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THE
BATTALION
Great Is Truth
And
Shall Prevail
Number 220: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1957
Price Five Cents
Hood To Speak
At Industrial
Course In MSC
Clifford F. Hood, president
of United States Steel Corpo
ration will speak on “Execu
tive Responsibility in Today’s
Industry” at the Fifth Annual
Development Course here Monday.
Hood will speak at the 1:30 p. m.
session of the executive develop
ment course in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
The U. S. Steel head is one of a
number of nationally known visi
ting- lecturers who will speak to
special sessions of the course which
lasts until Feb. 16.
Attending the course,will be 36
executives chosen from a number
of Texas and Southwestern busi
ness and industrial firms. The
guest lecturers will all be men
who have demonstrated their abil
ity in business or industry through
successful careers.
Hood has been with U. S. Steel
since 1917 when he got a job as
an operating clerk in an electrical
cable plant of U. S. Steel in Wor-
chester, Mass. When a number of
subsidiary companies with which
he had held various positions were
brought into U. S. Steel in 1951,
Hood became executive vice presi
dent in charge of operations.
In 1952 he joined the board of
directors and became president of
the corporation on Jan 1, 1953.
May, 1956, he was also elected
chairman of the executive commit
tee of the corporation.
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John Beaty New
Agronomy Head
John Beaty was elected new
president of the Agronomy So
ciety.
Other officers are Charles De
laney, vice-president; Harry Bur
leson, secretary; Wayne Allen,
treasurer; Lynn Low, parliamen
tarian; Fausto Vturria, parliamen
tarian and De Wayne Williams,
business manager. Dr. T. E. Mc
Afee will remain as faculty advisor
for the society.
Finishing plans for the Annual
Junior-Senior Field Trip were
made at the meeting. This
year about 40 agronomy students
and three faculty members will
travel to the Rio Grande Valley,
including Brownsville, Weslaco
Experimental Station and other
points of interest.
The next meeting of the society
is Tuesday.
KORA Airs Highet
Talk Tonite at 8:30
Tonight at 8:30 over radio sta
tion KORA, Gilbert Highet will
g-ive the fourth of a series of talks
concerning “People, Places and
Books” sponsored by the Friends
of the Library.
Highet is a noted author and
literary critic. Tonight’s program
is entitled “Pandora’s Box.”
CARL BIRDWELL, Exchange Store manager, checks
through approximately 1,200 copies of History 106 in prep
aration for the semester rush of students buying books.
Registration Friday
For New Students
New student week began yester
day morning at 8:30, with housing
assignments. This part of the pro
gram was held in the YMCA build
ing.
Registration will be held at 1:30
p.m. Friday in Sbisa Hall. Classes
will start at 8 a. m. Monday.
A general assembly was held
at 1 p.m. yesterday in the lecture
room 113, Biological Sciences build
ing. Dr. C. H. Ransdell, associate
dean of the Basic Division gave the
welcome address. Testing will be
held at 7:45 a.m., in Room 113,
Biological Sciences building, with
Frank E. McFarland in charge.
Issuing uniforms and securing
laundry marks take place today.
Picture Schedule
Set For Juniors
Juniors in the Corps will have
their pictures made for the Aggie-
land ’57 in the following order at
the Aggieland Studio between 8
a.m. and 5 p.m.
Class A, winter uniform will be
worn. All first sergeants and
staff juniors will have portraits
made in garrison caps.
Monday & Tuesday (Feb. 4-5
Corps Staff; 1st. Regt. Staff;
1st, 2nd, 3rd Bn. Staff; A, B, C,
D, E, Infantry.
Wednesday & Thursday
(Feb. 7-8)
2nd Regt. Staff; 1st, 2nd, 3rd,
4th Bn. Staffs; A, B, C, Armor;
A, B, Engineers; A Transporta
tion, A Ordnance.
