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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, January 6, 1967 Rough, Tough Texas Town Recalls Long Lost Glamor Teacher Training Division Staff Participates In Austin Conference SHUH JMil “I’ve worked up a time budget for th* things I hafta do before th’ end of the semester! If I play my cards right, I’ll have time for a 10 minute coffee break at 9:35 a. m. on January 19th!” Forestry Courses Listed For Spring By LEE DON BIENSKI Forestry 201, 305, 306, and 601 will be offered during the spring semester 1967, according to Dr. C. L. Leinweber, head of the Range Science department. Forestry 201 “Dendrology” will be taught by R. R. Rhodes, as sistant professor, Department of Range Science. This course ac quaints the student with the principal forest tree species of the U.S.; their identification, dis tribution, principal values and relative importance. Forestry 201 is a valuable basic course for students who plan to work with natural vegeta tion whether their primary inter est is plant l.ifsuai* Forestry 305 •‘Silviculture" is the science which deals with the establishment and control of for est stands for maximum produc tion. A basic understanding of this subject is essential to the most efficient execution of the multiple use principles of forest land management. Forestry 305 is especially valu able to wildlife biologists, forest recreationists and range man agers who plan to work in for ested areas. Rhodes will be the instructor. Forestry 306 “Forest Mensura tion” will be taught by Rhodes. The principles used in determin ing the volumes of logs, trees and standing timber is important to land appraisers, soil surveyors and land-use planners as well as to foresters. Forestry 306 also deals with the prediction of forest stand yields in terms of quantity and quality of wood fiber. Forestry 601 “Forestry Ecol ogy” is an advanced course in for est ecology developed for the for ester, wildlife biologist, recrea- tionist, range, or other forest land user. The first segment of the course is devoted to the analyses of forest site factors. Editor’s Note: Oakville may have lost much of it glamor, but there was a time when the town could match the toughest and the bravest of them all. A historical note. By The Associated Press OAKVILLE, Tex. <A>) _ The three men were certainly dead, lying there in the jail, and a few curiosity seekers pushed in to look. The sheriff and his depu ties could do little but look, too. The trio had been jailed while caught marking a calf with a brand that its mother never car ried. Now .45 caliber justice had taken over. It never was known who killed them. Oakville was no stranger to sudden death, for in the decade after the Civil War, more than 40 of its citizens, permanent or temporary, were killed. Some had their throats cut, others died from gunfire and others were hung without the benefit of a legal judge. A news item from a Galveston paper of March 6, 1873, will illus trate the free and easy manners of some Oakville residents. “On Thursday,” the paper re corded, “Thomas Stern and Charles Jones attacked J. T. Pierce in his own house, and the parties exchanged some 25 shots, doing no further damage than splintering the gallery posts, breaking glass windows and look ing glasses, alarming women and children, and stopping proceed ings for a time in court. “The sheriff, his deputies, the jury and the bystanders were re quired to arrest the belligerents, who were then fined by the judge $100 each and sentenced to three days imprisonment in jail for contempt of court. The grand jury found true bills against some of them. “One of them, Tom S h e r n, broke guard and made his escape. The guard followed, firing as they went, for a distance of sev eral miles, and with what result is not known, only that they did not get his body.” In those days, Oakville was a town where liquor was potent, gambling without limit and most of the inhabitants considered virtue a detriment to business. l v, '5 l l J ..'AJi ■ 1 h. Houston Livestock Show, Rodeo Proclaimed As Go-Texan Time It’s GO-TEXAN time in Hous ton, proclaimed by Mayor Louie Welch and the city council to celebrate the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, Feb. 22-March 5, in the Astrodome. One of the first Go-Texan activities will be an Old-Time Fiddlers Contest sponsored by the Houston Livestock Show and Northline Shopping Center Jan. Wildlife Science Dept. Head Elected Society Chairman Dr. Richard J. Bauldauf, acting Wildlife Science Department head, is the newly elected chair man of the Vertebrate Morphol ogy Division of the American Society of Zoologists. Baldauf, vice chairman and program officer for two years, was chosen during the organiza tion’s meeting with the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D. C., during the year-end holidays. The Vertebrate Morphology Division is composed of research ers and teachers interested in comparative anatomy, with em phasis on descriptive and func tional aspects of the morphology of adult and embryonic vertebrate animals. Formally organized in 1960, the division has organized symposia with participants of international stature speaking on such topics as “Evolution and Dynamics of Feeding Mechanisms in Verte brates,” “The Vertebrate Ear,” and “Evolution and Relationships of the Amphibia.” Baldauf noted Texas A&M ranks above the national average in the number of graduate stu dents conducting morphological studies of vertebrate animals. He said a recent survey of