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/ 18,440 READERS BATTALION NumberS: Volume 57 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1957 Price Five Cents HILLBILLYS for a night were John Paxson and Ann Harrison in their roles as members of the cast of the annual community operetta. This year’s show, “Smokey Mountain,” was received favorably by the audiences who went to the show Tuesday and Wednesday nights. In the background with the beard is Harry Gooding. A&M Plantation Tour Held Barbecue Lunch Served Budget Adopted A&M System Head Track Job Goes To Putnam A&M Plantation manager Fred Wolters invited Chamber of Com merce directors to attend a tonr of the Plantation Friday .Tidy 12 at the recent meeting. Plans are being made for IHO visitors to begin the tour at 9 a. m. on flat bed trucks pulled by tractors. They will see irrigation methods and equipment, pastures, livestock, silage crops, cotton mechanization, oil seed crops, corn and cotton, and cotton insect con trol methods. At noon a “dutch treat” barbecue lunch will be served. Experts from A&M will discuss cotton insect con trol methods, internal and external jrarasite controls in livestock and a panel discussion on general farm problems will be held during the afternoon session. Walton Appointed To Safety Council E. V. Walton, head of the De partment of Agricultural Educa tion at A&M recently was appoint ed to the Youth Committee of the Texas Farm and Ranch Safety Council for 19137-58. The committee, composed of tducational leaders, business and professional men, has as its pri mary function the promotion of farm safety throughout the State. Walton has made many edu cational contributions to this field. He formulated a teaching plan on farm safety now being used by the vocational agriculture teachers in Texas. Too, he has written many < articles on farm safety for national farm magazines. He also was in strumental in getting a unit on farm safety incorporated into the j curriculum followed by high school students in vocational agriculture. Charge of the tour will be given to Wolters, Wallace Kimbrough, county agent, and J. E. (Jocko) Roberts, head of the Farm Ser vice Department. Tickets for the annual Chamber of Commerce city-wide barbecue July 16 are now on sale at the' CC offices, First National Bank, City National Bank, and the First State Bank and Trust Co. Raymond Buchanan, general chairman of the affair, told the board meeting that they are plan ning to serve 1,500 people half a barbecued chicken, potato salad, beans, bread, milk, soft drinks and ice cream. The serving hour is 6:30 p.m. and the directors will gather at the Municipal Park beforehand to pre pare for serving. Ralph Stacey, Mrs. Betty Jo Coulee, Louis New man, Greene Buchanan, Arthur Yeager, Jack Ashworth and Henry Buchanan are other committee chairmen. Approval was given to the plan ned Central Texas Amateur Golf CITS Juniors Plan Rummage Sale Six A&M Consolidated High School juniors and their sponsor recently met and discussed plans at the home of Miss Charlotte Baty for the rummage sale to be held August 3 at Orr’s parking lot in Bryan. Present at the meeting were Pat Jackson, Susan Dowell, Martha Easten, John Barger, Kirby Jack- son, Paul Powell and Mrs. John H Southern. Rummage sale proceeds will be used for the junior class project Anyone having rummage for this sale can call Charlotte Baty, VI 6-5250; Susan Dowell, VI 6-7089 or Pat Jackson, VI 6-4676. Tournament here next March and the board’s weight was placed be hind plans to improve the ground level floor of the Municipal Coun try Club building. A series of planned television broadcasts over KBTX-TV was also approved by the directors in which neighboring towns would be given an opporturity to appear and dis cuss their communities. Mrs. Madge Wallace, chairman of the publicity and'advertising commit tee, said there would be no cost to the Chamber of Corhmerce for these 15-m.inute programs. "Progress on "the therapy center which is expected to begin opera tion here on August t, was given by J. O. Alexander, president of the Brazos County Crippled Chil dren Society. He introduced Buddy LaNoux, newly-employed physio therapist. Alexander pointed out that for its opening year of operation the Center’s budget would be a modest $7,200 and that the greatest need it present was assistance on pay ing rent on the Center at Highland and College Ave. He said rent would be $70 a month. It was pointed out that some 50 to 60 Brazos County youngsters would be served by the Center and that surrounding counties would also use the Center. A silent prayer in memory of the late B. F. Vance, mayor of Bi~yan and civic leader opened the di rectors meeting. The invocation was given by the pastor of the Emanuel Baptist Church, Rev. W. C. Beasley. 