Ags Win Exposition
Livestock Judging
Melvin Lebo of A&M led a team
of livestock judges to victory in
the Southwestern Exposition and
Fat Stock Show in Fort Worth
when he scored 962 points out of
a possible 1,000.
Lebo, senior Animal Husbandry
major, was the top man in the cat
tle judging event. The dairy judg
ing contest was won by Arvil New
by, 1954 Lone Star farmer of Tex
as.
In collegiate judging the Ag
gies led the field with a team to
tal of 1,762 points. A&M scored
4,573 out of a possible 5,000 points
in the general livestock judging.
This was the first time that an
A&M team had won this event in
the 17 years of its existence. One
of the top competitions in the na
tion the Fat Stock Show drew
competing teams from 18 colleges
this year.
Students judged classes of cat
tle, sheep, horses and swine ii| the
exposition that got under way
last Saturday in Will Rogers Col
iseum.
The results were announced Sun
day at a luncheon at Fort Worth’s
Hotel Texas. Iowa State placed
second with Oklahoma A&M third
and Colorado A&M fourth.
Coached by W. T. Berry Jr., of
the Animal Husbandry Department
the team scored firsts in the judg
ing of Quarter horses and sheep.
Besides Lebo the livestock team
consisted of Henry Presnal, Don
Mitchell, Glynn Chandler, Dick
Thomas and Jim Regmund.
Meat judging team was made up
of, in addition to coach Gene King,
Robert Gooch, Jack Estes, John
Foshee and Bob Milford.
S. A. Kelley will be in charge
of a general orientation for all in
Room 113, Biological Sciences
building today. From 1 p.m. to
5 p.m., an orientation for the mil
itary will be held in Biological Sci
ences lecture room and for the ci
vilians and veterans in ^loom 102,
YMCA.
Dr. Robert B. Kamm, dean of
the Basic Division and Student
Personnel Services will address a
general assembly at 7 tonight in
Room 113, Biological Sciences build
ing. Dr. Ransdell will preside.
“Student Life at A&M,” will be
discussed by W. L. Penberthy,
head, Department of Student Ac
tivities.
A general assembly will be held
Friday morning at 8 in Room 113,
Biological Sciences building fol
lowed by group and individual con
ferences. Identification photo
graphs program will be held at
Sbisa Hall loung-e at 1 p.m.
Play ers Op en
Kehearsals
Next Monday
Having completed his cast
ing director Vic Wiening
starts rehearsals on “The Skin
of Our Teeth” Monday night
in the Music Hall.
The Aggie Players will present
the Thornton Wilder comedy on a
four-night run March 25, 26, 27 and
28 in the Ballroom of the Memorial
Student Center.
“Man’s survival is traced through
the ages,” Wiening said, “as he
bumbles through managing some
how to hang on as the title im
plies. The play shows how we
came through the ice age, the great
flood and a war.”
The Antrobus family around
which the story is told are de
scribed as being rich Americans
who are part genius and part fool.
Mr. Antrobus will be played by
Mike Kuich with Ara Haswell,
playing the part of Mrs. Antrobus.
Duwayne Lundgren portrays Henry
and the announcer’s part is being
handled by Bill Heard.
Mary Tanguy will play Sabina.
Gladys Antrobus will be played by
Felma Clack with Dianne Todd
playing the fortune teller. The
other female roles will be carried
by Marguerite Bean and Gene Lo-i
gan.
The remainder of the cast will
include Bryan Simmons, Clyde
Adams, James Johnson, Don Rey
nolds, Allen Coulter, Jack Camp
bell, Jimmy Best, Bob Dunn, Jack
Gladwell and Bill Libby.
Ag Councilors
Write Brochure
On Farm Facts
The increasing areas of work in
Agriculture other than production
is the central idea of a brochure
being put together by nine mem
bers of the Agriculture Council
and Dean J. C. Miller.
“The old concept of agriculture
is strictly production” said Miller.
“Since World War II, however we
have undergone an agricultural
revolution.”
