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The Battalion
Number 146: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1956
Price Five Cents
Lions Select
New Officers
For Next Year
Dr. Leland C. Grumbles of
the Veterinary Bacteriology
and Hygiene Department was
elected president of the Col
lege Station Lions Club at
regular meeting in the MSC Mon
day.
Dr. Carlton Lee, optometrist in
Bryan and past president of the
Bryan Lions Club, installed 12 new
officers for 1956-57. They are as
follows: Giumbles, president;
Charles G. Haas, Assistant Direc
tor of the MSC, 1st vice president;
Di\ Carl M. Lyman, head of the
Biochemistry and Nutrition De
partment, 2nd vice president; Dr.
A. A. Lenert of the Veterinary
Medicine and Surgery Department,
3rd vice president; Dr. Donald E.
Davis of the Veterinary Research
Department, secretary; Dr. George
L. Huebner, Jr. of the Oceanog
raphy Department, treasurer; J. J.
Skrivanek, Jr., principal of A&M
Consolidated High School, Lion
Tamer; Dr. Archie I. Flowers of
the Veterinary Research Depart
ment, Tail Twister; Dr. W. A. Bon-
ey of Dr. Boney Laboratories,
Richard R. Broach, Jr. of Court
ney's Humble Service Station, Dr.
Fred P. Jaggi, Jr. of the Veteri
nary Bacterioloy and Hygiene
Department and Dr. Don W. Hood
of the Oceanography Department,
directors. A. A. Price of the Vet
erinary Anatomy Department, is
the new progi-am chairman.
Next week's program will be pre
sented by Jack Sloan of the Texas
Agricultural Extension Service said
Price. Sloan will show slides of
a recent trip to Korea in which a
Texas relief ship took supplies and
livestock to a newly formed 4-H
Club in Korea.
Weather Today
SCATTERED SHOWERS
Clearing with occasional scatter
ed thundershowers is forecasted
for College Station.
A&M Group Awaits
Committee Decision
$19 Million Laboratory
Sought By A&M Officials
LEAVING FOR ST. LOUIS—Boarding at Easterwood Field Tuesday morning are Ca
sey Fannin, H. C. Dishman, R. B. Butler, Jack Springer, D. W. Williams, Chancellor M. T.
Harrington and Dean W. W. Armistead.
Dr. J. B. Page
Grad School Dean Chosen
Dr. John B. Page, head of the
Department of Agronomy, has been
appointed Dean of the Graduate
School and Professor of Agronomy,
effective September 1, 1956.
Dr. Page’s appointment was con
firmed by the board of directors of
the System at their Saturday meet
ing.
The new dean of the Graduate
School joined the staff of A&M in
1950, as a professor of agronomy,
and was made head of the depart
ment in 1955. He formerly served
as a research assistant at the Uni
versity of Missouri (1936-37); as
research assistant at the experi
ment station of Ohio State Univer
sity (1937-40); and as assistant,
later associate professor at Ohio
State University (1943-49) and as
DR. J. B. PAGE
Water Right Questions
Solved By City Council
College Station Councilmen vot
ed Monday night to give notice of
termination of water-service to the
Spring Green Community, south of
College Station.
The motion grew out of a study,
at the regular meeting of the coun
cil in the city hall, made involving
recent questions of “water rights”
of individuals that have tapped on
to the line now serving that com
munity. In looking over the or
iginal agreement the Councilmen
decided the simplest method to
solve the problem, and remove the
city from any danger of embar
rassment arising from the situa
tion, would be to get out of the
situation altogether. The original
contract gives the city the right to
terminate services within 10 days
notice at any time they feel the
need to do so.
Marion Pugh was elected Mayor
Pro-tern for the meeting and pre
sided in the absence of Mayor Er
nest Langford and Mayor Pro-tem
J. A. Orr, both of which were out of
town.
In other action the Council
passed Ordnance 232 which grants
the Southeastern States Telephone
Co. an increase in monthly rates.
The rates will go into effect with
the October billing.
