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18,440 READERS More Short Courses Are Coming Soon Number 7: Volume 57 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1957 Price Five Cents Gala way Named To Head Chemistry Dept. OIL FIRES MEAN DANGER and here an instructor and a student show one of the firemen’s short course classes the proper method of extinguishing such a fire. ★ ★ ★ Firefighters Must Have Knowledge Of Methods Religion Topic Of Program For Kiwanians Dr. V. Murthy spoke to the College Station Kiwanis Club Tuesday on the subject of “Religion and India” at their regular weekly meeting. It was announced at the meet ing that there is a meeting of the Kiwanis board of directors tonight at 7:30 at Consolidated High School. I. M. Atkins, Walter Manning, Homer Adams, Herb Fincher and Ike Peters made an interclub visit to the Huntsville Kiwanis Club last week. Attendance figures for last month showed a drop with 78 per cent of the total club membership attending the meetings. Luther Jones, a local Kiwanis member, was recently appointed to the finance committee of the Braz- County Society for Crippled Notable Chemist Of Georgia Tech Dr. Paul Kenneth Calaway, one of the south’s outstand ing chemists, has been named head of the Chemistry De partment. He will assume his duties Sept. 1. The new Chemistry Department head comes to A&M from Georgia Institute of Technology. He was head of Georgia Tech’s Chemistry Department from 1948 to 1954, when he was named director of the Tech Engineering Ex periment Station, which has a research volume of $2,000,000. “We are very pleased to be able to bring to our Depart ment of Chemistry a man with the administrative experience and position in the field of education in chemistry that Dr. Calaway commands,” Dr. Walter H. Delaplane, head of the School of Arts and Sciences,* said today. “Texas’ rapid industrial growth has made it a necessity that all firemen be trained in the most up- to-date methods of combatting all types of chemical, fuel and gas fires.” This statement wa3 made by R. Roy Simmons, chief training offi cer of the Dallas fire department, who is directing- the field opera tions of the one-week Texas Fire men’s Training School, which ends Friday. The school has enrolled approxi mately 1300 municipal, military and industrial firemen from throughout Texas arid 20 other- states. The school’s field opera tions, staged on a 24-acre area of the campus, include realistic dem onstrations of all types of resi dential and industrial fires, emer gency rescue operations, radiation detection, emergency driving and the use of gas masks. According to Simmons, firemen need to have the knowhow and equipment to be ready to meet the special fire-hazard problems which may result from the ever-increas ing number of industrial sites over the state and the mounting traffic of volatile liquids and gases being transported on our highways and railroads. In addition, he said, they need [to be prepared and equipped to rescue victims of fires, natural dis asters or enemy attack. A featured demonstration of this year’s school is an electrically-op erated fire hose nozzle which is perched atop an aerial ladder and operated by remote control, thus avoiding the necessity of the fire man exposing himself to the fire while extinguishing it. Other demonstrations, involving the use of thousands of gallons of crude oil, diesel oil, gasoline and butane gas daily, include an “air plane crash fire,” oil pit fire, bu tane gas fire, gasoline transport fire, house fix-es, etc. The fuel is contributed by various oil and gas companies. Radiation detection and protec tive measures against radiation ax-e also featured subjects of the school, because, according to Henry D. Smith, director of the school, “Firefighters must sex-ve as the public’s first line of defense against the disastrous effects of uncontrolled radiation, which may x-esult not only in the event of nu clear war, but in the event of ac cidental contamination which may occur in the peace time use ox- handling of radioactive materials in industry.” Students are x-eceiving training in the use of such radiation detec tion devices as geiger counters, TRAINING FOR ANY EMERGENCY was the order of the day at the Firemen’s training- school held this' week. Hefie a student demonstrates how to get an ambulatory case down a ladder. ionization chambers and dosime- tex-s. They ax-e also learning the most effective methods of decon tamination. Firemen studying emergency res cue operations are learning how to rescue victims “trapped” under various conditions in a simulated “disaster village”, which consists of various types of houses and