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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXASTHURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1967
NUMBER 467
Freeman States Aid
To Cause Self-Help
Secretary of Agriculture Or
ville L. Freeman said Wednesday
night that, a recent USD A report
calling for more food aid and
technical assistance to poorer
nations indicates a “tightrope we
have to walk.”
The tightrope, he told about
2,500 persons attending the 18th
annual American Institute of
Biological Sciences at A&M, is
the delicate balance of helping
other nations in just the right
way—not too much and not too
little.
The secretary’s talk covered
mostly the wbrld food situation
and U.S. efforts to help avoid
hunger in some regions. AIBS
meetings began Monday and will
end Friday. About 3,000 biolo
gists, many of them in the agri-
$50,000 Grant
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Governing Board Of AIBS
Names McLeroy New Head
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The Governing Board of the
American Institute of Biological
Sciences has elected its new offi
cers for the coming year at the
Institute’s 18th Annual Meeting
of Biological Societies at A&M.
William D. McElroy, chairman
of the Department of Biology at
Johns Hopkins University, was
chosen as the new president of
AIBS. Dr. McElroy will succeed
J. Roger Porter as president on
Jan. 1, 1968. Dr. Porter is chair
man of the Department of Micro
biology, University of Iowa.
Other officers elected were La
ment C. Cole, Cornell University,
(4 ! vicep resident, and Robert W.
'I Krauss, University of Maryland,
who was voted secretary-treas-
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Dr. McElroy, after his election
as the institute’s new president
for 1968, commented.
"I am honored to accept the
presidency of an organization
which is the major society repre
senting all biology.”
Dr. McElroy related that one
of the prime areas in which the
Institute is going to increase its
efforts is that of biological edu-
catino. He said, “There is a great
need for upgrading the quality
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Seminar Planned
For Reservists
Navy and Army reservists from
all areas of the nation are ex
pected for a seminar on elec
tronic computers Sept. 4-15 at
A&M.
Sponsors for the seminar are
the Office of Naval Research,
Naval Reserve Research Com
pany 8-3 of Bryan-College Sta
tion, and the University.
Computer programming and
applications will be the main sub
ject areas for 43 Navy reservists,
three Army reservists and five
staff members.
Seminar chairman is Capt.
Walter H. Thames Jr., USNR,
associate professor of plant phy
siology and pathology at A&M.
Commandant’s representative is
Capt. Richard H. Ballinger,
USNR, A&M professor of Eng
lish.
Richard Wilcox, acting direc
tor of the Mathematical Sciences
Division, Office of Naval Re
search, Washington, D.C., will
address seminar participants dur
ing a Monday luncheon in the
Memorial Student Center.
President Earl Rudder will
welcome seminar participants
during the luncheon.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
of curricula, of lifting standards
for Ph.D. degrees, for new ap
proaches in teaching.”
The new president of AIBS
also said refresher courses in
biology would be promoted for
high school and college biology
teachers to bring them up to date
on developments in this fast mov
ing science. And he spoke of
other means of disseminating
basic biological information which
would summarize the state of bio
logical knowledge and accomplish
ment.
Outgoing president, Dr. Porter,
Research Grant
Awarded Barnard
Dr. Herbert M. Barnard, asso
ciate professor of electrical engi
neering at Texas A&M, has been
awarded a $13,425 research con
tract by the Sandia Corporation
of Albuquerque, N.M.
The contract calls for Barnard
to conduct an eight-month theo
retical study for a digital instru
mentation scheme.
Aiding in the project is Don
Todd of Quanah, Ph.D. candidate
in electrical engineering. Todd
is writing a doctoral thesis in
connection with the research.
lauded Or. McElroy as “one of
the nation’s most distinguished
scientists.” He said, “He is highly
regarded throughout £he world
for his outstanding research,
teaching and public works for the
good of mankind.”
The new president of AIBS is
a former Texan and is a recipient
of the Rumford Prize of the
American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, the Barnett Cohen
Award of the American Society
of Bacteriologists and was a
Harvey Lecturer for the New
York Academy of Sciences.
Dr. McElroy is the author of
a number of books on biology and
served in an editorial capacity
for the Journal of Bacteriology,
Journal of General Physiology,
Archives of Biochemistry and
Biophysics and was science editor
for Prentice Hall, Inc., from 1961
to 1964.
He is a member of the Presi
dent’s Science Advisory Commit
tee and serves on a number of
scientific societies, educational
and government advisory panels.
This is the first time AIBS has
met in Texas.
