment Station received McCormack Gold Medal iin Virginia. CS Lions Club Hear Don Hood Lions of College Station heard Dr. Don Hood, of the Oceanography Depart ment, speak on “Sewage Dis posal and How the Ocean Can Help Our Waste Problem” at their j regular meeting in the MSC Mon- | day. Hood’s talk was based on a re cent survey made by the Ocean-1 ography department in the Houston \ ship channel on the effects of waste products which are carried out to sea by the various industries on the coast. Color slides were% shown of the various instruments and methods used during the sur vey. Dr. Leland C. Grumbles, program chairman, introduced Hood to the 25 members and visitors present for the luncheon. Hood emphasized the fact in the sea we have an enormous wealth of information to aid us in minimizing the waste problem. being done under the supervision of Dr. J. C. Finerty, dean of the school and president of the Texas Academy of Science. The work is on “Radiation Sickness in Rats.” “Although the fellowship is pre sented by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis the re search done by the person receiv ing the award need not necessarily be in that field,” Jones said. be when l '’a"k«r t if he had alwav, I S° d ? wd $ 5 ' W -. H ; ‘"T,’ , , , , , Fincher described an Inter - club planned to be a doctor he replied, ... , . , , , , 1 visit made last week by several members to the Brenham Kiwanis Club and Dorothy Berry and A. M. (Tony) Sorenson were introduced as the new piano and song leader for the club. “There was always two things I said I’d never be, one a doctor and the other a biologist,” Jones grin ned and finished, “Well now I’m as deep into both as I can get. j Guess I was just pushed into it.” j Jones has an older brother, Bill, who finished at A&M and his fath er is John C. Jones of A&M’s Ani- New Nursery Head C. F. Henninger has been em- mal Husbandry Depaitment. j ployed as nursery section head of and Mrs. Jones icside at 201 \\ il- ^ r p exas Forest Service’s Indian low Ave. in Biyan. j Mound Nursery near Alto. He re- j places R. F. Lindsey who has re- j signed to devote full time to farm- | ing near Tyler. The Board of Directors of the At the Indian Mound Nursery, A&M College System will meet at Henninger will be in charge of the the Directors’ Home on the campus raising of pine seedlings for re- Saturday. ' forestation purposes in Texas. Directors Meet THREE DIED IN THIS TANGLE—Workmen attempt to clear right-of-way Sunday morning at Cooks Spur where 23 boxcars piled up Saturday afternoon. (See story on page 2.) College Station Disaster Team aided in rescue operations. Don Collins, Kit Carson, Colo., chairman, president of the Ameri can National Cattlemen’s Associa tion; Wilber B. Plager, Ames, Iowa, president of the National Swine Growers Council; Lloyd Avila, Red Bluff, Calif., member, executive council National Wool Growers Association; Merrill N. Vainick, Pleasant Grove, Utah, president of the American Dairy Association; W. B. Young, Storrs, Conn., Dean and Director of the Agri cultural Experiment Station at the University of Connecticut. Dr. G. H. Good, Cheyenne, Wyo., State Veterinarian of Wyoming and vice- pj-esident of the L T S Livestock and Sanitary Association; Don Turn- bull, Kansas City, Mo , Executive Director of the American Poultry and Hatchery Federation; Dr. H. E. Kingman, Chicago, 111., assistant executive secretary of the American Veterinary Medical As sociation; Harold Hutton, Oklaho ma City, Okla., chairman of execu tive committee of the National As sociation of State Commissioners, Secretaries and Directors of Agri- | culture; Carl Neumann, Chicago, ID., general manager of National Livestock and Meat Board. Proposals will be heard in the : Statler Hotel, St. Louis, Mo., be- ! ginning June 27. The site com- j mittee will have full freedom of I action in making its recommenda- j t’ons but will be guided by certain ! qualifications, which are as fol- [ low: Qualifications 1. Scientific Center-near a Land Grant College or University having a veterinary school or a strong an imal disease research department, which would provide the advantag es of library facilities and oppor tunity for cooperation and associa tion with other scientific work. 2. Population—near a communi ty that could absorb 100 to 200 new families and having adequate personnel to fill 100 to 200 non- (See CATTLE LAB, Page 3) Weather Today PARTLY CLOUDY Partly cloudy is the forecast for College Station today. Yesterday’s high of 91 degrees dropped to 70 degrees last night. Temperature at 10:30 this morning was 87 de grees.