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THE BATTALION
NYU Program
Applications
Being Accepted
Applications are now being ac
cepted for the third “Junior Year
in Spain” program sponsored by
New York University’s Washing
ton Square College of Arts and
Science.
The 1960-G1 program, which will
run from September-June, offers
the American college student an
opportunity to study Spanish civil
ization at its source. Credits earn
ed during the year are applicable
toward a bachelor of arts degree
at the student’s home university
or college.
Host for the “Junior Year in
Spain” is the University of Ma
drid. The program of study has
been formulated according t o
American requirements and credit
systems and is accredited by
NYU’s Washington Square College.
Participating in the second “Jun
ior Year,” which is now in prog
ress, are 64 students from colleges
and universities in 23 states.
The program is intended for stu
dents with a major or minor in
Spanish, but other students who
have adequate preparation in the
Spanish language will be accepted.
“Junior Year” classes in Spain
are especially designed for the
American students. The partici
pants first reteive intensive prac
tice in conversation in Spanish and
attend orientation lectures on the
Spanish way of life. Then they be
gin their study of Spanish litera
ture, language, history and civili
zation, geography, fine arts and
music.
Supervisor of the program at
NYU is Dr. Ernesto Guerra Da
Cal, chairman of the Department
of Spanish and Portuguese at
Washington Square College, Gen
eral director of the program is Dr.
J. Richard Toven, director of
NYU’s Foreign Student Center.
Requests for further information
and applications for admission to
the program should be sent to:
Dr. J. Richard Toven, “Junior Year
in Spain,” Foreign Student Center,
15 Washington News, New York
University, New York 3, N. Y.
Tuesday, February 9, 1960
College Station, Texas
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HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVATORY
MONROE, Wis. OP)_Monroe
High School has access to an ob
servatory for classroom work.
Nathan Roth, a carpenter and
amateur astronomer, built a class
room size observatory and in
stalled a 12-inch Newtonian re
flector telescope which he made
himself. He invited the school to
use the observatroy whenever it
wants to.
Ninth Annual Meet
Aviation Conference Planned
A&M’s ninth annual Texas Ag
ricultural Aviation Conference will
be held Feb. 21-23.
The session is held each year
primarily for men engaged in the
business of aerial application of
pesticides, fertilizer and seed to
food and fiber crops. Sponsors are
the A&M College System, Texas
Aeronautics Commission, Texas
Flying Farmers and Ranchers As
sociation and the Texas Aerial Ap
plicators Association.
The first day is devoted to reg
istration and social activities in the
A&M Memorial Student Center,
where the conference will be held.
Talks by individuals and discus
sion will get underway at 9:30 a.m.,
Feb. 22 immediately after a wel
come address by Chancellor M. T.
Harrington.
First on the program is the out
look for aerial applicators in agri
culture, the speakers being Dr.
John G. McHaney, economist with
the Texas Agricultural Extension
Service; Dr. J. H. Davidson of Dow
Chemical Co. at Midland, Mich.,
and Louis A. Liljedahl, engineer
with the U. S. Department of Ag
riculture at Beltsville, Maryland.
Other Speakers
Other speakers are Arnold Kret-
zinger of the Progressive Farmer
magazine in Dallas, who will talk
on “Selling Your Services,” and
Don Springer of the U. S. Weather
Bureau in Washington, D.C., whose
subject is “Weather Forecasting
Herter’s Hopes Dim
Over Berlin Crisis
Dr. Guy Adriance
. receives teacher award
Horticulture Head
Given Ware Award
Dr. Guy Adriance, head of the
Department of Horticulture at
A&M 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 experience as an
outstanding teacher is well known
among farmers and agricultural
schools throughout the nation.
Many of his former students now
hold top positions in their field
and several are heads of horticul
ture departments at other colleges.
The educator holds a distinction
of which few professors can boast.
He was born on the campus of his
home college—A&M. His father
was Duncan Adriance, Agricultur
al Experiment Station chemist,
and his grandfather, John Adri
ance, was a member of the college
board of directors during the lat
ter part of the last century.
