The Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1960
Number 62
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Truck Wreckage
Luther PI. Holland, father of six children, the second car behind a three section loco-
was killed instantly when his water truck motive of the Rock Island freight. Holland
and a freight train collided in North Hous- still sits in the driver’s seat. (AP Wire-
ton. Sheriff’s deputies said the truck struck photo)
Award Given in Alabama
Distinguished Teacher
Prize Goes to Adriance
Dr. Guy Adriance, head of the
Department of Horticulture since
1936, is the recipient of the L. M.
Ware Distinguished Teacher
Award for 1960.
The award was made Feb. 2 dur
ing a horticulture banquet at Ala
bama Polytechnic Institute and
was sponsored by Dr. L. M. Ware,
head of the Alabama school’s De
partment of Horticulture.
Adriance’s long expeiuence as
an outstanding teacher is well
known among farmers and agri
cultural schools throughout the na
tion. Many of his former students
now hold top positions in their
field and several are heads of hor
ticulture departments at other col
leges.
Ags Hold Tenth
In AP Cage Poll
From The Associated Press
A&M clung to tenth place in the
freckly Associated Press National
College Basketball Rations despite
the fact that they w r ere idle last
week.
The Aggie cagers received 188
votes to keep their 10th place rank
ing.
A second week of mid-season ac
tivity and low point pi'oduction by
Oscar Robei'tson, plus strong sup
port for Ohio State at the polls,
didn’t hurt Cincinnati’s standing-
in the rankings.
The Bearcats and the Big O
again top the Associated Press poll
by a big margin with more than
half the voters naming Cincinnati
the No. 1 team.
Bradley and California held the
second and third spots after a week
when mid-year examinations lim
ited the activity of most of the
leading teams. Ohio State ousted
West Virginia from fourth place
and the Mountaineers, losers to
William & Mary in the week’s big
upset, barely held on to take fifth
from Georgia Tech.
After those six came Utah,
Villanova, Utah State and A&M,
all in the same positions they held
a week ago.
The top 10 teams with points on 10-9-8
etc basis. (First place votes and won-lost
records in parentheses) :
1. Cincinnati (90) (15-1) 1,612
2. Bradley (18) (14-1) 1,390
3. California (22) (16-1) 1,304
4. Ohio State (32) (13-2) 1,198
5. West Virginia (5) (16-2) 772
6. Georgia Tech (2) (16-2) 748
7. Utah (15-2) 469
8. Villanova (1) (14-1) 447
9. Utah State (2) (15-2) 310
10. Texas A&M (12-1) 188
SECOND TEN
11. Miami (Fla.) (16-2) 127
12. Toledo (3) (13-2) 104
13. Dayton (15-3) 87
14. Detroit (14-2) 84
15. Kansjus State (11-5) 76
16. Providence (10-3) . 74
17. North Carolina (9-3) 63
18. St. Louis (11-5) 58
19-20. (Tie) Illinois (11-8) 34
St. Bonaventure (11-3) 34
The educator holds a distinction
of which few professors can boast.
He was born on the campus of his
home college—-Texas A&M. His
father was Duncan Adriance, Ag
ricultural Experiment Station
chemist, and his grandfather, John
Adriance, was a member of the
college board of directors during
the latter part of the last century.
A&M Graduate
Adriance was graduated from
A&M in 1915 with a bachelor’s
degree in horticulture. He took
his master’s degree in citriculture
at the University of California and
his doctorate in 1929 with his
work on pecans at Michigan State
University. He has been with the
A&M Department of Horticulture
since 1920.
The horticulturist also is widely
known for his research work. Like
other A&M teacher - researchers,
his findings in the field and lab
oratory are classroom material for
both undergraduate and graduate
students.
Co-Authors Book
Adriance and Fred Brison, pro
fessor in the Department of Horti
culture, are co-authors of the
famed book, “Propagation of Hor
ticultural Plant.” The text is in
use at A&M and about 36 other
major colleges.
In addition to traveling through
out the United States, Adriance
also has jouimeyed to several for
eign countries on various govern
ment and research grant programs.
These countries include Honduras,
Italy and Ceylon.
Geology, Geophysics
Gets $12,400 Grant
judging Team
Takes First
In Fort Worth
The Department of Animal Hus
bandry, for the third time in the
past four years, produced the
champion junior livestock judging
team at Fort Worth’s Southwest
ern Exposition • and Fat Stock
Show.
The Aggies amassed 4,740 points
out of a possible 5,252 to drop the
University of Wyoming into sec
ond place with 4,692 points. Okla
homa State University was third.
W. T. Berry, assistant professor
in the Depai’tment of Animal Hus
bandry and team coach, said 23
teams representing colleges in 18
states competed in the contest.
Other championships for A&M in
the past four years were in 1957
and 1959.
Team members are Henry Fitz-
hugh of San Antonio; Kenneth
Smarr, Tow; Leroy Keese, Ban
dera; Darrel Smith, Crane; Don
ald Osbourn, Valley Spring; and
Bruce Griffith of Fort Stockton.
