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ADVANCED DRILLING
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Technology Tops
Week Discussion
“The Future of Drilling Tech
nology” was discussed here this
week, by Douglas Ragland. Rag
land is manager of engineering
production of the Humble Oil and
Refining Co. in Houston.
His address opened the first
week of the second session of the
Advanced Drilling Engineering
Course offered for the personnel
of the petroleum industry. The
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course is being conducted by per
sonnel of the Department of
Petroleum Engineering of the Col
lege.
Ragland discussed the impact of
economics and physical aspects of
drilling upon technological ad
vancement; he stressed the need
for more basic research in the
fundamentals of drilling, includ
ing both field and laboratory type
studies and enumerated many prob
lems and possible avenues of solu
tions.
on the subject of rock properties,
drilling fluids, drilling strings,
rotary drilling bits, hydraulics,
straight hold drilling and direc
tional drilling. These subjects have
been taught by outstanding indus
try personnel and by members of
the department.
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Nuclear Exhibit
View of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commis- and the uses of radioisotopes in industry,
sion’s Nuclear Exhibit now open to the pub- medicine, and agriculture are portrayed. A
lie in Room 108, of the Engineering Build- feature of the exhibit is a model of a nu-
ing and can be seen through May 12 from clear powered merchant ship. Students of
8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Atomic Energy is explained the public schools are especially invited.
Mother’s Day Dates Back
To Time of Ancient Greeks
Although not specifically refer
red to as such, Mother’s Day goes
back many centuries.
It dates back in the Western
world to the time of the ancient
Greeks who worshipped Cybele,
the mother of the gods, with an
annual tribute held on the Ides of
March.
The custom was later introduc
ed to Rome about 250 B.C. On
the Ides of March, the festival of
Hilaria in honor of Cybele was be
gun and continued for three days.
Feasting, music and dancing fol
lowed offerings in the temples.
To lure converts, early Christian
missionaries distributed “waffres”
at these festivals. They were hot,
crips, grid-stamped cakes — better
known today as waffles.
Modern Languages
Slate German Film
Dostoeosky’s novel, the “Broth
ers Karamazov”, is being presented
in a German film version (with
English subtitles) Thursday at
7:30 p.m. in the Biological Sci
ences Lecture Hall under the joint
sponsorship of the Modern Lan
guage Club and the Department
of Modern Languages.
Tickets are available from the
secretary of the Department of
Modern Languages.
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Mothers in medieval Europe
were honored on “The Virgin’s
Day,” dedicated to the mother of
Christ. On Mid-Lent Sunday—the
fourth Sunday before Easter —
presents were brought to Mary’s
shrine and living mothers were
similarly remembered.
Sixteenth Century England con
verted Mid-Lent Sunday into
“Mothering Sunday”. It was the
day when children went to see
their mothers, taking along trink
ets and cakes.
Mother’s traditional gift became
a simnel—a rich plum pudding en
closed in a very hard crust. To
this day, bakers in certain sections
of England still make the tradi
tional simnel which children pre
sent to mothers on their day.
All through history, mother
hood has been held high and me
morials to motherhood are found in
numerous locales.
The Taj Mahal of India is a
monument to a mother. Shah Je-
han built it in memory of Mumtaz
Mahal, his favorite wife and moth
er of his sons.
The famous American statue
“The Pioneer Woman” honors the
mothers who carried civilization
westward through Indian terri
tory.
Despite these man-made trib
utes to motherhood; it took the ef
forts of the women themselves to
obtain sanction to have a day set
aside each year as Mother’s Day.
The first specific Mother’s Day
in the United States was not a
popular success. Miss Mary Tow
les Sasseen, a school teacher in
Henderson, Ky., in 1887 began
holding annual exercises to honor
mothers. The idea was adopted by
the schools of Springfield, Ohio in
1890, but it spread no further.
