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Tail Beta Pi Honor Society Initiates 53 New Members tot ham icisiom of frf A total of 53 engineering stu- ents were initiated into the Tau leta Pi Association Monday night. Election to Tau Beta Pi is rec ognition of a student’s scholarship, leadership and service to engineer ing. Initiation ceremonies and a ban- New Zealander To Lecture Here 1 State 1 tkei irraajf. a ivlid ore fa. ley ill es cits 1101111 A chemist from New Zealand, )r. F. B. Shorland, is scheduled to acture here Thursday. His topic or a Graduate Lecture Series pro- ram scheduled at 4 p.m. in the cal Sciences Lecture Room “Distribution of Fatty Acids in flaiit Lipids in Relation to Tax- nomy.” Shorland also is scheduled to ast fa tentioii 4 p. m< Friday in Room a litti iderinj. of he wel 10 Sovij e bee: t worlf jr roads le West promisf 114 of Keep Hall on the “Biosyn- jturesl les j s 0 f Mycolic Fatty Acids in lacteria.” The New Zealand scientist was Texas Swine breeders Plan reject Here curreil chanji -centet, retreat ) applf against ky sf the in- miunist world Texas swine producers have do ited 152 pigs to A&M as the first' ;ep toward financing a new hog aluation station here. T. D. Tanksley Jr., swine specia- st with the Texas Agricultural xtension Service, said the pigs ill be used in feeding trials to entify family strains with good ter size that make rapid, efficient lins and yield meaty carcasses. He said all income from sale of ,e . e hogs, except that needed for 5en ^ 31 ed and labor, will be placed in a nticapn sei , ve f unf j {. 0 k e used j n building e evaluation facility. The Texas Swine Breeders Asso- ition, which is sponsoring the oject, hopes that feed manu- cturers, meat packers, equipment ikers and others allied with the fine industry will help in financ- g construction of the station Tentative plans call for 100 pens pable of handling two animals each pen. Feeding demonstra- ns and evaluations will include !d conversion, carcass desirabili- efficiency of gain, etc., to pro- ie information for improving xas hog productivity and meati- ss. Tanksley said the estimated cost $20,000 to $25,000. Uingii Soviet md s4| rs, art art a* ility, it !onin» jsitioff irily as h thep the re- es^ ion? ither AK te !SF Awards Still >pen To Graduates Graduate students planning to ply for a National Science Foun- tion Graduate Fellowship should mit their applications as soon possible, Coleman M. Loyd, ,co- g Jp iinator of the A&M NSF Pro- am, said Monday. Friday, Jan. 4, is the deadline r applications to the program. '‘Applications should be put in mail right away,” Loyd stated, hey will have , to be sent to ashington D. C.,” he added. The NSF plans to award approx- ately 3,000 graduate fellowships, he apportioned between its grad- and cooperative programs, two programs differ in fin- dal arrangements. SENIORS here were no winners to my etter contest as there were no rtters received. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE AT A. AND M. BERNIE LEMMONS ’52 A NEW YEAR A NEW START Winter term begins Jan. 2 Day School Jan. 3 Night School Pick the Modern Road to Success flick, practical training leads to TOP OFFICE POSITIONS McKENZIE-BALD WIN BUSINESS COLLEGE iryan, Texas Dial TA 3-6655 awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1960. This honor was followed by his election to the presidency of the New Zealand In stitute of Chemists. In 1951, Shor land had been made a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has published approximately 125 original papers and has been invited to write for such reviews as the “Annual Reviews of Bio chemistry” and “Comparative Bio chemistry.” He was awarded the Imperial Chemical Industries prize in 1950 for his contributions to the devel opment of chemical science, and in the same year was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science in in dustrial chemistry at the Univer sity of Liverpool, the third such degree ever granted. Shorland, after receiving his Master of Science degree in New Zealand in 1932, was awai'ded a scholarship to study lipid chem istry under T. P. Hilditch at the University of Liverpool in Eng land. His special subject was New Zealand fish liver oils which he continued at Liverpool. He re ceived his PhD degree from the University of Liverpool in 1937. quet were held at the Briarcrest Country Club. Principal speaker at the dinner was Dr. Anton L. Hales of the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest, Dallas. Engineering students initiated into the honorary association were: Lavell Jordan, John Vanoy Moore, Thomas Beryl Tansil, Don ald Richard Schroeter, William S. Norris Jr., Jimmy L. Humphrey, Gary D. Schroeder, Jeffrey Claude Harp, Donald Thompson Hunter, Robert Arlin Hall, Robert Ernest Bryant, Jose Ed- wardo Martinez, Walter Ferrell