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Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 135: Volume 58
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1959
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SAFELY
Price Five Cents
Citizens Approve Program
For Chamber of Commerce
Dr. Fred Jensen
Retires Recently
Dr. Fred W. Jensen, Distinguish-
' ed Professor of Chemistry A&M,
has retired (August 31) after 34
years with the College.
♦ Jensen came to A&M as associ
ate professor of chemistry in 1925,
rose to the rank of professor in
1929, became head of the depart
ment in 1947 and was promoted to
the rank of Distinguished Professor
in 1957.
He has had an outstanding ca
reer both as teacher and adminis
trator and in research. As pro
fessor of physical chemistry, Jen
sen has taught many of the chemis
try and chemical engineering stu
dents through the years and has
* left his mark as a “thorough and
beloved teacher.”
The Chemistry Department is
recognized as one of the finest in
the nation and the addition of the
recently completed wing to the
luilding is the culmination of one
«f the efforts of Jensen.
Jensen has always been active
in research. He has patented a
high frequency titrimeter which
has received worldwide acclaim for
its unusual application to the field
Dean Page Returns
From Yugoslavia
Dr. John B. Page has returned
to his duties as Dean of the Col
lege and Graduate School at A&M
after spending six weeks in Yugo
slavia as an agricultural advisor.
He went to Yugoslavia for the
^hird consecutive summer at the
tequest of the Yugoslav govern
ment, traveling under the sponsor
ship of the International Coopera
tion Administration of the U. S.
State Department. He was on
leave of absence from the college.
Page said one of the country’s
biggest problems in agriculture
concerns saline and alkali soils.
On one of his earlier visits he rec
ommended the establishment of a
soil salinity laboratory to serve
the entire country. This recom-
» mendation was accepted and the
laboratory is now being organized.
The dean, recognized nationally
, as on outstanding soils scientist,
is assisting Yugoslavian govern
ment agencies in a long range ag
ricultural improvement program.
Dean Page said the problem area
is on the flood plain of the Dan
ube and Tisa rivers in the north
ern part of Yugoslavit where 40
per cent of the country’s food is
produced.
“In this highly productive area,
a half million acres of land are
out of production because of the
saline condition of the soil,” Page
said.
In addition to sending such men
as Page to Yugoslavia, the U. S.
government, through the Interna-
J tional Cooperation Administration,
is arranging for agricultural sci
entists of Yugoslavia to come to
, this country for study in U. S. col
leges and universities.
Two Yugoslav soil scientists will
be on the campus in October to
study laboratory methods, irriga
tion, management of saline soils
and other agricultural practices.
Five scientists from Yugoslavia
have previously visited or worked
at A&M.
Aggielands May
Now Be Picked Up
The 1959 Aggieland arrived yes
terday and can be picked up in the
Office of Student Publications,
ground floor of the YMCA.
Those who did not pay their
student activities fee may pur
chase an Aggieland for $7.50.
Students are urged to pick up
their books as soon as possible.
of analytical chemistry. His work
along the line of high frequency
studies has put him in demeand as
a speaker for many scientific meet
ings and symposia.
He is a native of Blair, Neb.,
and received his B. S., M. S. and
Ph. D. degrees in chemistry from
the University of Nebraska be :
fore coming to A&M.
An active member of the Ameri
can Chemical Society, he has served
as secretary-treasurer of the local
section. He is active in community
affairs and is past president of
the Bryan-College Station Rotary
club.
Dr. and Mrs. Jensen will con
tinue to make their home in Col
lege* Station and he will maintain
an office and laboratory at the
Chemistry Department to continue
research work.
A&M Scientist
Invited to Speak
At Belgium Meet
An A&M scientist who has
gained international recognition
for his research findings on cyto
chemistry of nucleric acids has ac
cepted invitations to speak at a
gathering of scientists in Belgium
and to lecture at universities in
England and Germany.
Dr. Frederick H. Hasten, a mem
ber of the research staff of the
Department of Biology, will appear
on the program of an international
symposium at Liege, Belgium,
Sept. 27-30, to present a paper
dealing with his research at A&M.
He will be on the program with
some of the outstanding scientists
from Belgium, France, Scotland,
England and the U. S.
On Sept. 21, Hasten will give a
lecture in the Department of Hu
man Anatomy at Oxford Univer
sity in England. The next day he
will lecture in the Department of
Chemistry at the University of
London. On Oct. 2, he will lecture
at the Pathology Institute of the
University of Frankfort in Ger
many.
He also plans to visit research
laboratories at the University of
Brussels in Belgium and the Path
ology Institute at the University
of Bonn in Germany.
Staff Members
Attend Meets
In New York
Several staff members and grad
uate students of A&M are partici
pating in scientific meetings now
in progress in New York City.
Robert 0. Reid, professor of
oceanography and meteorology, is
serving as chairman of a seminar
on Estuarine and nearshore circula
tion at the International Ocean
ographic Congress being held in
the United Nations building, Aug.
31 to Sept. 9.
Dr. U. Grant Whitehouse, direc
tor of A&M’s Electron Microscopy
Laboratory, will present a paper at
the Congress which is being held
under the sponsorship of the U. N.
and the American Association for
the Advancement of Science.