Adriance was graduated from
A&M in 1915 with a bachelor’s de
gree in horticulture. He took his
master’s degree in citriculture at
AmFaF
February 8-20
A&M FINE ARTS FESTIVAL
PRESENTS
TONIGHT
THE GRISHMAN
DUO
RYCE
Violin & Piano
THE ARTISTRY OF THIS DUO, PRESENTED BY THE MSG
RECITAL SERIES COMMITTEE HAS CAPTIVATED AUDI
ENCES IN THIS COUNTRY AND THROUGHOUT THE CON
TINENT.
8 p. m. MSC Ballroom
Admission — $1.50 or Great Issues Recital Series Ticket.
Schedule of Events
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8 - 20 the D. D
Feldman Collection of Comtemporan
Art will be exhibited in the Promen
ade of the Memorial Student Center
durinft the entire two weeks of AMFAF.
The Feldman Collection was brousht
to A&M by the MSC Creative Arts
Committee.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8 through
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 Arts anc
Architecture Display the Design Stu
dent Society of the Division of Archi
tecture will exhibit examples of ar'
and architecture in the Serpentine
Lounge of the MSC throughout the
Fine Arts Festival.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10 - The
Singing Cadets - directed by Dr. Bill
Turner, this fine singing group will
give a concert in the MSC Ballroom at
8:00.
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 11 - the MSC
Film Society - “The Eddie Duchin
Story” and “Pablo Casals” presentinr
the personality and musical ability of
an extremely popular pianist and the
greatest cellist of our time. 7:30 p. m.
in the Ballroom of the MSC.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11 - Town
Hall, "Vienna on Parade” - Direct from
Austria, the DeutSchmeister Band, with
65 solpists, chorus, and dancers will
perform in G. Rollie White Coliseum at
8:00.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12 - David Bar-
lllan. Pianist - scheduled by the MSC
Recital Series Committee to perform in
the Ballroom of the MSC at 8 :00 p. m„
the
young Mr. Bar-Ilian’s performance
raises to be an exciting one.
MONDAY. FEBRUARY 15 through
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 - the
Aggie Players “Twelfth Night” - under
the direction of Mr. C. K. Esten, the
Players will enact Shakespeare’s popu
lar comedy each night at 8 :00 p. m.,
in the Lower Level of the
MSC.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19 - “The Silver
Chalice” - to be shown by the MSC
Film Society in the MSC Ballroom at
7:30 p. m., this is the moving story of
the struggle to obtain the cup from
which Christ drank at the Last Supper.
the University of California and
his doctorate fn 1929 with his -work
on pecans at Michigan State Uni
versity. He has been with the De
partment of Horticulture here
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.
Adriance and Fred Brison, A&M
horticulture professor, are co-au
thors of the book, “Propagation of
Horticulture Plant.” The text is
in use at A&M and about 36 other
major colleges.
In addition to traveling through
out the United States, Professor
Adriance also journeyed to sev
eral foreign countries on various
government and research grant
programs. These countries in
clude Honduras, Italy and Ceylon.
WASHINGTON GP) — Secretary
of State Christian A. Herter appar
ently is less optimistic than he
was a few months ago about avoid
ing a new showdown with the
Soviet "llnion over Berlin.
But he doubts that Premier
Nikita Khrushchev will confront
the Western powers with an ulti
matum in this dispute in the sum
mit conference in Paris in May.
Herter’s views of the critical
Berlin dispute came out Monday
in a news conference at which he
also:
1. Discussed the possibility that
Khrushchev may be building a
tougher, more aggressive foreign
policy on the Soviet Union’s grow
ing power in nuclear missiles.
2. Conceded that Soivet achieve
ments in space have made a
greater impact on world opinion
than those of the United States,
increasing Soviet prestige as a
scientific and military power.
Herter declined to discuss the
extent of any missile gap but said
it is possible that the Soviets feel
that their increased strength from
a military point of view “has given
them greater assurance in what
they are saying in the interna
tional field.”
