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The followingr clubs meet Tues
day at 7:30 p. m. immediately af
ter Yell practice.
The j^coppmics Club meets in
room 3D, MSC.
American Foundrymen’s Society
meets in room 108, Mechanical En
gineering Shops for a movie and
refreshments.
Society of Agricultural Engi
neers will hold a business, meeting
in the Agricultural Engineering
Lecture room.
Marketing Society meets in room
3D, MSC- The program includes
a guest speaker. Refreshments will
be served.
Geology Club will hear Dr. Le-
Blanc of the Shell Oil Company.
Meeting place is the Geology Lec
ture Room.
Pre-Law Society meets in the
MSC Social Room.
Saddle and Sirloin Club will
elect two sponsor?, for their group
at their meeting in the Animal In
dustry Lecture room. Also on the
program are the judging team re
sults and two films.
Logical Reason
WOLVERHAMPTON, England
tfl 5 )—Asked by magistrates why he
threw matches into a timber yard,
an 11-year-old boy replied: “That’s
the best place to start a fire.
There’s plenty of wood there.”
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
“THE PROUD ONES”
with ROBERT RYAN
— P L U S —
“RIDING SHOTGUN”
with RANDOLPH SCOTT
English Staff Adds
5 New Members
Five staff members have been
added to the A&M English Depart
ment for the current school year,
according to Dr. S. S. Morgan,
head of the department.
Dr. Sam B. Southwell, associate
professor, has rejoined the depart
ment after a year of teaching at
Pan American College, Edinburg.
He received his B.A., M.A. and
Ph.D. degrees at Texas Univer
sity.
Instructors include Miss Bar
bara Joan McKinney, Denver,
Colo., who received her B.A. at
Colorado State college and M.S.
from Wisconsin university; James
C. Reed, Waco, who received his
B.A. and M.A. at Baylor; Robert
W. Gladish, Glenville, Ill., with his
M.A. from Chicago university; Roy
E. Cain, Austin, who received his
B.A. and M.A. at North Texas
State college and E, P. Crittenden,
Denton, who received his B.A. from
Boston univei-sity and M;A. from
Southern Methodist university.
Extra Large Size
PONCA CITY, Okla., (A 3 )—A
suithanging in a clothing store
window here was almost too wool
ly. The sign on the suit said:
“95 per cent wool, 10 per cent
dacron.”
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BANQUETS
WEDDING PARTIES
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CAREER GIRL—Miss Betty Blue, in addition to working
as an office manager, she also is Playmate of the Month in
the November issue of Playboy. It just goes to show how
far a girl can go in the business world if she does, well in
her typing and shorthand.
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It’s the company you KEEP^•*
Glamour lends a lot to a blind date or an
evening’s entertainment. But in choosing a
wife, you want to get much better acquainted.
Taking your time and exploring all the pos
sibilities is equally sound strategy in deciding
on a career company.
So be sure to make a date with our College
Interview Team when they visit your campus
and take advantage of the opportunities they
offer. These Magnolia men will come pre*
Architectural Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Geological Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
pared to answer your specific questions about ,,
advancement, job location, salary and other
benefits.
Before meeting our “family” you should
know that Magnolia is the southwestern affil-j
iate of Socony Mobil Oil Company, Inc. We 1
operate in 18 states, working in each phase
of the business, from finding to marketing oiU
There’s more you’ll want to know about us 1 -
... and we about you. But for now, remember^
we have openings forj
Petroleum Engineering
Geophysics
Geology
Chemistry
Mathematics
Physics
'Our Interview team will be on your campus:
November 12 and 13
Magnolia Petroleum Company
A Socony Mobil Company
TAe Battalion College Station (Brazos County}, Texas
Tuesday, November 6, 1956 PAGE 3
Hospital Fund Draws
On Community Chest
(Ed Note: This is the sixth
in a series of articles on the
agencies requesting your help
in the 1956 A&M College-College
Station Community Chest-Red
Cross Drive.)
The Brazos County Hospital
Fund is seeking $300 from
this year’s Community Chest
goal of $14,000 for the oper
ation of its program assist
ing county residents who are un
able to care for hospital and other
medical expenses.
