The Battali
Number 150: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1956
Price Five Cents
AGGIELAND’S NEW CHAPEL—A&M’s nev chapel, made possible through the Asso
ciation of Former Student’s begins to take shape. The chapel is located across from the
President’s home on the corner of Houston and Jones Streets. Scheduled for completion
this spring the chapel will cost approximately $250,000 when completed.
Dan Russell
Will Travel
To El Salvador
Daniel Russell of A&M’s De
partment of Agricultural Eco
nomics & Sociology will act as
rural community development
specialist with the Interna
tional Cooperation Administration
in El Salvador, Central America,
during August.
Professor Russell was on leave
from his department in 1954-55 to
hold a similar position in Haiti,
and during the latter part of his
tour there also was acting director
of the Foreign Operations Mission
to Haiti.
Next June Professor Russell will
complete 30 years’ service with
the college, according to Dr. Tyrus
R. Timm, head of the Department
of Agricultural Economics & So
ciology.
Among other honors which Rus
sell has received for his work is
recognition by Reader’s Digest and
other periodicals for his work dur
ing the depression in promoting
project housing- where farm boys
could bring their food with them
to help pay college expenses.
About 4,000 boys attended A&M
under this plan.
“Pm glad to see that Professor
Russell still is recognized as one of
the nation’s outstanding men in
the field of community develop
ment, particularly as it relates to
onportunities for rural youth,” Dr.
Timm said.
Weather Today
SCATTERED SHOWERS
and 73 degrees. Temperatm-e at
10:30 this moi-ning was 91 degrees.
Drive Begins
Polio Shots Available
An innoculation drive against
polio has been opened by the
Brazos county chapter of the Na
tional Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis with plans to innoculate
every person in the county between
the ages of 1 and 19 and pregnant
women before the first of the
year.
Salk vaccine is now available in
large quantities, and every family
physician is ready to innoculate
patients, according to Jack T.
Kent, chairman of the NFIP chap-
ter here.
There is a series of three polio
shots to achieve immunity with
the second shot a month or five
weeks after the first. The final
shot, which is the “clincher”, is
deferred for seven months. The
physician’s charge for administer
ing the shots averages $10.
Records show that polio infec
tions among' un-vaccinated chil
dren, teen-agers and pregnant wo
men is still running high, There
have been six new polio patients in
Brazos County since Jan. 1, ac
cording to Kent. Majority of these
have been infants under two years
of age and pregnant women.
Statistics show that pregnant
women are 11 per cent more sus
ceptible to the disease than chil
dren or adults.
The fact that it is safe and de
sirable to vaccinate now and
Partly cloudy with scattered
thundershowers is forecasted for
College Station today. Yesterday’s
high and low were 1000 degrees a ^ e expected to attend the course
EE Dept. Course
Begins Monday
A two-part Symmetrical C o m -
ponents Short Course will be held
July 30 - August 3 and August 20-
24 at A&M.
Sponsored by the Electrical En
gineering Department, 35 people
meetings which will be held in the
Memorial Student Center.
throughout the summer, to guard
against polio this fall, was agreed
by Dr. Hart E. Van Riper, medical
director of the National Founda
tion, U. S. Public Health Service,
American Academy of Pediatrics,
American Medical Association,
American Public Health Associa
tion and others.
“Vaccine given in July and Au
gust will prevent paralytic cases
and even deaths in August and
September,” says Surgeon Gener
al Leonard Scheele of the U. S.
Public Health Service.
Less that 10 percent of the eligi
ble persons in Brazos county have
received the Salk shots, accord
ing- to Kent.
National Secretary’s Association
International, Brazos county chap
ter, is assisting the local Founda
tion by making clerical assistance
available during the drive for
“shots.”
Over 300 million children in the
United States have been vaccinat
ed without mishap since May 7,
1955. According to Dr. Van Riper
The vaccine has proved to be at
least 75 percent effective in pre
venting polio.
Water
CS Council Meeting Monday
Ag Eco Professors
Conduct Research
Dr. H. B. Sorensen of Texas
A&M’s Department of Agricul
tural Economics & Sociology, and
Wilbur F. Buck of the USDA are
conducting a joint study of the
citrus industry in Texas’ Rio
Grande Valley, announced Dr.
