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18,440 ilADHS THE TT Jl I 1 lALION Drive Coreftiliy Number 13: Volume 57 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1957 Price Five Cents BARNEY WELCH, director of intramural athletics, is shown preparing for the open* mg of the massive intramural athletics program. About 1,400 games in nine sports will be played during the fall semester. A&M’s . Nuclear Reactor Now Ready For Operation Nuclear education at A&M be came a reality this week when the AON 201 reactor was installed in the fifth wing of the mechanical engineering shop building. 1 Containing a core of enriched aranium, the reactor is now ready for use in student courses. In stallation of the reactor marks the first time in the history of the state that an atomic reactor has been, set up as a non-military facility for peaceful, educational uses. It is also the first reactor in Housing Office Surveys Homes • The annual survey to locate liv ing quarters in College Station and Bryan for families moving into this area began Tuesday, according to the Housing Office. With an anticipated increase in enrollment for the fall term, the housing office expects an equal increase in need for facilities for married couples and family groups. People of the community with rent property, such as rooms, garage apartments, houses or duplex and other apartments are invited to list them with the housing office, the announcement said. The housing office number is VI G-5713, College Station. the state offered to college stu dents for nuclear education train ing. Richard E. Wainerdi, associate professor of nuclear engineering, will be coordinator of the educa tional work, aided by E. H. Andrew Jr., Department of Electrical Engi neering', and D. F. Weekes, De partment of Physics, both of whom have received training in reactor operation. A shielding device on the reactor eliminates any possibility of over exposure of personnel even in the unlikely event of a power surge. CS Kiwanis Club Nominates Officers Nominations from the floor for club officers were called for by John Longley at the weekly meet ing of the College Station Ki wanis Club. Candidates named by the nomi nating committee included Longley for president. Bob Shrode for first vice president and Bill Krueger or K. A. (Cubby) Manning for second vice president. Dick Hervey presented a film highlighting the 1956 Aggie foot ball season narrated by Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant. Other safety features include power and reactivity monitors to operate a cut-off mechanism, and a fuse that will cause the core to separate in case oC a power surge. Purchase of the reactor was authorized last spring through a grant of $150,800 from the Atomic Energy Commission for an edu cation and training program in nuclear energy technology. The College also received a grant of $50,000 from the Welch Founda tion in Houston for work to be done with the reactor. “All phases of nuclear technology are considered to be potential sub ject matter in the educational pro gram of Texas A&M College,” Dr. John C. Calhoun Jr., dean of engineering, said concerning the equipment, “but the college realizes that its growth in this area must be gradual, planned and founded on sound educational methods. “Within these programs the stu dent will have considerable latitude in choosing the extent to which he will specialize in the nuclear field. He mby select only enough courses in this field to give him a working knowledge of nuclear science in general, or he may choose enough courses in nuclear science and engi neering to make this his major, while his basic field becomes a supporting minor.” e w YES, THEY’RE STILL digging and tearingthings up and then putting them back to- f gether again. This time it’s, the sidewalk between the YMCA and Mitchell Hall. Opens Local Marine Reserve Unit Holds Meetings Marine C o r p s Reservists who are students at A&M will have an opportunity to con tinue their reserve training- while going to school by at tending meetings of the local Mar ine unit. Members of the reserve that have obligated training under the six month active duty plan can complete most of their obligation during the four years of college. The local unit is of platoon strength and has a limited number of men that it can train. Appli cants will be accepted on a first- come basis. Training periods are each Mon day night from 5:30 to 7:30 in Room 110 of the Veterinary Medi cine Building. Training schedules are designed to offer the reservists a type of training that will keep abreast of the latest developments in weapons and techniques as they An enlisted reservist may select a training program that will lead to a commission upon graduation. 1st Lt. Robert L. Wilson, C-ll-W College View, is the platoon com mander and M/Sgt. Edgar D. Mc- M urry, Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology, is the platoon ser geant. Car Inspection Longer For ’58 Inspection time has rolled around again for more than four million automobile and truck owners in Texas. The inspection period has been lengthened this year under a pro vision of a state law setting Sept. 1, 1957 until April 15, 1958 as the time in which all vehicles must be checked for mechanical defects. Col. Homer Garrison, Jr., di rector of the Texas Department of Public Safety, in announcing the opening of the inspection period, recommended that every owner have his cars and trucks inspected at the beginning of the period. This, he said, will enable vehicle owners to obtain inspection stickei's before the holidays and before the last minute “log jam” at inspection stations. Garrison said that more than 4,200 licensed inspection stations in the state would have stickers on hand by the starting date and would be equipped to check vehicles without delay. Active Schedule Ahem! For Fish New Student Week program will get under way Monday with housing assignment and collection of fees, at the Me morial Student Center. In the evening a general assembly will be held in The Grove, with C. H. Ransdell, associate dean of the Basic division presiding. Welcoming- addresses woll be given by Dr. M. T. Harrington, president of the college and Bobby Joe Surovik, president of the Student Senate. Invocation will be given by Tommie R. Harris, corps chaplain. Walter Jenkins, choir director, First Methodist Church, Houston, will fu'r- nish the musical entertainment for the evening. Tuesday morning another general assembly will