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The Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1961
Number 129
Dr. Graff Officially
Dr. WilliaM J. Graff
. .. Dean of Instruction
Cattlemen
Ahead At
Get 10-Year Look
Beef Short Course
A 10-year look into the future
for a large group of cattlemen has
revealed that some marked chang
es may be in store for their busi
ness.
The cattlemen, attending the
11th annual Beef Cattle Short
Course July 31-Aug. 2 at Texas
A&M, were treated to a wrap-up
of changes which are most likely
to occur within the next decade.
Dr. 0. D. Butler, head of the
A&M Animal Husbandry Depart
ment, predicted that the entire
state will be on a brucellosis con
trol program, and an anaplasmosis
control project will be well along
Using identification and isolation
of carrier cattle.
“The screw worm control pro
gram will be a reality in Texas,”
the speaker said. “Increased use
of systemic insecticides for grub
control will be accomplished. Dip
ping vats will become increasingly
popular for insecticide treatment
of large numbers of cattle.”
Butler looks for increased fer
tility testing of bulls and pregnan
cy testing of cows. Use of artifi
cial insemination in beef cattle will
increase, particularly with frozen
semen from outstanding, proved
sires.
“It is estimated that 5 to 10 per
cent of the beef cows in Texas
Will be bred artificially within 10
years. Proved sires of known
adaptability to area environment
will be necessary,” he said.
Approximately 300 cattlemen at
tended the three-day session. The
course is held each year to keep
beef producers abreast of the lat
est development and problems in
their industry.
J. K. Riggs, animal husbandry
Professor at A&M and general pro
gram chairman, said emphasis was
placed this year on supplementary
feeding practices.
Supplemental feeding in the next
10 years, Butler said, will be on a
much more scientific basis based
Upon nutritive requirements of cat
tle and composition of forage avail
able. New techniques will be used
to determine nutrient quality of
forages and feeds to replace the
Present inadequate analysis sys
tems.
He predicted that more calves
will go directly to the feedlot to
be fed for the period required to
produce the rigid specification beef
demanded by retailers. The trend
will continue toward the special
ized feeder. More selling of slaugh
ter cattle will be on carcass basis
in order for breeders to take ad
vantage of superior cattle.
“Carcass conformation will be
based on the carcass yield of pre
ferred retail cuts,” Butler said.
“We will have more exact meas
urements for estimation of beef
quality.”
As for steer shows, the speaker
said they will be judged on the
basis of the quantity, distribution
and quality of lean meat produced.
Carcass characteristics will have
much greater influence on selec
tion of champion steers.
One of the top speakers at the
meeting, Dr. Leon S. Pope, animal
husbandry professor at Oklahoma
State University, discussed the ef
fect of plane of nutrition on
growth and productivity of beef
females.
He said winter feed levels that
allow a weaner calf to make no
gain, or to lose 20 per cent or
more of body weight as a bred
yearling and 2-year-old, may de
lay calving, reduce per cent calf
ci - op and weaning weights, and
prolong the time necessary to
reach maturity.
A moderate level of 0.5 pounds
of feed per head daily as weaner
calves and a gain of 100 pounds
or so to calving may be most prof
itable, he said. After maturity, or
3.5 to 5 years of age, lower feed
levels may be safely practiced.
“High or very high feeding le_V-
els (1 pound per day winter gain
as weaner calves and essentially
no body weight loss as bred fe
males) is not economical and ac
tually may depress milk produc
tion, per cent calf crop and life
span of the beef cow,” Pope said.
Mature cows calving- in the
spring may lose 20 per cent of
their fall weight without affecting
calf weaning weights or per cent
calf crop, if good recovery can be
made on summer pasture.
The scientists said calves from
poorly wintered dams are lighter
at birth and weaning, and may
show effects of retarded develop
ment during this period for more
than nine months past weaning.
The short course was sponsored
by the A&M Department of Ani
mal Husbandry.
Takes New Position
Dean of Instruction
Wants ‘Excellence ?
