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THE BATTALION Tuesday, January 5, I960 page 3 r p wo Brothers and a Cousin Llano Have County Things Osbourns in Common Plenty in Three A&M students have plenty in common in their activi ties at Aggieland as each is an agriculture major from Common Llano County. Carrol, Don and Larry are all members of the same family and are outstanding students. J i j'Vr» Discuss Youth at Meet Today’s youth needs more oppor tunity to learn technological and industrial growth from the inside rather than from the outside, mem bers of the Junior Engineering Technical Society were told during a southwest regional leadership conference held here recently. Dr. John C. Calhoun, vice chan cellor for engineering of the A&M System and member of the board of directors of the technical soci- b ety, said that in the modern world, so dependent on science and under standing, there is little chance for gaining a basic understanding at ’ an early age to guide high school ar college students to engineering And science. “This, it seems to me, is the real challenge of the JETS organization and its primary reason for being,” he said. Another goal of the society, Calhoun said, is to better describe and define the role of the engineer to the high school student. Think Professionally A third objective for the organi zation is to try to give young per sons an opportunity to think more x at the professional level rather than the vocational level, the speaker said. The society, often called JETS, ** is a pattern for high school extra curricular clubs to promote interest among junior and senior high school youths in engineering and science careers. The conference was held in co-operation with JETS, Inc., of East Lansing, Mich. Dr. L. D. Strom, director of re search and development, apparatus , division of Texas Instruments, Inc., at Dallas, discussed the “Engi neer’s Role In Our Future Society.” He said the role of the engineer is frequently taken for granted in America’s technically oriented so ciety. Some of the desired and acquired characteristics of the successful engineer, he said, are an under standing of science fundamentals, an inquiring intellect and a desire to excel. Another speaker, J. G. McGuire, assistant dean of engineering at A&M, said the college is much in terested in JETS. Contacts Helpful He said that through student * contacts in college pre-engineering Be well groomed for success That “like new” look we give your clothes is sure to make the right impressions whether you’re on the job or on the town. CAMPUS CLEANERS students can learn something of what faces them in a college engi neering program. Future plans, McGuire said, are to set up local advisory committees throughout the state to help keep JETS clubs on a continuing basis and serve as advisers to clubs, or to present programs on engineer ing as invited by schools. One of the main attractions of the JETS conference was an awards luncheon honoring clubs and individuals. Among those in dividuals to be recognized was Frank Oppenheimer of New York City, president of the Gramercy Guild Group and founder of the Gramercy JETS Scholarship. Awards Given Texas awards went to the Con- nally high school of Waco for hav ing the state’s outstanding JETS Club. SponsoV of the group is C. T. Hudson. Named as outstanding club spon sor in Texas was Mrs. Marie Mos- man of Muenster high school ip Plant Food, Lime Meet Set Tuesday The annual Texa’S'-F’ertilizer and Limestone Conference will be held Jan. 5-6 in the Memorial Student Center at A&M. The session marks the first time for the Texas Plant Food Educa tional Society and Texas Agricul tural Limestone Assn, to hold their yearly meetings together. Both organizations are sponsoring the affair in co-operation with the A&IVf Department of Agronomy and the state chemist of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. Discussion emphasis this year will be placed on fertilizer educa tion, fertilization of irrigated crops and resources in fertilizer research. Starting at 9:30 a.m. the first day with Dr. W. O. Trogdon, head of the A&M Department of Agron omy, in charge, A&M President Earl Rudder will welcome the group. Next will be an intensified soil fertility program by W. N. Williamson, assistant director of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. V. E. Schember, assistant direct or of the Texas Agricultural Ex periment Station, will talk on fi nancial resources for fertilizer re search, and J. F. Fudge, state chemist, will outline the Texas Fer tilizer Law. R. L. Beacher of the National Plant Food Institute at Fayetteville, Ark., will then discuss fertilizer developments in other regions. A main feature of the first day is a special session on cotton, D. E. Longenecker of the Texas Agri cultural Experiment Station at El Paso; C. A. Burleson of the ex periment station at Weslaco, and F. L. Fisher, associate agronomy professor, will give the latest de velopments on cotton fertilization in the Trans-Pecos region, Lower Rio Grande Valley and the Brazos River bottoms. Other crops to be discussed are wheat and grain sorghum on the High Plains by Alex Pope of the Southwestern Great Plains Field Station at Bushland; grain sor ghum and sweet corn in the Rio Grande Valley by Burleson and vegetable crops in the Valley by C. C. Singletary, A&M horticultur al specialist. In the evening, a banquet will be held featuring the presentation of a National Plant Food Insti tute scholarship. Main speaker will be the Rev. Ray Mayfield, pastor of the First Baptist Church at Conroe. Dr. J. B. Page, dean of A&M, will be chairman of the first day’s afternoon session. FLY TO DALLAS i ~m - -' CONTINENTAL AMtUINESi g Quick connections to ALBUQUERQUE 1 EL PASO VIA JET POWER wm&mm Cali your Travel Agent; or Continental at VI 6-4789. Muenster. Other speakers at the conference were Richard T. Fallon, executive director of JETS, Inc., who de scribed the club’s national organi zation and objectives. JETS organization and objectives on the