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Association, Your Sav-
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A $50,000 educational grant
awarded to the Lufkin Independ
ent School District for develop
ment of model educational dis
semination practices will involve
Texas A&M in research aspects.
The Title III grant effective
Sept. 1 for the 1967-68 school
year will include Longview, Mar
shall and Tyler Schools as proj
ect members, announced Dr.
Frank Leathers, Lufkin superin
tendent.
Lufkin applied for the research
grant in cooperation with A&M,
which will supply staff, offices
and educational television and
data processing facilities. Luf
kin is funding agent for the pro
gram grant, authorized by the
Elementary and Secondary Edu
cation Act of 1965.
Dr. Leathers said the project’s
purpose is to make known the
discovery of outstanding educa-
Kramer Succeeds
Folweiler as Head
Of Tree Service
The Board of Directors of the
A&M University System named
Paul R. Kramer to succeed retir
ing Texas Forest Service Direc
tor A. D. Folweiler, effective
September 1. The decision was
made at the Board’s August 8
meeting.
Kramer, who became associate
director Oct. 1, 1966, joined the
Service in 1948 as a forest prod
ucts technologist. In 1955 he was
promoted to head of the Forest
Products Laboratory at the Cud-
lipp Forestry Center, Lufkin.
The new director received his
bachelor’s degree from Washing
ton State University and has done
graduate study in wood technol
ogy at the Graduate School, Yale
University. He has published nu
merous articles on forestry and
wood utilization.
He is current chairman of the
Gulf States Section of the Society
of American Foresters.
tional practices for their accept
ance and use in public schools.
Means of information dissemina
tion to be studied, employed and
evaluated include electronic me
dia, brochures and news articles,
among others.
Project director will be Dr.
Roger L. Harrell, chairman of
secondary education in A&M’s
Education and Psychology De
partment. Mrs. Lela Edwards,
A&M doctoral student and Bryan
school teacher, will be associate
director.
An October meeting of super
intendents of schools involved in
the project will be at College Sta
tion to choose exemplary educa
tional practices to be introduced
in the districts. Attending will
be Dr. Leathers, Superintendents
Van R. Beane, Marshall; Ed
Irons, Tyler, and Charles F. Ma
thews, Longview.
Acceptance and approval of
newly-introduced practices will
be measured by teams of teacher-
trainees and graduate students.
Results will be statistically eval
uated by computer in the Data
Processing Center at A&M.
Dr. Harrell said A&M teacher
education students will be em
ployed in weeklong studies of the
community in depth, as well as
pre and post-assessment.
cultural field, are attending the
meetings.
Freeman said food aid will con
tinue to be needed to buy time
until agricultural production is
sharply increased in the hungry
nations. Grain import needs may
be 50 percent higher by 1980.
But food aid, he added, must
be tied to self-help—for if it isn’t,
agricultural development will suf
fer, economic development will
stagnate, and “disaster will be
merely postponed, not averted.”
“So we can’t allow food aid to
retard efforts by the poorer na
tion to help themselves. It’s a
tightrope we have to walk,” he
emphasized. “Too much food aid
would tend to depress the prices
of local farmers and deprive them
of a major incentive for increas
ing their own production. Too
little would be equally as bad.”
In short, he said U.S. policy is
not based on giving less, but on
helping more.
The study Freeman referred to
is found in the USDA’s World
Food Situation Report and is
titled “Prospect for World Grain
Production, Consumption and
Trade.” The project took six
months to prepare and has 1970
and 1980 as target dates.
The secretary summarized the
study like this:
Considering population in
creases and other factors, by 1980
thel ess-developed countries will
require between 54 and 58 million
metric tons of grain imports each
year, compared to an average of
about 29 million tons in the mid
sixties.
“But when we measure world
capacity, as this study did, we
find that even by 1980, wtih a
near-doubling in imports by the
less-developed nations, the world
probably will continue to have
excess production capacity.
“Production capacity of the de
veloped countries will grow re
gardless of growth in the less-
developed countries.
“Notice I said ‘capacity.’
Whether or not there is an actual
surplus of grain depends on how
that capacity is used, which in
turn depend on production and
trade prospects and government
policies.”
He said only if the less-devel
oped nations could somehow in
crease their agricultural produc
tivity to 4 percent annually—-a
rate reached by only a few coun
tries—could they achieve a high
enough rate of economic growth
to reach desirable minimum ca
lorie production for he people and
break their dependence on food
aid.
“Our economists view such
radical rise in productivity as
extremely unlikely,” Freeman
said.
He added that “history clearly
shows that no nation has moved
from chronic stagnation into sus
tained economic development un
less it first achieved a substantial
gain in agricultural productivity.”
