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THE BATTA m ION Number 3 Volume 57 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1957 Price Five Cents PROOI POSITIVE that some of the 142 female students who enrolled a month aim are stm here is shown above From left to right are Jim Carrell, Carol Conway, Jean McQueen, Llanchard Lenoir, Mary Ann McClure, Diane Harris and Carol Oliver. (lompevisation Aci Affects A&M System Workman’s compensation in re gard to employes of the A&M System has been changed by a recent act of the Texas Legisla ture and now affects many more people working for the college. The new act extends coverage to every person “employed by the System whose name appears on the payroll, except clerical and office employes not required by their duties to travel or work away from their offices.” All em ployes covered by the bill are re quired by the System to have a ^physical examination piior to July 1, the effective date of the bill. •I -avis Heads Nat. Society For Third Term Dr. W. B. Davis, head of the Department of Wildlife Management at A&M, has been reelected to his third term as president of the American Society of Mammalo- gists. This honor, paid only one other man during the society’s 38-year history, occurred during the soc iety’s annual meeting at Law rence, Kansas. (The other man so honored was Dr. K. W. Nelson, former chief of the U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey, during 1921- 23.) , . . The American Society of Mam in alogists is international in scope. At the Lawrence meeting nearly 200 members participated, and representatives from Den mark, West Germany, France, In dia, Cuba, Trinidad, Mexico, Can ada and the U. S. appeared on the program. Highlight of the meeting was a series of discussions on bats, particularly with reference to their habits and relationship to rabies. By banding thousands of Guano bats—the species most commonly involved in rabies, and most closely associated with man because of its habit of roosting in buildings—workers in Okla homa, Texas and Mexico have shown conclusively that the spe cies migrates to Mexico in the fall and returns northward in spring to reproduce, as 'do many birds. Consequently, any effect ive program of controlling rabies in this species, the Society con cluded, must be international in scope. Weather Today SHOWERS Forecast calls for scattered thundershowers this afternoon. Yesterday the mercury reached a ^ high of 94 degrees, and last night’s 1 low was 73. At 10:30 this morning the temperature was 80 degrees. “Clerical and office employes” are defined as clerks, accountants, secretaries, stenographers, office equipment operators and others whose primary assignment can be accomplished while working in doors. “To travel or work away from their offices” is defined as those workers who make a usual prac tice of official travel of work away from their regular offices or place of work. Workers re quired to deliver payrolls "or fis cal matters to the fiscal office would not be considered traveling or working away from their office. However, a person employed un der an Agriculture Experiment Station required to make bank deposits, for example, in a local bank several miles away from the A&M Professor Attends A SEE Dr. W. E. Street, head, Engi neering Drawing Department, pre sented a paper on “Full and Effec tive Utilization of Laboratory Staff and Facilities,” at the recent meet ing of the American Society for Engineering Education, held at Ithaca, New York. He served on the nominating committee for officers of the Draw ing Division and as a member of the committee charged with select ing the person to receive the dis tinguished service award for the Drawing Division of the ASEE at Cornell. substation would ]be subject to the provisions of the bill. An employe of the System who fails the examination shall exe cute in writing a waiver of com pensation coverage and be al lowed to continue in his present employment. Prospective em ployes, or those who enter the service of the System after July 1, will be required to submit them selves to a pre-employment phys ical examination and be certified ■as irhysicalljr fit to perform the duties of their assignments. Those prospective employes who fail the examination may al so execute a waiver in writing of compensation coverage and with the approval of the chancellor based on a recommendation of the president or directoi’ concerned may be employed. Regular em ployes of the System not on pay roll during the summer should arrange to take a physical exam ination prior to their return to payroll status. The Board of Directors of the A&M College is authorized to re quire, as a condition of employ ment, all employes except those who are paid on a piece-work basis, or on any basis other than by the hour, day, week, month, or year, to acquire protection un der a group life and accident in surance plan approved by it. Dr. C. R. Lyons of the