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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1961)
in:-:::-::-:-::-:*:-::-:-:;-:-;-:-:-: T" Livestock Surveys Due In Post Office A number of patrons of the Col lege Station Post Office will find livestock survey cards in their post office boxes Nov. 1G. These tards are distributed at random among persons having livestock and poultry. “Information reported on these tards is used to set the yearly in ventory of livestock and poultry on Texas farms,” said Postmaster Ernest Gregg. Facts and figures secured in this survey are the basis for the Texas and National pig crop re port and inventories of the live stock and poultry on farms the first of the year. Stockmen and many others use this information in making business decisions. Survey results will be widely distributed through Texas crop and livestock reporting service releases, newspapers, farm maga zines, radio and television. “This annual survey has been a joint undertaking of the post office and the agriculture depart ments since 1924,” Gregg added. In concluding, Gregg stressed COMING AROUND FAIRFAX, Va. CP)_The county of Fairfax plans to bring its zoning ordinance into line with reality by giving Lena S. Carter approval of a store in a residential zone. The store has been there for 100 years. the importance of everyone who gets a card returning it filled out so that USD A can get a true sample of the state’s livestock holdings. Bryan Freshman Wins National Wildlife Award Buddy Francis, ’65, has been named winner of the State’s 1961 4-H Wildlife Conservation Awards Program, and will receive a $1,200 college scholarship. Francis is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Francis of Rt. 1, Bryan. He became interested in wildilfe conservation after hearing a coun ty agent’s program on game man agement. After a population survey of the wildlife on the Francis farm, he started a program to provide food and cover for birds and ani mals. He also solved the problejn of white-tail deer eating truck crops by putting out food and minerals for them. He then stocked the farm’s ponds with several species of fish. “4-H work has been a great benefit to me because it has pre pared me to lead a useful and productive life,” Francis said. . Doggie With A Sulky Greta, a nine-year-old Dachshund, is sort that looks like a sulky used in harness rac- of half dog and half wagon, with her hind ing. She is the pet of Mr. and Mrs. George quarters paralyzed by a slipped disc. Gerta C. Doherty of Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Wire- gets around with the aid of a contraption photo) In the 1959 Tournament of Champions at Las Vegas, Gary Player shot a 301 to finish 22nd in a field of 26. “All I have to do is fly to St. Louis and back and then . > 1 ; KING j 1 (■iGAl^ETTES liaOITT c, MVIW* TO«ACCO CO I’m initiated ?” 21 GREAT TOBACCOS MAKE 20 WONDERFUL SMOKES! AGED MILD. BLENDED MILD - NOT FILTERED MILD -THEY SATISFY AMONG THE PROFS THE BATTALION Wednesday, November 8, 1961 College Station, Texas Page 3 New Economics Professor Acts As Foreign Counsultant A new member of the Depart- tries, ment of Economics faculty, I. O. Linger, is acting as a consultant for the Office of Foreign Pro grams this year to A&M’s tech nical personnel who are to leave for work overseas. Linger, a specialist in interna tional trade and money and bank ing, will try to promote a better understanding of the economic problems of the foreign countries to which technicians are being sent, Dr. A. F. Chalk, head of the Department, said today. As a part of a Ford Foundation project, Linger will spend next summer in India and Pakistan in a five-year program related to economic problems of these coun- Another new member of the eco nomics faculty, J. J. Treacy, is completing research in the field of national income analysis. REWARD $1.00 Offered For Pictures Of Aggie Bonfire (any size) Paid upon acceptance. Send or bring To: ALPHA DELTA SIGMA Dept, of Journalism Texas A&M Cochran Attends Chicago Meeting Dr. Robert G. Cochran, head of the Department of Nuclear Engi neering, met today with the re search reactor sub-committee of the National Academy of Sciences in Chicago, 111. As chairman of the subcommit tee, a part of the National Re search Council and National Acad emy of Sciences, Cochran will also serve on a panel that will discuss “Operation of Research Reactors on University Campuses.” This panel is part of the Amer ican Nuclear Society winter meet ing currently in session in Chi cago. ★ ★ ★ Dr. Roy A. Axford, associate professor of nuclear engineering, will discuss “Photon Penetration Theory” at the weekly nuclear en gineering seminar Friday in the W. T. Doherty Petroleum Engi neering Building. The meeting will begin at 4 p.m. in Room 211 and is open to all interested students and faculty. Axford came to A&M in 1960 after heading the theoretical reac tor physics group for Atomics In ternational in California. He hold bachelor degrees from William College and Massachu setts Institute of Technology and SM and ScD degrees from MIT. ★ ★ ★ “Food and the Future” will be the subject of an address Friday in Dallas by Dr. A. V. Moore, professor in the Department of Dairy Science. Moore will speak to the Dallas- Fort Worth Dairy Technology So ciety. ★ ★ ★ Dr. I. I. Peters, associate pro fessor in the Department of Dairy Science, has been elected president of the Texas Branch of the Amer ican Society for Microbiology for 1962. The scientist was named to the post during the society’s recent fall meeting at Austin. He is a past vice-president. ★ ★ ★ Dr. I. W. Rupel and Dr. M. A. Brown, both of the Department of Dairy Science, participated in a recent joint meeting at Belts- ville, Md., of the S-49 and^NC-2 Regional Research Technicar Com mittees. One of the main speakers was Dr. J. 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