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Maryland 4-H Club Sends $15 Tiny Research Grant Causes Stir A fifteen-dollar grant just re ceived by the Agricultural Ex periment Station has created a stir of comment and admiration among the institution’s officials and researchers. The grant is conspicuous even in these days of astronomical siz ed research funds when anything less than several thousand dol lars is likely to be considered ho-hum. The gift in this case comes from members of the Caroline Mounties 4-H Club in Ridgeley, Md., whose members somehow managed to scrape together the money to fight a horse disease known as equine infectious ane mia, or swamp fever. Miss Karen Guthrie, the club spokesman in this matter, wrote to Dr. R. W. Moore, associate pro fessor in the College of Veter inary Medicine at A&M: “On behalf of my 4-H Club, the Caroline Mounties, I am writing this letter to you. “We have head about the dis ease, Swamp Fever, in the news paper and are very concerned. “This is why in this letter we are enclosing some money to help research find a cure for this dreaded disease.” The Mounties sent their grant to Texas A&M because the Uni versity is the only place set up to conduct highly reliable tests for infectious anemia in horses. Miss Guthrie’s phrase, “dreaded disease,” is appropriate. Swamp fever is one of the most hard-hit ting ailments in the horse world, especially among thoroughbreds. There is no known cure, and re actors are usually destroyed be cause the sickness is easily trans mitted to other animals. Moore says the sudden interest in the fever is the result of recent major outbreaks in Kansas, South Dakota, Illinois and North Caro lina. Smaller outbreaks have oc curred in Florida and Kentucky. Some of the most recent cases have been at the Bowie race track in Maryland, the home state of the Caroline Mounties. Miss Guthrie’s letter quickly drew return correspondence from Dr. R. E. Patterson, dean of the A&M College of Agriculture and director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. His letter, in part: “It is certainly gratifying to note the interest of members of your club in contributions toward finding a solution to this de bilitating disease of horses. “We are depositing your grant to an account in the Department of Veterniary Microbiology to be used by scientists working on the swamp fever project. In fact, with this money, we will purchase fil ters that are needed for their research microscope. “This thoughtful contribution will be reported to the next meet ing of the Board of Directors in the usual manner for final accept ance.” Moore said considerable re search is underway at A&M, and the testing technique is opening new leads toward eventual control of the disease. When and if swamp fever is finally licked, the Caroline Moun ties 4-H Club in Ridgely, Md., must be counted among its con querors. Golden, Whole Kernal or C. S. CORN * ^ $1.00 Early Garden PEAS ..5 N 3°.3 $1.00 ChifEon the new soft MARGARINE that FREE POUND COUPON SEND ZIP TAB TEAR STRIPS FROM 2 CARTONS comes in a tub! Expires June 30, 1966 per LB. Banquet—Pumpkin, Apple, Cherry, or Peach FRUIT PIES Morton’s—Parkerhouse or Cloverleaf ROLLS 3 For $L00 PkB of Tic 24’s J1C Libby’s—Fruit COCKTAIL Libby’s—Cut Green J No. $ /[ 303 ^ 1 Cans I* -m Flying Jib—Breaded SHRIMP iO-Cr. rg Pkg. 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Dayhoff will leave A&M June 1 for Rio de Janerio, where he will be employed by the IRI Re search Institute, Inc., under a contract with the U. S. Agency for International Development. He will consult with IRI agri cultural specialists and the Bra zilian Ministry of Agriculture re garding design and analysis of agricultural experiments. Architecture School Sets Unique Program A verbal chariot race, an Egyptain mummy, photographs Japan and Roman style refresh ments are part of a unique pro gram Monday evening at the School of Architecture. David G. Woodcock and Ralph W. Clampitt of the design facul ty hope the 8 p.m. program will promote an ufiderstanding of the place of architecture in culture by investigation of other civili zations. Six 9-man teams of the sec ond year design class will pre sent experiments related to the Egyptains, Greeks, Aztecs, Jap anese, Romans and Medieval Europeans in the school’s audi torium. “An architect’s job is highly complex these days,” Woodcock commented. “We want to broaden the students’ outlook . . . help them to understand what makes culture tick.” Section of the American Chemi cal Society. Engineers Plan Student Trips Three trips have been planned for students in the Department of Industrial Engineering. The senior industrial engi- ners’ inspection trip will be to Dallas April 5-6 for about 15 seniors and five graduate stu dents. They will visit Texas In struments, Proctor & Gamble, Sears Roebuck and Glitsch En