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Che Battalion Gridders Meet The Press.«. See Page 4 Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1962 Number 136 | M ore Research Called Key To Improving U. S.’s Needs rtum'ty a crooii e is lit would i bet- while t!j accompl did ptt should M |p|b i . - * /-fe :mmn J ^ DR. MICHAEL SZABUNIEWICZ .. . leaves behind blustery career New Professor Not A Dull Boy A new faculty member in the School of Veterinary Medicine may find A&M a little . dull compared to his life during- the last 25 years. Dr. Michael Szabuniewicz, a citi zen of Belgium, will do physio logical and pathological research here after a blustery career that saw World War II chase him out of Poland and the Congo revolu tion almost catch him and his family on unsafe grounds. Szabuniewicz, \yho was born in Poland, peacefully received his de gree from a veterinary college in Lembzerg, Poland. But then the fun began. In 1935, he began what was to become 10 years of military serv ice. His early military duties in- ■volved working with horses—an important part of the pre-World War II .Polish army. Extremely cold temperatures in the eastern parts of Poland caused the Army to prefer use of horses to mech- inized equipment. THE VETERINARY officer was among 35,000 Polish officers taken prisoner during Hitler’s march on Poland and among the first to be imprisoned in northeast Germany. Appeals to prison officials and eventually to the International Red Cross brought about the evacuation of Scabuniewicz and his fellow-prisoners in 1944 to a point just west of Holland. The prisoners were marched al most 1,000 miles to the release point and were forced to eat potatoes and horses along the three-month journey. According to Szabuniewicz, only 120 men Were lost. After liberation from prison, Szabuniewicz and his colleagues Were inducted, into the British forces as the Free Polish Army. WITH THE END of the war Belgian government officials ap pointed Szabuniewicz to a research Post in the Belgian Congo. At an experimental farm in Katanga ; Province, he conducted research on the improvement of dairy and beef rattle by crossings with Indian breeds, notably the Brahman or zebu. Unlike the visitor to Africa w T ho en joys the safari for its opportuni ties for big game hunting, Sza buniewicz found the “big game” Student Senate Gives Donation For Scholarships The Student Senate has pre- ■ s cnted A&M’s Development Fund $2,000 to be used for 12th Man Opportunity Award scholarships. Fund Executive Director E.E. McQuiilen accepted the donation. The money represents profit from the last three annual 12th Man Bowl football game’s. The Raines are played yearly bet- tween Army and Air Force stu dents, but last spring saw the Corps pitted against civilians. Since the annual clash began in 1950, eight students have gra duated on 12th Man scholarships. Another is currently attending school on such a grant. merely a nuisance as he went on his research trips through the jungle area. Killing lions and elephants was necessary, not necessarily sport. Other animals, such as buffalo and antelope, were killed when they were carriers of anthrax and anaplasmosis or harborers of the tse-tse fly, which causes sleeping- sickness. IN 1957 Szabuniewicz spent half of his vacation time in training and research in the U. S. under sponsorship of the state depart ment, department of agriculture and the Land-Grant colleges. He was working with other scientists on the program “New Develop ments in Veterinary Medicine.” In his work in the Congo Sza buniewicz traveled to various schools, both church-sponsored and government-sponsored, to advise them on animal disease problems. Under the Belgian system at that time, schools were visited often by specialists who advised the people on one aspect of living. According to Szabuniewicz, pa tience would have prevented the 1960 Congo crisis. The Belgian government, he said, “was work ing toward making the people self- governing. SZABUNIEWICZ blames Com munist-trained Congolese natives for the uprising, which blew out of proportion just two days after Szabuniewicz and his family left Katanga on a six months’ vaca tion. They scurried home, loaded as many of their possessions as they could and hurriedly fled. Their car, furniture and many other prized possessions were left behind. Szabuniewicz then brougTit his family to the United States, where last year he was employed by the department of agriculture in Memphis, Tenn. He worked six months on animal disease and then the remainder of the year in meat inspection. The new faculty member can fluently speak Polish, French, Russian, English, German and African Swahili. He is the author of some 20 technical articles in German, French and Polish on horses, dogs, cattle, swine and chicken. YMCA Fish Camp Opens Saturday More than 200 freshmen are ex pected on campus Saturday to re gister and then board busses for the ninth annual YMCA Freshmen Camp. The camp will be held on the Lakeview Assembly grounds near Palestine. A full schedule is plan ned from Saturday afternoon until the group returns to the campus Tuesday morning. Sept. 11. Basic goals of £he Freshman Camp are to help the entering stu dent make the transition to cam pus life and .to help the student find meaning in academic and ex tra-curricular life. Freshmen