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oust il Waner usei °uple of week ^ructions, Iki hout batting, handler tcacli by the way la ;'ed the horse!; !• They bias'* s during die p i Greenville, i Dallas and V; Adamson Hid hwest Confer! .eman two yean t.1 in team cap'ai He coached i 19 52-59, ran s twice, in 'SD S, WHO is app season as hea: L&M, had fe«! chool and co!!i| star. During e? ition he lost rxas, both at ti< Low, l Outstanding ROTO Cadet Maj. Gen. Lewis S. Griffing, Fort Sill Commander, deco rates Aggie senior Craig Abbott of San Antonio as top Army ROTC summer camp cadet in the Fourth Army area. Aggie is Senior Top Cadet Fort Sili Aggies won a major share of top honors at the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps summer program just ended at Fort Sill, Okla., a spokesman for the Army ROTC staff here announced Tuesday. J Meat Selling Institute Begins Today In MSC O Large Progress and problems in a fast- L 24-Oz Cai'"' changing industry will be discussed Thursday and Friday during' the Livestock and Meat Marketing In stitute in the A&M Memorial Stu dent Center. The program features talks by A&M specialists and men in the business of buying and selling live stock and their products. Subjects and speakers are “The Dynamically Changing Industry” by Ed Uvacek, livestock market ing specialist with the Texas Agri- cultural Extension Service; “Mar keting Texas Livestock,” Dm John McNeely, A&M professor of mar keting; “The Role of Federal Grading- in the Industry,” Dr. Ger ald Engelman, deputy director of the USDA’s Packers and Stock- yards Division, Washington, D.G.; and “Texas Beef and Interregional Competition,” Dr. W. F. Williams, professor of livestock marketing at Oklahoma State University. Others are “Ten Years from To day in the Meat Business,” Dr. Robert Branson, A&M professor of consumer marketing; “Meat Mar ket Demands of the Present Day Industry,” Larry Van Meir, head, gri> Livestock Section, Economic and ^ |! 'Statistical Analysis Division, J II USDA, Washington, D.C.; “What’s ^ the Livestock Outlook?” John Mc- Haney, Extension Service econo mist; and “Special Marketing Problems of Lambs and Slaughter Calves,” Dr. 0. D. Butler, head of jjie A&M Department of Animal Husbandry. Panel discussions will be con ducted by industry members. Sub jects are livestock marketing, meat jfrading and g-rades, current meat market demands, and lamb and calf industry problems. Craig S. Abbott, a senior Eng lish major from San Antonio, was chosen as the outstanding cadet among more than 1,800 cadets at tending the six-week camp. The ROTC cadets represented colleges and universities m seven states. Aggdes also were chosen as the outstanding cadet in four of the five battalions. Half of the 20 out standing cadets at company level were Aggies. MORE THAN 63 percent of the 231 Aggies completing the training program were ranked among the top third of the cadets. The Army’s summer training program for advanced, voluntary ROTC cadets is planned to provide the students with an onportunity to apply classroom theories to tac tical situations in the field. Summer training follows com pletion of the junior year of aca demic studies. Serving- as camp commander was Maj. Gen. Lewis S. Griffing, com manding general of Fort Sill and tlje U. S. Army Artillery and Mis sile Center. Lt. Col. Albert E. Vernon, Jr., headed the A&M ROTC staff at the camp. Abbott, who was chosen as the outstanding- cadet at summer camp, as well as outstanding cadet in his battalion, lists 423 Klaus Rd., San Antonio as his home address. He attended Thomas Jefferson High School there. At A&M he has won Distinguished Student honors for academic achievement and is presi dent of the campus chapter of Sig ma Tau Delta, national English honorary fraternity. OTHER AGGIES who were chos en as outstanding cadets in their battalions include: Thomas A. McAdams, W-l-K Hensel Apartments. He is a busi ness administration student. Charles Seagraves III of A-9-Z College View Apartments. His major field of study is listed as mathematics. John R. Dickson of San Antonio. He is a meteorology major. Names of Aggies named out standing cadets at the company level are not yet available here. Che Battalion Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1963 Number 125 Baker Named Corps Head STARTS WORK MONDAY Associate Director Of Library Named Rupert C. Woodward who has | emala City, Rio de Janiero and been chief acquisitions librai’ian at Louisiana State University Mon day will assume the duties of as sociate library director at A&M. He entered the library service profession following