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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, September 7, 1961 Group Pushes New Eco Program Here Three members of the Red River Industrial Foundation flew here Saturday to present the state’s first completed overall economic development program for consid- eration by the State Resource De velopment Committee. Pat C. Beadle, James W. Vaughan and William Allen, prom inent citizens of Clarksville, Red Rived County, conferred with R. E. Patterson, dean of agriculture, W. N. Williamson, assistant director of the Texas Agricultural Exten sion Service, and other personnel working with the federally spon- sored Rural Areas Development Program. The program is aimed at improving the level of living in redevelopment areas through in creased industry and greater use of local resources. Texas Agricultural Extension Service has been asked to take ed ucational and organizational lead ership in the Rural Areas Develop ment Program. Dr. Patterson is chairman of the State Resource Development Committee and 22 state and federal agencies are rep resented. Other A&M members of this committee are R. D. Lewis, A. D. Folweiler, J. R. Bradley, O. J. Moss, H. D. Bearden and Wil liamson. The Red River County delegation reviewed its program with the A&M College personnel and de scribed six project plans. These plans provide for future develop ment of an industrial park; ex pansion of water and sewage facil ities for the towns of Clarksville, Detroit and Bagota, a Red River County Airport, and an expansion of present facilities of the Davis Products Company in Clarksville. Before coming to A&M, the Red River delegation stopped in Dallas where the USDA Technical Panel approved its program. The next stop is Austin, where the gover nor’s approval committee and the Texas Employment Commission, will review the program. The final step is a trip to Washington for approval by the United States De partment of Agricultui’e and the Department of Commerce. Red River County is one of 47 counties in Texas designated by the Department of Commerce to re ceive assistance. The Rural Areas Development Program is nation wide. Rifle Instruction Begins Saturday Ag Artist Accepts Spot In Tanganyika CADET SLOUCH fc.A,;" C C ! ! 1!7 by Jim Earle NAS Names Giem Proi National Rifle Association coun selor and Twin City junior rifle instructor Sidney L. Loveless has announced the beginning of the seventh Rifle Instructor Training School Saturday at 10 a. m. at the rifle range at Pleasant Acres on Farm Road 2513. This instruction is offered free of charge and is available to any adult over 21 years old who would like to become a certified National Rifle Association instructor, and to any graduate of the Twin City Junior Rifle Club basic small arms training course who is over 15 and would like to become an apprentice instructor for the National Rifle Association. All equipment and textbooks are furnished free. Brazos Bowmen Set Sunday Shoot Brazos Valley Bowmen will hold their annual pre-season warm up tournament Sunday at the Brazos Valley Bowmen’s range on Farm Road 2513, just west of Easter- wood Airport. Some 40 to 50 bowmen from all over the state are expected. Contestants will shoot 28 “ani mal targets,” — animal pictures rather than the conventional tar gets—and 14 hunter’s targets. These targets will be shot from distances of 3 to 70 yards. Registration will be from 8:30 to 9 a. m. and shooting will begin about 9 a. m. Thomas W. Bishop, artist for the Texas Agricultural Extension Ser vice since 1946, has accepted an International Cooperation Admin istration appointment as advisor to the National Agricultural Infor mation Office in Daar es Salaam, Tanganyika. He left for Washing ton, D. C. Monday to begin a three- week orientation course before go ing to the African country. Bishop will be on an extended leave and will work as a trainer and consultant in agricultural in formation with special emphasis on graphic arts. ‘His outstanding work in this field, including plan ning and developing illustrations for Texas Extension Service pub lications, was responsible for a shorter assignment in Central and South America in 1957. Results of his work in these countries had a bearing on his latest appointment,” said Director John E. Hutchison. “We wish him even more success in Tanganyika, and for his family a pleasant and enjoyable exper ience.” His family will join him in Washington on September 24 and the next day they will leave by air for his new assignment. Bishop said he is going to a country which is friendly to the United States “Though it is largely undeveloped, the people have ex hibited a real desire to get on with the job,” Bishop said. The first request for Peace Corps assistance came from Tanganyika and Corps members have already been designated to go there. Weather Satellite Dr. A. H. Thompson, of the De partment of Oceanography and Meteorology, has been to Washing ton, D.C., Meteorological Satellite Laboratory and Wallops Space Flight Station, Va., in consulta tion in connection with TIROS “weather satellite” data. Dr. Donald W. Hood, of the de partment, attended the American Chemical Society meeting and pre sented a paper on “Copper, Maga- nisu and Zin Analysis of Sea Wa ter Neutron Activition Analysis.” The meeting was held Aug. 31 in Chicago. James A. Ruffner of the Amer ican Meteorological Society of Boston was to have visited Dr. Vance E. Moyer of the depart ment this week to discuss visiting science program and matters con cerning recruitment of meteorol ogy students. Dr. Bruno J. Zwolinski has been reappointed a member-at-large of the advisory board of the National Academy of Sciences, National Re search Council of Critical Tables in Washington, D.C., for a three- year term, effective July 1. Zwolinski is professor of chem istry and director of the Chemical Thermodynamic Properties Center in the Department of Chemistry. At the August meeting of the newly organized Commission on Thermodynamics and Thermochem istry of the Internation Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, held in Montreal, Canada, Dr. Zwolin ski, was appointed an associate member for 1961-65. Of .the newly appointed associate members, sev en are from the U. S., including Dr. Kenneth S. Pitzer, president of Rice University in Houston. Zwolinski joined the A&M staff April 1. He a native of Buffalo, N. Y., and received his Ph.D. de gree in physical chemistry from Princeton University in 1947. SERVING BRYAN and COLLEGE STATION SAM HOUSTON ZEPHYR Lv. N. Zulch 10:08 a.m. Ar. Dallas . . 12:47 p.m. Lv. N. Zulch Ar. Houston 7:31 p.m. 9:25 p.m. FORT WORTH AND DENVER RAILWAY N. L. C R YAH, Agent Phone 1 5 • NORTH 71)101 “Take ’em away! I don’t want to see a lx>ok before school starts ... !” Profs Publish Government, History Books THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers only. 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The book is entitled, “Texas: Its Government and Politics” and is being widely adopted by colleges in Texas as a text for the survey course in Texas government. Dr. Charles E. Wynes, assistant professor of history, has completed a comprehensive study of late 19th century race relations in Virginia. The study has just been published by the University of Virginia Press under the title of “Race Re lations in Virginia, 1870-1902.” The June, 1961, issue of the New England Quarterly carried an ar ticle titled, “Lydia Maria Child: Biographer,” by Dr. Lloyd C, Tay lor Jr., assistant professor of his tory. Dr. Allan C. Ashcraft, assistant professor of history, tells of the attempts to produce Sea Island cotton in Texas <n July, 1961, issue of The Cotton History Review in an article titled “Sea Island Cot ton in Texas.” Returning to the campus after a year’s leave of absence to teach at the University of Virginia, is associate professor, Dr, Claude H. Hall, whose recent article on “Abel P. 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