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Number 10: Volume 57
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1957
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Marine Corps
Recruiting Men
Visit A&M
The Marine Corps Officer
Procurement Team from San
Antonio will visit A&M on
Thursday and Friday, 15-16
August.
The team, headed by 1st Lieut.
Chaidea Id. Thompson, will be lo
cated in the Memorial Student (’en
ter by the Post Office from 8 a.m.
to 4:80 p.m. to interview gradu
ating Civilian students for the
Marine Coi’ps Officer Candidate
Corps.
The Officer Candidate attends
10 weeks of training- at Quahtico,
Va. after graduation from college.
Upon successful completion of
these 10 weeks, he is commissioned
second lieutenant, U. S. Marine
Corps Reserves, and remains on
active duty as an officer for three
years.
The young lieutenant’s first as
signment will be to the eight month
Officers’ Basic Course at Quantico.
Training as a Marine pilot is al
so available under this program.
The applicant is given mental and
physical tests to determine whether
lie is qualified to fly before he is
enrolled in the AO'CC.
If accepted for enrollment by the
Commandant of the Marine Corps,
the AO’CC" attends the same if)
weeks at Quantico as his ground
counterpart. Upon successful com
pletion he is commissioned and
goes directly to Pensacola, Fla.
for ir»-18 months of flight train
ing. He must agree to serve for
two years subsequent to comple
tion of flight training.
Applications for the last class
this year must roach Headquar
ters, U. S. Marine Corps by 1 Sep
tember. Reporting date for the
class is 28 September.
Currently there are three A&M
graduates attending the Officers’
Basic Course at Quantico who were
commissioned under this program.
One of these is Ronnie Greathouse,
former sports editor of The Bat
talion.
And Creamery
A $1,250,000 research center, designed to expand work
in the fields of biochemistry, nutrition and dairy science,
is nearing completion on the A&M campus.
The center is housed in the new biochemistry and dairy
sciences building, a three-story structure with a creamery
annex attached. Almost finished, a total of $1,266,119.49
has been invested in the structure and equipment, to provide
the most modern facilities available for biochemical studies.
The building houses some $170,OOO in laboratory equip
ment, including an electron microscope for studies of ex
tremely small particles, a $16,000 ultra-centrifuge for high
speed separations involving viruses and proteins and a
$13,000 electrophoresis app&r-♦
atus, also
Teague Returns
To Bryan, Base
Of Operations
MSC Dances End
The summer program of dances
ended with the Tuesday night
dance in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom. The MSC also
announced that the Sunday piano
recital by Martha Fletcher and
Claire Rogers marked the end of
the summer recital series.
for use in studies
of viruses and proteins, the
latter two pieces gifts from
the W e 1 c h Foundation of
Houston.
Development of the new center
also gives the dairy sciences de
partment of the college a model
creamery, that can process from
500 to 700 gallons of milk daily,
together with facilities for studies
of other dairy products, including
ice cream, cheeses and condensed
milk.
Construction of the center is
aimed at speeding up and expand
ing biochemical research in fields
affecting agriculture.
“Basically, all our work is con
cerned with agriculture”, says Ur.
Carl Lyman, head of the Depart
ment of Biochemi’str’y and 'Nutri
tion at the college.
“We are concerned with finding
out things that can be of imme
diate benefit to Texas agricultura.
This may involve fundamental re
search, or it may involve work with
more immediately visible results.
But the end is the same—we want
it to be of benefit to Texas agri
culture.”
Biochemical studies now under
way on the campus are state sup
ported or sponsored by federal
agencies, endowed foundations and
private industry. They range from
trying to find the answers to
“Guajillo Wobbles” in sheep,
through development of better an
alytical methods of determining
protein quality and quantity in
livestock feeds, to artificial diets
for bollworms, or finding answers
to feed spoilage problem's.
In this latter area, the imme
diately visible results are easily
translated into dollars and cents.
Dr. L. R. Richardson, who headed
up studies of the effects of heat
on various ingredients in mixed
feeds, says “. . . by the most con-
(See MILLION, Page 4)
Lake view I fosts
rsnsp
Conference
Lake view Methodist As
sembly, near Palestine, will
be host to the Fifth Annual
A&M Leadership Conference
starting Tuesday, September
10.
