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Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1961
Number 23
Arts And Sciences
Be Largest
Gen. Short!
Here Tonight
Sweetheart Reviews Parade
Aggie Sweetheart Ann Edwards acknowl- urday morning. With Miss Edwards is
edges an “eyes right” during the Corps Trip Corps Commander Bill Cardwell. (Photo by
parade through downtown Fort Worth Sat- Johnny Herrin)
()UICKL Y EXTINGUISHED
Electrical Fire
Hazes Firemen
A small electrical fire in A 12 B i ^ ra b6ed ai\, extinguisher, and put
'ollege View sent a bevy of three out the fire, which wasn’t very
hlly-equipped fire trucks to the
me Sunday night after it was
(ported about 7:30 p.m.
Cause of the fire was a faulty
tall plug, according to Don
Fletcher, resident of the apart-
sent.
"I was in my study room, clean-
itp off my desk, when the plug
Ported out and threw out all the
Ifhts. I checked the wall switch,
iad then unplugged all cords in
Sie apartment except the faulty
fie; I missed it.
“Then, I went downstairs to
deck the switch, and my wife
fame running out of the apart-
lent yelling that the room was
it fife!
“I threw off the switch, then
Silver Taps
Held Monday
For Hall,’65
Silver Taps was held last night
fcr Robert Wyatt Hall, ’65 archi-
Wure major from Fort Worth,
»lo was killed early Saturday
Sorning between Fort Worth and
Denton.
Hall, 17, died of injuries sus-
kined when his car overturned on
IS. Highway 377 near Roanoke.
He had been in Denton for a dance
Texas Woman’s University.
Three other Aggies with Hall
offered minor cuts and bruises in
tie accident. They were Hobart
Johnson, ’65 from Glenview, 111.;
Joe Becker, ’65 from Houston, and
am Haney, ’65 from Beau
mont.
Hall’s father, Dr. Wyatt M. Hall
uid after the accident he believed
lis son had fallen asleep at the
'heel.
Funeral services for the Com
pany B-l freshman was held yes
terday in Fort Worth.
large; the plug had caught a box
of old papers on fire.
“After it was out, someone
downstairs decided they better call
the fire department, and a few
minutes later, there were oodles of
firemen all over the place.
“An electrician also showed up,
and checked the plug wires; they
had burned about a foot into the
wall, but no real damage was
done.”
Fletcher said everything was re
paired yesterday by noon.
5A&M Ag Staffers
Attend Beef Course
Five members of the School of
Agriculture attended the recent
Beef Management Short Course in
Odessa and Alpine.
Cliff Bates, Tom Prather, Ed
bacek, L. A. Maddox and Garlyn
Hoffman were the delegates.
NSF Awards
Grant Here On
Frog Research
The National Science Founda
tion has awarded Doug Robinson,
graduate student in the Depart
ment of Wildlife Management, a
two year grant to study frogs be
longing to the family Leptodacty-
lidae.
Dr. Richard J. Baldauf, associ
ate professor in the department,
is chief investigator on the proj
ect.
Robinson, who is working on his
doctorate, will focus his studies
on the cranial anatomy of the
frogs.
Baldauf said the project is im
portant because the amphibians
have served as the revolutionary
stepping stones from water to land
in the development of air-breath
ing animals.
Kyle Field To Bar
All But Students,
Dates In Section
Only students with activity
cards and their dates will be al
lowed In the student section at fu
ture home games, Put Dial, busi
ness manager in the athletic of
fice, said today.
In the past persons with gen
eral admission tickets have also
been sitting in the student sec
tion, he said.
The move has been necessitated
by increased crowding in the stu
dent section, especially in the sen
ior section.
One of the West’s outstanding
military leaders, Maj. Gen. Arthur
C. Shortt, will speak on campus
tonight under the auspices of the
Department of History and Gov
ernment.
The 8 p.m. address in the Me
morial Student Center Ballroom
wdll be entitled “The Nature of the
Cold War.”
Assisting the Department of
History and Government in bring
ing Gen. Shortt to campus is the
British Consul-General in Hous
ton. Vice Consul A. V. Hayday
will accompany the general.
J. M. Nance, Head of the De
partment of History and Govern
ment, said Gen. Shortt’s range of
experience and responsibility make
him an authority on the lecture
subject. The speaker, immediately
before joining the British Infor
mation Service, was director of
British Military Intelligence and
subsequently director of public re
lations at the War Office.
