Gustav M. Watkins
new Dean of Agriculture
Watkins to Replace
A
Miller as Ag Dean
Dr. Gustav M. Watkins, head of
the Departmentof Plant Physiology
and Pathology since 1950, Has been
named Dean of the School of Agri-
rultm’e, effective July 1, President
T. Harrington announced yes-
lerday.
The new agriculture dean will
replace J. C. Miller in that posi
tion. Miller resigned effective June
30 to take a similiar job at Oregon
State University.
Watkjns joined the Texas Agri
cultural Experiment Station Staff
as a research worker in plant
pathology in 1935, leaving in 1941
to accept a position as associate
professor at Sam Houston State
College in Huntsville. Watkins
joined the United States Depart-
Aggies to Attend
Dallas Meeting
On Advertising
Ten Aggies and one faculty
member will leave the campus Sun
day afternoon to attend an annual
function of the Dallas Advertis
ing League to be held in Dallas
May 4-G.
Nine journalism majors and one
business administration student,
all specializing in advertising, and
W. D. Calvert, assistant journalism
pi-ofessoi’, will be taken on a tour
of advei’tising establishments in
Dallas.
Festivities will begin with a buf
fet in the Adolphus Hotel Sunday
evening and. will get into full
swing Monday morning.
The group will tour the adver
tising department of Sanger’s,
Titche-Goettinger and Neiman-
Marcus department stores and
eight advertising agencies. A tour
will be made of the Dallas Morn
ing News, WFAA-TV, KRLD-TV,
the new Dallas Federal Saving's
and loan Assn., several paper
companies and planting and en
graving plants.
Students who will make the trip
are Jim Baytes, Bob Kerr, John Di-
Battista, Toby Mattox, Jim Moore,
Gary Rollins, Dave McLain, Jim
Coston, Bob Weekley and Bill Reed.
Board of Directors
Pick System Banks
The Bank of the Southwest, of
Houston, and The Fii'st National
and Republic National banks, both
of Dallas, were named depository
banks for the A&M College Sys
tem by the Board of Directors Sat
urday.
President M. T. Harxington was
authorized to negotiate a deposi
tory agi’eexxxent with the banks.
All funds under the control of the
Board of Directors are kept on de
posit in these officially designated
depositox'ies, with interest being-
paid by the banks on time de
posits.
ment of Agriculture as plant
pathologist in 1943. He left the
depai’tment iix 1945 to enlist iix the
navy. Until 1949 he was mycologist
at the U. S. Naval Oxdnance Lab
oratory. In 1950 he returned to
A&M.
He graduated from the Univer
sity of Texas in 1929 with a B.A.
degx-ee in botany and received his
M.S. in botany from U T in 1930.
Watkins was awarded a Ph.D. de
gree in plant cytology from Colum
bia University in 1935.
As a x-esult of his studies of cot
ton root x-ot, Watkins received a
National Research Fellowship in
1939.
He is a member of the Amex-ican
Association for the Advancement
of Science, the Botanical Society of
America, the American Phisologi-
cal Society and the Society of
American Plant Physiologists.
Engineers’ Society
Adds 58 Members
A&M’s chapter of Tau Beta Phi,
national scholastic society for en
gineers, initiated 17 seniors, 35
juniors and G alumni members at
its spring initiation exex-cises in
the Memox’ial Student Cexxter As
sembly Room yesterday.
The spx-ing banquet was held in
the MSG Ballroom last night.
H. W. Sindt, px-esident of the
Texas Society of Professional En-
gineers, delivered the principal ad-
dress.
THE
BATTALION
Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 124: Volume 57
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1958
Price Five Cents
Board Amends Required
Grade Point Ratio System
News of the World Jam *‘ s Sairan
To I»e 1 fonored
By ’58 Seniors
First Republican Files for Senate
Roy Whittenburg, prominent Texas Panhandle business
man and civic leader, announced his candidacy in Amarillo
Tuesday for the Republican nomination for the U. S. Senate.
He was the first Republican to file for the office now held
by Ralph Yarborough.
Whittenburg advocated the election of federal judges
and criticized recent Supreme Court decisions in announcing
his platform.
Gromyko Attacks Ike’s Plan
Andrei Gromyko lashed out Tuesday in Moscow against
President Eisenhower’s proposal for international inspection
of the Arctic, charging it is a bid for intelligence data on
Soviet territory.
Gromyko’s attack came as the United Nation’s Security
Council was debating the plan in New York City. Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold urged the council to accept the
plan as the debate opened Tuesday.
Senate Approves Pay Raise
The Senate passed by an 87-0 vote Tuesday in Washing
ton a bill providing for a general pay raise for the Army,
Navy and Air Force.
The bill now goes to the House where, if it passes, it
will give raises to almost every officer and enlisted man with
more than two years service. Added spending caused by
the bill will amount to 576 million dollars in the first year.
