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Metcalf Awarded
Color Television
On June 15 Shelby Metcalf was presented with a color TV set
on behalf of the entire student body in appreciation of his
leading the Aggie cagers to the Southwest Conference Basket
ball Championship—Ed.
I am deeply appreciative of the beautiful color TV set
given me through the combined efforts of The Battalion and
the Texas A&M University student body.
I sincerely believe that The Battalion’s drive to raise
funds for this present should be classified as something
beyond the call of duty.
I wish it were possible for me to personally thank each
person who contributed to this fund. But, since such is im
possible, I hope you will allow me space in The Battalion to
express a blanket “thank you” to all concerned.
Too, on behalf of myself and the 1964 Texas Aggie
varsity basketball squad, I want to convey appreciation for
the splendid support we received from you and your sports
staff of The Battalion and the entire student body. No team
in the United States was supported by more spirited or loyal
fans.
Sincerely,
Shelby Metcalf
Head Basketball Coach
University Gets $210,197
To Sponsor Graduate Plan
A&M University has received
$210,197 to sponsor graduate
training and research in petro
chemical waste abatement.
The five-year grant, provided
by the U. S. Public Health Serv
ice, will be used to encourage
students to enter industrial waste
treatment fields, William B.
Davis, head of sanitary engineer
ing, reported.
Funds will be used for graduate
fellowships, research equipment,
guest lecturers and one additional
staff member. The guest lecture
program will be a cooperative
effort involving Rice University
and the University of Texas.
Davis said fellowships, ranging
between $3,400 and $3,800 an
nually for a maximum of three
years, will go to students working
toward post-graduate degrees.
“The interdisciplinary program
will train students to solve indus
trial waste problems,” Davis com
mented. “The shortage of per
sonnel to meet pollution problems
has been alarming to naturalists
and industrialists alike.”
Students will develop research
projects involving waste control
procedures associated with in
dustry, Davis said.
“The need for research is ap
parent in view of the tremendous
industrial growth along the Gulf
coast and inland waterways,”
CD School Held
Four members of A&M Univer
sity’s Engineering Extension Serv
ice are attending a week-long
training school for civil defense
workers in Battle Creek, Mich.,
through Friday.
They include Dr. W. R. Bodine,
Eugene Kronenberg, L. C. Titus,
and Floyd L. Vaden, all members
of A&M’s civil defense training
staff.
Davis added. “We need to know
more about proper disposal for
modern chemicals.”
University departments associ
ated with the interdisciplinary
training program include petro
leum engineering, chemical engi
neering, civil engineering ocean
ography and meteorology, the
Water Resources Institute and
Texas Engineering Experiment
Station.
Committee Needs
Workers To Assist
With Activities
The International Education
Hospitality Committee at A&M
University is looking for volunteer
workers to assist with 1964-65
activities for foreign students, Mrs.
Fred Smith, co-chairman, reported.
The committee, organized last
fall to promote greater under
standing among foreign students
and Americans, coordinates a var
iety of programs for the visiting
scholars.
Mrs. Smith and Mrs. William E.
Eckles head the committee of
Bryan-College Station residents in
terested in the 400 foreign stu
dents and wives at A&M.
The committee arranges visits,
social events, cultural and enter
tainment programs, housing ac
commodations, holiday plans and a
variety of other requests for the
students, their wives and visitors,
Mrs. Smith explained.
Some committee members help
foreign student wives become ac
quainted with American supermar
kets, Mrs. Smith added. Others
arange visits to nearby ranches,
libraries, shopping centers or me
tropolitan areas.
Cbe Battalion
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1964
Number 54
Farm Road 60 Underpass
To Materialize At Last!
Approval Given
For Railroad Plan
The long awaited railroad underpass project on Farm to
Market Road 60 at College Station took a giant step forward
as the Texas Highway Department announced that the Inter
state Commerce Commission has approved joint operation of
the Southern Pacific and Missouri Pacific Railroads from a
point adjacent to the Bryan Golf Course to Navasota.
