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Firemen’s School Demonstration p| " i | fil HI ■ 1 ■ ■ ■ , : : ' . : - ■ ;:? : ; i , .*■' Vv/- ‘a ; ti- : mm, ■ I ' . ^ " ■: ■■ r : * \ K ! m ■ ■$? ■f-. 4$*$ M!lL Z*-. ■ . '--Hr' Start of Fire Battalion Stall' Bhoto School Attracts Total of 1,467 A record total attendance of 1,467 was reached by the 29th An nual Firemen’s Training 1 School which began Monday on the cam pus and continues through tomor row. Included in the total are 983 stu dents, 242 instructors and admin istrators and 242 visitors with more visitors today and tomorrow expected to swell the record total Police Investigate Iwo Auto Accidents A Negro man, Lige Price, was charged with failure to yield right- of-way following a collision at the intersection of Highway 6 and Lincoln shortly before 8 Monday night. The accident occurred when Price, Rt. 2, Bryan, who was traveling south on Highway 6, turned left into the path of a 1952 Cadillac driven by a New Mexicoan, Roy L. Jewell, who was traveling north on Highway 6. Investigating officer, Patrolman Marvin Byixl, estimated damage to the two cars at $600 to $700. Sunday night Patrolman Melvin Luedke investigated a minor ac cident in the 200 block of Kyle Street. The accident happened when James Henry Barnett backed his car out of a driveway into a parked automobile belonging to Fred Reynolds Jr., said Luedke. Damage was estimated at $50 to Reynolds’ car. to an even higher figure, accord ing to Henry D. Smith, chief of the school. Representatives are present from 378 Texas towns and cities and from 27 cities in 15 other states. The armed forces have 12 Texas and 12 out-of-state installations represented. Included in the school are nine separate courses of instruction in fields related to fire fighting. The school is being conducted under the auspices of the State Firemen’s and Fire Marshals’ As sociation and the Engineering Ex tension Service. All equipment and fuels being used in the school are being do nated by the cities, the United States government and private firms and individuals, said Smith. Classes are being held in various buildings over the campus with ac tual fii’e fighting demonstrations being confined to a 26-acre tract north of College View. Announcements 9 Sale Ends August 1 Seniors who expect to graduate in August were reminded Wednesday by W. L. Penberthy, director of Student Activities, to order graduation announcements before Aug. 1. Penberthy said the announce ments may be ordered in the Student Activities Office, second floor of the YMCA. Height of Blaze Dying Wisps THE BATTALION Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus Number 144: Volume 57 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1958 Price Five Cents Work Starts On South’s First Educational Reactor Harp Duet Program For Sunday Recital The Memorial Student Center Summer Music Series will present their sixth program on Sunday, at 3 p. m. in the Main Lounge with Linda Potts and Janis Grumbles a>s featured harpists. Among the selections for the recital will be “Sixth French Suite,” “Gavotte,” “Spanish Dance,” “On Wings of Song,” “LTndifferent,” “La Joyeuse,” “Chanson dans la Nuit” and “Night Breeze.” Pat Resley will introduce the program. Miss Potts attended Stephen F. Austin High School where she was R. E. Patterson Picked For Ag Vice-President Dr. R. E. (Pat) Patterson, vice director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station was named Vice President for Agriculture of the A&M System by the Board of Directors, meeting in Austin Wed nesday, on recommendation of President M. T. Harrington. Patterson will take his new po sition as head of agricultural re search, teaching and extension work throughout the state-wide System on Aug. 1. He succeeds D. W. Williams, who has gone to Ceylon as agricultural consultant under A&M’s technical assistance program. The new head of the statewide agricultural services of the Sys tem has come up through the ranks of teaching and research since he joined the A&M staff in 1934 as a graduate assistant in the Depart ment of Genetics. He served as a research assistant, assistant pro fessor of genetics and animal hus bandry before being made assist ant director of the Texas Agricul tural Experiment Station and pro fessor of Animal Husbandry in 1947. He was named vice director for the' research organization in '1950. As a research worker in genet ics, Patterson made significant con tributions to the development of better Texas wool through the im provement of breeds of sheep. He was an early contributor to re search which developed the per formance and progeny testing pro grams which have revolutionized the Texas cattle industry in re cent years. He also did early work on the development of methods for Second Term Draws 2,183 Students A total of 2,183 students have enrolled for the second term of the summer session, according to H. L. Heaton, Registrar. For the same period last year 2,038 enrolled. The total includes 175 at the Junction Adjunct and 75 women students on the campus. Last year 161 had enrolled at Junction and 79 women students enrolled at A&M. l> ■.iigian i-mm. statistical analysis of research re sults. A native of Gueyden, La., where he was born in 1907, Patterson was raised on a rice and stock farm in that coastal area. He attended Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. He received his B.S. de gree in Agriculture from L.S.U. in 1934, his M.S. in Genetics from A&M in 1936 and his Ph.D. in Ani mal Genetics from A&M in 1943. He also did some graduate work at the University of Virginia. Patterson is a Fellow in the American Association for the Ad vancement of Science and holds membership in many other learned societies and scientific associations. He has been advisor to the South ern Regional committee on beef cattle breeding programs since 1947. In 1956 he seiwed as the chairman of the Southern Regional Research Committee of the Direc tors of Agricultural Experiment Stations and as secretary of the Agricultural Experiment Station section on Organization and Policy of the American Association of Land-Grant Colleges and State Universities. a member of both the all-star band and orchestra. She was a guest ai'tist with the Sam Houston State Band and Texas Tech College Orchestra, harpist for the Houston Youth Symphony and has made many radio and television appear ances. Miss Potts played with the University Harp Ensemble while attending the University of Texas and was a member of the Harp Ensemble, University Orchestra, Girls Choral Group, and the Austin Symphony. Miss Potts gave her graduation recital on June 30 in Austin, which completed re quirements for her Bachelor of Music Degree. