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Number 4: Volume 57
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS- WEDNESDAY, JULY .3, 1957
Price Five Cents
Balt Study Ordered
Directors
PETTICOATS SWIRL us Ann Hite rehearses a dance she is doing in the Student Activ
ity sponsored summer operetta “Smokey Mountain” on July 9 and 10. Standing in
the background, but still an important part of the production are several members of
the chorus.
Men’s Summer Clothing
Needs Complete Overhaul
AUSTIN—With daytime tem
peratures consistently in the 90’s,
and with prospects of going even
higher, it appears that what is
needed is a complete overhaul of
acceptable summer clothing for
men.
Women have the right idea when
it comes to summer clothing.
Lightweight, sleeveless, open-neck
ed dresses permit free circulation
of air and encotirage heat loss. A
Directors Called
Special Session
»A&M System’s Board of Direc
tors have called a meeting for
Monday July 8 at College Station
to take up budgets for the Sys
tem. The meeting will get under
way at 9 a.m.
It is a special called session and
by law only business for which
the meeting was called can be dis
cussed. For example: they can’t
take any action on “presidential
quest.”
Health Department
Permits Milk Sale
U. S. Public Health Service
Standard Milk Ordinances permit
certain dairies to sell grade A pas
teurized milk and milk products
in Bryan and College Station.
Dairies that have received per
mits are A&M College Creamery
of College Station, Sanitary Farm
Dairies of Bryan, Borden Company,
Carnation Company, and Sanitary
Farm Dairies, Inc. of Houston, and
«,Lucerne Milk Company of Fort
Worth.
Sale of all other milk in Bryan
and College Station is prohibited
i by laAV.
man, though, with a tie around his
neck and belt around his middle—
all topped off with a coat—is at a
disadvantage in trying to throw
off body heat.
Elevations of body temperature
will develop inevitably in a man so
dressed because such clothing pre
vents loss of body heat through
conduction, radiation, and evapora
tion of sweat. And this much is
physiologically true: The body
thermostat is so constructed that a
fall in temperature is much harder
to produce than is a rise.
Heat stroke, sometimes fatal, is
due to exhaustion or inadequacy of
the heat dissipating mechanism of
the body^ It occurs as a result of
exposure to a hot, humid atmos
phere such as is common over most
of Texas during summer months
Sunstroke is a form of heat stroke,
complicated by an absorption of
radiant energy from the sun which
causes a temperature rise in local
body areas, such as the brain, high
er than the temperature of the rest
of the body.
How do you avoid heat stroke?
By doing what you can to keep heat
loss and heat production in balance.
The wearing of loose, airy cloth
ing is known by physiologists to
be among the best means of main
taining that balance. Open throat
sport shirts and light trousers are
of course more practical than heavy
suits.
Excessive clothing causes exces
sive perspiration, and excessive
perspiration means a loss of body
fluids and salts. Unless the loss is
compensated for by drinking addi
tional quantities of water and con
suming extra amounts of salt,
painful stomach cramps can result.
During periods of high humidity,
body perspiration doesn’t evapo
rate. It clings and you feel con
stantly damp. Skin rash often
develops at these times and the
rash is liable to infection.
By A
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AMCA Approve
Facilities For
'festing Fans
Texas Engineering Experi
ment Station facilities for
testing centrifugal fans have
been approved by the Air
Moving and Conditioning As
sociation, Inc., and recommended
to its members, according to Fred
J. Benson, vice-director of the Tex
as Engineering Experiment Sta
tion at College Station.
The approval followed witnessed
testing of a special test centrifugal
fan for the AMCA, which has des
ignated the facilities as a neutral
laboratory.
In the testing of a centrifugal
fan, a duct is especially prepared
for the test. A dynamometer mea
sures power input and a special
chronometer the fqn speed. Total
and velocity pressure manometers
give the air cfm pressure rela
tionship. The mechanical effi
ciency and the static efficiency of
the fan are then computed from
the cfm, pressure, speed and power
input data for the manufacturer’s
engineering and advertising needs.
Such computation is now being
handled by a digital compute!'.
The new facilities for centri
fugal fan testing occupy a special
building on the campus and sup
plement a long Established labora
tory for axial flow fan testing.
Both of these testing services per
form tests in accordance with the
Standard Test Code and Labora
tory Standards of the AMCA and
are considered neutral laboratories
by the fan industry.
No Committee
Appointed Yet
A “thorough study of the operations and procedures of
the Student Publications organization” has been authorized
by the A&M Board of Directors, according to President D.
W. Williams.
He will appoint a committee to make a “completely ob
jective study of the publications with emphasis on The Bat
talion.” No committee members have been designated as
yet and, according to Williams, it will probably not be done
until the fall semester.
Dr. Carroll D. Laverty, chairman of the Student Publi
cations Board said Tuesday he has been informed that the
study is the result of a motion passed by the Board of Direc-
Hors at their June 22 meet
ing.
