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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.
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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.