A series of four papers will be
pi*esented at the Congress by Dr
D. W. Hood, associate professor of
chemical oceanography; Dr. Mit-
sunobu Tatsumoto, a research
scientist, and three graduate as
sistants in chemical oceaography,
Kilho Park, J. F. Slowey and J. B.
Smith.
Others from the Department of
Oceanography and Meteorology at
tending the Congress are Dr. K. M.
Rae, director of marine laboratory
programs; John Cochrane, Dr. Kin-
piro Kajiura and B. W. Logan, re
search scientists; V. J. Henry,
graduate assistant, and A. C. Dux-
bury, graduate student.
A meeting of the Special Com
mittee of Oceanographic Research
will be held in conjunction with the
Congress and Luis Capurro, a re
search scientist working in A&M’s
Department of Oceanography and
Meteorology under contract with
the U. S. Office of Naval Research,
will attend as a member of the
committee.
Commander J. R. Lumby, direc
tor of World Data Center A on
oceanography at A&M, will attend
the committee meeting as a visitor
to present plans for continuation
of world data centers.
Guide Posts
However good a clock may be,
we must still wind it daily. And
he who takes good care of his heart
will, as it were, wind it up toward
God night and morning. — F. de
Sales.
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$14,800 Budget
Accepted Tuesday
Citizens of College Station unanimously approved a 10-
point program of action for the College Station Chamber of
Commerce Tuesday night.
The mass meeting, held in Consolidated’s cafeteria, con
currently approved a tentative budget to finance the pro
gram in the amount of $14,800.
Enthusiasm for the need of the Chamber; the opportuni
ties for achievement; and areas of cooperation with Bryan
and A&M College were manifest throughout the well-attended
meeting. L. S. Paine, president of the College Station Cham
ber of Commerce, opened the meeting by introducing’the di
rectors and officers and expressed appreciation for the in-
Herest shown. He turned the
IVIE Department mee ting over to Chamber Vice
Receives $1,000
Grant From Gulf
The Department of Mechanical
Engineering has been awarded an
unrestricted grant of $1,000 by the
Gulf Oil Corporation of Pitts
burgh, Pa.
Morgan Martin of Houston, as
sistant to the president of the
Gulf Refining Company, the pipe
line subsidiary of the Gulf Oil
Corporation, made the presentation
Tuesday in a ceremony in the of
fice of A&M President Earl Rud
der..
Martin said that A&M was se
lected to receive the award under
the corporation’s Aid to Education
program “because many of our
people at Gulf have benefited
greatly from the education and
training received at the college.
“We were happy to recommend
your school to our education com
mittee,” he said.
Martin was high in praise of the
esprit’ de corps’ found at A&M
College and said “we at Gulf feel
that a boy can get a sound educa
tion here.”
The $1,000 gift was accepted for
the Mechanical Engineering De
partment by Dr. C. M. Simmang,
head of the department. Others
present included Dr. John B. Page,
dean of the College; Fred Benson,
dean of engineering, and C. W.
Crawford, associate dean of en
gineering.
Aid to Education
An unrestricted grant of $1,000 has been
awarded to the Department of Mechanical
Engineering by the Gulf Oil Corporation of
Pittsburgh, Pa. The gift was made under
the corporation’s Aid to Education program.
Morgan Martin of Houston (second from
left), assistant to the president of the Gulf
Refining Company, presents the check to
Dr. C. M. Simmang, head of the Department
of Mechanical Engineering. At left is Earl
Rudder, president of A&M, and at right is
Fred Benson, dean of engineering at A&M.
President Lee Duewall who
presided for the remainder of
the evening.
H. E. Bui’gess, member of the
program planning committee, pre
sented the ten-point program of
work, along with the pui'poses and
aims of the local organization. W.
A. Bradley, a member of the bud
get committee, pi’esented the pro
posed budget. Gene Sutphen re
ported in the expression of willing
ness on the part of A&M College
to cooperate with a College Sta
tion Chamber of Commerce.
An open forum followed, after
which the motion to adopt both the
program and budget was made and
unanimously passed. The program
approved is as follows:
The purpose of the College Sta
tion Chamber of Commerce shall
be to advance and promote, in the
democratic fashion, the prosperity,
well being, morality, harmony, edu
cation, health, freedom and safety
of the citizens of College Station
and the adjoining agricultural,
business, residential and college
area, and specifically, without re
stricting the foregoing, to carry
out the following:
I. Improve the services of the
College' Station Chamber of Com
merce including the hiring of a
full-time manager (when resources
allow).
2. To cooperate with the Bryan
Industrial Foundation, Texas A&M
College and other groups to en
courage new and diversified in
come producing industries in the
area.
3. To advertise and publicize the
College Station area as a desirable
location for industrial and resi
dential development.
4. To promote good will and en
courage cooperations between the
merchants and Texas A&M College
and assist them in this problem to
grow and prosper.
5. To promote cooperation be
tween the people of College Sta
tion and Bryan as well as the
farming and ranching interests,
and promote the prosperity of ag
ricultural groups.