be held at the G. Rollie White coli-+ seum with invocation by Har ris and short talks by Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant, and Col. Henry Dittman, pro fessor of air science, and Col. Del- mar P. Anderson, professor of mil itary science and tactics. Rans dell again will preside. Following the hour long general assembly, a meeting for all cadets will be held in Guion hall with Col. Davis presiding. Talks on the military program at A&M will be given by Jon L. Hagler, cadet col onel of the Corps; Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, assistant commandant, and Davis. A simultaneous meet ing for civilian students will be held in the MSC with B. A. Zinn, director, Department of Student Affairs, presiding. Talks on civilian student pro grams and responsibilities will be given by Billy L. Clark, president, Civilian Student Council and W. G. Breazeale and Robert O. Murray, civilian counselors. Separate meetings for cadets and civilian students will continue in the af ternoon to further orientate fresh man students on college life. Tuesday evening an open house for all new students will he held in the MSC with an informal recep tion in the ball room to present the President and Mrs. Harring ton, Dean of the Basic Division and Student Personnel Services and Mrs. Robert B. Kamm, mem bers of the staff and faculty of the college, Donald D. McGinty, arid Donald R. Cloud, president and vice president, respectively, of the MSC Council, to the new students, their families and friends. The re ception will be sponsoi’ed by the MSC Directorate. Wednesday general assemblies for all .new students will be held with advisers- of the students’ ma jor departments. The evening general assembly at The Grove will have J. Cordon Gay, coordinator of religious life and general sec retary, YMCA, presiding. Richard McGlaun, civilian student chap lain, will deliver the invocation, followed by a talk on religion at Aggieland by Curtis Schulze, pres ident YMCA Cabinet. Local min isters will be introduced, followed by benediction by Billy W. Libby, band chaplain. The new students then will attend open house at local churches. The Thursday program will be gin with a general assembly in C. Rollie White coliseum with S. A. Kerley, director, group work and counseling, Basic Division, presid ing. Asa B. Childers Jr., First Regiment chaplain, will give the invocation. Talks will be given by Dr. C. R. Lyons, director, Student Health Services; Ransdell, associ ate dean, Basic Division, and Wil liam B. Heye Jr., president, Fresh man Engineering Council. The remainder of the morning will he taken up with individual confer ences with the Basic Division staff. Cadet and civilian meetings in the afternoon will offer information on registering. The first yell practice of the year will be held during the even ing general assembly at The Grove. W. L. Renbei'thy, director, Depart ment of Student Activities, will preside at the meeting which will be opened with invocation by Sid ney N. Allen, assistant civilian (See NEW STUDENTS, Page 2) '57 Aggielands Arrive Today For Delivery Twenty tons of 1957 Aggie- land yearbooks are scheduled to arrive today from San An tonio where the last step in the bindery was accomplish ed. At noon today Campus Security officials roped off a zone for the two trucks to unload in front of the YMCA building. Building & College Utilities as signed four huskies with hand trucks to unload the 5,200 books which weigh approximately seven pounds each. Distribution in Room 4 of the YMCA building was planned to be gin immediately as the first boxes were brought in. Although no books will be dis tributed this Saturday, the office will be open all next week includ ing- the two days of registration. No long lines of waiting are anti cipated. This year’s book, edited by Don Burt of Crandall, has a deep ma- room cover with brilliant white let tering. The design carries the traditional senior ring. Inside pages are printed in two colors with eight pages of full col or, Vanity Fair pages and divis ion pages are printed in two col ors. The division pages this year consist of huge, double-page pho tographs of campus b u i 1 d i n g s printed in maroon halftones with white and black lettering. Ross Strader, director of Student Publications, said this book will he entered in three national con tests. He considers the 1957 Ag- gieland one of the best ever pro duced. Approximately 1,000 copies have been pre-wrapped for mailing and most of those will be placed in the mail within the next two weeks to those students who have prepaid the postage. The Office of Student Publica tions expects to distribute about 400 copies over the counter this week and approximately 3,000 next week. Ernest Langford Takes Over As New College Archivist Tax Payer Lunges At Revenue Man R. L. Phinney, Distinct Director of Internal Revenue, announced to day that a 44-year old Huntsville man accused of lunging with a knife at an Internal Revenue officer interviewing him about unpajid taxes was brought to Houston late Thursday and placed in the county jail. Herman D. Cole, the prisoner, was charged before the United States Commissioner with endea voring to obstruct and intimidate Internal Revenue officers with force or threats of force in the execution of their duties. Phinney said the two officers of the Beaumont office, David Denker and Lewis P. Byrne, were talking to Cole last week when Cole became angry and lunged with his knife. No one was hurt. Ernest Langford, retired head of the Division of Arch itecture, is the new archivist at the college. Langford was placed in charge of the office by the Association of Former Students, sponsors of the office. The Archives office is located in the Memorial Student Center. One of the mist widely known architect educators in the nation, Langford went on retirement Sept. 1, this year. He had been on mod ified service since Sept. 1, 1950. A graduate of the college (1913), he joined the architectural staff in 1915 and in 1929 was made head of the department. He spent six years (1919-1925) at the Univer sity of Illinois as a member of the architectural staff. Langford, also a widely known civic leader, is now serving his eighth consesutive term (two years each, elective, non-paying) as ma yor of College Station. Weather Today CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY Temperature reading at 10:30 this morning was 80 degrees. Yes terday’s high and low—92 and 08 degrees. Ernest Langford