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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1964
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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.