Civil Defense
Aide Named
Robert C. Schnatterly, deputy
director of Bexar County Civil
Defense, has been named an in
structor in A&M’s Civil Defense
Training Division.
Dr. Willis R. Bodine, coordi
nator of Civil Defense Training
for A&M’s Engineering Extension
Service, said Schnatterly will join
the staff Sept. 1.
Schnatterly has extensive
teaching experience in radiologi
cal monitoring, much of it during
18 years as a sergeant in the U.S.
Air Force. He also has taught
adult education courses in Civil
Defense.
Bodine said Schnatterly will
specialize in teaching radiological
defense courses. He noted the
new instructor was a class leader
in two courses taught by A&M
staff members.
Schnatterly teaches marksman
ship for the National Guard in
San Antonio.
At All-Faiths Chapel
Moslem Wedding Held
The first Moslem wedding in
A&M’s All-Faiths Chapel was
performed Saturday evening.
J. Gordon Gay, A&M religious
life coordinator, said the cere
mony wed Miss Nehad El-Khatib
and Mahmoud Kased of Jordan.
Three hours after the Mosiem
wedding, Kuo-Yao Tsa and Miss
Sue-Fuay Lin of Formosa were
married in a service conducted
by Rev. R. L. Brown of College
Station. Another Chinese couple
was married by Epscolap minister
Rev. Wesley Seeliger in the cam-
AIBS EXHIBITS
More than 100 commercial exhibits are on display at Texas many of the varied aspects of the biological sciences.
A&M for the 18th annual meeting of the American Institute Highlight of the week-long convention was a major scien-
of Biological Sciences. In addition to the exhibits, more tific address by United States Secretary of Agriculture
than 1000 scientific papers will be presented, covering Orville Freeman.
pus chapel Sunday afternoon.
They are Hung-Chih Yu, study
ing for a masters in English, and
Miss Jui-Chao Yeh, both of Tai
wan, Formosa. Tsai, also from
Taiwan, is in graduate petroleum
engineering studies.
The Moslem wedding was un
usual, although Gay has directed
ceremonies for Australians, Ger
mans and Chinese. He said the
Tsai-Lin and Yu-Yeh ceremonies
were the third and fourth Chinese
couples to wed in the All-Faiths
Chapel.
The YMCA general secretary,
Officers Needed
For Active Duty
Bryan and College Station
area US Army Reserve officers
may qualify for active duty as
signments in the Fourth Army
area.
Headquarters, Eighth Corps,
announced reservists will be used
to augment the active army mis
sion of the Fourth Army area,
including Texas, Arkansas, Lou
isiana, Oklahoma and New Mex
ico.
Qualified personnel will be or
dered to active duty voluntarily,
with their consent.
Vacancies exist in the grades
of captain through lieutenant
colonel and sergeant through ser
geant major. Active duty assign
ments are with the Army, re
serve components and reserve of
ficers training corps (ROTC)
through June, 1969.
Interested Ready Reservists,
including those assigned to con
trol groups, may obtain further
information from the nearest
Army Reserve Center or by writ
ing the Commanding Officer,
VIII US Army Corps, ATTN:
AKVIII-AA, Austin 78701, con
cerning specific vacancies at in
stallations of activities in the
Fourth Army area.
who usually averages directing
two weddings a week during the
summer, said the Moslem wedding
was a learning experience for
him.
General arrangements were
made by El-Khatib. Hamed El-
Keky, an A&M education gradu
ate student who graduated from
a Moslem Theological school in
Jordan, conducted prayers.
The ceremony consisted of sepa
rate meetings with Miss El-
Khatib and Kased. The bride’s
brother, who served as her guar
dian, two witnesses and El-Feky
met first with the bride.
“Essentially, I asked my sister
for the authority to give her hand
in marriage,” El-Khatib said.
“Myself, the witnesses and min
ister then went into another room
to the bridegroom and made a
written document of the mar
riage.
“After it was affixed with our
five signatures, the bride was
presented to her husband. They
then entered the chapel where
people were listening to portions
of the Holy Koran being read.
After greeting friends, the couple
went for the reception.”
The bridegroom is a business
man in Puerto Rico. El-Khatib
said the ceremony follows the
format of wedding rites in Jor
dan, but will lack several details
usually included.
Requirements will considerably
lighten Gay’s preparations. In
A&M student weddings at the
chapel, he often arranges for an
organist, soloist, photographer
and other details.
The Saturday evening wedding
required only that Christian sym
bols be removed from the chapel
and the Koran placed on the pul
pit. One centerpiece of flowers
was set.
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