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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, June 27, 1963
Board Statement
(Editor’s Note. The following is a statement on
ROTC training and the Corps of Cadets prepared Saturday
by the Board of Directors.)
The Board of Directors of Texas A&M University
hereby reaffirms the policy in effect whereby, with certain
specified exceptions, all first and second year undergrad
uate male students at Texas A&M University are required
to take the basic ROTC training program and be members
of the Corps of Cadets.
The basic purpose of the ROTC program, which is to
provide the opportunity to qualify for a commission in the
Armed forces of the United States, is highly worthy in
itself. Furthermore, the Board of Directors believes that
life in the Corps of Cadets and the ROTC training program
act together to develop in the individual, qualities of physi
cal and spiritual courage, self-reliance, respect for con
stituted authority, integrity, leadership traits, and loyalty
to the American heritage.
The Corps and related ROTC program are components
of the total educational experience at Texas A&M. It is
the concept of the Board of Directors that the principal
function of the Corps of Cadets should be to so organize
and conduct the activities of its members that they are
afforded maximum time and opportunity for academic en
deavors. Constant supervision and evaluation of the Corps
of Cadets, aimed at removing any and all influences not in
harmony with the physical, mental and spiritual welfare of
the individual Corps students, and with the paramount ob
jective of academic achievement, shall be a continuing
process at the University.
Summer Season
Is Also Stingtime
Anyone who has just been stilet-
toed by an angry wasp doesn’t
need to be reminded that summer
is sting time in Texas.
Humans, they say, are the most
intelligent Beings on earth. May
be this is the reason wasps love
to build their nests and zoom
around in stich close association
with man. For these bugs, ac
cording to entomologists, belong
to one of the highest instinct and
intelligence levels in the insect
world.
In fact, the smartness and com
plex social structures of wasps
causes disagreement among taxo
nomists, who find it difficult to
place the insects into neat cate
gories.
PERHAPS THE taxonomists can
get some help frottr gardeners,
hedge trimmers and house painters
after they have buped into a wasp
nest. Such victims can supply all
sorts of colorful, unprintable de
scriptions.
Weldon H. Newton, A&M en
tomologist and a man who has
received his share of stings, has
been studying wasps objectively—
if that’s possible. He knows first
aid for stings and can recommend
several control ' measures. But
save the best for last. First, a
few academics.
More than 2,500 species of
wasps occur in North American,
and any Texan will swear that
every one of them can probably
be found in his backyard. Only
50 of the 2,500 are deemed trouble
some to man. That’s enough.
Newton says wasps can be brok
en down into four groups. Three
of them are hornets and yellow
jackets, mud daubers, and cicada
killers. The fourth and Texas’
big troublemaker goes by a name
that sounds like something out of
ancient Greece—Polistes.
THE TRUE yellow jacket is not
what Texans know as the yellow
jacket, Newton explains. The real
thing builds enclosed, globular
nests like that of the hornets.
What Texans call the yellow
jackets is actually a Polistes, which
builds the familiar, flat, paper-like
nest with cells opening downward.
There are two other fellows in
the Polistes class—the dark, al-
most-black wasp and the solid,
dull red wasp.
• The social order of Polistes con
sists of males, which don’t sting,
and egg-laying queens and female
workers, which can really wallop
you a good one.
Taking a rigid, objective view
point, wasps are beneficial insects.
Polistes, when they aren’t popping
someone on the neck, catch corn
earworms, armyworms, and many
other pests and feed them to their
young.
Newton says a wasps stings by
driving its needle-like ovipositor
into the flesh and injecting a
venomous fluid into the wound.
But anyone who gets oviposited is
likely to forget about beneficial
insects and Rachael Carson and
spray the landscape with any in
secticide that happens to be handy.
NEWTON RECOMMENDS bak
ing soda paste or a few drops of
ammonia on the puncture as first
aid. Whooping and hollering and
jumping up and down is of little
value, although most victims re
sort to this tactic soon after the
attack.
