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i The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas PAGE 2 Thursday, July 18, 1957 Editorials Job Anyone? I'l What is causing the “mass exodus?” Is it just chance that many of the top jobs on the campus are presently left f vacant or temporarily filled? Just how many jobs are open right now? One or two deanships are vacant, several department “ head jobs, one division head is needed and countless numbers : of professors and instructors have left for jobs in industry • • or at other schools. Why have they left and what can be done to keep the top-notch educators we now have? The new budget should have gone a long way toward soothing the unsatisfied minds of many staff members. However the rumbles of discontent continue. Even with marked increases in many areas, the salaries paid to teachers in the state of Texas are still discouragingly low. Why should a man take a decrease in his salary to come I to this school ? Obviously, few educators are willing to do so. It appears to us that in order to get A&M out of the ^ doldrums it is headed for, clear thinking with a very close look at the future and with PROGRESS as, the key word is needed. With the resignation of Dr. W. W. Armistead, dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine, A&M is losing one of its most able men. It is with the most sincere regrets that we view the school’s most recent faculty loss. Dean Armistead, during his all too short years at A&M, was an invaluable asset to the school. His work on behalf of the Vet School will long be remembered and his efforts toward improving the standing of the college have not been in vain. The biggest single accomplishment which should be at tributed to Dr. Armistead is the construction of the new Veterinary Hospital, not to mention countless others. Best wishes of The Battalion are herewith expressed to Dr. Armistead. C.E. Grad Student Given Fellowship Weldon Wayne Aldridge of 3448 Kellogg Ave., Dallas, a graduate student in civil engineering, has been awarded the California Com pany Fellowship in Civil Engineer ing for the 1957-58 school year. lie is a veteran of the Korean conflict and prior to entering A&M, Aldridge worked for three years as a survey field party junior in spector for the City of Fort Worth Local Man Attends Paving Program A detailed technical paper titled “Surface Treatments” by Fred J. Benson, was given at the summer program of the Asphalt Paving Technology held at the University of California, at Berkeley. Benson is executive officer of the Texas Transportation Institute and vice director of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station. He gave the paper yesterday. New Ag Ed Prof Replaces Ross E. L. Tiner joined the Depart ment of Agricultural Education July 15. He replaces Henry Ross who is on leave-of-absence in East Pakistan. During the past eight years Tiner has been with the Texas Education Agency as area super visor of vocational agriculture. The area that he last supervised was comprised of 21 counties around Houston. In connection with his work as area supervisor, Tiner is serving also as a member of the Board of Directors of the Houston Farm and Ranch Club and is a member of numerous committees in the Hous ton Chamber of Commerce and Houston Fat Stock Show. He also served as a member of an accreditation team from the Texas Education Agency. This team evaluated school systems to determine their accreditation status. CS Swimmers Face Strong Competition In Amateur Meet With potent aggregations al ready entered from Wichita, Kan. and Omaha, Neb., in the Texas Open Amateur Athletic Union Swimming and Diving Champion ships in Austin tomorrow and Sat urday, another week-end of stiff competition faces the strong Col lege Station Swim Club. Following last week-end’s im pressive showing in Tyler in the Texas Amateur Athletic Federa tion state championship swim ming meet, in which Coach Art Adamson’s charges made up in quality what they lacked in quan tity, the local tankers are expec ted to “hold their own” in Austin during the next two days. Osteopath Group Hears Leipper Talk Dr. Dale F. Leipper, head of the Oceanography Department of A&M, was a feature speaker at the 61st annual convention of the American Osteopathic Association this week in Dallas. Topic of this discussion was oceanography as it is related to health. More than 2000 osteopathic physicians and sm’geons from the United States and other nations are present at the postgraduate professional and teaching sessions. E. L. Tiner Five of the last 10 winners of Pimlico’s $100,000 Preakness went on to become the horse of the year. They were Citation, Capot, Hill Prince, Nashua