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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 5, 1964)
Wofford Cain Gives Award To 75th Opportunity Winner The seventy-fifth Aggie to win an Opportunity Award Scholarship given by Wofford Cain of Dallas has received congratulations. But Richard G. Spitzer, a freshman from Clifton, won’t be the last FIDELITY UNION LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY FROM COAST TO COAST • THE LEADERS IN COLLEGE SALES Charles Johnson ’62 Charles Thomas ’64 Melvin Johnson ’64 Sheldon Best President Student Body Johnie Holley Jim Carnes Dist. Mil. Stu. Pres. B. S. U. R. W. Rodney Bookman Lanfrer Mg. Editor of Ross Battalion Volunteers Howard Davis Neumann Singir singing Cadets Ferguson Tau Beta Pi Richard Novey honored for Cain has regularly given several scholarships a year for 20 years and plans to continue the practice. Cain individually has given more scholarships to A&M students than any other person with the Associ ation of Former Students giving the most of any organization. The scholarship given by Cain are valued at $1,000 and are dis bursed over a four-year period at the rate of $250 a year. The Dallas industrialist also has influenced “lots of others to pro vide scholarships for worthy A&M students,” a fact in which he takes real pride. The Dallas resident credits E. E. McQuillen, now retired, with “sell ing me on the idea of giving scholarships.” McQuillen served with distinction as executive secre tary of the former students associ ation and then became develop ment officer. “It’s hard to say how many men he has inspired to give scholar ships,” McQuillen said of Cain. “At least a dozen. . .” Cain is board chairman of the Southern Union Gas Co., one of the largest natural gas producing and distributing concerns in the Southwest. He also has filled other posts in industry while through the years being a stalwart sup porter of Texas A&M. Cain was among the four emi nent and loyal Aggies honored Saturday by the Association of Former Students and A&M. Analytical Service Gets Spectrometerl The A&M Agricultural Analyti cal Service has installed a coldly efficient electronic machine which is taking most of the time and tedium out of standard “wet chem istry” detection methods. Known as an atomic absorption spectrophotometer, the apparatus has an array of glowing tubes, dials, gauges and switches that makes it look like something out of science fiction. SPECTROPHOTOMETER AT WORK Mrs. Janet Jones, Mrs. Sue McKnight and Bill Hoover look on. But there is nothing fictional about the equipment’s purpose and CAMPUS BRIEFS vxv***^^ | Alpha Zeta, Ag Fraternity Initiates New Members The Texas Alpha Zeta Chapter, an honor society for outstanding students in agriculture at A&M has begun the initiation of prospective members this week. Part of the initiation this week is the wearing of a foot-long wooden key and pin around the neck. In addition the prospective members have to obtain the signa tures of 20 members and 20 alu mni, who are members, on the back of the key and pin, said Dr. R. C. Potts, assistant director of agri cultural instruction. The purpose of wearing the key and pin is to recognize prospec- PRICES GOOD THURS., FRI., SAT., NOV. 5, 6 7. IN BRYAN ONLY. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT. SUGAR EGGS HI ' QUALITY IMPERIAL With $2.50 or More Purchase Behind Grocery Turnstile. 5 19 -spas- U.S.D.A. Grade A Medium Doz. 39^ LUNCH MEAT RATH'S 12-Oz 39 STRAWBERRIES Top Frost Sliced 10-Oz. Pkg. 19 TUNA DEL MONTE Chunk Style No. «/ 2 Can 29 ORANGES TEXAS SWEET THIN SKIN JUICY FOR PEARS BARTLETT U. S. No. 1 Fresh BACON LUCY LINDA Sliced 2 Lbs. 77^ Lb. 5 C 39 c HAMS CANNED Agar or Mohawk *5 Ll 199 Can tive members and to cause people to ask about the fraternity, he said. The final initiation of the pros pective members will be Monday night. This fraternity is mainly an organization in land grant institu tions, Potts said. ★ ★ ★ The Bryan Boy’s Club is ranked among the top five in the Southwest Arear, the club director told a meeting of the College Station Kiwanis Club Tuesday noon in the Memorial Student Center. Ronald Hale, director of the Boy’s Club, outlined the pro gram. Hale said the club has been in existence for five years and has a membership of over 900 boys. These boys range in ages from 7-17. They are taught guidance, arts and crafts skills and sports. Hale is hoping that by the end of the year they will have over 1,000 boys in the organiza tion. ★ ★ ★ More than 200 high school Fu ture Farmers of America will participate in Area III District One leadership contests here Tues day from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. The A&M Collegiate FFA Chap ter is responsible for conducting the leadership contests. Twelve high school FFA Chap ters will participate in six differ ent contests: junior chapter con ducting, senior chapter conducting, junior farm skills, senior farm skills, farm radio contest, and FFA quiz, said Bill Irick, Collegiate FFA adviser. ★ ★ ★ A&M has again been designat ed as a military college, follow ing the annual joint inspections of military colleges by Army and Air Forces teams. President Earl Rudder was advised of the designation in a letter from Colonel Benoid E. Glawe, chief of staff of the Air University of the United States Air Force at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. ★ ★ ★ The new serge-like uniforms which were to have been issued to Cadets in September are ex pected to be ready to issue by Nov. 12, said Wesley E. Donaldson, di rector of Purchasing and Stores. operation. Bill Hoover, )iea:| the fertilizer section in An cal Service, said the spectrop: meter enables technicians to i;| a matter of minutes what for took days or even weeks. “This machine is to us the electronic computer is to: ematicians,” Hoover empt “It cost our department aboiiii 000, but we figure it a good ment in terms of time saveJ accuracy.” The machine analyzes a stance qualitatively and tively, as the chemists say. means that it tells what is tj and how much. Hoover said Analytical uses the spectrophotometer its for metallic elements, such as per, zinc, cobalt, manganese rion. Sample preparation, involves dissolving the substar.:;| an acid solution, takes 151 minutes. Then the machine over, and the findings are in about five minutes. “With the usual chemical tical methods, it can take onei son two to three weeks to mine the metallic elements tatively and quantitatively,” 1 er said. Hoover said the spectropbj meter is amazingly accurate, the lower limits of measurer it can detect 10 parts per ti!S| to 100 parts per billion. A convenient working range is tenth part per million to per million. “The time factor, plus the that the sample can be analp for many elements wdthout clt cal separation, makes this remarkable piece of lab ment,” he said. “We use it to: analyses on feeds, forages, fa lizers, pesticides and soils." Very briefly, here is how machine works: A light beam is produced by kind of element to be detem The light passes through an dinary gas flame that is bur an atomized sample. Then These are big stripes. Bold stripes. The kind you’ll never get lost with in a crowd. This is Arrow Cum Laude: a bold new breed of sport shirt that asserts itself, but always in good taste. Has long swooping collar points and a tapered body line to match. Made to your exact sleeve length, like a dress shirt. In red and gray, or red and black combinations. 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