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f The Battalion College Station (Brazos Co unty), Texas PAGE 6 Thursday, January 31, 1957 Ag Experiment Station Receives Two Grants Research in several agricultural fields will be materially assisted, said Director R. D. Lewis of the Texas Agricultural Expei-iment Station when he announced receipt of two grants-in-aid, an extension of a present grant, a gift, and a renewal and a supplement to pres ent grants. The Texas Random Sample Test Committee through Chairman J. H. Quisenberry has made available a grant of $10,000 for the con struction of random sample test facilities at the Poultry Center at College Station. The Central Power and Light Company, Corpus Christi, has made available to the Station a grant of $1,-500 renewing their support of cooperative investigations and demonstrations on grasses and le gumes in the Winter Garden area. Directing the program is Dr. B. A. Perry, superintendent of the Winter Haven Substation. The Chas. Pfizer &. Company, Terre Haute, Indiana, has made an extension of their grant of $2,500 to support studies on un identified growth factors, anti biotics and vitamin A in poultry rations. Dr. J. R. Cou.eh of the Department of Poultry Science is supervising these studies. The Texas Turfgrass Associa tion has extended their grant of $500 to support turf research stud ies being made in the Department of Agronomy under the direction of Dr. E. C. Holt. Three tons of cottonseed meal and a like amount of cottonseed hulls have been presented to the Station by the Plains Cooperative Oil Mill of Lubbock for use in ex perimental work with sheep. Once Now Friendly Miami Duck Dangerous Visitor MIAMI, Fla., (A 5 )—Somewhere in this sprawling city some unsus pecting family is harboring a dangerous visitor. He has a reputation for worming his way into your affections, then showing the true colors of a scoun drel. He is known as Weeper, and he is a psycho. He also is a duck. The addled duck paddled out of the University of Miami student lake a few days ago and made friends with four little boys visit ing the campus with their father. Pop, whoever he is, should have known Weeper was a wacky quacky when he waddled after them, hopped into the car and stuck his head out the window like a dog on a joyride. A university porter who wit nessed the scene reported Weeper appeared delighted with his new- These prices good Thursday, Friday and Saturday, January 31 and February 1 and 2. We reserve the right to limit quantities. ACHIEVEMENT SALE! Now thru Saturday, February 16th FREE! $46,676.65 IN PRIZES! Including: 3 Plymouth Belvederes ($2850) Free groceries for a year for 3 families, given $100 per month in Weingarten’s gift books Plus: 551 other valuable prizes Nothing to buy. Simply register in the lobby of Wein garten’s. For complete details, come to the store of your choice today! 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Mrs. Brandt said Weeper ripped her husband’s best flannel pants, sci’atched his legs and arms, ate a neighbor’s tropical fish, chased their best friends and pecked a sunning visitor through the bottom of a canvas camp chair. “I was crazy about him,” Mrs. Brandt said. “He was fine with our 2-year-old daughter, Debbie, but he didn’t go over so big with my husband. Bob. We bought him when he was just a baby duck last July at a feed store. “Finally it was either Bob or the duck had to go so I took Weeper out to the university lake. He loved to ride in the car and he was so happy on the way over, but he was mad when I left him with all those other ducks.” She returned the next day to see how Weeper was getting along and the porter told her he had “adopt ed” four boys and their father. Trotter Receives M.A. at Princeton Ide P. Trotter Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs. Ide P. Trotter, 4306 Old College Road, Bryan, has received his master of arts degree in chemi cal engineering from Princeton University. He was one of 40 students receiv ing advanced degrees at January commencement exercises at the university. Trotter is a 1954 graduate of A&M, where he was valedictorian of the spring graduating class re ceiving a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering. He enrolled at Princeton Uni versity after winning a National Science Foundation Scholarship in national competition. He plans to continue work on a doctorate degree at Princeton. “I’m afraid they won’t keep him long, either,” she said. “The trou ble is, he takes a dislike to certain people.” You can tell when Weeper doesn’t like you, she added, be cause he flies at you with bill bared and webbed claws flying. “He wraps his claws around your legs and they really cut. You should see poor Bob’s legs,” Mrs. Brandt said. Weeper also dislikes cars. “He chases them like a dog-only he flies around them and zooms at the driver like a dive bomber,” she said. Neighbors who like to work in their gardens also should beware. Weeper delights in catching some one stooping over. AEG Fellowship Offered to Aggies The Atomic Energy Commission has announced its new special fel lowship program in Nuclear En ergy Technology. These fellow ships cari’y a basic stipend of $1800 plu^ $350 for a spouse and $350 each for up to two children. Normal tuition, fees and a tra vel allowance of six cents a mile is also included. Students who hold bachelor’s degrees in chemistry, engineering, mathematics or physics and who have completed a course in ordi nary differential equations are eli gible to apply. A&M is one of 27 institutions in the U. S. at which such fellow ships may be held. The deadline for filing applications is Feb. 15. Application forms are available in the office of the Graduate School. The historic Australian plane, The Southern Cross, in which Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm, James Warner and Harry Ly on made the first trans-Pacific flight in 1928, is being preserved as a national memorial in a special building in Brisbane. Court Inverts Decree About Parr’s Status SAN ANTONIO GP>—George B. Parr, who Tuesday was convicted of theft of Benavides School Dis trict funds, won a decision in the Fourth Court of Civil Appeals here yesterday in his fight to be declared sheriff of Duval County. The courf reversed a decision of the district court of Duval County in dismissing an injunc tion and mandamus suit in which Parr sought to be installed as sheriff, Amando Garcia Ji’. as county clerk, and Felipe Valerio Jr. as county commissioner of Precinct 4. The suit was brought against County Judge Daniel Tobin and other Duval County officials who had refused to certify the three as winners in an election. In an opinion written by Chief Justice W. O. Murray in which the Duval district court order of dismissal was reversed and the case remanded for trial, it was stated that from the records of the case it was presumed that citations were not duly served on the defendants, and that the case was not regularly set for hearing on its merits when the district judge rendered his decision. The dismissal came only nine days after the suit was filed, it was noted, and it was recalled that a previous appellant court ruling had held that such time would be insufficient to rule on the merits of the case, and the district judge erred in dismissing the case so hastily, the opinion said. Parr was elected sheriff of Duval County in the November election. IT S FOR REAL! -at by Chester Field THOUGHT If a centaur married a mermaid fair. What kind of children would she bear? Would they have hide or would they have scales? Would they have hooves or long fishy tails? Would they eat seaweed or would they eat hay? It’s one of the problems of the day. 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