army service during World War II. “We feel most fortunate in ob taining a man of his stature to head this important position,” Library Director Robei-t A. Houze said. “For the first time this library has been able to employ as an as sociate librarian a man who has come up through technical ser vices.” Services for which Woodward will be responsible include library acquisitions, cataloguing, bindery preparations and repairs. WOODWARD WILL have other administrative responsibilities and also will teach Liberal Arts 311, “Use of Library Resources.” The course is offered to upperclassmen and graduate students as a one- hour elective. Woodward’s responsibilities in library acquisitions will include chairing the book selection com mittee and working with the facul ty in selecting library materials. The new associate director is a native of Georgia and completed high school studies at Savannah. He received the B.S. degree from George Peabody College in 1940 and taught English at Cayey, Puerto Rico in 1940-41. Following World War II service Woodwai’d returned to George Pea body College and in 1947 received the Bachelor of Science in Library Science degree. HE SERVED on the staff of the University of Alabama Library be fore becoming a U. S. Information Service librarian in 1950. Wood ward served as librarian at Guat- Stores Head Cites Ordering Process Wesley E. Donaldson, director of purchasing, and stores, an nounced earlier this week that all interdepartmental orders against 1963-64 funds for either the Supply Center or Stores items should be made out to Account 21160 and sent to the Fiscal Of fice for approval and transmittal to the Stores Department. Donaldson explained that the Supply Center will no longer have a separate account number because its operations will be combined with the Stores Depart ment Sept. 1. He added that the location of the Supply Center merchandise will be moved from the Exchange Store to the B&CU Building. San Jose before going to the LSU Library in 1954. He became chief acquisitions library of the library in 1955. Woodward served as U. S. dele gate to the Conference on the Development of Public Services Services in Latin America, a con ference held at Sao Paulo in 1951. nil COL. I). L. BAKER New PMS Will Have Dual Role Col. Denzil L. Baker, new professor of military science at A&M, was named Thursday as commandant of cadets. President Earl Rudder made the appointment which will be in addition to his duties as head of the Army ROTC de tachment. “Colonel Baker’s record is among the most distinguished of our graduates,” Rudder said. “His leadership will give strength to the Corps program.” Baker, a native of Mathis, was graduated and com missioned at A&M in 1933. A highly-decorated veteran of World War II and the Korean Conflict, he came to A&M in July from the Pentagon where he was chief of the Special 7th To Feed Begin A&M will hold its seventh annual Feed Microscopy Short Course Monday through Aug. 10 in the Memorial Student Center. E. E. Brown, research scientist with A&M’s Agricultural Analyt ical Services Department, said the Annex Students To Have Own Dining Setup A&M students who will reside in dormitories at the Research and Development Annex will have their own dining facilities. A&M Food Service Director Frank Nugent Wednesday an nounced plans for the food service in the student residential area at the Annex, formerly Bryan Air Foi'ce Base. The dining room portion of the old Cadet Club adjacent to the dormitories will be used. It will seat approximately 160 persons. “While it will be cafeteria style service, it’s going to be a friendly, homey type of eating place respon sive to the students’ wants,” Nu gent said. “The food will be prepared in the Sbisa Hall kitchen, transported in special food containers and served out there.” Special equipment, described by Nugent as “the best available,” will be used in transporting the food. The stainless steel equip ment will hold the food at proper temperature, warm or cold, and can be used as an integral part of the serving line. The units have electrical heating elements to as sure hot food. “We also will have limited kitch en facilities for preparing those food items which are not readily adaptable to transportation,” Nu gent said. The dining facilities will be equipped to serve 250 to 300 per- Course Monday course is designed to teach the science of use of the microscope in quality feed control. Although most of the course will be workshop sessions, time has been reserved for talks by au thorities in the microscopy field, Brown said. Subjects and speakers are “Nu tritional Value