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i \The Battalion College Station (Brazos County)^ Texas IPAGE 2 Tuesday, February 19, 1957 wo Talk Turkey 'Feed At Meeting Three young turkeys and two [A&M poultry scientists are getting the royal carpet treatment at Colo rado Springs, Colo. The occasion is the annual meeting of the Mid west Feed Manufacturers Associa- | tion. The meeting started Sunday and ends today. The turkeys are special guests, being used to demonstrate what a quarter-century of improved feeds can mean in developing better poults. The scientists — Dr. Russell Couch of tjie Departments of Poul try Science and Biochemistry and Nutrition and Dr. B. L. Reid of the Poultry Science Department— are explaining how research has improved poultry rations since 1930. The turkeys were to get full VIP treatment. The birds got a free trip by air to Colorado Springs, a limousine ride down town, quarters at a hotel and ap peared in a parade, a press con ference and Sunday TV program. The trio of turkeys, though all eight-weeks old, differ greatly in sifce, all because of a few ounces of this-and-that in their rations. The smallest one got to fill his Group Still Looking For New Frexy No progress has been reported from Chancellor M. T. Harrington’s committee which is looking for a new president for the college. Members of the searching com mittee are Dr. C. W. Crawford, Dr. Carl Lyman, Acting President D. W. Williams and Harrington. Suggestions are being received by the committee, but “that’s about as far as it has gone,” according to one of the committee members. They are looking for people both on and off the campus. craw with fe6d comparable to that used by turkey raisers in the 30’s. Soaking-wet, the ‘little one’ weigh ed one pound. The middle-sized poult, fed a 1946 diet, tipped the scales at a pound and a half. The super-size model, after feast ing on a ‘new-fangled’ 1956 menu, bears the scales down to four pounds and a half. All birds are of the same breed. “The big boy in the bunch is pretty representative of what com mercial producers expect to get today,” says Dr. Couch. “Now they want a four to four and a half pound bird at eight weeks.” “In 1930 the feed was so defi cient a lot of poults never really got off to a good start by eight weeks. The birds we’re showing at Colorado are a pretty good measui'e of improved feed effi ciency in a quarter-century’s time,” Couch said. “The spectacular increase i n weight with today’s improved feeds is just one of the many ad vantages to producers,” Dr. Couch said. Today’s turkeys get to mar ket faster than those of 1930 and on less feed per pound of gain. At the meeting Dr. Couch is dis cussing developments in turkey feeding formulas at A&M, includ ing- antibiotics and discovery of unidentified growth factors found in dried brewers yeast, dried whey, condensed fish solubles, distillers solubles and alfalfa. The Depart ment of Biochemistry and Nutri tion pioneered in this work. Reservist Speaker Air Force Reservists of the 9807th Air Reserve Squadron of Bryan will have as a speaker next Monday night, Feb. 25, Bill Meredith, Safety Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety. All members of the 9807th are requested to attend this meeting, beginning at 7:30 p. m. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 7:30 P.M. ZS1 ALSO SEVEN BIG ACTS — $2.50, $2.00 & $1.25 TICKETS AT STUDENT ACTIVITIES The Battalion The Editorial Policy of The Battalion Represents the Views of the Student Editors The Battalion, dally newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, la published by students in the Office of Student Publications as a non-profit educational service. The Director of Student Publications la Ross Strader. The governing body of all student publications of the A.&M. College of Texas Is the Student Publications Board. Faculty members are Dr. Carroll D. Laverty, Chairman; Prof. Donald D. Burchard, Prof. Tom Leland and Mr. Bennie Zinn. Student members are John W. Gossett, Murray Milner, Jr., and Leighlus B. Sheppard, Jr., Ex-officio members are Mr. Charles Roeber, and Ross Strader, Sec retary. The Battalion is published four times a week during the regular school year and once a week during the summer and vacation and examination periods. Days of publication are Tuesday throng.. Friday for the regular school year and on Thursday during the summer terms and during examination and vacation periods. The Battalion Is not published on the Wednesday immediately preceeding Easter or Thanksgiving. Sub scription rates are $3.50 per semester, $6.00 per school year, $6.50 per full year, or $1.00 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas, nnder the Act of Con gress of March 8, 1870. Member of: The Associated Press Texas Press Association Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., a t New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Fran cisco. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republi cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. News contributions may be made by telephone (VI 6-6618 or VI- 6-4910) or at the editorial office room, on the ground floor of the YMCA. