k h wm tliep !' condm •ber of . ve hoi* fc- At] nines uttheli ibilitia i of drii »pe oi v, safe ity o ffsity iproxiu 'he 18'* ippl m !wj*i THE BATTALION Tuesday, April 25, 1967 Colleg-e Station, Texas Gifts Of Over 1 Million Announced Gifts, grants and scholarships totaling $1,184,660 were accepted Tuesday by the Texas A&M Sys tem Board of Directors. This raised the 10-month total to $4,- 584,000. The action was taken during a regular board meeting at Texas A&M. Donations totaled $19,035 for scholarships, fellowships and awards. Forty-three donations were received. Research and grants-in-aid amounted to $773,026, including $430,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation for research and edu cation in tropical veterinary med icine, $249,000 from the Robert A. Welch Foundation for funda mental research in chemistry, $43,915 from the Association of Former Students, and $20,000 from International Business Ma chines Corporation. Capital gifts totaled $5,159, with $5,000 to permanently endow the Luther G. Jones Scholarship Fund to provide an achievement award in agronomy. Special gifts amounted to $327,- 435. Of that total, George P. Mitchell gave 40 acres of land valued at $300,000 on Pelican Is land, near Galveston. And Ster ling Hogan donated horses valu ed at $26,900 to the College of Veterinary Medicine. Tarleton State College accept ed $140 in gifts. The Texas Agricultural Exper iment Station received grants-in- aid valued at $46,281. Largest single grant was $4,945 for re search from Smith Kiline and Connally Technical Institute at French Laboratories. The South Texas Sugar Beet Growers As sociation gave $3,900 for re search. Gifts and equipment to James Waco totaled $13,583. Largest gift was a $8,500 tractor from Brown and Root Inc. for heavy construction equipment mechan ics. Development Fund Drive Scheduled Directors Approve Record Amount For Improvements m Texas A&M’s Board of Direc tors approved a record $4,087,930 Tuesday in contracts and other al locations for new facilities and additional improvements. William Maters of San An tonio submitted the low bid of $2,131,750 for general construc tion in the Veterinary Medicine Complex expansion. The project includes additions to the Veter inary Medicine Science Building and a new Laboratory Animal Bulletin Board THURSDAY Deep East Texas Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the MSG. Waco-McLennan County Home town Club will meet in the Cas- hion Room of the YMCA at 7:30 p.m. to plan their spring party. Women’s Softball League will be organized. Anyone interest ed in the team please call Mrs. Luke A. Cemino at 822-6880. Building. The contract for laboratory furniture and equipment went to Taylor Manufacturing Company of Taylor which bid $197,524. Total complex cost will ex ceed $4,000,000. A Bryan firm, R. B. Butler, Inc., submitted the low estimate of $726,323 for general construc tion of the Engineering Research Center, the new civil engineering facility. Kewaunee Technical Furniture Co. of Statesville, N. C., won the fixed laboratory furni ture and equipment contract with a bid of $28,906. Contract for shelving and fix tures in the Texas A&M library addition was awarded Stein Architectural Products of Fred ericksburg, Texas, which bid $309,782. The A&M directors appropri ated $230,000 for plans and other preliminary expenses for the gen eral Engineering Building. A Texas A&M Development Fund drive kickoff breakfast for Bryan and College Station will be held Wednesday at the Ramada Inn, announced College Station drive chairman Hoy Richards. Joe Zemanek chairs the Bryan drive. President Earl Rudder will host the 7 a.m. breakfast and describe the A&M Development Fund. Ed Cooper, Brazos County A&M Club president, will have charge of the program. Richards said the compliment ary breakfast meeting is for 75 workers and interested persons. Atkinson Speaks To YMCA Today “Hugh Hefner and Jessus — A Critical Look at the New Moral ity” will be the topic when Ste phen A. Atkinson of the Inter varsity Christian Fellowship in Dallas speaks at the YMCA to night at 7:30. Atkinson will give both the “Hefner Philosophy” on sex and womanhood and the Christian at titudes toward the same subjects. Following the talk there will be a question and answer period in which the students can discus other attitudes on these subjects. Adaring medical research team hopes to pump tranquilizers into a whale, catch it by the tail and tow it to shallow fater for study. BATTALION CLASSIFIED WANT AD RATES day 4^ per word 3*! per word each additional day Minimum charge—50^ Classified Display ?0