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College Station, Texas
Thursday, April 6, 1961 J^E BATTALION
Advanced Drilling Course
To Continue Thru April 14
The Department of Petroleum
Engineering is holding the fourth
session of its Advanced Drilling
Short Course through April 14.
The session is being held in the
new W. T. Doherty Petroleum En
gineering Building at the college.
An industry class room has been
specially prepared for the course.
Classes are starting at 8 a. m.
daily.
John R. Pedigo, associate pro
fessor in the Petroleum Engineer
ing Department, said the course
is consisting of eight-hour day
lectures, five days a week.
He said lectures are being pre
sented by faculty members of the
Department of Petroleum Engi
neering. Lectures are being sup
plemented by talks presented by
outstanding men of the oil indus
try, most of whom have appeared
at previous sessions of the course.
“The industry speakers selected
to present particular subjects ap
pearing in the course curricula
have been chosen because of their
recognized ability and knowledge
in specific areas of interest to the
drilling engineer,” Pedigo said.
The fourth session had a pre-‘
enrollment of 18 men representing
major oil companies, drilling con
tractors and supply firms. Most
of the enrollment is made up of
personnel from United States op
erating companies, with the ex
ception of two men from abroad.
Pedigo said engineers attend
ing the school have had at least
three years of field experience.
The first week’s courses are con
sisting of a review of rocks and
rock properties, circulation fluids
in the bore hole, a study of drill
ing strings, rotary drilling bits
and study of maintenance of the
desired direction of the drillede
bore hole.
. The last subject, Pedigo said,
will be divided into two parts—
specifically crooked hole problems
and controlled directional drilling.
Roller Bit Co., Houston; H. G.
On the evening of the first day
of the course, a coffee was held
for members of the attending stu
dents and Department of Petrol
eum Engineering members.
The course offered by the De
partment of Petroleum Engineer
ing is co-sponsored by the Ameri
can Association of Oil Well Drill
ing Contractors. Some of the in
structors in the school are national
officers in the organization.
A list of student registrants is
as follows:
B. E. Busking, Asiatic Petrol
eum Co., Houston; E. J. Coel,
Schoel Schuleman and Carl Math
ews, El Paso Natural Gas Co.; C.
V. Clarkson, United Fuel Gas Co.,
Charleston, W. Va.; Edgar W.
Guynn, Delhi Taylor Oil Co.; Alice;
Dr. C. A. Rambow, California Re
search Corp., La Habra, Calif.; E.
D. Oppenheimer, American Ma
chine and Foundry Co., Spring-
dale, Conn.; James E. Dunnegan
and Sterling Randolph, Tennessee
Gas and Oil Co., Houston; Lumi-
adji Purhondiningrat, American
Overseas, Indonesia.
Others are J. S. Dier, Mobil Oil
of Canada, Calgary, Canada; Ed-
mundo M. Ojeda, Creole Petrol
eum Corp., Tia Juana, Venezuela;
H. F. Hill Jr., Reed Roller Bit,
Wichita Falls; George L. Temple,
Reading and Bates, Houston; Le-
iand E. Wilson, Atlantic Refining
Co., Lafayette, La.; H. D. Web
ster, Chiles Drilling Co., Alice.
Department of Petroleum Engi
neering instructors in the course
are R. L. Whiting, department
head; Pedigo; Dan M. Bass, associ
ate professor and James W. Amyx,
professor.
Others . . .
Other course instructors are
Ames Smith, drilling engineer,
Humble Oil and Refining Co.,
Houston; R. W. Ruhe Jr. and Ken
neth A. Pfleger, staff service en
gineers, Magnet Cove Barium
Corp., Houston; W. M. Koch, di
rector of research, and John Grom-
ley, staff research engineer, Reed
Rollere Bit Co., Houston; H. G.
Bentson, chief sales engineer,
Smith Tool Co., Compton, Calif.;
H. M. Rollins, operations manager,
Drilco Oil Tools, Inc., Midland;
Frank Singletary, assistant direc
tor of directional drilling and well
survey, Houston Oil Field Material
Co., Inc., Houston.