Tyrus Timm, head of the depart
ment.
The survey, which began July
19, is to evaluate present and fu
ture needs of citrus packers and
canners with regard to location,
nolicy adjustments and needs in
nrder to meet the expanding vol
ume of citrus, Dr. Timm said.
Basie Division
Aptitude Tests
Saturday 9 a.m.
Basic Division students en
rolled in summer school who
have not taken aptitude and
achievement tests may do so
Saturday morning - , announced
C. H. Ransdell of A&M’s Basic Di
vision recently.
The tests will be given in the
air-conditioned lecture room of the
Biological Sciences Building and
are scheduled to begin at 9 a.m.
The tests are designed to help
the student know more about him
self and assist him in evaluation
of areas o'f his own strength and
weakness, Ransdell said. They also
aid the staff in placing the student
and help in future counseling.”
These tests will help the student,
and prospective students in select
ing the course of study they are
best suited for, show where their
interests lie and aid in planning
their college education.
The tests will be given in Sep
tember, but if they are taken now
students will have more time in the
fall for other activities and give
more time for the staff to work
with the students in the event such
help seems advisable.
Bloodworth Speaks
To Houston Club
Louis R. Bloodworth, president
Association of Former Students, of
A&M, will address the Houston
A&M Club at its luncheon meeting
Monday at the Rice Hotel. Blood
worth, a widely known business
man of Wichita Falls, is associated
with several insurance and mortg
age firms, serving as president of
one and board member of two
others.
He is an active civic leader in
Wichita Falls and is chairman of
the Wichita Falls Park Board. A
member of the colleg-e’s class of
1932, he was elected president of
the Former Student’s Asociation
this year.
Attending the luncheon meeting
from College Station will be E. E.
McQuillen, Director of A&M’s De
velopment Fund, and J. D. (Dick)
Hervey, executive secretary of the
Association of Former Students.
Miller To Judge
Dr. J. C. Miller, head of the
Animal Husbandry Department at
A&M, will serve as judge in a
foreign cattle show early in Au
gust. For the second year in a
row, he has been invited to judge
the National All-Colombia Beef
Cattle Show in Bogota, Colombia,
August -6.
Texans Go To Polls Saturday
Saturday morning at 8 the polls
across our state will open to receive
what has been estimated as the
highest possible turnout of voters
in 25 years.
A record number of Texas vot
ers traveled to the polls in 1952,
87 per cent, but this is compared
to only 52 per cent voting across
the nation.
More Texans than ever before
have paid their poll-tax or received
exemptions this year, 2,410,188 al
together.
The A&M Consolidated School
box at College Station has 1,162
paid poll taxes and 237 exemptions,
according to figures from the Tax
Assessor and Collectors’ Office.
Qualifications for voting in the
county are as follows: must be 21
years of age on the day of election;
must be a citizen of the United
States and must have resided in
Texas for at least a year and in
Brazos County six months; must
have a 1955 Poll Tax or 1955 Ex
emption Certificate secured prior
to Feb. 1, 1956 (this rule is waived
if the person is over 60 years of
age and resides outside of Bryan.)
In regard to residence, as
prompted by several requests, the
Brazos County Democratic Commit
tee defines residence as follows:
“The residence of a single man is
where he sleeps at night and that
of a married man is where his wife
resides.”
All voters must vote in the pre
cinct where they reside and if they
have moved into a new voting pre
cinct since paying the poll tax an
affidavit of residence must, be
signed.
As illiteracy is not a cause for
disqualification of a voter, aid
will be permitted. However, the
qualifications point out that only
those who are unable to write or
see will be permitted the benefit of
this aid. No marked ballot can
be used and one voter cannot help
another. (Husband and wife can
not mark ballots together.)
Absentee voting has indicated
citizens are Confused as to how
to vote on referendum clauses on
the ballot. For your convenience
on page two of this issue you
will find a sample ballot for Col
lege Station and a sample refer
endum ballot with both the FOR
and AG AINST clauses explained.