and Native Dancer. Pet E Dept. Gets Oilfield Pump Models A display of cut-away model oil field subsurface pumps (see pic ture lower left) has been presented to the Petroleum Engineering De partment. The display, presented by the Harbison-Fischer Manufacturing Co., manufacturers of oil well equipment of Fort Worth, will be used for instructional purposes, R. L. Whiting, head of the depart ment, announces. This display is one of the finest of its type ever assembled and is complete with 10 pumps. Th e pumps are_ chromium- plated and ai'e full diameter and are construc ted so that the salient features and details of construction and op eration may be studied. Standing left to right are L. B. Harbison and Whiting. C.S. Swim Club will be repre sented in the AAU Championships in Austin’s Northwest Park Pool by the following eight entries in a total of four divisions: inter mediate girls (13-14)—Patsy Var- ton, 400 meter freestyle and 100 meter freestyle; Pam Hayes, 200 meter breast stroke and 200 meter individual medley; intermediate boys (13-14)—Joe Brusse, 400 me ter freestyle and 100 meter free style; senior girls (15-16)—Gail Schlesselman, 200 meter bx^east stroke and 200 meter individual medley; Mary Frances Badgett, 100 meter backstroke and 200 me ter individual medley; Judy Lit ton, 400 meter frtestyle and 100 meter freestyle; senior boys (15- 16)—Bill Farrar, 200 meter breast stroke and 200 meter individual medley; Howard Mitchell, 100 me ter butterfly and 200 meter in dividual relay. At the TAAF state champion ship gathering in Tyler, the local tankers, their 14-member squad out-numbered by many of the lar ger cities, delegations, finished third in the over-all team stancU- ings. Competing against 28 strong teams, the College Station crew placed fourth in the combined wo- men-girls and took third place in the combination meri-boys. These high rankings were achieved de- Luedecke Appears On Great Issues Maj. Gen. Alvin R. Luedecke, chief of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, Department of Defense, will appear as the Great Issues speaker on November 22 in the Memorial Student Center. Gen. Luedecke, a 1932 graduate of A&M, will tentatively speak on, “Nuclear Testing-Is It Neces sary?”’ The general is engaged with nuclear projects in regard to atomic war heads. The MSC also announced that James B. Carey, president of the International Union of Electric, Radio and Machine Workers, has accepted an invitation to speak. No_ date for his appearance has been set, .but it is expected he will be available in late fall or early winter. spite the fact that the Brazos Countians numbered only three junior division entries among their ranks. Individual results by College Sta tion Swim Club entries in the TAAF meet are as follows: Women’s Division (15-and-over) Eileen Cossani—first, 200 meter freestyle; second, 100 meter free style; second, 400 meter freestyle. Judy Litton—seventh, 200 meter freestyle; eighth, 100 meter free style. Ann Cleland—sixth, 200 meter breast stroke. Mary Frances Badgett—^ sixth, 100 meter backstroke. Gail Schlesselman — third, 200 meter breast stroke; fourth, 200 meter individual medley; first, 100 meter butterfly (new record of 1:29.8). Men’s Division (17-and-over) Orlando Cossani—-third, 400 me ter individual, medley; second, 100 meter butterfly. Dick Hunkier—first, 100 meter freestyle. John Harrington — fourth, 200 meter breast stroke. Tetsuo Okamoto — eighth, 200 meter breast stroke; sixth, 400 me ter individual medley; eighth, 100 meter freestyle. Frank Holmes—seventh, 400 me ter freestyle. Girls’ Division (14-and-under) Pam Hayes — sixth, 100 meter breast stroke. Boys’ Division (16-and-under) Bill Farrar — first, 200 meter breast stroke (new record of 3:00. 4); fourth, 100 meter butterfly. Relays Men’s — third, 400 meter free style (Holmes, Okamoto, O. Cos sani, and Hunkier); second, 400 meter relay (Harrington, Okamoto, Cossani, and Hunkier). Women’s — fourth, 200 meter freestyle (G. Schlesselman, Litton, Ann Schlesselman, and E, Cos sani); third, 200 meter medley (E. Cossani, Cleland, G. Schlesselman, and Litton). VACATION SPECIALS SAVE 13 off regular price on household cleaning and laundry during months of June, July and August. BEDSPREADS CURTAINS DRAPES FURNITURE COVERS BLANKETS QUILTS COMFORTS THROW RUGS SHAG RUGS to size 9x12 The Finest Work Obtainable — TWO LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU — College Hills Laundry & Cleaners 902 Foster E—One block off Highway 6 at E. Gate Fineline Cleaners & Laundry South Side Shopping Center — So. Gate AIR CONDITIONING TEMPERATURES MADE TO ORDER—AT NEW LOW COST. GET A DEMONSTRATION! 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