Whatley, Thomas Alfred Hooker, James Lawrence Sartain, Edwin John Berkovsky, Donald Lawrence McMasters, Roger Wayne Alexan der, Paul Miles Beckham, Jesse C. Denton, Ralph Howard Mitchell Jr., Pu-Ning Sun, Charles Wilson Cockrell, Michael Albert McBrayer, David Harold Monteer, Kenneth J. Kutac, Jimmie Darrell Guy, Robert Arthur May, Joseph Arthur Thomas Jr., Charles Edward Wedemeyer, John Gilbert Williams, Robert Louis Thiele Jr., Homer Raymond Shinn, Roy L. Gentry Jr., Robert Lane Friedenwald, Stephen Gray Moore, Robert Thomas Loftus, Lon Hubert Pardue, Charles Franklin Allen Jr., Paul L. Landry, Keith Johnson Sim mons, Everette L. Tucker Jr., Capt. Everett Virgil Harrison, James Richard Griffin, Earl L. Hammerquist, Ardven L. Blythe, Timothy L. Thomas, Ed ward V. Kempt, Miguel Angel Sal- abarria and Ismael Gerardo Dam- bo len a.' College Station United Chest Incorporates, Makes Changes Directors of the *College Station United Chest Friday formally dis solved the association as it had existed for many years, adopted articles of incorporation and by laws for a chartered organization and voted to increase allocations to some agencies for 1963. On Dec. 12 the collection stood at $18,335.07, or 109 per cent of the $16,700 goal, treasurer Pieter Groot informed the directors. The board then voted to supplement the previous allocations by $1,616 for a new total of $18,316. This supplement will add $100 to the amount awarded to the Brazos Committee on Alcoholism, $100 to the Brazos County Youth Counseling Service, $50 to the Bryan-College Station Girl Scouts Area Council, $400 to the Boy Scouts of America. Also $100 to the Texas Rehabil itation Center, $500 to the Amer ican Red Cross and $366 to the Texas United Fund. Army Tells Of Plan To Move Refugees WASHINGTON <7P> — The Army disclosed today it is moving its Cuban refugee trainees from Ft. Knox, Ky. to an area with a cli mate a little more like that of their tropical homeland. The Army told Sen. Strom Thur mond, D-S. C., the move to Ft. Jackson in his state would begin Jan. 7. The refugees will be given Christmas leave from Dec. 18 to Jan. 3. They will return to Ft. Knox to be processed for the move. The Army said the training space now used by the Cubans at Ft. Knox will be used in the fu ture for regular training. It said the department believes a more effective training pro gram for the Cubans can be con ducted in the more temperate climate of Ft. Jackson. The tem perature there during the winter is 12 to 14 degrees higher than it is at Ft. Knox, the Army said. The training of Cuban refugees after voluntary induction was be gun in September. There are 1,751 in the program which is conduct ed in Spanish. FREE — FREE — FREE Register For CASH Prizes Given Away Daily. All Aggies, Faculty and Employees of A&M. Ellison Aggieland Pharmacy North Gate College Station Dr. John Calhoun, serving as temporary chairman while Dr. G. M. Watkins is out of the nation, accepted a motion that the for merly constituted United Chest transfer its assets and obligations to the newly chartered organization and that the old Chest then be dissolved. The new group then convened and elected officers to serve until the new fiscal year on June 1. Watkins was elected president, Calhoun first vice president, John Denison second vice president and Groot treasurer. A 15-member Board of Directors will be chosen from the slate of 18 serving with the previous Chest. Fresh m en In itia ted Into Phi Eta Sigma Seven A&M students have been initiated into Phi Eta Sig ma, national honor fraternity recognizing freshman scholar ship. To be eligible for membership in the fraternity, a student must have posted a 2.50 grade point average during his freshman year. The new members are: Charles L. Brittan, John M. CoVan, George R. Marshall, James N. Spence, George E. Bone, Duane V. Brandt Jr. and David S. Clifton. THE BATTALION Tuesday, December 18, 1962 College Station, Texas Page 3 IS YOUR GIRL INTELLECTUAL? The Facts About Mistletoe For Christmas Casanovas NEW YORK (IP)—A tip to the Casanova who wants to impress an intellectual girl this Christmas: When you catch her under the mistletoe: 1. Kiss her. 2. Tell her about mistletoe’s roots in folklore. Does she know that despite mis tletoe’s popular reputation as the yuletide promoter of romance, it also is known as a criminal killer of forests, and superstition credits the plant with still another evil role ? THE SUPERSTITION says that if the yuletide mistletoe bough isn’t removed from the house by Candlemas Eve—Feb. 1—each leaf left will produce a goblin to plague the careless occupants during the year. AMONG THE PROFS Chemist Gets $6,000 Grant From Canadian Committee Chemist eGts $6,000 A grant of $6,000 from the Selen ium-Tellurium Development Com mittee in Montreal, Canada, has been received by Dr. Ralph