Volume 59 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1960 Number 124
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Hall Named
Graduate Dean
Dr. Wayne C. Hall, head of the Department of Plant
Physiology and Pathology, has been named Dean of the
Graduate School, President Earl Rudder announced today.
Hall came to A&M in 1949 from the University of
Kentucky, where he was assistant
professor and acting head of the
Department of Botany. He came
to A&M as an assistant professor
and was promoted to associate
professor in 1951 and was made
professor in 1954, and in 1958 be
came professor and head of the
Department of Plant Physiology HP
and Pathology.
He succeeds Dr. J. B. Page as
graduate school dean. The position
of dean of the college, which was
also held by Page, has not been
filled. Page will join Iowa-State
University as dean of the Grad
uate College.
Committee Worker
Since coming to A&M, he has
served as a member of the Com
mittee on Graduate Instruction,
School of Agriculture; 'member of
the Graduate Council; a research
project leader for the Texas Agri
cultural Experiment Station; a
collaborator with the Cotton and
Cordage Fibers Research Branch
and with the Southern Utilization
Research Branch of the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture, and in
1955 was recipient of the first
Faculty Achievement Award for
the Outstanding Teacher doing re
search.
Dr. Hall is 41 years of age. He
Was born in Montana and was edu
cated in Iowa. He received his B.S.
degree from the State University
of Iowa in 1941, and did graduate
work at the University of Chicago
in 1942. However, he received his
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the
State University of Iowa in 1946
and 1948 respectively, with hon
ors.
From 1942 to 1946 he served
with the U. S. Navy, and was dis
charged to inactive reserve with
the rank of Lieutenant Senior
Grade (Line). He saw active serv
ice in the Atlantic, European-Afri-
can and Pacific Theaters of Ac
tion and received theater ribbons
ftdth six battle stars, the Purple
Heart and unit citations.
Many Memberships
Hall holds memberships in many
scientific and honorary societies,
including the Botanical Society of
Board of Directors Approves
Contracts, Accepts Funds
Fire Training Area
NamedforBrayton
Wayne C. Hall
. . . takes new post
America, American Society of
Plant Physiology, member of Ex
ecutive Committee, 1957; secre
tary, vice president and president
of the Southern Section of Amer
ican Society and Plant Physiology,
1955-57; member of board of di
rectors, 1959; Scandinavian Soci
ety of Plant Physiology, American
Phytopathological Society; Sigma
Xi, vice president and president of
A&M Chapter, 1956-57; Phi Kappa
Phi, treasurer, A&M Chapter,
1958-60; vice president, 1960;
American Institute of Biological
Sciences, American Assn, for Ad
vancement of Science.
Two Grants
Hall has a five-year grant with
the National Institutes of Health
and a three-year Atomic Energy
Commission research contract.
He is author or co-author of 75
scientific papers, reviews and lab
oratory manuals in the field of
plant physiology or plant biochem
istry and consultant to the Divis
ion of Expei’iment Stations, USD A.
The Halls live at 1204 Winding
Rd., College Station, and have two
children, Janice, 15; and Randy,
13.
Directors of the A&M College System, meeting here
Saturday, honored the late Col. H. R. Brayton, pioneer in
the training of Texas firemen, by designating the Texas
Engineering Extension Service’s new firemen’s training area
the “Brayton Firemen Training Field.”
Col. Brayton, who died in 1957, began offering short
courses for the training of Texas firemen in 1930, while he
was a member of the Department of Chemistry staff at
A&M.
Beginning the training program with less than 20 stu
dents, Col. Brayton, before his retirement in 1955 from
active direction of the firemen’s training program, saw the
program expanded to an an-+ —
nual firemen’s training school
at A&M, plus off-campus
training courses that were
statewide in scope.
During his tenure as director of
firemen’s training for the Indus
trial Extension Service of A&M,
and later the Texas Engineering
Extension Service, Col. Brayton
directed the training of an esti
mated 50,000 Texas firemen. These
men attended schools on the A&M
Rose Resigns
TEES Post
For New Job
Dr. Aaron Rose, director of
the Texas Engineering Experi
ment Station, has resigned his
position here, effective the lat
ter part of August, to accept
a technical administrative posi
tion with the United Technology
Corp., Sunnyvale, Calif.
The company is a wholly
owned subsidiary of United Air
craft Corp.
Rose became director of the
Texas Engineering Experiment
Station, a part of the A&M Col
lege System, June 1, 1958, com
ing to College Station from the
Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp.,
Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Congratulations for Award
Klalilur Rahman, left, president of the the association where the A&M chapter
A&M Chapter of the Pakistani Students was named outstanding in the nation.
Assn, of America, receives congratulations Rahman is holding the plaque awarded the
from President Earl Rudder after return- group. See story on Page 4.
ing from the seventh annual convention of
campus and at locations scattered
over the state..
