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Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1961
Number 19
Rudder Announces
Department Changes
‘CREDIT TO PROGRESS’
Speaker Praises
2,500 Articles
Dean of Agriculture Dr. R. E. I such form and with such efficiency
Patterson addressed the Annual that they are competitive on world
Texas Agricultural Experiment; markets and find non-food uses for
Well-Guar Jed
frinity take no chance with its tiger mas-
tot-these five cuties provide quite ti body
piard. All from San Antonio, they are
(irorn left Lynne Shelton, Trudy Chance,
Sammie McCaskill, Bonny Stoeltje and Carl-
ene Jones. Charles Moreland, ’62 from San
Antonio is the receiver of this purt salute.
Details of f^ e game are on page 6.
(Photo by Johnny Herrin)
ifrican Students Demand
lemoval Of Peace
Corpi
LAGOS, Nigeria—Oft—The Ni-
rifli) government tried Monday
(tit to calm down African stu
nts demanding removal of the
★ ★ ★
eace Corps
peetMIp Seen
ii Moves Here
An intensive speed-up of Peace
srps recruiting in colleges and
nversities across the Southwest
been announced by Dr. Daniel
tssell, professor of rural soci-
ogy and liaison agent on campus
i the Peace Corps.
Russell has just returned from
regional Peace Corps meeting
ild last week in Oklahoma City.
This week, in addition to teach-
£ his regular classes, Russell
contact four other colleges
thin a 100-mile radius of A&M.
ley are Baylor University, Sam
uston State College, Texas
iiithern University and Prairie
W A&M.
Friday the professor will be
; ailable in his office here for
ierviews.
Tbe next Peace Corps examina-
ffls will be given Nov. 28-29.
issell said applications for June
ncement should be turned in
ullivan Wins
lirginia Dare’
raging Award
John L. Sullivan, ’62 from Gal-
Kton, has been presented a plaque
•d $25 by the Virginia Dare Ex-
Sct Company as the A&M stu
nt placing highest in judging
biry products this year.
Sullivan, a foods distribution
“jor, received his awards from
h A. V. Moore, who teaches the
<iry products judging course.
CORRECTION
i printing requirements for
imination for “Who’s Who in
taerican Colleges and Univers-
ies” (Battalion, Wednesday, Oct.
1) The Battalion reported a can-
idate must be an academic senior
bdbe expected to receive his next
W not later than June of 1962.
was in error and should have
M . . receive his next degree
Plater than June of 1963.”
37 U. S. Peace Corps volunteers holding views similar to those ex
in Nigeria. The Americana them-, pressed by this young girl, our
selves were reported getting cool federal minister of internal
treatment generally. fairs who controls
The government said in a state- 1 and deportation will know how
ment that the "friendly and cor- best to deal with them."
dial relationship between Nigeria
and the United States must not
be jeopardized or affected by the
foolish writings of one adolescent
school girl.”
But in an apparent move to
placate the students, it added that of Foxhoro, Mass.
Nigerians “can be assured that if ( ing conditions in
there are any persons in Nigeria
Junior College
Meeting Here
To End Today
A display of the latest instruc
tional media equipment will be
featured during the 18th annual
Junior College Conference which
ends today.
Provided by the Texas Educa
tion Agency, the equipment in
cludes a closed circuit television
camera mounted on a microscope.
This allows the instructor to ex
plain microscopic specimens to his
entire class.
Another interesting item is an
electric panel which teaches multi
plication tables to elementary chil
dren.
C. II. Ransdell, conference chair
man, said the displays can be seen
through tonight in the Memorial
Student Center. A&M faculty,
staff members and the public are
invited.
Army Announces
Technical Field
Officer Openings
The Department of the Army
has announced that a shortage of
regular Army officers with certain
technical qualifications has made
possible a program of accepting
applicants for direct commissions
in the regular Army.
Persons with master’s or doctor’s
degrees in any of the special fields
now short of officers, or candi
dates for bachelor’s degrees dur
ing the year, may be considered
for commissions.
Information on this program
may be obtained in Room 208 of
the Military Science Building.
Nigerian students demanded all
Peace Corps volunteers in Nigeria
be deported as “agents of im
perialism” after seeing copies of
a postcard written by one of the
Americans, Margery Michelmore
that said liv-
Nigeria were
primitive.
Nigerian government sources
said the Peace Corps volunteers
would not be asked to leave even
if the students pursue their de
mands. But they said any similar
incidents in the future would se
verely affect U.S.-Nigerian rela
tions.
