operatic e s, {am; compatiK 'thers 1®, researclfi rraers, ju 'ten congj nany y®, and mlij nan’s effe 5ts of tin s also poL lan a tit fic coast the worli on audit re than SI area, wfe il desert- four year >ian coast rea has l> ly 50 mil! 314 incka tion is oii hers lan hing liten idely in ft THE lUlOES'XWXMWXXXW Conference Chairmanship Goes To Graduate Dean Graduate Dean Wayne C. Hall las been elected the 1965 chair man for the annual Conference on Basic Biochemistry of Cotton. He and seven other scientists from A.&M were among the 55 invited participants for the first confer ence at Asheville, N. C. for last weekend. Presenting technical papers from A&M were Dean Hall and Drs. J. W. Dieckert and Howard E. Joham. Also attending from here were Dr. David R. Ergle and Joseph Hacskaylo, both of the U. S. De partment of Agriculture, Dr. Carl M. Lyman, head of the Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition, Dr. H. 0. Kunkel, associate director of the experiment station, and Page W. Morgan, plant sciences. ★★★ Dr. Vance W. Edmondson, asso ciate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and So ciology and coordinator for con sultations with A&M’s project team and Institute of National Technical Agriculture officials. The A&M team is assisting the Argentine Ministry of Agriculture in establishing a nation-wide pro gram of research and Extension work in agricultural economics. Edmondson will participate in the joint A&M-INTA planning for training of research and Extension personnel and for research pro gramming. Training curriculum will be reviewed. 9 j It is planned that several Argen tine agriculture economics person nel will come to A&M each year for graduate study (both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees). The A&M team is composed of Professor A. C. Magee, chief of party and leader of farm-ranch management; Dr. C. R. Harston, m Col. Jane ire to con- in indttj. professol Corea aw •s duriifl Vorld ffi'j 3 rgrad»8l State Uiij :r’s degruj 1 has doi -k in Ptf] ersity Graff Nominates Community House The Community House which is supported through the College Sta tion United Chest has advanced to the finals in national volunteer service competition. A&M University Dean W. J. Graff, 1963 president of the United Chest, nominated the Community Rouse for the $1,000 Lanei Bryant Award for service. “The Community House is a mique local response to a need among Negro children of College Station,” Dean Graff wrote in his nomination. The center, located at County load and Phoenix Street, provides dndergarten and nursery school services for 35 to 40 children of working mothers. A Complete Inventory of Collegiate Clothing and furnishings, featuring leading traditional brands Loupors PARDNER You’ll Always Win The Showdown When You Get Your Duds Done At CAMPUS CLEANERS agricultural marketing; and C. H. Bates, agricultural Extension. ★★★ Professor Bruno J. Zwolinski will chair a high-level five-day na tional conference which opened Monday in New Hampton, N. H. Top chemists were among 70 persons invited to the Gordon Re search Conference on Scientific In formation Problems in Research: Critical Tables and Progress in Science. Critical tables describe as exact ly as possible the properties of substances and are essential to the work of many scientists and engi neers, Zwolinski pointed out. Dr. Zwolinski is director of the Chemical Thermodynamic Proper ties Center. The center’s findings are distributed internationally. ★★★ John Holcomb of the Department of Agricultural Education will par ticipate in the In-Service Educa tion Workshop for Vocational Ag riculture Teachers Aug. 4-7 in Houston. Holcomb, an associate professor, will discuss “Improving Instruction with Charts.” Some of the top guest speakers are Gov. John Connally and Earl L. Butz, assistant secretary of ag riculture during the Eisenhower Administration and now dean of Purdue University’s School of Ag riculture. ★★★ Dr. R. L. Skrabanek of the De partment of Agricultural Econom ics and Sociology will serve as Visiting Professor for two weeks in August at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colo. Skrabanek will conduct a semi nar in “The Sociology of Changing Town and Country Societies” at the Methodist seminary. The seminar will be offered at the gradaute lev el and for gradaute credit. While serving on the Iliff facul ty, the sociologist will also deliver a graduate lecture on the topic of “Social Change and Personality Direction.” ★★★ Prof. C. M. Simmang, head of the Department of Mechanical En gineering, has been named to a 11- member committee of the Ameri can Society for Engineering Edu cation. Simmang’s three-year appoint ment to ASEE’s Mechanical Engi neering Division was made at a national organization meeting at the University of Maine recently. ★★★ Dr. John G. Mackin, Department of Biology head, and Dr. S. M. Ray of the Marine Laboratory at Gal veston have returned from sessions of the fifty-sixth joint annual Shellfisheries Convention in New Orleans. Mackin is secretary-treasurer of the National Shellfisheries Associ ation which met with the Oyster Institute of North America for the July 12-16 convention. He presid ed at a technical session featuring papers by researchers from the