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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, May 21, 1963
THE BATTALION
Plant Scientists To Study
Causes Of Live Oak Deaths
Texas’ stately live oak trees,
often symbols of strength and
longevity, are dying off in some
areas from a malady yet to be
identified.
A&M plant scientists have start
ed a research program to determine
the ailment’s nature and how it can
be controlled. In the meantime,
the mystery has been assigned the
catch-all pame of “Live Oak De
cline.”
Whatever the trouble is, it’s
playing hob with the live oak popu
lation in an area bounded on the
east by Jasper County, on the west
by Kimble, Menard and Taylor
counties, on the north by Young
and Delta counties, and appropri
ately on the south by Live Oak
County.
STOCKMEN WITH live oak-
infested pastures are not especially
worried about the situation, since
Quercus virginiana can choke out
grass almost as efficiently as
mountain cedar and mesquite. But
when ornamental oaks in yards,
parks and along highways start
dying, the citizens complain.
So worrisome is the problem that
the Texas Legislature has even
provided funds to see what can be
done. The money enabled Dr.
Robert Halliwell, assistant profes
sor in the Department of Plant
Sciences, to begin Live Oak De
cline research about a year ago.
Halliwell considers the legisla
ture’s action a milestone because
it marks the first time the state
has appropriated money for orna
mental plant research.
“ONLY A FEW states have done
this,” the scientist said. “Orna
mental shrubs and trees are big
business, and this is the first real
recognition the industry has re
ceived so far as x'esearch is con
cerned.”
Actually, Halliwell is not the
first researcher to study the De
cline mystery. In 1934, A. A.
Dunlap and A. L. Harrison, A&M
plant pathologists, noted the con
dition in the San Antonio and
Austin areas. Lack of funds
limited their investigation. The
same two workers described the
disease and effects in 1949. Halli
well is taking up where they left
off.
He says symptoms of the disease
vary. Leaves may first show yel
lowing, followed by death of certain
branches or the entire tree. In
this case, leaves usually do not
fall, and death is rather sudden
(one to two weeks).
MORE OFTEN, the decline is
slow, taking one or more years
before the tree dies. At first there
is thinning of the leaves and die-
back of isolated branches. The
condition progresses until defolia
tion is complete. Dark streaks
often are seen in badly affected
limbs and trunk specimens.
Halliwell is suspicious that a
virus is the villain. He and his
co-workers are attempting to trans-
Dr. Kemler Receives Awari
At Annual AYMA Banquet
Cadets Hosted By Colonel Langford
Colonel Robert I. Langford, right, support Group Com
mander, 4130th Strategic Wing of SAC, Bergstrom AF
Base, Austin, is shown with Cadet Richard L. Railston.
Railston, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. A .Railston of El Paso,
was recently named deputy commander of the A&M Corps
of Cadets for the coming year. Col. Langford, Class of
’41, hosted a group of Air Force cadets and took them on
a tour of the SAC base with a flight in a Boeing KC-135.
mit the disease from one live oak
to another under controlled condi
tions in an effort to prove the
virus theory.
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WINNER'S CIRCB.IE
Coming next fail... a new DM GRAND PRIX50 for 1963-64!
Add your name to this growing circle of winners!
Fsna! Lap ConsoEataor? Prize Winners! TerrsIP©$t Winners...Laps 1, 2, 3!
Louis J. Lobsinger
U. of Detroit
Roger E. Gorlicki
De Paul II.
Stuart Strenger
Georgia State
Stanley J. Foust
U. of Oklahoma
Judson K. Farnsworth
Northeastern U.
Raymond T. Joyce, Jr.
Bryant College
John C. Lavcry
U. of Kansas
Linda Ivancovich
San Jose State
Cheryl A. Moore
Portland State
FOR THE
CONSOLATION
PRIZE WINNERS
RCA Victor’s
4-speed port
able stereo
hi-fi set,
“The Waltz.”
Consolation Prize Winners...Laps 1,2, 3!
FIRST LAP
Hubert F. Tett
Iowa State
Billy 0. Farris
Sam Houston State
William L. Bradley
Louisiana State
Charles Perry, Jr.
Providence College
SECOND LAP
John M. Mulcahy
,IJ. of Connecticut
Michael B. Reed
Ursinus College
Baxter Myers, Jr.
Stephen F. Austin State
George F. Smith
San Jose State
Harold L. Schild
P. of Illinois
Richard Friedlander
C.C.N.Y.
Rochelle Tandy
Pembroke College
Brian F. Goodrich
St. U. of N. Y, (Albany)
Sylvan Gordan
Cal. State Poly
THIRD LAP
Rev. John Thompson
Gannon College (Fac.)
MichaelJ. Kopcho
Duquesne
James W. Mize
U. of Texas
FIRST LAP
Ashton B. Burke
U. of Kentucky
Roger P. Blacker
N.Y.U.
John N. Bierer
The Citadel
William P. Mart
Kent State
Lucy Lee Bassett
Emory U.
SECOND LAP
Jose M. Martinez
Gonzaga U.
Roger A. Kueter
Loras College
Earl F. Brown
Colgate (Fac.)
Cdt. B. R. Gardner
V.M.I.
V. M. McManamon
DeVry Tech. Inst.
H. H. Anderson
Okla. State (Fac.)
