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c I Our * I 09 in 69c 79c * 49c 39c 29c 25c 19c b 29c 19c 49c tn. I c 15* 49« VERNON J. HENRY * JR. OCEANOGRAPHY DEPT. FE • The Battalion Number 149: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1956 Price Five Cents LaMotte, Briles Relate Travels To Kiwanians K i w a n i a n s listened to Charles LaMotte, president of the College Station Kiwanis Club and W. E. (Woody) Briels, first vice-president, de scribe their recent trip to Kiwanis International Convention held in San Francisco last month. Speaking to the Kiwanians at their regular meeting Tuesday in the MSC LaMotte told Kiwanians that he “was never so proud of the organization as he was while in the West Coast City.” “As the speakers told of Ki wanis activities in the United "States and Canada it made me feel as though there was not a single selfish man among our num- ber,” LaMotte said. Briles described the first few days of the convention and told of the activities on hand for chil dren and families of visiting Ki wanians. Over 14,000 Kiwanians and their families attended the convention and “there wasn’t a dull moment the whole time out there,” Briles said. The College Station men and their families arrived on Sunday for registration. While the men were attending opening ceremonies the children went on a sight-seeing expedition over San Francisco. Tuesday morning the children saw Oakland Navy yard and Wednes day visited various missions and trossed the famous Golden Gate Bridge. The women attending listened to Various speakers, saw a style show and held panel discussions during their stay at the convention. “Most of the speakers spoke an Communism,” said Briles describ ing their activities. One in particu lar made a statement I thought was interesting. John K. Morley, foreign correspondent, said that ‘Communists are weak economi cally, morally and socially and he felt that the United States was missing the boat in not bringing up our guard and beating them at their game in these regions’,” he added. Briles and LaMotte attended pan- ?1 conferences and participated in <he nomination of next year’s offi- rers for Kiwanis International. The Convention adjourned Thursday and the men returned to College Station after short side-trips as part of their vacation. ^ • -A ' ' *Y"; V.U*' *• WORK ON NEW DAIRY AND BIOCHEMI STRY BUILDING—Scheduled for completion and opening next July the new Dairy and Biochemistry Building and adjoining Cream ery will mark the completion of a 32-year old dream by the members of the Dairy Hus bandry department. Known for years as the “department without a home'’ faculty members have taught in various buildings over the campus.. Cost of the buildings when completed will be $900,000. Pogo Possum Mobbed Demonstration In Baltimore By WALT KELLY Special to The Battalion BALTIMORE, O., July 72th (more or less special)—A noisy demonstration for Presidential hopeful Pogo Possum all but de stroyed the outfield grass of the Baltimoron Oriole’s baseball park here today, when a disorderly mob composed mainly of members of the Oriole Worm-Watchers Society Ocean. Society To Hold Dinner The Oceanographic Society will hold their annual dinner meeting at 6:15 tonight in the Memorial Student Center dining room. The after-dinner meeting will com mence at 7:30 in room 2C. Dr. Donald Hood will deliver a short address, after which will be a showing- of color films on under water photography. The movies will consist of man hunting game in the ocean, land scapes under water from fish’s view point, and the construction of a Texas Tower off the east coast which is a radar installation for natural defense system. roared through the playing field burning effigies of opposition can didates and threatening such early worms as were not already under ground. The demonstration was touched off w-hen the Early-worm Associa tion came up en masse just before dawn for a breakfast meeting de signed to kick off the candidacy of Clarence Cateipiggle, a journey man worm, w^ho recently emerged as the favorite son candidate of several underground groups. The Oriole Worm-Watchers were alerted shortly after the meeting began and advanced upon the breakfast tables with signs and Phillips Scholarship Won By Ron Gardner Ronald G. Gardner, of Humble, a 1956 graduate in range manage ment at A&M, has been awarded a Phillips Petroleum Company scholarship worth $1,800. He will further his study in range man- ag-ement as a graduate student here this coming school year. Gardner is employed for the summer on the K. S. Adams ranch at Foraker, Okla. Adams is chair man of the Phillips Petroleum Co. The annual scholarship goes to an outstanding young man in order that he may become well trained scientifically as well as able to spend the summer on a salary learning the phases of range man agement. The scholarship is effective this coming school year. Gardner had a grade point ratio of 2.35 while at A&M. He is the author of several articles on range management and is the recipient of the fourth place award in the intercollegiate plant identification contest, held in California in 1955. He also was high point man of the A&M team that year. He was a member of the 1956 intercollegiate plant identification contest held in Denver this year. The team won first place and Gardner second high. He worked for the US Forest Service for two summers, 1953-54 in the Rocky Mountain region; worked for the Soil Conservation Service in Texas during the sum mer of 1955; worked as an under graduate assistant in biology 101 during the regular academic year of two semesters 1953-54, 1954-55 and 1955-56. He has taken an active part in the Range and Forestry Club as well as practically