selected on the basis of their high school records are in vited to attend the camp. Hsiness Executive Accepts New Post To Head Personnel The appointment of Clark C. Munroe of Wichita Falls to the newly-created post of director of personnel was announced Thurs day by Tom D. Cherryj director of business affairs. Munroe assumed his duties this week, leaving- the post of district traffic superintendent at Wichita Falls for Southwestern Bell Tele phone Co. “The new office will enable us to centralize many of our exisiting personnel activities, particularly those involving classified employ es,” Cherry said. “This will allow other offices and departments more time for their own specialized func tions.' We expect to improve mater ially the use of the many skills available on the campus through the efforts of this new position.” Munroe graduated from A&M in in 1950 with a major in business administration, and is the author of numerous articles in profession al journals. His assignments prior to accept ing the post here include a broad range of personnel, administrative and technical activities, He had been with Southwestern Bell since 1954. Munroe served in the Navy as an enlisted man following graduation from Alamo Heights High School, San Antonio, in 1943, and as an Army oficer following graduation from A&M. He is a captain in the U. S. Army Reserve and holds the Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Purple Heart, the Presidential Unit Citation with Oak Leaf Clust er and the Republic of Korea’s Dis tinguished Service Medal. While a student here, Munroe was co-editor of The Battalion, a member of the Ross Volunteers, the Student Life Committee and was chairman qf the Southwest Confer ence Sportsmanship Committee. As a senior; he was named to Who’s Who in American College and Uni versities. Munroe currently serves as one of two class agents for the Class of 1950. His assignments with Southwest ern Bell included that of senior staff supervisor for Southwestern Bell’s Houston Division and senior staff engineer in the company’s Dallas area office. Mr. and Mrs. Munroe have two children, Mike, age 5, and Martha, 3. fJL CLARK C. MUNROE Centennial Guests Hear Three Talks The United States has enough land and water to meet long-time future needs—“if we apply present knowledge gained through research and if we continue to gain new re search knowledge and to apply it.” This prediction and conditional “if” were made here Wednesday by T. C. Byerly, administrator of the U. S. De partment of Agriculture’s Co-Operative State Experiment Station Service. He was one of the main speakers at the Texas Commemoration of the Centennial of Land-Grant Col leges and the USDA held in Sbisa Dining Hall. Speaking to an estimated 750 persons attending the cen tennial, he said there is certainly enough land and water for the next generation at least,^ Battalion Makes Changes A quick glance at the top of your Battalion for today will easily confirm that we indeed have made changes. Our new masthead, used for the first time in this issue, is of a Withrow type face that we hope will help to add unity to our pages. The masthead will be used in five, six and seven-column widths with and with the college seal and the smaller notice that you see to the right of today’s masthead. In addition, this issue marks the final weekly summer issue for this year. Next Thursday the annual Back to School Issue will be printed, with the. regular daily schedule begin ning the following Tuesday, Sept. 18. As in the past, The Battalion will be published on Tues days, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays during the regular term beginning Sept, 17. _ • , - '■ r : ' ! ' r ’ r ’ Students’ Arrival Only Days Away Over 2,000 freshmen will arrive next week, some as early as this Sunday, for the opening of another academic year. All freshmen will be here by Wednesday, with those planning to attend the special counseling and testing program to arrive Sun day. New Student Week will begin Wednesday, with a full calendar of events planned through the re mainder of the week. In addition many upperclassmen, especially those holding command positions in the Corps of Cadets, will be here all week after attend ing the commander’s conference Monday morning. They will stay on to assist the beginning fresh- v.-. •. 1 wM m men, then to register either Fri day or Saturday. Freshmen will receive room as signments, keys, uniform authori zation and check in to their re spective commanders Wednesday before a 7 p.m. general assembly in G. Rollie White Coliseum. All new students will meet with representatives of the various schools Thursday morning and then begin registration at Sbisa Hall Thursday afternoon, Registration of beginners will be completed by Friday noon. Thursday night local area minis ters will meet with the newcomers in another assembly in G. Rollie White. Then at 1:15 p.m. Friday all beginers will meet with Dean of Students James P. Hannigan. Following this will be meetings with corps and civilian freshmen, respectively, with Commandant Col. Joe E. Davis and Director of Stu dent Affairs Bennie A. Zinn. The new students will be free after these Friday afternoon meet ings until classes begin the follow ing Monday morning. In the meantime, upperclassmen will be ariving Friday and Satur day for