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librart fg 12 COPIES The Battalion Volume 59 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1960 Number 129 ■*1*1 11 mmm K ■ ^.• r > . : '■ m Miss Sharon Fleming of Pasadena High School, left, and Miss Kay Holcomb of Paris High School were named most beautiful girls at the second annual High School Pub lications Workshop held here last week by the Department of Journalism. Miss Hol comb was named most beautiful girl for the Workshop Beauty Winners yearbook section of the workshop and Miss Fleming was named most beautiful girl in the newspaper section. Baseball Coach Tom Chandler, Aggieland Studio’s Gene Sutphen and the A&M Photo Shop’s Bob Butler judged the contest. Beverly Braley’s fur nished fashions for the contest. Student Testing Old Game At A&M, Ransdell Says A&M was one of the first Bchools in the state to start col- 'ege testing programs for new •students, according to C. H. Rans- flell, associate director of the Ba sic Division. Aptitude examinations, using Brown University Tests, were be gun in the 1920’s, he said. The American Council on Edu cation Psychological Examination was administered to all students at the college as early as 1931. In 1942, the college established a student pex-sonnel office under the direction of George Wilcox, pro fessor of education. At that time, a full battery of tests was given Paul Woods Quits History Position Dr. Paul J. Woods, a member of the faculty since 1946 and active in Memorial Student Center activities, resigned his associate professorship in the Department of History and Government Monday to take a similar post at Texas Tech in Lubbock. A native of Champaign, 111., Woods joined the faculty of the Department of History and Gov ernment in 1946 after' his release from active duty with the U. S. Army. Woods was a round table chair man for Student Conference on National Affairs (SCONA) in 1958 and 1959. He was a member of the Memorial Student Center Council for two years and has been an adviser to the MSC Great Issues Committee for the past four years, In 1959-60 he was a member of the YMCA advisory board and was faculty adviser to the Maroon Band in 1959-60. He had also served as adviser to the A&M .Newman Club. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Illinois in 1938 and his M.A. in 1940 and his Ph.D. in 1941, both also from the Uni versity of Illinois. Woods is a member of the Am erican Historical Assn., the Amer ican Political Science Assn., the Southwestern Social Science Assn, and the A&M chapter of Phi Kap pa Phi. In 1958 and in 1960 Woods re ceived the MSC Distinguished Service Award and the Distin guished Teacher Award from the Arts and Sciences Council in 1955. Woods is a lieutenant colonel in the U. S. Army Reserve, 4250 Paul J. Woods . .. takes Tech post Corps Artillery Headquarters, and Sunday will begin teaching at the 4th Army Military Intelligence School at Ft. Sam Houston in San Antonio for two weeks. Woods is married and has two children, a boy 8 and a girl 13, and he and his family live at 718 Edgewood in Bryan. He is a member of the St. Mary’s Cath olic Church and his wife and chil dren are members of the A&M Methodist Church. He will assume his new duties as associate professor at Texas Tech Sept. 1. to all new, students. These tests included student aptitude for col lege, and achievements tests in mathematics, English, social stud ies and science. This arrangement, Ransdell said, was continued until 1950, when the college set up the Basic Divi sion. S. A. Kerley, associate profes sor and director of group work and counseling with the Basic Di vision, said the department has for a 10-year period administered a full battery of tests, including aptitude, achievement and interest, to all students. Results of these activities have been used as a basis for counseling guidance and placement of students in accord ance with their aptitude, interests and achievements. Tests in the Basic Division have comprised the College ability test and achievement tests in algebra, chemistry, English and reading. The college requires this bat tery of tests of all entering stu dents. The Basic Division will be dis continued with the 1960-61 school year. In its place will be the Counseling and Testing -Center, whose operations become effective Sept. 1. Kerley said the Basic Division used the results of tests, in con junction with high school records, to help each student toward place ment in first semester courses in line with his indicated ability and achievements. “These tests are not only to assist the student somewhat lack ing in certain academic areas but to help discover those students who indicate exceptionable ability and to assist them toward chal lenging academic opportunities and goals,” Kerley said. “The exceptional student is giv en the opportunity, either through college administered tests or Col lege Entrance Examination Board Tests of Advanced Standing, to demonstrate competency in cer tain freshman level courses and to receive college credit for these courses,” he added. A&M has developed a process of reporting by which tests can (See TESTING on Page 4) A&M Gives Budget Needs; Academy School Discussed “We’ll Run It,” President Says From the Associated Press