Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1957)
BATTALION 1260 Firemen Are Coming Numlber 6: Volume 57 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1957 Price Five Cents • , • .t- an Welcomes Armistead A&M Loses Well Trained Educator After serving as clean of the School of Veterinary Medi cine for less than four years, Dr. W. W. Armistead has ac cepted the position as dean of Michigan State’s Vet School and leaves A&M minus one more highly qualified educator. His resignation becomes effective August 31. , He was named dean of the college’s School of Veter inary Medicine Sept. 1, 1953. He holds his D. V. M. degree, 1938 from A&M and Master of Science degree from Ohio State University in 1950 and his Ph. D. degree from the ilniversity of Minnesota. Following two years in private practice in Dallas, he joined the School of Veterinary Medicine at A&M in 1940. Dr. Armistead was promo--*-^ ted to assistant professor in i Wilcox Warned School Board Committeeman S u m m e r Rolls Now 1,900 1942 before entering military service with the Veterinary Corps as a first lieutenant. He attained the rank of major be fore his discharge in 1946, after service including Noilh Africa and Italy. He became a full professor in 1947. “We regret losing Hr. Armi stead,” Chancellor M. T. Harring ton of the A&M System said this week. “He has done a fine job in directing the activities of the School of Veterinary Medicine not only the resident teaching pro gram but also the research pro grams in veterinary science. We wish him happiness and success in Jjis new assignment. He is a top hand.” Hr. Armistead served as president of State Veterinary Medical As sociation in 1947-48 and in 1956 was elected president of the Amer ican Veterinary Medical Associa tion. A native of Betroit, Mich., Hr. Armistead received his high school education in Texas, being a grad uate of John H. Reagan high school of Houston. SUPPORTING THE SIGN over the new radio practice booth in the Journalism Depart ment’s new quarters in Nagle Hall is Ruth Yarbrough, department secretary. The fin ishing touches are still being applied to some parts of the department in preparation for the fall semester. Texas Firemen Meet For Annual Training Here School LAST STRAW SAN BIEGO, Calif. (A 3 )—Princip al C. Russell Heinzie of Horace Mann School said Judy Hotten- stein’s pink hair, along with a pink dress, went beyond the teen age fads he was conditioned to ac cept. He sent Judy, 17, home until her hair was restored to normal blonde. Dr. George B. Wilcox, pro fessor of education, has been named to the executive com mittee of the Texas Associa tion of School Boards. Dour aid G. Nugent, Austin, is executive director of the TASB. The executive committee of the TASB serves as the policy-making and program designing body of the association in the interim be tween annual state association meetings. The next regular meet ing of the committee will be held Oct. 20 in Austin and will precede the 1957 annual TASB meeting. Hr. Wilcox is one of the most widely known schoolmen in Texas. He has served as principals of the high schools at Groesbeck and Wharton and superintendent of Plantersville and Cleveland, prin cipal and vocational agriculture teacher at Jacksboro high school. He was one of the organizers of A&M Consolidated High School at College Station and at one time divided his time between principal of the school and A&M. He later served as superintendent of the high school and in 1925 became a full-time employe at A&M. He is chairman of the Brazos county school board. About 1200 firemen and fire marshals are due to attend the 28th Annual Firemen’s Training School scheduled here July 21-26. The school is sponsored by the State Firemen’s and Fire Marshal’s Association and will be conducted by the Texas Engineering Exten sion Service. Attending the school will be men from some 425 Texas cities, indus tries and from army, navy and air force posts, bases and stations. Abdul; 190 experiep.ced instructors from municipal department, indus try and armed services will work with the student firemen who, dur ing the registration are broken down into small sections for in dividual instruction in actual Alaska Topic For CS Lions Talk George Walder of the Depart ment of Oceanography and Meteo rology was the speaker at the Col lege Station Lions Club weekly meeting Monday in the Memorial Student Center. His topic was Alaska, where he spent several years teaching at a college in the territory. He told the members of the group about the climate and the remarkable growth of vegetables and the various types found there. He also showed a number of slides from Alaska. handling of all types of fires with all types of extinguishing equip ment. All types of approved exting uishers and recharges, respiratory and safety equipment will be fur nished by manufacturers and dis tributors. Oil