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M & M COLLEGE 0 The Battalion Volume COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1961 Number 1 Fhirteen Profs amed To TA( isiting Group Thirteen professors at A&M and 0 other Collefcr Station residents ve been included in the list of 5 Texas scientists named to par- ipate in the Texas Academy of ience’s 19C1-G2 Visiting Scientist ’ogram. The scientists, through funds kdc available by the National ience Foundation and other don- P. 'wiU make one-three day visits 1 var '°U8 Texas junior and senior I fven Florists Fo Feel Brunt J les Tax •Everything sold retail in the 1 j 8 shop comes under the Pte s new sales tax, Alvis V’andy- P > Austin attorney, told dele- the 14th annual Texas prists Short Course here Sept. M Sal, Vandyjjriff said tual ies to exemptions. there are no The tax np- high schools at no cost to the visited school. The purpose of the three-year- old program is to bring high school students and teachers up-to-date on the latest developments in science and thus narrow the exist ing gap between Texas high schools and colleges. One visited teacher during the 19G0-G1 school year said, “The prime value in my opinion was the inspiration the scientists provided our young science hopefuls. I would say this was the most valu able day of our entire year.” The two College Station resi dents included on the list were Dr. C. C. Doak, former head of the Department of Biology and cur rently head of the Department of Biology at Trinity University, and Dr. Richard A. Eads, retired direc tor of the A&M Division of Science. The professors named to the team of visitors were: Dr. Richard J. Baldauf, associate professor, Department of Biology; Dr. Horace R. Blank, associate pro fessor and professor, Department of Geology. Kenneth C. Brundidge, assistant sels U Rn ts, containers and p ro f essort Department of Oceanog- nn is collected on the ra p},y ant j Meteorology; Dr. Peter on Consumers pay ushed product. f tax. fThe 25-cent exemption does not Dehlinger, professor, Department of Geophysics. _ Dr. Guy A. Franceschini, assist- fj ^ ax on ^ terns ant professor and research scient 2o cents, Vandygriff said. ‘I* 18 simply a method of compu- tion. The short course is held each tftr to keep Texas florists abreast the latest developments and pblems in growing and selling feir product. (A&M sponsors the course in co- pration with the Texas Agricul- »ral Experiment Station, Texas kricultural Extension Service and pxas State Florists’ Association, jlandygriff said the new Sunday losing law does not apply to flor- ts as long as they sell only overs, cards and novelties. They ill not be allowed to sell power luipment. Speakers on the program were r. A. F. DeWerth, R. E. Odom, avid A. Pate and Bill Richard- |n, all of the Department of floriculture. ist, Department of Oceanography and Meteorology; Dr. Donald W. Hood, associate professor, Depart ment of Chemical Oceanography. Jack Thurston Kent, associate professor, Departments of Mathe matics and Astronomy; Dr. Dale F. Leipper, Head of the Department of Oceanography and Meteorology. Coleman M. Loyd, assistant pro fessor, Department of Physics, co ordinator of National Science Foundation training program; Dr. William S. McCulley, associate professor, Department of Mathe matics. Dr. Vance E. Moyer, associate professor, Department of Oceanog raphy and Meteorology; Dr. Travis J. Parker, professor, Department of Geology, and Dr. Aylmer H. Thompson, associate professor, De partment of Oceanography and Meteorology. School Year’s Opening Nears The program released by col lege officials for the official opening of the coming school year is as follows: Sept. 13-14 — New Student Week program. Sept. 14-15 — Registration of entering freshmen, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday; 8 a.m. to 12 noon, Friday. Sept. 15-16 — Registration of all other students, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday. Sept. 18—Beginning of classes, 8 a.m. Sept. 23—Last day for enroll ing in the college for the fall semester or for adding new courses. Sept. 27—Last day for drop ping courses with no grades. DuBeau Named Assistant Head Of Publications Normand DuBeau, newspaper man and national magazine writer, was named assistant director of information and publications for the A&M College System Sept. 1. DuBeau will assist with the production and editing of news paper and magazine articles and publications concerning the work of the System and with supervision of the work of information and publication offices in each of its four colleges and five statewide res«>arch agencies. Since 