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College Station, Texas
Thursday, August 8, 1968
THE BATTALION CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle
University System Marks
Platinum Anniversary
Next month marks the 20th
anniversary of a Texas institution
which operates a fleet, two
former Air Force bases, nuclear
installations and a plantation, has
personnel in 251 counties and
provides aid to several foreign
countries.
All these aspects are in addi
tion to the institution’s basic
function, which is conducted on
five Texas sites! Its operating
budget last year exceeded $100
million.
The uninitiated might say the
organization has a certain mili
tary flavor — and they wouldn’t
be wrong. It has ties with all
branches of the armed forces.
FOR THOSE who still have
not identified the institution, it
might be helpful to note its best-
known division won the Southwest
Conference football championship
last year.
That pretty well defines the
platinum - anniversary-celebration
institution as the Texas A&M
University System, organized
Sept. 1, 1948.
In addition to Texas A&M Uni
versity, the system includes
Prairie View A&M College at
Hempstead, Tarleton State Col
lege at Stephenville, James Con-
nally Technical Institute at Waco
and the Texas Martime Academy
at Galveston.
ALSO THE TEXAS Agricul
tural Experiment Station, Texas
Agricultural Extension Service,
Texas Engineering Experiment
Station, Texas Engineering Ex
tension Service, Texas Transpor
tation Institute and the Texas
Forest Service, all headquartered
at College Station.
“The Texas A&M University
System,” notes its president, Earl
Rudder, “is an educational, re
search and service complex which
directly or indirectly affects
every person in the state.”
BESIDES ITS campus aca
demic pi'ograms, the university
and its experiment stations and
institutes conduct valuable ap
plied research for both industry
and agriculture. Its extension
service provides practical train
ing in a variety of fields, rang
ing from home economics to fire
and police work. A&M’s Agri
cultural Extension Service has
agents based in all but three of
the state’s 254 counties.
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Were You There...
(see story column 6 page 1)
Maddox Receives
Extension Award
One of the highest honors a
person can receive in the Exten
sion Service profession has gone
to L. A. Maddox, Jr., Extension
animal husbandman of Texas
A&M.
The animal husbandman was
presented the American Society
of Animal Science Extension
Award of $1,000 and an engraved
plaque during the 60th annual
meeting of the Society July 28-
Aug. 1 at Oklahoma State Uni
versity.
Maddox’ award was based on
his many years of professional
work in the Texas Agricultural
Extension Service and its influ
ence on the beef cattle industry.
His citation was read by J. E.
Oldfield, head of the Oregon State
University Animal Science De
partment, chairman of the Ex
tension Award Selection Commit
tee, and past president of the
American Society of Animal Sci
ence. Presentation was made by
J. A. Hawbaker of Charles Pfizer
and Company, award donor.
The Extension Award was es
tablished in 1959, and Maddox
is the 10th person to receive it.
Dr. O. D. Butler, head of the
A&M Animal Science Depart
ment, said Maddox is best known
as one of the pioneers in per
formance testing of beef cattle.
It was 18 years ago that Mad
dox started his first performance
testing of young bulls at Pan
Tech Farms. He provided the
leadership for cooperating pro
ducers who developed the first
sale of performance tested beef
bulls at Pan Tech in 1954.
Next, he served as chairman
of the working committee which
decided that a national organiza
tion could and should be formed
that would register beef cattle
with outstanding performance
records. This decision, Butler said,
was made at Amarillo in 1954
and started the Performance
Registry International.
The animal scientist wrote the
first draft of the general and
special rules of the PRI.
Interest in performance and
production traits of beef cattle
were stimulated by the PRI. To
day, many breed associations
have advanced registry classifi
cations based on production traits
as part of their programs.
Maddox joined the Extension
Service in 1954. In 1956, he was
assigned to the headquarters
staff at Texas A&M and given
the responsibility of developing
a statewide program of beef cat
tle performance testing.
Texas county agricultural
agents in 1956 reported that they
knew of 1,238 beef herds with
146,449 cows on a production
testing program based on calf
weaning weight. Feedlot gain
tests of young bulls were being
conducted by 329 purebred breed
ers. A high percentage of the
registered breeders of beef cattle
in Texas were carrying on per
formance testing programs in co
operation with their respective
breed associations.