companies will fur nish gasoline, kerosone, crude oil and butane for the pit and tank fires and assign tank trucks and drivers to assist. Henry D. Smith is chief of the Firemen’s Training School, Supervisory instructors for the combined (basic, advance and res cue training) for the school in clude the following: Training Chief R. Roy Simmons, Hugh V. Keepers—assistant man ager and M. C.. Horton—assistant chief engineer of the Fire Preven tion and Engineering Bureau of Texas; P. L. Andrew—assistant in structor, Joe Donnell-—klrill mas ter, fire department, Chance Vou- ght Aircraft Corp.; Chief O. C. Martin, Maintenance Supervisor W. H. Lumpkin and Battalion Chief W. H. Sharp, all of the Dal las Fire Department. Chief Harvey F. Peyton, Green ville; Chief Irwin W. Speckles Schulenburg; Chief Elbert San ders, Edinburg; G. W. Wilson chief plant protection, Neches Bu tane Products Co., Port Neches Chief Charlie Meadows, Odessa William J. Henderson, Galveston and Theo H. Fields, director, liar ris County Emergency Corps, Houston. Also L. O. Bynum, Snyder; Viiw gil B. Phipps, building and college utilities, A&M; James A. Bland and A. L. Cart right, Firemen’s Training School; Chief Eugene Ray, Port Arthur; Masan Lank ford, vice president, State Fire men’s and Fire Marshals’ Associa tion; Convair Chief Charlie Jones, Fire Department, Convair, Fort Worth; Captain Roy Shanks, El Paso and Frank McKinney, Veter ans Administration Hospital, Waco. Judge G. F. Dohrn, Mission; Chief D. C. Mu sick, Abilene; Chief Royce Hogg, Gilmer and Chief Paul B. Conley, Luling, members of the Advisory Board, Firemen’s Training School and Pres. Leo Bales, State Firemen’s and Fire Marshals’ Association of Texas, Lampasas. Second Semester Lower Than First Enrollment in the college for the second term of the summer semester exceeded that of last year by 91 as a total of 1984 registered. Of this number, 161 are at the Junction Adjunct. This figure represents a drop in enrollment from the first summer semester but according to the A&M Registrar is the expected trend. A similar trend is evidenced in the difference between normal fall and spring semester regis trations. The female population fell off in number by 68 as 74 women students enrolled at the college. For the same period last year 70 female students were enrolled. +■ Of those students at the 4 TTT Junction Adjunct, 121 are SLOINA III Has $13,000 For Conference Rriles Resigns As Kiwanis President LEAVING SOON for Michigan State is Dr. W. W. Armi stead, dean of the school of Veterinary Medicine. His resignation becomes effective August 31. Director Of Ag Extension Resigns Post G. G. Gibson, director of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service since 1949, has re signed his post, effective Aug ust 19, to accept assignment with the United States Operations Mission, Karachi, Pakistan, in the Office of Agriculture and Water Resources. Gibson has been a member of the staff of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, a part of the* A&M System, since 1935. He serv ed as an assistant dairy husband man and later dairy husbandman, prior to being named director in 1949. Dr. M. T. Harrington, chancellor of the A&M System, in announc ing Gibson’s resignation said, “We are all of us very sorry to see him leave the Extension Service. In his years with the service and par ticularly during his term of office as dh'eetor, he has done an ex tremely fine job and rendei'ed a real service to the people of Tex as. We are, however, glad to know that he is entering a new and challenging field of work where he can continue his career of service.” No successor to Gibson has yet been named. Kiwanis Club President W. E. (Woody) Briles, of the Poultry Science Department, announced his resignation from the local luncheon club at Tuesday’s meeting in the Memorial Student Center. He is leaving in September to assume a position with the HeKalb Agricultural ' Association in De- Kalb, 111. In announcing his re signation Briles said, “I regret very much having to resign from the Kiwanis club, especially while serv ing as your president. I have al ways found it a pleasure to be a member of the Kiwanis Club and to help in its many, very worth while community activities.” Wayne Stark gave a short talk on the “Guilded Missile Program of the U. S. Army” and showed the group an army film demonstrating several of the missiles being used by the army at the present time. John Longley and Joe Sorrels gave brief summaries of their activities at the Kiwanis Intexma- tional Convention recently held in Atlantic City, N. J. Sorrels read the resolutions and amendments passed at the inteimational meeting and Longley described some of the events that took place at the ses sions. In a report from the Kiwanis Underprivieged Children Commit tee, Luther Jones told the group about the opening of the