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i • Profs Take Data Processing Course C. S. Well, research scientist for the Depart- courses at A&M. They will be using the ment of Oceanography and Meterology, and lightning-quick - mathematical ability of W. Pj Worley, instructor in the Department electronic computers housed in the school’s of Electrical Engineering, are two of the new $3,250,000 Data Processing Center, many professors taking data processing Finch Trial Prosecutor Makes Two Final Charges knew where she was—waiting out side the door on the lawn, with the little kit, to be called in at the proper time. But that time didn’t come because of the resistance of Mrs. Finch, and the intervention of Marie Anne Lidholm.” LOS ANGELES A prose cutor has charged in final argu ments to the Finch murder trial jury: 1. Carole Tregoff stood ready with the so-called murder kit as her lover, Dr. R. Bernard Finch, struggled with his wife. 2. The society surgeon ambushed his wife, cracked her skull, shot her to death, ' then stalked her’ maid. And if he’d found the maid, “she wouldn’t have testified on this witness stand.” It was the first prosecution claim that Finch planned to harm the maid. It presented no such testimony. Stern-faced Deputy Dist. Atty. Clifford Crail shook an accusing finger at Finch and Miss Tregoff Students To Attend Dairy Convention Four students, majoring in dairy manufacturing, along with Dr. A. V. Moore and Dr. I. I. Peters will attend the annual convention of the Dairy Products Institute of Texas in Dallas Sunday and Mon day. The students to attend the insti tute .are James W. Bennett, Joel A. Gambrell, Jim C. Hagler and Alvin L. Novosad. Theme of the institute is-“The Challenge of the Sixties.” This is mainly .a meeting , of commercial milk, ice cream, and cheese producers of the state. An nually they discuss various busi ness conditions and study the out look and general business trends of the dairy industry. Tuesday as he thunderously ac cused them of trying to weave a story to fit the facts and escape a murder conviction. Finch, 42, and his 23-year-old mistress sat impassive. They are charged with killing his wife, Barbara Jean, 36, last July 18 out side the $65,000 Finch estate in suburban West Covina. The hand some, wealthy doctor says the gun went to from his wife back. ^ The family maid, slim, blonde Marie Anne Lidholm, 19, inter rupted the scuffle in the Finch garage. Ske was a star state’s wit ness. Crail told the jury of five men and. seven women that Finch shot his fleeing wife, then returned to the garage, hunting Miss Lidholm. She had run into the house to call police. Crail scathingly accused the doctor of “cutting the pattern to fit the cloth”—“weaving his story around the story told by Marie Anne without disputing her.” But he pointed out 16 ways he said their stories differed, He told the jury: “You’ve got to decide whether you’re going to believe this man”—he pointed at Finch — “or this woman” — he pointed at Carole—“or Marie Anne Lidholm. And I don’t believe your decision in that regard is going to be too difficult.” One point of difference: whether the doctor cried out for Carole after the struggling in the garage began. “He didn’t have to call Carole Tregoff,” said Crail, “because he Chessman Claims Body Will Prove His Innocence SACRAMENTO, Calif. CP> — Caryl Chessman, writing what he feared would be his last letter, told Gov. Edmund Brown a miss ing body would prove he is inno cent of the crimes for which he was condemned. The 1,500-word letter, released Tuesday by Brown, did not iden tify the body or tell how it would exonerate him. Chessman, 38, said he had other evidence which, “in the absence of the body, would be by itself worthless.” He termed the evidence he had “like a jigsaw puzzle.” Chessman said the body, of a man, was missing when he sent a representative to look for it. He did not say where the search was. Brown released the letter, re marking that Chessman had agreed to making it public after asking eaflier that it be kept confidential. Chessman was condemned in 1940 at Los Angeles for kidnaping with bodily haim. Among the things he was convicted of at that time was forcing two women to submit to unnatural sex acts. Eight times execution dates have been set for him. In granting him a 60-day reprieve Friday, the governor said he wanted to take the abolition of capital punishment before the California Legislature. Brown also noted the. State De partment had sent him a telegram warning that the ' execution could lead to hostile demonstrations dur ing President Eisenhower’s Latin American trip. pl | Touring Short Course Here lg Aviation Conferees Told : Lawsuits Hinder Oiem Work An attache case which the doc tor said was an emergency medical kit was found near the home. It contained a hammer, butcher knife, er w _ and hypodermics. Dr. Rupel Attends Dairy Science Meet Dr. I. W. Rupel, head of the De partment of Dairy Sciences, is at tending a policy committee- meet ing of the American Dairy Science Association today and tomorrow at Columbus, Ohio. The policy committee is an ad visory group to the executive board of the Dairy Science Asso ciation. Problems the committee will dis cus are business organization of the association, management of the Journal of Dairy Science, pub lic relations of the association, possible changes in the associa tion’s constitution and a sponsor for the teacher’s award. Dr. Rupel said the association includes members from throughout the United States and several for eign countries. The annual meeting of the or ganization has been set for June 20-22 at the Uniersity of Utah. ACS Not Connected With CF Campaign Says Mrs. Baldauf “The American Cancer Society is in no way connected with the Cytology Foundation which is con ducting a mail campaign from New York,” stated Mrs. Dick Baldauf, Brazos County Unit crusade chair man of the ACS. Mrs. Baldauf, in conjunction with Dr. W. B. Roman, Jr., Chair man of the Brazos County Unit Medical Committee, said the Cy tology Foundation’s campaign was neither sponsored nor sanctioned by the 47 year-old ACS, which conducts its own cytology pro gram. The Texas Society of Patholog ists, she added, has indicated that there is no need for special cy tology screening centers since medical facilities throughout the state provide these services ade quately. Mrs. Baldauf said the official 1960 ACS Educational Fund Drive will be conducted during April and the crusade organization is. rapidly nearing completion with many citizens already volunteering their services. Stays moist and firm throughout your shave! regular or new mentholated ^ ^ Take your choice of new, cool mentholated Ot regular Smooth Shave. Both have rich, thick Old Spice quality- lather that won’t dry up before you ve finished shaving. Both soften your beard instantly—end razor drag com pletely. For the closest, cleanest, quickest shaves -. - try Old Spice Smooth Shave! 