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.
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