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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1963)
ates actioi ituation, ir themselve: no choice tion by tb of the neei is going t this Frenc Suez as h adership in ty. \ews ist :hool, 9:4; p, the Rev a.m.; even ntemediati 1YF, 6 p.mi on 1 has bee ucation as Methodii i is a nf ■ Rev. Byro le church, THE BATTALION Friday, January 4, 1963 College Station, Texag Page 3 NEW CHAPTER LOOMS AHEAD Science Hall Looks Back SCIENCE HALL campus relic to see another change Rate Change To Hit Wallets Uf Post Office Casanovas JURE By GERRY BROWN Battalion News Editor Campus Casanovas who do the ijority of their romancing- via i United States mail may lose iittle of their lightheadedness in eference to a lighter wallet as new set of postal rates goes into feet Monday. Although the rate increases will jlude boosts in the second and trd class mail rates, the average ^isumer and Joe College will feel e bite of the new rate in the ui-m of a penny increase in all irst class postage. gels” l&I Singing Group o Appear Monday The Texas A&I College Singers, mixed chorus representing the Cingsville school, will perform ilondhy night in Guion Hall. Sponsoring the appearance is the ilemorial Student Center Music fcommittee. The show is scheduled riME t'‘ 7:30 t p - m t - n , M rv .„ ) Dn-ected by Dr. Lowrence Mc- Ruerry, the group specializes in ’) lolk songs, operetta excerpts and other musical selections. lTROL' During 1960 the Texas A&I '"Singers were chosen by the De- LiWlnWI ar t men t Q f Army for a six • weeks tour of Army posts in ’—France and Germany. JNG ture FOR THOSE dense students who are in doubt as to what con stitutes first class mail, the new rate change will mean that as of Monday the student must put out five and four cents respectively for all regular letters and cards and eight and six cents respective ly for all airmail letters and cards. Letter writing romeos who feel that the new postal rates are ex cessive should take note that the new nickel rate recently enacted into law is the same postage rate Americans paid for letters when the United States issued its first postage stamps 115 years ago, ac cording to College Station Post master Ernest Gregg. “A NICKEL was a lot harder to come by in those days,” the post master added. Frugal - minded students who have laid up a large stock of pre stamped envelopes and postcards within the dark recesses pf their desks may still use them follow ing the change with the addition of a one cent stamp. For the defiant students who are determined to do a lot of writing this weekend to get in under the rate increase deadline, they may still use their four cent stamps on letters as long as the correspond ence is postmarked before mid night Sunday. A POSTAGE due charge will be assessed on all cards and let ters which are inadvertently sent with less than the required post age, Gregg stated. “The new five cent stamp will bear the picture of George Wash ington and will be printed in blue,” he said. A new chapter is about to be written in the history of an old- timer among Aggies, Science Hall. Erected in 1899-1900 as the Agri cultural and Horticultural Build ing, the structure gained a new purpose and name after extensive remodeling in the mid-1920s. The building took on a different atmosphere when the Biological Sciences Building was occupied in 1950. And now the $2,300,000 Plant Sciences Building has been built less than 100 yards away from the ancient structure. THE TWO-STORY brick build ing in the midst of the campus i-emains in the memories of thou sands of Aggies. Several hundred medical doctors and dentists re ceived an important part of their education in the old building. Courses required of students maj oring in agriculture and about ev erything else except engineering were taught there for years. “That building has paid for it self thousands of times,” a veteran professor said. “Lots of good men were trained over there.” The structure of semiclassical architecture is remarkable for sev eral reasons, Ernest Langford, college archivist and professor emei'itus of architecture, pointed out. . THE HALL IS the last princi pal building remaining of those built on campus in the nineteenth century,” Langford said. A&M was less than 25 years old and had only 400 students when con struction was started on the Agri cultural-Horticultural Building. March Of Dimes Now Underway The 1963 March of Dimes cam paign is currently underway in Bryan and College Station, C. E. Sandstedt, general chairman, an nounced Friday. The fund drive will continue throughout January. Highlight of the 1963 campaign will be the Mother’s March Jan. 31. Sandstedt said the 1963 funds will be used largely for research purposes, seeking cures for such diseases as polio, ax-thritis and birth defects. Among the local fund-raising activities, in addition to the Mo ther’s March, will be campaigns conducted by teenagers in the com munity, Sandstedt pointed