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Page 4 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, September 21, 1967 Wildlife Specialist Joins A&M Staff Texas Highway Department Honors Aggie Employee Of Four Decades EE Specialists Join Dept. Dr. Harold Irby, former special ist with the U. S. Fish and Wild life Service at Rockport, has joined Texas A&M University’s Wildlife Science Department as an assistant professor. Irby, 40, a native of San An tonio, wil conduct research in marsh econolgy, waterfowl and upland game bird management. His appointment was announced by Dr. Richard J. Baldauf, Wild life Science Department acting head. For the past year Irby has been engaged in the mapping of underwater vegetation in bays from Borwnsville to Maine. “One of our primary interests was to determine the distribu tion and quantities of waterfowl food vailable in bays,” Irby com mented. “Another objective was to locate and make recommenda tions for the eradication of plants in the water.” Irby earned the bachelor’s de gree in wildlife science at A&M and added the Ph.D. at the Uni versity of Arizona. He is a life member of the Wildlife Society and a member of Sigma Xi. His research experience in cludes two years at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Maryland where he worked to develop a substitute for lead shot gun pellets. Irby also logged three years with the Refuge Division of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, serving in California, Texas and Arizona. In addition, he was a Cotton Sales Hold Steady? Congress Told WASHINGTON OP) — The Ag riculture Department reportedly assured Congress Wednesday it will not sell government-owned cotton at less than one cent a pound above the government loan rate for the particular qualities of cotton. Chairman W. R. Poage, D-Tex., of the House Agriculture Commit tee said the information was re ceived from department officials during a closed session with his unit. Producers of short staple cot ton, particularly in Texas, had expressed concern that cotton sales through the Commodity Credit Corporation would dip in price to a level that producers would be forced to turn the cur rent crop over to CCC for the loan rather than sell on the mar ket. Poage said Horace D. Godfrey, administrator of the Agricultural Stabilization Service, told the committee government sales would not be less than one cent a pound above the government loan, and indicated the minimum would be 1.2 cents above the loan. Archer Authors Dryden Articles Dr. Stanley L. Archer of Texas A&M’s English Department will have two articles published in scholarly journals. His study of John Dryden’s translation of “The History of the League” by Louis Maimbourg will appear in the fall issue of “Papers on Language and Litera ture,” a Southern Illinois Univer sity journal. Another article on a Dryden poem will be published in the spring, 1968, “Explicator.” Chairman of the freshman English committee, Dr. Archer is a 1959 A&M graduate and joined the English facutly in 1962. His M.A. and Ph.D. degrees are from the University of Mis sissippi. All The Ice Cream Yovi Can Eat, 50c The fall Ice Cream Smorgas bord will be at the Consolidated School cafeteria Sunday after noon, from 3 to 7 p.m. Will Worley, chairman, says College Station Kiwanians have arranged for an unlimited supply of 12 flavors of ice cream for stu dents and families wanting to see how much they can eat. Roger Feldman, ticket chair man, says that tickets can be obtained from Kiwanians, or from Harvey Caddess at the cafeteria door, for 50 cents—children under six admitted free. waterfowl biologist with the Texas Parks and Wildlife De partment for two years. The new faculty member served in the U. S. Navy during World War II and the Korean War. Irby, his wife and three daugh ters, live at 1107 Francis, College Station. Good roads enthusiasts from throughout Texas will gather in Austin Tuesday, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Texas High way Department. Pioneers in highway develop ment—both local boosters and veteran Highway Department employees—also will pay tribute to State Highway Engineer De witt C. Greer. An Aggie employee for four decades, Greer has been the top administrative officer for 27 years. Highlight of the anniversary event will be a dinner Tuesday evening at the Austin Municipal Auditorium. Tickets for the din ner, priced at $10 each, may be obtained by sending a check or money order to the Texas Good Roads Association, 302 Vaughn Building, Austin, 78701. Many chambers of commerce and other civic groups plan to bring bus loads of highway boost ers to Austin for the event. Gov. John Connally will be the main speaker. Five new faculty members with specialties ranging from laser communication to digital systems to servomechanisms have been added to Texas A&M University’s Electrical Engineering Depart ment. One of the five, Dr. William B. Jones Jr., heads the EE Depart ment. Jones, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is chair man of the IEEE Communications Technology Group. A professor at Georgia Tech for nine years before joining A&M, Jones has authored scien tific papers on communications applications of lasers. The others are: Dr. Robert D. Chenoweth, a professor who for the past five years supervised the graduate program in electrical engineering at the University of Missouri at Rolla. He received his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in 1955 and is a specialist in servomechanisms and control devices. Dr. John S. Linder, assistant professor who was an instructor at the University of Arizona for four years. He holds a Ph.D, fra Arizona and his area of inter* is in the field of integrated ele tronics. Dr. Thomas L. Noack, assisk professor who received his PkJ from Iowa State in 1963. Hen an assistant professor of elect) cal engineering at the Universi: of Missouri at Rolla for h years and his area of intei is servomechanisms. Dr. Vernon T. Rhyne when become assistant professor lit this fall when he receives | Ph.D. from Georgia Tech. PREMIUM QUALITY MEATS AT A LOW PRICE Specials good September 21-23, 1967. Right to limit reserved. Prices plus tax where applicable. Kroger Corned g Beef Brisket \ ..ding In,. ..... 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Quarter Pork Loin Sliced Into Pork Chops Silver Platter Lean Pork Steaks Silver Platter Boneless Pork Rotisserie Roast Silver Platter Small Spareribs Hormel Cure 81 Whole or Half Fully Cooked Boneless Hams u> $ 1 39 Neuhoff Fully Cooked Whole Smoked Picnics l» 39° Neuhoff Fully Cooked Sliced Smoked Picnics When you firsi open the Chub Pack, the meat is not the bright red you might expect because it has been protected from oxygen -an element that robs the meat of its flavor and color. Don’t worry. The darker color has absolutely no affect on the freshness and goodness of Kroger Ground Beef. Within a U.S. Gov't Inspected Fresh Ground Beef Slices easily into perfect beef patties