™ BATTALION
Number 1 Volume 57
Off the Cuff-
What Goes
On Here
Robert B. Kamm, dean of Student
Personnel Services and the Basic
Bivisipn, leaves Saturday for
Florida State University, in
Gainesville, to give a series of
lectures at a personnel services
workshop. He is presently serving
as president of the American Col
leges Personnel Association.
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A note from the Houston Aggie
Dingbat on Aggie recruiting . . .
“If you have a good prospect, just
send his name and data up to Coach
Paul Bryant and let him do the
contact work. Lavish entertain
ment, which can be as much as a
hamburger, could get us right back
in the doghouse again. So let’s
be careful in any dealings with
prospective Aggie Athletes.”
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And still another note from the
Dingbat. . . . “The Office of the
Commandant at A&M has asked
that Aggie Ex’s donate your old
green blouses and pink slacks to
the Cadet Corps so that our distinc
tive uniform can be retained. The
f Air Force will furnish only blue
uniforms from now on, so unless
we can come \ip with enough of the
greens the Corps will be wearing
1 both blues and greens.” Anybody
for hand-me-downs?
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The following item was clipped
from the Dal-Aggie, the official
weekly publication of the Dallas
A&M Club. Their reaction to
A&M’s being lifted from the NCAA
probation was “we stared in dis
belief, as a child stares at his first
full size bicycle under the Christ
mas tree, for it is more than we
could imagine to be free and un
tainted in our athletic programs
at Aggieland.” It’s not so hard to
take!
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, June 13, 1957
Price
Five, Cents
4-H Round tip
Closes Tod
Delegates
THIS IS ONLY A SMALL part of the 2,000 4-H Clubbers gathered here on the campus
this week. It seemed as if most of the others were either in the MSC or walking around
the streets.
Milk Industry Leader Says
Problem Lies in Marketing
Shrode Tells
Kiwanis How
NIRA Started
Bob Shrode told the College
Station Kiwanis Club Tuesday
about the National Intercol
legiate Rodeo Association and
how it was started at A&M.
He showed the members of the
luncheon club films taken of ro
deos at several schools in the
southern district of the associa
tion.
Vickie Blankenship, one of the
high school biology students at
tending summer school here, spoke
to the group and told them about
the program that enables outstand
ing high school students to receive
advanced training in several col
leges in the Southwest.
Under the direction of Tony
Sorenson, the group sang several
songs. » . , .
The solution to the nation’s “sur
plus” milk problem lies in maidcet-
ing our abundance rather than in
limiting our production, a milk in
dustry leader recently said.
The spokesman, C. Raymond
Brock of New Haven, Conn., presi
dent of the Milk Industry Founda
tion (an international. association
of fluid milk processors and dis
tributors) came but against pro
posals to place quotas upon the
amounts of milk that dairy farm
ers may be allowed to produce. He
pointed out that our present excess
of milk production over milk con
sumption would be eliminated if
each person in the United States
could be encouraged to increase his
milk use by only two ounces per
day, on the average.
Mr. Brock spoke at a special
“milk industry” luncheon meeting
of the New Haven Kiwanis, at
which members of the Board of
Directors of the Milk Industry
Foundation were the guests of
honor. The Board is holding its
annual spring meeting this week
at Pine Orchard, Conn.
“Like some other foods, the U.
S. production of milk has, in re
cent years, exceeded the nation’s
consumption of milk apd dairy pro
ducts,” he said. “Thus, we are
said to have over-production of
milk. Consequently, we have heard
in recent months of proposals for
limiting production, for placing
quotas on the amounts of milk
that farmers may be allowed to
produce; just as quotas have been
placed upon tobacco, wheat, and
cotton.
Local Trio Give
Recital In MSC
“But, I say to you, the solution
of the problems does not lie in
artificial limitation of production;
nor in having the goveimment raise
prices to artificially high levels,
at the taxpayers’ expense.
“The solution lies, instead, in en
couraging the efficient dairy farm
ers to do an even more efficent
job of producing milk at the low
est possible cost, but with a rea
sonable return for their investment
in land, buildings, equipment and
labor. And the second part of the
solution lies in marketing this
abundance, rather than in eurtail-
ng the supply. For the sad fact
is, despite America’s prosperity and
unprecedented level of living, one-
fourth to one-third of our people
still have inadequate diets. And
the deficiencies in their diets can
be made up, to a large extent, by
a gi’eater consumption of milk and
dairy products.”