The new rates will be as fol
lows :
Handset & Desk
Business One Party $9
Business Two Party 6.75
Business Extension 1.50
are 25
designa-
Residence One Party
Residence Two Party
Residence Four Party
Residence Extension
Wall phone rates
cents cheaper for all
tions.
The council authorized the Ma
yor to contact officials of the Mid
west Video Corp and find out when
College Station residents can ex
pect service cables for their tele
vision sets.
full professor at Ohio State Uni
versity (1949-50).
Dr. Page has done outstanding
work in soil physics and soil chem
istry and was a pioneer in demon
strating the possibilities of the
electron microscope in soil studies.
His work has shown that cropping
profoundly affects structure and
porosity of soils.
He is a member of the American
Society of Agronomy, Soil Science
systems and cultivation practices
Society of America and Interna
tional Society of Soil Science.
In 1953 he was chosen as the na
tion’s outstanding young soils
scientist and received the Steven
son Award in soils research. He
has served as consultant to gov-
emmental and agricultural organi
zations interested in problems re
lating to soils structures.
Dr. Page is the author of a
number of technical articles on soils
structures and compositions and
their effects on plant growth.
A native of Payson, Utah, he re
ceived his bachelor of science de
gree from Brigham Young Uni
versity in 1936; his master’s de
gree from the University of Mis-
souri in 1937; his Ph.D. degree
from Ohio State University, in
1940.
Dr. and Mrs. Page reside at 310
Hensel Street, Bryan. They have
two children, John Boyd Page Jr.,
17, and Ann Elizabeth Page, 14.
Mrs. Page is the former Miss Helen
Young, of American Fork, Utah.
Jacobs Speaks
To Kiwanians
On Ethiopia
Bob Jacobs, former member
of the College Station Kiwan-
is Club and formerly associa
ted with the Basic Division at
A&M, spoke to the Kiwanians
at their regular meeting, Tuesday
noon in the MSC, on his recent job
in Ethiopia.
Jacobs and his family returned
recently from Ethiopia where he
has been working with the Point
Four Program on Education in that
country. Jacobs said that the Em
peror is veiy interested in raising
the standards of his people. As of
now only four percent of the child
ren of school-age are attending
schools.
After a short talk on the coun
try, Jacobs supplemented the
speech with slides taken on various
occasions during his tour of duty
in Ethiopia.
Pointing out that “as a whole
the people were primitive in their
nature, they are very eager to
learn and improve their country.”
j Jacobs showed slides of work that
' is being done to augment backward
situations in the country.
“To many people’s surprise the
natives, although primitive in hab
its and environment, are surpris
ingly in good health and possess
pride and good spirits,” said Ja
cobs.
With his wife, Oma Lee and
three children, Bobby, 14, Janice,
9 and Larry 5, Jacobs is catching
up on the goings-on in College
Station and will remain here the
rest of the week. Following that
they will travel to Illinois, their
home, and are scheduled to return
overseas in August.
Vet Deadline Near
Korean Veterans are urged
to report to the Veteran Ad
visors Office, located on the
ground floor of the YMCA, to
sign monthly certification for
pay. This must be signed be
fore Tuesday, July 3, accord
ing to Bennie A. Zinn, Veter
ans Advisor.
MIKADO REHEARSAL CAST—Shown above at Tuesday night’s rehearsal are
right) Bill Swann, Richard Reiser, Toby Hughes, Joel Spitzer, Bob Moody,
Blackburn and Norman Jacobson.
Fourteenth Annual Musical
Scheduled For July 10 & 11
By JERRY NEIGHBORS I Bill Turner and Mrs. Joe Barron
Battalion Staff Writer are co-directors.
This season’s Summer Musical, Principal members of the cast
the Mikado, is scheduled for the are Coralyn Thurman, , Camille
Grove July tenth and eleventh. The ; Kennedy, Carolyn Vance, Iris Bul-
cast includes A&M students and ; lard, Toby Hughes, Harry Gooding,
other members of the community, i Norman Jacobson, Warner Dahl-
—— berg and Robert Boone. There is
also a chorus of sixteen boys and
girls.