A. Zin- garo, an associate professor of chemistry. The grant will help finance re search in the chemistry of Group V selenides and tellurides and will help support a post-doctoral fel lowship in this area of inorganic chemistry, Zingaro said. The Selenium-Tellurium Develop ment Committee was formed by in dustrial companies interested in finding uses of the by-products of copper and zinc refining. ★ ★ ★ Dr. Robert E. Stevenson, a re search scientist at the Marine Laboratory at Galveston, has de scribed the “Steam Fog at Gal veston, Texas,” in “Weatherwise,” the bi-monthly publication of the American Meteorogical Society. The “smoking northers,” as they are colloquially called in Texas, occur late in the winter when Gulf tidewater temperatures have warmed up appreciably from the winter minimum. The “smoke” or steam fog follows a cold frontal crossing the bay area. Evaporation from sea water into colder overlying air in the polar regions is frequently rapid enough Conference Slated The Engineering Extension Serv ice will conduct a two-day staff conference at the YMCA Building Wednesday and Thursday. Members of the service’s various branches will attend. IDEAL GIFT This Unusual Imported Figurine Is Hand Painted In True Colors and Authentic In Detail. Mom, Sister or Your Girl Friend Would Love To Have This Handsome Texas Aggie. MEMORIAL STUDENT CENTER GIFT SHOP Price: $3.95 (Add 35j? For Mailing) to produce condensation known as steam fog. But conditions necessary for this to occur in other climatic areas are infrequent and such condi tions are rare enough in the sub tropics to be considered unusual, Stevenson said. ★ ★ ★ Two members of the Department of Poultry Science will participate in the National Turkey Federa tion meeting Jan. 8-10 at Denver, Colo. Dr. J. H. Quisenberry, head of the department, will report to the federation’s research committee on progress on a grant-in-aid for “De termination of Vitamin-A Require ments for Turkeys.” Quisenberry also will discuss trends in turkey breeding and need ed research on turkey production problems with breeders and pro ducers attending the federation’s annual meeting. George H. Draper will represent Texas at the National Turkey Im provement Plan committee meeting. The committee will formulate re commendations for a more uni form PPLO and Typhimurium Test ing Program. Their recommenda tions will go to the national coord inator of the National Turkey Im provement Plan of the U. S. De partment of Agriculture to estab lish uniform regulations from state to state. Draper also will repi’esent Texas on a National Random Sample Turkey Test committee at the federation meeting. ★ ★ ★ Dr. Robert E. Branson of the Department of Agricultural Eco nomics, is in Louisiana and Geor gia to discuss research work with the southern states’ experiment station personnel. The professor’s field of research is consumer marketing. He teach es consumer marketing and agri cultural price analysis. Branson will be at Atlanta through Thursday, where he will help plan new research on methods and effects of promotion of selected types of dairy products. The pro ject will follow previous research concerning consumer attitude and usage of various dairy goods. The program is expected to be come part of a nationwide effort to learn more about economic in put-output relationships in pro motion of food products. Branson will be in New Or leans Jan. 8-9 to help plan further beef marketing research. The use of mistletoe as a symbol of love, peacemaking and goodwill survives from the pre-Christian days of the ancient Scandanavian light god, Balder, whose palace stood in the Milky Way. The beloved Balder, according to myth, was slain by a mistletoe arrow but was restored to life through the intercession of the other gods. CUSTODY OF the mistletoe plant then was entrusted to the goddess of love who ordained that henceforth anyone passing beneath its bough should receive a kiss in token of love, not vengeance. As long as the mistletoe was held high it never could be used as a power for evil. Throughout the Middle Ages men believed that mistletoe pos sessed all kinds of magical powers to protect them from witches, un healed wounds and ailments. IN SOME German villages the yuletide green still is called gut hyl, or “all heal,” In Brittany, its berries still are crushed to produce oil for treating fever. In America, the bulk of the holi day decoration comes from the Carolinas, Tennessee and the Southwest. The white-berried plant also serves as a winter food supply for mockingbirds, robins, and wax- wings. These birds are responsible for spreading the seeds of the tree damaging parasite. P.S. If all this doesn’t impress the gild, try kissing her again. GARZA’S Restaurant GENUINE MEXICAN & AMERICAN FOODS 803 3. Main Bryan The Southwestern Stntes >■ Telephone Company