Dr. William John Graff, Jr. officially moved into his
position as dean of instruction this week at Texas A&M Col
lege.
The position of dean of instruction is a new one at A&M.
Formerly the office of dean of the college and graduate school
was headed by J. B. Page. This position has been discontinued
and successor positions are the dean of graduate studies
headed by Dr. Wayne C. Hall and the. new position of dean
of instruction.
Dr. Graff will work closely with President Earl Rudder
and with the deans of each school. As Graff described his
position, he said, “anything that pertains to academic excel-
lance, pertains to this job.” He +
said he hoped to represent the
views of the faculty to Pres
ident Rudder and represent
the President to the faculty.
Dr. Graff expressed a desire to
become acquainted with members
of the faculty as soon as possible
and share with them any prob
lems in their own departments.
He noted that by looking at a sit
uation from a faculty viewpoint
that he could better recommend
programs that would be beneficial
to the students and to the depart
ment.
Dr. Graff, recognized as one of
the outstanding young (38 years
of age) school men in the nation,
is a graduate of A&M, BSME and
MSME. He holds the Ph.D. de
gree from Purdue University,
class of 1951. He attended the
Oak Ridge School of Reactor
Technology, 1952-53. He joined
the Southern Methodist University
staff in 1956.
His employment includes that of
a senior student assistant, grad
uate student assistant and in
structor at A&M, 1946-47; 1947-
48; instructor at Purdue, 1948-51
and a graduate lecturer at SMU
in 1956.
Dr. Graff was a navigator and
radar operator, first lieutenant,
USAF, 1942-45 and in 1959 a re
search participant, Oak Ridge Na
tional Laboratory.
A&M’s dean of instruction has
been a consultant for top-ranking
concerns in Texas.
He is a member of several hon
orary organizations including Sig
ma Tau, Pi Tau Sigma, Sigma Xi
and American Men of Science. He
holds membership in many profes
sional organizations, including the
American Society of Engineering-
Education, American Society of
Mechanical Engineering, American
Nuclear Society and others. He
(See Dr. Graff Page 2)
RecalledReservists
Will Still Have
Reemployment
Military reservists who may be
recalled involuntarily to active
duty by Presidential authority will
have reemployment rights regard
less of their tenure in the Armed
Forces.
This assurance came today from
Regional Director George M. Dun
lap of the U. S. Department of
Labor’s Bureau of Veterans Re
employment Rights in Dallas who
issued it to clarify uncertainties in
reemployment rights ol military
personnel as affected by President
Kennedy’s recent authority to call
reservists involuntarily to active
duty.
“This includes active or regular
reservists, and inactive reservists,”
he said.
Men now serving in the Armed
Forces, regardless of the manner
in Which they entered, who are
“frozen” on active duty and re
tained involuntarily also have full
reemployment rights in their civi
lian occupations without regard to
their military tenure,” he ex
plained.
“Although the reemployment law
sets a four-year limit on military
service after which an individual
may exercise his reemployment
rights, this does not apply in the
case of imposed military service,”
he said. “Where such service is
imposed, a man has legal reem
ployment rights whenever he re
turns to civilian life.”
Voluntary enlistees and induc
tees are covered by the reemploy
ment program up to a maximum
of four years of military duty un
less, of course, they are “frozen”
and given additional imposed serv
ice, he said.
Faculty-Staff
Bowling League
To Meet Aug. 14
The Staff-Faculty bowling
league will have an organizational
meeting at the Triangle Bowling
Alley Aug. 14 at 5:30 p.m.
, Anyone who wishes to bowl in
the league that will begin early in
September is urged to attend. The
regular league night will be on
Monday nights at 6:30.
Any member of the Texas A&M
staff or faculty is eligible to par
ticipate in the American Bowling
Congress sanctioned league.
