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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-
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)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
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flaiit Lipids in Relation to Tax-
nomy.”
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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.
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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.
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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
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Success
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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.
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All Aggies, Faculty and
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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.
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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.
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