He said other studies have
been required by the Board of
Directors from time to time
Canada Topic
Of McClellan’s
Talk To Lions
Fi reworks Too
Satterwhite Picked
As Top Non-com
M/Sgt Orville C. Satterwhite of
Bryan, Texas was selected as the
outstanding non-commissioned of
ficer of the 343rd Field Artillery
Battalion.
This unit, a member of th^ 90th
Infantry Division, recently com
pleted 15 days of field training at
North Fort Polk, La. Sgt. Satter
white is a member of Headquarters
Battery of College Station, which
is commanded by Captain Tom W.
Ross. -
Fourth Of July
Picnic Planned
Room Reservation
Deadline Is 13th
College Station’s Annual Fourth
of July Community Picnic and fire
works display is planned for to
morrow evening at 5 with the dis
play to begin at dusk.
Under the chairmanship of Mrs.
W. A. Yarvel, the community pic
nic is taking shape. Tiger Field,
the CHS football stadium, is the
scene of the Independence Day en
tertainment and the display of
fireworks is planned for the en
joyment of both children and
grown-ups.
Sponsored by the College Sta
tion Recreation Council, the com
munity picnic is well on its way
to becoming a local tradition. It
is a fine chance to get “Mom out
All students who expect to at
tend the second term of the Sum
mer Session should pay fees and
" reserve rooms beginning at 8 a.m.
Monday, July 8.
Students who wish to reserve
the rooms they now occupy may
reserve their rooms between 8 a.m.
Monday, July 8, and 5 p.m. Wed-
5'nesday, July 10. Students who
wish to reserve any room other
than the cne they now occupy, in
cluding students changing dormi
tories, may do so between 8 a.m.
Monday, July 8 and 5 p.m. Wed
nesday, July 10 by presenting a
signed room change slip from the
housemaster of the new dormitory
concerned.
All students may register for
rooms on a first-come first-seiwed
basis from 8 a.m. Thursday, July
} 1 until noon Saturday, July 13.
All students, including those liv
ing in College Apartments, who
do not plan to live in dormitories
during the Second Term must se
cure or renew their Day Student
Permits at the Housing Office be
fore paying fees. Such students
are urged to do this before regis
tration day on July 15.
Korean Veterans who have not
signed enrollment papers for the
second six weeks should report to
the Veteran’s Advisor’s office and
sign one.
All students pay fees at the Fis-
. cal Office in the Administration
Building.
Weather Today
CLEAR
Forecast calls for clear to partly
cloudy skies with high tempera
tures. The mercury soared to 97
degrees yesterday, with a low last
night of 74. This morning’s 10:30
reading was 89 degrees.
Job Vacancies At
Heal tb Dept.
Applications are being received
by the Merit System Council for
the Texas State Department of.
Health for competitive examina
tions to establish eligible lists from
which public health vacancies can
be filled.
Special recruitment is being
made for these classifications which
prefer or require a college degree
occupational health nursing con
sultant, lay meat inspector, junior
sanitarian, sanitarian, senior sani
tarian, junior engineer, veterinari
an, dental hygienist, senior health
information specialist, public health
physician and public health nurse
Some positions require extensive
specific experience in public health
agencies.
Application forms and informa
tion are available upon request
from the Merit System Council
814 Littlefield Biulding, Austin
Tex.
of the kitchen and over to Tiger
Field for an evening’s entertain
ment.”
Raymond Rogers is in charge
of setting off the fireworks along
with the assistance of his son Jud.
A concession stand under the di
rection of K. A. (Cubby) Manning
will be open and selling hot dogs,
candy, soda water and other pic
nic type foods. Proceeds from
the stand wall help defray the ex
pense of the fireworks.
Fourth of July in College Sta
tion should be safe and sane this
year as a city ordinance expressly
forbids the sale, explosion or pos
session of fireworks excejpt by an
organization under the supervis
ion of proper authorities.
Everyone is urged by Recreation
Council President Charlie Haas to
watch the fireworks display and
take advantage of the concession
stand’s tempting epicurean de
lights.
Dr. Hugh McClellan, of the
Department of Oceanography
and Meteorology, spoke to the
College Station Lions Club
Monday on New Brunswick
in Canada.
He was formerly with the Fish
ing Research Board of Canada at
the Biological Station in Saint An
drews, N.B. Accompanying h i s
talks with color slides of the area
around Saint Andrews, McClellan
described the picturesque country
and the climatic conditions.
Recently elected president Char
lie Haas presided over the regular
weekly luncheon meeting of the
organization in the Memorial Stu
dent Center. He announced the
committee appointments for the
ensuing year at the session.
The board of rirectors for the
club include W. A. Boney, D. W.
Hood, F. P. Jaggi and R. P. Scog
gins.
Committee members and their
committees are: membership, Herb
Thompson, and John Prescott; pro
gram, Lucian Morgan, Dave Fitch,
Jack Palmer, Bill Boney, Prescott,
Jaggi and George Huebner; fin
ance, A1 Price, J. J. Skrivanek and
Johnny Watkins; attendance, L. E.
McCall and Archie Flowers; and
projects, Leland Grumbles, Sid
Gaafar, Ed Rodgers and Don
Young.
Lions information committee, A.
