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Attendance was based on an president of the Entomology Society for the index, best group attendance at the Agricultural I Promote College A&M Chamber Begins Plans By BEN TRAIL Assistant News Editor The A&M Student Chamber of Commerce will begin full scale planning operations to promote A&M when the organiza tion holds its first meeting Thursday, March 17, under new organization, at 7:30, p. m. in the lecture room of the Biologi cal Sciences Building, according to> For Army Cadets, Federal Inspection Slated March 31-April 1 at A&M Annual Federal Inspection for the A&M Department of Military Science and Tactics is scheduled for March 31-April 1, Capt. John W. Simmons, public information officer, said yesterday. The inspection team will arrive on the campus Wednesday even ing, March 30, and will begin their inspection tour Thursday morning, Simmons said. Briefings Inculded on the itinerary for the inspection are briefings by Cadet Colonel of the Corps Wil liam B. Heye and Col. Frank El der, professor of military science and tactics, and confei’ences with President Earl Rudder, Dean of Students James R. Hannigan and Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant. Visit Classes The inspectors will visit military science classrooms throughout the day Thursday. Also scheduled for the officers is a luncheon with President Rud der at noon. Ranks Inspections All Army cadets will have an in spection In ranks Thursday after noon from 5:30-6:30 in dormitory areas. During the inspection, ca dets will be asked questions con cerning the operation of the M-l rifle, government and military of- ARS Official Talks To Kiwanis Group By BOB SAILE Battalion Staff Writer Dr. Herman A. Rodenhiser, assistant administrator of the Agricultural Research Service in Washington, was the guest speaker at a meeting of the College Station Kiwanis Club Tuesday at noon. Rodenhiser spoke on the U. Department of Agriculture’s re- seai’ch program, designed to com bat and prevent wheat rust in the United States. The luncheon meeting was held in the Assembly Room of the Me morial Student Center. K. A. Man ning was master of ceremonies. 10-Minute Film Prior to Rodenhiser’s talk, the Kiwanians watched a 10-minute film showing the life cycle and destruction caused by wheat rust. The film illustrated spread of the rust and efforts to curb this spread. The film showed the work of re search men to combat the disease by means of breeding rust-resis tant wheat hybrids. Immediately after the film, Mau rice Futrell, instructor in the De partment of Plant Physiology and Pathology, introduced Rodenhiser. Rodenhiser told the group that research workers in the USD A Correction Lloyd Stafford was elected head of the Memorial Student Center Radio Committee by 'the MSC Council Monday night and not of the Public Relations Committee as reported in Tuesday’s issue of The Battalion. Paul Heye was named head of the Public Relations Committee to succeed Jack Hartsfield and will take office immediately. have made “a lot of progress” in the fight against wheat rust. New faces of wheat, barley and oat rust have thrown us back some what,” he said, “but rust resistant wheat hybrids are now being de veloped to fight these new races.” Rodenhiser pointed out rust is also prevalent 4n other countries, and the United States, he said, is sending resistant varieties of wheat to other countries. World-wide re search is being conducted, he added, in the form of international wheat nurseries. “Funds from the sale of surplus grain are being used to fight wheat rust in the United States,” he said. Began in 1923 Rodenhiser began his USDA ca reer in the summer of 1923 as an agent in the Bureau of Plant In- dusti’y. In 1950, he was made re sponsible for developing a coopera tive test program in Latin Ameri can countries to determine sources of resistance to stem rust in small grains. Rodenhiser was appointed to his present position in 1958. Visit to Huntsville Earlier in the meeting, Dave Franklin announced an inter-club visit will be made Monday to the Kiwanis Club in Huntsville. Jim Cooper also made a short announcement, in which he urged all members of the group to step up ticket sales for the club’s com ing Pancake Supper. ficials and related subjects, said Capt. Simmons. Friday morning the inspectors will confer on their findings, which will be followed by a critique for officers of the A&M instructor unit. Conference After the critique, the team chief and Col. Elder will confer with President Rudder on the findings of the inspection. The inspection team will be headed by Col. Douglas Stevens, Artillery, Fort Bliss. Other mem bers of the team include: Lt. Col. Roger R. Kemm, General Staff, Infantry, reserve section; Lt. Col. Marlon L. Ellison, General Staff, Artillery, G-3 section; Lt. Col. Jerry M. Smith, Gen eral Staff, Infantry, G-l section; Lt. Col. Clark Webber, General Staff, Armor, G-3 section; Lt. Col. John H. Campbell, General Staff, Infantry, reserve forces section; Lt. Col. Robert M. Milam, General Staff, Artillery, reserve forces section; Maj. Emmet M. Atteberry, General Staff, Infantry, G-2 sec tion; and Maj. Walton S. Olson, General Staff, Infantry, G-2 sec tion. Singing Cadets Ready For Tour Of South Texas A&M’s Singing Cadets today were making final preparations for a concert tour of south Texas points Thursday, according to Dr. William Turner, director