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mander Palmer was se nding- officer of 1 Air Patrol by at their first i official outfit. j.' Bognrd, director Guard, Group Sev- Maj. T. W. Gwin, >n office) ; Lt. Col. commander Group swering questions, rwprk and mem- the new members d. ’ is are still unpc- pilots, doctors, rs, journalists, and^ in radio, photo- t mechanics and ople are the types, ese positions. ;rol is the name ilian auxiliary of 3 Air Force. GAP’s sarch for downed interest the com- m. A CAP Cadet organized later as t. The cadet pro- s between 14 and 18, at 7:00 p.m. £ will be held at highway 21, three yan. )fficials A&M iference nual meeting of Association of Administration d the 7th an- of the Texas ntendents con- t annual meet- xas School Ad- iference and the of the Texas As- tructional Super- , will be held here sakers and coord- mferences include n, superintendent r of Los Angeles,4 dent-elect of the ation of School iois M. Clark, De- -al Education ucation A^socia- D.C.; A. T. Dyal, sbyterian church, md J. Free, Ga- schools; A. W. nt public schools rvel. Department ind Psychology, 1 preside at the assembly at 8:45 rial Student Cen- noming. Boyd e Texas Associa- ional Supervisors f Harris county The welcome ad- en by Dr. M. T. .•ellor, A&M Sys- i will be given by 'or Georgia » . (^q?) — Georgia ‘ttermen back for ill schedule which ames with Ken- Method ist, Au- da and Georgia, ts won 10 of 11 on, including a ’ittsburgh in the ksonville. love, honor, have all our 1 at PUS VERS ATTALION Drive Safely Number 2 Volume 57 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1957 Price Five Cents Don’t G Survey Shows Use Counts More By SARAH HENLEY (EDITOR’S NOTE—This article is dedicated to till the people who spend many hours studying.) CHICAGO—A high IQ and long hours of study do not guarantee good grades in college. Results of a survey at Illinois Institute of Technology indicate that it’s the use of study time and not the actual hours spent poring over the books that counts. “And the grades may not bear a close relation to the , amount learned,” says William D. Diemer, Illinois Tech mechmrics instructor, who made the survey. “Personality characteristics, which may not be meas- I urable, may be more impor- -—Off the Cuff What Goes On Here Howard Grubbs, the executive secretary for the Southwest Con ference, was a TCU campus visitor this week. It seems his son, Billy, will eni’oll at TCU next fall. Grubbs, a former all-SWC quartei*- back for the Horned Frogs, was a TCU honor graduate, maintaining a straight-A in geology. Bill, was an honor high school graduate. Sounds suspicious to me Ags! ’ ★ ★ ★ News fillers are a large part of some newspapers. Rather than hunting through The Battalion for *them, here are some ready to be read. A mongoose, a small animal in India, is a deadly enemy to poisonous snakes. Yet, if bitten, }t is not immune to the deadly ef fects of the snake venom. No gold has been minted in the U. S. since 1933. People in the United States are due to spend two billion dollars more for recreation in 1960 than they did in 1950 as a result of ris ing incomes and shorter working hours, reports the Twentieth Cen tury Fund. Russia’s Czar Peter I (1082- 1725) imposed a tax on beards. ★ ★ ★ Bob Shrode of the Genetics De partment tells how science failed him when his mare gave birth to a colt last week. Eleven months ago he gave her a blood test—a sure fire method of predicting preg nancy. The only trouble was the test proved to be negative. ★ ★ ★ The Eternal Question — “What are you this week?” tant in determining a stu dent’s grades than either ability or amount of time spent in study,” he explained. Over a hundred students—repre senting a cross-section of the stu dent body—reported their activities around the clock for a typical one- week period in the school year. Total study time averaged 25.9 hours per week for students with high, medium, and low grade point averages. Freshmen being survey ed spent an average of 20 hours a week in study, sophomores, 30 hours, juniors, 29 hours, and sen iors, 24 hours. Of those who studied more than the average, the grade point averages I’anged from a perfect 4 (A) to a low 1.38 (D+). Those studying less than one hour per hour of credit had grade point averages ranging from 3.88 (A—) to 1.28 (D + ). “In general,” says Diemer, “stu dents who spend more than the average amount of time (1.5 hours per hour of class) studying under estimate study time, and those spending less than the average overestimated time spent study ing.” The correlation between IQ and grades indicated that, even though ability was taken into account, there was little clear relation be tween the two. SUMMER ENTERTAINMENT at The Grove includes nightly movies. Shown collecting tickets oil the far right is W. L. Penberthy, head of the Department of Student Activi ties. lu the foreground ready to get in line is Louis Canant, Baytown accounting major. Males Sul i*er Declared As Blow When Weaker Sex (EDITOR’S NOTE—We are somewhat leery of the facts in this article even though it came from the office