1 Ray Putnam, assistant (track coach at A&M the past 17 years, has been named head coach suc ceeding Frank G. Anderson. Col. Andy retired this summer after 37 years at A&M. Putnam’s appointment was made by Paul Bryant, director of ath letics, and approved by the athletic council. A believer in hard work and de sire, Putnam was instrumental in developing a large number of top flight mnners at Aggieland during his tenure as assistant to three coaches. He worked under J. W. Rollins and Lil Dimmitt until Col. Andy returned from service in World War II. Bryant, in naming Putnam to the head job, praised the former Iowa State star for his accepting the position at this late date. “Our long-range plan for track at A&M is to find a young and aggressive coach,” Bryant said. “Coach Putnam was kind enough to accept the, position temporarily and we’re grateful to him for this.” Putnam was the nation’s top distance runner during his col legiate career at Iowa State. He won the NCAA mile run in 1931. A native of Flat River, Missouri, he came to A&M in 1941 and served as aide to Rollins until 1943 when Dimmitt succeeded Rollins. Anderson returned in 1946 and the talents of Putnam and Ander son blended so well that the Aggies won six Southwest conference championships in the past 12 years. Putnam coached the 1951 Aggie team when Anderson conducted coaching clinics in Europe and the Aggies were undefeated and won the SWC title. Among the better athletes de veloped by Putnam were Olympic star Art Hamden, Ray Holbrook, Erwin Bilderback, J. D. Hampton, John Dewitt, Julian Herring, Jim Blaine, Dale DeRouen, Don Mit chell, Robert Mays, Joe Vajdos, Johnny Ziegler, James Baker, Con nie Ludwicke, Carol pahn and Charles Hudgens. Salary Increase Chief Factor Salary increases are part of the newly adopted budget for thte A&M System for the current fiscal year. A&M directors adopted the record budget Monday morn ing. The increases will average about' $800 or IS percent, the largest increase ever granted. It will actually be on a person-by-person basis through departments rather than across-the-board by percentage. Divisions located here received the following budgets: A&M System general offices and headquarters, $1,799,- 560. A&M College at College Station, $19,410,011. Agricultural Experiment Station, $6,058,600.87. Agricultural Extension Service, $5,125,456.80. HS Biologists ft' J on rn a I i sm Of f e rs Two SS Courses The Journalism Department, lo cated in brand new quarters in the basement of Nagle Hall, will offer two courses in the second summer semester, Agricultural Journalism 415 and Journalism 311, radio news writing and editing. The radio broadcasting studio is air conditioned and duplicates a modern radio broadcasting studio in mechanical equipment. In most divisions of the College where a course in journalism is re quired or is optional, either Agri cultural Journalism 415 or Jour nalism 311 will be accepted. Journalism 311 will meet daily from 7 to 8 a.m., while Journalism 415 will meet at 9 to 10 a.m. Laboratory hours in each course may be arranged to suit the indi vidual student. Otis Miller will teach the two courses. 5 Mill. Ford Foundation Announces Grants Speak At CS Lions Meeting While winding up their five week stay at A&M this sum mer, several of" fife h i g h school students studying bi ology attended the College Station Lions Club weekly meeting and gave short talks. They spoke of their progress dur ing the time they were here and how much they had benefited from their studies. Dr. C. C. Doak, spon sor of the group and head of the Biology Department, gave the local Lions some additional information about the science enrichment pro gram being followed at other schools in the Southwest. He told the luncheon meeting the high school biologists met every morning for lectures and every afternoon for lab work. The 19 boys and 6 girls also went on two field trips and listened to 20 speak ers other than their regular in structors. Doak went on to say that the 25 students working in the pro gram were taken from a list of 100 applicants. President Charlie Haas announc ed to the group the time of the next business meeting which will be held July 24, at 12:30 a.m. in the Main Lounge of the Memorial Student Center. Kiwanis Hear Key Club Talks Two members of the high school group attending sum mer school at A&M under the Science Enrichment Program were guests at the College Station Kiwanis Club Tuesday. Joe York Thomas of La Porte and Jimmy Lovich