College Hospital has requested that all examinations be done by appoint ment. Appointments may be made for physical examinations by calling VI G-4704. CS Places Second In State Fine Arts College Station received second place in the Second Annual Citation Exhibition of the Texas Fine Arts Association June 23 at Laguna Gloria Art Gallery in Austin. Forst place in this series of Regionals went to Fort Worth as having the best exhibit submitted from any single region in the state. Lubbock received third place. Individual Awards of the College Station Region: • First: Emalita Newton Tei’ry, “Dam Construction.” Second: Elam L. Denham, “Wash Day.” Third: Joseph Donaldson, Jr., “Backyard Landscape.” Fourth: Hazel Naylor “Ambi tion.” Fort Worth in winning First Dlaee holds for a year a handsome stoneware head of a “Poetess” by Charles Lhulauf, internationally known sculptor. The sculpture will be placed in a public gallery in Fort Worth and designated with a copper plate as an award this year for entering the best selection Cooling Tower Tire Endangers Building of art from all participating re gions in the state. Next year the same sculpture will be awarded to the winner of the 1958-59 com petition, and at the end of the third year it becomes the property 5f any region winning it twice, or in the case of three winners, de cision will be made by drawing. A second work of art, painting or sculpture, will be offered in 1959-GO to be won again over a three-year period. Exhibits Horn various regions of the state comprise the Citation Exhibition in Austin. These have been selected from large regional shows in which all artists in areas have been invited to enter. The shows are judged locally and win ning paintings, sculptures and crafts sent to Austin for display during the summer. The Citation Exhibition has gained ground in number of entries and quality of exhibits and promises to bring an increasing number of participants each year. (See CS PLACES, Page 2) Grove Musical Scheduled For July 9 Show “Smokey Mountain”, the operetta sponsored by Stu dent Activities as part of the summer entertainment p r o- gram, will be held July 9 and 10 in The Grove. Director Bill Turner announced the lead singers to be Ann Harrison as “Jess”, Robert Boone as “George”, Harry Gooding as “Grandpa”, John Paxson as “Ben”, Camille Kennedy as “Aunt Sary”, Pat McCloud as “Arabella” and Charles Mitchell as “Andy”. Martha Amis, Ann Hite, Ellen Howell, Jackie Lane, Judy Massie, Sue Ellen Mowery, Carol McCul lough, Eve Porter and Caroline Wilson are members of the girls chorus. Members of the boys chorus are W. F. (Toby) Hughes, Tom Ivey, Raymond Leighman, Larry Leighton, Bob Pate, Richard Moore, Tommy Porter, Justin Kidd, John Hamner. Orchestra members are Mrs. George B. Adams, Mi’s. Ross Strader, Miss Beatidce Luther, Jerry Cox, James McDonald, Joe Lowe, Sammy Pate, Claire Rogers, Johnny Holiek, Kathryn Gould and Melvin Eisner. Directors are Bill Turner and Billie Jean Barrom Sets aremmng made through the help of Janet Folweiler, John Lester, Harold Zontop and Gene Riggs. Veteran Checks Korean veterans are advised to complete pay forms for June at the Veteran Advisor’s Office beginning today. Those who sign up after noon, July 3, may have their checks delayed. $1,000 Damage In Freak Blaze By JIM NEIGHBORS A freakish fire which broke out in the cooling tower by the power plant yesterday afternoon caused about $1,000 damage to the tower and could have spread to the new tower being built adjacent to the old one except for the quick ac tion of the college fire department. Even though the wall of the new cooling tower was scorched, no serious damage was reported to the new addi tion. The fire broke out in the only dry section of the tower and was confined to one corner of the structure. P lames licked through the thin wall of the tower, while tons of water thundered throughout the edifice. The cool- headed volunteer firemen worked in the near suffocating ♦quarters immediately below top of the building to Lions Install New Officers Installation of officers by the College Station Lions Club was the main order of busi ness at a Monday night smor gasbord dinner held in t h e Memoi’ial Student Center. Charles Haas was installed as president of the club for the 1957- 58 year. Other new officers in clude Dave Fitch, first vice presi dent; George Huebner, second vice president; S.M. Gaafar, secretary- treasurer; John Watkins, assistant secretary-treasurer; Bob Foster, tail twister; Andy /York, assistant tail twister; R. A. McCaulley, lion tamer and Ed Svendsen, assistant lion tamer. Other activities at the installa tion dinner, which was also a “ladies night”, included the recog nition of the members who had 100 per cent attendance during the year, a key award for Ed Rodgers for bringing in new members and a short speech by outgoing president L. C. Grumbles, who gave a re view of the previous year. the fight the fire. With water