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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
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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
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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.
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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.