Red Cross Names
Seven Host States
Texas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Iowa,
Michigan, Missouri and Wisconsin
have been selected as host states
this year for the annual Red Cross
National Aquatic Schools in the
Midwest. The schools, being held
for the 39th year, provide advan
ced training for experienced and
prospective camp counselors, lead
ers and instructors in community
and pool water safety programs.
Because of the increasing num
ber of persons taking to the water
via small boats, small craft schools
will also be held in conjunction
with two of the aquatic schools,
those at Lake Murray State Park
at Ardmore, Okla., June 5-15, and
at Camp Wah-Kon-Dah at Rocky
Mount, Mo., August 17-27. The
other sites selected and dates of
aquatic schools there are: Camp
Texlake, Spicewood, Tex., June 5-
15; SIU Little Grassy Lake Cam
pus, Carbondale, 111., June 8-18;
Lake Okoboji Lutheran Bible
Camp, Milford, Iowa, June 8-18;
Owasippe Scout Camps, Camp
Stuart, Whitehall, Mich., June 15-
25; and Camp Chippecotton, Elk-
horn, Wis., Aug. 17-27. A small
craft school will also be held at
Culver Military Academy, Culver,
Ind., June 13-23.
Enrollment is open to men and
women 18 years of age and older
wishing to serve more skillfully in
their positions closely related to
water sports or wishing to serve
as volunteer Red Cross instructors
in their home communities. The
courses include instruction in
swimming and lifesaving, small
craft, swimming pool operation
and leadership in camp and com
munity water safety activities. In
struction is also given in first aid
and those wishing to get this in
struction may complete the stand-
ard, advanced and instructors cour
ses.
This year marks the 50th anni
versary of Red Cross First Aid
and the half century of progress
will be reviewed during the school
sessions.
Complete enrollment information
on the aquatic and small craft
schools can be secured through any
Red Cross chapter or from the Mid
western Area Office, American
National Red Cross, 4050 Lindell
Blvd., St. Louis 8, Mo.
Houston Firm
Gets Contract
A $40,000 landscaping contract,
» the largest single job ever auth
orized by the school, has been
„ awarded to Flowerland Nursery
in Houston.
4 The announcement was made
today by Mrs. E. L. Manning,
Flowerland General Manager.
“We’ll be working on the job most
of the summer, fininshing up in
the fall when we can plant the
larger trees, she said.
The project involves planting
around the 21 apartment build
ings for married students at the
college. The majority of the
plants, almost all of them native
Texans, will come from Flower-
land’s 30 acre growing grounds
withing the Houston city limits.
Landscape architect on the pro
ject is Robert F. White and As
sociates of Houston.
Color Slides
To Be Shown
Friday Night
Dr. C. C, Doak, head of the De
partment of Biology, will present
a program of color slides during
a meeting Friday of the Students
United Nations Club.
The session will start at 7:30
p.m. and will be at the YMCA
Building.
Henry Courtenay of the Depart
ment of Agricultural Economics
and' Sociology has organized a
singing group from members of
the A&M Presbyterian Church
choir and the Bi-City Choral Group
to provide a musical accompani
ment to the color slide program.
Doak also will make a talk, his
subject being “This Is My Father’s
World.” The topic will concern the
cultural and sociological forces
for fusion and fission in a world
society.
K. Rahman, president of the
Students United Nations Club, said
the meeting will be the final one
of the school year.
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“Serving Texas Aggies”
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Wedensday, May 11,19 6 0
College Station, Texas
Page 3
THE BATTALION
Officer Inauguration
Mrs. T. L. Thompkins of Bryan addresses dent of the Federation. Mrs. Stella Cole of
Sunday’s meeting of the Federation of A&M Corpus Christi, far right, was installed as
Mother’s Clubs in the Memorial Student the new president at Sunday’s meeting.
Center. Mrs. Thompkins was the first presi-
ENROLLMENT UP
Kiwanis Club Honors
College Station Schools
College Station schools were
honored yesterday at the regular
meeting of the College Station. Ki
wanis Club in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
School Superintendent W. T.
Riedel told the Kiwanians that en
rollment in College Station schools
has doubled, and in some cases
tripled, in the last 10 years and
it is expected to continue to grow
in the next 10 years.
Riedel then explained the
school’s long orange construction
program to be paid for by the
recent $350,000 bond issue.
Riedel then introduced Howard
Mitchel and Bruce Thompson, both
students at A&M Consolidated
High School who won National
Drilling Short
Course Ends
The Department of Petroleum
Engineering has just concluded its
second successful session of the
“Advanced Drilling Engineering
Course” offered for members of
the petroleum industry. This was
a two-week course consisting of
eight hours a day lectures five
days a week for the two-week pe
riod.
The lectures were given by mem
bers of the faculty of the Depart
ment of Petroleum Engineering
and by outstanding men of the oil
industry itself. The session of
the drilling school had an enroll
ment of 21 men representing drill
ing personnel from Europe, South
America and the United States.
Men Represented
For the most part, these men
represented oil producing compan
ies, drilling contractors and supply
companies whose products are
sold almost exclusively to the oil
industry.
The last wteek of the school was
devoted to a study of the drilling
rig, optimum conditions for rock
penetration, factors affecting the
rate of penetration, formation
evaluation and drilling economics.
