The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 23, 1960, Image 1

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 23, 1960, Image 1

Newspaper Page TextFE 12 COPIES The Battalion Volume 69 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1960 Number 123 Doak Gets Post At Trinity U. Special to The Battalion SAN ANTONIO—Dr. Clifton C. Doak, chairman of the | Department of Biology at A&M, has been appointed to head ! the Trinity University Department of Biology, according to j Dean Bruce Thomas. The department’s undergraduate # and graduate programs have been directed since 1950 by Dr. Jacob Uhrich, professor of biology, under whom Trinity’s pre-medical pro grams achieved wide recognition. Uhrich, who served as chairman of the former Graduate Council Insect Fighters Convene For Short Course Insect fighters from throughout the state are here today and Fri day for the 14th annual Pest Con trol Operators Short Course in the Memoi’ial Student Center. Registration opened the program today at noon. Following a wel come address, by Dr. J. C. Gaines, head of the Department of Ento mology Department, the group will study taxonomy, or insect identi fication. The taxonomy sessions will cover moths, butterflies, bees, wasps, ants, flies, mosquitoes and fleas. Control measures will be dis- tussed starting at 8:30 a.m. Fri- lay. These will include fumigation and control of flies, ticks, fleas and insects on ornamental plants. Later in the day, actual control systems will be demonsti’ated in the field. Program participants are Clay ton Wright and John Hauser of Dallas, Art Herwald of Bryan and D. E. Stroope and B. L. Clark of Waxahachie, all pest control op erators. A&M staff members on the pro gram include H. R. Burke, assist ant professor; N. M. Randolph, as sociate professor; D. R. King, as sociate professor; M. A. Price, as sociate professor, all of the De partment of Entomology; and C. F. Garner, entomologist with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. Short course sponsors are the Department of Entomology in co operation with the Texas Agricul tural Experiment Station and the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. until the growing graduate division developed under his leadership into a graduate school in the fall of 1959, will now devote his full time to research and teaching. Doak received his Ph.D. degree in botany-genetics from the Uni versity of Illinois in 1933, after earning his B.S. degree at A&M. He became an assistant professor of general biology and botany at A&M in 1933, and in 1938, chair man of the Department of Biology. High School Teacher He taught biology and general science and coached athletics from 1922 through 1925 at Arlington and Corsicana Texas high schools and has directed a sciene enrich ment program for talented high school students during the 1957, ’58 and ’59 summer sessions at A&M. He is a member of the state commission to study science cur riculum in Texas schools. He is a regular contributor to the “Botanical Gazette,” the “Uni versity of Illinois Bulletin” and other journals of science. Listed in “Who’s Who” Listed in the forthcoming issue of “Who’s Who in America” and in “American Men of Science,” he is past president of Sigma Xi, na tional scientific honor society and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Doak is also a member of the American Assn, for the Advance ment of Science and the Botanical Society of America and was the 1950 president of the Texas Acad emy of Science. Mrs. Doak, active in Red Cross and Garden Club work, is a former teacher. Vets May Sign Payforms Monday Students who are attending under the G. I. Bill may sign for June pay at the Office of the Veteran’s Advisor in the ground floor of the YMCA be ginning Monday. Deadline for signing is Tues day, July 5, according to Bennie A. Zinn, director of the Depart ment of Student Affairs and veteran’s advisor. Rural Ministers of the Year The Rev. Carroll R. Jones, center, pastor of the Cadiz Baptist Church in Bee County, was named Texas’ 1959 “Rural Minister of the Year” at the 15th annual Rural Church Conference Tuesday. The Rev. Mr. Jones also is a poultryman and lives in Live Oak County. He has been a leader in church work for 43 years. Second place honors went to the Rev. Wilbert Edgar Doerr, left, pastor of Saint John’s Lutheran Church at Warrenton and Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church at Shelby. The Rev. Mrs. Velma Hart Franklin, pastor of Methodist churches at Spanish Fort, Bonita and Shady Grove, was third. Making the presenta tions was Charles Scruggs of Dallas, associate editor of The Progressive Farmer magazine. CS Telephone Work Nears Completion A telephone construction project in the College Station area is nearing completion. G. M. Brennan, division manager for the Southwestern States Telephone Co. in Bryan, said the program is designed to provide cable extensions for new* business in the Redmond Terrace Addition, along Highway 60 west of the central office, along Church Street and also south of the A&M campus in the vicinity of A&M Consolidated School. Construction will include the placement of 60 poles along with approximately 19,000 feet of aerial type cables. Brennan said cost of the project will be about $34,000. Completed recently was another cable placement program including feeder and distribution cable for the new student housing apartment buildings near the A&M campus. This project included placement of about 10 poles and some 5,000 feet of aerial and underground cable. Cost of the program was about $13,000. Installation is under way in the Bryan central office on 400 termi nals of additional central office equipment. This installation will provide facilities for improved service and for additional subscrib ers through the Bryan office. Bren nan said continued growth in the area has made the expansion of facilities necessary. Brennan said