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THE BATTALION Page 4 College Station, Texas Thursday, February 3, 1966 OklahomalndustrialSchool Gets Texans ’ Assistance A Texas organization is help ing promote the Industrial De velopment Institute at the Uni versity of Oklahoma. Speed Reading Course Oil Tap Dr. Paul Hensarling, head of the Department of Education and course will be offered this spring to help improve reading speed and comprehension of the de partment’s graduate students. The special course is called “Improvement of Reading Speed and Comprehension’ and was formed at the request of about 50 graduate students. In order to meet initial demands the course will be offered in two sections. One section will meet at 10-11 a.m. and the other will be offered from 5-6 p.m. on Tues days. Laboratory times will be arranged. These first courses are to serve as an experiment and if they are successful other courses may be opened. At the present time the course is restricted to graduate students in the Department of Education and Psychology. The course is numbered Education 681, Sections 600 and 601. A $150 scholarship is being offered by the Texas Industrial Development Council for the Aug. 14-19 course at Norman. The recipient is also eligible for support for two additinal insti tutes. Bill Shelton, chairman for the T I D C Scholarship Committee, said the winner also qualifies for an interest-free $100 loan for expenses. Shelton, a TIDC employe at Wichita Falls, said the ID Insti tute is the only school of its kind in the nation. It is sponsored by the American Industrial Devel opment Council. Available to Texans with keen interest in industrial develop ment, TIDC scholarship applica tions are available from Shelton. Filing readline is March 1. Kenneth M. Pace, who will be come manager of the Mesquite Chamber of Commerce Feb. 15, won TlDC’s first scholarship last year as manager of the Taylor Chamber of Commerce. The TIDC holds its annual con ference at Texas A&M. $61,032 Provided For Water Study The Office of Water Resources Research in Washington, D. C., has approved a $61,032 matching fund project at at Texas A&M to study the economic impact of water impoundments. Dr. Ernest T. Smerdon, direc tor of A&M’s Water Resources Institute, said the project in volves federal support from the OWRR that is matched by non- federal funds. Project leader is Dr. John E. Pearson, director of the A&M Institute of Human Resources which is cooperating with the Water Resources Institute on the study. “The research will involve de velopment of an economic model to project the regional economic impact of water reservoir devel opment in that area. Data from completed reservoirs will be used to develop the economic projec tions of new reservoirs,” Smer don said. Selection Council Includes Timm Dr. Tyrus R. Timm, head of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Sociology, is one of three men in the United States to be appointed to the American Farm E c o n o m ic Association’s Distinguished Teacher Award Selection Committee. The appointment was made by Dr. Kenneth L. Bachman, asso ciation president and an official of the U. S. Department of Agri culture’s Economic Research Service in Washington, D. C. Timm will serve on the com mittee for two years. Bachman said the national award is made to the agricultural economist whom the committee feels has done an outstanding job in undergraduate teaching. The American Farm Economic Association is the profession so ciety of agricultural economists in the U. S. Magazine Seminar Course Scheduled A one-hour magazine seminar, featuring visits to publication sites and interviews with editors and publishers, is scheduled for the spring semester. Journalism repartment head Delbert McGuire said the course is open to graduate students, seniors and juniors. Students will make a minimum of three of five planned trips to industrial and agricultural publications, a gen eral magazine and outdoor publi cations. Specific interests, including magazine writing, layout produc tion and pictorial journalism, will be studied. Trip expenses are provided by a Reader’s Digest Foundation grant. Entomology Study Receives $21,393 The Texas A&M Department of Entomology has received a U. S. Public Health Service grant of $21,393 to study the metabolism of carbamate insecticides. Dr. Wyman H. Dorough, A&M entomologist directing the pro ject, said the grant is the second installment of a total award of about $62,000 over a three-year period. He said the research involves study of the chemical fate or breakdown of the carbamates when they come in contact with animals and plants. Emphasis is on safe use of the compounds. The carbamates are a relative ly recent family of insecticides introduced to control pests on animals and plants, Dorough said. As an example of one of the family is carbaryl, popularly known as Sevin. The U. S. Public Health Serv ice is an agency of the Depart ment of Health, Education, and Welfare. HAMILL’S TRANSMISSION SERVICE 118 So. Bryan Has added a new department next door at 218 W. 27th. Specializing in complete tune-up, using the latest equipment. BRAKE SERVICE, GENERAL REPAIR and MOTOR EXCHANGE 822-6874 2 Theater Arts Courses Slated For Spring Two Theater Arts courses, Techniques of Directing and Technical Theater, will be offered this semester through the De partment of English. Theater Arts 383, Techniques of Directing, is an elementary course which teaches a student how to direct a one-act play. The student will choose a play, cast it and present it before the general public in the Fallout Theater-Workshop. The course is recommended for students in secondary education who might be called upon to direct a play in high school. No prior experi ence in theater is necessary. Theater Arts 382, Technical Theater, is mainly a course in backstage operations. Both courses will be taught by C. K. Esten and students de siring to take either course should see him before enrolling. The Aggie Players will cast Tuesday and Wednesday for their major spring production, “The Time of Your Life,” by William Saroyan, which will be presented March 21-26. There are parts for nine wom en and 18 men, with most of the characters being on stage through most of the play. A Negro who is a good piano player is needed for the part of Wesley—a solid straightforward part. 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