But hfs guarded language clear
ly reflected a view held by many
diplomatic'authorities here that as
Soviet power grows in relation to
that of the United States Khrush
chev may be expected to become
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more and more insistent on what
he wants from other nations.
On other questions Herter made
these main points:
1. This country is preparing to
make some new proposals at the
Geneva conference on prohibiting
nuclear weapons tests. The new
plans is expected to call for ban
ning atmospheric and large under
ground explosions but to accept
small underground blasts which
are difficult, perhaps impossible
to police.
2. If and when the United States,
Britain and the Soviet Union nego
tiate a test ban, other nations,
notably Red China, should be
brought into the agreement by ad
hering to it. The same thing holds
true for any broader disarmament
deal. This would not necessarily
mqan U.N. membership for Red
China.
3. The Castro government of
Cuba has in recent weeks dimin
ished attacks on the United States
and there is some evidence of
more conciliatory line. But Herter
has not yet decided to send Am
bassador Philip Bonsai back to
his post at Havana.
for Agricultural Operations.”
The afternoon session features a
panel of men who will discuss cur
rent recommendations on applica
tion of chemicals. Subjects in
clude foliar nutrition, insecticides,
herbicides, defoliants, desiccants
and fungicides.
Following the panel of speakers,
an agricultural chemicals discus
sion is scheduled. That evening, a
banquet -will be held, with Dr.
Charles E. Irvin, sponsored by the
General Motors Corp., as the main
speaker.
Ag Aviation
Government programs and their
effect on agricultural aviation will
come under study Feb. 23. Three
speakers will talk on responsibil
ities of aerial contractors under
the Miller Bill. Reo E. Duggan,
of New Orleans, La., chief chemist,
Food and Drug Administration and
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare, will talk on pesticide
residues on human and animal
foods. Dr. Clarence Cottam, direc
tor of the Welder Wildlife Refuge
at Sinton, will discuss pesticides
and wildlife, and Stuart W. Turner
of San Francisco, Calif., consulting
agrologist will talk on “Where
Does the Aerial Applicator Fit?”
Other speakers and subjects on
the final day are Harry B. Nunn
Jr. of San Antonio, U. S. Depart
ment of Labor, “Labor Problems
in Agricultural Aviation”; J. C.
Brusse, A&M Department of Aero
nautical Engineering, “Agricul
tural Aviation Research Program,”
and James T. Pyle, deputy admin
istrator, Federal Aviation Agency,
Washington, D. C., “The Federal
Aviation Agency and Agricultural
Aviation.”
Spraying Demonstration
Dr. Wayne G. McCully, associate
professor in the A&M Department
of Range and Forestry and gen
eral conference chairman, said one
of the big attractions of the meet
ing will be a 2 p.m. field demon
stration of ground and aerial equip
ment used in spraying operations.
The demonstration will be held at
Easterwood Airport.
Chairmen of conference sessions
are Dr. R. D. Lewis, director of
the Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station; W. A. Lewis of Hous
ton, president of the Texas Aerial
Applicators Association, and Dr.
Aaron Rose, director , of the Texas
Engineering Experiment Station.
Talent Auditions To Begin
Wednesday with Student Tour
Auditioning for the ninth annual
Intercollegiate Talent Show will
begin Wednesday, as students on
the MSC Music Committee travel
north and south, visiting over 15
colleges and Universities in Texas,
Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi
and Arkansas.
The Southern tour will begin
Wednesday, and will last through
Sunday. This tour will take in
Rice Institute, Southwestern Louis
iana Institute, Louisiana State Un
iversity, Tulane and Mississippi
Southern University. Students
making this trip are Johnny John
son, Bill McClain and Tommy Lan
caster.
Feb. 17-21 is the time set for the
northern tour, which will cover a
tri-state area. The three students
making this trip, Paul Phillips,
Jimmy Roberts and Rodney Kelly
will visit Baylor, Texas Tech, TCU,
SMU, North Texas State College,
Oklahoma University, Oklahoma
State University and University
of Arkansas.
