The Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1961
Number 126
William Russell
Awarded Geology
Grant for 1961-62
Problems
The mailman has been unusually busy at Texas A&M de
livering - more than 1200 letters of nomination to the Cen
tury. Council. The college’s board of directors selected
100 from the list at the board’s regular meeting in Austin
July 11. Seated at the desk and looking over some of the
nominations is Robert L. Hunt, Jr., Century Study director,
and standing is Dr. Wayne C. Hall, dean of graduate studies
and general chairman of the group which will conduct an
extensive self-study of the College and its programs.
A&M Receives
$100,000 Grant
The Board of Foreign Scholar
ships, U. S. Department of State,
has announced the awarding of a
grant to Prof. William L. Russell,
professor of geology at Texas
A&M.
The grant provides for Profes
sor Russell to lecture during the
1961-62 school year in petroleum
geology at Cairo University,
Egypt.
“This is one of more than 500
grants given under the terms of
the Fulbright Act for lecturing and
advanced research abroad during
the academic year 1961-62,” Dr. J.
M. Nance, head of the College’s
Department of History and Gov
ernment, and campus Fulbright
advisor, said today.
This award comes in “recogni
tion of the leadership and out
standing research that Professor
Russell has shown in the field of
petroleum geology,” Nance says.
Born in New Haven, Conn., Pro
fessor Russell received his BA
(1920), MS (1922), and Ph.D.
(1927) in petroleum and structural
geology from Yale University. He
Dr. John Graff
To Assume Duties
AsInstructionDean
Dr. John Graff Jr. has been
named the dean of instruction at
Texas A&M and will assume his
duties on Aug. 1.
Graff was the former chairman
of the Department of Mechanical
Engineering at Southern Method
ist University where he had
worked since 1956.
Graff holds B.S. and M.S. de
grees from A&M in mechanical en
gineering and a Ph.D. in mechani
cal engineering from Purdue. He
has also attended Oak Ridge School
of Reactor Technology.
He has taught engineering at
A&M, Purdue, and at SMU where
he became head of the department.
He also had five years of indus
trial experience including work at
Convair and has published numer
ous articles in his related field.
Graff is a member of Sigma Tau,
Pi Tau Sigma and Sigma Chi,
American Men of Science and
served as a navigator and radar
operator in the U. S. Air Force.
A relatively new virus disease
of pecan trees, if it keeps spread
ing, may become a limiting factor
in a major portion of the South’s
Pecan production areas.
Known as “bunch disease” be
cause of the way it causes leaves
to bunch together, the ailment was
discussed at the 40th annual Texas
Pecan Growers Association meet
ing July 11-12 at Texas A&M.
John R. Cole, pathologist at the
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Pecan Laboratory, Albany, Ga.,
said the disease is now serious in
Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Ar
kansas and Mississippi. All pecan
v arieties appear to be susceptible.
The pathologist, who first de
scribed the condition in 1937, said
disease starts by attacking the
leaves and then current growth of
*ood. It gradually works its way
into the heavier w T ood and even-
hially kills the tree.
There is no knowm control, <^ole
said. Insects are suspected as the
'"inis carriers. The only treatment
So far is to remove affected limbs,
on destroy the whole tree.
The speaker also said the best
control for pecan tree scab is do-
dine (Cyprex) applied as a spray
at the rate of a half-pound to 100
gallons of water in three applica
tions during the middle of the sea
son. Dodine is not toxic to any
variety except Moore and Van
Eeman.
If scab is found on new foliage
or nuts, increase the strength of
the spray to 1 pound to 100 gal-
has worked with numerous govern-,
mental and private concerns as a
geologist, ranging from field work
with the U. S. Geological Survey in
New Mexico in 1920; a study of oil
fields for the New York State Geo
logical Survey, 1921-23; structure
and mapping subsurface studies in
eastern and western Kentucky,
eastern Ohio, western Kansas, Ten
nessee, Michigan, South Africa
and Oklahoma, to prospecting for
uranium for the atomic bomb for
the Canadian government in north
ern Canada in the summer of 1944.
