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College Station, Texas
Thursday, September 26, 1963
THE BATTALION
30 YEARS OF SERVICE
Retired El Paso City Planner
Recalls Highlights Of Career
By JOHN WRIGHT
Asst. News Editor
In 1911 a young man of 19 came
to El Paso to improve his health.
Fifty-eight years later, the same
man, his health greatly improved,
walked into retirement to cap off
a career that had played a signif
icant patt in El Paso’s develop
ment from a small West Texas
town to one of the most important
manufacturing centers in the
Southwest.
He is Walter E. Stockwell, 86,
who retired 10 years ago as El
Paso’s first planning engineer, a
post he held for 30 years.
He left El Paso following the
death of his wife on Aug. 10, to
live with his married daughter,
Mrs. Robert L. Street, 1004 Har
rington, College Station.
As an engineering graduate of
Jones To Present
Paper Oct. 20-24
In New Orleans
B. R. Jones, Research Geophysi
cist at A&M University will pre
sent a paper co-authored by P.
Dehlinger before the 33rd annual
convention of the Society of Ex
ploration Geophysicists meeting in
New Orleans, Oct. 20-24. Jones
will discuss a “Free-Air Gravity
Anomaly Map of the Gulf of Mex
ico and its Tectonic Implications,
1963 Edition”.
About 1500 of the world’s min
eral finders are expected to attend
the New Orleans meeting. Several
papers will be given on digital
processing and retrieval systems—
techniques made practical by mod
ern high speed computers. These
will be of particular interest to
practicing oil geophysicists. The
latest in instruments and other
equipment will be displayed in the
65 exhibit booths. The technical
program will be supplemented by
a full program of social and spe
cial events.
Cornell University, Stockwell was
asked if he had had any particular
thoughts of municipal planning in
mind at the time he was in col
lege. He chuckled a n d replied,
“Well no. You see in those days
engineering was a pretty general
subject, and was not divided into
specific fields as it is now. I did
emphasize the electrical side of it
though.”
AFTER ARRIVING in El Paso
he went to work for American
Smelting- and Refining Co. “I
might say that in those days most
people were not very optimistic
about the future of El Paso. The
climate was hot and arid, and the
water supply was a problem. Any
city planning was the function of
the chamber of commerce.”
“Nobody knew much about city
planning- at that time, although
Dallas, under the guiding- hand of
George Kessler, was* setting an ex
ample that was to be followed by
many Texas communities in the
feature.
“At that time the editor of the
El Paso Herald was Captain H. D.
Slater, who was a friend of Kess
ler’s. By this time I had left
American Smelting- and Refining
Co., and became the secretary of
the planning department in the
chamber of commerce. There was
an opening in the department, and
the idea of city planning* appealed
to me.”
KESSLER, partly through his
friendship with Slater, came to El
Paso and set up the Kessler Plan.
In 1925 the city created the Plan
ning Department by ordinance, and
Stockwell became the first plan
ning- engineer, a post that he held
until 1953.
One of the most important proj
ects was the elimination of grade
crossings, and the building of the
Bataan Memorial Trainway which
runs through downtown El Paso.
“Of course one of the most im
portant problems in city planning
is the development of a realistic
highway plan. Thanks to the co
operation of local, state and fed
eral agencies, El Paso now has
access to a fine federal highway.”
Asked how the City Planning
Department today compared with
earlier days, Stockwell replied,
“There’s all the difference in the
world. Besides being much bigger,
there are many more important
considerations such as economics,
all phases of engineering, and
budgeting. In the old days the em
phasis was on beautification—now
it is long range industrial plan
ning, urban redevelopment, and
day-to-day strains of living.”
He paused for a moment, then
said, “Just think of the changes
to come in the next 100 years.”
1,200 Region
Teachers Meet
Here Nov. 16
Approximately 1,200 classroom
teachers are expected at a regional
meeting Nov. 16 on the A&M Uni
versity campus with the Texas
Classroom Teachers Association
and the Texas Educational Agency
as cosponsors.
