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Page 4 College Station, Texas
Wednesday, February 14, 1968
THE BATTALION
Skoog To Speak
On Plant Growth
At Grad Seminar
Professor Folke Skoog, an in
ternationally-known plant physi
ologist, will deliver two lectures
at A&M next week.
Prof. Skoog and colleagues at
the Institute for Plant Develop
ment, University of Wisconsin,
discovered and synthesized the
cytokinins, which are potent plant
growth factors. He was the first
to recognize in 1953 that plant
hormones regulate growth v i a
nucleic acid synthesis. He also
was the first to show that roots
are produced out of undifferenti
ated tissue—not by special root
hormones, but by a balance of or
dinary hormones such as auxin
and cytokinin.
“He has turned out more good
Ph.D’s in developmental plant
physiology than anyone else in
the past two decades,” said Dr.
Johannes van Overbeek, director
of A&M’s Institute of Life Sci
ence.
Skoog will give a graduate lec
ture on “Cytokinins: Sources,
Structure and Biological Activity”
at a joint Institute of Life Science
and Plant Science seminar in
Room 112 of the Plant Science
Building at 4 p.m. Tuesday.
He will give a university lec
ture on “How Plants Regulate
Their Development” in the Archi
tecture auditorium at 8 p.m. Wed
nesday.
A VALENTINE FOR VALENTINE
Texas A&M Prof. Roger Valentine McGee, bom on Valen
tine’s Day, 1899, and named for the occasion, receives
dual congratulations from secretaries Karola Feltz (left)
and Mary Walters. The math professor also this month is
celebrating his 40th year on the A&M faculty, tops for
continuous teaching service.
A Valen tine Means
‘Happy Birthday’
ALICE IN
AMPHETAMINELAND
(ACP) — A million dex! That’s
right: o-n-e m-i-l-l-i-o-n d-e-x.
That, said the “Daily Tar Heel,”
is enough to get the entire Uni
versity of North Carolina student
body through exams, with enough
left over to scatter knee-deep over
Polk Place so exam-punchy stu
dents could scamper through
them barefoot. It’s kind of an
Alice-in-Amphetamineland dream.
But dreams get smashed. And
so do doors. Like the ones that
South Carolina lawmen bulled
through at a Cowpens, S. C., truck
stop to find 45 containers full of
Benzedrine, Dexedrine, and other
pep pills. A million of them, the
cops said.
Needless to say, that’s one mil
lion dex that won’t be peddled to
anyone this exam period.
As a youngster, Texas A&M
Prof. Roger Valentine McGee
didn’t particularly like being
saddled with that middle name.
His parents thought it a grand
idea, since the professor put in
his first appearance on the last
Valentine’s Day before the turn
of the century.
A little hasty math, which
happens to be McGee’s field, thus
reveals he is 69 today. Happy
valentine and happy birthday!
Also, happy anniversary. Anni
versary salutations are appropri
ate because the durable professor
this month also is celebrating his
40th consecutive year as a mem
ber of the Texas A&M faculty.
It doesn’t take much figuring
to determine Professor McGee has
been teaching at Aggieland longer
than anyone else. Toss in the time
spent here as a student and he
dates back to 1920. That adds up
to a 48-year association with
A&M.
Getting back to the Valentine
business, McGee said he took such
a ribbing as a boy that he once
changed his name to “James
Roger.”
As the years went by, he de
cided the name Valentine wasn’t
so bad after all. In fact, he con
cluded, there are certain advan
tages to being born on Valentine’s
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Day.
“My birthday nearly always
gets remembered,” the professor
quipped.
“I’ve had my share of comic
valentines and birthday cards,” he
added, “but it’s been as much fun
to me as anyone else.”
If those guys who ribbed him
had bothered to check the dic
tionary, they would have learned
Webster lists Valentine as a mas
culine name meaning to be strong
or healthy.
Professor McGee lookst he part.
When wearing his western hat,
he could easily pass for a crusty
sheriff or a hearty rancher.
At 69, the associate professor is
four years beyond normal retire
ment age but is continuing to
teach at the invitation of uni
versity officials.
He remarked he will “stay at
it as long as I can be effective in
my teaching.”
He’s too involved to retire.
Last year he went on joint ap
pointment to teach in both the
math and education departments.
Whereas he once taught only
undergraduates, he has branched
out in recent years and now also
instructs in-service institutes for
teachers and Academic Year In
stitute (a National Science Foun
dation program) students, as well
as helping out in A&M‘s Engi
neering Extension Service.
The Brazos County native, who
was a public school principal and
teacher in Bryan, Bellville and
Meridian before coming to A&M
in 1928, is the author of a book,
“Mathematics in Agriculture,”
which is almost as durable as he.
The text is 25 years old but is
still selling and being used around
the country. It was translated
into Spanish in 1965.
After teaching more than 45
years, Professor McGee could
easily have become set in his
ways, but he hasn’t. He likes
young people—especially Aggies.
The feeling is mutual as attested
by the fact A&M’s Association of
Former Students bestowed on
him its coveted award for distin
guished achievement in individual
student relations.
He also likes change, of which
he’s seen a lot in the teaching
field.
One of the changes McGee likes
is the “new math” now being
taught to grade-schoolers, to the
bewilderment of most of their
parents.
“New math is great,” he ob
served, adding, “I’ve been ped
dling it for years.”
AUSTIN (A*)—Efforts to end
Texas’ liquor regulation troubles
moved the top state police in
telligence men into the Liquor
Control Board’s No. 2 adminis
trative spot Tuesday.
