Volume 59 The Battalion COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1959 !JL Number m Local County Accidents Up For September Milam County’s 13 accidents during September leads the month ly Rural Traffic Accident Report for Brazos, Burleson, Lee, Milam and Robertson Counties according to figures released by the Bryan Division of the Texas Highway De partment. The Area Highway Patrol in vestigated 55 accidents during the month with property damages prevalent in -37 accidents, personal injury in 16 and two fatal acci dents. Sergeant O. L. Luther reported property damage of $44,100 with 23 persons injured and 4 killed, an increase of seven accidents and four deaths from the same period in September of 1958. Brazos and Burleson Counties each had 12 accidents during the month while Robertson County re corded 11 accidents and Lee Coun ty only seven. Lee County’s seven mishaps, however, accounted for $13,970 worth of damage. Burleson Coun ty, with damages amounting to $9,550 ranked a distant second, followed by Milam, Brazos and Robertson Counties. Burleson County accounted 'for three of the total four fatalities. The other fatal accident occurred in Brazos County. Sixteen personal injuries wmre recorded during the month, with Brazos County’s six heading the list. Burleson recorded five in juries while Milam and Robertson Counties reported two and Lee County only one. Milam County reported 11 acci dents involving property damage while Robertson County had nine, Brazos and Lee Counties six and Burleson County five. Walton to Address Indiana Teachers » E. V. Walton, head of the De partment of Agricultural Educa tion here, will address Indiana vo cational agriculture teachers Oct. 23. The Indiana State Teachei’S Assn., meeting at Fort Wayne, has invited Walton to discuss changes needed in the vocational agricul tural curriculum to meet modern needs. The entire program for voca tional agriculture at Fort Wayne is careers for agriculturally trained persons and how to teach voca tional career guidance in the class room. McGuire Off Cadet Roster Jon Few . no more football Research Donations Awarded Ag Station Six grants-in-aid, two renewal of grants, two extension of grants and a single donation have been made to the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station during the past month. According to Station Director R. D. Lewis, all will be used to support research studies in several different agricultural fields. The Texas Poultry Improve ment Assn., T. A. Hensarling, ex ecutive secretary, Stephenville, has renewed their grant for $7,800 to support poultry improvement work during the next fiscal year. To gether with accumulated savings- from the Association’s previous grant this hmount makea possible the continued employment and traveling expenses of one of the supervisors of the Poultry Im provement* Service. The Merck and Co., Inc. in Rah- mm * The Ag Sweetheart Miss Rose Ann Annaratone, newly-crowned Aggie Sweet heart, gleams in Amon Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, as . she was officially presented as the sweetheart. Cadet Colonel of the Corps Bill Heye presented her with a boquet of roses. way, N. J., has extended their grant for $3,300 for support of studies in the use of high levels of antibiotics in the diets of grow ing chicks and mature laying stock. The Br-ewers Yeast Council, Inc. in Chicago, has extended their grant for $1,000 to support re search on the value of dried brew ers yeast in feeds. for growing turkeys. Dr. J. R. Couch of the Depai’tment of Poultry Science is supervising the studies under both extensions. The Flavor Corporation of Amer ica, Chicago, has made available a grant for $3,300 to support studies to determine the effect of feeding flavors to chickens and turkeys. Couch is also directing these stud ies. The King Ranch in Kingsville, through President Robert J. Kle berg, Jr., has made available a grant-in-aid for $3,000 for research on the carcass and meat character istics of Santa Gertrudis steers. This work is being conducted un der the supervision of Dr. O. D. Butler, head of the Department of Animal Husbandry. Imperial Chemical Industries (New York) Ltd., Associates of Plant Protection Ltd., in London, England, has made a grant for $1,100 to support work on cotton defoliants. Dr. W. C. Hall, head of the Department of Plant Phys iology and Pathology is supervising the studies. The A. O. Smith Corp. in Kan kakee, Ill., has donated to the Sta tion one 20 x 50 Harvestore build ing and one standard Harvestore unloader -valued at $9,649. The building and equipment will be used at the Dairy Cattle Center in connection with research on feed ing and economic values of forage crops as affected