AUSTIN—The Legislative Budget Board queried Chan cellor M. T. Harrington and President Earl Rudder on the proposed establishment of a branch of the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy at College Station and the Department of Oceanography and Meteorology branch at Galveston. Last week the board directed its staff to study a pro posal for a branch of the academy to be operated at A&M’s home camnus and at Galveston. Both Harrington and Rudder said it was a matter for the Legislature to decide. Rudder said A&M is “not carry the torch” for the marine industry, but he pointed out that the only marine schools now in existence are on the east and 1 ♦'west coasts, despite the grow- Science Fair Talk Planned Monday Night Lorenzo Lisonbee of Phoenix, Ariz., science consultant for Ariz ona Public Schools, will lecture on “Science Fairs and Superior Stu dents” here Monday night. Sponsored by the National Sci ence Foundation, his talk will be at 7:30 p.m. in Room 113 of the Biological Sciences Building. The public is invited to attend. Lisonbee^ has been instrumental in getting science fairs started in Arizona. At present, he is a member of the Committee of Biology Exam iners, National Conference on Se lected Problems of Secondary School Science, sponsored by the National Science Teachers Assn., College Entrance Examination Board. He has contributed to the 1960 Yearbook, National Society for the Study of Education, entitled “Re thinking Science Education.” He also is a consultant in secondary school science to the American Geological Institute and American Institute of Biological Sciences for the Secondary School Film Series. Lisonbee received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Arizona State University. He has taught three years ' in elementary school, 18 years in high school and one sum mer session in college. The educator has had numerous articles published. Some of them have appeared in Arizona High ways, The Science Teacher, The American Biology Teacher, School Review, The Clearing House and the NEA Journal. He also is co-author of a biology text, “Your Biology.” College Gets $25,000 Grant FromlLS. Array The college has been granted a $25,000 chemical research con tract by the U. S. Army Chemical Research and Development Labor atories. Dr. A. F. Isbell, associate pro fessor in the Department of Chem istry, said the purpose of the con tract is to work on the synthesis and the study of properties of or ganic compounds containing the element phosphorus. Isbell will supervise the project. He said a portion of the money also is available for one post-doc toral fellowship and two pre-doc- toral fellowships. He said this is the first time for A&M to receive a contract from this branch of the U. S. Army. The contract was handled through the A&M Research Foun dation. ing importance of the Gulf area in shipping circles. . . we’ll run it.” “If you give it to us, we’ll run it,” Rudder told the board. If A&M gets the branch, stu dents would take freshman work at A&M and would spend the re maining "three years at Galveston, where a wing of one of the build ings of the Department of Ocean ography and Meteorology facilities there would house the school and its cadets. Cadets would be required to take a training cruise each summer. State Senator-Elect A. B. Schwartz of Galveston and State Rep. Peter La Valle of Texas City appeared in behalf of the school. Admiral Appears Admiral Sherman B. Wetmore also appeared before the board. Adm. Wetmore said the project would provide education for 200 would-be Merchant Marine offi cers and the state cost would be $600 per cadet annually. He said the school could become the “maritime academy of the South” and pointed out that four schools on the East Coast and one on the West Coast are operating similar branches. The U. S. Mer chant Marine Academy, located at Kings Point, N. Y., is entirely de voted to such students. Schwartz said A&M is not op posed to the idea although the state’s college presidents have al ready agreed not to bring up any- (See ACADEMY on Page 3) : Dennis Julian . . . member of Co. E-l Collision Kills Houston Aggie Last Friday HOUSTON—Dennis Julian, 19- year old junior mechanical engi neering major at A&M, was killed Friday at 1:08 p. m. in a collision between a Sears, Roebuck & Co. van and a Rock Island Lines freight engine on West Little York Road. Julian, who lived at 1011 Clax- ton St. in Houston was a member of Cadet Company E-l, was thrown 132 feet from the Sears truck when the train hit it. He was working as a summer helper at Sears. Funeral services were held Mon day morning at the St. Andrew’s Methodist Church in Houston. Pall bearers included Jack Jennings, junior engineering major from Sherman; Bobby Gilpin, junior electrical engineering major from Fairfield; and Brad Dolbey, junior chemical engineering major from Houston; all members of Cadet Company E-l. Julian is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Julian; three sisters, Jean, Sandra and Judy; and one brother, Gordon, all of Houston; and his materal grand mother, Mrs. W. H. IJunstman of Lovelady, Tex. Next Thursday Night $17-Million Plea Made for 1962-63; By KENNETH TOWERY The Austin American Statesman Special to The Battalion AUSTIN—Is. the