American universities indicates 256 gradu ate students in 50 institutions, excluding medical and veterinary schools,' are conducting such studies. Work in vertebrate morphology at A&M has been recognized by leading zoological research cen ters in the U. S. Baldauf pointed to a recent re quest from an eminent scientist at Harvard asking A&M’s Wild life Science Department make certain studies because “Texas A&M is one of the few institu tions where basic morphological work is still being done.” 21, starting at 10:30 a.m. in the shopping center mall. The contest will be conducted in two divisions, one for fiddlers under 50 years of age and one for those over 50. First, second and third place trophies will be presented in each division. No entry fee is required, and registration blanks may be ob tained at Northline Shopping Center, or by writing 2332 West Holcombe Blvd., Houston, Texas, 77025. Rules for the contest are as follows: Each contestant will be asked to play 3 tunes, if time permits. Judging will be on Tune, Timing, Bowing and Fingering. One accompanist of contest ant’s choice. Any contestant under the in fluence of alcoholic beverages will be disqualified. In the event the judges deem it necessary, contestants may be asked to play another tune. The decisions of the judges will be definitely fair and im partial and all decisions will be final. Deadline for entries for the “Go-Texan Fiddlers Contest” is January 15th. The 1967 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo will be the sec ond held in the famed Astrodome. Stars for the show are: Jimmy Dean, February 22, 23 and 24; Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle, February 25, 26 and 27; “Ten nessee” Ernie Ford, February 28 through March 3; and Eddy Arnold, March 4 and 5. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. 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The Battalion, a student ublished in College StaC unday, and Monday, and ;ion, Texas daily except Saturday, holiday periods, September through MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los Francisco. os Angeles and San Publisher Texas A&M University Student Editor Winston Green Jr. Managing- Editor — John Fuller News Editor Elias Moreno, Jr. Staff Writers Patricia Hill, Mike Plake, Robert Borders, Jerry Grisham Sports Editor '. Gary Sherer Staff Photographer ^ Russell Autrey The ^roughness of Oakville is nowhere better illustrated than in community necktie parties. Big live oak trees just outside the city seemed tailored for this pastime, and Mrs. S. G. Miller, whose des cendants still live around Mathis, once said, “sometimes as many as five at a time were swung up in this fashion.” But a local historian in recent years said Oakville was just a town of the times. “Oakville was just an average western frontier town, typical of the ordinary town of its size,” said the historian. “Records show that the culprits were caught and that they answered for their crimes.” Mrs. Miller, who was there, had a different version, as did other early chroniclers. “Though it was not a large town,” Mrs. Miller said, “it was a live one in more ways than were appreciated by law-abiding citizens, for it swarmed with gamblers, murderers and cut throats who came from every direction. i “The hotels were perfect dens of thieves. Drinking and fight ing went on continuously. Pis tols and guns were at these men’s sides, and the one quickest with a shot was the one that escaped death. Oakville had at least one love triange that wound up in mur der. Rollo Miller, county attorney of Live Oak County before the seat of government was moved to George West, was the man who discovered the triangle kill ing. While on his way from Lagar- to, he saw the body of a man of about 20 years hanging from the limb of one of the oaks. He gathered a posse at Oakville and questioned a family nearby, finally arresting the man and his daughter. The father died prior to the trial, and the girl then told the story. She said she was jealous of her sweetheart who had been go ing with another girl. She said she plotted with her father to place a rope in the tree and when she and her lover were having their last walk together she pointed to the tree. “I wonder what that rope is there for?” she asked. “Let me put the loop around your neck.” Laughingly he submitted, and the girl’s father jumped from be hind the tree and helped the girl as she swung her lover up, leav ing him there to strangle. The girl disappeared and no one knows what happened to her. Oakville’s wild days are over. It has a couple of stores, and the Tay Ninh, Thu Dau Not and old jail is used as a dwelling. The Teacher Training Division staff of Texas A&M’s Engineer ing Extension Service is partici pating in the Texas School Ad ministrators Conference this week in Austin. B. M. Hackney, chief teacher trainer instructor, said his staff also will huddle with University of Texas officials to make plans for the 21st annual joint summer school for vocational industrial education personnel. Hackney said a record 300 teachers are expected to enrol] for certification courses June S through July 14 at A&M. The old mark of 226 participants was set last summer in Austin, with Texas as host school. In Austin, Hackney said his staff will consult with Dean James R. D. Eddy, head of UT's Extension Division; Les Ballard, director of the Texas Educatior, Agency’s Vocational Industrial Education Division, and their staffs. WHATABURGER 1101 S. 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