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Physics School
Holds Teachers
Summer Session
Aggie-Ex 3 s Named
^Teacher of Year’
W. A. Mayfield, head of Indus
trial Arts at Snyder high school,
was named “Imdustrial Arts
Teacher of the Year” in Texas at
More Pay For Professors
Is Outlook, Says Official
TKe Battalion College Station {Brazos County}, Texas
Tuesday, March 19, 1957 PAGE 3
Detroit Plant Fire
Burns 21 Workers
House Knocks Cox
For Bad Conduct
Thirty high school science
teachers from all over Texas
are expected for the second
annual summer Institute for
Physics to be held concurrent
with the first summer-school ses
sion, according to Dr. J. G. Pot
ter, Physics Dept. head.
Selection of the teacher-students
will be on the basis of letters of
recommendation and previous col
lege work with at least six hours
of college physics prerequisite for
consideration. Scholarships of
about $250 will be given to teach
ers selected for the six-week phy
sics seminar.
Program for the physics teach
ers’ seminar will be directed to
ward improvement in the teaching
of physics in Texas high schools.
Classes, demonstrations and dis
cussions on classical as well as
the Ninth Annual Industrial
Teacher conference held recently
at A&M.
Mayfield, a graduate of the In
dustrial Education Deptartment at
A&M, was selected from a field of
10 candidates representing the 10
area clubs in the state. The sej~
lection represents approximately
700 industrial arts teachers in
Texas.
modern physics will be .led by
regular physics department in
structors and by visiting scien
tists.
Approximately $6,500' of the
scholarship fund has been raised.
Industrial companies interested in
Texas technical manpower are con
tributing the scholarships. Potter
said.
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Greater appropriations and
higher salaries for Texas tax sup
ported colleges and universities
arrj the outlook for the near future,
according to Dr. Ralph T. Green,
c’/ii’ector of the Texas Commission
•on Higher Education, who spoke to
the A&M chapter of the American
Association of University Profes
sors Friday night.
He was speaking at the annual
dinner of the AAUP which marked
the twentieth anniversary of the
founding of the chapter.
“I wws told this morning that
the bill passed today by the House
calls for $95 million,” Green said.
As director of the commission
he is responsible for coordinating
the work of 16 senior colleges and
two junior colleges, including the
A&M system. “That looks very
good when you consider that only
$95 million was requested.”
Salary increases of 15 per cent
for the school year beginning
September 1, and 20 per cent for
the following year have been re
commended by the Commission.
Green said he believed it is quite
Voting Machine
Planned for Use
In Class Votes
Aggies voting in the April
10 class elections will have
something in store for them
as they become the first A&M
students to vote on a mechan
ical voting machine in a campus
election.
Four voting machines were do
nated to A&M as a gift of the
class of ’56 and will be ready for
use in the upcoming elections, ac
cording to W. D. (Pete) Hardesty
of the Student Activities Depart
ment. Hardesty said that although
other colleges rented machines,
A&M was the only college he
knew which owned its own.
Voting on the new machines
will be entirely secret. Voters
make their choice of candidates
by pressing a lever over the name
they wish to vote for. No names
are signed to the ballot. In fact,
the voters never see their ballot.
Hardesty said instructional vot
ing machines will go on display in
the Office of Student Activities
this week and remain until the
elections. He urged that students
come by the office and view the
machines and learn how they work.
Grand Jury Indicts
Two Union Veeps
WASHINGTON, (^)—A federal
grand jury yesterday indicated two
Teamsters Union vice presidents
and two lesser Teamsters officials
on charges of contempt of Con
gress.
The vice presidents indicted
were Einar O. Mohn of Washing
ton, top administrator of the 1%-
million member union under Pres
ident Dave Beck, and Frank W.
Brewster, Seattle, who is also
chairman of the 11-state Western
Conference of Teamsters.
The indictments came during a
recess in hearings of the Senate
committee investigating alleged
racketeering in labor and indus
try.
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Will Interview Students on March 21 and 22
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reasonable that the Legislature
will approve or possibly even raise
these figures.