The Bryan Daily Eagle will be
open for election returns Saturday
night but only election workers and
employees of the paper will be per
mitted in the building to avoid con
fusion.
C. C. Carter, County Chairman
of the Democratic Executive Com
mittee, has asked that people re
frain from phoning the Eagle of
fice unless tuiming in election re
sults as all phones will be used to
tabulate returns.
A block in downtown Bryan will
be roped off Saturday night and
returns will be tabulated on a
blackboard as soon as they are
counted. The block in front of the
Bryan Eagle on 26th St. between
Tabor and the x-ailroad tracks will
be closed- to traffic.
The Democratic Precinct Con
ventions will be held Satui'day at
the following places and times:
(Pi'ecinct chairmen names appear
in brackets)
Precinct 1—Millican Schoolhouse
—2 p.m. (Robex-t Fuqua)
Pi-ecinct 2 — Wellborn School-
house—2 p.m. (J. D. Williams)
Precinct 3—A&M Consolidated
School—7 p.m. (Norman F. Rode)
Pi-ecinct 4—Mooring Schoolhouse
—2 p.m. (Sam N. Fachoi’n)
Precinct 5—Haxwey Schoolhouse
—2 p.m. (C. F. Goen)
Precinct 6—Kuiten Schoolhouse
—2 p.m. (W. T. Kelley)
Precinct 7—Tabor Schoolhouse—
2 p.m. (Joe T. Locke)
Pi-ecinct 8—Edge Schoolhouse—
2 p.m. (V. R. Wilson)
Pi-ecinct 9 — Fountain Hall — 2
p.m. (W. F. Wallin)
Precinct 10—Ben Milam School—
7 p.m. (Ed Blazek)
Precinct 11 — Travis School — 7
(See POLITICS, Page 5)
No Protest; Final Reading
Heard On Land A nnexation
Citizens of the three areas south of College Station told
the City Council Monday night they would “take whatever
steps necessary” to give the city the ownership of their wa
terline in order to get water from the city.
Speaking for the citizens of the Lakeview area, C. M.
Sikes presented a petition to the council with all but three
signatures of the persons involved from his area. Sikes said
the only reason they didn’t have 100 per cent signing was due
to the fact three persons were out of town.
City Attorney C. E. Dillon told the council he could have
papers drawn up for the interested citizens of these small
communities which include the Spring Green, Shiloh and
'♦Lakeview areas to sign and in
the City Hall of College Sta
tion by August 1. As soon as
the papers are signed, by both
man and wife in the families
concerned, and the city has full
control of the waterline, steps will
be taken to provide ample water
service to the persons in these
areas.
Mayor Ernest Langford assured
the people present at the meeting
representing the several factions
that the city “would do all in their
power,” even so far as to lay a
new line for those people concern
ed, but that t they would have water.
Councilman Joe Sorrels told the
people at the council meeting that
the city was not “taking the wa
terline away from them just be
cause they wanted to ram some
thing down their throats, but rath
er that due to certain influences
and controversies that had arisen
the city of College Station was
placed in such a position although
the city was supplying the water
for the line the city had no control
over the line whatsoever.
Morgan Smith gave a short his
tory of the waterline and his view
of the troubles in the area and
immediately got into words with
Sikes and others from the areas
concerned.
The men soon came to an under
standing and agreed to go along
with any program the city offered
to improve the water supply.
In other action at the regular
monthly meeting councilmen heard
George H. Feagan, representing
Homer A. Hunter and associates,
tell of possible solutions to prob
lems concerning drainage at the
new sewage plant.
Feagan recommended the city
not accept the plant from the con
tractor until certain additional fea
tures be taken care of. The largest
of the problems faced is drainage.
“Every rain we get, until grass
begins to grow, sand washes into
the pumphouse,” said Feagan. “In
addition, the contractor should cor
rect the height of the arms on main
filter and correct leaks in the clari
fiers.”
(See CITY COUNCIL, Page 2)
Stored Water
Only Hope For
More Irrigation
Farmers in the Brazos Riv
er Valley must look to stored
water for their future supply
for irrigation purposes, said
Harry Burleigh, Interior De
partment Reclamation Bureau en
gineer, to newsmen Friday after
noon.