East and West Coasts. Mackin presented three papers at another technical session. They concerned “Slime Mold Disease of Oysters,” “The Nature of Tntra-cell disease’ of Oysters in the Pacific North west,” and “Oyster Mortalities in Aransas Bay, Texas.” ★★★ Speaker for the New Mexico Writers Confernce which opens July 30 at Glorieta near Santa Fe will be Dr. John C. Merrill, acting head of the Department of Jour nalism. He will discuss article writing at the weeklong sessions. Thursday, July 23, 1964 BATTALION College Station, Texas Page 5 Office Of Prof Shows Profession A Few Years Old .. .the small oysters in Smith’s hand are 100-million years old. Graduate Student To Study For Doctorate In Georgia A&M University graduate stu dent Robert N. Mathis goes to the University of Georgia in September to commence doctoral studies and assume an assistantship in history. But just now he’s busily complet ing requirements for the Master of Arts in history degree. Mathis, who is practically a life long resident of Bryan, received a bachelor’s degree in history at the A&M spring, 1963, commencement. As an undergraduate he won membership in Phi Kappa Phi, honor society for seniors within the top 10 percent of their class scholastically. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd T. Mathis, 1108 East Thirtieth, and a graduate of Stephen F. Austin High School. The father has charge of the ROTC clothing warehouse at A&M. “The main objective of my thesis research was trying to learn the Nineteenth Century American attitude toward the Mexican War,” Mathis said. “The view that the United States was not entirely justified became sort of a traditional view and there was no critical effort to study the question until early in this century,” he continued. “It was a neglected period under the shadow of the Civil War,” Mathis explained. The title of his thesis is “Nine teenth Century American Interpre tation of the Justice of the Mexi can War.” Many historians now accept the view that justice prevailed on both the Mexican and American sides. Mathis plans to concentrate in the field of Southern history, espe cially pre-Civil War, during his doctoral studies at the University of Georgia. His graduate committee chair man at A&M has been Dr. Haskell M. Monroe, Jr. A visitor in the office of Prof. Fred E. Smith would have little difficulty discovering the quarters belong to a geologist. The outer lobby is stacked with boxes of rocks, fossils and other geological specimen, some dating back millions of years when Texas was below ocean level. His wooden desk is surrounded by more geological samples, and an adjoining room catches part of the overflow. His garage at home houses still more. A professor of geology and geo physics at A&M since 1948, Smith is considered an authority on geo logical happenings in Texas and other coastal areas of Southeastern states to Florida. His collections represent a life time spent largely riding the back- roads, looking for interesting ef fects left by time. One eye-catching collection is the oyster shells, some he estimates to be more than 60 million years old. They were left at various places over Texas as the ocean waters centuries ago receded. “Not long ago the coast was only two miles south of College Station, near the A&M campus,” the teacher commented. Not long ago? “Oh, I’d say about 40-million years ago,” he finally admitted. Considering this is year 1,964, Smith’s talk of the past usually staggers the layman’s imagination, but he quickly explains: “After all, earth is over 4,500,- 000,000 years old.” The oldest oyster shell, slightly larger than a marble, is estimated by Smith to be 100 million years old. A nev/er variety, popular about 30 million years ago, stretches almost two feet long. The smaller oysters, spiral shaped, evolved over a number of centuries to become almost the size of man’s hat. In fact, they became too large. What happened, the professor explained, was the oysters got too heavy to perform as oysters so they became extinct. Later, a slim, sleek variety be came popular, the same kind that can be found today in such places as Walker County, near Huntsville. Smith has found marine deposits from the vicinity of Llano in West Texas, Denison in North Texas to Huntsville in East Texas. Reg. Price $1.00 Come Early Chapultepec SPECIALS Regular Mexican Dinner—Fried Beans Rice, Tamales, Enchiladas, Taco and Choice Soft Tortillas or Crisp Tortil las, Crackers or Bread. C No Orders To Go Please Thursday thru Sunday Across the Street From Ramada Inn GRADE “A’ FRYERS Whole. U.S.D.A. Government Inspected for wholesomeness and Graded "A" for quality. Lb. (Cut-up Fryers ll.S-D^Grads'"A". Lb. 310 27 SAFEWAY Sliced Bacon SAFEWAY FRYER PARTS... Cut from U.S.D.A. Grade ’A’ Fryers. Serve your family just the parts they like! Fryer Breasts Whole. All-white meat. Lb. 69* Fryer Wings Meaty & economical. Lb. 29* Fryer Thighs Lots of meat & small bones. Lb. 49* Fryer Backs For soups, stews and broth. Lb. 15* Drumsticks 49* Fryer Gizzards 39* Or Leg*. Easy to eat. Lb. Chop and add to gravy. Lb. Armour's or Safeway (Formerly Poppy) For a breakfast treat, serve with Safeway Fresh Eggs. I-Lb. Pkg. Canned Picnics $1 99 Armour’s. No waste. Heat & Eerve. 3-Lb. Can Chub Bologna 77