The Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1961
Number 127
Pecan Association Officers Named
New officers for the Texas Pecan Growers
Association are left to right, T. H. Stewart
of Granbury, president; Dr. Benton Storey,
assistant professor of horticulture at Texas
A&M, secretary-treasurer; and J. M. Doer-
fler of Seguin, vice president. Doerfler is
immediate past president. The officers
were elected at the association’s 40th an
nual meeting July 11-12 at A&M College.
Digital Computer Lecture
To Be Presented Tomorrow
The Data Processing 1 Center,
Texas A&M, will present a series
of lectures on applications of digi
tal computers in conjunction with
the National Science Foundation’s
Seminar on Computer Program
ming for College Instructors. The
first program will be held July 21.
“These lectures will describe a
few of the problems and their so
lutions, as well as continuing meth
ods of attack with which the Col
lege staff has been concerned in
the past year,” Prof. B. C. Moore
of the Engineering Experiment
Station in charge of the NSF sem
inar on computer programs, has
announced.
The talks will be semi-technical
in subject matter, the emphasis
being on the statement of the prob
lem, special techniques used and
the answers and results that we
obtained.
Interested members of the staff,
student body, and the public are
invited to attend these lectures
which are scheduled for room 211
of the W. T. Doherty Petroleum
Engineering Building at 2 p.m.
each Friday, except for the last
lecture which will be Thursday,
August 24. The complete schedule
follows:
Friday, July 21, 2 p.m.: “Mis
cellaneous Statistical Problems and
Their Solution,” Dr. John D. Wil
liams, assistant research statisti
cian, Data Processing Center.
Friday, July 28, 2 p.m.: “Some
Problems in Traffic Simulation,”
D. E. Cleveland, assistant research
engineer, Texas Transpoi’tation In
stitute.
Friday, August 4, 2 p.m.: “Lin
ear Programming Applied to Ag
ricultural Economics,” Dr. K. R.
Tefertiller, assistant professor, De
partment of Agricultural Econom
ics.
Friday, August 11, 2 p.m.: “Pro
grams for the Solution of Queing
Problems,” S. A. Sims, associate
research mathematician, Data
Processing Center.
Friday, August 18, 2 p.m.:; “Ra
diation Coverage in Cancer Thera
py,” Robert L. Smith Jr., head,
Data Processing Center.
Thursday, August 24, 2 p.m.:
“Random Walks and the Homing
Instinct in Mice,” Dr. John S. How
ell, Biology Department, Austin
College, Sherman. (Dr. Howell is
a participant in the 1961 Seminar
on Computer Programming.)
Dairy Science Staff
Attends Annual
Meeting in Wise.
Texas A&M College Dairy
Science Department personnel at
tending the American Dairy
Science Association’s recent annual
meeting at Madison, Wise., were
Dr. R. E. Leighton, Dr. I. I. Peters
and.Dr. M. A. Brown.
Dr. Leighton presented a paper
entitled “The Effect of Stage of
Maturity, Wilting and a Preserva
tive On Losses in the Silo.”
Dr. Brown’s paper concerned
“Some Factors Affecting Milkfat
and Protein Levels in Milk from
Dairy Herds in Central Texas.”
350 HS Delegates
Assemble At A&M
CS To Launch
Aspirations
A faculty-staff conference on
aspirations will officially launch
Texas A&M’s Century Study July
25.
Keynote speakers for the event
will be three internationally known
educators, Dr. Eric A. Walker,
president of Pennsylvania State
University, Dr. Daniel G\ Aldrich,
dean of agriculture-statewide of
the University of California and
Dr. Paul A. Miller, provost of
Michigan State University.
The one-day conference is open
to all members of the Texas A&M
faculty and staff. Representatives
of other colleges and universities
in Texas have been invited as spe
cial guests.
The three speakers, scheduled
for the morning session, will dis
cuss the needs and values which
can be realized from institutional
self-evaluation.
Each of the speakers is recog
nized as a man of exceptional vi
sion in higher education, and each
has been intimately associated with
a recent self-study on his campus.
The schedule for the morning
session beginning at '8:30 in the
Chemistry Lectui'e room with Dr.
Wayne C. Hall, chaiiTnan of the
faculty-staff study groups, presid
ing, calls for a welcome address
by College President Earl Rudder,
to be followed by the three key ad
dresses.
The addresses are “The Advan
tages and Pitfalls of Long Range
Planning with Emphasis on the
Physical Sciences and Engineer
ing” by Dr. Walker; “The Master
Plan for Higher Education in Cali
fornia and Future Needs in Re
search, Agriculture, and the Life
Sciences” by Dr. Aldrich; and “The
Michigan State Study as a Back
ground to Future Needs in Exten
sion, Off-Campus Activities and
Services” by Dr. Miller.