Fitzhugh was third high indi
vidual in the entire contest and
first in beef cattle. Smarr was
high individual in judging quar
ter horses and Keese placed first
in swine judging;
A&M’s group was the high
point team in beef cattle and quar
ter horse judging, fourth high in
swine and seventh in sheep. The
team also was high point winner
in beef cattle judging at the re
cent stock show at Denver, Colo.
24 Attend A&M
Under Contract
With SREB Group
A&M is one of 16 southern col
leges and universities used exten
sively in the Southern Regional
Education Board’s student contract
program.
A total of 24 out-of-state stu
dents (all from Louisiana) regis
tered at A&M under the contract
program in 1959. The students
are majoring in veterinary medi
cine.
The states of the south pay for
the program to accommodate stu
dents in programs not provided in
the student’s home state.
Biology Program Gets Okay
A “Summer Science Training
Program for Secondary School
Students” of high ability, to be
held here, has been approved by
the National Science Foundation,
Dr. C. C. Doak, head of the De
partment of Biology, announced
Tuesday.
The progi-am, proposed by Dr.
John J. Sperry of the college’s
Department of Biology and to be
administered by him, falls in the
field of research participation. The
grant is for $3,975.90. The pro
gram will run for six weeks, July
18-Aug. 26.
C S Boy Scout Troop 802
Installs 8 New Officers
Eight scouts from the Col
lege Station Boy Scout Troop
802 were installed as new offi
cers in the local organization
Monday at the home of Scout
master Syd Loveless on Lee
Street.
Those installed were Peter Fa
gan, senior patrol leader; Tom
my Cartwright, patrol leader of
the Davy Crockett Patrol; Carl
Gough, patrol leader, Sam Hous
ton Patrol; David Holmgreen,
assistant patrol leader, Davy
Crockett Patrol; David Maddox,
assistant patrol leader, Sam
Houston Patrol; Jim Amyx,
troop quartermaster; Fred Wor
ley, troop librarian; and Tim
Erskine, troop scribe.
Fathers of the boys of the
Troop Committee participated in
the installation ceremony. An
inspection in ranks preceded the
installation.
After the ceremony, the troop
proceeded with work on their
projects for the Scout Exhibit
to be held' Feb. 12 - 13
at the National Guard Armory
in Bryan,
26 To Participate
Sperry, who has worked with
high ability programs for several
years, points out “it is the object
of this program to place 26 care
fully selected high-ability secon
dary school boys and girls in cer
tain of the laboratories of A&M
and the Texas Agricultural Ex
periment Station.
“Eleven research workers have
volunteered to take one or more
of these young scientists on a re
search participation basis,” Sper
ry says.
Researchers Sponsor
“Competent research workers
have agreed to sponsor one or
moi*e of these students. A stu
dent is expected to leai-n some of
the techniques of a given discipline
and to be inspired to continued
effort. All students will be re
quired to meet one hour each day
with the director of the program
to discuss the progress of their
work and to receive instructions
in the preparation of technical
papers and scientific displays. The
student will be required to make
full use of the very adequate li
brary of A&M,” he added.
10 Objectives
The student must set for himself
10 major objectives, as follows:
Learn to recognize appropriate
problems for research; gain an ap-
pi-eciation of the scientific meth
od; learn research methods and
techniques without excessive repe
titious routine; to become thor
oughly acquainted with the coop
erator’s project or projects; to
become familiar with the work of
principal scientists in the pi'e-
scribed area of research; obtain a
knowledge of some of the impor
tant literature and the methods of
efficiently conducting a search of
the literature; to learn to design
and modify equipment; to develop
an interest in further work in the
special area (to be pursued either
as a high school project or as a
possible major interest in college);
to learn some of the methods of
writing reports and scientific and
technical papers and to prepare a
written report on the particular
research in which the student has
participated, said Sperry.
Registra tion
Begins Friday;
Closes Saturday
Registration for the Spring
Semester at A&M will be held
Friday afternoon and all day
Saturday.
Registration will be in Sbisa
Hall, with the following sched
ule:
FRIDAY—1 to 3 p.m.—All
whose surnames begin with P,
Q, R, S; 3 to 4:30 p.m.—all whose
surnames begin with C. D, E, F.
SATURDAY—8 to 10 a.m.—
All whose surnames begin with
G, H, I, J, K; 10 to 11:30 a.m.—
all whose surnames begin with
A, B; 1 to 3 p.m.—all whose sur
names begin with T, U, V, \V,
X, Y, Z; 3 to 4 p.m.—all whose
surnames begin with L, M, N, O.
CHS to Offer
SurvivalCourse
In Near Future
College Station and Bryan are
ainong the first cities in the na-
tidh in which a course in the basic
techniques of survival is being of
fered.
Jack Chaney has announced that
a 12-hour course, designed to teach
adults how to cope with disasters,
from natural to nuclear, will be of
fered through the A&M Consoli
dated Schools.
First class is to begin in the
immediate future. Remaining ses
sions of the course will be held
for the convenience of the indi
vidual group.
Texas is one of four pilot states
in a project designed eventually
to bring personal civil defense
ti’aining to every adult in the na
tion. The Texas Education Agen
cy and the State Division of De
fense and Disaster Relief are spon
soring the program in Texas
through the public schools and
colleges. Nationally, the project
was launched by the Department
of Health, Education and Welfare
in cooperation with the Office of
Civil and Defense Mobilization.
