College Station, Texas
Thursday, January 6, 1966
BATTALION
EnrollmentRate Jumps
In Wildlife Science
Wildlife Science is one of the
fastest growing departments at
Texas A&M, with an enrollment
jump from 162 last year to 218
for the 1965 fall semester.
Since 1959, when only 75 stu
dents were studying wildlife sci
ence, enrollment has climbed
steadily. Current figures include
25 graduate students, eight more
than last year.
Acting department head Dr.
Richard J. Baldauf said the wild
life science curriculum serves a
four-fold role of training for ca
reers in wildlife and fisheries
management and research, verte
brate ecology and taxonomy,
and teaching high school and
university levels.
Baldauf added research and
field trips give students valuable
experience with live animals and
better prepare them for teaching
biology at the high school level.
He pointed to individual courses
in fish, reptiles and amphibians,
birds, mammals, botany and ecol
ogy as examples of firsthand
studies in the field and labora
tory.
Uniquely, undergraduate wild
life science students are required
to conduct at least two research
projects in ecology and herpetol
ogy. They also write research
proposals.
The department’s collections
of vertebrate animals is the larg
est in the Southwest, Baldauf
noted. Included are 30,000 fishes,
21.000 amphibians and reptiles,
8.000 birds and 15,000 mammals.
Research by the department is
varied. Much of it differs from
general ideas of research by the
layman.
Dr. Dilford Carter spends
about six months each year
studying and collecting bats in
caves of Mexico, Central Ameri
ca, and Northern South America.
As a result, A&M has one of the
finest collections of bats in North
America.
Dr. W. B. Davis is another rec
ognized authority on bats. He
recently returned from an ex
pedition to Guatemala to study
and collect bats. He was honored
in November as a top conserva
tion educator for 1965 during a
state conservation awards pro
gram.
Baldauf is a specialist in the
minute anatomical details of
tropical frogs and fisheries man
agement. He received a Fac
ulty Distinguished Achievement
Award in 1963 for teaching.
Jack Inglis is heading a re
search project which involves
devising radio collars for deer,
squirrel and other animals for
tracking purposes. The work is
underway at Welder Wildlife
Refuge near Sinton.
Dr. James G. Teer, a deer spe
cialist, is co-author of the mon
ograph “Ecology and Manage
ment of White-Tailed Deer in the
by the Wildlife Society, and
“Problems and Principles of
Texas Deer Herd Management”
by the Texas Parks and Wildlife
Department.
Wildlife faculty members have
published more than 100 techni
cal reports on research and have
given numerous presentations at
national and international meet
ings of scientific societies.
Davis’ book, “Mammals of
Llano Basin of Texas”, published
Texas”, is a best-seller among
publications issued by the Texas
Parks and Wildlife Department.
Jobs are plentiful for wildlife
science graduates. Many accept
responsible positions with the
Texas Parks and Wildlife De
partment, U. S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, U. S. Forest Service,
and other agencies. Some be
come teachers. Others take jobs
as wildlife writers for newspa
pers and magazines.
Controls On Prices
Feared Dangerous
By Businessmen
By SAM DAWSON
AP Business News Analyst
NEW YORK Off*) — Are price
controls just a fanciful bogeyman
dreamed up by nervous business
leaders or are they a possibility ?
And what different kinds of con
trols could the government turn
to in its fight to ward off a
feared inflation ?
Businessmen are more and
more mulling over these ques
tions as the aftermath of the ad
ministration’s drive to force some
steel companies to rescind a price
boost on structural steel — or
as an alternative, to adopt a
smaller one more acceptable to
the White House.
Industry dislikes price con
trols as much as union labor de
test wage controls. Both man
agement and labor tends to think
the fields of prices and wages
should be theirs and not the gov
ernment’s.
But the administration has the
Viet Nam war as a talking point
in its drive to hold down prices
— first against aluminum, then
copper and in recent days steel.
The war’s cost is mounting fast,
and higher metal prices would
be an unwelcome guest at any
gathering of officials drawing
up the new federal budget.
The administration also ap
parently worries about the
chances of the economy over
heating next year. This could
set off a price-wage spiral again
like that of 10 years ago which
cut the purchasing power of the
dollar sharply. And metal prices
are considered basic in today’s
highly industrialized economy.
For three years the govern
ment has been relying on volun
tary guidelines for management
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NEW GOLD LEAVES
Two officers in the Air Force ROTC detachment were pro
moted to major in recent ceremonies. At top Maj. Leopold
Mag-ers receives a gold oak leaf from his wife while child
ren Mark, 10, Brad, 5, Lynn, 8, and Leo Jr., 11, look on.
At bottom Maj. Donald Anderson receives his leaf from his
wife while his nine-year-old son Terry watches.
and labor. These held that wages
shouldn’t go up more than pro
ductivity — and thus reflect only
the greater unit output of goods
in terms of man hours of labor.
If wages didn’t go up more than
that, the guidelines held that
business shouldn’t raise prices,
even if now and then profit mar
gins were pinched.
Guidelines have had tougher
going of late. They worked bet
ter when there was a large pool
of unemployed labor to tap, and
when industry had a lot of idle
capacity to keep a competitive
clamp on price hikes. Now there
are some labor shortages in
skilled jobs, and surplus pro
duction facilities are disappear
ing fast.
The government has several
kinds of controls, direct or in
direct, it can turn to. At one ex
treme is congressional clamping
of direct controls on prices and
wages. Most business leaders be
lieve, or at least hope, that Con
gress isn’t in a mood to do that
now.
An indirect form of control
would be to reimpose an excess
profits tax as previously used in
war time to drain off any rise in
profits resulting from price in
creases.
The administration also has
weapons of indirect control it
can use to get much the same
results as direct ones would.
In the case of structural steel
it already has moved to halt
government purchases from
firms raising prices. The gov
ernment buys about one-fourth
of such steel produced here —
for such things as highways and
military installations. The ad
ministration also could seek to
encourage larger imports of steel
to try to force prices down
through competition.
Or the administration could
call business leaders in and
through persuasion or the use in
some cases of such weapons as
the government stockpiles to
force prices down again. It used
both techniques in the case of
aluminum and copper price rises.
It also has many spending pro
grams it can push or withhold
to influence business decisions.
Finally, the Administration
can seek to inspire public resent
ment of price rises in an attempt
to change business decisions.
If all this fails the government
could threaten to raise corporate
income taxes, reinstate excise
taxes recently relaxed. Controls
can take many forms.
Spanish Prof Has
Dual Teaching Job
Ramon T. Mosley, an instruc
tor in the department of modern
languages, teaches Spanish to
Americans and English to for
eign students.
Mosley prepared himself for
this task by living and working
in Spanish-speaking countries for
a number of years. Originally
from Texarkana, Mosley decided
early he was interested in the
language and customs of the
Latin American peoples. After
World War II Mosley attended
the University of the Americas
in Mexico City where he earned
his B.A. and M.A. in Spanish
and Latin American Affairs.
Mosley spent eight years in
Latin American countries. For
six years he served as director
of a 900-student primary and
secondary school in Puebla, Mexi
co. The remaining two years of
his stay in Latin America were
spent in Medellin, Colombia. Mos
ley has also travel through most
of Central and South America.
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