The Battalion ».♦- College Station (Brazos County), Texas
Thursday, 'April 16,1959
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Texas Navy to Demonstrate
Rebirth with Review Tuesday
Houston (Spl.)—The Texas Na
vy will demonstrate its rebirth
when 300 vessels pass in review be
fore Governor Price Daniel and
other State officials as part of the
San Jacinto Day celebration Tues
day.
The Governor and his party will
review the Texas Navy from the
deck of the battleship Texas,
berthed at the San Jacinto Battle
ground. Boats participating in the
review will move up the Houston
Ship Channel past the battleship,
which is the flagship of the Texas
Navy.
Daniel reorganized the T^xas
Navy on San Jacinto Day last year,
as a patriotic organization and
arm of the civil defense for flood
control and disaster relief.
While membership in the active
section of the Navy is open to all
Texans with power-driven boats,
vessels in the review will be limited
to cabin type boats 22 feet or long
er. This was decided by the United
States Coast Guard and the Battle
ship Texas Commission as a safety
measure.
Daniel said he is pleased with
the enthusiasm the pi-oject has re
ceived from boat owners through
out Texas.
The boats in the review, limited
to 300, will fly Texas flags and
bear special decals signifying them
as a part of the Texas fleet. The
comnianding officer of each boat
will wear the gold Texas Navy la-
Minnesota Ag Prof Discusses
Balanced Program for Farms
“We probably have reached that
point in economic development
where we should not visualize or
expect each farmer to purchase a
farm out-right in his lifetime,”
Dr. William W.Cochrane said in
a lecture here Tuesday night.
Cochrane, Department of Agri
cultural Economics, University of
Minnesota, discussed “A Balanced
Farm Program for Agriculture.”
He said that we needed to devel
op more acceptable and long-term
stewardship arrangements for
farmers. This would include “life
time rental arangements and an
access to loan capital in a lifetime
basis.”
The speaker pointed out the fact
that a great number of people leave
agriculture each year. “Tradition
ally and currently many, if not
most, of these people leaving agri
culture have been poorly trained
to take jobs in the nonfarm sec
tor,” he said.
“Hence they are forced to take
the non-skilled jobs in the city,
which means in turn the low pay
ing jobs in the city,” Cochrane said.
To approach this problem he
said that we should de-emphasize
vocational agricultural training in
rural high schools and emphasize
training in nonfarm job skills. We
might also establish post high
school training centers—probably
in connection with junior colleges
—in rural areas to facilitate the
learning of nonfarm skills and
trades, he said.
Concluding his talk, Cochrane
said we cannot turn the clock back
by holding down the size of the
fai'm or stopping the continual
flow of people out of agriculture
to the nonfarm sector.
‘This is a part of, and the price
of, economic progress,” he said.
“The are things that we can do
to protect the incomes of those
that remain on the farm, aid farm
people to obtain more desirable
sized farm'units and to ease the
adjustment process of those farm
people who want to or must make
the jump.”
Potts, Darling
Receive $200
Scholarships
Kent Potts, senior from Bryan,
and Dale Darling, junior from Col
lege Station, have been awarded
undergraduate scholarships by the
Trans-Mississippi Golf Assn., Dr.
W. O. Trogdon, head of the De
partment of Agronomy, announced
today.
Potts and Darling are majors in
plant and soil science.
Each scholarship is a cash award
of $200. The awards are made
each semester to a junior and sen
ior in agronomy with a special in
terest in turf and were presented
at a recent meeting of the Student
Chapter of the American Society
of Agronomy.
A committee appointed by Trog
don, of which Dr. Marvin H. Fex’-
guson, mid-continent director and
national research cooi’dinator of
the USGA Gi’een Section, located
here, is chairman, selected the re
cipients.
Last year Potts and Carlton Gip
son of College Station, now with
the Shreveport Countxy Club, the
undergraduate recipients of the
Tx-ans-Mississippi Golf Assn, tui’f
scholax’ships, conducted tests to
study “Effects of Golf-Shoe Soles
on Putting Gxeen Turf.” This re-
seax’ch has received nation-wide
attention, including comments in
Sports Illustrated.
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pel button which is a replica of
those worn by officers in the or
iginal Republic of Texas Navy.
The buttons ax'e manufactured by
the Scovill Manufacturing Co. of
Watex-bury, Conn., from the origin
al dies used for Texas Navy uxxi-
form buttons in 183G. The Scovill
Co., which was founded in 1802 and
is still in operation, preserved the
dyes and has made buttons avail
able for the reorganized Texas
Navy.
Applications for participation in
the review are still being accepted
by Adm. Joseph B. Hutchison, Tex
as Navy Headquarters, 3005 Louis
iana St., Houston, or Adm. J. J.
Pickle, the Governor’s Navy Chief
of Staff, Austin.
Rear Adm. W. G. Schindler,
U.S.N., commandant of the Eighth
Naval District, New Oxleans, has
arranged for the U.S.S. Navajo, an
ocean-going tug, to participate in
the review as a representative of
the United States Navy.
Membex-ship in the active Texas
Navy (power-boat owners) and the
Texas Navy Reserve, is still open
to all Texas citizens who are in
terested in preserving the history,
boundaries, water resources and
defense of the State.
The official Texas Navy Com
mission, in red, white, blue and
gold, contains pictures of the pres
ent Texas Flag and the original
Texas Navy Flag, and pictux-es of
the Invincible, one of the early
Texas Navy ships, and the battle
ship Texas of World War I and
Woi’ld War II fame. The commis
sion charges the enlistee “with the
duty of assisting in the preserva
tion of the history, boxxndai’ies, wa
ter resoux-ces and civil defense of
the State.”
Schulcnherg Wins
District Play Meet
“The Importance of Being Earn
est”, presented by Schulenberg
High School, won the District 21-
AA One-Act Play contest in A&M
Consolidated High School auditor
ium Monday.
The group also captured best
actor and best actress spots, along
with three honorable mentions in
this category. Cecily, played by
Sharon Owens, won top actress
award, and Algernon Moncrief,
portx*ayed by Wayne Winkelman,
won best actor.
A&M Consolidated’s “Last Flight
Over” took alternate position. The
part of Dave, played by David De
laney, won second place best actor
award, and the part of Jenny,
played by Ann Williamson, won
honorable mention.
Cypress-Faix-banks’ “Glass Men
agerie” was disqualified because
of a two-minute overtime, putting
them out of the running in both
best play and best actor contests.
Critic judge for the contest was
Dr. Loren T. Winship, chairman
of the Depai’tment of Drama at
the University of Texas. He has
judged over 400 play contests, and
has been with the department since
1939.
Library Distributes
Notable Books List
A leaflet entitled, “Notable
Books of 1958,” is being distributed
by the Cushing Libx-axy.
It contains a list of “the most
noteworthy books published in the
United States during the past
year,” Robert A. Houze, librax-y di-
x'ector, said today.
“This selected list was prepared
by the Notable Books Council of
the American Library Assn., in co-
opei'ation with 33 participating li
braries from all sections of the
United States,” Houze says.
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RURAL ART
COLUMBUS, Ind. (A*)—A farmer
near hex - e finally agreed to let Mrs.
William Menke paint his barn—but
he has reservations about it.
The 2G-year-old housewife and
amateur artist said she’ll paint
the barn with “an abstract whim
sical fai’m scene” and the owner
isn’t quite sure just what she
means.
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