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The Battalion
Volume 59
Various Speakers
Conclude Meetings
Of Industrial Meet
In its second and final day of
meetings today, the Texas Indus
trial Development Conference was
highlighted by talks concerning the
expansion of rural industry, given
by five outstanding Texas men of
industry.
Robert McWhirter, a Paris at
torney-at-law and banker, said,
“The financial condition and out
look of an industry is not con
tained solely in the financial state
ment of the company.” He con
tinued by emphasizing the fact
that “the experience and the his
tory of performance of the man
agement and the knowledge of the
field of operation must be taken
into consideration.”
McWhirter, a widely-known civ
ic worker, explained the necessity
of determining whether or not the
industry has a well-balanced and
efficient staff to carry on all phas
es of the work. Citing different
factors to be considered, he men
tioned the need to have a demand
for the product of a given industry
within an area where that product
can be economically and efficiently
distributed.
“The most common pitfall,” Mc
Whirter declared, “in connection
with financial assistance in indus
try is an attitude of overzealous
ness on the part of the community
to acquire industry.” He told how
a community can be blinded by the
possibilities of getting an indus
try in their area.
“It is never good for a town
to provide gifts to prospects in or
der to land new industry, in the
long run,” said McWhirter. “By
gifts I am referring to land, build
ings, moving expenses or operat
ing expenses.”
W. W. Renfro
Another man who talked at the
conference was W. W. Renfro, di
rector of industrial development,
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Lines, of
Dallas. In his speech, Renfro
Aggie Sweetheart
Selection Team
Leaves Saturday
Twelve voting delegates, two
non-voting delegates and two staff
members will leave early Satur
day morning for Tdxas Woman’s
University at Denton to select the
1959-60 Aggie Sweetheart.
The delegates will pick the
sweetheart from the 12 finalists
selected Monday night from the
45 pictures sent here from TWU.
Included on the schedule for the
weekend is a get-acquainted picnic
at Lake Dalas Saturday afternoon,
a Yell Practice and formal dance
Saturday night and Sunday morn
ing breakfast and chapel services.
The group wil select the Sweet
heart Sunday afternoon and will
return to the campus that night.
Selected finalists were:
Seniors—Judith Babington of
Alexandria, La.; Carmela Cabra of
Kingsville, Tex.; Rebecca Clapp of
Borger, Tex.; Jeanine Fitschen of
Garland, Tex.; Karol Kokernot of
Longview, Tex.; and Ellen Jane
Leister of Orange, Tex.
Juniors—Rosa Ann Annaratone
of Memphis, Tenn.; Barbara Dunn
of Randolph Air Force Base, San
Antonio, Tex.; Marilyn Morris of
Jefferson, Tex.; Mary Roberts of
Roswell, N. M.; and Elizabeth Son-
nen of Brownsville, Tex.
Myrtice Lee Conn was the only
sophomore selected as a finalist.
Making the trip from A&M will
be:
Voting delegates—Allen Burns,
Frank B. (Buck) Buchanan, Joe
B. Brooks, Joseph (Jake) Sekerka,
J. C. Burton, Benjamin Havard,
Stanley Wied, Hillry Ranson, Per
cy D. Mims, Ronald E. Buford,
Hiram T. French and Allen Mc-
Cree.
William B. (Bill) Heye, cadet
colonel of the Corps, will make the
trip but will not be a voting dele
gate.
Laney McMath will be another
non-voting member of the delega
tion. He will represent The Bat
talion,
said, “In today’s competitive race
for industry and payrolls, com
munities mu$t select and train
dedicated leaders with vision who
should strive to become semi-pro
fessional specialists in servicing a
prospect’s community and plant
site requirements. Don’t just sell
your town—sell community atti
tude.”
Ben Sloane
Ben Sloane, operations manager,
the Aluminum Company of Amer
ica, Point Comfort, Texas, offered
the recommendation of “Every
state making an effort to achieve
a greater uniformity with its sis
ter states in business taxation,” in
his speech to the conference. The
speaker showed how the old prin
ciple of “states rights” is firmly
imbedded in our tax policy.
In explaining the points of states
rights, Sloane said that through
the different states exercising
their rights, they may well estab
lish an unfavorable tax climate un
less they stay within the same
framework of business taxations
as other states.
“In spite of the unpopularity of
such broad-based taxes as person
al income, corporate income and
retail sales, the states are rapidly
arriving at the conclusion that in
no other way can adequate finan
cing of state government be
achieved,” said Sloane.
Use Tax Money
The speaker pointed out that
local city and county governments
using the tax as primary source
of income should be left alone to
establish their own affairs with
out xestriction of the state partici
pation in property tax matters.