At noon a luncheon in the Me
morial Student Center ballroom
Dr. M. T. Harrington, chancellor of
the Texas A&M System, will dis
cuss “The Importance of the Cen
tury Study to Texas A&M and
Higher Education in Texas.”
Afternoon sessions beginning at
2 will be devoted to questions and
answers. They will be divided into
three interest groups.
Group I, concerned with resident
instruction and student life, will
meet in the MSC Ballroom with Dr.
G. M. Watkins, director of agricul
tural instruction, presiding. Dr.
Walker will be discussion leader.
Group II, concerned with re
search, will meet in the Biological
Sciences Lecture Room, with Dr.
H. O. Kunkel, professor of bio
chemistry and nutrition and animal
husbandry, presiding. Dr. Aldrich
will be the discussion leader.
Group III, concerned with ex
tension, off-campus activities and
services, will meet in the faculty
room of the Coke Building, with
John E. Hutchison, director of Ag
ricultural Extension, presiding. Dr.
(See CS TO LAUNCH, Page 3)
Dr. Turk Elected
To AVMA
Executive Post
Dr. R. D. Turk, head of the De
partment of Veterinary Parasitol
ogy at Texas A&M has been elect
ed to the executive board of the
American Veterinary Medical As
sociation.
He will represent District 8
(Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas)
on the governing body of the as
sociation.
The veterinarian was elected by
ballot of individual members of the
AVMA in District 8. Installation
will be held at the annual meeting
Aug. 20-24 in Detroit, Mich. He
will serve for a six-year period.
Dinner And Dance
Given Students
Tonight approximately 350 students and sponsors, at
tending the third annual Texas High School Publications
Workshop here, will enjoy a barbecue dinner followed by a
dance at the Memorial Student Center.
. The workshop which began Monday will end tomorrow
afternoon. The purpose of the conference is to give high
school publication sponsors and students a refresher course
in publication procedures.
Donald D. Burchard, A&Mf-
Journalism Department pro
fessor and workshop director,
said that some delegates
would study layouts and work
ing dummies for school yearbooks
while others would spend their
time on newspaper makeup and
editing.
J. Q. Mahaffey, editor of the
Texarkana Gazette-News, empha
sized that students would find the
news profession fun. “But more
important,” he added, “our nation
needs to stay well informed, es
pecially about the revolution go
ing on around them.”
To be a good newsman, the edi
tor continued, is to seek the why
of things. He should have a sense
of drama and a strong sense of
righteousness.
Another speaker during the
workshop, Gilbert Berrera, photo
grapher at the San Antonio Light,
discussed spot, sports and feature
pictures.
The spot picture, he said, de
pends mostly on luck. Sports shots
also depend on luck but many of
them can be at least anticipated.
“The feature picture can prove
a photographer’s mettle because
he has time to set it up and use
special techniques. These pictures
can be made interesting by using
proper lighting, attractive compo
sition and subject interest,” Bar
rera said.
Dr. William H. Taft, well known
yearbook consultant at the Uni
versity of Missouri School of Jour
nalism, is serving as co-ordinator
of the yearbook section of the
workshop. Newspaper section co
ordinator is Mrs. Edith King, Jour
nalism Department head at San
Antonio College.
13 Scouts
Leave
For Philmont
Thirteen Scouters of the Arrow-
moon District from Bryan and
College Station left today for two
fun-filled weeks at Philmont Scout
Ranch near Cimarron, N. M.
Traveling by car, the group will
leave from the Townshire Shop
ping Center in the early morning
hours, returning to this area Aug
ust 3.
At Philmont, the “king” of all
Scout camps — composed of 127,-
000 acres of rugged western ter
rain along the Sangre de Cristo
range of the Rockies:—, the group
will “rough it” throughout a series
of hikes that will cover more than
57 miles, a distance which will
qualify each of the Scouters for
Fifty Miler Awards.
The group will also have oppor
tunities to do nature and wildlife
studies, and to do other work to
ward various badges and awards.
Those making the trip from Post
802 of College Station are Patrol
Leader David Gay, Assistant Pa
trol Leader Ken Fisher, Scotty
Manning, Bobby Houze, David
Holdredge, Gene Wallace and Don
ald Duncan.
Making the trip from Post 735
of Bryan will be Patrol Leader
John Ferguson, Assistant Patrol
Leader Gary Foster, Jay Wellman,
Hank McQuaide, David Hallaran
and Mack Haupt.
Coleman Loyd, post advisor to
735, will also make the trip.
A Week of Work and Fun For High School Journalists