6. To encourage and foster bet
ter business practices, and promote
the growth of retail trade in Col
lege Station.
7. To establish a general infor
mation and welcoming service for
citizens, newcomers and visitors.
8. Sponsor and encourage proj
ects for beautification and civic
improvement of the community,
including legislative matters, park
and recreational facilities, health
and safetly, and the Consolidated
School System.
9. To promote the conservation
of soil and water to assure an ade
quate water supply to the area.
10. To promote better rail, air
and highway service to the College
Station area.
To help carry out the above ob
jective and policies the following
committees were suggested as
needed:
1. Membership and finance
(See Citizens, Page 4)
Miss Wool of 1960 Crowned
Miss Carrell Currie, Irving, beams as she is crowned Miss
Wool of America for 1960 by Miriam LoCour, right, the
outgoing wool queen at the annual wool festival held in
San Angelo. Miss Currie, a 19-year-old hazel-eyed blonde
sophomore at Southern Methodist University, was selected
from 20 candidates representing wool-producing states.
(AP Photo)
Effective Tuesday
Dr. Gladden Joins
Chemistry Faculty
Dr. James Kelly Gladden has
joined the faculty of the Depart
ment of Chemistry as professor of
physical chemistry. His employ
ment is effective Sept. 1.
He comes to A&M from the
Georgia Institute of Technology
where he served on the faculty of
the School of Chemistry from 1946
to the present time.
Gladden holds the B. S. degree
in chemistry from Howard College,
Birmingham, Ala., the M. S. de
gree in chemistry from the Georgia
Institute of Technology and the
Ph. D. degree in chemistry from
Northwestern University.
Dr. James Gladden
. . . joins faculty
Six Students Here
Get Scholarships
Six students of A&M have been
named to receive scholarships and
fellowships available in the De
partment of Floriculture and Land
scape Architecture, A. F. De-
Werth, head of the department,
has announced.
David A. Pate, a graduate stu
dent from Voss, will receive a fel
lowship of $2,400 from the Nichol
son Fund for study in the fields
of plant propagation and plant
breeding. The fellowship is for
a 12-month period.
Max W. Hatter of Rt. 2, Moody,
and Richard Wheeler of 36 W. 27th
St., San Angelo, will receive $250
each from the F. W. Hensel Schol
arship available for the 1959-60
school year. Samuel J. Cely of
Fairfield, will receive $250 remain
ing from the 1958-59 F. W. Hensel
Scholarship.
Gordon E. Buswell of 630 W.
Woodlawn, San Antonio, was cho
sen the recipient of the $250 Tom
J. Wolfe Scholarship in Floricul
ture.
The George E. Wolfe Memorial
Scholarship of $250 was awarded
to Carl P. McCord of Rt., Cross
Plains.
Recipients of these fellowship
and scholarship awards were cho
sen by the faculty of the Depart
ment of Floriculture and Land
scape Architecture.
He served in the U. S. Navy
from February, 1944 to April, 1946.
During this time he worked on
training in radar and later taught
radar countermeasure courses
overseas while on the staff of
Commander Destroyei's in the Pa
cific area.
During the summer of 1952,
Gladden held the rank of associate
professor of chemistry at North
western University and during the
summers of 1953-56, served as a
consultant to the mass spectrom
etry division of the Oak Ridge Na
tional Laboratory at Oak Ridge,
Tenn. For the past two years he
has served as consultant to the
Floridin Company of Tallahassee,
Fla.
Twenty Graduates
Take Appointments
The following graduating sen
iors at the end of the summer term
at A&M have accepted appoint
ments as second lieutenants in the
United States Army Reserve:
Infantry: David J. Bratton Jr.,
Houston, and Frank V. Olsmith,
Dallas.
Armor: Marcial A. Knapp, Hous
ton; James A. Pedison and Merrel
S. Witt, Marshall; Aubrey M.
Smith, Bryan; Erwin E. Turner
Jr., Beaumont.
Artillery (AAA): Jay B. Bisbey,
Houston; John D. Crews, Colmes-
neil; Gary W. Hipps, Dallas; Don
B. Lipscomb, Denton.
Corps of Engineers: Carlos W.
Hickman, Corpus Christi; Laveme
C. May, Riviera.
Signal Corps: Earl A. Nye, Ft.
Worth.
Quartermaster Corps: Fred C.
Cheatham, ‘ Dallas.
Ordnance Corps: Norman J.
Smith, Temple; Carl R. Walker,
Jefferson; Donald E. Woodward
of Rusk.
Chemical Corps: Thomas H. Mil
ler of Freeport and Richard S. Pal
mer of Port Arthur.
Chemists Recently
Publish Articles
Dr. John O. Page and graduate
students of the Department of
Chemistry have recently published
several papers.
They include “Determination of
Titanium and Iron in Titaniferous
Materials by Cerate Titrimetry”
with A. B. Gainer in Analytical
Chemistry and “An Evaluation of
Reageants for Sulfide Precipita
tion” with A. R. Machel and J. W.
Ramsey in the Journal of Chemical
Education.