Officers Elected
In FFA Chapter
Page 4
College Station, Texas
Thursday, May 15, 1969
THE BATTALION
SNOOPING AROUND THE MOON
Apollo 10 commander Thomas P. Stafford strikes an interesting contrast with the comic-
strip dog “Snoopy” in front of a lunar surface map at the Kennedy Space Center. Staf
ford and his two Apollo 10 copilots, Eugene A. Cernan and John W. Young, have chosen
“Snoopy” to be the radio call code name for the Lunar Module landing craft Stafford
and Cernan are to fly to within nine miles of the moon’s surface. The command ship,
piloted alone by Young during the rendezvous, will have the call name “Charlie Brown.”
Launch is scheduled for Sunday, May 18. (AP Wirephoto from NASA)
Archie Abrameit of Goliad has
been elected president of the Tex
as A&M FFA Chapter for fall,
1969.
Abrameit will succeed Dennis
Templeton of La Pryor, who has
headed the chapter during the
spring semester.
Other officers elected were
James Dean of Crane, vice-presi
dent; Joe Dettling of Wharton,
secretary; Robert Easter of La
Pryor, reporter; Bob Hataway of
Humble, treasurer; James Allcorn
of Comanche, sentinel; and stu
dent advisor, Larry Kiesling of
Wall.
Dr. Herman Brown, associate
professor of agricultural educa
tion, moderated a panel discussion
on highlights of student teaching.
Panel members were Jimmy
Cheek of Corpus Christi; Terry
McCasland of Wheeler; Travis
Shinn, Celeste; Charles Huneycutt
of College Station; and Callan
Oltmann of Paige.
All five panelists are gradu
ating seniors who returned this
week from eight weeks of practice
teaching in high school vocational
agriculture departments.
MSC Social Director Resigns
After 28 Years At A&M
Pueblo’s Executive Officer Resigns From Navy 4 Stagings Left
For ‘Everyman’
ST. LOUIS <A>> _ The former
executive officer of the USS
Pueblo said Wednesday he is re
signing from the Navy, con
vinced he has no future in the
service.
“My career has been abort
ed,” said Lt. Edward R. Murphy,
30, of San Diego, Calif, second in
command when the intelligence
ship was seized by North Ko
reans.
Murphy indicated at a news
conference he felt Cmdr. Lloyd
M. Bucher, captain of the Pueblo,
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Bucher was assigned to the Na
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Monterey, Calif. Murphy was
assigned to the fleet antisubma
rine school at San Diego.
“This was announced,” Mur
phy said in his letter of resigna
tion dated Tuesday, “after he
(Bucher) was recommended for
general court-martial, and, puz-
zlingly, just within 24 hours aft
er Rear Adm. Donald D. Chap
man, JAGO, deputy judge advo
cate general told him in my pres
ence that such a billet would not
be considered.”
Murphy held a news confer
ence at the Principia, a private
school in St. Louis County. He
is a graduate of the school and
its college, Principia College, in
nearby Elsah, 111.
“Everyman,” the Aggie Players
production with a deeper message
than most theatrical pieces, will
be staged four more times after
tonight’s presentation.
A medieval treatment of mor
tality and ethics given a modern
conveyance, the play should
“make people think about the life
they’re leading and, perhaps, the
kind of life they should be lead
ing,” “Everyman” director Bob
Wenck said.
C. K. Esten, Aggie Players
director, noted it is one of the
group’s longest-running produc
tions of recent years. The first
performance was May 5, he point
ed out.
The play will run at 8 p.m. in
Guion Hall through Saturday.
Mrs. Ann Keel has resigned
as Memorial Student Center
social director after 28 years’
service to A&M students.
Member of the MSC staff since
the center was dedicated in 1950,
she attained “encyclopedic knowl
edge” in making arrangements
for conferences, short courses,
banquets, receptions, student
meetings and various other func
tions that take place in the build
ing, according to J. Wayne Stark,
director.
The veteran MSC staff mem
ber retired early to travel with
her husband, Prof. Loyd Keel.
