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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1959)
The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas Thursday, April 9,1959 PAGE? I Top Boar Brings $600 hi Swine Sole Monday More than $600 was paid for the top boar at A&M Monday night at the first production tested boar sale ever held in Texas. The sale Was held as a paiT of the eighth annual Swine Short Course and Carcass Contest held at A&M under the sponsorship of the Texas Swine Breeders Associa tion, the Department of Animal Husbandry, A&M and the A&M College System. Thirty-two boars were sold for a total of $5,300, averaging $166. Ihe bears were purchased by 24 different buyers from throughout the state. The top indexing boar of the Texas Boar Test Station was a Hampshire bred by Bob Kain of Kaufman. It was purchased by the college for $610. The top two boars were pur chased by the college and will be retained in the college breeding herd. The Hampshire boar will be used in the existing college herd, and the second place boai;, a York shire, will be used in establishing a Yorkshire herd at the college. Six boars were purchased by the Houston Packing Co. to be placed in herds in the Houston area. The boars were indexed accord ing to rate of gain, feed efficiency, back fat probe and the carcass analysis of two littermates. Dr. A. M. Sorenson, associate professor of the Department of Animal Husbandry, said the pro ducers of Texas showed that they knew what they were looking for in a herd sire as evidenced by the higher prices paid for the high in dexing boars. He declared that these boars will go into the herds of outstanding producers in the state and should greatly influence the types of hogs produced on our farms. Produc ers hailed the boar test as the greatest improvement in swine se lection in recent years. The sale offering included 13 Hampshire, 6 Duroc, 5 Landrace, 3 spotted Poland China, 2 Tam- worth, 1 Berkshire, 1 Poland China and 1 Yorkshire boar. The second indexing boar was a Yorkshire bred by Lester Glass of Miles, Texas, and sold for $480 to A&M; the third high indexing boar was a Hampshire boar bred by Bob Kain of Kaufman and sold to August Jordan of Art, Texas, for $300; the foui’th indexing boar was a Landrace bred by James Al ford of Waelder and sold for $300 to Leonard Steffens of Barker. Ch. E. Prof Offered Tour at Annapolis Relay Engineers Plan Conference More than 200 persons through out the United States are due to attend the 12th annual Conference for Protective Relay Engineers to be held hei’e Monday through Wed nesday. L. M. Haupt of the Department of Electrical Engineering, the sponsoring department, will chair the conference. Glen D. Hallmark, professor and head of the Department of Elec trical Engineering, will give the welcome address at the opening session Monday morning. Ed Beck of the Westinghouse Electric Corp., will deliver the ban quet address Tuesday at 7 p.m. He will talk on “A Look at Rus sia.” Dr. Charles D. Holland, associ ate professor of chemical engi neering, A&M, has been offex - ed a tour of active duty at the U. S. Naval Academy to assist in con templated curricula revision. He is one of 16 Naval Reserve officers participating in the Naval Reserve Research Program who have been chosen for the oppor tunity of serving at the academy, according to Norman F. Rode, com manding officer of Naval Reserve Company 8-3, located at A&M. Rode said acceptance of this honor by Dr. Holland may be con tingent upon provisions being made so that he (Holland) can continue to supervise research now in progress under his direction. Holland, a lieutenant in the Na val Reserve, came to A&M in 1949. He became a member of the Naval Rae to Attend Biological Meet Dr. K. M. Rae, director of the Marine Laboratory programs of the Department of Oceanography and Meteorology, will attend the second annual meeting of the Con ference of Biological Editors Fri day, Saturday and Sunday in Chi cago, 111. He will attend as editor of “Lim nology and Oceanography,” an in ternational journal of the Ameri can Society of Limnology and Oceanography. Editors attending the confer ence will discuss editorial policy in biological journals, publica tions costs and other problems. History Profs Attend Meeting Dr. Claude Roberts and Dr. W. E. Benton, both of the Department of History and Government, par ticipated recently in the annual meeting of the Southwestern Soc ial Science Assn, held in Galveston. Roberts gave a paper on “The Austrian Reaction to the Treaty of St. Germain” at