Mrs. .Too Barron, Miss Anita
Mowery, and Charles Mitchell are
giving a recital Sunday June 17,
at 3 p. m. in the Memorial student
Center.
Mrs. Barron, music graduate of
Texas State College for Women,
is a voice teacher in Bryan. She
has sung leads in many A&M
operettas and is now assistant di
rector of operettas.
Anita, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
I. C. Mowery of GOG Fairview, is
Local Lions
Hear Dewey
On Legislature
Brownrigg Dewey, repre
sentative to the state Legisla
ture from Brazos County,
spoke to the College Station
Lions Club Monday about the
accomplishments of this year’s
House.
Carl Lyman presided at the
weekly luncheon meeting and in
troduced Dewey to the group. The
representative then told the group
what he considered to be the ma
jor achievements made by the
House of Representatives and the
State Senate.
Dewey said he believed the pay
raise for teachers was the most
important item passed by the leg
islature and he considered the re
organization of the State Insurance
Board next in importance.
He went on to explain some
thing about the new workmen’s
compensation bill and told the
group the weekly allotment was
raised from $25 to $35 per week.
Dewey said that, of the 1,442
bills presented before the legisla
ture, 51G were passed and there
were 68 proposed constitutional
amendments.
Dr. Don Davis gave a 1’eport of
the light bulb sale put on by the
local club and said the group sold
almost 90 bags over their quota.
On June 24, the group plans a
ladies night and smorgasbord.
2,000 A ttend
Annual Meeting
Today two thousand 4-TT delegates, contestants and vis
itors, who attended the annual Texas 4-H Roundup here,
leave their meetings and head for home.
The grand opening for this year’s Roundup was held at
8 p. m. in the G. Rollie White Coliseum launching the “People-
to-People Partnership” program throughout 4-H Club work
in Texas.
A film featuring President Eisenhower’s related mes
sage was a highlight of the evening program, and the key
note speech was presented by director G. G. Gibson. The
evening continued with the State Share-the-Fun Festival,
presented under the direction of Lucille Moore, extension
♦■recreation specialist.
Closing the program, was
the accompanist for the A&M Con
solidated Choir. She studies piano
under Mrs. J. B. Baty of College
Station. In 1956 she won a first
place medal, a cash award, and an
honorable mention medal.
“For the past four years I’ve
played in the National Guild of
Piano Teachei’s. Each year I’ve
won a National Superior rating,” partment.
said the 14 year-old piano player.
She has studied music for nine
years.
Charles Mitchell, a Graceland
College graduate fi’om Iowa, has
sung in some of A&M’s Operettas.
He has one of the leads in this
summer’s production of “Smoky
Mountain.”
Mrs. Barron will open the pro
gram with the selections “When I
Have Sung My Songs” by Charles,
“Zegeuner” by Coward and “A
Little Bit of Heaven” by Ball.
Anita will perform next with
her selections of “Etude opus 10
Number 12” by Chopin, “Lotus
Land” by Scott, “Pinnocchio” by
Bellini, and “Fantastic Dance Num
ber Three’ by Shostakovitch.
Mitchell will follow with “Every
body’s Got a Home” by Rogers,^
“Water Boy” by Robinson and
“Desert Song” by Romberg.
Last of the program will be Mrs.
Barren and Mitchell in three duets.
They are “They Didn’t Believe Me,”
“The Song Is You” by Kerr and
“It’s a Grand Night for Singing”
by Roger.
Scientific Program
Conducted Here
Outstanding high school biolog
ists from various schools of the
state are attending A&M for an
enrichment program under Dr. C.
C. Doak, head of the Biology De-
Anita Mowery
REV. JAMES ARGUE, the new minister for the A&M
Methodist Church, preaches his first sermon this Sunday.
It is entitled “The House of Faith.”
Reverse Twist
LANDER, Wyo. ((A 5 ))—Chasing
an officer can be just as costly as
when they chase you.
James Gazewood was fined $30
for speeding after Patrolman Rex
Minshall testified Gazewood fol
lowed him at 80 miles an hour
while the patrolman was rushing
to an emergency.
Texas Reserves
Begin Training
Texas’ only Army Reserve Divis
ion, the 90th Infantry, begins two
weeks of summer training Satur
day.