state level were outlined by A. J. Druce, associate professor of electrical engineering at A&M; Jesse P. Morgan, assistant dean of engineering, New Mexico State University, and W. C. Gaddy, state chairman of the vocational guidance committee of the Louisi ana Engineering Society. Organization and objectives on the local level was the subject of Waddell P. Williams of Marlin, Texas Highway Depaifment engi neer, and Gordon McDugl, JETS president at Connally High School of Waco. Three students at A&M—Carrol, Don and Larry—have several char acteristics in common: They are all named Osbourn, are majoring in agriculture, are outstanding stu dents and they all come from the same home town of Valley Spring in Llano County. Carrol and Don are brothers, while Larry is a first cousin who lives within shouting distance down the road. Probably the most striking trait of the three is that they took part in numerous youth activities while back in their high school days and yet made good grades. At A&M they are still busying themselves with extra-curricular activities and are still making top grades. This feat applies particularly to Carrol and Don. Larry is just a freshman but big things are ex pected of him. Take a look at 22-year-old Car rol, a senior and animal husbandry major. In high school, he earned a 94 grade average and was the leading boy scholastically. At the same time, he was on the school’s Future Farmers of America grass, livestock, dairy and meats judging teams. But he did not stop with FFA work. As a 4-H Club member, he was president of the county coun cil and a member of the county’s state champion livestock judging team which later won fifth nation- nally at Chicago. That FFA and 4-H judging ex perience paid off at A&M. As a junior, he was on the meats judg ing team which took second at the Fort Worth Fat Stock Show. He was a leader in pushing the senior livestock judging team to national honors in winning first place this year at Kanshs City’s American Royal Livestock Show and Chicago’s International Live stock Exposition. Carrol was fifth high point indi vidual at the American Royal and high individual at Chicago. Don, 20, a junior, is also major ing in animal husbandry, took part ing in animal husbandry, and took part in both 4-H and FFA activi ties while in high school school. He was president of the county coun cil and a member of his county’s 1956 state champion livestock judg ing team. In FFA, he was on the livestock and meats team and vice president of his chapter. Don and Carrol produced the grand champion capons four years in a row at the Houston Fat Stock Show and auctioned the birds for fancy prices. “That’s what’s send ing us to college,” Carrol said. Coming to A&M, Don jumped right into things by winning the Alpha Zeta Award as outstanding freshman and was named top freshman in the Saddle and Sirloin Club of which he is now secretax-y. Like Carrol, Don has a sharp judging eye. He is on both the junior and senior meats teams and junior livestock squad. His meats team took second at three large shows—Fort Worth, Kansas City and Chicago—and he was high point individual in carcass grading at Fort Worth and Chicago. He has also been a distinguished stu dent every semester except one so far. Larry is a wildlife management major at A&M. As a student at Llano high school, he was a mem ber of the FFA, president of the county council on the 4-H livestock judging team. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Osbouxm. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Osbourn are the parents of Carrol and Don. In Texas, the 1958 Christmas- New Year’s Holiday Death Toll of 63 was the lowest since 1945. WATCH Jan. 6th Issue of the Battalion for a variety of BIBLE COURSES (Accredited Courses) for Texas Aggies QAbetboffi MMjdjMAtA Follow the AGGIES at home and away...over Dj M 1240 kc. Ljou-AA mileA ahead utttk -V ATOMS IN YOUR FUTURE? You are looking at a photograph recently released by the Atomic Energy Commission. It shows the Commission’s heavy water plant near the banks of the Savannah River in South Carolina. It is but one unit of an atomic energy project that covers more ground than the entire city of Chicago. This vast installation was built by Du Pont at government request in 1950 for cost plus SI. Still operated by Du Pont, it stands as a bastion of strength for the free world. Equally important, here are being expanded horizons of nuclear engineering which will eventually lead to better living for ail of us. Like hundreds of other Du Pont research projects, probing the mysteries of the atom has led to all kinds of new jobs. Exciting jobs. In the laboratory. In production. In administration. Good jobs that contribute substantially to the growth of Du Pont and our country’s security and prosperity. What does all this have to do with you? For qualified bachelors, masters and doc tors, career opportunities are today greater at Du Pont than ever before. There is a bright future here for metallurgists, physicists, math ematicians, electrical and mechanical engi neers, and other technical specialists, as well as for chemists and chemical engineers. Perhaps you will work in the field of atomic research and development. But that is only a small part of the over-all Du Pont picture. Your future could lie in any of hundreds of areas, from the development of new fibers, films or plastics to the exploration of solar energy. Or in the sale and marketing of new products developed in these and many other areas. In any case, you will be given respon sibility from the very start, along with train ing tlx at is personalized to fit your interests and special abilities. We 11 help you work at or near the top of your ability. For as you grow, so do we. If you would like to know more about career opportunities at Du Pont, ask your placement officer for literature. Or write E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (Inc.), 2420 Nemours Building, Wilmington 98, Delaware. BETTER THINGS FOR BETTER LIVING ... THROUGH CHEMISTRY 31809?