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Cbe Battalion Sz» y Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1964 Number SB" Rudder Named To Honorary Chairmanship A&M President Earl Rudder has been named by Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz to serve as an honorary recruitment chairman for a federal youth opportunities pro gram. The program is to recruit and train recent college graduates to serve as counselors for youths “in the war against poverty,” Secre tary Wirtz reported in a telegram to President Rudder. “Immediate target of the Youth Opportunity Centers will be to find employment for over one mil lion young people floundering in the labor market, without jobs and without expectations,” Wirtz add ed. “The counselors will help these youngsters overcome the disadvant ages environment has laid on them and help them gain the motiva tion, confidence and capabilities they need to get jobs,” Wirtz said in outlining the program. Counselor candidates, not neces sarily college graduates, are be ing sought to train as youth advis ors. Examinations for the training program will be given at 9 a.m. June 27 at all local state employ ment offices, including the Texas Employment Commission office in Bryan. Starting salaries for counselors will range from $4,200 to $7,500, plus other benefits. Rites Held Today For /. H. Evans John Henry Evans, 101, father of President Sterling C. Evans of A&M University’s Board of Di rectors, died Tuesday night in a hospital at Comanche. He suffer ed a fractured hip in a fall at his Rising Star home last Friday. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday in the First Bap tist Church at Rising Star where arrangements pend at Higginbo tham Funeral Home. A retired stockfarmer, Mr. Evans resided in Eastland County for 34 years. He was a native of Alabama and a member of the Baptist Church. Gulf's Aid To Education A&M University’s Department of Geology and Geophysics, headed by Dr. Travis J. Parker, left, has received a $1,000 unrestricted grant from the Gulf Oil Corp. T. R. Dean, exploration manager for Gulf’s Houston district, presents the check to A&M President Earl Rudder. Looking on is H. F. Fowler, right, a Gulf senior staff geologist. Agriculture Receives 2 College Grants The A&M University College of Agriculture will receive two grants totaling $128,290 from the U. S. Public Health Service, Dr. R. E. Patterson, dean of the college, has announced. The two training and research grants are part of three totaling $193,535 to A&M from the agency, a division of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The third grant of $65,245 will go to the A&M Water Resources In stitute for small stream studies. Administration of the funds will be through the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. Largest of the two grants to the College of Agriculture is $74, 864 for a two-year period to Dr. Howard G. Applegate, associate professor in the Department of Plant Sciences, who will direct a training program in air pollution. Applegate said selected graduate students will receive training in the effects of air pollutants on bio logical organisms. The Depart ment of Plant Sciences will co operate with the A&M Department of Oceanography and Meteorology on the project. The other grant is $53,426 to finance research on metabolism of strontium-90 found in foods. Dr. C. R. Creger of the Depart ment of Poultry Science and Bio chemistry and Nutrition, project leader, said strontium-90 is a ra dioisotope and a fission product of atomic blasts. The strotium is sometimes absorbed by foods as they are being grown. He said the research will try to determine how the problem can be reduced and how the strontium can be eliminated more quickly from the body. ROTC Program Bill Gets OK From House Reservation Cards For Fall Term Due All students now in school but who will not register for the Sec ond Term of Summer School are urged to turn in their Fall Room Reservation cards before they leave the campus at the end of the First Term of Summer School, if they have not already done so. Room reservation cards are avail able at the Housing Office. Students who entered as fresh men in June should fill out the blue cards; upperclassmen should fill out the buff colored cards. Students who have a $20.00 deposit on file will not have to pay any additional fees to reserve rooms for Fall. Students who signed up for a civilian dormitory for Fall at the Housing Office at the end of the Spring Semester, and Cadets who wish to be assigned space in their old organization for Fall, are re minded that July 31st is the dead line for having room reservations into the Housing Office confirm- A&M Lamb Judging Contest A ttracts Leading Authorities A&M University’s annual Lamb Judging Conference Thursday-Fri- day will attract some of the