of the group. The Cadets will leave by char tered bus at noon Thursday and journey to Gonzales for a concert at the ^Gonzales High School audi torium at 8 that night. Friday the cadets will perform at an assembly at the West Columbia High School at 1:30 p.m. The group will wind up its tour Friday night with a concert at the Refugio High School Auditorium at 8 to bring the tour to a close. The cadets will return to A&M Sunday, Turner said. New Singing Cadet uniforms will be worn for the first time, he ad ded. Some 50 members of the group will make the trip Turner said. Officers of the Singing Cadets include: David Bunting, president; John Lenamon, vice president; Lar ry Leighton, business manager; Carlos Worley, reporter-historian and Jack Harrington, librarian. Clifford W. Lane, Jr., student or ganizer of the group. Student Delegates Lane stated the chamber of commerce would be composed of student delegates from the differ ent departments on the campus. Each department has been invited to appoint one junior and senior per degree option as delegates to the student organization. Lane said, “Too many people who visit the campus see only the MSC and a group of friendly ca dets. They leave thinking that A&M is a military college that teaches only agriculture.” Under Student Activities Organized under the Department of Student Activities, Lane said the Student Chamber of Commerce would strictly be a student effort to; present material about each of the departments to interested peo ple or to organizations that could use the information. The student delegates wil be able to accumulate material about their departments and then pass it on to organizations such as hometown clubs. The hometown clubs will then be able to give a complete and correct picture of A&M to prospective students. Lane said he hopes the organ ization wil become a source where organizations like hometown clubs can come for information and ideas on how to present a better picture of A&M. The Student Chamber of Com merce plans to organize around a committee system. So far, accord ing to Lane, hometown club, spec ial project, and information com mittees are being planned. The information committee will woi’k with the oth&r departmental dele gates in organizing information pamphlets about each department. They also plan to place an infor mation rack, filled with these pamphlets, some place on the cam pus where visitors can take them home. Lane said other Texas univer sities and colleges have success fully organize dstudent groups like the A&M Student Chamber of Commerce. Departmental Delegates Departmental delegates to the student chamber of commerce far are: Department of Aeronautical En gineering—E. C. Aldrige and Lar ry K. Leighton. Department of Agricultural Engineering—Billy J. Barfield and Alan D. Brashears. Division of Architecture—John H. Brown, Dan Brents, Gerald J. Roy and Kenneth Bobo. Department of Biology—Don Reynolds, Edward Winchester, Terry Pollard, Harvey Farber, Larry Adams, Tom Aus- (See A&M CHAMBER Page 3) Junior Pics Deadline Set Thursday at 5 Juniors have until Thursday to turn in pictures of girls to be entered in judging for the Junior Sweetheart to be selected at the Junior Banquet and Ball Saturday, March 26. The pictures must be turned in to the Cashier’s Office in the ground level of the Memorial Student Center by Thursday at 5. Tickets for the Junior Ban quet and Ball are now on sale at the Cashier’s Window in the ground level of the Memorial Student Center. Tickets for the banquet, to he held in Duncan Dining Hall, will cost $1.50 per person. Tickets to the ball will also be $1.50 per person. “The Collegians,” from Prair ie View A&M College will pro vide music for the dance. Tuesday, March 22, is the last day for purchasing tickets for the banquet. Dance tickets will be available up until the time of the dance. MSC To Show Peck-Jones Film “Man in the Grey Flannel Suit” starting Gregory Peck and Jenni fer Jones will be the presentation of the Memorial Student Center Film Society on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the MSC Ballroom. The movie is based on the wide ly-read novel by Sloan Wilson about an average husband and wife facing up to one particular and unique crisis with a courage and intelligence that sets them apart. Over Ten Per Cent Included in DS’s By BOB SLOAN Assistant News Editor The overall grade point ratio for civilian students for the 1959-60 Fall Semester was 1.57, according to figures released by Bennie A. Zinn, Director of Student Affairs. The grade reports included the averages of all civilian and day students residing in college housing but was incom plete with respect to graduate students and students living in private homes, according to Zinn. ‘Only About One-Fifth .. “We are usually able to collect only about one-fifth of the grade reports from students taking graduate courses, day students living at home and students going to school only part time or taking less than 12 semester hours,” Zinn said. There were 2,045 civilians^ who reported their fall semes ter grades to the office of Student Affairs, including 174 Freshmen, 301 sophomores, 518 juniors, 734 seniors and 318 fifth, sixth and graduate students. Legett Tops Legett Hall led the civilian dor mitories with an average GPR of 1.71 for the five classes. Running a close second for the highest average GPR were students living in College View and Project House with a 1.69 overall grade point ratio. The fifth, sixth and graduate students led the rest of the civil ians with a class GPR of 1.95. Graduates living in Legett Hall had the highest average GPR with a 2.40. Bizzell Hall was second with a 2.35 GPR. Senior civilians followed the graduates with a class grade point Army Junior Suspended An Army ROTC junior was sus pended from A&M for the duration of the semester by action of a mili tary panel last week, Official charges against him were article 11-A in the Articles of the Cadet Corps and Paragraph 46-2 (a) in the College Regula tions, according to Dean of Stu dents James P. Hannigan. WCivilian Grades Story Class Number GPR Freshmen 174 1.13 Sophomores .. 