Sun Oil Company Gives Fellowship
Sun Oil Company has provided a $3,000 fel
lowship for an outstanding graduate student
in mechanical engineering at Texas A&M
College, Herbert Jackson Carper Jr. of Hous
ton. Receiving the check is Dr. C. M. Sim-
mang, left, head of the Mechanical Engi
neering Department. Making the presenta
tion is E. R. Hyde, center, personnel direc
tor with the Dallas division of Sun Oil, and
Robert A. Matteson of Philadelphia, Penn.,
manager of college relations for Sun Oil.
Carper was not available for the picture.
Dr. Paul Hensarling
... Department of Education and Psychology
Hensarling Named
Education Head
Dr. Paul R. Hensarling, a long
time school administrator in the
state, has been named to head the
Texas A&M Department of Edu
cation and Psychology.
The educator has been a faculty
member of A&M’s Education and
Psychology Department since 1958.
Dr. Frank W. R. Hubert, dean
of the School of Arts and Sciences,
said the new department head will
take over his duties on Sept. 1.
Dr. Hensarling will succeed Dr.
Grady P. Parker, who has headed
the department for seven years.
Dr. Parker will return to full time
teaching.
The new department head’s ex
perience over three decades ranges
from teaching in a small rural
L. A. Harrison
Gets Registrar
Position
Luther A. (Luke) Harrison, as
sistant professor of physical edu
cation, Texas A&M, has been
named assistant registrar at the
College, H. L. Heaton, director of
admissions and registrar, an
nounced today.
A native of Cisco and a gradu
ate of A&M College, Harrison has
had considerable experience in
high school work, having served
as principal, head basketball and
track coach and assistant football
coach at Bellville high school. He
conducted recreational programs at
A&M during the summers of 1940
and 1941 and joined the Physical
Education Department in 1941.
Harrison is a veteran of World
War II, entering in 1942. He was
separated from the service in 1946
as a major. He returned to the
P. E. Dept, in 1946 and instructed
physical education at the A&M
Bryan Field. He served as dean
of men, freshmen, at the field in
1947-48 and rejoined the P. E.
Dept, in 1949 until his present post
with the registrar’s office.
“Mr. Harrison’s experience in
the public schools of Texas and his
excellent work with students and
staff at A&M makes him well
suited for his new assignment,”
Heaton says.
school to the duties of superintend
ent of a large independent school
district in the Houston area. His
future plans call for extensive re
search in school administration and
community development.
“Dr. Hensarling is well qualified
to assume the duties of this posi
tion,” Dean Hubert said. “Teacher
education in Texas and the nation
is in a state of change, and Hen-
sarling’s background in school ad
ministration and his publications
research qualify him to meet the
demands of these changes.”
Hensarling was born in 1910 in
Madison County and received his
BS degree in 1933 and MS degree
in 1940 at North Texas State Col
lege. His Doctor of Education de
gree came in 1957 at the Univer
sity of Houston. During the sum
mers of 1944-53, he studied at the
University of Missouri, University
of Colorado and Columbia Univer
sity.
His first teaching assignment
was both teacher and principal at
Cottonwood School in Madison
County from 1930-31. Then he was
principal, teacher and coach in
Navari'o County, 1932-35; coach,
teacher, principal and assistant su
perintendent, Port Arthur Inde
pendent School District, 1935-55;
and assistant superintendent and
then superintendent, Aldine Inde
pendent School District, Houston
1955-58.
Dr. Hensai-ling is author of
many magazine articles which have
appeared in such publications as
the American School and Univer
sity, The Instructor, Texas Out
look, Texas School Business, and
School Executive. He also has
written newspaper articles and
public relations materials.
The educator is a member of the
National Educational Association,
National School Public Relations
Association, American and Texas
! Association of School Administra
tors, Adult Education Association
; of the U.S., life member of the
Texas Congress of Parents and
: Teachers and the Texas State
Teachers Association. He is pres-
! ently president of the A&M Chap-
| ter of the American Association
! of University Professors. He is
j secretary of the Texas School Ad-
ministratoi's Association and is
! listed in Who’s Who in American
Education.