Miss Anna M. Jarvis founded
our present Mother’s Day in 1907
when she arranged a memorial
service for her mother in Andrews
Methodist Church in Grafton, W,
Va. Her spirited campaign for
nationwide observance was crown
ed with success in 1914, when
President Woodrow Wilson signed
a Congressional Resolution setting
aside the second Sunday in May
as Mother’s Day and authorizing
Federal display of the flag.
The custom of annually express
ing affection for mother with gifts
and Mother’s Day greeting cards,
has spread steadily ever since. The
most popular Mother’s Day gift
in the early years of the annual
observance was reproduction of
Whistler’s portrait of his mother.
Many greeting cards also pictured
this famous painting.
Although not an official holi
day until 1914, cards for mother
were published as early as 1912,
However, these early issues were
not titled Mother’s Day, so that,
if not sold before the little known
day, they might be used at any
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time as general greetings for
Mother.
Today, Mother’s Day cards rank
fifth, in greeting card sales, and
are so varied in ddsign, sentiment
and title that it is almost impos
sible not to find one to answer any
situation or meet any divergent
demands of individual taste.
28th Oil Mill
Conference
Opens in MSC
" A&M will hold its 28th annual
Cottonseed Oil Mill Operators
Short Course Thursday in the Me
morial Student Center.
The session, which is sponsored
by, the Department of Chemical
Engineering in co-operation with
the Texas Cottonseed Crushers
Assn, and the International Oil
Mill Superintendents Assn., will
feature a-wide variety of technical
talks on efficient oil mill opera
tion.
Among the speakers will be C.
W. Crawford, associate dean of
engineering at A&M, who will give
an address of welcome. The key
note speaker is Dixon White, man
ager of the Lubbock Cotton Oil
Co. at Lubbock.
Dr. J. D. Lindsay, head of the
Department of Chemical Engineer
ing and program chairman, said
the first day’s meetings will get
underway at'8:30 a.m.
He said equipment displays will
be set up in the Cottonseed Re
search Laboratory.
A&M speakers and their subjects
are W. B. Harris of the Cottonseed
Products Research Laboratory, “In
formation from Research On Flow
of Air Through Cottonseed”; Dr.
Carl Lyman, head of the Depart
ment of Biochemistry and Nutri
tion, “New Developments In Nu
trition”; A. L. Kramer of the Tex
as Engineering Extension Service,
“How A Superintendent Can Ob
tain New Ideas To Do A Better
Job.”
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Winners in the Class A, B, C
and D, engineering drawing con
test held here have been announced.
Dr. W. E. Street, head of the De
partment of Engineering Drawing,
presided at the awards ceremony.
Winners follow: Class A, A
Working Drawing:
Class A: first, James R. Nor
wood, mechanical engineering, New
Braunfels; second, R. B. Willman,
civil engineering, Abilene; third,
Charles Tadic, civil engineering and
geology, Cochabama, Bolivia.
Class B, Descriptive Geometry
Problems: first, Charles C. Pate,
aeronautical engineering, Port Ar
thur; second, L. J. Milberger, in
dustrial education, Bryan; third,
J. C. Murray, civil engineering,
Houston.
Class C, A Freehand Lettering
Problem: first, Franz J. Raulf,
aeronautical engineering, Bryan;
second, R. B. Willman, civil engi
neering, Abilene; third, Jack Mil-
ton Threadgill, electrical engineer
ing, Brady.
Class D, A Freehand Pictorial:
first, Jack W. Morris, division of
Architecture, Bryan; second, D. E.
Armstrong, industrial technology,
Alien Drury Novel
Gets Pulitzer Prize
By The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Pulitzer Prizes
have been awarded to Allen Drury’s
best-selling novel, “Advise and
Consent,” the Broadway musical,
“Fiorello!” and the Los Angeles
Times.
A. M. Rosenthal of the New
York Times has also been honored
with the highest accolade of his
profession for the reporting that
resulted in his expulsion from
Poland last year.