This has resulted in a rapid de
cline of rural population, an in
crease in the size of farms and
ranches, the farmer’s being able
to treble his output, and the fact
that people today are willing to
pay a great deal more for services
in food processing, Dean Miller
added.
He explained the latter point,
people being willing to pay more
for services, has provided many
jobs in industry related to agri
culture. Jobs such as marketing,
food technology, meat packing, and
food processing are a direct out
growth of agriculture, while such
related fields as state and federal
research, public relations, and agri
cultural journalism will play in
creasingly important roles in the
“farming” field.
The brochure stressing these
facts is expected to be printed by
March, when it will be distributed
to high schools and farm maga
zines.
Committee members working on
the brochure are Chairman Tommy
Smith, Joe Dan Boyd, Benny (Bud)
Fichte, Bob Foster, Carl Chumney,
Vol (Smokey) Davis, Wilfred
Klement, Melvin Lebo and L. H.
Harbei’S.
Legislators Join
In Denunciation
WASHINGTON, UP)—President Eisenhower said yes
terday Secretary of Defense Wilson made “a very, I think,
unwise statement” when he said there was draft dodging
among National Guard enlistments during the Korean War.
Wilson has been denounced far and wide, by Guard lead
ers, many senators and representatives, and some state leg
islators for the statement which he made Monday and re
peated Tuesday.
Asked at his news conference today whether he shared
Wilson’s complaint, Eisenhower told his questioner:
“Well, of course you know better, really, than that.”
However, he backed the same thing Wilson is seeking
"♦"for the Guard: A
MOD Dance Tonite
In Sbisa at 8:30
Brazos County’s March of Dimes
drive reaches a clipiax tonight with
a ballroom dance and auction in
Sbisa Hall.
All proceeds from the dance
and the auction, which will be held
during the intermission, go to the
March of Dimes. An electric cooker,
silver bowl, hostess cart, electric
percolator, lamp and the grand
prize, an original oil painting by
Mrs. Emalita Terry, will be
auctioned off to the highest bid
ders. The painting is valued at $60.
The Aggieland Combo, directed
by Bill (Pop) Turner, will furnish
the music for the dance, which
will begin at 8:30. J. E. Roberts is
general chairman of the dance
with Mrs. Lela Thompson chairman
of the refreshments committees.
K. A. Manning is handling the
arrangements and Billy Vance the
public address system.
A&M German Club
To Attend Meeting
The A&M German Club, James
Malone, president, plans to send
about 30 members to the annual
convention of the Texas Associa
tion of German Students to be
held April 27 in Houston, accord
ing to E. C. Breitenkamp, Associ
ate German Professor.
A group singing German songs
will represent A&M on the Rice
and University of Houston cam
puses.
Last year the German Club had
the largest representation of all
the Texas schools at Southwestern
University in Georgetown. They
had 29. This year with a member
ship of 34 they expect about 30
students from A&M to attend.
Gerald Feldman
Gets Research
Fellowship
Gerald L. Feldman, re
search assistant in the A&M
department of biochemistry
and nutrition, has been award-
eda $2,500 research fellow
ship from the U.S. Department of
Public Health through the National
Institute of Neurological Diseases
and Blindness.
The award is the second such
federal agency fellowship granted
in the department.
Feldman’s award is for study on
the relationships between diets for
poultry that are deficient in Vita
min E and the eye malformations,
cataracts, forms of blindness and
types of paralysis affecting birds
kept on such diets.
Research in the department dur
ing the past two years has estab
lished that lack of Vitamin E may
be responsible for many eye dis
orders and possibly some types of
paralysis in poultry. It is be
lieved that this research will also
have application in the field of hu
man medicine.
Feldman, a native of Angola,
New York, received his master of
science degree from A&M at mid
term. He will, under terms of his
new fellowship, work for at least
a year on Vitamin E research
which will apply to a doctorate de
gree.
require
ment that all recruits take six
months of active duty train
ing. Guardsmen may volun
teer for such a period of
training, but they have not been
required to take it.