all student ac tivities, holding many important posts in student organizations, including one year as president of the Agriculture Student Council. He was in the military corps dur ing his freshman year at A&M but broke his leg and did not con tinue in the military. banners, shouting jeers and cat calls. From this friendly start, the meeting between the two groups gradually deteriorated into a free- swinging discussion. Real trouble started when the hot cereal bucket was dumped on the head of the leader of the Orioles. Asked for comment later in the day, Pogo said that he regretted the whole thing. “Worms have rights, too,” he declared. “They may live underground but that is no reason to keep them from com ing out in the open.” Several hungry Oriole Worm- Watcher members were hear-d to agree but there has been no official comment from the Oriole headquar ters. Three starlings who unac countably got mixed into the crowd were hurt when demonstrating how to slide into second base. Observ ers saw no direct implication in this last bit of action. Loggins to Head MSC for Summer Johnny Loggins, senior indus trial engineering major from Bly- theville, Ark., has been appointed acting president of the MSC Di rectorate for the remaining sum mer months, announced Dick Wall, president of the council and direc torate yesterday. The announcement came during a special hamburger dinner for the members of the directorate and council here on the campus this summer. The dinner was held in the MSC yesterday at noon. Loggins will be in charge of the summers’ activities sponsored by the various MSC Groups. Three activities are held regularly this summer, they ai’e the Hide-A-Way Dances, sponsored by the Dance Group; the Summer Music Series on Sunday afternoons, sponsored by the Music Group of the MSC and the Film Society’s various presentations. Peace Officers’ Criminal Law Course Held A week-long study course designed to provide peace of ficers with a working knowl edge of criminal law is being held this week under the di rection of the police training de partment of the college’s Engi neering Extension Service. The criminal law course, the second of its kind to be held on the campus, is scheduled to be held annually. The streamlined program will cover such topics as the scope, principles and history of criminal law, criminal statutes, federal laws, traffic laws, laws of arrest, laws of evidence, laws of search and seizure, court decisions, at torney general decisions, and oth ers. The instructor staff is composed of 15 instructors, including officers representing various law enforce ment agencies, lawyers from the Attoiney General’s office, repre sentatives of the Liquor Control Board, a Brazos county youth counselor and agents of the Texas Department of Public Safety. The course will be supervised by Wallace D. Beasley, chief coordi nator of police training, Engineer ing Extension Service, A&M Col lege System. Council Members Plan Early for ’56 SCONA Planners Seek $13,000 For 1956 SCONA Budget Grads Offered T w e 1 v e Scholarships Twelve Marshall Scholar ships, providing for two years study in 21 universities and two independent university colleges in the United King dom, will be offered graduates of United States universities or col- leg-es, Ide P. Trotter, dean of the Graduate School at A&M, has an nounced. The scholarships, good for study of any subject which will lead to a British degree after two years, will be awarded on a regional basis, with three scholarships of- fei’ed in each of four regions in the U. S. Texas is listed in the Southern Region along with 12 other states and the Canal Zone, Trotter said. Value of the scholarships range from $1,540 to $1,600 per year, ac cording to the cost of living varia tions in the different school areas, and an additional $560 allowed for married scholarship winners. Open to both male and female students, the scholarship general qualification requirements include a degree from an accredited college, a maximum age limit of 28 years, and desire to pursue a course of study or research available in British universities. Additional infonnation regard ing the scholarships may be ob tained from the office of the dean of the Graduate School at A&M in the Administration Building. Weather Today CLEARING The forecast for College Station is clearing with a possibility of scattered thundershowers in S E Texas late this afternoon. Yes terdays high and low were 100 degrees and 73 degrees. The Grove Schedule The following movies will be shown this week at the Grove: Thursday He Ran All the Way starring Shelly Winters and John Garfield. Monday My Darling Clementine starring Henry Fonda and Walter Brennan. Tuesday Mutiny, with Mark Stevens. Wednesday The Last Time I Saw Paris, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon and Don na Reed. Gates open at 7 p.m. and movies begin at 8. Admission is by stu dent activity card, season ticket or may be purchased a^ the gate. Prices are 25 cents for adults and 10 cents for children under 12 years of age. F armboy Describes By DAVE McREYNOLDS Battalion Editor . Just a farm boy turned scientist is about the best description one could give of Dr. Clifton C. Doak, head of Texas A&M’s Biology De partment. Aside from his work as a biologi cal scientist, Dr. Doak has found time to become a collector and ar ranger of driftwood. When asked what got him on the track of becoming a driftwood spe cialist he laughingly told of his childhood in Scurry County, in West Texas near Snyder. Turned Dr. C. “In those days about all a child had to play with was buffalo bones, cactus plants and corn cobs. I guess that they just never wore off me,” he grinned. “I became interested in driftwood especially