Top leaders from all phases of
campus activity including the class
presidents, the Cadet Colonel of
the Corps and his top commanders,
the. president of the YMCA Cabi
net, Student Senate representatives
and Memorial Student Center
Council and Directorate members
are among those expected to be
in attendance.
Student leaders from the Uni
versity and Texas Technological
College have also been invited to
attend. This is the second time
the conference has been able to
include other schools.
The program will get underway
Wednesday morning with a talk
by L. K. Jonas on the “Principals
of Leadership.” Jones is with
Supervisory Training, Texas Ex
tension Service. “The Etiquettte
of Leadership” will be the topic
for panel discussion by deans Rob
ert B. Kamm and Ide P. Trotter
and their wives.
Other speakers will include Maj.
Gen. William F. Dean, U.S.A. Ret.
and a prominent religious person
ality.
The conference is being financed
by various businessmen through
out' the state who have shown a vi
tal interest in youth leadership. In
addition to being academic the con
ference will also be social and will
include swimming and other social
recreation.
Representative O 1 i n E.
Teague will set up bis “home
base" here after the adjourn
ment of Congress toward the
end of the month.
Teague plans to utilize a trailer
as a traveling office. The trailer
will be used as a reception room
for the people of the Sixth Dis
trict while Teague .travels from
community to community to talk
to the citizens about personal
problems or legislative actions.
He invites the people of the com
munities td come ancl see him
about anything they care to talk
about.
Since three new counties have
been added to the Sixth District,
Teague will spend quite a bit of
time there to meet the people and
public officials of the new counties
to get a first-hand knowledge of
their various problems.
Teague will take three of his
Washington office staff with him
on the road. The Washington of
fice will remain open for those
who happen to be in the Capital
for some reason or the other who
care to come by.
Teague hopes to advise each
community in advance exactly
when he plans to be there. He
said his trailer will visit every
rural postoffice in his district.
EDITOR JIM NEIGHBORS
working on the special Ere,si
ust 22.
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AND EDITORIAL ASSISTANT GARY BROOKS are busy
iman edition of The Battalion. The publishing date is Aug-
Advance
For Fall
Room Reservation
Semester Opened
Information concerning room re
servation for the fall semester has
been released by the housing office.
Civilian students will occupy
Milner, Leggett, Mitchell, Law, Pur-
year, Dorm 1G, Bizzell, Walton—
ramps F,G,H,I,J,K, and Hart—A,B,
C,D,E.
Cadet Corps students will occupy
dorms 1 through 12 and dorms 14,
15 and 17.
Walton Hall, ramps A thru E,
will house the football and basket
ball players. Hart Hall, ramps' F
through J, will house the baseball,
track, swimming, golf and tennis
athletes.
All veterans will report to
Veteran’s Advisor’s Office located
on the ground floor of the YMCA
before paying fees and reserving
rooms.
After paying fees at the Fiscal
Texas Industrial
Conference Here
Biology Professor Receives
$25 Thousand Health Grant
Dr. Frederick H. Kasten
Dr. Frederick H. Kasten, of the
Biology Department, has received
notice of a $25,409 grant from the
United States Public Health Serv
ice, according to Dr. C. C. Doak,
department head.
Granted by the National Advis-
ory Council (cancer) and approved
by the surgeon general, the award
covers work to be administered
through the A&M Research Foun
dation over a three year period
on a cytochemical study of nucleic
acids and proteins in certain mouse
tumors.
Study of the chemicals has been
of particular research interest in
recent years because of their im
portance in cell division and me
tabolism.
Kasten, who received notice of
the grant from Dr. R. G. Meador,
chief of the research grants of the
National Cancer Institute, joined
the Biology Department in 1946.
He was Cancer Research Scien
tist at Roswell Park Memorial In
stitute, Buffalo, N.Y. for two
years, and received his PhD degree
in zoology in 1954 from the Univer
sity of Texas.
The president of the First Na
tional Bank of Paris, Tex., said
today at A&M that “it is highly
important in dealing with industri
al prospects that your city be re
presented by an industi’ial team
acting as a team rather than by
an individual or individuals.”
Consolidated
Educator Talks
To Kiwanis
Mrs. W. M. Dowell, director
of special education for A&M
Consolidated School, spoke to
the College Station Kiwanis
Club Tuesday on the guidance
program at the local high school.