Auditions were held earlier this
year at Sam Houston State Col
lege, University of Texas and
Southwest Texas State College.
The ITS will be held in G. Rollie
White Coliseum, March 11 at 7
p.m. The purpose of the ITS is tc
promote better relationships among
colleges in the Southwest and to
give college talent an opportunity
for experience with a large audi«
ence, as well as contact with othe*
talent college students.
Five Vought Divisions Provide
Engineers Greater Opportunity
for Space-Age Advancement
Young engineers, particularly, will be interested in the
broad range of opportunities present in Chance Voughts
five divisions and two wholly owned subsidiaries.
For every Vought engineer, there is a division to make
fullest use of his talents and to speed his personal advance
ment. And, of course, he is backed by the four other divi
sions whose balanced activities add security to his company
and his future.
Voughts diversification, begun early in 1959, gears this
43-year-old aircraft firm for the opportunities of the age
of space.
I ELECTRONICS j
AERONAUTICS DIVISION
New generations of manned aircraft and atmos
pheric missiles, devices for antisubmarine war
fare, and many other types of weapons will
take shape here.
Among this division’s current contracts: a
Navy order for development of an environmen
tal protection and escape capsule for aircraft
pilots. Other work includes production con
tracts for three versions of F8U Crusader
aircraft, study contracts in submarine detection
and classification, and contracts for military
and commercial aircraft assemblies.
ASTRONAUTICS DIVISION
Vought is drawing on 13 years’ experience In
the missile field to obtain broader responsibili
ties in the race for space. Concentration is on
advanced vehicles for space exploration, and on
ballistic and anti-ballistic missile systems.
Currently, Vought is providing the four-stage
Scout research rocket and its launcher for the
National Aeronautics and Space Administra-
ion. In the human factors of flight, Vought
is taking the lead with its orbital flight
simulator and space-oriented Cockpit Labora
tory. Advanced materials research is also being
pushed by this division.
ELECTRONICS DIVISION
Vought electronics will be developed, manu
factured and marketed in increasing volume.
Military systems under development include
antennas and related electronics, ground sup
port electronics and antisubmarine warfare
apparatus. This division is also producing actu
ators for the Minuteman ICBM.
RANGE SYSTEMS DIVISION
Thirteen years’ experience in remote base
operation qualifies Vought for additional busi
ness in this new field. The Range Systems
team will establish and operate test ranges
and test equipment for missiles and space
vehicles.
OUR REPRESENTATIVE WILL BE
IN YOUR PLACEMENT OFFICE
FEBRUARY 15 and 16
RESEARCH DIVISION
In a new Research Center, scientists of this
division will mine new knowledge from many
fields. Basic research is planned into astro
nautics, undersea warfare, the life sciences
(relating to human factors of flight), electro
gravities and other areas. As it evolves into
applied research, this advanced work will
materially support other Vought divisions.
Genesys Corporation, a wholly owned sub
sidiary company, intensifies Vought’s diversifi
cation into commercial electronics. Company
emphasis is on automation, and its key per
sonnel are engineers experienced in the fields
of electronics, computers, magnetic memory,
and associated electro-mechanical devices. ‘
Vought Industries, Inc., formed late in 1959,
is engaged in the design, manufacture and :
marketing of mobile homes, an industry with
a great growth potential.
Vo a live at a discount in Dallas
In Texas there is no state income tax and
no local or state sales taxes. Low school and
property levies add to your savings. Home
construction costs — as well as house and
apartment rentals — are below the national
average. Fuel costs are negligible, and most
groceries cost less.
Dallas has grown faster since 1950 than any
other U.S. city. One reason is the city’s wealth
of entertainment and cultural centers. Another
reason is the attractive cost of living.
Student engineers are invited to write for fur
ther information about new Vought activities^
and how you can start your career with one
of Vought’s five divisions. Please address
inquires to:
Professional Placement Office
Dept. CN 26
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