From Foundation
College Gets
Two Grants
For $63,000
Two grant totaling $G3,000 for
the study of carbon dioxide con
tent of the air and sea surface
and determining the origin of bot
tom water of the Gulf of Mexico
and Caribbean have been made to
the department of Oceanography
and Meteorology by the National
Science Foundation.
The first grant — $43,000 to be
expended over a two-year period—
is to study and document the ex
change of carbon dioxide between
the air and sea surface, according
to Dr. Ronald W. Hood, associate
professor of oceanography and
meteorology, whose group will
conduct the study.
Hood explained that the pro
gram is a continuation of a study
initiated during the International
Geophysical Year.
Normally, Hood said, the carbon
dioxide content of the atmosphere
and sea surface is expected to be
in equilibrium. However, studies
during the International Geophys
ical Year showed the sea surface
to contain fewer carbon dioxide
molecules than is considered nor
mal to maintain equilibrium.
The molecules, he said, and water
vapors are the two primary gases
which absorb heat back radiation
from the earth’s surface. Thus,
higher carbon dioxide content re
sults in higher atmospheric tem
peratures.
Billed officially by the N. S. F.
Wednesday
Deadline
For SC0NA
Students have until Wednesday
at noon to apply as delegates at
the Fifth Student Conference on
National Affairs as official dele
gates of A&M, J. Wayne Stark,
director of the Memorial Student
Center, announced today.
The 15 selected conferees from
A&M will be assigned to round
tables along with representatives
from 70 colleges in the United
States, Canada and Mexico. They
will hear talks by nationally-recog
nized authorities on world prob
lems and will attend all SCONA
Bocial events.
To qualify as a conferee, a stu
dent must be classified as a junior
or above, have a grade point ratio
of 1.25 or better, have qualities of
leadership and make a good ap
pearance. No student on probation
will be eligible.
Application forms may be pro
cured at the Commandant’s Office,
the Housing Office (Department
of Student Affairs) or at the Me
morial Student Center (Post Of
fice-Fountain Room corridor).
Applicants will be screened by
interviews with a committee of
faculty and former student mem
bers of the MSC Council and SC
ONA faculty advisors. Dr. Alfred
F. Chalk, head of the Department
of Economics, is chairman of the
committee. Stark said that inter
views began today and students
will be given the time and date
for their interview when they bring
their applications to his office.
as a “Sea-Air Interface Carbon
Dioxide Exchange Phenomenon,”
operations for the project will be
carried out on the A&M research
vessel, “The Hidalgo” and in the
college’s laboratories.
The second grant in the amount
of $32,000 to cover a one-year
study of bottom water in the Gulf
of Mexico and Caribbean has as
its purpose of leaining the circu
lation rate and origin of the deep
water of the two bodies.
Hood explained that samplings
of Gulf and Caribbean waters would
reveal the extent of radioactive
carbon content over cold carbon
which will indicate the length of
time the carbon has been away
from radiation bombardment in the
higher atmosphere above the sur
face of the sea.
Data from these samplings
should reveal the time elapsed
since water was on the surface of
seas surrounding the Polar re
gions.
Official title for the project is
“C14 over C12 Ratio of the Or
ganic and Inorganic Carbon Frac
tion of the Waters of the Carib
bean and the Gulf of Mexico.”
Consolidated
BondElection
Underway
Ends at 7p.m.
Voters of the A&M Consoli
dated School District have until
7 p.m. tonight to vote for a
$350,000 bond issue which is de
signed to build more facilities
and to repair and renovate ex
isting facilities on the school
system.
The voting is taking place in
the Music Room of A&M Con
solidated Junior High School
Building.
According to J. K. Jackson,
school board president, “the. bal
lot makes three propositions:
Proposition 1 states for or
against “Maintenartce tax”.
Proposition 2 provides for or
against “The issuance of bonds
and levying of the tax in pay
ment thereof.” Proposition 3
states for or against “The as
sumption of indebtedness and
the levying of a tax in payment
thereof.”
Only qualified voters in the
A&M Consolidated School Dis
trict may vote, according to the
Texas Constitution. A qualified
voter is defined as one who owns
property rendered by the tax-
assessor-collector and who has
lived in the school district for
six months.
In setting up a chart showing
the estimated cost to a typical
homeowner, the board showed
that on a $12,500 residence, the
assessed value at the present
valuation rate of 45 per cent
would be $5,500. The tax for
this typical situation would be
104.50 per year. Under the pres
ent program, it is $82.50, show
ing an annual increase of $22.50,
said Jackson.
Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1959
Number
United Chest Drive Ends;
’59 Goal Reached Friday
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Memorial To 36th Division
A granite memorial shaped after the 36th veiled the monument,
division insignia was dedicated on the capi-
tol grounds at Austin. Mrs. Max Latham,
of Bowie, daughter of Oran C. Stoval, un-
Gov. Price Daniel
holds a wreath which he placed on the huge
arrowhead dedicated to the T-patchers. (AP
Wirephoto)
Alpha Zeta Chapter Inducts
25 Members Monday Night
By MORRIS ASBILL
Battalion Staff Writer
Twenty-five outstanding agri
cultural students were intitiated
into the Texas Alpha Chapter of
Employes Plan
Dinner Dance
The College Employes’ Dinner
Club will have its second dance of
the year Thursday evening in the
Memorial Student Center.
The dance will get under way
at 8:30 p.m. in the Assembly
Room.
“This will be a refreshment
dance instead of a dinner dance,”
Stanley P. Clark of the Texas
Engineering Experiment Station,
chairman, announced today.
“If you are a season ticket hold
er and intend to come, you have
no reservations to make. If your
ticket is not to be used, you can
save the club some money if you
will telephone me before 2 p.m.,
at VI 6-5117,” Clark announces.
“If you are not a season ticket
holder we invite you to purchase
season tickets or single admission
tickets. The former may be pur
chased from Dr. Ed Burns in the
Department of Horticulture and
the latter at the main desk of
thq Memorial Student Center be
fore 2 p. m. Wednesday.”
the fraternity of Alpha Zeta Mon
day night in ceremonies in the
Dairy-Biochemistry Building.
The challenge speech was given
by Otto Kunze, associate profes
sor in the Department of Agricul
tural Economics and one of the
sponsors of Alpha Zeta.
Candidates who received mem
bership were Billy Joe Barefield,
agricultural engineering and civil
engineering; Douglas Eugene Bar
tosh, agricultural engineering;
Kenneth Ray Beerwinkle, agricul
tural engineering; Roger Neal
Blakeney, animal science; Ralph
Don Cahill, agricultural education;
Billy John Coley, agricultural edu
cation; Anton Ernest Coy, agrono
my; Gene Carroll DeCkard, agri
cultural education; Ben Edwai’d
Dickerson, rural sociology; Jay
Presley Gatlin, agricultural eco
nomics; Lawrence Gene Gerum, ag
ricultural education; John Dowell
Hunt, agricultural education.
Jerome Joseph Element, agidcul-
tural education; William Charles
Meacham, agricultural economics;
John William Mittel, animal hus
bandry; John Wesley Miller, plant
and soil science; Albin George Pe-
chacek Jr., agronomy; Robert Law
rence Pfluger, agricultural eco
nomics; Thomas Alfred Plato, en
tomology; Vernon Ross Sikes, ag
ricultural education; Thomas Mar-
son: Taylor, agricultural economics;
Donald Frank Wanjura, agricul
tural engineering, William Goebel
White Jr., agricultural education;
and Robert Ray Wilson, dairy
science.
Donald Vincent Sehwall, poultry
science graduate student was ini
tiated into the Alpha Zeta Chapter
at California Polytechnical Insti
tute, where he is a member of
that organization.
Qualifications for membership
in Alpha Zeta include scholarship,
leadership and character. Candi
dates for membership must be in
the top two-fifths of their class
academically, possess outstanding
leadership ability and be of strong
moral character. Initiates must
have completed IVz years of col
lege work.
$13,150 Mark
Easily Surpassed
The College Station United Chest Fund drive went over
its goal two days before deadline, J. B. (Dick) Hervey, chair
man of the drive, announced Monday.
The goal, which was $13,150 for 14 agencies participat
ing, was reached Friday.
“We went well over our goal last Friday,” Hervey said
last night, “and the final facts and figures have not been
tabulated, but the last I saw we were over $15,000.”
With a slogan of “One Day’s Pay . . . The United Way,”
the drive started Nov. 1 and came to an end Sunday.
“Final facts and figures will be ready sometimes this
week,” Hervey said. “Friday the 13th proved to be the lucky
——♦■day for the College Station
Final Rites
Held Monday
For Simms
Funeral services were held yes
terday afternoon at Calloway-Jones
Funeral Home for Roy L. Simms,
49, instructor and locker room
foreman in the Department of
Animal Husbandry.
Burial was in Welborn Ceme
tery at Welborn.