Sloane said he felt that the state
could not hope to administer this
field equitably.
“Within the next decade, the
economy can and should produce
a gross national product of 750
billion dollars, 50 percent greater
than our current productivity and
services.”
In concluding his speech, Sloane
said, “The earlier our people un
derstand that new creative wealth
can be found only through the
three basic media of mining, agri
culture and manufacture and that
the distribution of new wealth must
be unhampered by restrictive legis
lation, tax policies, and unneces
sary accounting procedures, the
earlier industry can make its max
imum contribution to the national
welfare through increased produc
tivity.”
These speeches finished the con
ference’s second day, after a first
day of similar talks. The three
chairmen for the sessions were
Chester Wine, of the Central Power
and Light Company in Laredo,
Tom Finney, representing the
First National Bank of Dallas, and
W. A. Pounds, of the Tyler Bank
and Trust Company, Tyler, Texas.
Pounds officially presided during
the session of the conference.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1959
Number 8
Student Senate Alters Kyle
Field Seating Enforcement
Corps Staff Giveni
Seating Authority;
By BILL HICKLIN
Battalion News Editor
The Student Senate last night turned the Kyle Field
seating enforcement over to the Corps Staff and its channels
at the initial meeting in the Senate Chamber of the Memorial
Student Center.
Previously the seating authority had rested with the
Senate and often posed a problem in respect to class separ
ation and Civilian and Corps allotments.
The Senate will still draw up the various class allotments
which will be released to the A&M student body prior to the
University of Houston grid clash next week.
A question was raised that the new policy would effect
the seating plan of the civilians. But it was disclosed that
the change was only in the*
authority of enforcement and
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the seating would not be al
tered,
Jake Sekerka, Senate Presi
dent, said, “The Senate will act
as a co-ordinator with the Corps
Staff to handle allotment between
the classes and see that the space
is not violated and likewise the
civilians will do the same.”
Wade Dover, deputy Corps com
mander, voiced approval of the
project, saying the Corps Staff
would accept enforcement responsi
bilities.
The Student Life Committee,
chairmanned by Larry White, will
draw up the seating allotment and
meet with Wade Dover, and Rol
and Dommert, Civilian Student
Council representative to the Sen
ate.
In addition, the Senate elected
Marvin Schneider, chairman of the
Student Welfare Committee, to
represent the Senate at the meet
ings of the Brazos County Tuber
culosis Assn.
Dover was also elected Senate
Chaplain and two other offices
were filled.
Tim Pixley was elected tempor
ary recording secretary in place
of Lee Mayfield, who did not re
turn this year. The office will be
filled at the first school-wide elec
tion—probably after semester
grades are released.
Dommert was elected corres
ponding secretary to work on the
Public Relations Committe under
Tom Hamilton. The election had
to be approved by the Senate mem
bers in accordance with the consti
tution since it was not originally
slated on the docket.
The Senate committee chairmen
— Schneider, Hamilton, White and
William Cook of the Issues Com
mittee—also gave reports on their
progress and plans.
Selection of standing committees
opened with the individual mem
bers making application for the
committees on which they seek to
work.
Cornell Prof
To Give Talk
On Soybeans
“Soybeans—A Primary Resource
for Meeting Tomorrow’s Food
Needs” will be the subject lectured
on by Dr. Fredric W. Hill of Cor
nell University Tuesday at 8 p.m.
in Room 114 of the Dairy Bio
chemistry Building.
Hill is recognized as an out-
stading authority on soybean nu-
triton. Since 1953 he has served
in his present position as profes
sor of animal nutrition and poultry
husbandry at Cornell. He received
the B.S. degree in 1939 and the
M.S. degree in 1940 from Pennsyl
vania State and his Ph.D. degree
from Cornell University in 1944.
Biology Professor
Gets AEG Grant
Dr. S. 0. Brown, professor of
biology, has received a grant of
$19,047 from the U. S. Atomic
Energy Commission.
The grant is in support of a
research study on the influence of
pre- and post-natal low intensity
chronic radiation on the structure
and function of the germinal epi
thelium in the albino mouse.
The research will get under way
in October at the Radiation Biology
Laboratory of the Texas Engineer
ing Experiment Station. Dr. A. B.
Medlen will be co-investigator in
the work. Others researchers who
will participate are Dr. George M.
Krise, Jelle de Boer and Mrs. Ger
trude Adam.
The AEG grant was received
through the A&M Research Foun
dation.
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Senate Vote Count
Jake Sekerka, Student Senate president, The Senate also took up the problem of Kyle
tabulates the votes for senate chaplain in Field seating arrangement for the coming
their meeting in the Senate Chamber of season,
the Memorial Student Center last night.
