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Public Safety Department Predicts 26 Will Die in Weekend Traffic AUSTIN—The Texas Depart ment of Public Safety forecast to day 26 persons will be killed in traffic accidents this weekend When the Fourth of July holiday creates one of the most deadly three-day driving periods of the year. Col. Homer Garrison Jr., direc tor, issued the grim prediction along with an urgent plea to motorists to “prove we have over- Number 126: Volume 58 estimated by maintaining unusual alertness to the added dangers of holiday traffic." He noted that the prediction of 26 traffic fatalities is one more than the 25 victims counted in a similar three-day Fourth of July period last year. The prediction is higher this year, he said, because of a definite upward trend in motorcides. “Therefore, it can be said that the streets and highways of Texas will be potentially more danger ous during the celebration of In dependence Day this year,” Garri son said. The Public Safety Director an nounced that “Operation Holiday” will be in effect starting at 12:01 a.m. Friday, July 3, until midnight Sunday, July 5. During this period all radar units available will be in operation, and the Highway Patrol force will be expanded by some 125 additional patrolmen from the Lioense and Weight and Motor Vehicle Inspection divi sions. “We will do everything in our power to stem the tide of motor cides next weekend,” he said, “but the main job belongs to the driving public, who must guard against dangerous driving factors such as speeding too fast for condi tions, drinking and driving, fati gue and just general inattention.” Garrison reminded also: “The fatality list, already nearing the 1,000 mark at mid-year, is shock ing. But in addition we must re member the untold suffering of thousands of persons who are in jured in highway wrecks in addi tion to the tremendous economic loss involved.” He pointed out that traffic deaths are up about 10 per cent over last year, with approximate ly 100 more victims counted to date. This factor was taken into con sideration by N. K. Woerner, man ager of the Statitical Services Section, in arriving at the esti mate of 26 motorcides for the three-day holiday. Woerner re ported that by coincidence, the average Fourth of July traffic death toll over the last eight years was 26. The highest toll for the three-day period was in 1954, when 33 persons were killed in traffic. “In addition to the greater traf fic hazard, Fourth of July cele brations involve swimming, boat ing, picnicking and fireworks,” Woerner noted. “Drownings, food poisoning and burns are of high frequency during this period. To protect life and property, the pub lic should be extra cautions in all their activities.” DRIVE SAFELY Weather Partly cloudy today, tonight and Friday with widely scatter ed thundershowers. THE BATTALION DRIVE SAFELY Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 2,1959 Price Five Cents Harrington Named A&M Chancellor Former Genetics Head Final Rites Held ForE. P. Humbert Funeral services were held yes terday at 4 p.m.' for Dr. E. P. Humbert, 78, of Bryan, former head of the Department of Gene tics at A&M, who died in a Bryan hospital late Monday night. He had been ill for some time. He came to A&M in 1916 to work in the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. In 1921 he was transferred to the teaching di vision and made a professor of genetics in the Department of Agronomy. In 1922 the Depart ment of Genetics was established with Humbert as its head. Humbert went on modified serv ice Sept. 1, 1946 and retired on Aug. 31, 1951. A native of Corning, Iowa, he graduated from Iowa State Col lege in 1906, receiving a bachelor of science degree in agriculture and taught at that institution for one year. Then he went to Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., where he was awarded a master of science Lcland Grumbles To Attend Course Dr. Leland C. Grumbles, head of the Department of Veterinary Mi crobiology, of the School of Veter inary Medicine, will participate in a special course at the University of Colorado, July 6-31. The intensive four-week course on the structure and function of living cells, techniques of tissue culture and interpretation of re sults will be held under the spon sorship of the Tissue Culture Assn, of the American Institute of Bac teriological Sciences. Dr. John Paul of the University of Glascow, Scotland, will direct the course. He is an international authority on the fundamentals and application of tissue culture in many areas. degree in 1908 and a doctor’s de gree in genetics in 1910. Humbert worked for one year as a plant physiologist for the United States Department of Agriculture and then for a year at the Maine Agricultural Experi ment Station. Following four years of work as an agronomist at New Mexico A&M, he came to Texas in January of 1916. He was a member of several professional and honorary socie ties. Humbert’s hobbies included chess, music and radio. He was one of the most widely known educators in the field of genetics in the nation. He was an active civic worker and served at one time as pres ident of the Bryan Rotary Club and as district governor of Ro tary International. Humbert was active in develop ing the present rules and regula tions used by the State Seed and Plant