C. B. Thames, District Engineer in Bryan, noted that
with this ICC action the State is now in a position to pro
ceed with construction operations on this $770,000.00 project
as soon as the right of way is acquired, cleared of obstruc
tions, and utility adjustments completed. A project agree
ment between the Highway Department and both railroads
was approved in September, 1963+
which paved the way for the ICC
application.
He pointed out that both rail
roads will operate on the existing
Southern Pacific track with the
Missouri Pacific line north of
FM’ 60 retained for passing track
purposes.
The sequence of work generally
provides for the installation of
railroad signals and rearrange
ment of certain tracks to provide
joint operation, prior to raising
the railroad embankment approxi
mately nine feet and constructing
the underpass structure. Also,
included in the project is an over
pass for Farm to Market^ Road
2154 with related circular con
necting ramps to Farm Road 60.
Plan work and construction will
be under the supervision of James
O’Connell, senior resident engi
neer at Bryan.
The development of this worth
while project results from the co
operation of many agencies, such
as the City of College Station,
A&M University, each railroad
involved, and various utility com
panies together with the Bureau
of Public Roads and the Texas
Highway Department, Thames
stated. The work will proceed as
rapidly as possible.
Hubert In Dallas
Dean of Arts and Sciences
Frank W. R. Hubert will be in
Dallas Monday for a meeting of
the executive committee of the
Association of Texas Colleges and
Universities. He is president-elect
of the association.
Rudder Denies
Any Interest In
Governorship
“My main interest is the build
ing of a university for the youth of
Texas. I am not interested in
any political job.”
With that statement A&M Presi
dent Earl Rudder expressed his
reaction Wednesday, to an article
published in a June 7 edition of
the Dallas Morning News that
stated he was being sought as a
future candidate for governor of
Texas by conservative Democrats.
Rudder’s possible candidacy was
mentioned in “Wheather Vane,”
The News’ political column with
viewpoints from Austin, Wash
ington, and Dallas.
“Earl Rudder, president of Tex
as A&M, is mentioned among con
servative Democrats as a future
candidate for Governor,” Richard
M. Morehead, the News corre
spondent in Austin, wrote. “Rud
der won his only statewide race,
for land commissioner, after hold
ing that office awhile by appoint
ment . . . . ”
Morehead noted that Rudder is
a rancher as well as an educator,
and serves as a general in the
army reserves.
National Science Foundation Sponsors
Summer High School Student Session
Thirty-four high school students
here for a six-week-long summer
program at A&M University will
go home in July with firsthand
knowledge of how researchers
work. The teenagers are spending
20 hours a week in classroom and
laboratory study of biology. One
of three summer science programs
for high-ability students, the ses
sions are sponsored by the Nation
al Science Foundation and A&M.
In their busy Monday through
Saturday noon schedule the 27
boys and 7 girls hear lectures.
attend laboratory sessions, and
tour research facilities.
“One boy said, ‘I’m really hav
ing a blast,’ ” Dr. J. J. Sperry re
plied when asked how the students
are faring.
An A&M biology professor, he
has been associated with the sum
mer science program for eight
years.
The high school students are
assigned to a particular laboratory
to assist fulltime researchers. They
also tour A&M’s other major re
search facilities during their stay.
“The students do not commit
themselves either to science or to
A&M,” Dr. Sperry said. “But
over half of the 200 students who
have attended the biology summer
sessions entered scientific studies
when they reached college.”
Houstonian Nathan Isgur, one of
two Texans to receive National
Merit Scholarships bronze medals
in ceremonies at the White House
this month, is among alumni of the
summer science program here.
DANGEROUS CROSSING TO BE ELIMINATED
... Two views showing blind approaches.
Honors Program Announced
For Arts And Sciences Fish
An honors program for Arts
and Sciences freshmen at A&M
University has been announced by
Dean Frank W. R. Hubert.
“The honors program offers
special opportunities for superior
students. Academic work will be
appropriate to capabilities and in
tellectual interests,” Dr. Hubert
said.
Those entering the program in
September will study in special
sections of English, mathematics
and history. All will participate
Nuclear Physicist
To Lecture Here
Dr. Robert Katz of Kansas State
University will lecture here at 8
p. m. Monday on “What Is Sci
ence?”