Unemployment Declines
April unemployment declined 78,000 according to figures
released by the government Tuesday. The new figure of un
employed is now 5,120,000 and is the first time the figure has
decreased from one month to the next since last October.
The Class of ’58 met last
night in the Business Admin
istration Building and voted
in favor of leaving a class gift
of $2,000 in memory of James
Sax-can toward the installation of
an xxndergToxind sprinkler system
for the drill field.
Sarx-an, ’58, was killed dux-ing
Bonfire Week in 1955. He was
ex-ushed between a truck and a
car as he sex-ved coffee to Ags
guarding the bonfire. Sax*ran push
ed two other Aggies from the cax-’s
path before he was hit. The an
nual Thanksgiving Day game, 1955,
was dedicated to Sax-x-an, who died
the night of the game.
It was also announced that
Boyce House, columnist and famed
“Texas Bx-ags” authox-, will be the
speaker at the Senior Banquet in
Duncan Hall, May 17.
Banquet tickets must be
purchased from the Student
Activities Office before May 7.
Class Work Eyed
To Aid Education
The Board of Directors Saturday adopted an amendment
to replace the 1.0 grade point ratio requirement to remain
in the Corps. The 1.0 provision was included in the order
passed by the board last fall establishing compulsory military
training.
The amendment charges the college administration with
the responsibility of requiring satisfactory academic perfor
mance of all students.
“This change was made on the recommendation of the
Executive Committee of the Academic Council,” Dr. J. B.
Page, dean of the college, said. “It places academic achieve
ment of first importance and requires that the military train-
4 ing program and all other non-
Solon Attacks Plan
F or Def enseChange
WASHINGTON GT)—Rep Kilday
D-Tex said today that Px-esident
Eisenhower’s plan to revamp the
armed forces could lead to a mili
tary organization moi'e powei’ful
than the old German Genex-al Staff.
Gen. Nathan F. Twining, chaix--
man of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of
Staff, disagreed, Twining said
there ax-e enough safeguards in the
reorganization bill to prevent the
armed fox-ces from becoming too
powerful. Not that they would
want to, he added.
Twining continued his prolonged
appearance before the House
Armed Sex-vices Committee in sup
port of the administration’s bill.
Among other things it would con
centrate strategic planning in a
Joint Staff including x-epresenta-
tives of all the military services.
Annual
Opens
Ag Rodeo
Thursday
The select, six-man Aggie Rodeo
team will move onto the local rojfeo
arena tomorrow night at 8 as A&M
Rodeo Club stages its ninth annual
National Intercollegiate Rodeo As
sociation show.
The x-odeo will run for three
nights—May 1, 2 and 3. A mati-
YMCA Selecting
Camp Counselors
Inerviews for 1958 YMCA Fresh
man Camp couixselox-s will begin
tomorrow in the YMCA, Carl Ziet-
low, “Y” associate secx-etary said
yesterday.
All students wishing to be a
counselor at one of the two camps
to be held prior to New Student
Week next September may obtain
application blanks and arrange for
an intex-view at the main desk in
the YMCA, Zietlow said.
Last year’s camp counselors dis
cussed qualifications and planned
the intex-views at a steak fx-y last
night in Hensel Park. They re
ported interest in the camp high
among high school students hex-e
for high school honox-s day last
weekend.
nee pex-formance will get under way
at 2 p.m. on May 3.
The Aggie team, now in secoxxd
place in the Southern Region of
N.I.R.A., was selected from mem
bership of the rodeo club oxx the
basis of outstanding pex-fox-mance.
Teams from 16 schools in the
Southex-n Region will be x-epi-esent-
ed in the x-odeo, which will offer
eight coxxxpetitive events aixd a cut
ting horse contest. The events ax-e
bareback bronc riding, saddle bronc
riding, bull riding-, bull-dogging,
calf tie-down roping, ribbon rop
ing and two events for gix-1 entries,
bax-rel racing- and goat tying.
Don Bissett will handle the an
nouncing for the affair, while
Royce Hudson, Eddie Farris and
Tinker Clift handle x-oles as clowns.
The members of the team ax-e J.
C. Dishixian of Beaumont, Eddie
Fax-ids of Llano, Phillip Cox of
Baytown, Doyle McSpadden of Ro-
tan, Kennith Beasley of Fxeeport
and Rodney Butler of Sulphur, La.
Tickets are now on sale for 50
cents and may be pux'chased from
aixy nxember of the x-odeo club. The
pi-ice of the tickets will be raised
to 60 cents at the gate.
Cox-ps members may attend the
rodeo non-reg.
Third Straight A&M Victory
Cox’s Paper Wins
Interstate Contest
James R. Cox, senior electrical
engineering major, added another
award to his record when he won
the student paper contest of 7th
District of the Axnerican Institute
of Electrical Engineers last week
at the University of Arkansas iix
Fayetteville.
Cox’s paper, entitled “Grid Cur
rent Measurements with A.D.C.
