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THE EMTALTON Page C College Station, Texas Thursday, July 12, 19G2 Professor, Wife Learn Bengali How do you say “building” in Bengali ? The word is “dalan,” and that is just one of the hundreds of new words a architecture instructor and his wife are learning in prepara tion for a two-year stay in East Pakistan. James Walden, his wife, Joan, and their two children left Tuesday (July 10) for Decca, East Pakistan. Bengali is the language of east ern India and of East Pakistan. About 60 million people speak it. Helping the Waldens to prepare for hurdling the language barrier was Mrs. Sumitra Banerjee, wife of a doctoral student in agriculture. “We’ve been undergoing a month of intensive instruction,” says Wal den, who will teach architectural design at the East Pakistan Uni versity of Engineering and Techno logy at Dacca. “Mrs. Banerjee has really been a task master in teaching us essent ials of Bengali,” he added, This in- TYPEWRITERS Rentals-Sales-Service Terms Distributors For: Royal and Victor Calculators & Adding Machines CATES TYPEWRITER CO. 909 S. Main TA 2-6000 YOUR DISTRIBUTOR FOR » EICO KITS 9 Garrard Changers P HI-FI Components P Tape Recorders Use Our Time Payment Plan BRYAN RADIO & TV TA 2-4862 1301 S. College Ave. eluded first learing to read the complicated Bengali alphabet and then how to speak hundreds of important woi’ds and sentences. Of great help is a Bengali-Eng- lish dictionary compiled here which is the first ever written to show the Bengali words in a phonetic transcription. It was authored by Dr. J. A. Dabbs, professor of mod ern languages, with the help of Mrs. Banerjee. Walden will teach at the newly- created East Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology under an intercollege Exchange program sponsored by the U. S. State Department’s Agency for In ternational Development. He will join with Richard Vroo- man, another A&M architecture teacher, and two other men to form the first faculty in archi tecture and planning at the new university. “We will teach at the East Pak istan university for a period of time while Pakistani students com plete graduate work in engineer ing and architecture in the Unit ed States and then return to be come members of the faculty,” Walden said. A&M currently has 16 men as signed to teach engineering, ax-chi- tecture, agriculture, and account ing- at various new colleges in Pak istan, said Dr. Jack D. Gray, co ordinator for the Foreign Pro grams Office. Walden will teach architectural design to both new students and advanced engineering students at the East Pakistan school. He and his family will fly to Dacca by way of Hawaii, Japan, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Thailand, and Calcutta. The great majority of American Indians learned the practice of scalping their slain foes from the white man. Scalping spread rapid ly among Indians when European rivals in the Northeast began offer ing bounties for enemy trophies. WMm. Musial and President Meet President Kennedy shakes hands with Stan ton. At center is Baseball Commissioner Musial, St. Louis Cardinal Veteran, before Ford Frick. (AP Wirephoto) the start of the All-Star g-mnes in Washing- Read Battalion Classifieds Daily Scientists Find Control For Weevils A&M scientists have come across a new angle in the application of atomic energy to control of cotton boll weevils. The system involves a laboratory diet to which radioactive phos phorus (P-32) has been added. If there is enough P-32 in the wee vil diet, the result is sterile males and females. Dr. James R. Brazzel, professor of entomology and graduate stu dent M.S. Mayer, discovered the system while trying to “tag” wee vils with radioactive isotopes. Tag ging the insects would enable the entomologists to study migratory habits more efficiently. In other words, the scientists could use geiger counters to ferret out wan dering, “hot” weevils and deter mine just how far and where the bugs travel. There are now three approaches to controlling weevils by steriliza tion. In addition to the new P-32 idea, there is the method of expos ing weevils to gamma radiation from Cobalt-60. The third way is chemical sterilants, which are ap plied like insecticides. This latter project is being studied by the U. S. Department of k at A&M. Brazzel, however, is ot excited with P-32, althoi® it holds promise. He sti the Cobalt-60 treatmentln is easier and more pratt: weevil-tagging techniquf, is more important than covery that P-32 will cat' lity. 7o\ LI PARDNER You’ll Always fi The Showdown When You Get Your Duds Dom At ; 1 I ;rib CAMPUS pev CLEANERS**? TV Show Will Show Work Of Meteorologists A special TV show on hoAV A&M meteorologists are utilizing films from the TIROS satellites for re search on Gulf-area weather will be presented on KBTX-TV at 6 p.m. Sunday. Dr. A. H. Thompson, associate professor of meteorology and oceanography, will be interviewed about his research in photo inter pretation of cloud patterns trans mitted from a TIROS camera some 450-miles above the Gulf area. A 15-minute movie will also be included in the show. It was prod uced by the National Aeronauti cal and Space Administration to explain how the TIROS project contributes to long-range weather forecasting techniques. Hasyour family outgrown One Phone? enjoy a SECOND PHONE If the telephone users in your home have suddenly /‘mushroomed” — children growing up, grandma and grandpa now living with you—a second tele phone could be the ideal answer to your problem. A second phone is superb convenience. You can use the phone whenever you want to—friends’ and business calls always reach you. Our Business Office will be glad to help you. The Southwestern States Telephone Company ;sci .inis T U.S.D.A. 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