For the first 18 years of his
service, Col. Brayton and one itin
erant fireman training instructor,
carried out the entire program of
instruction for Texas firefighters
other than the few large city
courses operated by city depart
ments.
Success of Col. Brayton’s train
ing program for firemen resulted
several years ago in insurance
credits of from three to five per
cent in key rates for fire insur
ance being granted to communities
whose firemen received training at
the annual schools conducted on
the A&M campus and over the
state.
International Recognition
The Texas program has also re
ceived international recognition as
a model for development of train
ed firemen, and during the past
five years it has been expanded
to include the training of Civil
Defense and disaster relief rescue
instructors and team inembers.
The annual firemen’s training
school of the Engineering Exten
sion Service, at Colltge Station,
held each July now attracts about
1,500 men, from Texas depart
ments and from out-of §tate city
fire departments, and from in-
dusti’ial and governmental install
ations.
1,600 Attend in 1959
Last July’s school drew some
1,600 student firemen, instructors,
and administrators concerned with
firefighting departments to the
campus, from Texas and 16 other
states, plus firemen from Mexico,
the Netherlands and Canada.
This year’s annual summer school
will be held July 18-22, at the new
ly completed training area near
Easterwood Field, the A&M col
lege airport.
The training area includes facil
ities for training firemen in fight
ing both residence and industrial
types of fires, plus a model village
for use in Civil Defense and dis
aster relief crew training.
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Miss Frances Carr
sings next Thursday night in MSG
In MSC Presentation
Mezzo - Contralto
To Sing Thursday
A beachcombers theme will set the atmosphere for per
sons attending next Tuesday night’s dance in the Memorial
Student Center Ballroom, arid Frances Carr, mezzo-contralto
from Austin, will give a vocal recital of light and semi-classi-
cal music Thursday—two of the 4
top events scheduled for next week
on the MSC Summer Entertain
ment agenda.
There will be no “Afternoon of
Free Films” Sunday, July 3.
The dance, to be in the Ballroom
from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. Tuesday,
July 5, will have a special beach
combers theme. Music for the af
fair will be played by the Aggie-
land Combo.
Miss Carr, minister of music at
the University Baptist Church in
Austin, will bring a thorough musi
cal background as part of her
qualifications when she appears at
8 p.m. Thursday in the Main
Lounge.
She holds a master of music de
gree from Westminster Choir Col
lege in Princeton, N. J. While at
tending Westminster College, Miss
Carr sang with the famous West
minster Choir.
A popular artist in this area,
Miss Carr has also performed with
the University of Texas Symphony
Orchestra and the University of
Texas Opera Work Shop.
Included in the feminine artist’s
program Thursday night will he a
group of Spanish folk songs by
Manuel de Falla and two arias
from Carmen by Bizet.
There is no admission charge for
Miss Carr’s presentation.
Stations, Services
To Study Weather Forecast Improvement
Meteorology Gets New Grant
BY JOHNNY JOHNSON
Battalion Editor
Weather forecasting will become
a purely objective science if re
search being done by the Micro-
meteorological Section of the De
partment of Oceanography and
Meteorology and other groups
across the nation bears fruit.
The A&M group has just re
ceived a $99,478 contract from the
U. S. Army Signal Supply Agency
for continued study in the field
of objective meteorological fore
casting. For the past four years
the group has been doing reseai’ch
on the same problem under similar
contracts from the U. S. Army
agency.
Under Dr. Clayton
Under the direction of Dr.
William H. Clayton, the new proj
ect calls for the construction and
field testing of a special purpose
meteorological forecasting com
puter.
The field testing will start Aug.
15 at 10 station near the KRLD-
TV transmitting tower at Cedar
Hill, Tex. Before field testing can
begin, an automatic sampling sta
tion must be constructed to be
used in conjunction with a similar
machine already constructed, Clay
ton said.
A&M Group Most Active
Although this type of research
is being done by several groups in
the United States, the A&M group
is the most active and has the
most experience in the field, said
Clayton.
Already being used on a limited
basis by the armed foi’ces, the new
weather forecasting method will
eventually take the human chance
of error out of forecasting and
make it similar to the solving of
problems by the digital computers
in the Data Processing Center,
said Clayton.
‘. . . many formulas . . .’
“Before this objective is reached,
many formulas must be worked
out and proved which is what we
are attempting to do,” said Clay
ton.
At present Clayton and his
group are using a computer which
uses 46 equations at 12 levels,
which means it uses 552 formulas
and even more formulas must be
discovered, according to Clayton.
. . only way . . .’
“The only way we are going to
be able to make definite weather
forecasts that are accurate is to
Under Rudder
The A&M College System Board of Directors meeting
here Saturday approved several actions and recommenda
tions, awarded contracts and accepted funds from private
sources totaling $216,268.05.