1955, DuBeau has been bureau chief for Business Week magazine at Houston. Before coming to Houston, he was a re porter and daily columnist for the Richmond (Va.) News Leader, wrote a weekly column on the U. S. Patent Office for the New York Times and served as copy editor and financial editor for the Memphis (Tenn.) Press-Scimitar. He had also worked in the insti tutional publicity department of General Electric at Schenectady, New York. During World War II, he was Moscow editor for the Office of War Information. A native of Connecticut, DuBeau holds a degree in bacteriology from the University of Connecticut, and a Bachelor of Journalism and an M.A. degree in classical philosophy from Missouri. Airlift Gives Three Aggies Transportation To School jity, Three A&M students are among p Latin Amedican students and jatients who have been selected for j free airlift to the United States thich began yesterday in Panama Panama. They are Jose A. Maher, Wil- am E. Ferro and James Freeman, ill from Panama. Six countries are represented in fie goodwill airlift for persons inable to provide their transpor- ktion costs. Besides the Reublic it Panama, with the largest group if 82, students from Argentina, folivia, Chile, Colombia and Par aguay also will be flown to the f. S. in chartered jetliners. The students are winners of Scholarships to US colleges and Universities who a few weeks ago faced the prospect of not being able to accept the scholarships be cause they couldn’t provide their transportation to the US. Then, in an unusual demonstra tion of business and government Cooperation, a way was found. Visiting in Panama to plan a giant business convention, execu tives of a large US corporation met with US Ambassador Joseph Parland and representatives of the Panamanian government to offer free rides back to the US on jets chartered to bring the com- ipany’s dealers from the US to Panama for the convention. Three medical cases are included in the flights, arriving in Balti more Sept. 6, Miami and Birming ham, Ala., Sept. 7 and Fort Worth and San Francisco, Sept. 8. The most dramatic is 17-year- old Sandra Bonilla, a Panamanian girl with a serious heart condition who will undergo special surgery in Houston. Another is a two-and- a-half year old child, Margali Car- reiro, destined for San Francisco accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Olga O. de Carreiro. 1,500 Post Office Boxes Still Vacant College Station Postmaster Ernest Gregg said there were ap proximately 1,500 post office boxes yet to be rented at the main College Station post office, now in a temporary location on Church St, two blocks north of the old post office building which is being re modeled. He said about 2,200 boxes still remain to be rented in the south sub-station in th® Memorial Stu dent Center. All 2,485 boxes at the main post office and 3,089 boxes at the south station are expected to be rented when school starts, Gregg said. Yesterday at 11:41 p. m. (EDT), the first group of 44 persons was due to arrive in Baltimore, Md. Tonight at 9:07 p. m. (EST), a group af seven will deplane in Miami and eight will continue to Birmingham, Ala., arriving there at 10:40 p. m. (CST). Tomorrow 16 will arrive at Amon Carter Field in Fort Worth at 8:45 p. m. (CST), and 13 will continue to San Francisco, arriving there at 12:12 a. m. (PDT), Sept. 9. The students will be met and as- sited to their college destinations by officials of the Panamanian and US governments and local reception committees. The students and medical cases were chosen in Panama on the basis of need by a committee com posed of the Rev. Terrence Ford; Father Enrique Laburu; Rabbi Na than Witkin; Federico Humbert, President of the Panama City Chamber of Commerce, and Carl E. Davis, Public Affairs Officer of the US Embassy in Panama. Many of the eleven students from five South American coun tries were needy students who had already been selected by the Institute of International Educa tion for study this year in the US, but until the offer, would have been unable to accept their scholar ships. Freshmen Due Soon F or Orientation W eek WATER PROBLEM DISCUSSED Annual 4 Water For Texas’ Conference Ends Tomorrow William E. Warne . . . explains water program What progress Texas may ex pect to make in its attempts to solve the inevitable water problems of the future is the subject of dis cussion at the seventh annual con ference on “Water for Texas” now in progress on campus. State and national leaders in various fields are attempting to project developments to be expect ed in the technical, conservation, I’eclamation and economic aspects of the problem. Sponsored