Speaking to newsmen at the
farm home of Harry Moore near
Carlos, Burleigh went on to say
that 375,000 acres in the Brazos
Valley are suitable , fof - irrigation
purposes, “but there must be a
tremendous increase in storage to
irrigate this land.”
Newsmen from various papers
and wire services over the state
were the guests of the Brazos Riv
er Authority on a three-day jaunt
covering the area from Richmond
to Waco drained by the Brazos
River.
In referring to this huge poten
tial of land Bureligh said the land
would produce an additional $50
per acre, “this would mean $15
million a year additional profit for
the farmers and $60 million a year
for the urban population.”
C. C. Carlton, area conservation
ist, U.S. Soil Conservation Service
at Bryan, told newsmen at the
meeting, six times the amount of
land now under irrigation could be
served with a dependable source of
water.
The BRA plans to construct six
new dams on the Brazos above Lake
Whitney. These would solve vir
tually all the current water needs
of farmers and municipalities in
that area.
P. T. Montfort
Rites Held
Wednesday
Funeral services were held
at 11 a.m. yesterday for Peter
Thorp Montfort, 57, professor
of agricultural engineering, at
McCannon Funeral Home in
Corsicana. He resided at 608A E.
33rd Street, Bryan.
Montfort died at 10:05 a.m. Mon
day at a local hospital after an
illness of three months. Intern
ment was made in the Chytfield
cemetery near Corsicana.
Born in Chatfield in 1899, Mont
fort was a graduate of A&M in
1921 with a degree in Agriculture.
He operated his own farm until
1926 and later became assistant
secretary of the Texas Hardware
and Implement Association in 1927.
He returned to A&M in 1928, lat
er serving as a county agent with
the Texas Extension Service in
1932-34 and became associated with
the agricultural engineering de
partment in 1935. He was made a
professor in that department in
1943.
The author of several publica
tions dealing largely with farm
electrification, Montfort was a
member of the American Society
of Agricultural Engineers.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Baldwin Montfort.
The body was sent to Corsicana
by Hillier Funeral Home of Bryan.
Sloan Speaks
On Korea
To Kiwanians
College Station’s Kiwanis
Club sat “spellbound” at their
regular meeting Tuesday as
they heard Jack Sloan de
scribe his trip to Korea aboard
the Texas 4-H Clubs’ Friendship
Shipload of livestock and agricul
tural materials for use by the
Korean 4-H Clubs.
Sloan, Visual Aids Specialist
with the Agricultural Information
Office at A&M, illustrated his
talk With color slides taken on
the voyage.
The trip grew out of a dream by
Col. Charles Anderson, (U.S. Army
retired) who set up the 4-H work
in Korea during a conversation
with Harris County Agent Dan
Clinton three years ago.
Clinton was then in Korea and
had a long talk with Col. Anderson
about his plans for the project.
Clinton set to work upon his return
to Harris County to get the back
ing of 4-H clubs over the state
and began collecting all kinds of
agricultural materials and sup
plies.
The ship sailed from Houston
and had aboard the largest load
of livestock ever to enter the
Orient. In addition to 900 head
of animals and livestock the ship
was packed with feed, fertilizer,
sewing machines, materials of all
kinds to be used by the Koreans.
Eight Texas 4-H boys accom
panied the livestock on the trip
and were present to give the
materials to President Syngman
Rhee of South Korea. The boys
were feted with a parade and won
the hearts of the Korean people
and vice versa according to Sloan.
Describing the trip as very suc
cessful Sloan gives credit to the
boys and their unassuming manner
and heartfelt friendliness as ma
jor factors in the success of the
program.
The shipload of ^materials first
landed at Pusan, on the east coast
of Korea and unloaded part of
their animals and materials, then
traveled to Inchon, on the west
coast where the remainder of the
material was off-loaded.
The boys were impressed with
the morale of the people and the
youngsters “yearning for edu
cation”, said Sloan.
Charles LaMotte, , president,
presided over the meeting and
John Longley, program chairman,
introduced Sloan to the members.
P. T. Montfort