Board. At the time of his death he was secretary of the Certified Seed Growers Inc. He was a member of the Meth odist Church of Bryan. He is survived by his wife, Ella A. Humbert; a daughter, Mrs. Nel son Fuller of San Diego, Calif.; two sons, Robert of Kansas City and John, a teacher in the San Angelo, Texas, public schools. Funeral services were held at the Hillier Funeral Home in Bryan Wednesday afternoon at 4. Graduation Notices Graduation announcements for all summer graduates are now on sale in the Department of Student Activitjes, Room 210, YMCA. The announcements can be purchased until 5 p.m. Friday, July 31. Stanley Standridge To Enroll at A&M Stan Standridge, Fort Worth Paschal High School all-State pitcher, recently signed to enroll as a freshman at A&M this fall, Coach Tom Chandler said this week. Standridge, who performed out standingly in the State High School Baseball Tournament this year, was one of the most sought after baseball prospects in the state. The Paschal righthander pitched a one-hitter to defeat Raymond Culp and his Austin teammates 1-0 in the opening game of the state tourney. Culp has since signed a major league contract. Beaumont downed Paschal in the finals for the state title. Standridge, who is about 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighs 170, played baseball under Joe Hard- grove, a former Aggie hurler. Standridge was also a football player at Paschal but will not play football at A&M because of a knee injury. Chandler said he rated Stand ridge as one of the best high school pitchers in the state and was very happy to get him to come to A&M. Standridge will join Don San ders, Paschal end, at A&M. San ders, an all-State footballer, prev iously signed a football letter of intent. Third ‘Den Dance’ Scheduled Tonight A “Special Dance” Monday night, featuring a Latin American floorshow and Bill Turner’s Ag- gieland Combo, will highlight the week’s activities of the Memorial Student Center Summer Director ate Program. The dance is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. in the Ballroom. The third “Den Dance” tonight at 8:30 in the MSC Fountain Room will provide students and young poeple of the Bryan-Col- lege Station area entertainment by juke box. Congratulations Dr. M. T. Harring-ton, right, newly appointed hold the position previously held by Harr- chancellor of the A&M System, congratu- ington. The two were promoted by the board lates Earl Rudder on his being appointed of directors at the board’s meeting here last president of the college. Rudder will now Saturday. Wilson and Paxson Talented Performers Mark Nearing Summer Operetta Carolyn Ann Wilson and John B. Paxton will play the leading roles in the summer operetta, “Trial by Jury”, to be presented in the Ballroom of the Memorial Stu dent Center July 14-15. Miss Wilson will play the part of the plaintiff in the show pro duced by Bill Turner and directed by Mrs. Joe Barron. While in high school at A&M Consolidated, Miss Wilson was a chorus soloist for four years, a night of music soloist for three years, winner in the high school talent show for two years and a first place soloist in the state contest for two years. She has been soloist for the A&M Methodist Church Choir for the past five years and has appeared in the MSC Recital Series. Miss Wilson is currently major ing in voice at the University of Houston on a scholarship and is in the University of Houston con- cei't and grand choir. She also has appeared on Television. She was a high school cheer leader for two years, appeared in the high school junior and senior plays and appeared in a district and regional one act play. John Paxson, graduate student teaching fellowship at A&M, will portray the part of the defendant in the Gilbert and Sullivan play. Paxson sang lead in the 1957 summer operetta, “Smokey Moun- Rose and Wamble Return From Meet Dr. Aaron Rose and A. Cecil Wamble have returned from at tending the recent convention of the International Oil Mill Superin tendents’ Assn, at Galveston. Rose, director of the Texas Engi neering Station, was in Galveston for the final day of the sessions and Wamble, head of the Cottonseed Products Research Laboratory of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, was a delegate at all the sessions. tain.” He has done solo and chorus work in Boston, Mass. He studied voice five years in Boston and was a member of the Houston Choral for three years. In playing the defendant role, he will portray Edwin, a roving lover who is being tried for breach of promise. The judge in the play will be portrayed by Charles Mitchell and Jim Rector will protray the part of the usher. The show is being sponsored by the Department of Student Activ ities. A&M Receives Chemistry Grants Two grants amounting to $40,- 000 and supporting chemistry re search here, have been received from the Robert A. Welch Foun dation, Houston. The grants, each of $20,000 and each covering a two-year period, go to Dr. Edward A. Meyers, as- istant professor, in the Depart ment of Chemistry and Dr. Bennie J. Camp, assistant professor, De partment of Biochemistry and Nu trition, Texas Agricultural Experi ment Station. Camp’s grant is for a study of the chemistry of poisonous range plants native to Texas. Specifi cally, he will attempt to isolate the poisonous principle or prin ciples in