Most of the time, a wasp sting
just plain hurts. However, some
persons are hypersensitive to the
venom and serious illness or death
can follow. The entomologist said
asthma and hay fever sufferers
are in most danger of severe re
action.
There are several ways to knock
out a nest of wasps. Newton says
rolled up newspaper ignited on the
end of a long stick will do, al
though this treatment is not re
commended around houses or barns.
A tomato can full of gasoline will
kill a nest, but kerosene is safer.
Insecticide is the best control
in the long run. Chlordane, dield-
rin or DDT, as sprays or dusts, are
effective.
The best control time is at night,
when the wasps are less active and
most of them are in the nest.
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$98,768 In Fellowships,
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Grants Accepted By Bom
Grants-in-aid, gifts, scholarships,
fellowships, and awards totaling
some $98,768 were accepted by the
Board of Directors of the A& I
College System meeting heie Sat
urday.
These were as follows:
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a diving exhibition like you
put on yesterday.”
L. H. (Preacher) Durst, T 27
Dies Tuesday In Houston
Funeral services were held
Thursday morning for L. H.
(Preacher) Durst, an active leader
in A&M former student activities.
The 59-year-old vice president and
director of Brown & Root Inc. died
Grove Movies
Thursday-
Allison”
‘Heaven Knows Mr.
Friday—“Boy on a Dolphin”
Monday—‘‘Voyage to the Bottom
of the Sea”
Tuesday—“Garden of Evil”
Wednesday—^“Beneath the
Mile Reef”
Tuesday in a Houston hospital.
A member of the Class of 1927,
Durst earned a bachelor of science
and master of science in civil en
gineering. He went to work for
Brown & Root in 1928.
Two years later he left the com
pany and was with Uvalde Asphalt
Co. and the Texas Highway De
partment. He went back to Brown
& Root in 1934 and had been there
since.
Durst was a descendant of a
pioneer family that settled in East
Texas un the 1800s. He was born
March 10, 1904, at Crockett. He
will be buried in the Crockett
Ceme,tery Thursday afternoon.
SCHOLARSHIPS, fellowships
and awards totaling $16,800 were
received from 13 donors, including
$3,500 from Continental Oil Co.;
$2,550 from Mr. and Mrs. Silas B.
Ragsdale; $2,500 from Alcoa Foun
dation; $1,550 from Houston A&M
Mothers’ Club; $1,250 from San
Antonio A&M Mothers’ Club; $1,-
000 from Monsanto Cheinical Co.;
$1,000 from Universal Oil Prod
ucts Co.; $750 from Douglas Air
craft Co.; $500 from Houston Fed
eration of Garden Clubs; $500 from
Lubrizol Foundation; $400 from
South Texas Section, AICHE, and
$300 from Square D. Co.
Research and grants-in-aid were
received totaling $12,500, including
$10,000 from Campbell Soup Co.;
$1,000 from Atlantic Refining Co.;
$1,000 from Gulf Oil Corp. for the
Petroleum Engineering Depart
ment, and $500 from Universal
Oil Products Co. for the Chemical
Engineering Department.
Texas Maritime Academy Stu
dent Loan received $1,056 from the
Board of Visitors .
SPECIAL GIFTS valued at $13,-
104.24 were received, „ including
electronic equipment valued at $7,-
675.24 from Schlumberger Well
Surveying Corp. for the Texas En
gineering Extension Service, elec
trical equipment valued at $3,879
from Humble Oil & Refining Co.
for the Texas Engineering Experi
ment Station, a Santa Gertrudis
heifer valued at $1,500 from R. J.
Kleberg of King Ranch; library
books valued at $50 in honor of
Mr. James P. (Jake) Hamblen
from H. C. Heldenfels and fat]
and Gov. Richard Cole’s wlH
cane from Mrs. Lula Horae fe
Other grants-in-aid andjj
were received by The Texas i
cultural Experiment ■ Station,
lington State and Prairie l;
A&M.
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