by the A&M College System, the annual water confer ence is planned and directed by a system-wide committee of repre sentatives of the many fields of study connected with the prob lems of water. Dr. W. W. Meinke, head of the A&M chemurgic laboratory, is chairman of this year’s confer ence. Meetings are being held at the Memorial Student Center. Visitors registered at the Mem orial Student Center, last night and meetings began at 9 a. m. this morning. They will end at 11:40 a. m., Friday. The session this morning was de voted to projections of technical developments and this afternoon’s to conservation and reclamation. The Friday morning session will deal with economic projections. This morning, Dr. Ai - chie M. Kahan director, of the A&M Re search Foundation, discussed “Weather Modification” and Dr. W. W. Meinke, “Water Evapora tion Control.” W. L. Broadhurst, chief hydrologist, High Plains Un derground Water Conservation Dis trict No. 1. Lubbock, talked on “Ge- City Schools Open With More Students College Station city schools opened Tuesday showing a slight enrollment increase over last year. Consolidated School District en- Graduate Classes Complete Research On Publications Publications dealing with the or ganization of education on the lo cal, state and national level and the special services schools per form for students, have been com pleted at A&M. The work was done by two grad uate classes in educational ad ministration at the college. It will be in two columns of 400 pages combined. At present 28 volumes will be produced and bound in dup licated form. The subject matter includes guidance, health, safety, insurance transportation, attendance and caf eteria services. Dr. Paul Hensar- ling of the Department of Educa tion and Psychology was the in structor. Members of the classes were teachers and administrators of the schools who were on the cam pus this summer, “boning up” on the latest methods of doing their jobs or working toward advanced degrees or certificates. Several doctoral candidates are in the group. The group visited school sys tems, a junior college and the Tex as Education Agency in Austin while gathering information. More than a dozen resource persons, au thorities in their fields, have been utilized. Research included ap proximately 2,000 specific refer ences which are included in the bibliographies. “It has been a big job,” Dr. Hen- sarling says, “but it proves what 26 people can do when they are professionally interested and en thused. The writing was com pleted in six weeks. rollment stood at 1,679 after the first day. Consolidated High School started with 400 students, the first time first-day enrollment has been that high. College Station’s new elementary school in College Hills opened with 243 students. Principal Mrs. C. K. Leighton said this was “a large number for a new school,” but added that things ran “very smoothly.” Mrs. Leighton said each of the first grade sections at the school (with 23 pupils each) will probably increase to 28 or 30 students each “when all the Aggies return.” Special Singing Set Here Sunday By Presbyterians The Chancel Choir of the A&M Presbyterian Church will present a “Service of Psalms” Sunday at the 8:45 a.m. worship seiwice. The main portion of the service will be the performance of the “Vesperae Solennes de Confessore,” K. 339, by Mozart. The choir will be assisted by a few guest mem bers of the Konzert Gesellschaft. Soloists will be Mrs. Harriet Guthrie, soprano; Mrs. Shirlee Yolton, mezzo-soprano; Mr. Her bert Shaffer, tenor, and Mr. Rich ard Adams, bass. As organist, Miss Jane Houze will accompany the ensemble. The performance will be under the direction of William Guthrie. The service Sunday morning will afford the community a second opportunity to hear this choral work. It was first presented by the choir in concert with orchestra on July 24, 1960, in the All Faiths Chapel. For the Vespers, Mozart selected the text of Psalms Numbers 110, 111, 112, 113 and 117 and concluded with a setting of the “Magnificat” Horn Luke 1:46-55. Thomas J. Powers . ,. speaks on pollution control ological Explorations for Water” and Dr. Donald A. Cowan, chair man, Physics department, Univer sity of Dallas, ‘Saline Water Con servation.” Thomas J. Powers, Industrial Service Division, Dow Chemical Company, Cleveland, Ohio, dis cussed “Industrial Pollution and Pollution Control,” at a luncheon today. Speakers this afternoon were Dr. Garry Higgins, Lawrence Radia tion Laboratory, University of Cal ifornia, Livermore, “AEC Plow share Program as Related to Water Conversion”; Dr. Guy A. Franceschini, A&M Department of Oceanography, “A