1JOO SMOOTH SHAVE by SHULTON One of the quickest ways to dis courage a manufacturer from working in the field of agricultural chemicals is to involve him in sev eral lawsuits resulting from care less chemical application. This direct bit of advice was leveled at members of the ninth annual Texas Agricultural Avia tions Conference and Pest Control Short Course held Monday and Tuesday at A&M. The speaker, Dr. J. H. David son of the Dow Chemical Co. at Midland, Mich., said most manu facturers spend considerable time and money in developing suitable formulations and training men to advise aerial applicators on the products they make. It is to the mutual advantage of the manufac turer and aerial applicator if they co-operate closely. For Aerial Applicators The session is held each year for aerial applicators of seed, fer tilizer, pecticides and herbicides. Dr. Wayne McCully, ^conference chairman and associate professor in the A&M Range and Forestry Department, said the meeting was sponsored by the A&M College System, Texas Aeronautics Com mission, Texas Flying Farmers and Ranchers Assn, and the Texas Aerial Applicators Assn. One of the main speakers at the conference was James T. Ryle,; dep uty administrator of the Federa Aviation Agency in Washipgipn^ D. C., who said proposed regula tions under the ! Federal Aviation Act of 1958 will apply to aerial applicators of farm chbmifi^. Second Phase The second phase; of the pro- Dr. John A. Fuzak . . . speaks here Friday Industrial Teacher Conference Slated Friday, Saturday The annual Industrial Teacher Conference will be held at A&M Friday and Saturday. More than 500 are due to attend the confer ence from throughout Texas and other states. Top flight authorities in the va rious fields of industrial arts will take an active part in the confer ence. Dr. John A. Fuzak, chair man of the Department of Indus trial Arts, Michigan State Univer sity, will deliver a major address Friday at 7:30 p.m. The conference is sponsored by the Texas-Industrial Arts Assn., Texas Engineering Extension Service and the Department of In dustrial Education. Welcome E. Wright of East Texas State College is program chairman and Leslie V. Hawkins of the college’s Department of In- posed regulation is that responsi- should affect future aerial appli cation research. First is a recently developed technique for estimating the av erage drop diameter by measuring the diameter of the largest drops in a particular spray. Another development, he said, is the fact that high speed digital computers in medium and small sizes are becoming increasingly available to agricultural research workers. A third research project is the use of - fluorescent chemicals for B. G. Reeves will become cotton ginning and rpeohani^ation special ist for the Texas Agricultural Ex- dustrial Education, is program di rector. Sessions will be held in the Me morial j Student Center. '/■ Lynch To Speak In Florida Friday ,S. A. Lynch, .head of the De partment of Geology and Geophys ics, A&M, will address the 11th annual meeting of the Highway Geology Symposium in Florida Friday. He will talk on “Pavement Dis ruption by Recent Earth Move ments.” The meeting will be held at Florida State University in Tal lahassee and is due to be attended by some 500 persons from through out the United States. Theme of the conference is geology and geo physics as at affects highway con struction and maintenance in all phases. quantitative and qualitative meas urement of spray distribution. Liljedahl said use of fluorescent chemicals makes possible fast measurements of the distribution of spray across a swath without becoming involved in a lot of chemical measurements. Trial Project Don Springer of Washington, D. C., agricultural meteorologist with the U. S. Weather Bureau, outlined a trial project in farm weather service in Mississippi’s Delta area. v Reeves To Become Specialist For A&M Ag'Extension Service i. In making this announcement, Director John E. Hutchison of^the Extension Service said Reeves would not only perform the duties formerly handled by the cotton ginning specialist, but would also have responsibilities for applying engineering techniques, ,find prim ciples to certain ph&sefs pf the pro- and for a few months early in 1957 was employed by the City of Abi lene. Since, he has been self-em ployed as a custom farm operator. He served in the U. S; Navy from 1944 to 1946, is married and the father of two children and is member of the Baptist Church. bility would ultimately rest with the holder of the air., agency cer tificate. A large operator would be expected "to defeh^e such re sponsibility throughout his organ ization, he said. Louis A. Liljedahl, engineer with the U. S. Department of Agricul ture at Beltsville, Md., described three new developments in pesti cide application equipment which Reeves would work closely with the county agents 6f the state and with cotton and other specialists on the staff. He will also work with ginners, agencies, groups and organizations interested in improv ing cotton production, harvesting and ginning through the applica tion of engineering developments .made bye research.:!:. : - - f, /, > ?; Reeves is a native of Brownfield, Teiry County, but has''spfcnt mostf of his life in Taylor County. He is a graduate of Abilene High School, attended Hardin Simmons University and graduated from A&M in 1948 with a major in agri cultural engineering. From 1948- 1957 he farmed in Taylor County '■A. Finest Early American Maple ! KRAFT HOMESTEAD HOUSE (Next to Miller’s) 3820 Texas Ave. COPYRIGHT 1957 THE COCA-COm COMPANY Dorit just sit there! You'D enjoy today's copy of this publication much more if you’ll get up right now and get yourself an ice-cold bottle of Coca-Cola. 1 (Naturally, we’d be happier, too!) 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