gineering. Junior industrial engineers will make an inspection trip to Luf kin April 14 where they will visit the Lufkin Foundry and Machine Co. and Texas Foundries. On April 21-23 the Alpha Pi Mu Honorary Industrial Engi neers Fraternity will attend the regional convention at the Uni versity of Arkansas in Fayette ville. Grad Students To Attend Meet Four graduate planning stu dents and Joseph McGraw, di rector of the Urban and Regional Planning Department of the School of Architetcture, will at tend a beautification conference Thursday and Friday in Dallas. R. Wendell Smith of Houston, Larry L. Priesmeyer of Schulen- burg, Marvin W. Seeliger of Lockhart, and Michael J. Harney of San Bruno, Calif., will be among 50 persons in sessions at Southern Methodist University. Texas Gov. John Connally is scheduled to speak. Conference theme is “Beautiful Texas . . , Invitation to Action.” Chemistry Profs Author Article An article on distillation in the newly published “Encyclo pedia of Chemical Technology” has been written by two Texas A&M professors. Drs. Charles D. Holland, head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, and Professor Emeritus J. D. Lindsey collab orated on the 42-page section of the Interscience Encyclopedia Inc. product. Holland indicated the last half of the section on distillation is based on new developments, por tions of a book by him and A&M students’ dissertations and grad uate research work. “Multicom ponent Distillation” by Holland was printed in 1963. Illustrations in the section are of Humble, Socony-Mobil and Fritz, Glitsch and Sons, Inc., in stallations in Texas. Parts of 26 previous publications by Hol land are reflected in the writing. Holland, department head since 1964, received masters and. doc toral degrees in chemical engi neering at A&M in 1949 and 1953. He performed undergrad- uade work at North Carolina State. The registered profession al engineer has an extensive list of publications and is active in several chemical groups. He has chaired the Texas A&M-Baylor Bill Altman ’65 College Master Representative Fidelity Union Life 846-8228 VOLKSWAGEN Authorized Seles • Service end Peris Come end See Hickman Garrett Motors 1701 South College Avenue Phone 822-0146 OPEN YOUR ACCOUNT NOW! Paid Quarterly on INSURED SAVINGS AT FIRST FEDERAL SAVINOf fcAN ASSOCIATION 2913 Texas Are. Sears Scholarship Winners Feted Eleven winners of Sears Foun dation Scholarships were honored recently at a banquet in the Memorial Student Center. Freshman scholarship winners were Odell Collins of Valera, wildlife science major; Steven Gollnick of Houston, wildlife sci ence; Terry Howell of Edgewood, agricultural engineering; Thomas Hrynyk of Reagan, agronomy; Lynn Irby of Irving, wildlife sci ence; Mike McAnelly of San An tonio, forestry; Ed Moon of Stratford, agronomy; Sam Scar- mado of Caldwell, agricultural economics, and Robert Whitley of Belton, agricultural engineer ing. John Weaver Davis of College Station, an agricultural engineer ing student, was the sophomore winner. Insuranceman Joins Industrial Education Ralph J. Vernon, formerly loss prevention manager for the Dal las Divisional Office of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, is a new assistant professor at Tex as A&M. Vernon, an instructor in the Department of Industrial Educa tion from 1951 to 1953, rejoined the department this semester, announced Dr. C. H. Groneman, department head. Groneman said Vernon will specialize in expanding the in dustrial safety program. The professor earned a masters degree in industrial education at A&M. He has also a B.S. degree from Clemson College. Author of two textbooks, Vernon is sec retary of the Southwest Chapter of the American Society of Safe ty Engineers. Beverly Hotard, daughter of Mr. J. C. Hotard, 2 3 2 3 Carter Creek Parkway, Bryan, is employedas Secretary f o r the City of College Station. She received her diploma for suc cessfully com pleting the Stenographic Course at Mc Kenzie - Baldwin Business College Carolyn Berry, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Ud ell Berry, 2110 Maloney, Bryan, was the receiver of the Scholarship giv en each year by the W o m e n’s Civic Club to McKenzie-Bald- win Business College. She en rolled for the Secretarial and IBM Key Punch course. She is now employed in the Research Foundation at A&M University as Clerk Typist. Adv. Psj To All The Associi A&M] Aerom tratior at Arl Dr. profesi Educal presen Produt ing in The confer of the The resean Elliott vigilar subject Thoms Medici Daniel tract "We logical tinuou period, Subjec of twe six be The; signed ing a Readit way r brief Mot throng the re Elec sure, troder were i to 230 An Subjei ocrati For gressi I For ( FF I. i Oni d|i i 4 Sl’L RC PLA\ &>lf Cc Jarch ] ‘Was j y s Plrty i Ph r'o Hai lie, Win in a Wh« r Car 130. Sho V Lat Mu: n Brg a Par for tno; 20 Qn At* AC Tia lu- otb