of Mouldy Feeds” by Dr. L. R. Richardson, head of the Agricultural Analytical Serv ices Department; “Value of Micro scopic Analysis to the Feed Control Official,” I. J. Shenkir; Texas Feed and Fertilizer Control Seiwice; and “Feed Microscopy—What Is It?” G. M. Barnhart, chief chemist for the Missouri Department of Agri culture. Others are “Qualitative Tests for Certain Additives and Minor In gredients Found in Feedstuffs,” W. E. McCasland, A&M Agricul tural Analytical Services; “Micro scopes,” Albert Heydemann of Dal las, technical representative, Balti more Instrument Company; and “Mineral and Spot Tests,” G. D. Miller of Kansas State University, pi’esident of the American Associ ation of Feed Microscopist. The course starts with registra tion at 8 a.m. Monday. Review Division of the Office of Army Personnel. The Aggie officer replaced Col. Frank Elder as professor of military science. Elder, assigned in 1958, has retired. Colonel Baker is the fii’st regu lar officer to be named command ant since 1951. During the past 12 years, a civilian college employe has held the post. IN JUNE, A&M’s Board of Di rectors adopted a recommendation by Pi’esident Rudder, to consolidate the duties of commandant with those of a regular officer and eliminate the staff of civilian tacti cal officers. The consolidation will save $60,000 annually and provide more realistic leadei’ship training, Rudder told the Board. Baker entered active duty in 1941 and in February, 1943, joined the Third Army Headquax’ters. He served as a staff officer with that command in the Eux’opean Theater until the end of World War II. In 1949 he assued command of the 2nd Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, and held that post through 1951, the unit’s first year of combat in Korea. The colonel has attended several Army command schools including the Advanced Infantry Officers’ Coux-se, Command and General Staff School and the Army Wax- College. HIS DECORATIONS include the Combat Infantryman’s Bad.ge, the Silver Star with Oak Leaf Cluster, and the Bronze Star with V device and two Oak Leaf Clusters. Twenty-Nine Grad Fellowships Announced By NSF For A&M The National Science Foundation has announced that A&M will x-e- ceive 29 cooperative graduate fel lowships for the 1964-65 acadexxxic year. Dr. Wayne C. Hall, dean of Gx-ad- uate School, said the fellowships will mean an eventual value of $200,000 or more for students pur suing advanced degx-ees in fields of science. The coopex-ative awax-ds will be made on basis of ability for three x-equirements. The stipend is $2,400 for the first year, $2,600 the second and $2,800 the final year, in addi tion to a $500 allowance for each dependent. Awards will be made in mathe matical, physical, medical, biolo gical or engineexdng sciences as well as anthropology, economics, geography, history and philosophy of science, psychology or sociology. Teaching assistants will be ap proved in the same fields. Stipends years of study, provided the indi- ] will range from $50 to $85 per week vidual continues to meet eligibility Students Get Introduction To Biology for graduate students during the 1964 summer sessions. Dean Benson To Join Tour Of Arctic Posts A&M Dean of Engineering Fx-ed J. Benson soon will leave Texas hebt behind to join four other dis tinguished edxxcators on a tour of Air Force facilities in the Arctic. The Air Force sponsors the 11,- 000-mile tour scheduled to start at Washington Sunday and calls the trip “Cool School VI.” The tour ends Aug-. 15. A VISIT TO Caxxxp Tuto, housed in a tunnel caxved into the Gx’een- land icecap, and a flight over the Magnetic Nox-th Pole to Fairbanks, Alaska, ax-e on the tentative itine rary. Educators to make the trip are the px-esidents of the Universities of Chicago and Washington and Indiana University, the dean of engineering at the University of Wisconsin, and Benson. A sixth civilian making the tour will be Louis Frederick Polk, a director of the Bendix Corp. and an authority on international me- tx-ology and xxxeasurement stand- ax*ds. “The Ax-ctic’s strategic impor tance grows with each step fox-- wax-d iix weapon technology,” an Air Force official wrote in invit ing Benson to make the toui\ Maj. Gen. Cecil E. Combs, com mandant of the Air Force Institute of Technology, and Brig. Gen. Rob ert H. Curtin, director of civil en- gineexnng for the Air Force, will be the ranking officers on the tour. Two civilian officials in the office of the Secx-etary of the Air Force also are among the eight Air Force people scheduled to make the tour. “OPERATION COOL School” is an outgx-owth of the routine in