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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.