7'he Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Thursday, May 2, 1957
Big Year Ahead
The new Battalion staff took over yesterday and are
already getting a preview of what their job is going to be
during the 1957-58 school year.
As in the past The Battalion will be playing a major
role in campus and community life and as a result will take
stands on issues which present themselves. Some of the
stands will be popular and others not, but all will be taken
with the best interests of A&M and College Station in mind.
The editorial policy of The Battalion will continue to fol
low closely the statement of principles of Student Publica
tions and all other principles of good journalism.
News coverage will be increased as much as possible to
provide all readers with knowledge of happenings on the
campus and in College Station.
With cooperation from college students and residents of
the city, next year can prove to be one of the best for the
newspaper as well as the readers it serves. — JT
Freshman Orientation
Civilian organization on the campus is rapidly closing
its third year without making any definite plans for Civilian
freshman orientation.
All through ths semester the Civilian Student Council
has been laboring to discover some way to handle the situation
but has not decided on any definite program.
Several plans have been discussed and seemingly left in
mid-air by councilmen. Not one of these, however, was
actually drafted and presented to the Council.
Before the semester is over several plans should be
drafted and presented to the Council for consideration.
Time is rapidly running out. If Civilian leaders don’t insti
gate such a plan the college staff may.
It would be a shame for Civilian students to lose the
opportunity of organizing and planning a freshman program
which they would be executing themselves.
Now is the time to do something about it. — JT
Letters Welcomed
Letters to the editor will be wel- the right not to print a letter if
coined as in the past but due to it is too long or contains profane,
space limitations they should be vulgar or libelous material,
kept short. The editors reserve —JT
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Jordan Forgets
Political Crisis,
Begins Festival
AMMAN, Jordan, (TP). —
Feasting-, frivolity and finery
were the order of the day in
Jordan yesterday.
The political crisis which
rocked the country recently and
which King Hussein says is ended,
appeared forgotten by crowds cel
ebrating the three-day feast that
marks the end of the month-long
Moslem fast of Ramadan.
At dawn, King Hussein headed
a motor procession to a mosque
for prayers. He was saluted by a
guard of honor and met by the
acting ai'my chief of staff, Maj.
Gene Habes Majali, and other-
aides.
Jordan still is under martial
law, but the curfew was lifted to-
ilay for 17 hours from 4 a.m. to
allow Moslems to attend religious
services.
For Hussein it was a busy morn
ing. After the mosque, he visited
the tomb of his grandfather, King
Abdullah. Then, back at the pal
ace, Hussein received a stream of
callers who presented him with
traditional good wishes.
Diplomats visited the palace to
greet the young monarch who was
dressed in the uniform of com
mander in chief of his country’s
armed forces.
U.S. Ambassador Lester Mallory
was first in line.
Hussein also exchanged cables
of congratulations with heads of
all Moslem states.
B. S. Schweigert
Will Speak Here
Dr. B. S. Schweigert, director of
American Meat Institute Founda
tion at the University of Chicago
and former A&M professor, will
give a graduate lecture in the
Biological Sciences Building lecture
room Monday night at 8.
With his topic entitled “Dietary
Fats and Atherosclerosis,” Dr.
Schweigert will discuss causes of
heart disease and evaluate the
existing, but often conflicting, in
formation in this important field.
All interested persons are invited
to attend the talk.
Work On Radar
Fills College Goffer
Tornados that leave a battered
and sometimes bloody trail behind
them have been a wind of good
fortune to several departments at
A&M.
Over $28,000 has been paid to
the college for modifying surplus
U. S. Weather Bureau radar sets,
so the units can be used to track
tornados, storm fronts and weath
er disturbances of all kinds.
Students of the Physics, Me
chanical Engineering and Electri
cal Engineering Departments have
accomplished most of the work.
In 1953 the Texas Radar Tor
nado Warning Network was set
up in 18 cities in Texas, Louisiana
and Oklahoma. The A&M Re
search Foundation agreed to have
surplus radar sets belonging to
the government alerted for use as
weather chasers. The foundation
then farmed out the actual rebuild
ing of the sets.
From this small beginning A&M
has modified sets for use in 26
cities and has contracted for 10
more sets.