of the State De partment of Health.) It may come as a blow to the male ego, but the facts are in escapable: men belong to the weak er sex — outnumbered, outwitted, and outlived by the sturdier female. Are women biologically more re sistant to disease and death than men ? Is the male animal shorten ing his life by greater aggressive ness, greater exposure to stress and disease, or by ignoring the laws of health ? Can anything be done to reduce male mortality? Male birth rates—--106 boys for Infantry Regiment Begins Training With the big responsibility of training recruits from Texas, Ar kansas, New Mexico, and Louis iana, members. of Headquarters and Headquarters Company of the 90th Division’s 358th Infantry Reg iment have started two weeks of summer training at North Fort Polk, La. The units, which are composed of reservists from the Bryan and College Station area, are now training with the 90th, Texas’ only Army Reserve Division, at their annual unit training. July 9^ 10 ‘SmokeyMounta in Plays In Grove “Smokey Mmmtain” is the title of the operetta being presented at the Grove July 9 and 10. Eusebia Simpson Hunkins wrote LITTLE LEAGUERS get a boost from the College Station i Recreation Council with the check Charles Haas is present ing to Jack Fugate (right), president of the local Little League ball club. the operetta and Student Activities is sponsoring it as part of the summer entertainment program for the college. This will be the eleventh summer operetta the col lege has presented. Principal parts are being played by Mrs. Richard Harrison, Miss Camille Kennedy, Miss Pat Me Cloud, Robert Roone, Charles Mit chell, John Paxton, and Harry Gooding. Bill Turner, director of music activities, is the director and Mrs. Joe Barron is assistant dii’ector The sets are being designed and constructed by Mrs. Janet Folweiler and John Lester. Lights are being handled by Harold Zontop. The plot concerns the conflict suffered when a girl has to decide which boy to marry out of two. One boy is the roving type while the other is the consistent type. Students holding student activity cards will be admitted fi’ee. Others will be charged 50 cents per person Weather Today SHOWERS Continued Cloudiness and scat tered afternoon rain showers are forecast. Yesterday’s high and low temperature readings were 92 and 72 degrees. At 10:30 this moi-ning the mercury stood at 81 degrees. each 100 girls—as well as death rates have always been higher than the female rate. It has long been assumed that women are biological ly more resistant to disease, tole rating pain and illness better than men. There are also striking sex dif ferences in causes of death. Lung cancer kills six times more men than women. The male peptic ulcer rate is four times as high, and tubei-culosis and syphilis are twice as high. Three times more men than women commit suicide or are murdered. The old thing is that higher male mortality, compared with females, extends to most animal species as well as to humans. If differences in longevity of men and women were due solely to female biological superiority, the difference in death rate should remain constant. But instead, the CAR Officers Arc Elected At the weekly meeting’ of the College Station - Bryan Civil Air Patrol unit Tuesday evening at Coulter Field, offi cers for the local squadron were elected. Capt. Jack Palmer, commander of the unit, outlined the various po sitions to be filled and the mem bers elected by acclamation the following people. Branson W. Smith, Adjutant and Personnel officer; Robert L. Davis, Operations and training officer; Gnv F. Bovette, communications officer; N. W. Cunningham, pub lic information officer; M./Sgt. Richmond O. Worthey, supply, maintenance and transportation officer and Mrs. Jack Palmer, co ordinator of women’s activities. Offices still vacant include chap lain, legal officer, medical officer and coordinator for civil defense. Each officer selected will receive the CAP rank of first lieutenant after final approval of the selec tion is made by the CAP Wing Headquarters. Statistics Lab Head Speaks To Kiwanis Robert L. Smith Jr., head of the Statistical Laboratory at A&M, was the speaker at the weekly meeting of the College Station Kiwanis Club Tuesday. He spoke about the evolution of computers and the advancements which have been made in the com puter field. Loyd B. Keel introduced the many guests who attended the meeting. Most of the club’s guests were schoolmen here on the campus attending the Texas school admini strators meeting this week. Also guests at the meeting were two of the high school students at tending the five week course ii biology being taught under the supervision of the Scientific En richment program. female death rate has actually de clined moi'e rapidly than the male rate. In 1900 the white American female averaged 1.9 more years of life than her male counterpart. In 1953, she was living 7.2 years .longer than the male. Men are helping shorten their own lives. They have insisted on carrying the greater responsibility and have had to develop aggres siveness to meet that