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (VI 6-6415) or at the Student Publications Office, ground floor of the YMCA. High School Sports Day ’57 Response Is ‘Tremendous ’ Response to the Ninth Annual High School and Sports Day scheduled for March 2 has been tremendous, said T-Association President George Mehaffey. The Office of Student Activities has mailed out over 800 personal letters of invitation to high school students all over the state con cerning the annual event and more Aggie Play ers Portray Life As Pure Luck Aggie Player’s production of “Skin of Our Teeth” will be held March 25-28 in the M.S.C. Ballroom, according to Play Director, Vic Wiening. The 3-act play, by Thornton Wilder, does not use the ordinary plot line said Wiening. It tells the story of an average American family in New 7 Jersey, but with an ice-age setting. The family has pre historic animals for pets. The play portrays how man struggles for survival and usually survives by sheer luck, rather than by intelligence. In short by the “skin of the teeth”. “The play reveals the lumbering, the humorous, the lovable and the foolish,” said Wiening. “It has a serious theme but is a good comedy of ‘down-to-earth’ people, whom we can laugh at,” he concluded. Practice for the play has been in progress for two weeks under the guidance of Wiening and Pro ducer C. K. Esten. Male cast of the play includes Mike Kuick as Antrobus; Duwayne Lundgren as Henry Antrobus; Bill Heard as the announcer; Clyde Adams as Fitzpatrick; Bryan Sim- morns as the Telegraph boy. Broad cast official is played by James Johnson and other members of the cast are Jack Gladwill, Bob Dunn, Jimmy Best, Bill Libby, Don Rey nolds, Alan Coulter and Larry Cahill. Female cast includes Mary Tanguy as Sabina; Ara Haswell as Mrs. Antrobus; Gladys Antrobus as played by Silma Clack and Dianne Todd plays the fortune teller. Delores Schoedel and Gene Logan round out the cast. JIM BOWER Editor Dave McReynolds Managing Editor Barry Hart Sports Editor Welton Jones City Editor Joy Roper Society Editor Leland Boyd, Jim Neighbors, Joe Tindel News Editors Jim Carroll Assistant Sports Editor D. G. McNutt, Val Polk, Fred Meurer, Joe Buser Reporters John West, C. R. McCain Staff Photographers Don Collins Staff Cartoonist George Wise Circulation Manager M&urice OUau CHS Sports Correspondent Weston To Speak In Biology Building Joseph Weston will speak on “T h e Fascinating Adventure”, Thursday night at 8 in the lecture room of the Biological Sciences Building. Weston is a graduate of archi tecture who left a distinguished practice in California to serve as Promotional Director of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association. He is largely responsible for a multi-million dollar annual ex penditure for the promotion of fir plywmod. His presentation is another in a series of guest lectures sponsored by the Division of Architecture. The public is invited to attend. St. David’s Lighthouse in Ber muda, ei’ected in 1879, is made en tirely of stone quarried from the ground around it. — TUESDAY — “TRAPEZE” with BURT LANCASTER —Plus— “BATTLE STATIONS” with JOHN LUND TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY DRAMA OF HALF-CASTE BEAUTY BHOWANI JUNCTION FROM M-G-M IN COLOR AND CINEMASCOPE ■AVA STEWART STACKING j [' TRAVERS are going out each day, says C. G. (Spike) White, of the Office of Student Activities; White says that the names of any high school students who would be interested in the annual event should be turned into the Office of Student Activities located on the second floor of the YMCA. Registration for the visiting high schoolers will get underway for the early arrivals Friday afternoon, March 1, in the Housing Office. Regular registration will take place Saturday, March 2, in Guion Hall lobby. The rest of the morning will be included for a tour of the campus, particularly that department which the prospective student thinks he might like to make his major course of study. Dinner will be served in Duncan and Sbisa Halls and the afternoon will '^he taken up with various ath letic events. At one p. m., Aggie golfers will have a match with Lamar Tech of Beaumont. At the same time, the University of Houston tennis team will meet the Aggies on the main tennis courts. At two p. m. the Aggies baseball team will play the University of Houston at Kyle Field. Two other sports that have been represented in the past, but will not be this Sports Day are Hack and swim ming. Coach Anderson’s trackmen travel to Houston for a triangular meet with Texas University and University of Houston. Coach Art Adamson’s swimmers will be traveling to a meet, too. Sports Day will be ended with an intra-squad Maroon and White football game at 7:30 p. m. on Kyle Field. Tickets for Sports Day that will admit one person to all events are on sale for $1. These may be purchased from any T-Card Holder, Athletic Department, or at the entrance gates. Community Supper Set For March 7 In CS Tickets went on sale today for merchants. the annual College Station com munity supper March 7, presented in the A&M Consolidated Schools gymnasium each year by the A&M Consolidated Mothers and Dads Club. “Tickets for the dinner will be 85 cents for adults and 70 cents for children,” Mrs. Robert Steven son, chairman of the supper, said. “Main course of the dinner will be fried chicken, served by E. J. Peniston of the A&M Dining Hall. Other food will be donated by local Proceeds from the meal will be used to purchase equipment which school tax funds can not provide, Mrs. Stevenson said. Committee chairmen for the sup per include Mrs. R. J. Baldauf, tickets; Mr. and Mrs. Mike Krenit- sky, beverages; George Mountney, chicken; Herb Thompson, publicity; Mrs. W. T. 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