On the legislative front, two
lawyers, a South Plains rancher
and an East Texas real estate
man were appointed to act under
Rep. R. H. Cory of Victoria on
a special House subcommittee
trying to rewrite the liquor laws.
The Liquor Board disclosed the
appointment of O. N. Humphreys
Jr., chief of the Department of
Public Safety’s intelligence sec
tion, as the LCB’s $16,500 a year
assistant administrator.
HUMPHREYS, 43, succeeds
William Ferguson, who quit ef
fective Jan. 31 in the midst of
the LCB’s inquiry into various
rumors and allegations of irregu
larities in liquor law enforcement.
The DPS intelligence section
has been deeply involved in the
investigation. Board member O.
R. Crawford of Jasper said Hum
phreys “already has made a num
ber of important suggestions
which are being implemented as
quickly as possible. Many of these
will be announced in the near
future.”
“WE FIRMLY believe that Mr.
Humphreys’ knowledge and ex
perience can be utilized to in
tensify our training of agents as
well as to strengthen our enforce
ment practices from top to bot
tom. As we have stated previous
ly, we intend to do everything
possible to discover and correct
any irregularities,” Crawford's
statement for the three-man
board said.
Humphreys came to the DPS
as a highway patrolman in 1948,
moved into intelligence work in
1953 and has been intelligence
chief since 1956. He was a Marine
fighter pilot in World War II.
The House subcommittee was
set up at Speaker Ben Barnes'
request to analyze the Liquor
Control Act and recommend im
provements. Cory, a lawyer, also
is chairman of the full 21-member
State Affairs Committee, from
which the subcommittee members
were chosen.
SUBCOMMITTEE members are
Reps. Cletus Davis of Houston,
a former assistant district at
torney; Roy Garwood of San An
tonio, a lawyer; Bill Clayton of
Springlake, a rancher; and James
Slider of Naples, a real estate
man.
Cory said the attorney general
had checked all of them out—
including himself — to be sure
none had represented anyone be
fore the LCB or had any involve
ment with the various charges
of irregularities.
The subcommittee will hold its
organizational meeting Saturday.
No testimony will be taken then,
but Cory said he expects the
group to meet “at least once a
week and we may meet several
days in a row.”
SLIDER AND Clayton come
from dry areas. Cory indicated
there had been an attempt at
balance between dry, rural and
urban areas in picking the com
mittee members. Clayton and
Slider each have served several
terms and are regarded as part
of Barnes’ “team,” but Garwood
and Davis are first-term mem
bers.
“We didn’t want anybody from
trouble spots,” mentioned in con
nection with alleged irregulari
ties,” Cory said.
Cory, 49, has been in the House
13 years. His first major piece
of legislation reorganized the In
surance Board after several
scandals in the 1950s.
THE SUBCOMMITTEE faces
an uncertain deadline. Barnes
wants its recommendations before
Gov. John Connally calls this
year’s special legislative session,
but Connally has not said when
it will be.
It is improbable the committee
will recommend liquor by the
drink. Cory said the other four
committee members are split two-
two on the issue and he is dis
inclined to break a tie should the
matter come up. Connally favors
liquor by the drink, but failed
to get his bill even a floor test
during last year’s session.
“MY INTENTION is to ask
for the help, cooperation and as
sistance of the attorney general's
department, the Department of
Public Safety and the Legislative
Council, as well as the Texas
Liquor Control Board,” Cory said,
Specifically, the Legislative
Council — the legislature's re
search agency — will be asked
to point out sections of the liquor
control act that bear on various
alleged irregularities.
“ANY EVIDENCE we produce
of wrongdoing or improper con
duct by any state employee we
will turn over to the DPS, the
attorney general and the grand
jury of the appropriate county,"
Cory said.
Cory said he would ask the
attorney general and the DPS
for reports on their investigations
of liquor law^ enforcement.
“This subcommittee will be
happy to receive recommenda
tions in writing or at a hearing
of the subcommittee for revision
and changes in the present liquor
control act, as well as new legis
lation, from any source whatso
ever with the understanding any
person or agency forwarding suck
material may be called to appear
before the committee in support
of their proposed suggestions,' 1
Cory said.
Pro-Am Slated
For Engineers
Texas A&M mechanical engi
neering students will work with
Houston area industry profes
sional engineers Feb. 19 in a pro
gram arranged by the A&M chap
ter of the Society of Automotive
Engineers.
Milton S. (Sandy) Sandell of
Hamilton, A&M branch chairman,
said 30 students will work with
professionals who are members
of the SAE Gulf Coast Section.
Work will be in engineering
sales, service, design and test
positions wdth 15 to 20 Houston
industries, according to Charles
White of Houston, program chair
man. Sandell and White are
senior mechanical engineering
majors.
“The program will benefit stu
dents and companies,” noted Rob
ert H. Fletcher, faculty advisor.
The mechanical engineering pro
fessor said the pr ogram will allow
the practicing engineer and fledg
ling to gain knowledge about the
other.
Fletcher, student activities vice
chairman for the Gulf section,
said the program is new to the
Southern United States.
The A&M students' work-day
will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., fol
lowing a tour of the International
“Spitfire” Engine Rebuilders.
After work, a social hour with the
Houston Engineering and Scien
tific Society and monthly dinner
meeting of the SAE Gulf section
are scheduled. A program on
small gas turbine use will follow.
Oil, drilling and manufacturing
firms and NASA are among par
ticipating companies.
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