B. Medlen and Karl Paulson; sight
conservation, Jack Palmer and Bob
Cloud; boys and girls, Gaafar, Bob
Foster and Jim Gregory; crippled
children, Ed Svendsen and Tom
Dunlap; publicity, Gene Cowles
and Bob Alexander; civic improve
ment, Carl Lyman, Svendsen,
Palmer, Thompson and Paulson;
education, Roy Bell, Hood and A.
A. Lenert; safety, Hood and
George Draper; social, Huebner
and Joe Beasley and gi'eeters,
Foster and E. M. Hertz.
and he has no indication that this
is other than a routine evaluation.
Word of the Board’s request was
handed down through the Chan
cellor, the President, Dean of Stu
dent Personnel Services Robert B.
Kamm, and to Laverty, who heads
the faculty-student board w'hich is
responsible for the operation of
the daily newspaper, yearbook, and
four school magazines.
Laverty said the Student Pub
lications Board would require all
facilities of the program to be
made available to cooperate fully
with whoever makes the study.
Ross Strader, director of Student
Publications, said he knew of no
special rearsoTr-for the-rttudy —but
that the program has never been
in better condition for an inspec
tion.
When asked if he knew of any
complaints which may have reach
ed the System Board, he said he
“knew of none.”
Strader said during May there
were several complaints from Civ
ilian students that The Battalion
was “too pro-Corps” and com
plaints from Corps students that
the newspaper was “too pro-Civil-
ian” but these were minor and to
be expected from a growing, pro
gressive student body.
The student publications p r o -
gram is one of the few educational
endeavors on the campus which is
self-supporting. The Office of Stu
dent Publications said this week
that all of the finances are in good
shape.
Only one magazine “lost” money
this past year. The others, includ
ing the yearbook, newspaper and
three other magazines, ended the
year with a reserve.
The Battalion and the Aggieland
yearbook consistently win top rat
(See BATT STUDY, Page 2)
Steen Speaks
At Kiwanis
Weekly Meet
Bnlph W. Steen, head of the
History Department, was the
speaker at the weekly lunch
eon meeting of the College
Station Kiwanis Club in the
Memorial Student Center yester
day.
His subject was “An Indepen
dence Day Address.” He related
the events that led up to the writ
ing of the Declaration of Inde
pendence and the'reasons for such
a document.
He told the group that few peo
ple realized the true reasons Why
the declaration was written. He
gave some insight into the true
events of the day and how they
were magnified by the colonists
out of all proportion. Steen was
introduced by Bob Shrode.
Joe Sorrels and John Longley,
local Kiwanis members who at
tended the recent National conven
tion in Atlantic City, N.J., will give
complete reports of the proceed
ings at the July 16 luncheon meet
ing.
They informed the group of the
election of H. Park Arnold of Glen
dale, Calif., as the new president
of Kiwanis International.
MSC Vocal Recital
Scheduled Sunday
Fourth program in the Memorial
Student Center’s summer music
series is scheduled for Sunday, July
9, at which time Miss Carolyn Wil
son and Don Royal! will present
vocal selections.
Miss Wilson will open the pro
gram with individual solos. She
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James W. Wilson of College Sta
tion.
She is a member of the A&M
Methodist Church choir and thq
A&M Consolidated chorus. Misg
Wilson has received first division
ratings for two years at the region
al voice contest. She also won
first prize at the A&M Consolidated
talent show.
Royall is a vocalist for the Ag
gieland Orchestra and has sung
with the Houston Opera Co. and the
University Singers in Houston,
He recently returned from Houston
where he sang for the inauguration
of the president of the Houston
Rotary Club.
Butler Of AH Dept.
Div. Pistol Champ
Lt. Col. O. D. Butler, head of
the Animal Husbandry depart
ment, fired his way to the 90th
Infantry Division pistol champion
ship this past week during the
90th’s annual unit training at
North Fort Polk, La.
Butler, of College Station’s 343rd
Field Artillery Battalion Head
quarters, fired a 283 of a possible
300 to take the gold cup.
He also captained the Division
Artillery team of five men to the
Division Team Pistol Champion
ship. The overall team total was
1253 of a possible 1500.
Guidance Center
MILWAUKEE, (A>) _ A 12-year
old boy was found sitting patiently
in the waiting room of the police
department detective bureau.
When asked what he wanted, the
youngster replied: “I’m running
away from honie and need a map
to plan my route.”
The lad was turned over to
juvenile authorities.
Vets Rem hided To
Com pie te Form s
All Korean veterans who are en
rolled for the first summer term
only are reminded that they should
complete enrollment forms for G.
I. Bill pay at the Veterans Advis
or’s office if they plan to attend
second summer term. Any vet
erans not planning to enroll for
second term should complete pay
forms for July prior to July 13.
All men who are registered for
the entire summer will sign July
pay forms August 1.
THIS IS THE WAY it’s done says Mort Zimmerman, pres
ident of Electron Corp., who have given this closed cir
cuit television camera to A&M to use in Nuclear research.
Dr. Richard Wainerdy, of the Engineering Extension
Service, looks on at the results.