On the afternoon of the last day
of the session, the men attending
the school were addressed by a
drilling panel who presented for
discussion their ideas on methods
of reducing drilling costs from the
viewpoint of the major company
operator, the drilling contractor,
the supply company and research.
Panel Members
Members of the panel were Jim
U. Teague, Columbia Drilling Co.
and Ed Rowe, Tennessee Oil and
Gas Co., Houston; T. O. Allen,
Jersey Production Research Co.,
Tulsa, Okla.; Don Johnson, Carl
B. King Drilling Co., Midland, and
Wm. T. Powell, Continental-Ems-
co Co., Dallas.
Merit Scholarship Awards. Of ,47
Merit Scholarship awards given in
Texas, two were from College Sta
tion schools.
“College Station citizens should
be proud of the scholastic achieve-
Organization
Meeting Set
By Debaters
Students interested in partici
pating in debate, oratory, extem
poraneous speech or other com
petitive speech events are asked
to attend an organization meeting
in Room 2-C of the Memorial Stu
dent Center, Friday at 7:30 p.m.,
by Don Williamson, newly elected
president of the Aggie Discussion
and Debate Club.
Students interested but not able
to attend should leave their names
with Williamson; Dr. H. E. Hierth,
debate coach, or any other team
members.
Next year’s team goal will be
the Southwest Conference cham
pionship, which they missed by an
extremely narrow margin to Bay
lor last fall after first being de
clared the actual winner.
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ments of our schools,” Riedel told
the group. The average grade
point ratio of all entering fresh
men at the University of Texas
last year , was 1.265; the average
GPR of College Station students
entering the University last year
was 1.974, he added.
Riedel attributed College Sta
tion’s high academic rating in part
to the fact that over 50 per cent
of College Station teachers have
their masters degree.
In another part of the program,
Jack Channey presented safe driv
ing awards for the school year
1958-59 to two College Station
school bus drivers, Howard Ander
son and K. C. Morgan.
Nurseryman Short Course
Slated May 29-31 In MSC
The annual Short Course for
Texas Nurserymen will be held
May 29-31 in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Topics range from outlook in
formation to marketing develop
ments and problems.
The first day’s program will
start with registration in the
MSC, followed by a tour of re-
Primary Puts
Humphrey Out
Of Demo Race
By ARTHUR EDSON
CHARLESTON, W. Va. (A>)_
Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.)
took a giant stride toward the
Democratic presidential nomination
today with a smashing victory in
the West Virginia primary.
He not only rolled over Sen.
Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.),
he also knocked him out of the
presidential race completely.
At 1:08 a.m. Eastern Standard
Time Humphrey conceded. Mo
ments later he issued a statement
in which he said:
“I am no longer a candidate for
the Democratic presidential nom
ination.”
Kennedy flew back from Wash
ington early today.
“West Virginia has tonight giv
en me a major boost toward the
Democratic nomination for presi
dent,” he said jubilantly:
Kennedy, a Catholic running .in
a predominantly Protestant , state,
thanked the voters,
“I had no doubt,” he said, “that
you would cast your vote on the
basis of the issues and not on any
religious prejudice.”
Kennedy jumped ahead at the
start and steadily increased his
margin.
search work in progress at the
floriculture greenhouses and nur
series.
Actual talks begin at 9:30 a.m.
the second day with an address by
Bob Lederer, legislative assistant
for the American Association of
Nurserymen in Washington, D.C.,
who will discuss “What’s Ahead in
the Nursery Industry.”
Next is John D. Schatz of South
west Missouri State College who
will talk on “Summer Mainten
ance Programs.” Planning and
planting for a year-round garden
will be explained by Naud Bur
nett, landscape architect of Dal
las.
The main speaker at an evening
meeting May 30 will be Charles S.
Bush, supervisor of grades and
standards for the State Plant
Board of Florida. His topic, “Why
Grades and Standards for Nursery
Plants,” is expected to attract
much interest among the short
course members.
Talks on the last day include
“Creative Selling That Works” by
Joseph W. Thompson, director of
the School of Hotel, Restaurant
and Institutional Management,
Michigan State University, and
“Garden Shop Advertising Pro
grams” by L. F. Czufin of the Cal
ifornia Spray Chemical Corpor
ation, Richmond, Calif.
A feature on the final day will
be a panel discussion of “Present
Day Marketing Problems.” Panel
members are Winston Jones of the
Lambert Landscape Co. of Dallas;
George Vineyard of Midland, Vine
yard Landscaping Co.; R. T. Mc-
Duff of Fort Worth, Pope Nur
sery; Tom Searborough of Lub
bock, Tom’s Tree I*face, and Char
les House of -Tyler, House and Sons
Nursery.
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LOUPOT'S
TO THE VOTERS OF PRECINCT ONE:
Let me take this method of expressing to each of thosfe who
voted for me Saturday in the Primary Election my deepest thanks
and appreciation. In view of the fact that there were four of us
running for the office, it was especially gratifying to me to have
lead my nearest opponent by ,248 votes. I offer my congratula
tions to Mr. Cuftis Williams, Mr, Fletcher Pool, and Mr. George
B. Hensarling, Jr. on the fine support that they received and I
earnestly hope that those who voted for these gentlemen will give
careful consideration to my past record of hard work and ac
complishments for all of the people of Precinct One, and will see
fit to vote for me in the run-off election on June 4th.
Agaip my gratitude and thanks.
Sincerely,
RAYMOND A. NOLAN
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