buildings in varying states of de molition. They learn how to locate vic tims buried under buildings thru a special signalling system and how to cut tunnels and trenches through debris to reach the vic tims. Basic courses are given men at tending the school for the first time and advanced courses are con ducted or expex-ienced firefight ers. Special courses are being given for fire marshals, fire offi cers, training officers and military and industrial firemen. The school is conducted by the firemen training division of the Engineering Extension Service and sponsored by the State Fire men and Fire Marshals Associa tion. The i-escue ti-aining facilities were provided by the Texas Rescue School, which also is opei-ated by the Engineering Extension Service in cooperation with the State Di vision of Defense and Disaster Re lief and the Federal Civil Defense A d m i n i strati on. Children. His appointment was made at the Society’s executive committee meeting. Kiwanis members are reminded that next week’s meeting is “Sport Shirt Day” and all members are expected to turn out in their wild est shirts. Placement Tests Held August 3 & 17 Entering.freshman students who have not already taken pai-t in the Basic Division placement testing program may take these tests Sat urday, August 3 or August 17, during the 'second summer term. The complete battery of tests will be administered in the lecture room of the Biological Sciences Building and will start at 9 a.m., according to F. E. McFarland, di- x-ector of testing and research for the Basic Division. Reservations must be made in or der to take the tests and these may be made with Mrs. Mary Barnhill, Room 204 of the Basic Division Building. All entering students who are assigned to the Basic Division and all transfer students who have less than 30 semester hours are requir ed by the college to take these tests. Special summer school stu dents are not required to pax-tici- pate in these tests if they do not plan to receive a degree fi’om A&M. 29 Colleges AdoptNewText Of A&M Profs Twenty - nine colleges and universities have adopted as the required text, a new edi tion of a book written by two members of the A&M faculty. The book, Propagation of Horti- cultural Plants, by Dr. Guy W. Adriance, head, and Fred R. Pri son of the Department of Horti culture. Publisher is McGx-aw-Hill. In a recent letter to the authors Fx-ank W. Wigdahl, promotion manager for McGx-aw-HilTs Col lege Department, listed the schools which require the text. They are: The Univex-sity of California at Davis, Fx-esno State College, Yuba College, Chaffey College, Califor nia State Polytechnic College, Io wa State College, Louisiana State Univex-sity, Southeastern Louisiana College, the University of Mary land, the University of Massachus etts; Michigan State College, Missis sippi State College, Oklahoma A &M, Oi'egon State College, Rutgers University, Clemson College, Ten nessee Polytechnic Institute, How ard County Junior College, San Angelo College, Tyler Junior Col lege, A&M, Texas Tech, Tarleton State College, Texarkana College, Whai'ton Junior College, Weber College, the University of Vermont, Yakima Junior College and the University of Wisconsin. “Under Dr. Calaway’s direc tion we will continue to stress the strengthening of research and teaching programs in chemis try,” Delaplane said. Calaway holds an A. B. degree 1931, Arkansas College; M. S. de gree, Geoigia Tech, 1933 and Ph D. degree, University of Texas 1938. A native of Bethesda, Aide., he is a graduate of the Batesville high school. His field of major interest as an undergraduate was chemistry and his field of major intei’est as a graduate student was a major in organic chemistry; his minor was physical chemistry. Calaway was named an instx-uc- tor in chemistry at Georgia Tech in 1933 and from 1935 to 1938 he was a chemistry instructor at the University of Texas. He joined Georgia Tech again in 1938 and imse from insti'uctor to assistant professor to associate professor, professor and to head of the de partment and in 1954 named to di rect the Engineering Experiment Station. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, Georgia Acad emy of Science (Fellow), Sigma Xi and Phi Lambda Upsilon; he is listed in Amexdcan Men of Science, Who Knows and What, Who’s Who in Chemistry and Who’s Who in Education and a member of the American Association of Univer sity Professoi’s. In 1947 he was awarded the Sig ma Xi Research Prize, an annual prize given by Georgia Tech to the DCtlll S III FcltllCI* faculty member who has published J|| SiTICtllJ30rt Ozment Named Cl IS Principal By Trustees A former A&M counselor of cadets, E. P. Ozment, was named principal of A&M Con solidated High School at the recent meeting of the school trustees. Ozment has had 10 years ex perience as a public school admin- istrator. He comes to College Sta tion from Ganado where he had seiwed as high school principal since 1953. Prior to that time he had been principal, at Weimar from 1948 to 1950. He seiwed as counselor of ca dets at A&M from 1950 to 1952, though pai't of this two years was spent in the army during the Ko rean conflict. The new principal attained the rank of major during five yeai's of infantx-y sexwice in World War II. Ozment holds a B.A. degree from Henderson State College in Arkedelphia, Ark. He 1'eceived his masters degi’ees in education in 1944 from the University of Texas. J. J. Skrivanek, former CHS principal, has taken a teaching job with the Bryan school system. Education Prof Authors Paper On First Grade Elmer C. Ellis, of the De partment of Education and Psychology, is co-author of a monograph titled “Underage First Grade Enrollees,” re cently published by the University of Texas Press. The research study, sponsored by the Texas Elementary Px-inci- pals and Supervisors Association and the Texas Executive Commit tee of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, is a report of achievement and per sonal and social adjustment of chil dren who entered school before reaching six yeai’s of age. The two year study, made in seven selected school systems of Texas, involved more than 3,000 elementary school students, and is a 135 page study of school prog- x’ess of underage first grade en rollees compared with childi'en, who entered under normal age re quirements. Other authors of the monograph are Henry J. Otto, project coordi nator, and M. Vex , e DeVault, both of the University of Texas, and Edward M. Vodicka, Austin Public Schools. Russell Authors Geological Article the most important research paper during the year. He will succeed Dr. Fxmd W. Jensen as head of the department, who has been named “Distinguish ed Professor of Chemistry.” Jen sen asked that he be relieved of the administration duties in order to pursue his interest in reseax'ch. Calaway is married and the fa ther of three children, a boy, aged 9 and girls, 7 and 5 years of age. He and his wife and family plan to move to College Station some time in August. John Calhoun, father of John C. Calhoun Jr., dean of engineer ing at A&M, died early Tuesday at his home in Smethport, Penn. He had been ill a short time. Dean Calhoun is in Smethport. Funeral sex-vices will be held to day. Dr. W. L. Russell, research geo logist of the Texas Engineering Expex-iment Station, is the author of an article entitled “A New In strument for Measuring Bulk and Gi'ain Volumes.” It appeared in the July 1957 issue of the Journal of Petroleum Technology, official publication of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum En gineers. The article is scheduled for appearance also in the 1957 Transactions of the A.I.M.E. en titled Petroleum Development and Technology. The winting describes a pyco- nometer and new techniques Dr. Russell devised for laboratory de termination of the physical prop erties of geologic samples in the interest of aiding prospecting and well log interpretation. Reprint copies of the writing are being made available by the Texas Engineering Experiment Station. Lions Shown Film Of Dallas Tornado The College Station Lions Club met for their weekly luncheon meeting Monday in the Memorial Student Center and watched a film of this spi'ing’s Dallas toimado, entitled “Disaster Dallas.” George Huebner, program di rector for the month, presented the film, which was made by WFAA- TV of Fort Worth. Dave Fitch presided over the meeting during the absence of the local club president, Chaxdie Haas. Fitch reminded the club membei's of the board of dii’ectors meeting which was held yesterday at 12:30 in the MSC. Two Courses Set For Next Week Two short courses ax-e scheduled next week in the Memorial Stu dent Center. Sunday and Monday, the Texas livestock auction opera tors will meet and Tuesday the Symmetrical Components II shoi’t course is set. The auction shox-t course is spon sored by the Agricultui*al Econom ies and Sociology Depaximent with John McNeely chairing the pro- gx-ams. Sponsored by the Electrical En- gineering Department, the com ponents short course is under the direction of L. M. Haupt. Weather Today CLOUDY Partly cloudy skies, including scattered thundershowers, are pre dicted for the ax-ea. The high reading yestex’day was 96 degrees, with this mox-ning’s low, 73. At 10:30 a.m. the mercury stood at 87 degrees. DK. PAUL K. CALAWAY New Chemistry Department head