The finished units have a range
of 200 miles and are able to track
storms with great accuracy. Warn
ings from half an hour to four
hours are possible with the rebuilt
sets.
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Three Chemists
Attend ACS Meet
Three members of the Chemistry
Department have recently attended
the national meeting of the Ameri
can Chemistry Society held in
Miami, Fla.
Dr. A. F. Isbell, Dr. R. A.
Zingaro and Dr. E. A. Meyers, at
tended the meeting at which
Zingaro and Isbell presented
papers.
Dr. Isbell presented the results
of some investigations he is carry
ing on in organic phosphorous
chemistry in a paper, “Attempted
Synthesis of 1,2- Trimethylpropyl
Phosphonyl Dichloride.”
A description of the theoretical
aspects of a commercial uranium
extraction process was made by Dr.
Zingaro in his paper, “The Extrac
tion of Uranium from Aqueous
Perchlorate Solutions by di (2-
Ethylhexyl) Phosphoric Acid in h-
Hexane.”
$382,000Appropriated
For College Building
Glaze Named Head
Of Interfaith Group
Bob Glaze was elected president
of the Interfaith Council for next
year at the steak-fry meeting helfl
by the Council in Hensel Park
Tuesday night.
Elmer Jacobs was elected vice-
president with the other officers
to be elected next fall at the first
council meeting.
Funds totaling $382,UU0 were ap
propriated Saturday for construc
tion and improvements at A&M
by the Board of Directors of the
A&M College System at their
meeting here Saturday.
Arlington State College receiv
ed a $11,697.75 appropriation and
Tarleton State College was given
$3,200, making the total appropri
ation $396,897.75.
A&M may use $250,000 of the
funds to build 250 new apartments
for married students. Authoriza
tion for drawing up plans for the
housing project was given by the
board. The college now has -456
such apartments.
Chancellor M. T. Harrington
also was authorized to apply for
loan assistance under the Federal
Housing Act of 1950, to build
202 man dormitory at Tarleton at
a cost of $550,000.
A&M’s appropriation includes
$75,000 for the repainting of dor
mitories 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 this
summer. Duncan mess hall will re
ceive a $220,000 remodeling from
the appropriation. Of the funds,
$4,000 is authorized for prelimi
nary plans and application for the
proposed apartment project and
$5,000 will be spent on furniture
for the dean of agriculture’s of
fice in the new dairy and biochem
istry building.
Also, $5,500 was allotted to draw
ings for a proposed continuing ed
ucation building, $10,000 for the
power plant, $12,000 for under
ground construction of electric
lines and $16,000 for remodeling
Nagle Hall.
The U. S. Department of Agri
culture building will receive $40,-
000 for installation of elevators
and renovation and $9,500 will be
used to paint the building.
Plans for a new housing for the
utilities department received $10,-
000 and an equal amount was al
lotted to completion of the dairy
and biochemistry building.
Contracts totaling $58,238 have
been allocated by the directors for
work on the campus. R. B. Butler,
Inc., of Bryan, received a $33,258
contract for streets and sidewalks.
Vance and Thurmond, also of
Bryan, was given a $24,980 for re
modeling of the agronomy labor
atory, Guion Hall and mechanical
engineering shops.
Georesearch Inc., of Freeport, La.,
was awarded an oil-gas and sul
phur lease on 370 acres in Chero
kee County for a bonus of $15 an
acre, one-sixth royalty and $1 a
year rental.
The board also confirmed a con-
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Seating Co., Dallas, for installa
tion of tablet arm chairs in Nagle
Hall.
At the Saturday meeting, the
board also approved four grants
from the fund for the improve
ment of teaching. Dr. John C. Cal
houn, Jr., dean of engineering
made recommendations for the
grants.
John Q. Anderson, associate pro
fessor of English, was authorized
to continue work on collecting
sketches and tales about Texas
which appeared in regional and
national newspapers and maga
zines between 1830 and 1860.
Dr. J. M. Nance, of the History
Department, was given funds to
obtain microfilm and photostatic
copies of material concerned with
“the background and history of
the Texas and Mier Expedition of
1842.”
Lloyd C. Taylor Jr., instructor
of the History Department, was
authorized to inspect the Hopkins
paper in the Alabama state arch
ives for the continuation of study
ing Juliet Opie Hopkins and the
Confederate hospital system.
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