Sponsored by the Fund for the
Advancement of Education, the
Scientific Enrichment Program will
last for five weeks. During that
time the 24 students will take two
overnight trips. One trip will be
to San Antonio and the other to
the Galveston, Houston area.
While at A&M the students will
begin biological projects which will
he entered in the National Science
Fair next spring. The students will
stvidy biological methods in panel
discussions under the supervision of
Doak and various guest speakers.
Lectures, film studies, field trips,
and museum visits are all part of
the program.
Similar programs are being con
ducted at other colleges and uni
versities in the state. Math pro
grams are in progress at Southern
Methodist University and Rice In
stitute, chemistry at Texas Uni
versity and physics at Texas Tech.
These programs were established
by the Ford Foundation. This is
the first year A&M has entered
such a program.
Twelve selected schools received
letters asking for their outstanding
biology students. One year of high
school biology and an I.Q. of 120
or better was required before a
student could become eligible for
consideration. Their own teachers
made the selection, limiting it to
a school wide choice.
Houston Pastor
Named By CS
Methodists
Reverend James B. Argue
of Houston will take over the
pastorate of the A&M Metho
dist Church Sunday June 16,
relieving Rev. Nolan R.
Vance.
Rev. Argue was born in Tulsa,
Oklahoma in 1921. He received
a Bachelor of Arts degree from
DePauw University in Greencastle,
Indiana. He is a member of Sig
ma Nu and Pi Sigma Alpha fra
ternities and president of Houston
DePauw Alumni Club. His grad
uate work was done at Southern
Methodist University and the Uni
versity of Houston.
Rev. Argue entered the Metho
dist ministry in 1947 and has serv
ed the pastorates of Arcadra, Alta
Loma, Tenarha, and Foster Place
Methodist Church in Houston. The
past five years have been spent at
the Foster Place church.
The former Ann Bourland of
Galveston and Rev. Argue were
married in Bryan in 1948. Mrs.
Argue was born in Vernon, Texas,
and is a graduate of Texas Univer
sity.
Rev. Argue has two children;
James B. Jr. and Marsha Lynn.
James Jr. is five years old and
Marsha is two.
While in college, Rev. Argue let
tered in football and was a track
trainer. He was also manager of
the college radio station.
His first sermon in the A&M
Methodist Church will be on “The
House of Faith.’
a candle lighting service em
phasizing the spiritual side of
4-H Club work, or the Heart
H”.
Developing their “Roundup”
theme, “People-to-People Partner
ship,” county delegates, adult
leaders, and county extension
agents exchanged ideas and set up
new goals in six different discus
sion groups: The role of the 4-H
citizen, 4-H in civil defense, 4-H
in group action, 4‘-H in agriculture,
home economics and related sub
jects, improving people to people
communications, and fitting 4-H
into farm and home development.
At the same time, district con
testants were engaged in competi
tion in 20 contests in various pha
ses of agriculture, home econom
ics, and related subjects.
A reunion tea was held in the
Ballroom of the Memorial Stu
dent Center. This is also an an
nual affair planned for 4-H mem-
bei’s and others having pai’ticipa-
ted in special activities such as 4-H
Junior Leadership Laboratory,
Texas 4-H Council, National 4-H
Club Camp, Danforth Leadership
Camp, and National 4-H Club Con
gress. Members of the 4-H Recog
nition Committee and extension
headquarters staff also attended.
An old-fashioned chuckwagon
barbecue Wednesday evening, cli
maxed the conclave. Because of
rain, the barbecue was held under
the stadium stands. The barbecue
was sponsored by the Texas 4-H
Recognition committee. Special en
tertainment provided by the cour
tesy of the Sears Roebuck Founda
tion followed introductions of A&M
System personalities and com
ments by Chancellor M. T. Har
rington.
On that date, 4800 Texans com
posing the 90th move into Fort
Polk, La., where they will train
this year.
The Division has nearly doubled
in size since 1955, the first year it
went to camp under its present
Commanding General, Brigadier
General Earl Rudder. 2500 men at
tended summer training that year.
Weather Today
SHOWERS
Widely scattered thundershowers
are forecast for this aftexmoon.
Yesterday the mercury rose to 93
degi'ees, with the low this morning,
75. At 10:30 a. m. the temperature
was back up to 83 degrees.
IT HAPPENS EVERY YEAR—tearing down steps that
is. This time Mitchell Hall is getting the business. Soon
all the residents of Mitchell will need is a new dormitory
to sit behind the steps, if new ones are being built.
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