This will be the first time for
A&M to be the host for one of the
four regional conferences held
each year, Dr. Paul Hensarling,
head of the Department of Educa
tion and Psychology, said.
Hensarling and Mrs. Mary
Frances Ross, president of the
Bryan Classroom Teachers Associ
ation, will serve as local coordina
tors.
“The purpose of the conference
is to have an interchange of ideas
among classroom teachers of Tex
as as they prepare programs of
excellence for the public schools,”
Hensarling said.
The program will include a gen
eral session and discussion groups.
Other regional conferences this
year are scheduled at Abilene,
Canyon and Denton.
New Librarians
Hired At Ciishin
■
Two new department heads have
joined the Cushing Memorial Li
brary staff and a third profession
al librarian has returned, Library
Director Robert A. Houze an
nounced Wednesday.
Miss Phyllis L. Brown, recently
librarian of the Laredo Junior Col
lege, now heads the acquisitions
department.
Mrs. Marjorie O. TheBerge is
the librarian of the new Science
Space Brass
Defends Joint
Moon Venture
: ; ■ ■ \ ' If
WALTER E. STOCKWELL
Bryan Horticulture Student
Chosen Scholarship Winner
uem-sem beu.
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James Demont of Bryan, gradu
ate student in the Department of
Horticulture, is utilizing a scholar
ship to study processing proper
ties of rice.
The young scientist is a winner
of the Boyt Memorial Scholarship,
established to encourage graduate
study of rice.
Sponsors of the award are the
Texas Rice Improvement Associa
tion and the American Rice Grow
ers Association. E. V. Boyt of
Devers is TRIA president, and
David Winterman of Eagle Lake
heads the ARGA.
The scholarship is administered
through the Rice-Pasture Experi
ment Station near Beaumont, a
sub-station of the Texas Agricul
tural Experiment Station.
Demont is evaluating- various
types of rice in relation to their
processing characteristics. H i s
findings will help plant breeders
at the Beaumont station to develop
new strains of rice with desirable
processing traits.
The student conducts his re
search at the Beaumont station
and on campus.
Scholarship honors are not new
to Demont. As an undergraduate,
he won the Brazos County A&M
Mothers Club Scholarship and the
W. Atlee Burpee Award as out
standing student in horticulture.
He has consistently won the Dis
tinguished Student rating and is
past president of the A&M Horti
culture Society.
HOUSTON (A 5 )—The chief U.S.
apace planner said Wednesday
President Kennedy’s suggestion of
i joint U.S.-Russian moon venture
represents an extension of basic
American policy rather than a
change.
James E. Webb said the United
States, from the outset of its space
program, has been determined to
devote its projects to peaceful pur
poses and to share the knowledge
gained with all mankind.
At the same time, he said, this
basic space philosophy includes
objectives to demonstrate U. S.
technological supremacy in the
world and to insure national de
fense.
The administrator of the Nation
al Aeronautics and Space Admin
istration spoke before the Texas
Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Associa
tion.
President Kennedy, speaking-
last week at the United Nations,
suggested that in the case of world
peace the United States and the
Soviet Union explore the possi
bilities of joint ventures in space.
“The President’s proposal seeks
to move the U.S. space program
and U.S. space philosophy to its
logical, but at the same time to its
most challenging, limits,” Webb
said.
“It is worth emphasizing, how
ever, this is an extension of this
basic philosophy rather than a
change in policy.”
and Technical Reports C«
also serves at the dieni
brary. She has served asi
at* Ranger Junior College,
Mrs. Patricia L. Doyle
joined the staff as juniorr
librarian.
Miss Brown has taught
served as librarian '
Antonio Public Libra
the B.A. degree, the B.S,
in library science, and
Master of Education fn
Lady of the Lake College
Antonio. She also has;
the Warden School of Si
and the University of Ti
Mrs. TheBerge holdi
degree from the Univ
Texas and the Master
Science degree from TeiE
an’s University. She has
as a school librarian anl
a librarian in the Depai
Library Science at TWC
Mrs. Doyle, who hat
the staff, holds the B.S,
library science from Tiff]
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announced. I his l
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8 a.m. Saturday. Watsoiu|
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