out. Contributions will be accepted at basketball, games and down town traffic centers by teenagers later this month. Sandstedt also announced the names of various campaign com mittee chairmen. They include Robert McCorquo- dale, treasm'er; Mrs. Florence Hall, secretary; Judge W. C. Davis, edu cation and speaker’s bureau; M. E. Adams and Mrs. Florence Neeley, mailers; Tom Sweeney, special gifts; Jack Ashworth, teenagers; Leon Hayes, schools and colleges; Mrs. Helen Perry, special events. Knox Walker and Bill Sykes, coin collectors; C. D. Yancy and W. S. Tarrow, Negro division; and Dr. Horace Bass, advisor. Mrs. L. L. (Faye) Stuart and Mrs. J. A. (Pat) Oit will be in charge of the Mother’s March. BATTALION CLASSIFIED WANT AD RATES One day 3^ per word it per word each additional day Minimum charges—404 DEADLINE 4 p.m. day before publication Classified Display 804 Per column inch each insertion PHONE VI 6-6415 FOR RENT ICC I 111 ^* ce bedroom, ideal for one or two twin r.V H ®=dB. 3 large closets, private entrance and ILU ^ *hath. 709 East 24th. TA 2-8622. 50t3 I Four room house, 205 Lynn Dr., $35.00. 'Phone VI 6-7334. 50t3 I BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY 5 DEPENDABLE PARTY WANTED I To service a route of the newest [model, do it your-self tube testing [units, supplying fast moving R.C.A. 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All military personnel wh priate uniform. All military personne are candidates for the degrees, graduate or undergraduate, will wear the uniform only. Rental of caps and gowns may be ar ranged with the Exchange Store. Orders may be placed between 8:00 .ry 2 and 12:00 n< 12. The rental is nay be placed between 8:00 a. m., Wed nesday, January 2 and 12:00 noon, Satur day, January 12. The rental is as follows: Doctor’s cap and gown $5.25, Master’s cap $4.75, Bachelor's c re i 29 ie«e ment is required at the tin and gown $4.25. Hood rental for the cap and required in addit gov ion or's cap and gown is the same as that to the order. lx is rentals. Pay- me of placing 50t5 HOME & CAR RADIO REPAIRS SALES & SERVICE KEN’S RADIO & TV 303 W. 26th TA 2-2819 TYPEWRITERS Rentals-Sales-Service Terms Distributors For: Royal and Victor Calculators & Adding Machines CATES TYPEWRITER CO. 909 S. 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Despite the extremely short pe can crop last fall, show officials expect more than 500 entries to be judged. Entries numbered about 425 for the 1960 and 1961 shows when pecan production was closer to normal. J. Benton Storey, secretary- treasurer of the Texas Pecan Growers Association, associate A&M horticulture professor and show superintendent, said special features of the event will be se lection of the 1963 Texas Pecan Queen and awarding of the Col. P. L. Downs Sweepstakes Award. Storey said the Downs Award is a pecan wood plaque and will be presented to the show’s outstand ing exhibitor by Bell County pecan growers. The award memorializes the late Col. P. L. Downs of Tem ple, who encouraged the planting and development of better pecans. He said pecan entry winners and the queen will Be announced just before noon Saturday when the show ends. The conference is being held in the Memorial Student Center. Sponsors are the Texas Pecan Growers Association, A&M and the A&M Collegiate Chapter of the American Society for Horticultural Science. main doors of the building are the words “Agriculture” and “Horti culture.” The college catalogue for 1899-1900 relates in glowing terms the plans for the building. “THE LIVESTOCK room will permit the introduction of animal subjects for the purpose of class instruction,” it reads. “The butter and cheese room will contain the best dairy machinery. The canning and evaporating rooms will be equipped for the practical instruc tion of students in these lines of work.” Ice cream was made and sold at one end of the building, and brine left deposits of salt in the bricks. Birds pecking at salt through the years caused replacement of many bricks. Only one hitching ring re mains in place. The brick was handmade in a kiln near Hearne, Dr. C. C. Doak said. He attended classes in the building before World War I, and returned to teach in the Depart ment of Biology, a post he held until retirement in 1960. COMPLETION of the Agricul tural Building in the 1920s led to a new purpose for the old building. But before remodeling, the Texas Agricultural Extension Service temporarily headquartered there in 1924, Dr. Van A. Little recalled. He joined the entomology faculty in 1923 and officed in the building for 25 years. The biology, entomology and geology departments moved into the building in 1925, but the geolo gists did not remain long. Voc Ag Teachers From 20 Countries To Gather Here Area 3 vocational agriculture teachers will meet here Jan. 11-12 for their annual Mid-Winter Con ference. Area 3 takes in 20 counties from Harris north to Robertson, west to Fayette and southwest to Jackson. Lester Buford of Houston is