telephone improve ment projects in this area are a part of the company’s 1960 con struction program totaling about $7-million in the company’s opera tional area of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas. The new construction is a part of the com pany’s plans to keep pace with the growth of areas in which it oper ates. Four Groups on Campus, One in Galveston 190 Take Part in NSF Program More than 190 college, high school, junior high school and ele mentary school teachers and high school students are taking part in five different programs being con ducted by A&M through grants from the National Science Foun dation and private Texas indus tries. According to Coleman Loyd, pro fessor in the Department of Physics and director-general of the programs, four of the pro grams are being conducted on the campus and one is being conducted at the Galveston Marine Labora tory of the Department of Ocean ography and Meteorology. Two more groups will be on the cam pus during the second summer school session, Loyd said. The work is being supported by $170,719 in grants from the Na tional Science Foundation and ap proximately $11,000 from private industry in Texas, explained Loyd. One from Canada Twenty states, one territory and one foreign country are represent ed by the attendants at the insti tutes. A Calgary, Alberta, Can ada, high school student is taking part in the special “Engineering Applications of Geology” work shop for male high school students. The territory represented is Puer to Rico. Arkansas leads other states, not including Texas, with six students and California has five. Other states represented include Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illi nois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missis sippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Vefmont and Washington. The largest workshop is the fifth annual Summer Institute, de signed to give high school and junior high school science and mathematics teachers advanced study in chemistry, physics, biol ogy and mathematics, according to Loyd. Approximately 70 teachers are participating in the program. About 35 of this number will con tinue during the second six weeks, and will be joined by 26 more teachers, said Loyd. Galveston Program Another 40 high school teachers are at the Galveston installation of the Department of Oceanog raphy and Meteorology for six weeks work. Thirty-six male high school stu dents are taking part in the “En gineering Application of Geology” program under the direction of Dr. M. C. Schroeder, associate pro fessor in the Department of Geol ogy and Geophysics. The course ends at the conclusion of the first summer school session. The Department of Geology and Geophysics is also carrying on a took and mineral workshop for 36 elementary and junior high school teachers. The course lasts only this six weeks. A special project, the course is the only one of its kind in the nation, ac cording to Schroeder, who is also in charge of this program. A program for 12 college teach ers who are working as research participants is being conducted through the combined facilities of several departments on the cam pus and on a ship operated by the Department of Oceanography in the Gulf of Mexico. One of the college teachers is doing work at the San Marcos fish hatchery under the direction of Dr. Richard Baldauf of the De partment of Wildlife Management. Three of the teachers are work ing with the Department of Ocean ography and Meteorology, includ ing the one on the department’s ship in the Gulf of Mexico. The three are working under Richard G. Bader, associate professor; Vance E. Moyer, associate profes sor; and K. M. Rae, director of the Galveston Marine Laboratory; all of the Department of Oceanog raphy and Meteorology. One in Physics Another of the college teachers is doing work in the Department of Physics under the supervision of Dr. Jesse B. Coon, professor in that department. The Department of Chemistry has two of the college teachers, under the supervision of Dr. A. Furman Isbell, associate profes sor, and Dr. Roger D. Whealy, professor, both of the Department of Chemistry. One of the research participants is working in the Department of Agronomy under Dr. Morris E. Bloodwoith, associate professor in that department. Dr. A. M. Sorensen, associate professor in the Department of Animal Husbandry, is working with another of the college teach ers. Two in Data Processing Two of the teachers are doing work in the Data Processing Cen ter under the direction of Robert L. Smith Jr., head of the center. One of the men will leaye at the end of this term, but will be re placed by another, said Loyd. Dr. H. O. Kunkel, professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition, is also working with one of the college teachers. Twenty-six high school students will work in research with Dr. John J. Sperry, professor in the Department of Biology, during the second six weeks, Loyd said. Conference Names Minister of Year Live Oak County Preacher Named The Rev. Carroll R. Jones of Live Oak County, an outstanding preacher, poultryman and all- around civic worker, was named the state’s 1959 Rural Minister of the Year at the 15th annual Rural Church Conference here Tuesday. The conference began Monday and closed today. The Rev. Mr. Jones has been a leader in rural church work for 43 years and once was pastor of four country churches in his area at the same time. At present, he preaches in the Baptist Church of the Cadiz Community in Bee County, a pastorate he has served for 25 years. During those 25 years, the min ister estimates he has traveled at least 2,000 miles a month in the interest of rural church work. Making the presentation at the conference was Charles Scruggs of Dallas, associate editor of The Progressive Farmer magazine, who said the Rev. Mr. Jones has been a leader in better farming methods in addition to his church