state of Texas perpetuating mediocrity in higher education while attempting to develop a few “out standing educational institutions? Vernon McGee, executive director of the powerful Legis lative Budget Board, posed the question Tuesday during budget hearings with officials of A&M. He was exploring a “new approach” to the biennial problem of confronting the legislature with the never-ending increase in the cost of education. A&M asked the legislature Tuesday, through the legis lature’s budget board, for $17,905,760 to operate the college during 1962 and 1963. This would include $13,802.877 from the state’s General Rev enue Fund. It compares with an operating appropriation of $13,624,203 for the current bien nium, including $9,600,523 from General Revenue. Within the overall budget there is a request for enough money to provide an average salary increase at A&M of five per cent for fac ulty members. But not all mem bers of the faculty will receive the salary boost. The money would be used to provide selective merit raises for outstanding teachers. It .was at this point that McGee posed his question. Was there not a better way to approach the sub ject of merit raises for faculty members, he asked, than to ask the legislature for enough money to provide an “average” increase. The net effect of this approach, McGee reasoned, is. to insure matching budgetary requests from other schools. Thus if a five or ten per cent increase is granted the University of Texas, or A&M, the legislature is apt to grant a similar increase to all other col leges and universities in the state. With the state’s colleges and universities now numbering 19, and with more institutions knocking on the door for state support, the tax dollar is in danger of being spread so thin that the proposition of “quality education” in Texas may die aborning. “I’m afraid I see the same thing happening in education that has (See BUDGET on Page 4) Auctioneers To Meet Here Over Weekend The fourth annual Livestock Op erators Short Course, the only one of its kind in the nation, will be held here Saturday and Sunday in the Memorial Student Center. The central theme of the meet ing will be “Modern Livestock Auction Market Management and Facilities,” according to Lloyd Bergsma, livestock marketing spe cialist with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service and program chairman. Talks get under way at 1:30 p.m. the first day following a di rector’s meeting of the Texas Live stock Auction Assn. A&M speakers include Dr. R. E. Patterson, dean of the School of Agriculture; Dr. John McNeely and Dr. Jarvis Miller, professor and associate professor, respect ively, Department of. Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology; Dr. Jarrell Gray, professor, De partment of Agricultural Educa tion; Dr. W. N. Williamson, assist ant director of the Texas Agricul tural Extension Service, and Dr. O. D. Butler, head of the Depart ment of Animal Husbandry. Explorer’s Films, Talk Set in MSC An explorer-adventurer and ex pert photographer whose expedi tions have taken him from ex ploding volcanoes to the top of the Alps, Neil Douglas, will con clude the Memorial Student Cen ter’s Special Summer Entertain ment program next Thursday, at 8 p. m. in the MSC Ballroom. A dance on the terrace with music by the Aggieland Combo Monday night and another “After noon of Free Films” Sunday are other features of the week’s pro gram of MSC Summer Entertain ment. Douglas will present a film lect ure, “Russia, The New Face”, a full-length unrestricted color mo tion picture on Soviet life. A former All-American football player at Lafayette College and the producer and narrator of the film, Douglas is also a noted writer and glacialist. He is a contributor to the Encyclopedia Americana and is listed in “The Who’s Who of Science”. To get his pictures of “Russia, The New Face”, Douglas reports he had to refuse films offered three times by Khrushchev. He fought to get every phase of “Life in the Soviet Union” in this picture though Russian police tried to pre vent his doing so. The color film shows such famous landmarks as the Kremlin and Red Square, St. Basil’s Cathedral with its candy-striped towers, and Mos cow University. The everyday lives of the Soviet people—their work and their recreation—are depicted in shots of factories, cooperative farms, markets, resorts, schools, 30 movie theaters, fashion and vaude ville shows with American Jazz, circuses and ballet productions. Douglas will present the film with personal narration and will answer questions from the audience after the showing of the film. A “Backwards” theme will set the atmosphere for persons attend ing Monday night’s dance on the terrace, beginning at 8:30 p. m. Music will be played by the Aggie land Combo and special entertain ment will feature John Williams and his organ. “Enter With Caution: The Atom ic Age,” an hour-long documentary film from “The Twentieth Cen tury” heads the list of films to be shown Sunday at 2 p. m. in the Ballroom. Mr. Magoo will star in a cartoon, “Pink and Blue Blues”, and a condensed version of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” will be shown to complete the after noon’s showing. i- • w : :: 1 Explorer Neil Douglas ... presents film on Russia