as a part of my career in science,” the 61-year-old biolo gist explained. “I have always pursued three goals in life; Good ness, Truth and Beauty and these constitute my Philosophy of Life. The Beauty is where driftwood comes in,” he explained. Dr\ Doak said scientific truths had constituted his major interests Students planning to make the 1957 version of A&M’s Student Conference on National Affairs even bigger and better than the initial presentation have been working this week seeing sponsors of last years’ successful presentation according to Dick Wall, MSC Council president. Three students, Jack Dreyfus, Bill Alsup and Walter Renaud were in Dallas and Fort Worth Monday where they visited three men who sponsored SCONA in ’56 and agreed to sponsor the organization again this fall. J. W. Astin, vice-president of the Republic National Bank of Dallas; Ben Wooten, president of the First National Bank of Dallas and E. O. Cartwright, of the Cartwright Foundation; all agreed ♦to sponsor this years version of SCONA. Traveling to Fort Worth the trio of A&M representatives visited J. D. Thomas, presi dent of the Texas Electric Service Company and K. W. Davis, presi dent of the Mid-Continent Oil Well Supply Company, both of whom agreed to sponsor this years SCO NA at A&M. Wednesday at noon three more students visited in Houston where they talked with M. T. Doheify, president of the Board of Direct- tors at A&M, who will be a spon sor again this year, and were the luncheon guests of Lamar Fleming, chairman of the boai'd for Ander son, Clayton & Co. of Houston. Fleming invited the students, John Jenkins, (last years SCONA chairman and now a former stu dent) Brad Crockett, this years chairman and Jack Lunsfoi'd, ca det colonel, together with Dr. Ide P. Trotter, faculty representative, to be his guests at a luncheon at the Ramada Club where the stu dents gave a “sales talk” to some 25 prominent Houstonians. The budget being sought by this years SCONA committee totals $13,000. Last year the students had a $12,000 budget and attracted 110 delegates from 15 states and 48 colleges, universities and schools over the United States, Canada and Mexico. SCONA is designed to conduct a series of informative and stimu lative discussions on The role of the United States in World Af fairs. Last year SCONA I had such well-known national figures as Maj. Gen. William J. Donovan, World War II head of the OSS; Lamar Fleming; George C. Mc Ghee, former assistant Secretary of State; Congressman Omar Biu-leson, of the Texas Foreign Af fairs Committee; Thruston B. Mor ton, assistant Secretai-y of State and Col. Thomas L. Crystal, pro fessor of philosophy at the USAF Academy, as speakers to the dele gates. As laid down in the purposes of SCONA I this years’ program will be designed to “by a serious ex change of ideas between students over a period of years, to help pro mote a generation of responsible leaders in international affairs.” “This years program will take up where SCONA I left off and fol low through with what was begun last fall,” said Dick Wall, presi dent of the MSC Council and Di rectorate. World Oil Prints Wieland Articles Denton R. Wieland, research technologist for the Texas Petrol eum Research Committee at A&M, is the author of two articles in World Oil, a specialized publica tion for exploration, drilling, pro ducing- operations and manage ment. Scientist C. Doak Dr. Clifton C. Doak until he determined to enlarge up on the Beauty, which he had been neglecting. “I then began to collect objects that reflect beauty in natural his tory, such as rocks, wood, and those things which typify the out-of- doors,” he said. “This interest led to driftwood and its arrangement. It helps keep one mentally alive by using a medium to express yourself, much as a sculptor does with his chisel and stone,” Doak said. Doak has become an expert in the field of driftwood arrangement and has given many lectures on the subject to garden clubs and civic organizations. He has appeared twice in a 15-minute television presentation of driftwood arrange ment over station KGUL-TV in Galveston and is slated to appear again in the near future. Interpreting his arrangements Dr. Doak says, “I take a picture of the landscape as it is, then try to' reproduce it in miniature.” With a flick of his wrist, Dr. Doak can transmit meaning and life to seemingly dead pieces of wood, a bit of sand and fragments of sagebrush. By the use of ani mal figurines, native to whatever nation he is depicting a scene from, he adds proportion and geo graphy to his arrangements. Dr. Doak and his wife, Henrietta, a flower-arranger of wide reputa tion, team together to give some of their presentations. Doak came to A&M in 1917 as a student and stayed two years be fore joining the aiany during World War I. Upon his discharge he re turned to his father’s ranch in West Texas. He enrolled at Noi-th Texas State in 1920 and was grad- (See DOAK, Page 4) Adair To Captain Hood Rifle Team FORT HOOD, TEX.—Thomas J. Adair, senior A&M student from Houston, was chosen to captain the A&M Rifle Team in competition with 23 other college and univer sity teams made up of ROTC mem bers for the annual “Warrior of the Pacific Trophy,” ‘according to Major Robert H. Jordan, project officer. The trophy is a bronze statuette offered annually by the University of Hawaii to one Senior Infantry or General Military Science Re serve Officer Training Corps unit for excellence in marksmanship with the M-l rifle. Teams must consist of at least 20 members and all units entering as a team must count the certi fied record scores of all unit mem bers firing the scheduled “A” re cord course during normal range firing at summer camps as their team score.