Any person in the county need
ing this type of help may apply to
a special committee which adminis
ters the fund. The committee,
composed of Bennie Zinn, W. D.
Burley and Mrs. ^Opal Meyers, re
views the case and extends aid as
they see fit.
Cases admitted to Brazos coun
ty hospitals are given regular
treatment and at the end of their
Research Grants
Available to Ph.D’s
National Science Foundation,
Washington, D.C., has announced
plans to award 55 senior postdoc
toral fellowships to individuals
planning additional study or re
search.
Limited to those who have held
a doctoral degree in one of the ba
sic fields of science for at least
five years, the fellowships will be
awarded in the mathematical phys
ical, medical, biological, engineer
ing and other sciences, including
doctor of veterinary medicine and
all overlapping fields of the natur
al sciences.
Fellowships will be awarded
March 20, 1957, with allowances
individually computed to give hold
ers approximately the same income
as their normal salaries. Maxi
mum allowance is $10,000 per yeai*
and $4000 minimum.
Further information can be ob
tained at the office of the Graduate
school.
confinement, a bill is sent to the
committee. The committee pays all
medicine expense and 75 per cent
of other expenses up to a bill of
$125.
The hospitals pay the remainder
of the bill and stand the loss if it
is pver $125. Doctors give their
service free of charge. If the pa
tient is moved to a hospital out of
the county, the committee pays $3
per day throughout confinement.
During the year from Oct. 1,
1955 to the same date, this year,
the committee paid accounts for
26 families at a total cost of
$2,087.43, an average of $80.29 per
case. Of these, seven cases ex
ceeded the $125 maximum allow
ance.
“No needy family in Brazos
County is refused medical care as
long as funds are available,” Zinn
said.
Flight Training Set
For A&M Cadets
A&M was tentatively selected
to begin Air Force ROTC flying
training during the 1956 - 57
academic school year, H e a d-
quarters Air Force ROTC, Max
well Air Force Base, Ala., has an
nounced.
Contract negotiations are due to
commence early in November.
This program will be a principal
feature of the regular Air Force
ROTC course and will consist of
light-plane training at no expense
to the cadets. The flying safety
of the program will be supervised
by the Civil Aeronautics Associa
tion.
Designed to motivate more
cadets to an Air Force career, the
course will permit an earlier
screening of cadets’ adaptability
for flying. The screening previous
ly was only available after grad
uation and commissioning.
Chemical Society
To Hear Speech
The local section of the Amer
ican Chemical Society will hear
Dr; Byron E. Leach, of Tulane
University, speak on “Biochemi
cal Studies in Mental Diseases”
Nov. 7 at 7:45 p.m. in the Chem-
isty Building lecture room.
Leach, of the Psychiatry and
Neurology department at Tulane,
received his B.S. from Mississippi
State college in 1938, his M.S.
from Virginia Polytechnic Insti
tute and his Ph.D. from Illinois
university in 1944.
His principal researches have
been in the fields of amino acids
in human nutrition, antibiotics and
the biochemistry of mental dis
eases.
SouiLinh
Center News
Dance classes meet tonight in
the assembly room of the MSC at
7:30.
Building committee meets be
tween 4 p. m. and 6 p. m. in the
Senate Chamber of the MSC to
day.
Speechmasters Society meets be
tween 5:15 p. m. and 7:15 p. rru
in rooms 2A and 2B of the MSC to
day.
Aggie Players present “The
Trial” tomorrow at 8 p. m. in
the ballroom of the MSC.
Student Conference on National
Affairs will hold its luncheon in
the Balh’oom of the MSC tomor-
i’ow at 12 noon.
CS Police Report
Shows Decrease
College Station police activity
slowed down last week as four
parking and five traffic tickets
were given. Only one minor acci
dent was reported.
The previous week found 11 ac
cidents, most of which were due
to the TCU football game. Police
also gave nine parking and two
traffic tickets.
Last week’s tickets were for
parking in a no-parking zone, four;
speeding, three; following too close
one; and failure to signal turn,
one.
Town Hall is one of the larger
attractions of Office of Student
Activities, bringing outstanding
attractions in the entertainment
field to the campus regularly.
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