Simms was working Saturday
morning in the meats laboratory
when he accidentally cut himself
with a knife. Zellie Newton, a
locker room employe in the meats
laboratory, said that Simms was
preparing to trim a slab of bacon.
Newton stepped outside to listen
to a weather report on his car
radio. He said that he heard Simms
cry out for help, rushed back into
the locker room and found him
bleeding profusely from a knife
wound.
Newton said after attempts to
help Simms seemed futile, he called
an ambulance. Simms was dead on
the arrival of the ambulance and
Brazos County Coroner Johnnie
Johnson was called to the scene.
Johnson attributed death to a
loss of blood from an accidental
knife wound which severed the
femoral artery in his groin.
Simms had been a member of
the college staff since 1934, inter
rupting this service for two years
with the U. S. Navy during World
War II.
,A native of McKinney, he was
married and made his home at
301 Bolton in College Station. Sur
vivors include his wife and a
daughter, Mrs. Johnny Burton of
Huntsville.
United Chest.’
A&M System Drive chair
man this year was E. L.
Angell. His captains were
David Fitch, R. L. Hunt, Dale F.
Leipper, John S. Dennison and R.
H. Davis.
The College Station city drive
was headed by H. E. Burgess with
a general committee consisting of
Don Dale, Gibb Gilchrist, Mrs. John
Q. Hays, Mrs. Raymond Hite, K. A.
Manning, Mrs. R. E. Patterson,
Taylor Riedel, the Rev. James
Argue and John Pruitt.
The federal agencies drive, head
ed by Irvin Lloyd, had a committee
composed of Jack Bradshaw, N. L.
McCollough, O. B. Briggs and
Leonard Watson.
A&M played an important part
in the annual drive and President
Earl Rudder urged earlier that each
college employe not only “endorse
the United Chest program, but that
each of you wholeheartedly sup
port it with your gift.”
Each of the four categorical set^
ups—medical, charity, youth and
community aid—will receive a pre
determined amount of the budget
to be used as prescribed in agency
reports to the budget committee
for the drive.
Agencies that will receive por
tions of the budget are the Col
lege Station Local Chest Charity
Fund, College Station Community
House, College Station Youth Fa
cilities Committee, College Station
YMCA, College Station Recreation
Council, Crippled Children’s Ther
apy Fund, Brazos County Youth
Counseling Service, Salvation
Army, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts,
Gonzales Warm Springs, American
Red Cross, the Texas United Fund
and the Brazos County Hospital
Fund.
Sponsored by Great Issues Committee
Robert Kennedy Speaks Here
Tomorrow Night in Guion Hail
Robert F. Kennedy, chief coun
sel for the Senate Committee on
Improper Labor or Management
Field Activities last year, will
speak in Guion Hall Wednesday
night at 8.
Kennedy, a younger brother of
U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy,
(D.-Mass.), one of the leading con
tenders for the Democratic presi
dential nomination in 1960—will
speak on labor racketeering, a field
of study in which he has gained a
national reputation. He is con
sidered one of the top U. S. ex
perts on exposing labor-manage
ment corruption, particularly on
shady operations within the Team
sters Union.
He was recently instrumental in
the exposure of Dave Beck of the
Teamster’s Union. Some 15 or 16
officials who have appeared before
Kennedy and the Senate Commit
tee have been convicted and sent
enced.
By radio and television appear
ances, Kennedy has roused the
public to demand action on labor-
management corruption. He has
uncovered many cases of corrup
tion, mishandling of money, and
mistreatment of members by labor
unions. He has also condemned
unscrupulous labor unions for mis
use of power over union workers
and abuse of the welfare of the
entire nation.
In 1954, Kennedy was named
“One of the Ten Outstanding
Young Men in the United States”
by the U. S. Junior Chamber of
Commei’ce.
In ,addition to his speech at
Guion Hall, Kennedy is scheduled
to spea’k at the University of Tex
as and Southern Methodist Uni
versity. His speech here is to be |
one of the top attractions offered
this year by the Great Issues
Committee, Reed Armstrong, Great
Issues publicity chairman, said to
day.
Admission tickets are $1.50 each
and Great Issues and Recital Series
season tickets will be honored.
Alpha Zeta Inducts New Members
Ken McGee, chancellor of the A&M Chapter outstanding juniors, seniors and graduate
of Alpha Zeta, inducts five of the twenty- students in the School of Agriculture are
five new members inducted by the chapter admitted to the fraternity,
in initiation ceremonies last night. Only