Eisenhower said he has “strug
gled to make of the Guard, an
efficient, first line of defense,”
but said:
“It is never going to be the
kind of force we need, until we
get these recruits having at least
six months of good, hard basic
training.
“Now, that is correct, and I
am talking about the training of
the Guard, and I am not pointing
a finger at anyone, and I am sure
Secretary Wilson wasn’t.
“He was short-cutting and mak
ing a very, I think, unwise state
ment, without stopping to think
what it meant, because these men
have not been slackers when they
have entered the military service
in accordance with law.”
The law is that men between
17 and 18% may enlist in the
Guard. So long as they maintain
the standards , required, they are
not subject to the draft. However,
their units may be mobilized for
war duty in event of need, as
happened to many guard units
during the Koregn War as well as
in World Wars I and II.
Wilson told the House Armed
Services Committee Monday:
“It was a sort of scandal dur
ing the Korean War, a draft dodg
ing business. A boy 17 to 18%
could enlist in the National Guard
(See LEGISLATORS, Page 3)
Biology Offers
Microscopy
Next Semester
A course which offers spe
cific guidance in the study of
the ultramicro-world of par
ticles, organisms, macromole
cules, surfaces and instructur-
al details will be available to seniors
and graduate students at A&M
beginning with the spring semester
according to Dr. S. O. Brown,
Biology Department.
Dr. Brown, chairman of the Col
lege Electron Microscope Commit
tee, said a 50,000 volt electrical
microscope valued at more than
$20,000 would be used in the three
hour credit course, Introduction to
Electron Microscopy Practice. The
course, No. 430, is offered through
the Department of Biochemistry
and Nutrition, of which Dr. Carl M.
Lyman is head.
Dr. U. Grant Whitehouse, tech
nical dii-ector of the A&M electron
microscopy laboratories, will teach
the course.
Many heretofore insolvable
problems in solid state physics,
biology, ceramics, medicine, met
allurgy, dairy science, atmospheric
contamination, plant science and
soil science will find solution
through use of electron microscopy
and electron diffraction technique,
Dr. Whitehouse said.
“The potentialities of electron
microscopy are unlimited and al
most every practical physical or
biological scientist should be
familiar with these potentialities
at least, even if he cannot find
time to become well versed in
electron microscopy techniques,”
he said.
Weather Today
General cloudiness, with light
drizzle, fog and possible light rain
showers, is the forecast. Yester
day’s high was 48 degrees, and
the low reading, 44. At 10:30 this
morning the temperature stood at
49 degrees.
Continuous Service Since 1910
Cofer a Natural as Archivist
In 1950, when Texas A. and M. details. It is this remarkable college in his quest for historical
College officials made final pre- ability to recall names, initials material.
parations to establish an archives and events which has proved In the six years since the
office, the selection of David invaluable both to him and to the (See COFER, Page 2)
Brooks Cofer, professor of Eng
lish, to serve as archivist was a
natural one.
Dean of the faculty from point
of continuous service, Cofer came
to A&M in the fall of 1910 when
the campus was a prairie dotted
with a few buildings. He has been
a member of the English Depart
ment ever since.
After the archives office opened
Aug. 1, 1950, a steady stream of
documentary material began to
flow into the quarters established
in the Memorial Student Center and
more arrives every day. All of it
is meticulously indexed and care
fully stored for future reference.
As Cofer works at compiling
historical data dealing with the
establishment and early days of the
college, he is always ready to
pause to greet former students who
drop into the office during visits
to the campus. They invariably
leave amazed at the way he not
only calls them by name, but
actually tells them what seat they
had in his classroom and even
what grade they made in the
course.
A question concerning any im
portant event which has occurred
since his arrival on the campus 47
years ago produces instantly in D. B. Cofer
Gofer’s lucid memory the complete College Archivist
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