The Mikado is the fourteenth
Summer musical to be sponsored
| by the Office of Student Activities
J as a joint college and community.
activity. Admission will be by j
Summer entertainment season tick
ets. Individual performance tickets
will also be sold at the box office,
j Many of the cast members will
J be familiar to local audiences as
they have played in previous Grove
j operettas. Several members are
j Aggie Players. There is much mu
sical and dramatic talent included
which promises to make this pro-
j duction live up to the reputation
of past performances in the Grove.
Besides the experienced direc-
tors, the operetta will be ably as-
| sisted on its way by the production
I staff which includes B. B. Smith,
| stage manager; Shirley Cannon,
i dance director; Clare Rogers, Mar-
| garet Berry and Eve Porter, aceom-
• panists; and Jean Martin, script
1 girl. Another reminder, don’t miss
lit!
Two Graduates
Seriously Hurt
Two former students, Don
ald Napp and Z. VV. Falcone,
were seriously injured in a
head-on collision near Hatties
burg, Miss., June 13.
Napp, who received his master’s
degree in Geology in June, is suf
fering from a broken back, crushed
ribs and a bruised lung, has been
transferred to a Houston hospital.
Falcone, driver of the car and
January graduate in geological en
gineering, received a crushed right
leg and left leg broken in three '■
places. He was unconscious for |
three days following the accident ■
and was given six transfusions.
There was no information avail-
able on the fourth person, a rider
in the Falcone car. Calvin Moore,
a friend of the Falcones, received
a letter from Mrs. Falcone three
days after the accident giving this
information.
Three men from the A&M System and four men from
Bryan are in St. Louis, Mo. waiting' for the decision of the
United States Department of Agriculture’s Site Selection
Committee for the location of the proposed $18,915,000 cattle
disease laboratory.
Among the men from this area representing A&M are
Chancellor M. T. Harrington, D. W. Williams, vice-chancellor
for agriculture and Dean W. W. Armistead of the School of
Veterinary Medicine.
Bryan men that left College Station Tuesday morning,
with the trio from the A&M System, included Mayor H. C.
Dishman, Jack Springer, secretary of the Chamber of Com
merce, Casey Fannin, city
manager and R. B. Butler,
president of the Bryan Indus
trial Foundation and vice-
president of the East Texas
Chamber of Commerce.
Arriving in St. Louis the men
joined people from other parts of
Texas that are backing A&M’§ bid
for the laboratory.
Norman Moser, of DeKalb, a
vice-president of the Texas and
Southwestern Cattle Raisers Ass’n;
Jay Taylor, Amarillo, past presi
dent of the association, past presi
dent of the American National
Livestock Ass’n and now a director
of the National Livestock and Meat
Board; R. M. (Dick) Kleberg, Jr.,
of the King Ranch and a director
of the Texas and Southwestern
Cattle Raisers Ass’n; Ernest L.
Williams, San Angelo, secretary of
the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers
Ass’n; Harold F. Nelson, San An
tonio, attoimey for the. Texas Milk
Producers Federation and chairman
of the Texas Animal Health Com
mittee are among some of the men
that are in St. Louis for the hear
ings.
Many organizations are backing
A&M in their bid to secure the
site. A few are as follows: Texas
Technological College; Texas Farm
Bureau; Texas and Southwestern
Cattle Raisers Ass’n; East Texas
Chamber of Commerce; Texas
Jaycees; Office of Governor Allan
Shivers; Texas Veterinary Medical
Association; Texas Swine Breeders
Ass’n; Texas Biown Swiss Ass’n;
Texas Guernsey Ass’n; Holstein
Friesian Ass’n of Texas; Texas
Poultry Improvement Ass’n; Texas
Turkey Federation; Texas Broiler
Ass’n; Texas Ayrshire Breeders
Ass’n and the Texas Jersey Cat
tle Club.
The men representing the A&M
System, headed by Chancellor Har
rington in St. Louis, were schedul
ed to go befoi’e the Site Committee
yesterday morning at 9 a.m. How
ever, it is expected to be several
days at least before any informa
tion will be released as to the out
come of the hearings.