registration. Some will re gister Friday afternoon, with the others completing enrollment pro cedures during the day Saturday. even though U. S. population may double by the year 2000. “We need research in eco nomics, social sciences, biolog ical science and engineering sci ence on multiple use of land and water, of use for forest, wildlife and open space, and of the inter action of these uses and agricul tural use,” Byerly said. The centennial observance cele brated two 100-year-old acts of far-reaching’ consequences to the U. S. The acts, approved by Presi dent Abraham Lincoln, establish ed the U. S. Department of Agri culture and the land-grant college system. Portions of the public do main were set aside by the federal government for establishment and support of the schools. A&M is Texas’ land-grant college. Byerly praised the co-operative activities of the land-grant colleges and the USDA. Continued co-op- eration will be required, he said, to solve such research problems as more efficient use of sunlight, water, carbon dioxide and mineral nutrients in the photosynthetic process. “Presently, we use perhaps 1 per cent of the sunlight that falls on growing plants. Use of more effici ent plants, more effective cultural practices and optimal application of water and fertilizer could multi ply photosynthetic efficiency by five times,” he said. Localizing his increased reseai’ch theme, Byerly told the group that parasites of all kinds are more or less host-specific. That is, they usually attack one type of animal or plant. The boll weevil, for ex ample, bothers only one economical ly important plant — cotton. “Can we induce mutations, or find them, that would make the boll weevil prefer Johnson Grass? Why not?” he asked. The Blacklands area of Texas, he said, has the chronic problem of low cotton yields. He suggested that a new and radical approach, such as beef cattle production, may be the answer. Another speaker, W. E. Morgan, president of Colorado State Uni versity, also praised the land-grant college system and said that true progress lies in mass education. He said that the system makes (See CENTENNIAL on Page 3) New Courses Called Success By Officials College officials today described as “most successful” the series of two-day conferences held through out the summer for entering stu dents. The two-pronged program was planned to assist both the recent high school graduate entering col lege for the first time and the transfer or junior college gradu ate. Separate sessions were held for the two groups. Limited en rollment allowed the greatest pos sible individual attention. The program is described as the most extensive plan of its type in Texas. Attendance at these sessions was voluntary, but a sizable majority of entering students took advant age of the opportunity. Students who had summer jobs or come from out-of-state will be attending the final session immedi ately before the start of the nor mal academic year. “We are quite pleased with the response of the students,” Clifford H. Ransdell, chairman of the New Student Week program, said. “We’ve talked with about three* fourths of the new students and are confident they will be off on ‘the right foot’ with the opening of the semester.” He also observed that “having accomplished so much during the summer means these students will face fewer long lines during their first few days on campus.” Ransdell pointed out that “a nice number of junior college and transfer students have taken ad vantage of their periods to visit the campus.” Parents were “cordially invited” to accompany their sons. ■■ Program For A&M Released O During ‘Operation Hometown’ Man Still Primitive day.^Here G dV^ L" Y* 0f measurement are still used to- dustrial Ertn^Vi™ ' J Hawl i ms of Department of In- look at primitive scales*tfn'in t u StU<,ent G , ene Strandberg ' todav In th^ i i " m ' Use 111 rura l areas of Asia story on P^: sT ™' ^ eal ' ,y - day t0 ° ,S - <See Details of A&M’s program at Saturday’s “Operation Hometown, Texas” have been anounced by Dean of Agriculture R. E. Patter son. The overall project is designed to give smaller towns an oppoi’- tunity to know more about their state government. The state gov ernment will be moved to El Campo Saturday, the hometown of Sena tor Clup Krueger, president pro tempore and acting lieutenant governor. Krueger will be acting as “governor for a day.” According to Patterson, five men will represent A&M to outline col lege services to Texas’ small com munities, business, agriculture and industry. Speakers and subject areas are W. J. Graff, dean of instruction, teaching division; F. J. Konecny, Texas Engineering Extension Serv ice; Dan Pfannstiel, Texas Agri cultural Extension Service; J. R. Bradley, Texas Engineering Exper iment Station; and B. H. Nelson, Texas ..Agricultural ..Experiment Station. Patterson said the college has constructed a program exhibit which will show how A&M trains students, how it solves a wide vari ety of problems through research and how it extends information to citizens. The speakers will be on the program between 2 and 4 p.m. Aggie Is Tops Air Force Cadet Frank M. Townsend Jr., ’63 from Har wood, has been presented the Air Force ROTC Com mandant’s Award at Otis Air Force Base, Mass. Town send was chosen the top cadet at Otis AFB for the July 29-Aug. 5 period.