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THE BATTALION
Tuesday, Decembber 1, 1959
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DIRECTORS
(Continued from Page 1) Costa Rica; Heriberta Favian Rod-
electric lines at Prairie View A&M
and $20,000 for storm and sani
tary sewers at Prairie View, and
$150,000 for equipment for the new
student center at Prairie View.
An appropriation of $11,763 was
made for relocation of lines and
construction at the floriculture
storage building and agricultural
engineering shops at A&M; for
furniture and equipment for A&M’s
new W. T. Doherty petroleum
building, an appropriation of $38,-
000 was made. Also, for work at
A&M, directors appi’oved appropri
ations of $100,000 for work on the
library, $21,000 for plans and speci
fications for air-conditioning the
academic building, highway re
search building, parts of the veter
inary medicine and dairy-biochem
istry building, and $16,750 for work
at the Entomology Field Labora
tory at A&M.
In addition to other, minor ap
propriations, the board also granted
a right-of-way easement across the
A&M College plantation in Burle
son County, to the Old Ocean Fuel
Company, for laying and maintain
ing a 24-inch natural gas pipe line.
The easement granted was for a
ten year period.
Directors approved a request for
a drainage easement for the Ash
Pond Drainage Association,
through which the association’s
members hope to drain some 4,000
acres of land near the Texas A&M
College Plantation.
Twenty-six A&M foreign stu
dents were approved for Good
Neighbor Scholarships by action
of the board.
Receiving scholarships are Jorge
Edmundo Alandia, Bolivia; Leon
Aristizabal, Colombia; Rogelio
Avila, Mexico; Olegario Barrelier-
Chiari, Panama; Rafael Chagin,
Colombia; Camilo Cordoze, Pana
ma; Jose Luis del Cid, Gautemala;
ffugo.J. Estrada, Venezuela; David
Mberto Gramatges, Cuba; Victor
Jl. Helguero, Bolivia; Jorge Vicen
te Huezo, Nicaragua; Antonio S.
Lagacha, Ecuador; Juan Lobo,
Mextce; Joseph Anthony Maher,
Panama; Francisco V. Martinelli,
Panama; Carlos H. Matamoros,
Honduras; Rogelio A. Merren, Hon
duras; Bryan Mulanovich, Peru;
Rogelio L. Nunez, Cuba; Luis Jose
Pardo, Peru; Carlos M. Rivera,
riquez, Costa Rica, Augusto Silva,
Chile; Vicente Sol, El Salvador;
Enrique Jose Soler, Cuba; and
Charles C. Tadic, Bolivia.
Also at the meeting net profits
of the A&M Exchange Store for
the fiscal year of 1958-59, which
amounted to $15,043.22, were dis
tributed to aid ten activities at
A&M.
Turf grass Meet
Set for Monday
The 14th annual Texas Turf-
grass Conference will be held Dec.
7-9 in the Memorial Student Cen
ter.
Dr. E. C. Holt and John A. Long
of the A&M Department of Ag
ronomy said the purpose of the
meeting is to provide an oppor
tunity for everyone in turf pro
duction and maintenance to par
ticipate in professional discussion
of problems in this field.
Turf grass production is impoi'-
tant to managers of golf course,
parks, school grounds and in beau
tifying and maintaining highways.
The general session will stai't
at 1:30 p.m. Dec. 7 with an offi
cial welcome by President Earl
Rudder, followed by a talk on wa
ter hydraulics by Px-of. Charles
Hohn of the Department of Agri
cultural Engineering.
Next, Leon Howard of College
Station will discuss design and
construction for efficient mainte
nance; J. W. MacQueen, head of
the grounds ^nd maintenance here,
will talk on planting arrangements
and materials; Dr. Jim Watson Jr.
of Toro Manufacturing Corp. will
outline modern equipment, and Da
vid Lilly, president of Toro Manu
facturing Coxp. will speak on pei’-
sonnel management.
The Dec. 8 meeting starts at 9
a.m. with a turfgrass symposium
conducted by Dr. Bill Trogdon,
head of the Department of Agi’o-
nomy; Dr. Gene Nutter of Jack
sonville Beach, Fla., executive di
rector of the U. S. Golf Coui’se
Superintendent Assn., and Jim
Holmes of Chicago, Ill., regional
agx-onomist for the U. S. Golf Assn.