guajillo, bitterweed, shin oak, broomweed and coyotillo, five of the most noxious of Texas’ na tive range plants. Meyer’s grant is for a two-year study of certain iodine compounds with nitrogen-containing mater ials, and is basic research, aimed at learning more about character istics of these compounds. John Paxson Carolyn Ann Wilson Rudder Promoted To President Spot The Board of Directors of A&M named Dr. M. T. Harr ington chancellor of the college system and Earl Rudder presi dent of the college at a meeting here last Saturday. The board also named Dr. Jack Woolf president of Ar lington State College. Woolf had been acting president since November. Harrington had been president of both the A&M System and of the college. Rudder, an A&M alumnus, resigned as land commissioner to become vice president of A&M Feb. 1, 1958. The board said that “with the change in status of Arling ton State College and Tarleton State College, the system now : • ♦'includes four senior colleges, Inly Fourth of City Program Set Saturday The College Station Annual Fourth of July Community Picnic and fireworks display will be held again this year on the Consolidated High School Football field at 5 p.m. Saturday. The fireworks display will get underway at dusk. Members of the College Station Lions Club are playing a major role in the event this year. M. L. (Red) Cashion is chairman of the event which provides an enjoyable Fourth of July for children and adults alike. The event is sponsored by the College Station Recreation Coun cil. Lions Club members George Dra per is in charge of setting off the fireworks and he will be assisted by other members of the Lions Club. Concession stands will be run by the Lions and various members will be on hand to usher people to seats. Fourth of July in College Sta tion is expected to be safe and sound again this year. A city ord inance forbids the sale, explosion or possession of fireworks except by an organization under the su pervision of proper authorities. College Honored At AAC Meeting A&M was honored Sunday night with a share in the annual direct mail campaign award at the 44th general conference of the Ameri can Alumni Council which ends to day at Mackinac Island, Mich. The A&M volunteer officers kit was cited for special recognition. J. B. Hervey, executive secre tary of the Assn, of Former Stu dent and E. E. McQuillen, execu tive director of the Development Fund, are attending the confer ence. The Americah Alumni Council, headquarters in Washington, D.C., is an international association founded in 1913.' It specializes in the field of alumni relations and educational fund raising, aiming “to mobilize behind education the full strength of organized alumni support in all its spiritual, moral and practical manifestations.” Dance Tomorrow A Junior High School Dance will be held at Consolidated School to morrow night from 7:30 to 10:30, sponsored by the College Station Recreation Council. Music will be furnished by records. appreciably increasing the responsibilities of the top ad ministrative officer of the system. “The board therefore believes it wise to relieve Dr. Harrington of his dual responsibilities as presi dent of the system and president of A&M College, returning him to the position of chancellor.” Rudder’s appointment as presi dent of A&M and Woolf’s appoint ment as president of Arlington State was made on the recommend ation of Harrington. Rudder was an Aggie letterman in football and a World War II combat hero. He is a native of Eden, Concho County, Texas, and a 1932 graduate of A&M. He also attended Tarleton State College his first two years. A former teacher and football coach and one-time mayor of Bra dy, he commanded Ranger forces in assaults in Normany and com manded the 10th Infantry Regi ment of the 28th Division in the Battle of the Bulge. Woolf, a native of Trinidad, Tex as, joined Arlington State in 1957 as dean. He formerly was employ ed at Convair, Fort Worth. Harrington, a native of Plano and a graduate of A&M, previously served as chancellor from Sept. 1, 1953, to Sept. 1, 1957, when the title was eliminated and he was assigned to the dual responsibilities of president of the system and the college. In other business the directors passed a resolution honoring the late Egbert W. Hooker, chief clerk of the Experiment Station and associated with A&M for 32 years. The resolution said in part: • “During all of these years, Mr. Hooker was known to his many associates as a man of great in tegrity, of gentle courtesy, and as a loyal, diligent and conscientious worker, and in his death there is a great loss to the Texas A&M Col lege System and to all with whom he has been associated.” Dr. Rupel Serving At Dairy Congress Dr. I. W. Rupel, head of the De partment of Dairy Science, is serving as a delegate and adviser to the United States delegation to the International Dairy Congress, London, England. The international congresses on dairy science are held about every three years, and are designed to promote exchange of late infor mation on all phases of dairying. Following the London congress, Dr. Rupel and his wife will spend about 10 days visiting in England, and on the islands of Guernsey and Jersey and in the Normandy section of France. They will tour the areas from which many of the major American milk cow breeds originally came.