Commissioned in the Royal En
gineers in 1916 at the age of 17,
he fought with the 36th Ulster Di
vision in the Ypres Salient, 1917;
served with the Royal Engineers
in India after the war until 1922;
assisted in surveying the Gold
Coast (now Ghana); graduated
from Senior Staff College at Min-
ley Manor, 1939; seiwed as staff
officer, 1st Division, British Ex
peditionary Force, World War II,
under Gen. Alexander, and spent
four days on the Dunkirk beaches;
directed technical training, British
War Office, 1943-44; went to
France in 1944 as commander of
the newly formed Army Group
Royal Engineer Formations and
fought with the Canadian Army
AIME To Hear
Drilling Lecture
The student AIME chapter and
advanced drilling engineering stu
dents will hear J. E. Brantly, a
distinguished lecturer of the So
ciety of Petroleum Engineers,
speak tonight.
Deadline Friday
For Degree
Applicants
Students planning to receive de
grees in January, 1962, must file
their applications for degrees be
fore Friday, according to H. L.
Heaton, director of admissions and
registrar.
Advanced degree candidates
must file applications with both
the Registrar’s and the Graduate
Dean’s office by Friday.
Health Officials Note
TB In Bryan Schools
Two positive reactions have been
found among the 376 school chil
dren who have been tested in the
tuberculin testing program in Bry
an schools.
Positive reactions indicate the
child has been in contact with
someone who has tuberculosis, but
it does not tell whether the germs
are actively working, Mary Mar
tha Collen, health unit TB nurse,
pointed out.
The testing project, which is
continuing this week, is sponsored
by the Brazos County TB Associa
tion health unit and the Bryan
schools. Christmas Seal Campaign
funds help pay for the program.
Thirty thousand sheets of
Christmas Seals to be used in this
year’s campaign have been deliv
ered to the TB Association office,
according to Mrs. Hickman Gar
rett Jr., campaign chairman.
The seals with appeal letters
will be readied for mailing to
Brazos County residents by volun
teers working from now until Nov.
13, the campaign’s opening date.
Brantly’s address, scheduled at
7:30 in the Petroleum Engineering
Building, will be on improvements
in the drilling industry.
Brantly is a founder of Drilling
and Exploration Co., Inc., of Dal
las, and a recipient of the Ameri
can Institute of Mining, Metallur
gical and Petroleum Engineers’
Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal in
1957.
After graduation from the Uni
versity of Alabama in 1915, he
served as assistant state geologist
of Georgia. From 1921 through
1928, he was chief foreign geolo
gist for the Atlantic Refining Co.
In 1929, he founded Drilling and
Exploration Co. Following his re
tirement in 1952, he became assist
ant deputy administrator of the
Petroleum Administration for De
fense for one year.
The society of Petroleum Engi
neers is a constituent society of
the AIME. This is the second year
the society has sponsored a “Dis
tinguished Lecturer Program,”
adding three more lecturers.
Who’s Who Box
Tampered With
Who’s Who nominations made
before last Friday will have to
be made again. Selection Com
mittee Chairman J Wayne Stark
said today.
All applications made before
last Friday were destroyed when
the application box was entered,
apparently maliciously. Stark
said.
under Gen. Simonds in the battle
of Falaise Gap, which climaxed
the Normandy campaign.
At war’s end, Gen. Shortt was
sent to Ankara as fortifications
advisor, a job studying the stra
tegic defense of Turkey. There
after, he spent three years as mil
itary attache in Athens, a period
covering most of the civil war. He
traveled throughout Greece and
worked closely with the British
Mission and later with the Ameri
can Mission, commanded by Gen.
Van Fleet.
Miss Jeffrey
Rejoins A&M
Research Staff
Miss Lela Mae Jeffrey, one of
the nation’s best known woman
oceanographers, has rejoined the
chemical oceanography section of
the Department of Oceanography
and Meteorology after four years
in the petroleum industry.
Now that she has returned, she
will be concerned with the study
of organic sea materials, Dr. Dale
F, Leipper, Head of the Depart
ment of Oceanography and Me
teorology, said today.
Miss Jeffrey was previously as
sociated with the department from
1951 through March, 1958. In
1954 she served as a research par
ticipant at the Oak Ridge Insti
tute of Nuclear Studies.
Known there as the South’s only
woman oceanographer, her work
was concerned with new methods
involving uranium and radiation
equipment for measuring the age
and origin of sea deposits.