His first full-time teaching was
at the University of South Dakota
as an assistant professor in 1924-
25. In 1947 Professor Russell
joined the staff of the Geology and
Geophysics Department of Texas
A&M, as an associate professor,
rising to the rank of professor in
1951. He also serves as research
geologist of the Texas Engineering-
Experiment Station.
Professor Russell has published
more than 40 articles in profes
sional journals in his field and two
books, Principles of Petroleum
Geology (1951) and Structural
Geology for Petroleum Geologists
(1955), both by McGraw-Hill Book
Company.
Summer Cruises
To Conduct
Sesimic Studies
Cruise 61-H-12 departed from
Galveston on July 12, the Depart
ment of Oceanography and Me
teorology, Texas A&M, announced.
Chief scientist will be John An-
toine* *.
The objective will be to conduct
a series of seismic refraction sta
tions along three separate lines
from the central to the northern
Gulf involving the Hidalgo, the
Department’s vessel, that left from
Galveston Bay on July 12 and the
Taurie, a vessel leased for the pe
riod of this cruise, that left from
New Orleans July 10.
Other scientific personnel on the
cruise will be Oscar Chancey,
Frank O'Hara, Dan Kelly, Worth
Nowlin, Ed Vos, Hal Delaplane,
Moe Waters, Louis Andrus, Edwin
Kelly and Billy Vannatta.
Ions of water, he recommended.
Dodine also will control brown leaf
spot, leaf blotch and downy spot.
When Moore and Van Deman va
rieties are scab-infested, Cole said
control can be obtained with six
applications of zineb at 2 pounds
to 100 gallons of water, plus 1
quart of summer oil emulsion.
The pecan growers honored L.
D. Romberg of Brownwood, USDA
associate horticulturist “for his de
voted service to the pecan industry
and the development of new and
promising pecan varieties.” He
has been with the USDA for 30
years.
Romberg, vice president of the
TPGA, was presented a plaque in
behalf of the association by Fred
Brison, head of the A&M Depart
ment of Horticulture.
W. S. Price Jr. of Kerens told
the group that the widespread
building of dams strictly for water
conservation is posing a serious
threat to the Texas pecan business
by flooding rich bottomlands where
trees do their best.
Citing the Columbus dam proj
ect on the Colorado River, he said
the dam, if built, would cause wa
ter to cover about 8,000 acres of
actual pecan land. Around the
lake would be another 5,000 acres
which would be unfit for pecans
because of soil waterlogging. Still
another 3,000 acres, which could
be planted to pecans, would be af
fected one way or another by the
lake.
The total is approximately 16,-
Texas A&M has been granted
$100,000 by the National Science
Foundation to be used in the con
struction of doctoral and post doc
toral level laboratories in the
school’s new Plant Sciences Build
ing, College President Earl Rudder
has announced.
Dr. Wayne Hall, dean of gi-ad-
uate studies, said the laboratories
will be used for basic research in
the plant sciences.
A&M had previously received
from the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare a $45,000
grant to supplement the fixed
equipment and construction costs
of plant pathology and physiology
research laboratories.
Total cost of the new Plant
Sciences Building, now under con
struction, is about $2.3 million.
Departments . in the botanical
sciences category receiving the
$100,000 grant are botany (a divi
sion of the Biology Department)
Horticulture, Plant Physiology and
Pathology and Range and For
estry..
Dr. Hall said the funds will be
used to aid in the construction of
000 acres, Price said. In 1959,
this area sold 1,250,000 pounds of
pecans worth about $480,000.
Increased pecan production is
needed to establish a more stable
market, C. L. Smith, physiologist
at the U. S. Pecan Field Station,
Shreveport, La., said.
The scientist called for a 28 per
cent increase in production within
the next 15 years and a 105 per
cent boost within the next 50 years.