The 1960 prizes were among 13
awards and one citation in the
fields of letters, music and jour
nalism announced by the trustees
of Columbia University Monday.
Awards in newspaper cartoon
ing and art were not made this
year.
The Los Angeles Times won the
gold medal for meritorious public
service for its campaign against
narcotics smuggling across the
Mexican border. The newspaper
was cited for the far-reaching
effects produced by a series on
the problem written by its re
porter Gene Sherman. The Times
won the medal in 1942 for a battle
to uphold freedom of the press.
In its narcotics fight, Sherman
spent seven months traveling to
Mexico, Washington, New York,
Texas and San Francisco, poring
over records, interviewing officials,
addicts and even peddlers.
Reporters for the Atlanta Con
stitution, the Washington Evening
Star, an editor of the Scripps-
Howard Newspaper Alliance, the
editor of the Norfolk Virginian-
Pilot and a United Press Inter
national photographer won other
prizes in journalism.
Individual journalism awards
carry a $1,000 prize. Prizes for
arts and letters are $500 each.
“Advise and Consent,” a massive
novel on Washington politics, has
been a best-seller since its publi
cation last year. It has been
serialized, sold to the movies and
is being prepared for the New York
stage.
It was the first novel that Drury,
a Washington newspaper corre
spondent for 17 years, ever wrote.
Skrabanek
Directs Study
Brazos County Judge W. C.
Davis has announced that Dr. R. L.
Skrabanek of the Department of
Agricultural Economics and Soci
ology has accepted chairmanship of
the Brazos County Study On Prob
lems of the Aged.
Davis said the study calls for a
comprehensive investigation of
every facet of problems of senior
citizens in the county.
The report, to be compiled under
Skrabanek’s direction, will be in
corporated into information to he
analyzed at the State Conference
On Aging this fall. Findings and
recommendations will then go to
Washington for the White House
Conference On Aging in January
of 1961.
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Odom, Jr., industrial technology,
Houston.
Prizes included, Class A, first,
Reifler “E-20” set drawing instru
ments, donated by Gramercy Guild
Group Inc.; second, “USA 3” set
drawing instruments, donated by
Gramercy Guild Group Inc.; third,
“Autodraft Machine and Scales”
portable drafting machine, donated
by Eugene Dietzgen Co.
Class B: first, “Master Pro”
set drawing instruments, donated
by Eugene Dietzgen Co.; second,
“1006” set drawing instruments,
donated by Keuffel and Esser of
Texas Inc.; third, “Nestlei', Log/
Log Duplex Detitrig” slide rule,
donated by Gramercy Guild Group
Inc.
Class C: first, “Federal” set
drawing instruments, donated by
Eugene Dietzgen Co.; second, “Cus
tom Master 752M” set drawing in
struments, donated by Frederick
Post Co.; third, parallel rule draw
ing board, donated by the Ex
change Store.
Class D: first, “Dazor Univer
sal Lamp,” donated by The Ex
change Store; second, portable
drafting table, donated by Eugene
Dietzgen Co.; third, “8935” Doric
lettering set, donated by Kebffel
and'Esser of Texas Inc..
The program was held in the
Petroleum lecture room with C. B.
Thames, district highway engineer,
Bryan, giving the address.
Presentation of awards was
made by Dr. C. M. Simmang, head
of the Department of Mechanical
Engineering; T. R. Holloman, head
of the Division of Architecture; Dr.
G. D. Hallmark, head of the De
partment of Electrical Engineer
ing; L. V* Hawkins, industrial edu
cation and F. C. Hall, Dept, of
Aeronautical Engineering.
Contest judges were Clint A.
Bertrand, industrial education;
Benjamin D. Franklin, civil engi
neering and J. W. Sorenson, agri
cultural engineering.
The contest committee was Sam
uel M. Cleland, chairman and F. E.
Stark, P. M. Mason and R. H. Da-
vey Jr., all of the Department of
Engineering Drawing.
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