The course may be taken by any
adult in the community without
charge. Classes will be taught by
teachers who have had special
training in civil defense.
The course is designed to be un
derstandable for persons who have
had no previous contact with civil
defense, yet comprehensive enough
to interest those with prior civil
defense experience.
Subjects to be covered include
“The Need for Civil Defense,”
“Planning for Emei’gencies,” “The
Effects of Modern Weapons of
War,” “Protection from the Ef
fects of Modern W’eapons,” “Ra
dioactive Fallout” and “Personal
Survival Actions for Man-Made or
Natural Disasters.”
“Despite the ominous sound of
the topics, the coui*se is not de
signed to scare people,” said Chan
ey. “It is aimed at replacing fear
with common - sense protection
measures.”
Persons who wish to enroll in
the course should contact Chaney,
business manager at A&M Consoli
dated Schools, at VI 6-6719, or E.
C. McCarty, pi-incipal at Ben Mi
lam School at TA 2-3570.
Money to Support;
Summer Program
A grant of $12,400 has been received by A&M, S. A.
Lynch, head of the Department of Geology and Geophysics,
has announced.
The grant is from the National Science Foundation. It
will be used to support a Summer Science Training Program
for Secondary School Students, “Science and Engineering
Related to Geology,” Lynch says.
It is a program of earth science for 36 male secondary
students of superior ability. The program will be held at
A&M June 13 - July 15. )
Fifty hours of lecture will be given on the materials
composing the earth, agents and processes shaping the sur
face of the earth, the demands*
Registration Help
Must Park on Jones
All persons who will work at
registration Friday and Satur
day are reminded that there are
no unreserved parking spaces
near Sbisa Hall. Jones Street,
from Houston to the railroad
station, is the only open street
available, according to Bennie'
A. Zinn, director of the Depart
ment of Student Affairs.
of space technology on geolo
gy and the relationship be
tween geology and other
sciences and engineering
fields. Included will be 10 to 15
lectures by visiting scientists and
scientists and engineers of other
fields.
Lab Studies
Laboratory studies of minerals,
rocks, fossils and physiographic
maps will occupy about 11 after
noons. Visits to laboratories will
take about eight afternoons and one
full day. It will include observa
tion and explanations of electron
microscopes, X-ray diffraction, X-
ray spectrograph, emission spect
rograph, mass spectrometer, nu
clear reactor, meteorology radar,
asphalt and concrete laboratories,
analog computor and comutor cen
ter petroleum research laborator
ies. A visit will be made to an oil
equipment manufacturing company
plant and oil company research
laboratory.
Field Trips
Geologic field trips will involve
local trips, a two-day trip to the
East Texas Oil Field and the Grand
Saline Salt Mine, and a three-day
field trip to the Central Mineral
Region in Kimble, Mason, San Saba
and Llano counties, spending two
nights at the A&M Junction
Adjunct.
'Costs $150
The estimated student cost to
each student for the five weeks
will be about $150 of which the
N.S.F. has provided partial support.
Application for the program in
Texas may be made through the
students high school science teach
er or school official in coopera
tion with the Texas . Education
Agency. Additional information
may be obtained by writing the di
rector, Dr. M. C. Schroeder, De
partment of Geology and Geophy
sics, A&M College of Texas, Col
lege Station.
System Staffers
Present Papers
In Birmingham
Two members of the A&M Col
lege System presented technical
papei’S at the annual meeting of
the American Phytopathological
Society, Southern Division, held
Monday through Wednesday at
Birmingham, Ala.
They were Di\ G. M. Watkins,
dean of the School of Agriculture,
and Dr. A. L. Harrison, plant path
ologist in charge of the Texas Ag-
gricultural Experiment Station at
Yoakum.
Both men spoke during a sym
posium on Sclerotium rolfsii, the
fungus which causes Southern
Blight, a major disease of peanuts
and important vegetable crops
throughout the South.
The subject of Watkins’ talk
was “The Physiology of S. rolfsii
with Emphasis On Its Parasitism.”
Harrison discussed “Control of S.
rolfsii Through Use of Chemicals.”
E. D. Prof Attends
Missouri Meeting
W. E. Street, head of the De
partment of Engineering Drawing,
has returned from the mid-Winter
meeting of the American Society
for Engineering Education held in
Rolla, Mo.
He met with the Policy Commit
tee and took an active part in the
program. He also is a member of
the Graphics Division Committee.
Street visited the United
States Geological Survey, head-
quarters for 17 states and while
enroute home visited the School of
Engineering at the University of
Arkansas.
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Waiting
House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Mrs. Christian Herter,
wife of the Secretary of State, sit side-by-side as they
waited in Washington, D. C., for the start of ceremonies
during which the Texas Democrat was honored with the
Cordell Hull Award. Rayburn received the award, given
annually in memory of the late Secretary of State Cordell
hull, in recognition of his work in advancing reciprocal
trade among nations. Herter presented the award. (AP
Wirephoto)