High production, so far, has come
mostly from increased acreage,
when the actual need is to raise
yield per tree and per acre.
Smith said output per tree per
year in Texas is a little less than
20 pounds.
“Producers should give their
trees the same intensive care they
give to other important cash
crops,” he said.
In other conference activities,
plaques were handed out to win
ners of the 1960 Texas State Pecan
Show. Miss Donna Pugh of East-
land was crowned State Pecan
Queen for 1961.
A&M speakers included Dr. G.
M. Watkins, director of agricul
tural instruction; Dr. Benton Sto
rey, Horticulture Department and
TPGA secretary-treasurer; Bluef-
foi-d Hancock, Extension Service
horticulturist; and D. R. King,
Entomology Department.
The conference was addressed
by J. M. Doerfler of Seguin, TPGA
president. H. C. Pape, also of
Seguin, conducted a memorial
service.
the following facilities for the
four departments:
Botany: Laboratories for re
search in morphology, microtech
nique, cytology, nematology and
mycology, post doctoral research
laboratories, and a supply and
preparation I’oom.
Horticulture: Environmental lab
oratories, graduate research labor
atory, and research preparation
room.
Plant Physiology and Pathology:
Infrared laboratory, physiology
and pathology environmental lab
oratories, nematology research, ra
diochemical research, regulator
and herbicide laboratory and
growth room, mineral nutrition re
search laboratory, cotton pathol
ogy research laboratory, cotton
physiology laboratory, graduate
physiology laboratory, and media
preparation room, and graduate
pathology research laboratory.
Range and Forestry: Environ
mental laboratories; taxonomy,
microtechnique and herbarium lab
oratories; soils research labora
tory, and ecology research lab
oratory.
Peace Corps Talks
To Be Held Friday
In Student Center
The new much discussed Peace
Corps will be explained in detail
at an open student meeting in the
Social Room of the Memorial Stu
dent Center, Friday, July 14 at 2
p.m. Ed Ginsburg from the Peace
Corps Office in Washington will
explain the Corps and answer ques
tions raised by the students.
All students and faculty mem
bers who think they might be re
motely interested are invited to
attend. A limited number of pri
vate conferences with Mr. Gins
burg can be arranged after the
2 p.m. Conference. Since all final
examinations will be over by 2
p.m., all local as well as many
interested non-local students as
possible are urged to attend.
President Earl Rudder has asked
Daniel Russell, Professor of Rural
Sociology, to be contact person for
the Peace Corps on the campus,
and Dr. Jack Gray contact man for
the A&M College System. W. R.
Hoi-sley of the Placement Office
will have information leaflets and
application blanks for Peace Corps
jobs.
Although Peace Corps jobs are
meant largely for college grad
uates, non-college graduates with
special needed skills and ability to
teach their skills to others are
invited to apply. Among the skills
needed are: auto mechanics, mech
anized farm equipment operation
and repair, dairy or dairy plant
operation, poultry or poultry plant
operation, lab technician, construc
tion skill of any kind and many
others.
‘Bunch Disease’ Discussed
At Annual Pecan Meeting
Board Names 100
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To Century Council
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Members Selected
From 1200 Applicants
The Texas A&M System board of directors at its July
11 meeting in Austin selected 100 men and women from more
than 1200 nominations to serve on the College’s Century
Council.
The board considered each nominee individually. It made
every effort to see that all geographic areas of the state are
represented, as well as a good cross section of the various
vocations such as business, agriculture, science, education and
the legal and medical professions, etc.
Robert L. Hunt Jr., director of the Century Study, this
week said the caliber of the nominees was unusually high.
“The board had a difficult task in selecting only 100 from
this group,” Hunt said. Re- +
sponse to nominations has
been good, he explained, with
an average of 20 a day being
received during a 2-month
period.