U. S. authorities hoped a cool
ing off period would take the heat
out of the issue.
But at the university in Ibadan,
where the i-umpus started, the
students union banned all Peace
Corps members at the school from
using the students union rest hall,
library and recreation rooms,
Radio Nigeria reported.
Station Conference here last
Wednesday through Friday.
“In the past 10 years you have
published more than 2,500 tech
nical and scientific articles in
national, foreign and international
professional journals—a creditable
contribution to the progress of
agricultural science,” Patterson
said.
Referring to agricultural prob
lems of the future, Patterson said,
“We will have to cope with a situ
ation where technology has gotten
ahead of sociology, political de
velopment and economic order.
“We must mobilize our profes
sional scientific know-how to give
ever more effective guidance to
agriculture in a situation of gen
eral philosophic revolution. A situ
ation where farmers and ranchers
need help and motivation to ade
quately adjust into a satisfactory
farming situation; where each
operator can maximize his family’s
satisfaction by going forward with
advanced agricultural technology
af* and economic prudence.”
immigration | The speaker proceeded to say “I
believe we have the brain-power
to meet these challenges and I be
lieve that most agricultural people
can he motivated and helped to
use their potentialities more fully.
This is a basic American demo
cratic proposition—there are ex
traordinary possibilities in ordi
nary people.”
Speaking specifically about Tex
as agriculture, the dean said, “We
must mobilize our professional
know-how to develop Texas crops
that have comparative advantage
over other states, conduct market
research to find out-of-state mar
kets, produce food and fibre in
$100 Awarded
Leon Aristizabal, ’63 from Co
lumbia, South America, received
the first of two $100 student merit-
aid awards Tuesday.
The awards are presented an
nually by the Texas Section of the
Institute of Food Technologists to
college students majoring in food
technology.
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agricultural products as well as
new crops for industrial purposes.”
Patterson emphasized that a
mammoth agricultural problem of
the future is “getting responsive
and responsible support to pre
serve the essential genius of agri
cultural research — particularly
adequate support for basic re
search. The situation is not en
couraging in view of the current
social and political setting where
the goal of knowledge is an in
creasingly unpopular one.”
Concluding his address the dean
commented, “In essence, mobiliza
tion of our resources for the future
requires creative thinking; it re-
cHiires crisp, fresh ideas coupled
with courage, imagination and an
adventurous spirit. Researching
for information is not an end in
itself—it must be passed on to
others through adequate communi
cation. People can be intelligent
but uninfm-med. Therefore, com
municating knowledge and new re
search findings is one of our major
responsibilities if our people are
to keep in the running with the
present pace of human advance
ment.”
Move Creates 2
New Departments
President Earl Rudder has announced the consolidation
of five agriculture departments to “improve efficiency and
service a-s well as cut costs.”
The two new departments are the Department of Plant
Sciences and the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences. The
reorganization became effective Sept. 1.
Former departments reorganized into the Department
of Plant Sciences are Plant Physiology and Pathology and
Genetics. Plant Sciences is now made up of the Genetics and
Cytology Section, Plant Pathology Section and the Plant
Psysiology Section.
The Departments of Agronomy, Horticulture, Floricul
ture and the plant breeding
activities of the Department
Denton Party
Opens Season
For Orchestra
Opening the fall season Friday
night at Denton, the Aggieland
Orchestra will furnish the music
from 8:30-12 for the Aggie-Tessie
party, accoi’ding to Dii’ector Robei’t
L. Boone.
Boone said his group will go to
Denton by station wagon. The band
includes five saxophones, six brass,
thx-ee rhythms, a pianist and two
singers. The female vocalist is
Miss Alice Jean Butler. Boone is
male vocalist, with Dr. Richai'd
Baldauf at the piano.
According to Boone, the gi’oup
has been playing together for two
years and “is one of the best of
its type.” He said they have
numerous new arrangements this
year and could probably play an
eight-hour dance without trouble.
“If it’s not danceable we don’t
play it,” he said.
Industrial Interests
Miss Maria Eubank, member of a delegation of students
from the University of Texas, and Terry Gossett ’62, pose
in front of the Industrial Education exhibit on display in
the Memorial Student Center. (Photo by Johnny Herrin)
Aspirations
Proceedings
Available
Some 1,000 brochures of pi’o-
ceedings of a faculty-staff confer
ence on aspirations are being dis
tributed over the campus and
across Texas, Bob Hunt, director
of the Century Council, has an
nounced.