THIRD LAP
Gary L. Lewis
U. of San Fran.
John V. Erhart
Loras College
Byron D. Groff
Penn State
D. B. MacRitchie
U. of Michigan
J. L. Millard, Jr.
Ft. Hays State
James W. Todd
Valparaiso U. (Staff)
W. T. Oliver
Lafayette College
Justin C. Burns
St. Bonaventure U
Edward R. Wassel
Clarkson College
Morris S. Boyer
U. of Georgia
G. J. Tamalivich
Worcester Poly (Staff)
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far ahead in smoking satisfaction!
Insurance Society
Chooses President
Royce Knox of Centerville was
elected president of the Insurance
Society for the 1963-64 school year.
Larry Mims was elected vice
president for Life Insurance and
“Butch” Candella was named vice
president for Property and Casual
ty Insurance.
Other Officers are Jack Mc-
Cown, secretary; Joe Williams,
treasurer; Pat Barton, historian;
Jim Sparks, sergeant-at-arms, and
Ronnie Ledbetter, publicity.
The society also elected Guiller
mo Vela as senior representative
and Jesse Heliums as the junior
representative to the Arts and
Sciences Council.
Henry F. Lyles is sponsor for
the group.
Glodt Will Spend
Summer Abroad
John Glodt of San Antonio, 21-
year-old junior majoring in flori
culture, will study greenhouses this
summer in Denmark.
The trip will be sponsored by
the Texas State Florists Associa
tion because of Glodt’s interest in
floriculture and his intention to
make it his career. He is a mem
ber of the Junior Florists of Texas,
a subsidiary of the TSFA. His
father is a San Antonio florist.
Glodt will leave June 10. He will
live with a Danish flower grower
while studying greenhouse produc
tion techniques.
Diaz Wins First
In Design Contest
Juan Carlos Diaz of Lima, Peru,
senior agricultural engineering stu
dent, has won first place and $125
in a design contest.
The contest; sponsored by the
Texas Concrete Masonry Associa
tion, calls for designs of a farm
building of concrete masonry con
struction.
Second place and $75 went to
Don Vernon Holley of Hico for his
i-ural home design. A farm dairy
center design won the third place
award of $50 for Richard K. Crowe
of Sauquoit, New York.
Dr. Arden G. Kemler, associate
professor of veterinary anatomy
has been selected as the first to
be recognized by the Norden
Annual Teacher Award.
The honor came Thursday night
during the annual awards banquet
of the Student Chapter of the
American Veterinary Medical As
sociation.
Dr. Carl Norden, vice president
of Norden Laboratories of Lincoln,
Neb., presented the award to
Kemler in z*ecognition of his “im
portant contributions to the veteri
nary profession by his influence on
students through teaching ability,
moral example, and leadership
qualities.”
MALCOLM EARL Hickman Jr.,
of Ralls, fourth year student in
veterinary medicine, received the
Martin Award of $150 worth of in
struments from the C. J. Martin
and Sons Company of Austin. John
Purlitz, vice president of the firm,
made the presentation.
The honor was made in recogni
tion of Hickman’s outstanding
accomplishments in clinical courses
by his interest, devotion and per
formance.
Receiving the AMA Auxiliary
Award of $50 was Joe Wood Lind-
ley of Plainview, a fe
student, for his many am
campus life and the fa«
pression he has preset
professional school.
AN ABILENE stufc
Finley Dominy III, mil
forth Summer Leaders^!
Scholarship. The schofi
send Dominy to the .1
Youth Foundation Is
Training Camp at Shell));
is made to an outstaniiij
who will complete hisf;
in college and intends b:
veterinary medicine.
Four Faculty Awari:;
went to students represent
class in the professional!
him of veterinary mefe
were William Earl Eeii
Houston, fourth year;!!!
Forgason of HungerM
lear; Leslie Garry Adansi
second year; and Hoirai
Head of Richardson, fin:
The students were s-
vote of faculty and stii;
bined with their scholastiti
ments.
Dr. Alvin Price, dear
School of Veterinary Met 1 ,
seated the Faculty Ad
Merit, the Danforth, anil
Auxiliary Awards.
Officials Claim Powers
Reported To Resign
HOUSTON (A 5 )—The Houston
Chronicle said Monday Lt. Col.
John Powers, “the voice” of the
nation : s astronauts, is to resign.
Short Skirts Cut Trip
Jo Ann Pfifer, 18 stands in
front of her home in subur
ban St. Louis after she was
forced to return home from
a high school trip in Wash
ington because chaperones
thought her skirts were too
short. (AP Wirephoto)
A Cape Canaveral staij
high officials there is
Powers will resign sooi
Powers, public affairs o::!
Houston’s Manned Space®!
ter, the training base
nauts, has been officials^
for the astronauts.
He also has been the
Mercury Control during a
the six sub-orbital and or.-
sions by U. S. astronauts
“One story says he. Fowl
cided to resign after losings
with Washington headqwte
release of a detailed flightll
Gordon Cooper’s 34-how S
the Chronicle said.
“The other story is
was asked to resign ate
fused to go along withaai
Washington headquarters
saying Cooper’s flight H
the last Mercury spacecrst!
Symonds Na
Board Chairniai
Gardiner Symonds, one
latest additions to AO's'
of Directors, has been named 1
man of the board of tnisW
the National Industrial Coiii
Board.
The Houstonian was alsi'-
to his third three-year tern
trustee of the board. ■■■
served as vice chairniaE ;:
board since 1958.
The board was estate
1916 to manage business ^
dustrial fact-finding throtgl 1
tific research. It acts as 11
dependent and non-profit i 1
tion.
Symonds, who serves as* 1
tor for numerous U. S. $
tions, is chairman of the'w*
the Tennessee Gas Tram ,J
Co.
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