She received her bachelor’s de
degree in physics from the Univer
sity of Texas and master’s degrees
in physiology and oceanography
from Texas and the Scripps Insti
tution of Oceanography.
Her research experience includes
two years at the University’s In
stitute of Marine Science, Port
Aransas, and experience with the
Southwest Research Institute as a
marine biologist.
Prior to returning to A&M, Miss
Jeffrey was assistant director of
the Petroleum Information Serv
ice at the University of Tulsa. She
is a member of the Sigma Xi,
graduate research society, the
American Chemical Society, the
American Geophysical Union and
a number of honor societies.
Dallas Man
To Address
Aggie Group
The regional manager of j»the
North Texas Area, Texas Manu
facturers Association, will speak
tonight at a 7:30 .meeting of the
A&M chapter of the Texas Society
of Professional Engineers in the
Chemistry Building.
He is Jim Stewart, a native and
resident of Dallas.
Stewart assumed his present po
sition after serving as manager of
the White Rock Chamber of Com
merce, assistant general manager
of the North Dallas Chamber of
Commerce, manager of the Gar
land Chamber of Commerce and
reporter and news editor of the
Garland Daily News.
He is a graduate of Southern
Methodist University and two
schools for Chamber of Commerce
executives.
School Dean Sees
Growth By ’64
The School of Arts and Sciences, the youngest degree
granting school on campus, may be the school’s largest with
in two years, Dean Frank W. R. Hubert predicted yesterday
to a Century Study group.
Hubert said enrollment trends in the past 15 years in
dicate the School of Arts and Sciences will have the largest
enrollment of the college’s four degree-granting schools by
1964.
For the past 15 years the School of Arts and Sciences
has been the fastest-growing school on the campus. Enroll
ment of students majoring in arts and sciences has increased
from 13 per cent of the total college enrollment in 1945 to 37
per cent this year.
Figures released this week
by Registrar H. L. Heaton
show 2,825 students enrolled
for major studies in arts and
sciences. That is 37 per cent of
the 1961 fall enrollment of 7,734.
The School of Engineering, the
college’s largest degree-granting
school, enrolled 3,051, or 39 per
cent. The School of Agriculture
enrolled 1,286, or 17 per cent. And
the School of Veterinary Medicine,
which has a controlled enrollment,
signed up 572, or seven per cent.
In the School of Arts and Sci
ences are the Division of Business
Administration and the depart
ments of biology, chemistry, eco
nomics, education and psychology,
English, geography, health and
physical education, history and
government, journalism, mathe
matics, modem languages, oceano
graphy and meteorology, physics
and religious education.
In addition to offering complete
programs in these areas of in
struction, the School of Arts and
Sciences also handle instruction in
the basic sciences, mathematics,
socia,! sciences and the humanites
for the schools of agriculture, en
gineering and veterinary medicine.
Two-thirds of the total instruc
tion taking place on campus was
carried out in the School of Arts
and Sciences during the 1660-61
school year.
Hubert pointed out that growth
in the School of Arts and Sciences
has been about equally divided be
tween the major classifications of
students—namely, liberal arts, sci
ences and business administration.
Newton Named
School Group
Officer-Elect
John W. Newton, vice-president
of the board of directors of the
A&M College System, has been
named president-elect of the na
tional Association of Governing
Boards of State Universities and
Allied Institutions.
He was elected at the recent an
nual meeting of the national as
sociation, at Lincoln, Nebraska.
He has been a member of the as
sociation’s executive committee for
the past year.
Newton is president of the Nor-
vel Wilder Supply Co., Beaumont,
and was formerly vice president
and general manager of Magnolia
Peti’oleum Refining Co., until his
retirement from that post. A na
tive of Bryan, Newton is a 1912
graduate of A&M.
Long a leader in the support of
higher education in Texas, New
ton served on the board of direc
tors of the system from 1944 to
1950 and was reappointed in 1959
to his present term. He also has
served as a member of the Texas
Commission on Higher Education.
Sweetheart Presented
Cadet Corps Commander Bill Cardwell places the tradi
tional kiss on 1961-62 Aggie Sweetheart Ann Edwards
during halftime sweetheart presentation ceremonies at
the A&M-TCU football game in Fort Worth Saturday.
Civilian Student Council President Doug Schwenk looks
on. Details of the 15-14 loss for the Ags is on page 4.
(Photo by Johnny Herrin)