pouring throughout the tower, the firefighters had to string fire hoses up to the top of the 80-foot struc ture in order to pour their own brand of firewater on the con flagration. No apparent cause for the fire has been determined as yet. The flames were held in one section of the tower—the top eight feet of the structure. Reasonably enough, the fire could go no further down as water completely soaked the rest of the tower. It is feasible to assume that the flames could have spread across the top of the building and done considerably more damage than was accrued. ■ Quick action by the fire department on the very warm day kept it from becoming a lot hotter in the region of the cooling tower. Pail Gesture SEPT-TLES, Que., (JP)—A citi zen angered because the municipal collectors overlooked his garbage, loaded the refuse in his car, drove it to the city hall and dumped it on the front steps under the eyes of a tolerant policeman. Much Other Business Board Approves WTAW Sale At Saturday Meeting By GARY BROOKS Sale of WTAW, A&M’s own radio station, was approved Satur day by the Board of Directors. Hardy C. Harvey and R. E. Lee Glasgow, of Waco, purchased the college radio station. Harvey is the president of the Harvey Advertis ing Co. of Waco. Glasgow is part owner of Station WACO in Waco and full owner of station KAND in Corsicana. Operations are to be continued in the Bryan-College Station area. However the studios must be moved from the System Administration Building within 90 days. The site for the transmitter has been leased for five years. Other actions taken hy the Board include the approval of three re quests for leaves without pay of members of the faculty of Prairie View A&M College. Rosalyn Richardson, instructor of Spanish, was gi’anted leave of absence from September 1, 1957, to May 31, 1958, for the purpose of doing graduate study at New York University. George Sinkler, instructor of history, was granted leave for the same period to do graduate study at Columbia Uni versity, and Don White, instructor of music was given a leave of the same duration for graduate studies at the University of California. Acceptance of $71,435.37 in funds for fellowships, scholarships, grants-in-aid and special gifts to parts of the System was also ap proved by the Board. Of the total, $49,977 was ac cepted for the Texas Agriculture Experiment Station. This money represents funds from private sources to support 2G research pro jects in agriculture, and two gifts of agricultural equipment. A&M received a total of $21,338.- 37, of which $6,578 was for scholar ships, $3,200 was for research and Monday, July 1, for registrath gi ants-in-aid and $11,560.37 was and the morning program. A srm gifts for special furnishings and landscaping for the college chapel and for the Cadet tion may call Mrs. Fagan at Corps staff headquarters. (See BOARD, Page 2) Grad School Loses Dean For Summer Dr. J. Boyd Page, dean of the Graduate School, left yes terday for Yugoslavia to serve as consultant to agricultural research agencies and the government. He flew to Washington to spend one day before flying to Paris. From Paris he will travel by rail, the famed Orient Express, to Belgrade. His station will be about 50 miles north of Belgrade at the Agricultural Research In stitute at Novi Sad on the Dan ube River. His trip was arranged through the Office of Food, and Agricul ture, International Cooperation Administration. He will advise the Yugoslav government on problems of saline and alkaline soils, assist with development of methods of control and improve ment of such soil conditions, and determine how to develop and im plement soil conservation pro grams. He will return to A&M in time for opening of the fall semester in September. Dr. Page came to A&M in 1950 as head of the soil physics sec tion of the Department of Agro nomy. In 1954 he won the Ste venson Award, offered by the American Bocioty of Agronomy, as the outstanding young soil sci entist of the nation that year. In the spring of 1954 he was made head of the Agronomy Depart ment, and in September of 1956, was made dean of the Graduate School. CS Rec Council Pre-Schoolers Finger painting, stories, record; and songs are occupying pre-schoo children and keeping the Consoli dated Junior High School hall; buzzing. Mrs. Joe Fagan, director of thi College Station Recreation Coun cil’s pre-school program, said reg istration can still be made for th< last three weeks of activities. Interested parents may brinj their children to Room 7 of th junior high school at 9 a.m. to provide fee will be charged. Those desiring further inform: 6-4349 or Mrs. H. E. Hierth at ^ 6-5847. AGRICULTURE RELATIONS may take a big step forward when these men hold th shoi t course they are planning. Included in the group are such men as O. Dooley Dav son, ot the Bank of the Southwest. They are setting up a new short course in agr cultural relations between business and industry.