Analog Computex-”, was judged
best of the 19 papers in the con
test. Papers wex-e presented by
students from 19 of the 22 schools
in the 7th Disti-ict. The district in
cludes all schools with AIEE stu
dent bx-anches in New Mexico, Tex
as, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri,
Arkansas and western Louisiana.
The victory marks the thix-d con
secutive year A&M’s AIEE Chap
ter has won the contest. Previous
winners were W. F. Osborn in 1956
and F. W. Muller in 1957.
In recognition of Cox’s winning
papex-, the local society receives a
cup. Cox will receive a certificate,
a cash prize of $25 and an all ex-
penses-paid tx-ip to the summer
genex-al meeting of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers
which will be held in Buffalo, N.Y.,
this summer.
Cox previously won first place
at the Southwestern IRE Confer
ence in San Antonio and the IRE
Y* Cabinet Names
Coffman President
Rob Coffman, junior from Fort
Worth, took over the reins as pres
ident of the YMCA Cabinet last
night as “Y” members installed
next year’s officers at a steak fry
in Hensel Pax-k last night.
Other officex-s of the 1958-59
cabinet are: Wayne Culberth, vice
px-esident; David Wallace, secre-
tax-y-treasurer; Junior Hickman,
reporter; Bill Shenkii-, program
chairman; Bill Stevens, senior rep
resentative; Jimmy Wolfe, junior
representative; and Larry Day,
sophomore x-epresentative.
Twenty-eight persons attended
the steak fry. The officex-s were
elected in a cabinet general elec
tion Monday.
contest between the University of
Houston, A&M and Rice Institute
sponsored by the Houston section
of the IRE at A&M.
Students to Receive
Journalism Awards
Sevex-al journalism scholarship
winners will be announced at the
second annxxal Journalism Awards
Banquet at Del Marmol’s Restau-
x-ant in Bryan Fx-iday night, Gayle
McNutt, president-elect of Sigma!
Delta Chi, said yesterday.
Calvin Clyde, president of the
Texas Daily Newspaper Assn, will
be gxiest speaker at the banquet
which begins at 7.
Along with the naming of schol-
ax-ship winnex-s, outstanding stu
dent publication workers and top
journalism students from each
class will be named.
ips pppfrer
Ag Mental State
Alleged‘Strong’
By Psychologist
A&M students probably have
fewer serious mental disturbances
percentage-wise than most other
colleges, Di\ Warx-en Bonney, clin
ical psychologist on the college
hospital staff told College Station
Kiwanians yestex-day.
He said about five per cent of
the A&M student body are serious
ly disturbed mentally, but this was
nothing to be alarmed about and
was in accordance with other col
leges.
Mental illness is the No. 1 health
problem in America, with more
mental patients in the nation’s hos
pitals than all other serious ill
nesses combined, Bonney added.
He said the medical field is taking
the lead to treat mental illness as
such.
“We need a px-eventitive fox-
mental disorders, not a cux-e,” Bon
ney stated. “This is being aided
by public schools, colleges, churches
and civic associations thx-ough
their work.”
The psychologist said usually
only three or four psychotic break
downs among Aggies occuxx-ed
each year, although many each
year have mental distux-bances, es
pecially among entering freshmen.
“It is our job to remove these
students and place them whex-e
they may x-eceive treatment,” he
said.
Bonney said the best treatment
for most mental disox-ders was
someone whom the disturbed per
son trusts and x-espects and who
will talk the problem out.
“This is why a close relation be
tween students and faculty is of
such gx-eat impox-tance,” he stress
ed.
academic activities supple
ment the educational pro
gram.”
“The Academic Council and
others in the administx-ation of the
college ax-e specifically charged
with the x-esponsibility for govern
ing student life and activities, both
within the Corps of Cadets and
among Civilian students on the
campus,” Page said.
The policy x-ecognizes a single
student body on the campus and
spates that all students must meet
the same high academic require
ments and all activities must be
conducted so that they contribute
to the highest quality of academic
achievement, said Page.
New Plan
The new plan x-eads as follows:
“Effective the fall semester,
September, 1958, entering stu
dents with freshman classifica
tion will have military training
as a part of their required cur
riculum for two years, with the
exception of those who have had
previous service with the armed
forces, physically handicapped
and foreign students.
“It is the intent of the Board
in adopting this policy that the
military training- be such as to
supplement a high standard of
academic training and the Corps
of Cadets will be so administered
as to achieve this goal. The ad
ministration (including all mem
bers of the Academic Council) of
the A&M College is charged with
the responsibility to see that this
policy is so administered that
students participating ixx the
Corps and other non-academic
activities maintain a satisfactory
academic record.”
Passed Unanimously
The Board passed the new plan
drafted by the Council unanimous
ly without x-evision, vice president
Earl Rudder, said.
Students entering A&M next fall
(see BOARD page 4)
B
—iia.Lianon Slalt X’hoto
Arts & Sciences Awards Winners
left to right, Robert J. Ring Jr., Stanley L. Barnes, Pete Dominic Ghilgieri.