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PAGE 6 Friday, October 19, 1956
CIVILIANS WHIP OUT—Milner, Puryear and Law Halls
placed signs on their dormitories this week and as this one
was near the Battalion Photographer he took a picture of
it, no offense to the other two signs as no contest was
involved, it was just a matter that this sign was more
photogenic.
Pan-Am Round Table
Hears Mexico Report
Guest speaker for the first meet
ing of the Bryan-College Station
Pan American Round Table held
Tuesday was Dr. Sidney Brown
who gave an illustrated report
about Mexico.
Dr. Brown related a tourist’s
tour of Mexico beginning from
Reynosa, to Monterrey, Guadala
jara, and Mexico, while Dr. Meta
Brown projected about a hundred
colored slides taken by them on
their trip south during Christmas.
“It is impossible to show the
real Mexico”, Dr Brown commen
ted, as he showed the slides of
churches and national monuments
and pointed out the architecture
of the new and old.
Sadie Hatfield, director of the
Table, presided and welcomed mem
bers and guests.
Guests present for the evening’s
meeting were Jesus Vegas, of Mex
ico, president of the A&M Pan
American Club; Carlos Beneke, of
HI Salvador; Mrs. Leo Pena, her
mother Mis. Eloisa Hernandez,
and sister Ana Hernandez, all
from Columbia, South America;
Rheba Boyles, Christina Ainsley
and Loreley Brown.
Mrs. Frank Gould was unani
mously elected vice-director of the
organization, following the resig
nation of Mrs. Roy Snyder from
that office.
Other officers include Mrs. C.
H. Moore, secretary; Sue Albright,
treasurer; Lucille Moore, histor
ian; Mrs. J. S. Doane, parliamen
tarian and Mrs. John Ashton, re
porter. Dr. Silvio Navarro is pro
gram chairman for the year.
Quick Diagnosis
HATTIESBURG, Miss. CP) —
When Dr. Ramsay O’Neal noticed a
slight fluttering in his heart region
While on a fishing trip, he wonder
ed if it was the forerunner to a
heart attack. Another flutter and
he clapped his hand over his heart
in real anxiety. That’s when he
found the small bream which he
had caught earlier and absent-
mindedly placed in his shirt pocket.
New members presented and ac
cepted by the club are Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Workman, Mrs.. P.
W. Vorley, Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Pinero, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sargent,
Mrs. Art Adamson, Harriet Brig
ham, Minnie Bell, Beatrice Luther
and Dee Morgan.
Nevt meeting for the Table will
be Nov. 23.
Oceanographers
Hear Reports
A special program will be
featured at tire first meeting of the
Oceanographic Society of A&M
Friday at 7:30 p. m. in the Me
morial Student Center.
Three members of the Ocean
ography and Meteorology Depart
ment, Conrad Nueman, graduate
student, will report on activities
which happened during the summer
aboard the oceanographic vessel,
Crawford. Joe Creger will sum-
marize the results of the Inter
national Geological Conference held
in Mexico City and Roy Gaul,
“Television as a Public Relations
Medium for Science”. Gaul has
produced and presented the
meteorological TV program at
KGUL-TV in Galveston for the
past year.
All persons interested in ocean
ography and meteorology are in
vited to attend the meeting.
Veteran’s Hospital
Announce Opening
Employment exams for work at
the Veterans Administration Cen
ter at Temple and Waco and Vet
erans Administration Hospital was
announced by the United States
Civil Service.
Full information and applications
may be obtained from the Post Of
fice, or from the Executive Secre
tary, Board of U. S.- Civil Service
Examiners, VA Center, Temple,
Texas.
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THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY
German Specialist
Wins Nobel Prize
STOCKHOLM—(A 5 )—A German
doctor who probed his own heart
will share this year’s Nobel prize
for medicine with two U.S. doc
tors who developed his idea into
a new method of diagnosing heart
diseases. The award was an
nounced yesterday.
The German is 52-year-old Dr.
Werner Forssmann. In 1929 he in
troduced a catheter, a slender plas
tic tubular probe, into his left fore
arm, and passed its 26-inch length
through a blood vessel until it
had entered the right side of his
heart.
The U. S. doctors are French-
born Andre F. Cournand, 61, and
Dickinson W. Richards Jr., 60, both
of Columbia University, New York.
They were recognized for their
part in developing the technique of
“heart catheterization” to measure
pressure and flow in various parts
of the heart and blood vessels, and
to inject contrasting chemicals to
see heart defects on an X-ray
screen.
The three doctors share a $38,633
prize provided in the will of Al
fred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of
dynamite. The 47th prize in med
icine was voted by 39 professors of
Stockholm’s Caroline Institute.
The awards will be presented
here Dec. 10, along with a literary
prize and prizes in physics and
chemistry to be announced later.
The award in medicine was made
in a year when diseases of the
heart have come to public atten
tion with perhaps greater force
than ever before. The basic knowl
edge gained by the pioneering of
the three doctors greatly helped to
advance the fight against these
diseases.
At his home in Bad Kreuznach,
Germany, Di’. Forssmann express
ed himself:
“I am overjoyed. But I still
can’t believe it.”
It was shortly after Forssmann
had taken his doctor’s degree in
Berlin and when he was only 25
that he made his first dramatic
test in Eberswalde Hospital.
In the bold experiment he intro
duced a urethral catheter into the
vien of his arm until it reached
into his heart. He then walked up
stairs from the opei’ating theater
to the X-ray room where he check
ed the position of the catheter with
the aid of a mirror.
THE AGGIE WIVES COUNCIL Monday meeting features Miss Carol Lane, America’s
First Lady of Touring, who will report on better ways for Americans to travel by auto
mobile. A representative for Shell Oil Company, Miss Lane will address more than 100
club members and the invited public in the MSC Assembly Room.
A farmer friend of ours paid Humble's field men -
a fine compliment recently.
He said, "There's one thing about you
Humble people, you close gates."
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All of us at Humble want the good will of the folks
with whom we do business. And among those folks,
the farmers and ranchers who lease their land to us
for exploration and production are right at the
top of the list.
In fact, you farmers are partners with us
in the development of a vital natural resource.
If our efforts are successful then everyone
involved benefits.
Keeping the gates closed and the fences mended^
things like that are the least we can do.
We know. A lot of us grew up on farms and ranches.
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