As originally scheduled the Site
Committee will hear all petitions,
(See ST. LOUIS, Page 3)
Annual Picnic
Scheduled
For July 2
The Community Picnic previous
ly scheduled for July 4 has been
moved up to July 2 at 5:30 p.m.
according to Dr. Luther G. Jones,
president, College Station Recrea
tion Council, sponsors of the af
fair.
The annual picnic will be held
at the Consolidated High. School
Stadium under the chairmanship
of Mrs. E. C. Klipple.
A concession stand will be op
erated by the Mothers and Dads
club of the high school and will be
selling popcorn, peanuts, hotdogs,
hamburgers, and soft drinks.
An elaborate fireworks display
has been planned for that evening
directed by Ran Boswell and as
sisted by Raymond Rogers.
Dr. Jones has submitted a com
pleted list of enrollment of the
summer recreation program for
publicatiqn. Swimming had a reg
istration of 451 students beginning
with eight year olds and up which
have been divided in 12 classes of
advanced, intermediate and begin
ners. Art Adamson is the coach.
Horace Schaffer is the instructor
for the 99 persons enrolled in ten
nis classes while Joe Fagan coaches
15 persons in golf.
Jack Chaney is in charge of the
Driver Training program Avith the
enrollment of 17 persons. John
Geiger is giving instructions to
some 70 bowling enrollees.
Tumbling classes have an enroll
ment of some 85 persons under the
direction of Dick Dowell, assisted
by Susan Dowell. Mrs. John Fagan
has 42 children in the pre-school
class. The College Station Amer
ican Legion team has 24 members
coached by Sam Zucero.
President Morgan
Returns Friday
Dr. David H. Morgan, president
of A&M and his Avife, Avill return
to College Station tomorrow.
Dr. Morgan has been at Har-
vard University since Monday at
tending a meeting of the Institute
of College and University Adminis
trators held at the Harvard Busi
ness School.
A. F. Chalk Named
Head of Eco. Dept.
Dr. Alfred F. Chalk Jr. has been
named head of the Department of
Economics, effective September 1,
He will succeed Dr. Clark
1956.
gree from A&M in 1936 and re
ceived his Ph.D. degree from the
University of Texas in 1950.
Dr. Chalk seiwed as chairman of
the economics section, Southwest
ern Social Science Association,
1950; Du Pont Symposium for So
cial Scientists, Wilmington, Dela-
Avare, 1953; and is a member of the
Economic Association,
Economic Association,
and Southwestem Social Science
Association.
He is the author of articles on
sistant professor from 1939-43 as I po,itical economics and has served
as research economist for se\'eral
industrial and business organiza-
Schedule Change
Consolidated High School stu
dents AA'ho contemplate further
schedule changes should see Prin
cipal J. J. Skriv r anek, Jr. in his
office sometime this Aveek.
SkriA-anek pointed out that he
Avill not be available during the
month of July.
Students who haA-e mo\ r ed to
College Station recently and intend
to attend Consolidated may register
at this time also.
Lee Allen, AA'ho has resigned to be
come head of the economics depart
ment of North Carolina State Col
lege.
Dr. Chalk’s appointment Avas an
nounced by Dr. David H. Morgan, | American
president of the college recently. > Southern
Dr. Chalk has served as instruc
tor in the Department of Economics
at A&M from 1936 to 1939, as as-
associate professor from
1952.
$
1946 to
(left to
Barney
tions.
Dr. Chalk is a nath-e of McAl-
j len, Texas, son of Mr. and Mrs.
A. F. Chalk. His Avife is the for
mer Miss Marie Giles, daughter of
Mrs. Josie Wood. 24 CottomA'ood
Street, W’aco. They haA-e three
He is a 1934 graduate of Baylot j children—Elaine, 15; Linda, 13 and
l niA-ersity, took his master’s de- Marcia, 11.
He was an economist for the Na
tional War Labor Board, Kansas 1
City, Mo., from 1943 to 1944 and
aa as associate director, case analy
sis division. Wage Stabilization
Board, Dallas, from 1951 to 1952.
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DR. A. F. CHALK