na tion’s leading authorities on pro duction and marketing of lamb. George Hislop of Yakima, Wash., vice president of the National Wool Growers, will give an indus try-wide committee report. Jean Wyckoff, director of the American Sheep Producers Council in Den ver, Colo., will talk on consumer preference studies. Hislop and Wyckoff will be heard Thursday afternoon. Other first- day topics are packer and retailer viewpoints, and show rules and regulations. Friday morning, carcass desir ability and heritabilities will be discussed by Dr. C. E. Terrill, in charge of sheep, goat and fur animal research for the U. S. De partment of Agriculture at Belts- ville, Md. The speaker is presi dent of the American Society of Animal Science. Jim Bassett, assistant professor in the A&M Department of Animal Husbandry and program chairman, said the conference will emphasize latest developments in selection. “Sheep judging leaders from Texas and several other states will show how better correlation can be obtained between judging of live lambs and actual cut-out values of carcasses,” Bassett said. “An outgrowth of the conference in the past is adoption of carcass contests in some of the major stock shows.” Cattle Breeding Dr. H. O. Kundel and Dr. T. C. Cartwright participated in the S-10 Southern Regional Beef Cattle Breeding Project Technical Com mittee’s annual meeting this week at Mississippi State College. Kundel, associate director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, presented a talk titled "Physiological Age.” He said the meeting is organiz ed around inspection of a group of live lambs the first day, display of their carcasses the second day, and a study of carcass cut-out values the third day. Other highlights are a lamb placing contest the first day and a quarterly meeting of the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Associa tion during the final session. Selection indexes and applica tion of performance testing pro cedures are among discussion top- Freshmen Session Rated Successful Special summer conferences for A&M University freshmen planning to enter in September are “off to a highly successful start.” “The first two conferences were highly successful,” S. A. Kerley of the Counseling and Testing Center reported Friday when the second conference ended. Indicated attendance for the two- day conferences scheduled this month is 50 percent higher than a year ago, Kerley said. Almost 230 freshmen and 120 parents visited the A&M campus for the first two confer ences. “Emphasis is being placed upon the identification of the superior student and helping place him in courses that will challenge him,” Kerley said. The student chooses the Monday- Tuesday or the Thursday-Friday conference period. Bennie A. Zinn, director of stu dent affairs, and J. Wayne Stark, director of the Memorial Student Center, alternate in presenting special programs for parents who accompany the students. The 14 conferences this summer allow a student “to do everything but attend his first day of classes,” Kerley pointed out. ics on Friday’s program. A lamb dinner and dance are set for that evening in the Ramada Inn. The conference is sponsored by the A&M Department of Animal Husbandry and the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association. Physicist Will Lecture Here A nuclear physicist whose re search concerns controlled thermo nuclear reactions and plasma prop ulsion schemes will lecture June 29 at A&M University. Dr. Thomas F. Stratton of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico will visit the campus as a National Science Foundation Summer Institute lecturer. “Applied Research in Plasma Science: Controlled Fusion, MHD Power Generation and Direct Con version” is his topic for the lec ture at 8 p.m. in Room 113, Biolo gical Science Building. Stratton has been associat ed with Los Alamos laboratory since 1954 when he received the Ph.D. in nuclear physics from the University of Minnesota. He earn ed the B.S. degree from Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. in 1949. The scientist is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of Sigma Xi. ing their requests. This includes Summer School students. Students who make a room res ervation for Fall must cancel same by August 15th in order to receive a refund of the $20.00 deposit. Students who will hot register for the Second Term of Summer School are reminded that they must clear their rooms with their Housemasters and turn in their keys to the Housing Office be fore leaving the campus. Students in this category are reminded to turn in their mattress covers to the Office of Student Affairs in the YMCA during the last week of the first term in order to avoid being charged for same. ForeignEnrollment Reaches New High Foreign student enrollment at A&M University is up more than 50 students over the comparable time a year ago to establish a new record. The 240 students from 39 coun tries around the world compares with a total of 187 students at this time in 1963. Former Distinguished Prof Dies In Houston Wednesday Paul Weaver, former distin guished professor of geology and geophysics at A&M University, died in Houston Wednesday morn ing. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. today in the Chetwood Chapel at Houston. Weaver, 76, also formerly served as a technical assistant to the vice-president of Gulf Oil Corp. until he joined the A&M faculty in 1953. He retired in 1959. A widely-known figure in the Southwestern oil industry, Weaver worked throughout the world as a geologist and geophysicist. From 1910 to 1915, he worked in Trini dad, Venezuela, Mexico and Eng land. During the next 11 years, he served as a geologist, drilling superintendent and geophysicist for the Mexican Eagle Oil Com pany in Mexico, also doing some work during this period in Siberia. Weaver became geophysicist for the Gulf Oil Corp., Houston, in 1926, served as chief geophysicist until 1938 and retired from its administrative staff in 1953. He was credited, with contributing heavily to the development of that organization into a major operator in the Southwestern oil industry. He was active in numerous pro- i fessional groups and served as The U. S. House of Representatives passed H. R. 9124 Wednesday, a bill to vitalize the Reserve Officer Training Corps. Congressman Olin E. Teague, in announcing the passing of the bill, said that it will authorize military departments to provide scholarship assistance to students in the 4 year ROTC program similar to the present Navy Holloway pro gram. If the bill is passed by the Senate as presently proposed, it would consist of two elements: payment of books, lab oratory fees, etc., for each academic year and payment of monthly retainer pay in the amount of $50 dollars a month ♦■for 10 months at an annual cost of $500 for each student. Students receiving financial as sistance will be required to com mit themselves to a minimum period of four years of active duty. Increase in travel allowance from five cents to six cents per mile was also announced. In addition, said Teague, summer camp pay will be increased from $78 per month to $111.15. Col. Denzil L. Baker, Com mandant of the Corps of Cadets, when notified of the passing of the bill was very enthusiastic. “I’m so glad,” he said, “that bill has gone back to committee so many times that its passing has taken me by surprise.” Equally enthusiastic was Dean of Students James P. Hannigan, who expressed the fact that if the bill now passes the Senate it would provide much incentive to the Corps of Cadets at A&M, and for all ROTC programs across the country. Both Dean Hannigan and Col. Baker added that they were curious as to some of the other provisisons of the bill. For instance a general across-the-board pay increase had been hoped for for all contracted ROTC cadets. Presently the monthly retainer for all contracted cadets is $27. No mention of this particular proposal was made by Congressman Teague. As it presently reads the finan cial assistance applies only to those students who distinguish them selves over and above the rest of the Corps of Cadets. Said Baker, “I’m afraid the number of avail able scholarships for A&M are pitifully few.” He would not divulge the figure offhand. president of the American Associa tion of Petroleum Geologists, the Society of Exploration Geophysi cists and the Texas Academy of Science. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists awarded Weaver the association’s top recog nition, the Sidney Powers award for distinguished service, in 1958. A native of Kentucky, he was educated at Columbia University. Biology Prof Dedicates Book To A&M Freshman Students Thousands of Aggies who have studied Biology 115, a freshman course, in recent years have two newly - published books dedicated to them. Professor Lawrence S. Dillon is author of the textbooks published by the Macmillan Co. “To my students in 115 with published in 1962 by the Macmil lan Co. He also is a coauthor of “A The A&M professor is a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science Laboratory Survey of Biology” | an< I ^h® Texas Academy of Science. published in 1962 by the Mac millan Co. and has written num erous papers. Dillon joined the faculty in 1948 and received the Ph.D. de- He is an honorary fellow of the Institute Americano. Scientist To View TTI Receives Design Grant A&M University’s Texas Trans portation Institute has received a $75,000 research grant “to develop guidelines” leading to the uniform design, construction and operation of U. S. highways. TTI’s Frank H. Scrivner, head of the pavement design section, said the project involves guidelines for establishing “satellite” road test stations throughout the country to provide uniform development. “Our goal is to provide a pro totype measurement team with a manual containing detailed opera tion instructions for test equip ment,” he added. The 10-month long project is sponsored by the Highway Re search Board of the National Academy of Science and the Na- organization. USD A Veteran Will Assume Local Post A veteran U. S. Department of Agriculture official who has been a pacesetter in United Chest fund campaigns this week assumed the presidency of the College Station tional Research Council. Working with Scrivner will be Thomas W. Stallworth, assistant J. M. Hendricks, a division chief in the USDA’s Agricultural Stab- lization and Conservation Service, research engineer, and Buddy A. ; heads new officers elected unani- Atwell of the A&M Geology and mously Monday by the Chest Geophysics Department, who will Board of Directors. He joined the develop pavement testing tech- USDA in 1938. niques. 100 People Attend Highway Seminar whom much joy has been shared! gree from A&M in 1954. In 1959- in learning biology” reads the j 60 he was at the University of dedication at the front of both j Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Engineering Dept. James P. Hamil, “The Principles of Life Science” | as a Science Faculty Fellow of the worked with rocket expert Wernher and “The Science of Life.” Both National Science Foundation, books are designed for freshman biology students. Dillon said he dedicated the books to Aggies in Biology 115 “because that’s the way I felt.” Questions asked by the students have stimulated his thinking and helped open the way to new in sights, he said. Dillon teaches one lecture sec tion and “sponsors” all sections of the basic biology course. He also teaches advanced and grad- j uate courses. Mrs. Dillon collaborated with him in writing the two new books, j The couple has coauthored “A Manual of the Common Beetles of Eastern North America” published in 1961 by Harper and Row. Dillon also is coauthor of “A Laboratory Survey of Biology” DILLON Approximately 100 persons at tended a highway engineering seminar at A&M University today. Officials from state and federal who earlier highway and traffic agencies were j ce s as secretary Other officers for the ensuing year include Jim Lindsey, first vice president, and Charley V. Wooten, second vice president. Pieter Groot was renamed treasurer. Hendricks succeeds Dr. William J. Graff, dean of instruction for the University. The directors praised Graff for “an outstanding administration” and also thanked Mrs. Nelda Rowell for her serv- von Braun, will be on the A&M University campus until June 26 to review the university’s research programs. His appearance is part of a con tinuing effort of the Engineering Experiment Station to expand and improve university research pro grams, Harry E. Whitmore, head of the EES’s space technology di vision, reported. For several years, Hamil was in charge of research and develop ment work with Dr. von Braun. He now is an American Ordiance Association official. From 1955-58, he was respon- invited to the one-day held in conjunction with traffic institute. Carl Fritts of Washington, D. C., vice president in charge of engi neering for the Automotive Safety Foundation, discussed “Highway Safety” at 8:30 a.m. in the Memo rial Student Center. D. C. Greer of Austin, state Hendricks and Lindsey highway engineer, followed with a talk on “Highway Engineering— Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.” Eugene Maier of Houston, Ja maica Corp. vice president pointed out “Trends and Challenges in Urban Transportation.” Highway engineering education meeting, £) ri Chris H. Groneman headed summer the nominating committee. He is I one of 15 board members includ ing R. L. Hunt Jr., Dr. R. M. Stev enson, Dr. R. H. Davis, Mrs. Char les Richardson, Horace Schaffer, Dr. Paul B. Crawford, Dr. Donald Huss, Dr. Ruble Langston, W. A. Tarrow. Wooten, Graff, Groot, , sible for all Army guided missile goals were outlined by A&M dean research at White Sands Proving of engineering, Fred Benson, at the ! Grounds. He later was director of Aber-1 ! deen Proving Grounds’ Ballistics Research Laboratories and until recently was director of research for General Dynamics Corp. NSF Lecturer Traffic Institute Mrs. Helen Monroe, physics teacher at Stark High School in Orange, will lecture at 8 tonight in Room 113, Biological Science Building. She is one of the speak- noon luncheon. The national high- I ers for National Science Founda- way picture was presented at 2 ! tion Summer Institute participants p.m. by Francis C. Turner of Wash- and others. ington, D. C., U. S. Bureau of Public Roads administrator and chief engineer. “The Science Project as a Launching Pad” is the subject of the lecture to be given.