the end of World War I. Benton took part in a roundtable discussion on the need for a “Revision of the Tex as Constitution.” Get WILDR00T CREAM-OIL Charlie! litr J. GUTENBERG,bookmaker,says: "If you want hair that’s neat, not greasy, you’re just the type for Wildroot!” yML,/ PpStj Just a little bit fiSreja of Wildroot ( and... WOW/' Groneman, Parker Help Evaluate Teacher Programs Dr. G. P. Parker and Dr. C. H. Groneman were appointed by the Texas Education Agency as mem bers of visiting teams that eval uated the teacher education pro gram in two of the state’s institu tions of higher learning, Saturday through today. Parker, head of the Department of Education and Psychology, was selected as chairman of the team to Southern Methodist University and Groneman, head of the De partment of Industrial Education, was chosen as a member of the team to Howard Payne College. The Texas Education Agency chose visiting team members upon the approval of the institutions to be evaluated. Parker will be returning to his alma mater, having received his master’s degree from SMU in 1935. He came to A&M in 1940 to join the chemistry staff, moved to the Department of Education and Psychology in 1948 and became head of the department in 1954. Groneman also came to A&M in 1940 as a member of the staff of the Department of Industrial Education. He was named head of the department in 1948 and was appointed coordinator of teacher education in 1956. In early May, a visiting team from the Texas Education Agency will evaluate the teacher educa tion programs at A&M. The team will be headed by Dr. Suler Ryan, head of the Department of Educa tion, Sam Houston State College. 60 DAY EUROPEAN TRAVEL STUDY TOUR INCLUDES Airline Transportation • 30 Days in Paris 40 Hour Course in Culture of Europe Today At Private Accredited University 30 Day Tour, 5 Different Itineraries, Including USSR • Organized Weekends AW/ /rt ^se/6/ooge Suv/rutf A/O/'V I | PARIS-FRANCE-EUROPE ASSOCIATION j FOR TRAVEl AND STUDY j 10 Eosl 47th Sjreel, New York 1/, N.Y. • j Pleaso send me your free Id page ■ I brochure. I ...Sfafe | Name | Address.... I city - * 1 PARIS-FRANCE-EUROPE ASSOCIATION FOR TRAVEL AND STUDY 10 East 49th Street, New York 17, N. Y. Reserve company at the college that same year. He has contributed much in re search on thermodynamics as ap plied in petroleum ^refining, and in 1956, he received a Faculty distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Former- Students. His award was fqrj out standing achievement in thA field of research. Biologists Schedule Student Institute Twenty-four high ability second ary school students will be given an opportunity to attend a five- week biology institute at A&M June 8-July 11. The A&M program is one of 14 that will be held this summer at 8 colleges and universities in Tex as under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation. The institutes are designed to encourage the scientific interests of secondary school students of high ability by providing them an opportunity to associate with col lege-level programs in science, mathematics and engineering es pecially designed for them. Dr. C. C. Doak, head of the De partment of Biology and director of the summer institute here, said that secondary school teachers should watch for literature on the program from the Texas Education Agency during the second week in April. Selection of participants will be based upon recommendations, apti tude, academic records and enthus iasm for science. WhealyDallasGuest Dr. Roger D. Whealy of the De partment of Chemistry was a guest of Texas Instrument Inc., of Dallas, at a recent symposium on instrumentation. California Prof To Lecture Monday Night Vernon DeMars, a noted arch itect, consultant and educator from California, will be a guest lecturer here Monday night. DeMars will be presented at 7:30 in the Assembly Room of the Memorial Student Center in the Guest Lecture Series of the Divi sion of Architecture. His topic will be “Housing and Community Ap pearance.” DeMars, professor of architec ture at the University of Califor nia, has been a visiting professor of architecture, has served the government many times as an architect and consultant, has writ ten numerous articles on archi tecture and has received many awards for his work. In 1952, he served as a consul tant to the U. S. State Depax-t- ixxent on the Ruhr Housing Pro gram for Miners in Germany, and in 1955 he was a U. S. represen tative to a seminar on housing and planning in Ischia, Italy. 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