by preserving and storing methods. The Texas Rice Improvement Assn, has renewed their grant of $250 to be used for paying a por tion of the agronomist’s salary at Substation 4. Three grants made by The Cen tral Texas Fertilizer Co., Inc. in Comanche, Tex., The Allied Chem ical Corp. in New York City and The Grand River Chemical Co. in Pryor, Okla., for $398.25; $500 and $352, respectively, will be used to support the expanded fertilizer research program on the South Plains. The three were made through the Goodpasture Grain and Milling Co. in Brownfield, Tex. The studies are being conducted at the Lubbock substation under Su perintendent C. E. Fisher’s super vision. Speedy Backs Fail To Report Monday By BOB WEEKLEY Battalion Sports Editor A&M football hopes were dealt a severe blow yesterday with the announcement that the first two left halfbacks at Aggieland, Jon Few and Jesse McGuire, had quit the team. Both players had failed to show up for a squad meeting and practice session on Monday. The two hoys, who played in TCU’s 39-6 win over the Aggies at Fort Worth Saturday, earlier had attend a Sunday meeting of the squad, hut no thing had been said of their intention to resign. Both players were believed to have packed and left some time Monday morning. They had not conferred with either one of the team’s co-captains, Charley Milstead and Gale Oliver, about leaving. Few, a junior from Midlo- Three Aggies Hurt Saturday In Accident Thi-ee Aggies and their dates were injured Saturday night when the car in which they wei’e riding hit a concrete abutment on Fort Worth’s Freeway. The three Aggies are Craig Trotman, senior from La Fera; Raymond A. Murski, senior from Brenham; and Robert D. Lane, senior from Houston. They were taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Fort Worth. Murski’s condition is listed as good. Lane and Trotman are in fair condition. Two of the girls that were with them were also taken to the hos pital. They a?’e Geanie -Teacher, whose conditions is listed as criti cal, and Ann Leech who is in fair condition. The other girl, Mary Jane Wagner, escaped serious in jury. According to Dave Brown, a re- poi-ter for the Fort Worth Star Telegram, Lane was driving north on the Freeway. It was about 8:15 at night. They were almost to downtown Fort Worth when they came to a four-level overpass called a mixmaster. Lane tried to turn off the ex pressway, but the exit was blocked by a construction barrier. He wasn’t able to get back onto the freeway and ran into the concrete abutment. Police said the car skidded about 70 feet. It stopped just short of a railing which prevented it from going over a 40-foot embankment. Ambulance attendants had to pry Lane from under the steering wheel Y^ere he was pinned. Both Lane and Trotman are ex pected to be in the hospital for some time. Murski may be released early this week. A&M Instructors Attend Prof Meet Robert H. Fletcher, Department of Mechanical Engineering, . and William F. Adams, engineering in structor, attended the annual con ference of the American Assn, of University Professors, Region Five, held at the Biological Station of the University of Oklahoma at Lake Texoma last week. Fletcher chaired the conference j and Adams was secretary-treasurer \ of the group. Sixty-five delegates from 18 colleges and universities in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas | attended. Region Five include the states of Oklahoma,' Arkansa New Mexico and Texas. thian, was reached at his home there by telephone. “I have definitely quit,” he said, “and I will not play foot ball again, anywhere!” The first string halfback added that he would lay out of school the remainder of the semester and then enroll at another school. He was asked for, but did not give a reason for leaving. McGuire was unable to be reach ed at his home in Plainview. Athletic Director and Head Coach Jim Myers, when asked about their departure, said: “I did not major in child psychology, but anytime one of my players fails to attend a meeting of the squad, he’s through!” The departure of the two star athletes left quite a hole in the Aggie defense and offense. Be tween the two of them they own ed 318 yards of the Farmers’ 730 yards gained rushing. The fleet- footed McGuire' topped the rush ing list with 216 yards. He was fifth in Southwest Conference rushing, but a week earlier had been second behind TCU’s Jack Spikes. Few, hampered by injuries the past two seasons, had hoped to shake off his jinx this year and add strength to the Aggie attack, taking some of the load off Quar terback Milstead. Besides his offensive ability Few had turned in capable perform ances at defensive halfback, some thing McGuire could not add t