spection trips x-equired of the di rector of civil engineering of the Air Fox-ce. Joint participation of civilian and military engineers and educators is descx-ibed as enabling maximum opportunities for profes sional enlightenment and collabo ration. The tour route outlines travel by specially outfitted aircxaft from Andrews Air Fox-ce Base, Wash ington, to Labrador and Cx-eenland and then acx-oss the Arctic to Alas ka. een _ Cut * By VAN CONNER Battalion Editor When 27 high school sopho mores and juniors leave A&M Aug. 23 for their homes acx-oss ; Texas and in seven other states i they will have had a thox-ough in troduction to the field of biology. That is the aim of A&M’s an- mial Research Participation Sum mer Science Training Program sponsored by the National Science foundation, according to dii'ector Dr. John J. Spen-y. Sperry, a botanist and profes sor in the Department of Biology hore, is in his foux-th year as head °P the high school biology pro gram. A similar pi'ogi’am spon sored by NSF and other agencies w as offered from 1957 through 1959 and headed by Dr. C. C. Doak, former head of biology at A&M. During the first summer ses sion 32 “high-ability secondary school students” pax-ticipated in a NSF program in physics hei - e, under the dix-ection of Dr. Dayle O. Sittler. At px-esent programs in mathematics and geology are also being held, under the direc tion of Dr. William S. McCulley and Fx-ed E. Smith, respectively. The 27 biology students, all boys, hear a lecture each morning spend two hours in laboratox-y, and then either hear a guest lec turer or take a tour of an A&M reseax’ch facility. Walter V. Rob ertson, instructor in the Depax*t- ment of Biology, px*esents the eaidy morning lectures and di rects the laboratory. Each afternoon the youngsters are “fanned out” as assistants on various research projects i'e- lated to biological sciences. The boys have been assigned to the departments of biology; biochem- istxy and nutx-ition; dairy science; entoixiology; flox-iculture; horti culture; oceanogx-aphy and mete orology. Photographic and visual aids; plant science; poultxy science; range and Forestry; soil and crop sciences; veterinary pax-a- sitology; and wildlife manage ment. Sperry said the boys’ parti cipation in formal x’eseax'ch pro jects allows them a fii'st-hand introduction to science and ex poses them to insti-uments and facilities they would not nox-mally encounter befox*e reaching col lege. Robertson said his lectux-es are designed to cover as many of the various fields in biological sci ences as possible. He and Speriy added that impoi'tant goals of the session ax-e to instill an aw-ai-e- ness of opportunities as well as interest. In the laboratory the students are allowed to work on projects of their own selection. Robertson said he felt this was more effect ive than having required exer cises and demonstrations because thex-e would later be repetition when the men entered college. James Bryant, who has just completed four years of study in zoology here, aids Robertson in the lab and seiwes as a counselor for the students. The students live in a ramp of Hart Hall adjacent to the pax*ti- cipants in the math and geology programs. Sperry said the boys will be x-equired to write a short report about their reseax-ch pax-ticipation dux-ing the program. These ax-e bound and sent to NSF and each student’s sponsoring high school. The pi-ogram is not all work. Speriy said there ax-e a few plan ned extra-cunncular activities such as swimming parties, sports and infonnal get-togethex*s. He added that he felt it a mark of good chax-acter for the young sters to find their own use of fi’ee time and said the boys are encouraged to plan their own outside activities. Early in the six-week session the students elected officei's to represent them. The five young men chosen were Caxy Windier of Sweeney, president; Harvey Meyerson of Malverne, N. Y., vice-president; Nathan Isgur of South Houston, secretary-treas- ui'er; Bob Montgomery of Bar tlesville, Okla., publicity chaix-- man; and Walter Demond of Austin, social chairman. At the end of the progx-am, said Sperry, there will be a din ner and the students will receive certificates of participation. The students, most of whom have two moi-e years of high school, will be expected to pass on much of what they will learn about the field of biology to other youngsters in their home towns. Their Favorite Program Members of the annual NSF-sponsored biolojjy program for high-ability high school students watch microscopic pond life on the monitor of the Department of Biology’s new television camera.