duties. During the depression pe riod, the minister planted demon stration plots of vegetables and soil building crops on his farm. Neighbors were soon following his example. The preacher’s main agricultural interest is potiltry and he now has 3,000 layer cages in operation. He markets his graded eggs in the Live Oak County area and has es tablished a marketing system for the eggs of his neighbors and con gregation. Members of the Live Oak Coun ty Farm Bureau named him “Out standing Rural Pastor of the Year” in recognition of his contri butions to rural life. The Rev. Mr. Jones also serves on the state level as a member of the Texas Baptist Rural and Vil lage Church Achievement Pro gram. He and the Cadiz Baptist Church were recognized in the Texas Baptist Annual in 1959 as the most representative rural pas tor and church in Texas. Second Place Winner Second place honors went to the Rev. Wilbert Edgar Doerr, pastor at Saint John’s Lutheran Church at Warrenton and Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church at Shelby. The minister conducts vacation Bible schools and confirmation classes in both churches and has promoted social life in the com munities with family nights, fel lowship suppers and volleyball tournaments for young people. Graduation Invitations To Go on Sale All students who will graduate in August may begin ordering graduation announcements Mon day at 8 a.m. in the Cashier’s Window of the Memorial Stu dent Center, according to Mrs. Wynelle Davis, MSC cashier. Deadline for ordering the an nouncements is Wednesday, July 13, at 5 p.m., Mrs. Davis said. Leather announcements will cost 50 cents each; cardboard, 25 cents each; and French fold, 10 cents each, Mrs. Davis said. Board of Directors Meets Saturday The Board of Directors of the A&M College System will meet in regular session here Saturday at 10 a.m. The Rev. Mrs. Velma Hart Franklin of Spanish Fort, wife of the Rev. William S. Franklin, re ceived third place honors. Pastor of the Spanish Fort Cir cuit, the Rev. Mrs. Franklin reaches in Methodist churches in three communities—Spanish Fort, Bonita and Shady Grove. She and her husband travel close to 10,000 miles a year serving the churches. The Franklins live on a 100-acre farm near Forestburg in Montague County. The Rev. Mrs. Franklin serves as a district secretary of mission ary education and service in the Woman’s Society of Christian Service. The conference is held each year to better enable A&M to work with rural communities through church groups. •Sponsoring the event, which at tracted 185 church workers, was (See RURAL on Page 4) Wins Award William R. Millsaps Jr. of Nolanville has been named receipient of the Ray E. Dickson Award for the 1960-61. Millsaps, a junior in agricultural education, was named to the honor on the basis of his outstanding academic achievements. Part of Week's Program CS Pianists Play Tuesday in MSC A dance with a Latin American theme Monday night and a duo-piano concert by two well-known community pianists Tuesday night will kick off next week’s activities in the Memoral Student Center Summer Entertainment Program. “An Afternoon of Free Films”-* is also scheduled for Sunday after- The dance to be in the Ballroom from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. Monday Avill have special Latin American decorations, according to JoAnna White, decorations chairman. Mu sic for the dance will be by juke box. Mrs. H. A. Luther and Mrs. A. B. Medlen, prominent College Sta tion piano teachers, are the artists to be presented in the third Special Entertainment Program of the summer Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the Main Lounge. Mrs. Luther, a native of Erie, Pa., Holds' a bachelor of music de gree from the American Conserva tory in Chicago. Before coming to College Sta tion, she taught public school mu sic in Erie and she has been teach- (See PIANISTS on Page 3) Dean Hubert Attending Meet T) In Delaware Dr. Frank W. R. Hubert, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, is attending a . national educators conference to be held in Wilming ton, Dela., through Thursday, June 30. It is the annual Educators Con ference sponsored by and conducted by the E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. The conference opened Monday. At Wilmington, Hubert will join other educators from more than 40 colleges and universities through out the United States, all of whom have been invited to attend this annual seminar as guests of the sponsoring company. With the thought of bringing the academic and business worlds closer together, through under standings, the educators will meet with the top executives of the large corporation and become acquainted with its affairs. The agenda this year is directed toward those in the fields of eco nomics, sociology, history, political science and administration. The seminar will take up such subjects as Development and Struc ture, Management of a Modern Corporation, Employe Relations, Research and other subjects. A question and answer period will follow each discussion. The educators will be taken on tours of the laboratories and other departments of Du Pont. Timm Takes Tour As Visiting Prof Dr. Tyrus R. Timm, head of the Department of Agricultural Eco nomics and Rural Sociology, is visiting professor in the Colorado State University Graduate School for three weeks which began Mon day. -• ^ -''****■■ ^ ... 'vv Mrs. A. B. Medlen, left, and Mrs. H. A. Luther practice for the program they will present Tuesday night in the Memorial Stu dent Center as part of the MSC Summer Music Series. The presentation will be held Pianists To Play in MSC in the MSC Main Lounge at 8 p.m. Tuesday and will be presented free. Other MSC activities next week include free films Sun day afternoon and a dance Monday night.

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 23, 1960, Image 1

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