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Potts, Old College Road. Miss Potts will con tinue her study of music and plans to work on her Master’s Degree. Miss Grumbles received her Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Texas in 1957. While attending the University, she play ed with the Symphonic Band and Symphony Orchestra and with the Harp Quintet Lor two years. The Harp Quintet played local pro grams and traveled over Texas. Miss Grumbles has worked with radio and television, doing back ground music for radio broadcasts and programs in Bryan and Austin. She plays for teas, receptions, wed dings, luncheons, banquets, and general program music for various clubs and civic groups. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Grumbles, 911 East 37th St. Austin. Miss Grumbles will work on a Master of Music Degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music in Cleveland, Ohio. Former Tech Prof Takes TTI Job Charles Pinnell, a former mem ber of the Texas Tech faculty, has accepted a position as assistant re search engineer with the Texas Transportation Institute. A native of Andrews, Pinnell re ceived his bachelor’s degree from Texas Tech in 1952 and his mas ter’s degree from Purdue in Jan uary, 1958. Loan Group Seeks Charter Friday Morning Three men, representing the proposed Community Savings and Loan Association, will go to Austin tomorrow to appear before the Texas Bank Com mission to begin the necessary steps for securing a charter for the association. Phillip G. Goode, accounting pro fessor and attorney, R. V. Arm strong, Bryan attorney, and H. E. Burgess, local insuranceman, will appear before the commission at 10 Friday morning. Stock for the proposed local con cern went on sale July 10 at a public meeting with 1,100 of the proposed 2,000 shares being sold that night. Sale of stock lasted for 11 days with 2,218 shares being sold at $125 each, giving the planned con cern $277,250 on deposit at the Col lege Station State Bank, according to Burgess. Planned capital is 200,000 and $50,000 surplus. Burgess said the charter should be granted within two months. Further plans as to location and permanent organization will be completed when the charter is re ceived. “I feel that the rapid purchase of the stock is a real compliment to the community in that it shows that they will get behind a com munity project,” said Burgess. The organization of the firm is being completed with no cost to stockholders with no one receiving any fees or commissions, said Burgess. Pui’pose of the firm will be to meet the demands of additional residential and commercial loan re quirements of the community and offer an excellent savings source, Burgess said. Temporary directors other than Burgess, Goode and Armstrong in clude: Charles N. Smith of Smith Cleaners; Dr. T. W. Leland, head of the Division of Business Admini stration; Mills P. Walker, chair man of the Bryan Eagle board and president of the Texas Central Life Insurance Co.; and H. D. Butler, Butler Consti'uction Co., Bryan. Initial Contract Awarded for Work First progress toward establishment of the South’s first nuclear research reactor in an educational institution was made by the A&M Board of Directors yesterday in Austin. The board awarded a $111,000 contract to Convair Nu clear Laboratories of Fort Worth for the engineering design of the first phase of the planned center. Total cost of the research and educational facility is expected to cost A&M about three million dollars. First parts of the center are expected to be ready for use within 18 months, according to Dr. John Calhoun, vice president for engineering. The station is designed to aid in experimentations in the '♦■fields of biology, physics, che- Democratic Primary Vote Set Saturday College Station’s qualified vo ters will go to the polls Satur day to cast their votes in the Democratic Primary election with 28 state, county and pre cinct places to be decided on the ballot as 16 candidates face no opposition. Residents who live in Precinct 3 will cast their votes at A&M Consolidated School and Precinct 16 voters will mark their ballots in the Culpepper Building be ginning at 8 a.m. and continuing through 7 p.m. Immediately following the close of voting, precinct conven tions will be held. The county convention will be held Aug. 2 at 2 p.m. in the National Guard Armory in Bryan. In absentee balloting, which closed Tuesday midnight, 355 ab sentee votes were cast, 297 in the office and 58 by mail. On the local scene incumbent State Rep. B. H. Dewey Jr. faces opposition in the form of E. R. Alexander. County Judge A. S. Ware is opposed by W. C. Davis. R. E. Day and J. L. John son face each other in the Pre cinct 4, Place 2, Justice of the Peace spot which includes part of College Station. Precinct 7 Justice of the Peace, John S. Royder whose jurisdiction in cludes part of College Station is unopposed. (Sample Ballot on Page 4) mistry, agriculture, engineer ing, veterinary medicine and possibly human medicine said Dr. Aaron Rose, head of the Engineering Experiment Station under whose direction the new plant will fall. A food preservation study through h’radiation and how heal ing of injuries would be affected by radiation will be one of the first projects said Calhoun. Other projects will include tests of industrial materials, Calhoun added. Foreign Students In Special Course Seventeen foreign students are enrolled in an English orientation course, according to James N. Shepperd, assistant professor of English. Fifteen students are from Latin American countries and two are from Iran and Iraq. The course is being taught by Shepperd, who teaches composition and reading, and Joe J. Woolket, head of the Department of Modern Languages, who teaches conversa tion and pronunciation. Most of the students are attend ing- A&M at their own expense, Shepperd said, but some have scholarships and the student from Iraq was sent by the government of that country. Fellowships Council To Meet Saturday College Station Council of Youth Fellowships will meet at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the A&M Presbyterian Church. A salad supper and pro- gram are planned.