The Board authorized that, effective July 1, the Texas
Agricultural Experiment Station, Texas Agricultural Ex
tension Service, Texas Engineering Experiment Station,
Texas Transportation Institute and Texas Engineering Ex
tension Service shall be under the supervision of President
Earl Rudder, reporting through him to the Chancellor of
the System.
Directors granted authority to negotiate an ROTC
^flight training contract to
Chancellor M. T. Harrington,
with the Texas Airmotive
Co., subject to receiving the
approval of the Air Force and
Army. The contract is for training
for the year beginning July 1, 1960,
and ending June 30, 1961.
Concession Rights
Authority was also granted for
the awarding of a contract for
concession rights on all football
games at Kyle Field, to the Texas
Concession Co., for the years 1960-
61 through 1964-65. Guaranteed
amounts for the concessions firm
for these years are: 1960-61,
$4,450; 1961-62, $6,550; 1962-63,
$4,450; 1963-64, $6,550; 1964-65,
$4,450 or 30 per cent of gross
income, which ever is higher.
Curriculum Shifted
Following a recommendation of
the Academic Council of the col
lege, authority was granted to
transfer the curriculum in land
scape architecture from the School
of Agriculture to the Division of
Architecture, effective Sept. 1.
For the A&M College, appropria
tions included $13,000 for stoi’m
sewers for the power plant, $4,000
for ' classroom seating in the
Petroleum Engineering building,
$58,000 for laboratory equipment
in petroleum engineering, $5,300
for underground electric lines,
$101,000 for drilling a water well,
$23,400 for an equipment storage
building for Agricultural Engineer
ing, $17,022 for construction of a
basic research laboratory in soil
mechanics and $4,350 for additions
to teaching salaries next year.
Grants Approved
Four grants from the Fund for
the Improvement of Teaching were
also approved by directors. The
grants were made as follows:
To James D. McCrady, assistant
professor in the Department of
Veterinary Physiology and Path
ology, $150, to assist him at
tending an eight weeks workshop
at the College of Medicine, Baylor
University, Houston, this summer.
To Henry Rakoff, associate pro
fessor in the Department of Chem
istry, $80, to assist him in defray
ing expenses in participating at
the Institute in the History of
Science, to be held at the Uni
versity of Tennessee, June 6 to
July 1.
To Frank C. Whitmore, assistant
professor in the Department of
Physics, $340, to assist him in
taking an eight months leave of
absence from June 1, 1960, to Feb.
1, 1961, for advanced study at the
Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
To Herbert A. Luther, professor
in the Department of Mathematics,
$300, to partially subsidize his at
tendance at a computer conference
to be held at the University of
Oklahoma, June 6 to June 30.
Funds Accepted
Of the total, $216,268.05 in funds
accepted, the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station received
$53,956.39, of which $46,420 was
for 23 grants-in-aid for agricul
tural research. Six gifts amount
ing to $3,336.39 and three loans
of equipment and livestock, valued
at $4,200, were also accepted for
the Station.
A&M received 10 grants sup
porting scholarships and fellow
ships, amounting to $15,136.66. The
college also received three grants-
(See BOARD on Page 4)
Plans Readied
For Interraeial
Bible School
Teachers and workers in the
interracial Bible school met for a
training session Wednesday morn
ing in the A&M Christian Church.
Miss Ethel Steen and Mrs. How
ard Morton will be co-superin
tendents of the school and Mrs.
Tom Shepherd will have charge of
curriculum.
Enrollment will be limited to
150 to prevent overcrowding in
the A&M Methodist Church, where
the Bible school will be held July
11-15, said Mrs. Morton.
The school will be sponsored for
the second consecutive year by the
Citizens Fellowship, a local or
ganization devoted to promoting
understanding and cooperation
among people of all races.
Last year’s school, which was
held in the First Baptist Church
of College Station, had an enroll
ment of more than 200 students,
said Mrs. Morton.
Theme for this year’s school will
be “My Father’s World.” Classes
will be provided for children in the
beginner, primary, junior, and in
termediate departments. High
school students will have an oppor
tunity to help with recreation and
other activities, and children of
teachers will be cared for in the
nursery, Mrs. Morton said.
Parents and prospective workers
may obtain enrollment forms at
local churches or by calling Mrs.
Morton at VI 6-5887 and Miss
Steen at VI 6-5182.
Contributions of materials and
refreshments are being made by
interested individuals and groups
in the Bryan-College Station area,
added Mrs. Morton.
perfect the method we are working
on,” said Clayton.
When the method is perfected,
anyone can feed data on weather
conditions into the machine and
it will do the forecasting, said
Clayton.
Last One Year
The current program will last
approximately one year and will
employ about eight men and the
Cedar Hill testing sites at various
time, Clayton said.
During the past four years some
of the work done on the project
has been on the campus. The
climatic tower erected during early
1959 on the civil engineering lab
grounds northeast of the System
Administration Building was part
of the study. The group also uses
the only mobile weather sampling
station in existence.