Share $l}/2 Million
Texas Colleges Receive
Defense Education Funds
WASHINGTON, D. C. CP)—. colleges in the year ending June
A&M received $90,611 of the 30, 1960, for student loans.
$1,545,275 in federal funds set Arlington State College also re
aside for Texas universities and | ceived an allocation of $24,374;
Intramurals Slates
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Slouch and Ole’ Sarge Take on Mississippi Southern
. . . see story on Page 3
(Editor’s Note: This is the
second in a series of three
articles explaining to students
where the compulsory $17.35
student services fee is used.
The final article will cover
the Memorial Student Center.)
Aggies who were worried about
the effects of the loss of state
funds on the A&M intramural pro
gram need worry no longer, ac
cording to Barney Welch, intra
mural manager.
Welch said the A&M intramural
program will be essentially the
same program it has been for the
past several years as far as the
number of sports and participa
tion is concerned.
The $1 fee students pay in the
$17.35 they pay for student serv
ices is designed to cover adequate
ly the $6,500 budget drawn up by
the Intramural Office for this
school year.
“Even the $6,500 delegated for
intramurals is partly returned to
the student body,” Welch said.
“About $2,700 is budgeted for use
in paying student salaries, which
is a little more than one-third of
the total intramural budget.”
Welch said that although the
program this year is essentially
the same as last yeai’, the Intra
mural Office has been moved from
Student Activities and placed un
der the Department of Physical
Education.
There will be a total of 89 stu
dent teams participating in intra
murals this year. Of this total,
there will be 39 tegms of Corps
upperclassmen and 39 freshmen
teams. There will also be 11 civ
ilian teams this year, Welch said.
This year will also mark the
first year that the Intramural Of
fice has set up a program aimed
at the foreign students on the
campus. Welch said the new pro
gram is called Pan-American
Teams and is to be composed of all
non-citizens enrolled at A&M.
He said so far the program has
met with enthusiasm with teams
being entered in almost all events,
among them swimming and hand
ball.
Welch said A&M has one of the
most extensive intramural pro
grams in the Southwest, offering
15 team sports and four open
sports for individual participation.
Only one other school in the area
can compare favorably with A&M
in this respect, the University of
Texas.
Team sports offered are foot
ball, basketball, volleyball, soft-
ball, track, swimming, handball,
tennis, wrestling, ping pong, golf,
rifle, horseshoes and badminton.
Open sports available are golf,
tennis, handball, and badminton.
Welch said the Intramural Of
fice was going to encourage civil
ian students to take part more
this year. He said in the* past the
civilians have had a much poorer
turnout for intramurals than the
Corps.
He hopes that the student intra
mural officers will work hard to
get full student participation this
year.
Prairie View A&M, $17,433; and
Tarleton State College, $8,056.
Under the Defense Education
Act, Texas’ share of the 30-million
dollar allocation was $1,545,275,
the Office of Education said.
The loans are for students who
wish to continue their education in
the sciences and mathematics.. The
loans will also seiwe as incentives
for students who plan to enter
teaching fields.
Fifty-one Texas schools were
listed in the program by the Of
fice of Education. The schools will
administer the loans and allocate
the money.
E. E. McQuillen is in charge of
administering the loans for the
college.
A&M was sixth in the list of
schools in Texas receiving funds.
The University of Texas received
$174,600; Baylor University, $172,-
152; Texas Tech, $135,000; North
Texas State College, $128,003; and
the University of Houston, $102,
738.
Other schools and the allocations
to each: Abilene Christian College,
$55,397; Bishop College, $14,175;
Cisco Junior College, $6,169; Del
Mar, $12,600; East Texas Baptist
College, $17,500; Hardin-Simmons,
$50,320; Henderson County Junior
College, $9,578; Howard County
Junior'College, $8,077.
Jarvis-Christian College, $7,913;
Lamar Tech, $12,515; Lee Junior
College, $8,677; Lon Morris Junior
College, $9,625; Mary Allen, $2,-
512; Mary Hardin-Baylor, $11,900;
Midwestern University $14,400; Our
Lady of the Lake, $8,995; Pan
American College, $1 ,977; Paris
Junior College, $720.
Ranger Junior College, $10,970;
Sacred Heart Dominican College,
$9,900; St. Edward’s Unuiversity,
$1,800; St. Mary’s University, $26,-
325; San Angelo Junior College,
$2,991; South Plains College, $6,-
012; Southwestern Bible Institute,
$7,200; Texas Christian Univer
sity, $84,078.