She showed the group growth
charts of individual students td'
demonstrate the methods used to
aid in counseling the students who
need guidance. Included in her
talk was a progress report on the
guidance program.
Club President W. E. (Woody)
Briles announced the appointment
of the committee to nominate offi
cers and directors for next year.
Aden Magee is chairman with Bob
Cherry, Dick Hervey, T. M. Atkins
and Otis Miller serving as mem
bers. The committee’s recommen
dations will probably be reported
at next Tuesday’s meeting.
No formal meeting will be held
on Aug. 27, but the club will meet
in the Memorial Student Center
Fountain Room.
Thirty members of the club had
perfect attendance records for the
month of July.
We a th or Today
CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY
The high yesterday was 98 de
grees, and this mornings low, 74.
At 11 a. m. today the mercury
stood at 90 degrees.
Robert McWhirter, the Paris
banker, delivered the opening
address at the seventh annual
meeting of the Texas Industrial
Development Conference being
held at the Memorial Student
Center, Aug. 15-1G.
“Of course,” the banker declared,
‘this is basic in any type of en
deavor, but it is probably more
important in dealing with in
dustrial prospects since in most
cases you are dealing with a team
of experts which represents the
industry. .It is therefore a hope
less situation for one or more
individuals to negotiate with in
dustrial representatives without
having their own efforts fully co
ordinated.”
Banker McWhirter said that the
industrial team should have
frequent meetings and “at least a
portion of each meeting should be
devoted to a planning session dur
ing which the aims, strategy and
methods of the team are discussed,
coordinated and fully understood
by all members.”
He cited as one of the important
characteristics of a good industrial
team, the permanency of its mem
bership. “It is a fatal mistake to
change the membership of the in
dustrial team each time the ad
ministration of a chamber of com
merce changes.
“A good industrial team,” Mc
Whirter said, “has the same chair
man or co-chairmen and the same
members over a long period of
years.
“The industrial team,” the speak
er declared, “should at all times
maintain Very close liaison with
and closely work with the chamber
of commerce, industrial founda
tion, if any, power company in
dustrial division, railroads, gas
companies and others who assist in
locating and negotiating with in
dustrial prospects.”
Gordon Turrentine of the Hous
ton Chamber of Commerce, chaired
the opening session. More than
150 are in attendance.
Office, all students will reserve
rooms at the Housing Office.
Students now living in Law,
Puryear, Leggett, Hart (A thru E),
and Bizzell, who ivish to reserve the
room they now occupy must do so
betAveen 8 a. m. Monday, August
19 and 5 p. m. Wednesday, August
21. Civilian students who wish to
reserve a room other than the one
they now occupy may do so be
tween 8 a. m. Monday, August .19
and 5 p. m. Wednesday, August 21,
by presenting room change slips
from the housemaster concerned.
Beginning at 8 a. m. Thursday,
August 22, rooms in these dorms
will be available on a first-come
first-serve basis.
Students who Avish to rosorwe
rooms in a civilian dorm Avhich is
not closed may do so on a first-
come first-serVe basis beginning at
8 a.m. Monday, August 19 Avith the
exception of those rooms which
were reserved by students at the
close of the Spring Semester.
Students who will be in the Corps
of Cadets may reserve rooms be
ginning at 8 a. m. Monday, August
19.
All students AVith their belong
ings must be mdved to their hew
rooms by G p. m., Friday, August
28, Avith the exception of students
who will liA’e in dorm 2 Avhere
redecoimtion has not been complet
ed. Students who will live in dorm
2 should make arrangements- to
leave their belongings in a friend’s
room in the dorm 12 area until
they return. Dorms now closed will
be unlocked from 1 p. m. until
5 p. m. on August 22 and 23 to ac
commodate students who must
moye. In order to protect student
property, all dorms, except Bizzell
and ramp C of Hart Hall, aauIL be
locked at 6 p. m., Friday, August
23.
All day students, including those
living in College Apartments, aye
strongly urged to secure Day Stu
dent Permits and pay their fees?
early in order to save time for all
concerned.
STATUESQUE KITTY tie HOYOS, “MEXICO’S MARI
LYN MONROE.” had no comment in El Paso on reports
she would move from Mexico City to Hollywood. She is
currently on a tour of Northern Mexico.