area supervisor. The Department of Oceanogra phy and Meteorology was housed in the building for several years early in the 1950s. Since their departure, plant pathologists and physiologists have been the only occupants. Laboratory work in three courses continues until trans fer to the new Plant Sciences Building is completed. Short Courses In Many Fields Slated Here Texans interested in diverse sub jects such as public school admin istration, ag’riculture, polygraph machines (lie detectors) and trans portation will attend conferences here between now and the end of June. A total of 48 conferences scheduled tentatively assures a short course or conference for al most anyone. The tentative schedule was re leased by Frederick W. Hensel, as sistant director of the Placement Office and head df the Short Course Office. A&M departments serve as spon sors of many conferences. Others are sponsored by the Texas Agri cultural Extension Service or the Engineering Extension Service. The Texas State Pecan Show now underway is the first of 15 events scheduled during January, busiest month of the first half of the year. The tentative schedule lists four short courses planned in February, eight during March, nine in April, five in May and seven in June. The conferences or short courses attract all the way from a dozen or so persons to the approximately 2,000 4-H Club members who at tend the annual 4-H Roundup each June. Many conferences last for only two or three days, but some such as the Executive Development Course will be in progress for two weeks or longer. «8rf), toic tfebon toags tott Slmertfeaner frier frafren unb mit ifrnen jusammeti arbeiten.” • JOBS WORLD WIDE “There are thousands of indi vidual opportunities for jobs, study and travel abroad, summer (1-3 months) or longer,” accord ing to M. Galtier, Princeton Re search Corporation. PRC has recently completed a SPECIAL report which describes more than 30 organizations offering opportunities to work, study or travel world-wide. ISTC—THE INTERNATION AL STUDENT TRAVEL CEN TER, Incorporated, was one of the organizations reviewed. “The ISTC — together with SITA (founded in 1933 as the STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL ASSOCIATION), and ISIS (The International Stu dent Information Service — Switzerland) appears to have the most complete and reasonably- priced American educational job, study and travel program cur rently offered,” M. Galtier said. “The goal of the INTERNA TIONAL STUDENT TRAVEL CENTER is to provide stimulat ing work and travel experience programs abroad. “ISTC is the U. S. Representa tive for ISIS. ISIS guarantees employment for students (age 16-35) and teachers (no age lim it) desiring to work abroad ttvo weeks or longer. ISIS also coor dinates transportation for ISTC members. ISTC has selected SITA to make all land arrange ments for its 1963 JOB SEMI NAR Programs in Paris and London. All programs include paying jobs, orientation seminar and tour. A typical seminar ranges in cost from $130 (with out transportation) to $789 (in cluding round-trip jet transpor tation from NYC to Paris or London). Only $20 is required for ISTC membership. Travel grants to $500 are available for ISTC members. “SITA, except for two large travel-banking establishments (Cook’s and American Express), is by far the largest, most exten sive. and the most experienced travel organization in the world. More than 25,000 persons from 50 states and 46 foreign lands have participated on SITA trips . . . 90% of them on the recommen dation of previous tour members. “Available jobs include sales, farm, resort-hotel (life guards, waiters, etc.), factory, construc tion, hospital, child care, model ing, camp counseling and others. They pay the standard wage of the country in which they are lo cated. Wages range from board and room only in a Spanish work camp to $190 a month in a West German factory. “While most of the positions available in 1963 for unskilled work with minimal or no lan guage qualifications are in Eu rope, ISIS will endeavor to place requests for work world-wide (more than 50 countries in Asia, Africa, The Middle East, Latin America, etc.).” As an example, M. Galtier mentioned the recent experience of Thomas W. Houghton, Math ematics Major, Princeton Uni versity ’65, who worked in a Ger man factory this summer. Mr. Houghton is one of many stu dents ISTC has arranged pro grams for. Tom said, “The op portunity to meet and know people, and their invariable spir it of cooperation, was wonderful. With the money I earned in six weeks I was able to support my self eight weeks. I made contacts that I will enjoy the rest of my life. The whole program cost me less than most people pay for round-trip transportation to Paris. It was a rewarding experi ence for me, and I only hope that others will have the same opportunity.” The new 1963 ISTC JOB SEM INAR brochure can be obtained by sending 200 to: The INTER NATIONAL STUDENT TRAV EL center, 39 Cortlandt St, NY 7, NY.