Study on the Water Balance of Texas”; Dr. Mor ris E. Bloodworth, A&M Depart ment of Agronomy, “Plant Modifi cation”; and David F. Smallhorst, director, division of water pollu tion, State Department of Public Health, Austin, “Water Pollution in Texas”. Economic projections will form the basis of talks tomorrow morn ing by Harry P. Burleigh, Engineer in Charge, U. S. Bureau of Re clamation, Austin, “Cost of Future Water Supplies for Texas”; W. F. Hughes, A&M Department of Ag ricultural Economics, “Economics of Agricultural Water—Current and Future”; Cecil Haver, consult- tant, U. S. Study Commission, Houston, “Economic Implications of the U. S. Study Commission’s Plan for Texas Water Resources Development”; and Dr. William Warne, director, Department of Water Resources, State of Califor nia, Sacremento, “California’s Search for Water”. Trinity Names A&M Graduate Chemistry Prof Dr. Lewis C. Sams Jr., who com pleted work on his doctorate at A&M this August, has been named assistant professor of chemistry at Trinity University in San Antonio. Sams, former instructor at East Texas State College, will teach in organic and analytical chemistry at Trinity, according to Dr. R. G. Dressier, chairman of the Depart ment of Chemistry there. A microanalyst for the Army from 1954 to 1956, Sarris received his B. S. degree in chemistry at Midwestern University in 1950 and his M. S. degree in biochemistry at A&M in 1954. He is currently a Welch Re search Fellow at A&M. 1st Week Busy For New Fish The first members of the Class of ’65 due on campus are expected over the week end for the beginning 1 Tues day of New Student Orienta tion Week. The five-day New Student Week, scheduled Tuesday through Satur day, will find new freshmen pay ing fees, drawing uniforms, attend ing meetings, hearing speeches, holding conferences and register ing for classes, which begin Sept. 18. Even before freshmen begin their activities, however, a Com mander’s Conference is scheduled Monday for all cadet officers who are to be on campus for New Student Week. Then Tuesday frosh activities will begin, with the paying of fees, receiving of housing assignments and drawing of uniforms scheduled. The first general assembly for the new students will be held Tues day night at 7 in G. Rollie White Coliseum. C. H. Ransdell, assistant to the dean of the School of Engi neering and chairman of the New Student Orientation Committee, will preside. Student Senate President. Mal colm Hall will welcome the new students prior to an address by President Earl Rudder. Following the talks, Robert Boone, director of the Singing Cadets, will lead the freshmen group in singing. Wednesday will be devoted to freshmen assemblies, according to academic majors. Wednesday night another gen eral meeting will be held in G. Rollie White Coliseum, with J. Gordon Gay, genei’al secretary of the YMCA and coordinator of campus religious life, in charge. Thursday morning will be occu pied with a continuation of meet ings started Wednesday with de partmental advisors. Registration for classes will be gin Thursday afternoon for those students with less than 15 semester hours of college credit. This regis tration will continue through Fri day morning. There are no formal activities scheduled Thursday evening. Friday aftei'noon Dean of Stu dents James P. Hannigan will pre side over a general assembly of all new students in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Talks on “Student Life at A&M” and “Student Activity Pi’ograms” will be given. At 3 p.m. Friday all cadets will assemble in White Coliseum for a meeting with Commandant Col. Charles E. Gregory, and Professor of Militatry Science and Tactics, Col. Frank L. Elder. Civilian students will meet at 3 p.m. that same day in the Memorial Student Center Assembly Room with the Director of the Depart ment of Student Affairs, Bennie A. Zinn, in charge. Friday night will be devoted to an open house in the Memorial Student Center. An informal re ception will be held in the MSC ballroom, where officials of the college and the MSC will be intro duced. The functions of the various MSC committees and activities will also be explained during guided tours of the building. Saturday at; 8 a.m. cadets will meet in White Coliseum for a talk, “The Corps of Cadets,” by Cadet Col. of the Corps James W. Card- well. Several other cadet officers will also make talks at the meet ing. At 10 Saturday morning all cadets will meet with their respec tive unit commanders for cadet orientation, after which they will be free until the beginning of classes Monday, Sept. 18. *7- 33vv■*.*«. SSSSSSaBS SEE!3 —- -> .. . - — —- • . r