of Longview spoke to the group about their experiences with Kiwanis Key clubs, of which both are members in their hometowns. The local Kiwanians are plan ning to start a key club in Consoli dated High School and are gather ing as much information about the subject as they can. The regular interclub visit made monthly by members of the local organization will be to Huntsville July 16. Dr. Isaac Peters is in charge of the group Loyd Keel takes over this week as editor of the weekly news bul letin. He replaces Ed Packenham who was editor for the last six weeks. Attendance records show the club’s attendance for last week was 75 per cent. Final Schedule Classes meeting from 7 until 8:30 will have their final exam ination at 7 a.m. The final for classes meeting from 9 to 10:30 is scheduled for 10 a.m. Exams for classes that meet from 11 to 12:30 are set for 2 p.m. Engineering E x p e r im e n t Station, $729,100. Engineering Extension Service, $503,443.33. Forest Service, $1,658,745. Budgets for Prairie View A&M, Arlington and Tarleton junior col leges total $43,000,000. $12,500,- 000 of this is from legislative funds and the rest comes from tuition and other income. Chief factor in the budget was salary- increases, but there were also increases to take care of gen erally raised costs of operation and for special equipment. Wind Tunnel Equipment Co. of Burlington, Mass, was awarded a contract on a balanced system for the wind tunnel at Easterwood Field and a pressurized “Q” beam at $127,400. Research Engineer At World Meet Truman R. Jones Jr., associate research engineer for the Texas Transportation Institute, will de liver a paper on “Properties of Light Weight Concrete Related to Pre-Stressing” at the third World Conference on Pre-Stressed Con crete, in San Francisco, Calif., July 29-August 2. Jones and IT. K. Stephenson, research engineer of the Texasji Transportation Institute, are co authors of the paper. Representatives from leading construction, engineering and tech nical organizations of the United States and some 30 foreign countries are expected to be pre sent at the five-day conference at San Francisco. EARLY STARTER DALLAS, Tex. </P>—“Joe Bibby for Mayor in 1965,” the ads say. Bibby, 34, an insurance man, in serts the advertisement in Dallas newspapers once a week. “Eight years from now—when I’m older and smarter—I want to run for the mayor’s post,” Bibby said. He estimates the ads will cost him $3,200 in eight years. Friends have put up most of the money thus far. mamm ■ The Ford Foundation recently announced grants and appropria tions totaling $15,080,670 during the third quarter (April through June) of its current fiscal year. In addition, the Foundation dur ing the quarter made final pay ments totaling $130,172,500 in its $260 million program to help raise the salaries of faculty members of 630 privately supported colleges and universities. Under its urban area studies program, the Foundation this quar ter made a series of grants and appropriations totaling $985,000. These actions are in support of research on problems of the grow ing metropolitan areas of Cleve- m ONE REMEDY E’OR summer heat is plenty of leisure and ^a bathing suit. Lifeguard Don Burchard watches over the swimmers at Bryan’s Country Club* pool. Weather Today PARTLY CLOUDY Yesterday’s high temperature reading was 99 degrees, and last night’s low, 75. At 10 this morn ing the mercury stood at 91 de grees. land; Dayton, Ohio; Kansas City, Missouri; Peoria, Illinois; New York City; St. Louis, and the Cali fornia region. They also support related local and national univer sity training programs. For expanded research and edu cation related to the International Geophysical Year (IGY), the Foun dation approved an appropriation of $1.5 million for the National Academy of Sciences. The Foun dation action will supplement Unit ed States participation in IGY by supporting certain special observa tions and research projects and by stimulating an interest in science, particularly in geophysics, on the part of American youth through an educational program. For general support of the American University of Beirut, grant of $1,500,000 was approved. A grant of $520,000 was made to the Association for the Industrial Development of Southern Italy (SVIMEZ) for a program of ad vanced training in economic re I search and administration. <L r PITY THE ROADBUILDER whose work in the hot summer sun makes his job extreme ly difficult. The equipment shown above is being used for the resurfacing and widen- mg of Highway 6 from the Courthouse to the College Station city limits. It should be finished at this end by football season.