U. S. Has Three
tear Thrust Lag
Bv The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—How far he
ld is the United States behind
e Soviet Union in terms of
tket thrust? Dr. Wernher vor f
Bun has estimated the lag at
ree years.
Here is the reply of Dr. Hugh
Dryden, deputy administrator
the National Aeronautics and
ace Administration: “We don’t
ow how far we are behind. I
\ 11 tell you why: the Russians
ive shown us one basic rocket
about 800,000 pounds of thrust,
is is their ICBM booster. They
ye used this throughout their
ace program.
i "Until they show us the magni-
j le of the next step and when,
is very difficult to get any fix
. iwhat their rate is. This is our
(Mem.
' “If they do not come out be-
: ue early 1963 or 1964, then we
1 surpass them. Immediately
id months later they might leap-
s» us. We do not have any ae
rate information on what the
it step will be that they are
i ling and when they will bring
FIRST
it out. We assume they are work
ing on a bigger booster.”
Dryden gave this estimate Mav
15 before a House appropriation:
subcommittee; his testimony was
released Wednesday.
Dan Davis Leaves
Monday for Tour
Of South America
Dan R. Davis, associate profes
sor in the Texas A&M Department
of Agricultural Economics and So
ciology, will leave June 5 on a
three-month study tour of Guate
mala, Costa Rica, Brazil, Paraguay
and Peru.
The project is under the direc
tion of the Office of Foreign Pro
grams at A&M, and the Ford
Foundation.
Davis will contact a variety of
agency employees in each country
to obtain information for orien
tation and in-service training of
A&M teacher-researchers who
serve in Inter-University Contract
Programs abroad.
Davis also will gather material
for enrichment of a sociology
course in cultural anthropology.
Last summer, he made a similar
study of problems encountered by
American families adjusting to
the cultures of India, Pakistan,
Ceylon and the Philippines.
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Wegenhoft, (left) Ilektorik
. . . faculty achievement award winners
THE
Thursday, June 1, 1961
BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Page 5
Summer Cotton School Starts Monday
More than 30 persons have en
rolled in the 52nd annual Summer
Cotton School sponsored by the
Department of Agricultural Eco
nomics and Sociology at Texas
A&M.
Several cotton producers, gin-
ners and other persons in the
cotton trade who will participate
are from Latin American coun
tries.
Conducted by Prof. J. M. Ward
the course is scheduled for June
5-14.
Cotton industry representatives
also will be attending from Texas,
California, Georgia, and Louisiana.
THANKS
TO EVERYONE WHO HAS HAD A •
PART IN MAKING THIS ONE OF THE 1
BEST YEARS EVER IN AGGIELAND. 1
THE GRADES, THE SPIRIT, THE CO- 1
OPERATION HAVE BEEN THE BEST 1
EVER.
Wegenhoft, Rektorik Receive
Faculty Achievement Awards
Robert James Rektorik of Robs-
town and Travis Lane Wegenhoft
of Columbus have been named
winners of the annual Faculty
Achievement Awards at Texas
A&M.
Rektorik has just been graduat
ed with a bachelor of science de
gree in agricultural engineering
and was selected for the honor
because of his outstanding ac
complishments in the School of
Agriculture.
sergeant in the Cadet Corps, mem
ber of the Newman, Club, member
of the student branch of the Amer
ican Society of Agricultural Engi
neers, and he was elected to Phi
Kappa Phi and Tau Beta Pi hon
orary societies.
Wegenhoft
Wegenhoft was also selected for
his outstanding accomplishments
in the School of Agriculture and
while in college, he majored in
agricultural education.
Corps, president of the Collegiate
Future Farmers of America Chap
ter, treasurer of Alpha Zeta, staff
member of the Agriculturist mag
azine, member of Phi Kappa Phi
and vice chairman of the Student
Agricultural Council.
Both of these students’ names
will be inscribed, along with win
ners in previous years, on a large
bronze plaque hanging in the
Dairy Science and Biochemistry
Building.
AND WE HAVE HAD THE PLEASURE
TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE BEST
MEN ANYWHERE.
THE TEXAS AGGIES
•l
Rektorik
Past awards won by Rektorik
include a $500 Ralston Purina
Scholarship, Distinguished Stu
dent for four semesters, and a
$75 prize from the Texas Concrete
Masonry Assn, for an outstand
ing design of agriculture' struc
ture in concrete masonry.
While in college, his extracur
ricular activities have been first
Previously he received the Sears
Foundation tour of Mexico, a Dan-
forth Summer Fellowship, Sons of
American Revolution Award, and
was named a Distinguished Mili
tary Student.
Wegenhoft’s extracurricular ac
tivities included vice presidency of
the Student Senate, member of
the Memorial Student Center
Council, Lt. Col. in the Cadet
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