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Joins Staff
Dr. Borden M. McGee, M. D., has joined the staff of student
Health Services here. Dr. McGee comes to A&M from
Rosenberg, Tex. where he engaged in general practice for
22 years. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago
School of. Medicine and interned at the Crippled Children’s
Hospital in Roanoke, Va. He did his pre-med work at Bay
lor University. He is a native of Henderson County, Tex.
First Texas Research
Conferences Set Here
The first in a sei’ies of x'esearch
confei'ences to be held in Texas
in the next few months, will be
held here Dec. 14-15.
The National Science Founda
tion through a grant to the Texas
Academy of Science, providing ex
pense allowances for all partici
pants, is supporting the confer
ences.
“Any superior undergraduate
student with a lively interest in the
natural sciences and who is en-
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COLLEGE STATION
rolled in one of the junior or sen
ior colleges of Texas not offering
a PhD is eligible as a prospective
participant,” Charles LaMotte,
program director, announced today.
LaMotte is professor of biology at
A&M.
“Students will participate in
groups of four, each group ac
companied by a faculty counselor
and the five will constitute a par
ticipating unit.”
The host institutions are A&M,
Texas Tech, Feb. 4-5; the Univer
sity of Texas, Max-ch 3-4 and North
Texas State College and Texas Wo
men’s University, Wadley Blood
Center and Texas Instruments Co.
in Dallas, April 7-8.
Outstanding scientists in each of
the major natural science fields
will explain the different phases
of the conference.
The undergraduate students will
take back to their fellow students
the findings of the conference.
This program is the first of its
kind to be sponsored by the Na
tional Science Foundation through
a state academy.
Farm, Ranch Credit School
Reveals Agriculture Changes
Bankers and other men in the
financial world heard the latest
information on changes taking
place in agriculture when A&M’s
ninth annual Texas Farm and
Ranch Credit School met today
in the Memoxual Student Centex-.
Robert Cherry, progx-am chair
man and Texas Agricultural Ex
tension Serivce economist, said a
main featui'e of the school this
year was a panel discussion of
economic size farms and ranches.
Panel members studied this
question: “How large does a faiun
need to be and what are the capi
tal requirements needed to pro
duce a desired income for the
Public Schools
Pay Tribute
To Wilcox
High ti’ibute was paid to Geox-ge
B. Wilcox recently by the state’s
public school men and women.
Wilcox is a retired member of
the Depax-tment of Education and
Psychology here. He was a mem
ber of the staff for 40 years and
prior to coming to A&M served 10
years in the public schools of Tex
as.
He was honox-ed at an education
al-fraternity banquet just prior to
the meeting of the State Teachers
Assn, held in San Antonio.
Speakers lauded Wilcox as one
of the outstanding men in Texas
education, a friend of the schools,
one who at all times was and is
at the beck and call of educational
circles. Wilcox was presented a
cash gift.
Wilcox has received many hon
ors. Recently the Texas School
Business carx-ied a story on his
woxk with his picture on the front
page.
Attending the meeting from
A&M wex-e Dr. Grady Parker, head
of the department and Mrs. Par
ker; M. S. Kavanaugh and Mrs.
Kavanaugh, and Paul Hensarling,
all of the department.
Three hundred and fifty attend
ed the banquet.
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various types of farms and ranches
in Texas?”
Dr. Tyrus Timm, head of the
Department of Agricultural Eco
nomics and Sociology, which con
ducted the school, said new re
search developments in livestock
and crops was presented by leaders
in these fields.
Live animal demonstrations fea
tured the newest findings in ani
mal and poultry husbandry, Timm
said.
Discussions stax-ted at 9 a.m.
yesterday. Two of the principal
speakers wex-e Clarence Miller of
Washington, D.C., assistant secre
tary of agriculture, and Bushrod
Allin, chairman of the Outlook
and Situation Board of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture.
Miller talked on building mar
kets for agricultural products, and
Allin discussed the agricultural
outlook for 1960.
Cherry said a talk by W. A.
Porter, a farmer near Terrell,
drew much interest. He spoke on
“A Farmer Looks At His Banker.”
Timm said all bankers were in
vited to attend the school.
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