The lecture, open to the public,
will be given in Room 113 of the
Biological Science Building. It is
another in the National Science
Foundation Summer Institute ser
ies on the Texas A&M University
campus.
Dr. Katz joined the Kansas
State physics faculty in 1949 and
has been a professor since 1956.
He is co-author of a textbook
in physics and has written nu
merous articles on nuclear physics,
the applications of physics to ag
riculture, engineering and meteoro
logy.
in a series of honor colloquia to
meet outstanding faculty members
and distinguished visitors and to
discuss ideas in an informal at
mosphere, he pointed out.
The College of Arts and Sci
ences and the Counseling and Test
ing Center will cooperate in selec
tion of students for the program.
Grades for these students will be
the same as the quality of their
work would merit in regular sec
tions, he added.
Dr. Richard H. Ballinger, pro
fessor of English, has been named
chairman of the Honors Committee
composed of representatives of de
partments involved in the new pro
gram.
Honors sections of regular cour
ses will be established as far as
practicable throughout the stu
dent’s career, and each semester
the students will participate in an
honors colloquium.
The program is described by
Dean Hubert as flexible enough
to meet the needs of an individual.
“The ability and interests of the
individual student, coupled with
the requirements of his curriculum,
are the guiding considerations,”
Ballinger said.
Invitations to enter the program
will be based upon a student’s high
school record, test scores and a
personal interview.
“Admission to one section of
the program can be made any time
a student demonstrates the ability
to do superior work,” Balling
er said.
2 European Physicists Slated
To Lecture, Exchange Views
Aggie Athletes
Lose Scholarships
Two A&M athlete, two - year
football letterman end Ken Mc
Lean, and all around varsity track
man John Collins, failed to pass
the minimum scholastic require
ments the past semester and have
lost their athletic scholarships.
McLean, of Stinnett, had been
counted on as a starter next fall.
Collins, from Liberty, competed in
the high jump, broad jump, hurdles
and ran on the relay teams.
15 College Teachers Enroll
In Special Traffic Institute
Fifteen college teachers from the . sive training in traffic engineering
LEARNING LABORATORY WORK
.. . Dr. Julius Dieckert explains liquid scintillation counter to John Fernstrom (center)
and Gary Blasek.
United States, Canada and Pana
ma have enrolled in a special traf
fic engineering institute at A&M
University beginning Friday,
Charles J. Keese reported.
The six-week school will feature
nationally-known engineers and
executives from state and federal
traffic agencies as speakers. The
Automotive Safety Foundation is
providing $850 grants for each of
the teachers accepted through the
Texas Transportation Institute.
The institute will provide exten-
and transportation planning, said
Keese, professor of highway and
traffic engineering with the De
partment of Civil Engineering. He
also is executive officer of Texas
Transportation Institute.
A special one-day seminar June
25, held in conjunction with the
summer institute, will attract na
tionally prominent speakers. In
addition, traffic engineers and
other interested persons through
out Texas have been invited.
Two physicists from Europe will
visit Texas A&M University in
July to lecture and exchange views
on the teaching of physics, Dr.
James G. Potter, head of the phy
sics department, announced.
The visits are in conjunction
with the National Science Founda
tion financed summer institutes
w in progress for high school
and college physics teachers. Each
foreign scientist also will give a
public lecture.
Dr. W. P. J. Lignac
Dalton Lyceum at The
of the
Hague,
The Netherlands, will visit here
July 6-7. He is coming primarily
to visit the high school teachers
institute directed by Dr. Nelson M.
Duller of the A&M faculty.
Dr. Helmut Ormestad of the
Physics Institute, University of
Oslo, Norway will come here July
16-17. He will talk with college
physics teachers at A&M for an
institute directed by Dr. Potter.
The foreign scientists are visit
ing this country through a pro
gram administered by the Ameri
can Association for the Advance
ment of Science.
A&M Un iversity Buildings 11 ancTUtHities Department p<
sonnei Wednesday “virtually completed” moving' suppli
civil defense shelters on campus. Left to
into 22
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Lorenzo Hodges, David Taylor and Israel Johnson.