301.... 1.32 Juniors 518 1.51 Seniors 734 1.67 Fifth, Sixth Graduates 318 1.95 2,045 1.57 ’60-’61 Editor Filings Close; Applicant Names Released Editor filings closed yesterday for the 1960-61 school year for the six publications of the Department of Student Publications. Filings included applications for editorships of The Battalion, The Aggieland, The Texas A&M Re view, The Engineer, The Agricul turist and The Southwestern Vet erinarian. Bill Hicklin, junior journalism major from Corpus Christi, and Robbie Godwin, junior journalism major from Robert Lee, filed for position as next year’s editor of The Battalion. Jim Gibson, junior journalism major from San Antonio, filed for editor of The Texas A&M Review. Filing for editor of The Agri culturist for 1960-61 were Harry Harrington, sophomore wildlife management major from Houston; William Harrison, Jr., sophomore agricultural economics major from Colombus; and Walter Ray Willms, junior plant and soil sciences maj or from Colombus. Persons applying for editorship of Aggieland ’61 included Dick McGauhy, junior architecture con struction major from Kansas City; Jack Russell, junior finance major from Dallas, and John Dodge, Jr., junior mechanical engineering maj or from Beaumont. Joseph Smith, junior veterinary medicine major from Big Spring, filed for editorship of the South western Veterinarian. Nominations for the 1960-61 edi tors will be made to the Students Publications Board at the April 5 meeting and the board’s recom mendations will be forwarded to the Deans of the four degree granting schools and to President Earl Rudder for approval, accord ing to L. A. Duewall, Director of Student Publications. Appointment of editors for 1960- 61 will be made April 15 and new editors will assume their duties May 1, said Duewall. Minimum requirements for be ing named to an editorship include: being junior or senior classifica tion, freedom from academic and disciplinary probation, must have clearly demonstrated above aver age achievement and ability and a minimum of one year’s experience on the staff of any publication and proven ability to carry on the work of publication in a manner deemed creditable by the Student Publica tions Board. Applicants for editorship of The Battalion and The Aggieland filed through Duewall; Dr. A. L. Ben nett, professor in the Department of English, received applications for editorship of The Texas A&M Review; applications for editorship of The Engineer were received by K. J. Koenig in the Department of Petroleum Engineering; and Dr. E. D. McMurry of the School of Vet erinary Medicine received filings for editorship of the Southwestern Veterinarian. ratio of 1.67. Then came the jun iors with a 1.51, sophomores with a 1.32 and the freshmen with a 1.13 GPR. Milner Hall seniors were high among the civilian dormitories with a 1.72 GPR. Puryear and Mitchell seniors tied for second with a 1.65. High From Milner High juniors came from Milner Hall, posting a 1.69. Legett Hall juniors had a 1.64 GPR to cinch the second place position. Civilian sophomores with the highest grade point ratio, a 1.50, came from Legett Hall. Second place went to College View-Project House sophomores with a 1.44. Legett Hall was again high with a 1.77 GPR for their freshmen. Freshmen from Puryear Hall with a 1.37 came in second. Bizzell Low Low civilian dormitory for all classes was Bizzell Hall with a 1.25 average GPR. Low freshmen came from Milner Hall with a .91 grade point ratio. Sophomores from (See CIVILIAN GRADES ^age 3) Wings, Brigades Name Four Junior Sergeant Majors Sergeant majors for the two wings and two brigades in the Corps of Cadets have been an nounced by Col. Frank S. Vaden, assistant commandant. Interviews to select the Corps of Cadets sergeant major are underway. Kenneth J. Demel was named 1st Wing sergeant major; Bob by J. McDaniel was named 2nd Wing sergeant major; Richard Meadows was named 1st Brigade sergeant major; and Sonny Todd was named 2nd Brigade sergeant major. Normally the sergeant major assumes command of the unit for the following school year. Interviews were started Fri day, March 4, to select the ser geant major for the Corps of Cadets. Approximately 15 jun iors were interviewed in the first set of interviews. Five juniors have been se lected from the original group for final interviews. The five and the units include: Harvey Barber, Corps Staff; Sydney Heaton, Corps Staff; Branley Laycock, Corps Staff; Richard Meadows, 1st Brigade Staff; and Bobby McDaniel, 2nd Wing Staff. The Corps of Cadets sergeant major will be named later. Wing, Brigade Sergeant Majors r. ’■ ■ I i m m im Kenneth Demel ... 1st Wing Bob McDaniel ... 2nd Wing Richard Meadows ... 1st Brigade Sonny Todd ... 2nd Brigade