High School
Engineers
To Meet Here
The Southwest Regional confer
ence of the Junior Engineering
Technical Society, (JETS), will be
held here April 15.
JETS, a national organization,
is a pattern for high school extra
curricula clubs to stimulate in
terest among junior and senior
high school youth in engineering
and science careers. State head
quarters are maintained in many
states. The A&M School of Engi
neering is state headquarters for
Texas.
Fred J. Benson, Dean of Engi
neering, will give the address of
welcome at 9 a.m., followed by
talks by Donald Patton, College
Station, president, Student Engi
neers Council and present recipient
of the Gramercy JETS scholar
ship at A&M.
A report from national head
quarters by Richard T. Fallon, ex
ecutive director, will follow. J. G.
McGuire, Assistant Dean of Engi
neering and chairman of the state
JETS committee, will report on
state headquarters.
At 10:30 a.m., the attendants
will be taken on a tour of college
facilities.
Group discussions will be held in
the afternoon and the conference
roundup will get under way at 3
p. m. Dr. John C. Calhoun Jr.,
vice chancellor for development of
the A&M College System, will pre
sent awards including two scholar
ships and awards for outstanding
exhibits.
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AUSTIN — With a Republican
and a man who joined the Re
publicans twice in post crucial
elections facing each other in the
•U. S. Senate run-off, many Texas
Democrats face a supreme test of
party loyalty.
Tuesday’s special election, cha-
otis because of the huge field and
the unique conflicts among the
“big six,” almost defies sensible
analysis. But it indicates some
interesting possibilities, such as:
Will the remaining hard core of
brass-collar labor-liberal Demo
crats now join with William A.
Blakley to block the election of
Republican-in-fact as well as Re-
publican-in-name John Tower to
the Senate? How will the Negro
and Latin American vote go now
Where will the middle-of-the-
road conservative Democrats go
after their repeated warnings of
“disaster” should the run-off turn
out to be a race between Blakley
and Tower?
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they face a choice such as the one
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current labels will, as usual, be
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next on who will represent them
in the U. S. Senate.
There is considerable basis for
the feeling of many conservatives
that no matter who wins the run
off, the Senate balance between
a liberal representing one seg
ment of Texas politics, and a con
servative representing another,
will be preserved.
The special election with its un
restrained record-breaking num
ber of candidates raised many a
question about qualifications stand
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Meatier Hog Forecast
For Future Swine Industry
The swine industry can look for
ward to a meatier hog in the fu
ture, produced in fewer but larger
units and marketed at lighter
weights.
Dr. J. C. Hillier, professor in
charge of swine at Oklahoma State
University and one of the main
speakers at the 10th annual Swine
Short Course which ended Tues
day, told hog farmers attending
the sesison that most of the im
provement in meatiness will come
through breeding, possibly with
some assistance through reduced
energy intake during the latter
part of the finishing period.
“The nutritional requirements of
swine of various ages will be
known more exactly, thus giving
greater possibilities for the effi
cient utilization of feeds,” the ani
mal scientist said.
A finished weight of 200 to 225
pounds is a good market weight
for a finished hog, he said. Foun
dation breeders should shoot for
180 to 190 pounds in 130 to 140
days, a backfat thickness of .5 to
.6 inches, a loin area of six square
inches and a lean cut yield of 45
to 47 per cent of live weight.
Current changes taking place,
according to Hillier, are rations
tailored to specific stages of
growth, better housing which re
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and the fact that producers are
now raising slaughter animals on
about 300 pounds of feed compared
to the former 35 pounds.
Hillier called for more mechan
ization in hog production methods.
He described present systems as
still largely “in the one-mile-and
Georgia-stock stage.”
A special feature of the pro
gram was the honoring of Otto P.
Seeman for 31 years of service
with the Department of Animal
Husbandry.
Seeman, who recently retired,
was presented a certificate of ap
preciation by Dr. R. D. Lewis, di
rector of the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station, and a watch
by Fred Hale, professor in charge
of swine at A&M.
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