The 52-page booklets, containing
the complete proceedings of the
July 25 meeting here, ai’e being
disti'ibuted to the schools of Arts
and Sciences, Engineering, Agri
culture, Veterinary Medicine and
Agricultural and Engineering ex
tension services and experiment
stations, in addition to Century
Council members and former stu
dent groups.
Only a limited number of the
brochures are available. Hunt said.
Faculty-staff membei’s and other
interested persons may get copies
through their departments.
of Genetics were condensed
into the Department of Soil
and Crop Sciences. Soil and
Crop Sciences is now comprised of
the Field Crops Section, Floricul-
tux-al Crops Section, Horticultural
Crops Section and Soil and Water
Section.
The sections in both new de
partments, Rudder said, have been
established solely for purpose of
functional opei'ation and not as ad
ministrative units.
“This is an overall move for
greater economy; it cuts adminis
trative costs and makes for more
effective use of teaching and re-
seai’ch personnel,” he said. “‘Also,
the reorganization is a move to
ward sti’eamlining programs in the
basic plant sciences and the applied
of plant sciences to more nearly
meet the needs of Texas’ fast
changing agriculture.”
The president said the change
will results in even higher teach
ing efficiency, more far-reaching
research and better service to the
farmers, ranchers, food processors
and handlers in the state’s entire
agricultural industry.
Rudder emphasized that the
basic plant sciences are also be
ing brought under one roof—the
new Plant Sciences Building, sche
duled to go into operation next
fall.
The new building, featux-ing mod
ern design and 85,000 square feet
of usable floor space, will bring
together the teachers, researchers
and extension subject matter spec
ialists for close and effective lia
ison and efficient working rela
tions, he said.
Deadline For
NSF Grants
Announced
Applications for National Sci
ence Foundation grants for 1962-
63 must be in by Nov. 1, accord
ing to Coleman Loyd, campus NSF
co-ordinator. Approximately 2,500
graduate fellowships will be given
by the foundation next year.
The fellowships are $2,400 for
12 months or $1,800 for nine
months. Approximately 1,000
summer fellowships with grants
between $50 and $75 will also be
awai'ded.
Interested students must apply
through the pai'ticipating institu
tion which they expect to attend
as fellows.
A&M will be permitted to sub
mit 20 students to the NSF for
the actual competition. Last year
50 per cent of the Agges recom
mended for grants received them.
Fellowships are available in
the mathematical, physical, med
ical, biological and engineering
sciences. Also economics, psyohol-
ogy, sociology, meteorology and
oceanography.
Both types of fellowships are
awarded on the basis of merit
and ability in competition with
applicants fx*om all institutions in
the United States. Application
forms and addtional information
is available fx-om Loyd or Dean of
Graduate Studies W. C. Hall.
West Texas Gives
Band High Praise
A West Texas business execu
tive liges the way the Aggie band
performs.
Roy B. Davis, general manager
of Plains Cooperative Oil Mill in
Lubbock, was so pleased with the
band’s halftime show at the Texas
Tech-A&M game that he wrote
President Earl Rudder a letter of
appreciatioh.
“I am sure I speak for many
thousands of people who witnessed
the Tech-A&M game Saturday
night when I say that the Aggie
band was a great success,” Davis
wrote.
“It is a long trip to Lubbock
for these boys, and I am sure it
was not an easy one. I wish you
would express our appreciation to
the director and band leaders. Tell
them that not only the A&M men
but everybody enjoyed their pre
sentation. There is no question but
what it was one of the highlights
of the game.”
Davis also mentioned a Sante Fe
railroad official who seid the band
“was one of the nicest groups of
people that he had ever had on his
train.”
Davis added, “it does us all good
and I believe it does the college
good for a band to ihake its ap-
peai'ance as often as the college
feels it is possible.”
Ag Wool Judgers
Cop 3rd Straight
Kansas City Title
The A&M Wool Judging Team
has won fix-st place for the third
time in the American Royal Live
stock Show in Kansas City.
Pete Jameson, Donald Beer-
winkle, Bari'ie Ward and Scotty
Menzies are members of the team.
Jameson was high point indi
vidual at Kansas City, with second
place honors going to Beerwinkle.
The A&M Meat Judging Team
is now attending the American
Royal and will judge today. Mem
bers are Frank Orts, Coach; John
Kuykendall, James Schroeder, T.
W. Smith, and Bryan Stuckey.
Placing 23rd out of teams,
the Senior Livestock Judging Team
did not fare so well.
Livestock team members are
Beerwinkle, Ward, Jameson, Wil
lard Stuard, Don Hexring and
Buddy Smith.