Power Plant
Increases
Electric Load
A new addition is being
made to the A&M power plant
where the 4,700 kilowatts ca
pacity will be “effectively”
doubled, according to T. R.
Spence, manager of physical
plants.
This means that lights can be on
in the mess halls and in various
buildings around the campus at
the same time. Previously lights
had to be turned off in the dorms
and other buildings when the mess
hall was in use.
The digging taking place beside
the plant and across the street
next to the “shacks” is just part
of a million dollar improvement
being done, Spence said. The exca
vation work is taking place so all
ground water can be channeled to
storm sewers without flooding the
basement of the power plant.
The hew building is being made
so that drainage is needed and
the transportation for the water
will be carried by 36 inch pipes.
The road should be open for travel
in about two weeks and the main
part should be finished by October.
“A&M’s electrical capacity has
caught up with itself and the
time for improvement is at hand,”
Spence said.
Swine Course Set
Plans are now being made for
the Annual Swine short course to
be held here on May 6 and 7. The
course, which is held through the
co-operation of the A&M College
System, Texas Agricultural Exper
iment Station, Extension Service
and the Texas Swine Breeders As
sociation, fill feature T. D. Tanks-
ley, Animal Husbandman with the
Extension Service, as chairman.
Established as a temporary
group in 1954, the Commission was
made a permanent group in 1955
with 15 members and was formaly
organized less than a year ago.
It operates with an annual budget
of $74,000.
A six-point program includes the
three major factors for early
action of the teaching program,
finances and uniform reports. (
“One of our troubles is that no
one really knows or has a clear
picture of what is being done or
what is offered by our schools,”
Green said. “Our staff is working
rapidly to get this information.”
One representative from each of
the schools and one from each
multiple school system work with
the commission in an advisory
capacity. Chairman of the commis
sion’s program* committee is Dr.
John Paul Abbott, former dean
of A&M on leave of absence.
The Commission this year con
centrated on salary studies since it
was organized too late to effective
ly prepare a complete program of
recommendations for the Legisla
ture. Every school under its pro
gram reported salaries as the
major pi'oblem. By every basis of
comparison, each school was found
to be near the bottom, or at best
below the national average.
Kan. Mother Wins
16 Tons of Pennies
WICHITA, Kan. CP>—First prize
of 16 tons of pennies, coming to
$48,400 cash, and 16 tons in gro
ceries was won yesterday by Mrs.
Jimmie E. Willis in a national
jingle contest.
The 25-year-old mother of two
children was notified of her win
nings at the grocery store where
she shops. Hei~ husband is a ma
chine operator in a plane parts
plant here.
She will get the groceries over
a five-year period, but the money
comes in a lump sum in which
Uncle Sam is expected to share
liberally through taxes.
DETROIT, UP)—A paint spray
booth exploded last night at Ford
Motor Co.’s Rough plant, the larg
est industrial installation in the
world.
The blast and the brief fire that
followed sent at least 21 persons
to hospitals with burns, fractures
and bruises. A company spokes
man said he understood some were
hurt seriously, and two were
critical.
Cause of the explosion was not
known immediately.
The explosion knocked out 500
feet of one wall of the building
that housed the paint spray booth.
About one-quarter of the building
was damaged, the spokesman
estimated, and the facility was
put out of working order.
About 2,000 persons were work
ing in the building at the time of
the explosion.
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the Wagons”
FESS PARKER
— Also —
“Stormy”
LAST DAY
“Flesh & the Spur”
JOHN AGAR
— Also —
“Naked Paradise”
RICHARD DENNING
AUSTIN —The House yes
terday censured James E. Cox af
ter a special bribery investigation
committee reported the former
legislator was beyond the reach
of possible expulsion or impeach
ment action.
By a voice vote—with a scat-
ering of “noes”—the House ap
proved the committee’s findings
that Cox had been guilty of con
duct “unbecoming a member” and
“such conduct was unjustifiable up
on any principle of sound, honor
able and representative govern
ment.”
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