Wide Acceptance
Dr. Chang Added
To Experiment
Station Staff
“This large number, to me, in
dicates a wide acceptance by Tex
ans of the idea that careful plan
ning for higher education will help
to meet the critical challenges Tex
ans will face during the next 15
years,” Hunt said.
The Century Council will spear
head an extensive search of the
century to determine (1) what
kind of citizen shall the College
aspire to graduate during the next
15 years, (2) what shall be the
mission of the College and its
components in tomorrow’s world,
(3) to what levels of academic ex
cellence, scholarship and profes
sional preparation shall the faculty
and staff aspire and (4) what shall
be the scope and size of the Col
lege by its 100th anniversary in
1976?
Those selected to serve on the
Century Council will be named
Aug. 1, with the first executive
meeting of the Council to be held
in early September, followed by a
general meeting Sept. 20-21.
Concurrently with the Century
Council study effort will be an
internal evaluation of the College
and its programs under the gen
eral guidance of Dr. Wayne C.
Hall, dean of graduate studies.
Work of the two groups will be
completed by September 1962, and
presented to the board of directors
in the form of recommendations
which the board can use to blue
print the progress of the College.
The addition of Dr. Tsueng-
Hsing Chang to the staff of the
Radiation Biology Laboratory of
the Texas Engineering Experiment
Station has been announced by Dr.
Sidney O. Brown, head of the lab
oratory.
As assistant radiobiologist, Dr.
Chang will be responsible for eval
uation of radiation damage on the
cytology and genetics of the lab
oratory rat and mouse. He will
assume some responsibility, also,
in the program of training gradu
ate students in radiation biological
research.
A native of Taiwan, China, Dr.
Chang received his B.S. degree
from National Taiwan University
at Taipei in 1955. He received the
M.S. degree from the University
of Arkansas in 1958, majoring in
zoology, and his Doctor of Philoso
phy degree from the University of
Texas in 1960.
He was a teaching assistant in
zoology at National Taiwan Uni
versity from 1955 until he left for
the United States in June, 1956.
He was a research assistant in the
Zoology Department of the Uni
versity of Arkansas and later a
research scientist for the Genetics
Foundation of the University of
Texas. Prior to coming to Texas
A&M, he was a Postdoctoral Re
search Fellow in Biology at the
University of Texas M.D. Ander
son Hospital, Houston.
Dr. Chang’s father, a physician,
resides in Formosa.
89 High School
Grads Awarded
Scholarships
Eighty-nine high school grad
uates have been named winners of
four-year Opportunity Award
Scholarships at Texas A&M, it was
announced today by Dr. G. # M.
Watkins, director of agricultural
instruction at the College. Dr.
Watkins is chairman of the Fac
ulty Committee on Scholarships.
An additional 17 students have
been listed to receive other schol
arships.
Winners of the Opportunity
Awards were chosen by the Fac
ulty Committee on Scholarships of
the College following statewide
competitive examinations given to
more than 600 candidates on Apr.
29 and May ’6.
Opportunity Awards are valued
at from $800 to $1,200, recipients
receiving $200 to $300 a year for
four years plus part-time employ
ment provided by the College.
Winners are chosen after consid
eration of each candidate’s schol
astic record, character, evidence of
leadership in high school and fi
nancial circumstances.
The plan was started at Texas
A&M 15 years ago and is support
ed by The Association of Former
Students of the College, clubs,
business corporations, founda
tions and individuals.
Turn-in Those
Mattress Covers!;
Before You Leave
.. ....
Any student who will not regis
ter for a dormitory room the s4if-
ond six w.eeks of summer schqol
including graduating seniors must
turn in his mattress cover before
the end of the first, summer tefih.
Covers will be turned in to the
B & CU warehouse at once. Turp
in should be completed by July . 14.
Students failing to turn in covers
will be charged for same.
“Can-Can”
This is one of many entertaining scenes regular summer entertainment program,
from the Broadway Musical “Can-Can” pre- This particular portion of the show was
sented earlier this yveek as a p ar t 0 f the known as the “Apache Dance”.