Brazos County Therapy Center, which is under the dh’ection of Buddy Lanoux. The center, located at the corner of Highland St. and College Ave., will provide physiotherapy and other types of treatment for crippled children. Acting president Longley in formed the Kiwanians that the July 30 meeting of the club has been designated as Sportshirt Day and members should dress accordingly. Early reports from the committees working on the third Student Conference on National Affairs (S C O N A III) show they have raised $13,000 to he used on’’ this year's" conference. Out of the $13,000, $6,000 has actually been received and the rest is pledged. This is the earliest that such an amount has been gathered n the history of SCON A. According to J. Wayne Stark, director of the Memorial Student Center, a tentative list of speakers has been compiled. It includes such men as Ogden Reed, president and editor of the New York (N. Y.) Herald Tribune; Carlos Romulos, Phillipine delegate to the United Nations; Robert Anderson, future secretary of the treasury and Joseph Johnson, president of the Carnegie Endowment for Inter national Peace. Other speakers or panelists who have already accepted invitations to attend SCON A include Dr. Paul Gehren, executive vice president of Baylor University and Dr. Louis Hanke, director of the Institute of Latin American Studies and a distinguished professor at the Uni versity of Texas. As the result of a fund-raising trip to Mexico, $1,000 has been pledged from businessmen in Mon terrey, Mex. Several students from A&M went to Monterrey this spring and visited with several firms there. No specific topics of discussion have been selected as yet and will not be chosen until September due to constantly changing world is- freshmen taking entering training courses. Engaged in field work are 14 geology and 26 civil engineering students. Last year there were 120 freshmen, 25 geology and 25 civil engineeringj students at Junction. Today is the last day for en rolling for the second term. Fri day is the last day for making changes in registration. The second term will end on Friday, August 23. Final, exami nations will be held on that date. G. G. Gibson Weather Today S H O W E R S Possible light, scattered thun dershowers are predicted for late afternoon, with partly cloudy skies throughout the day. Yesterday’s high was 99 degrees, and this morning’s low, 75. By 10:30 this morning the mercury had risen to 92 degrees. Canadians Visit A&M Camp US Joseph McCully, warden of the student union at the University of Toronto, and three students visited A&M Sunday July 14 through Mon day July 15. The three students and their ad visor are touring the United States visiting student union buildings of various colleges and universities. While here their hosts were Don McGinty and Dick McGowen. Warden is the title given to the director of the student union, Hart House of the University of To ronto. The Hart House is a stu dent union for men. Warden Mc Cully has the standing of dean. David Parker, an architecture major; John Moffet, a medical stu dent and Jackson Chercover, a law student, are the three touring Toronto students. Development Conference Here In August The 7th annual Texas In dustrial Development Confer ence will be held here August 15 -16. The conference is sponsored by the Industrial Engineering Department and thq Industrial Economics Research Gi’oup of the Engineering Experi ment Station. We anticipate an attendance of approximately 150 representatives from Texas communities and in dustrial development agents from the banks, railroads and utilities,” A. R. Burgess, head of the depart ment, said yesterday. Carlos Ashley, state senator, Llano, will deliver the principal address at the banquet session August 15. He will talk on new legislation affecting industrial development. B. H. Dewey Jr., state representative, Bryan, will chair the session. • Chairman for the sesisons in clude Gordon Turrentine, general manager, Houston C. of C.; Robert McWhirter, president. First Na tional Bank, Paris; G. P. Cates, manager, C. of C., Killeen; Jack Tippit, assistant research econo mist, Texas Engineering Experi ment Station; Robert Hunt, organi zational manager, Community Org anizers, Kilgore; A. Rogers Mielly, industrial commissioner, SP Lines, Houston; Dewey and Burgess. Piano Recital Held In MSC Sunday Fifth program in the Memorial Student Center summer musical recital series will be held in the main lounge of the MSC Sunday, July 21 at 3 p. m. Playing dual pianos will be Clark Kimberling and Linda Brady, both from College Station. Kimberling, age 14, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Kimberling of College Station. He has played for the Lions Club and has won honorable mention in a talent show at Lamar Junior High. He has played at Crockett School in Bryan and plays for his Sunday school class.