James Connally Technical In
stitute is providing highly train
ed personnel for specialized jobs
in industry, Rudder points out,
and the Texas Maritime Academy
is helping meet a continuing need
for leaders in the merchant ma
rine. The Texas Forest Service
works closely with the lumber
industry, while also looking after
the interests of the general
public.
ALTHOUGH the system was
organized only 20 years ago, Rud
der emphasizes most of its major
divisions are much older. Texas
A&M, for example, was organized
in 1876 and is the state’s oldest
public institution of higher learn
ing. Connally Tech, however, is
only two years old and TMA is
now in its (Sixth year.
The system’s facilities are as
varied as its services. It oper
ates two sea-going vessels, a nu
clear reactor, a cyclotron (some
times called an “atom-smasher”)
and a 3,200-acre plantation. It
has converted the old Bryan Air
Force Base into a research an
nex, with highway proving
grounds for the Texas Transpor
tation Institute, and also has tak
en over James Connally AFB,
now home for Connally Tech.
This is all in addition to stand
ard academic classrooms, dormi
tories and other conventional fa
cilities.
In 1954, the system went in
ternational by providing person
nel for foreign service under an
agreement with the Agency for
International Development (AID).
A&M’s current international
budget totals more than $2.5 mil
lion for programs in Pakistan,
Tunisia, Dominican Republic, Ar
gentina and Mexico.
Telephone Rates
Reduced By FCC
A reduction of long distance
rates has gone into effect for
General Telephone Company of
the Southwest customers as a re
sult of the recent i-uling by the
Federal Communications Commis
sion which ordered the American
Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany to reduce interstate long dis
tance rates by $20,000,000 an
nually.
The reductions are from 5 to 10
cents from the charge for the
first three minutes on daytime
weekday station-to-station calls.
These are calls placed between 7
A.M. and 5 P.M. Monday through
Friday.
This is the 23rd time interstate
rates have been cut since coast to
coast service began in 1915. Dur
ing that time, the cost of trans
continental calls has dropped to
as little as $.75 (station-to-sta-
tion between midnight and 7
A.M.) from $20.70 in 1915.
! At The Grovel
TODAY
“For Whom the Bell Tolls”
starring Gary Cooper and Ingred
Bergman
FRIDAY
“Flower Drum Song” starring
Nancy Kwan and James Shigeta
SATURDAY
“The Night Walker” starring
Robert Taylor and Barbara Stan
wyck, plus Chapter 10 of the
serial “The Phantom Creeps”
SUNDAY
“Master of the World” starring
Vincent Price
MONDAY
“Saga of Hemp Brown” Rory
Calhoun
TUESDAY
“The Grass is Greener” starring
Cary Grant and Jean Simmons
WEDNESDAY
“Baby, the Rain Must Fall”
starring Lee Remick and Steve
McQueen
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6 Hell you what Pd do
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A strange caller telephoned the office of Universit,.
Information the other day and was informed he had dial!!
the “i^want the 3 University of Texas,” he said.
Unfortunately, the poor man is probably still tryi n ,
to find the right University of Texas He never did Sa
which branch he wanted to talk with the one in Arlington
Austin or El Paso.
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enrolling
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One of the things I looked forward to when
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in A&M was the wide selection of courses available
course which caught my attention very early in my ^
here was “fencing.” I wanted to enroll, but rememberin
my childhood days made me quickly forget about it. Thos
post-hole diggers are too heavy for me to operate.
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Couldn’t help noticing a classified advertisement in the
Texas Technological College newspaper, “The University
Daily (wonder how they get away with that). It read-
“Will baby sit for faculty, staff children. Experienced
SW9-5551, $ .50 per hour.”
Oh yes, another thing, “The University Daily” C0lnes
out once a week.
‘Since you say you never get enough to eat in th’ chow
hall—your khakis must have shrunk!”
Southwestern Vet To Be Distributed
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Summer issues of The South
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The magazine is published by
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who are registered as “pre-vets”
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