The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
Thursday, January 29, 1959
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One-Year Leave of Absence
Dillon Receives Science Fellowship
For Research, Teaching in Australia
New Coaches Join Athletic Department 1
Dr. Lawrence S. Dillon, associate
professor in the Department of
Biology, has received a Science
Faculty Fellowship from the Na
tional Science Foundation for a
year of research and teaching in
Australia.
He plans to leave for Australia
Feb. 3, to enter the Department
of Zoology, University of Queens
land, Brisbane. Dillon has been
granted a one-year leave of ab
sence by the college.
“Evolution of the Vertebrate^’
is the broad topic of Dillon’s re
search program which will involve
a study of primitive reptiles and
fish that are found only in Aus
tralia.
To Study Mammals
He is scheduled to make a study
of the duck-billed Platypus and
the spiney anteater egg-laying
mammals, and Marsupials, or
pouch mammals, such as the kan
garoo, pouch mice and koalo, and
Lung fish.
In addition to his research work,
Dillon expects to do a limited
amount of teaching and plans to
observe Australian teaching meth
ods.
Mrs. Dillon will accompany him
to Australia and will assist in his
research, both in the field and in
the lab. She is a secretary-tech
nician at the Forest Genetics Lab
oratory of the Texas Forest Serv
ice.
Expenses Paid
The National Science Foundation
is providing Dillon with a grant
to cover his general salary for
one year plus travel expense ac
count.
Dillon, a member of the A&M
faculty since 1948, was recently
elected a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement
of Science in recognition of his
scientific achievements. He has
been participating in activities of
Dr. L. S. Dillon
. research in Australia
Lone Star Gas
Requests Call
For Rate Hike
If a request by Lone Star Gas
Co. is ultimately approved, gas
utility rate in College Station will
increase 33% per cent over present
figures.
The firm is seeking a one-third
increase in the gate rate it charges
318 Texas cities. A hearing was
scheduled for Jan. 12 before the
Texas Railroad Commission to de
cide the matter, but city officials
asked for, and received, a 60-day
continuance of the hearing so that
cities might studv the comuanv’s
evidence of need for the rate hike.
From a group of 18 municipal
representatives at the Jan. 12
hearing, a 7-man study committee
on “utility rate-making” was cho
sen. The committee will review
methods used in other states in
establishing fair utility rates.
Louie Welch of Houston, council-
man-at-large of the Texas Muni
cipal League, said the puruose of
the committee is to bring both
lai’ge and small municipal repre
sentatives together to studv means
qf assuring that all utility rates
are fair and just.
“Many of our smaller Texas
cities,” Welch said, “are faced
with numerous rate increase re
quests and do not have the neces
sary funds to hire rate specialists.
Rate determination is a highly
technical problem and requires
considerable research and thus a
great deal of money on the part
of citiess to protect the public in
terest.
“This committee will pool the
knowledge and experience of our
large and smaller municipalities to
see if some method of determining
fair rates can be implemented.”
News of the World
By The Associated Press
Earth Looks Like Pear From Space’
NEW YORK—Old Mother Earth is actually a little pear-
shaped. She’s a bit bulgy in the south, and pointed in the
north.
This hidden truth was dicovered by tiny Vanguard, the
grapefruit-size U. S. satellite launched last St. Patrick’s Day.
Vanguard’s discovery was announced Wednesday to the
American Physical Society by Dr. J. A. O’Keefe, Miss Ann
Eckels, and R. K. Squires of the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration.
★ ★ ★
Ben Jack Loses Final Trial
AUSTIN—BenJack Cage of Dallas Wednesday lost his
final round in state courts on his appeal of a 10-year sentence
for embezzling $100,000.
The Court of Criminal Appeals voted 2-1 to turn down
his motion for rehearing. At Dallas, Judges ordered for
feiture of $6,000 in appearance bonds when Cage failed to
show for trial on two other charges of embezzlement and
theft.
★ ★ ★
Atlas Achieves Most of Goals
WASHINGTON—An'Atlas missile apparentlv traveled
about 4,500 miles Tuesday night in a test the Air Force said
achieved most of its goals. The 120-ton rocket blazed sky
ward from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
A&M Faculty, Staff Members Attend
Annual College-Industry Conference
Sixteen A&M staff and faculty head of the Department qf Me
chanical Engineering; H. & Dill
ingham, Mrs. Marie L. Reel and
W. P. Worley of the Department
of Electrical Engineering; B. F. K.
Mullins, Paul M. Mason and L. E.
Stark, Department of Engineering
Drawing; and R. H. Gibbs, De
partment of Mechanical Engineer
ing.
Calhoun was a member of the
Program Committee for the 1.959
conference.
members attended the 11th annual
College-Industry Conference on
the University of Houston campus,
Jan. 26-27.
The Conference was sponsored
by the Relations With Industry
Division of the American Society
of Engineering Education.
Attending the conference from
College Station were John C. Cal
houn Jr., vice president for en
gineering; Fred J. Benson, dean of
engineering; C. W. Crawford, as
sociate dean of engineering; and
Aaron Rose, director of Texas En
gineering Experiment Station.
Others include J. D. Lindsay,
head of the Department of Chemi
cal Engineering; G. D. Hallmark,
head of the Department of Elec
trical Engineering; R. L. Whiting,
head of the Department of Petrol
eum Engineering; W. E. Street,
head of the Department of Engi
neering Drawing; C. M. Simmang,
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the association since 1951.
He is active in the American
Association of University Profes
sors, Entomological Society of
America, Mengel Natural History
Society, Baird Ornithological Club,
Texas Ornithological Society, Am
erican Society of Zoologists, So
ciety of Systematic Zoology,
Society of Sigmi Xi and Texas
Academy of Science.
A&M Graduate
Dillon received his degree from
the University of Pittsburgh in
1933; M. S. in 1950 and Ph. D in
1954, both from A&M. Prior to
joining the A&M faculty, Dillon
was a zoologist at the Reading
Museum in Reading, Pa.
He is the author, of a number
of scientific articles, including a
report of systematic studies on
beetles, one on evolution of living
things in general and also a re
port on climatic conditions and
ecology of North America during
the time of the last Ice Age.
A manual on beetles of North
America written by Dillon and his
wife is now being published by
Row-Peterson Company of Evans
ton, Illinois. He is also writing a
textbook on general biology.
Coach Jim Myers now has a com
plete rostrum of athletic person
nel with the coming of Tom
Chandler, new head baseball coach,
and Matt Lair, assistant football
coach.
Chandler comes to A&M from
Adamson High School of Dallas,
where he has been head baseball
coach for the past six years. Also
during that period he has spent his
summers coaching the semi-pro
Alpine Cowboys. He will take over
his duties here Feb 15.
Lair will take his A&M post
with five years of experience as
defensive line coach at the Uni
versity of Kentucky behind him.
He is now helping with the grid
recruiting program.
Golfer Gene Sarazen has played
in the Masters tournament 20
times.
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