responsibility. Result: more worries, more stress, more contact with disease and physical dangers. Women, on the other hand, are more likely to release pressure through tears, rest when they feel poorly, consult their-- doctor . earl y when ill, and follow medical in structions better than men. Much can be done to reduce ex cessive male mortality. One in vestigator has suggested a nation wide inventory of the physical, mental, and emotional assets and liabilities of men in preparation for intensifying the attack on accidents and occupational diseases and the research iftto cardiovascular di seases and cancer. Ediicalion L c a d e r s Meet Here Texas Schoolers Confer Together By JIM NEIGHBORS Climaxing’ the three day meeting of Texas school admin istrators was the election yesterday of J. Marcus Mason as president of the Texas Association of County Superinten dents, Floyd Parsons as president of the Texas School Administration Officers and Miss Dixie Boyd as president of the Texas Association for Instructional Supervisors. The three groups met jointly during the annual con vention held here Monday through Wednesday. They held general sessions during the mornings. More than 500 Texas schoolmen and women attended the various sessions held in the Memorial Student Center. C. C. Trillingham, superin- 4 tendent of schools, Los An geles County, Calif., gave the opening address to the gen eral assembly Monday morn ing. He is the pi-esident elect of the American Association of School Administrators. He said in his kick-off speech that “education is the hope of youth, youth is the hope of demo cracy, democracy is the hope of America and America what she stands for is the hope of the world.” Lois M. Clark, assistant director, Division of Rural Service, National Education Association, Washington, D. C., listed five functions of a school supervisor in a speech to the group Tuesday morning. WTAW Bids Op en Bids for WTAW were opened this morning and a high bid of $35,257 was read. Hardy C. Harvey and R. E. Lee Glasgow are the new owners. Both men, who are from Waco, are also owners of radio station WACO. They will continue to operate WTAW in College Station. For City Betterment CS Civic Group Holds June Drive The College Station Civic Association is now carrying on its annual membership drive through its membership committee during the remainder of June. The Association is composed of civic minded men and women of the community who are working together on a program of general community betterment. The program also lends support to the pub- CS Lions Club Committee Reports Given Annual reports of the vari ous committees of the College Station Lions Club were given at their weekly meeting held Monday in the Memorial Stu dent Center. Leland Grumbles, club president, gave a report of the various mon ey-making ventui’es the club par ticipated in this year. They net ted about $1,400 from the activi ties. In a breakdown of the figure there was $150 gained from a car nival held at CHS last Winter, $500 from the annual Christmas tree sale, $425 from the Lions Invita tion Boxing Tournament and $34Q from the recent light bulb sale. A. B. Medlen gave a member ship report and told the club there are 42 members of the club, a drop of three since June, 1956. Other reports were given by Sayed Gaafar, chairman of the Boys and Girls Committee; A( Price, chairman of the Program Committee; Charlie Haas, chair man of the ‘Civic* Improvement Committee and Lucian Morgan, chairman of the Education Com mittee. Monday night in .the MSG the local Lions will install new offi cers of the club at a smorgasbord. Veteran Cheeks Korean veterans are advised to complete pay forms for June at the Veterans Advisors Office be ginning Thursday, June ’27. Those who sign up after July 3 may have their checks delayed. He schools, the T-B Survey and blood collection program, the area youth recreation urograms, the Carnegie Li brary Bookmobile as well as other community programs of general interest to all. The Membership Committee now at work include the following mem bers: R. E. Callender, A. C. Magee, James Baty, Robert L. Hunt, J. Gordon Gay, K. A. Manning, L. M. Morgan, O. D. Butler, Mrs. W. H. Delaplane and Victor E. Schember. Other members are -assisting the committee in an effort to reach everyone who will associate them selves with the association and its program of work. The members assess themselves nominal dues to support the budget each year— $5.00 single member and $6.00 per family membership. All present members are request ed to see a member of the commit tee as soon as possible or mail their dues directly to the College Station Civic Association, P. O. Box 1001, College Station. New members are especially welcome and an ef fort is being made to reach those coming into the community with a desire to help in the program. Di rectors Meet A&M’s Board of Directors meet Saturday at the Director’s House | on the campus. LOOKING SAD without good reason are John Longley and Joe Sorrels. The two Kiwanians are leaving Saturday for the Kiwanis International Convention in Atlantic City, N.J.