He retired last year from the
English Department faculty.
SHE WILL be succeeded by
Mrs. Charles J. Keese, wife of
the director of the Texas Trans
portation Institute’s Highway
Research Center.
“Through the years, Mrs. Keel
developed expertise in handling
and hanging art and sculpture,”
Stark added, which enabled A&M
to obtain many valuable art ob
jects for MSC display. Mrs.
Keel worked closely with various
student committees, especially in
the contemporary arts area.
“She booked thousands of
meetings, parties and art shows
and ordered thousands of flower
arrangements for banquets, stu
dent dinners and receptions,” the
director commented. “She al
ways had a flair for setting up
special dinners in which her
knowledge of flowers, greenery
and candelabra arrangements
was invaluable.”
AS BOOKING agent for the
Office of Continuing Education,
she probably knew more person
nel of the various departments,
institutes and services than any
other person on campus.
The Southwestern Louisiana
University student union direc
tor, Charles Cosper, worked un
der her supervision as an A&M
student.
A Rogers High School gradu
ate, Mrs. Keel first worked for
the railroad commission in Aus
tin.
She came here in 1941, working
first in the Placement Office for
W. R. Horsley. In September,
1946, she went to the old Bryan
field (known then and now as
the annex) as recreational direc
tor of the student center. She
ran the “miniature MSC” for
freshmen located at the annex
for an official later to become
A&M’s president, Dr. M. T,
Harrington.
Mr. and Mrs. Keel are devoted
bridge players and have been
playing weekly in the MSC for
over a decade with the Brazos
Duplicate Bridge group, Start
noted.
“When they are not traveling,
Mrs. Keel can probably be found
every Wednesday night in tire
‘C’ playing bridge,” he observed.
‘'Sea Vets ’ Make Findings
In Gulf Bacterial Disease
Texas A&M veterinarians op
erating under the National Sci
ence Foundation’s fast-growing
Sea Grant Program have made
“several significant findings” on
bacterial diseases, announced Dr.
L. C. Grumbles.
“We don’t want to give the
impression, however, that we
have all of the answers,” he add
ed. “We are just getting start
ed.”
Grumbles heads the veterinary
microbiology department. Re
search is being conducted jointly
with Dr. Donald H. Lewis, an as
sistant professor.
“It is the intent of this re
search program to acquire knowl
edge of new disease entities and
develop methods of prevention
and treatment of these diseases
in anticipation of large scale pro
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new source of protein,” Grum
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A&M veterinarians were called-
in when a menhaden “die-off"
a great number of fish found
dead — was discovered in the
Gulf last November.
“It was investigated and the
probable causative agent has been
isolated and studied,” remarked
Lewis. “The cause appears to
be a bacterium that has not beet
described previously.”
The disease was reproduced in
an A&M laboratory. Fish ex
posed to it experienced a 100
percent fatality rate.
“Because menhaden are such at
important economic species,”
Grumbles added, “the defining of
specific infectious diseases in
them is an important finding
since this is the first step to
ward the possible solution of the
problem.”
“WE’RE NOT prophesying we
have found the whole answer, but
we do feel it is a contributing
factor,” Lewis continued.
Menhaden, found along the en
tire Gulf Coast, are used pri
marily for industrial fish oils and
meals as animal feed.
Grumbles and Lewis also have
isolated and characterized a sec
ond bacterial organism causing
skin lesions on several species, in
cluding mullet and croakers.
“It also appears to be an or
ganism that has not been re
ported previously,” Lewis said,
Skin lesions, commonly re
ferred to as “fin and tail rot," is
a bacterial infection that causes
death of the local cells. Affected
fish become debilitated.
SINCE JANUARY, veterinar
ians have experimentally trans
mitted the condition to laboratory
fish by contact exposure, there
by establishing the infectious na
ture of the condition.
“This condition has been rec
ognized for some time,” Grum
bles said. “There are several
conditions that have been asso
ciated with — especially witk
fresh water life — but not salt
water fish.” Salt water research
is a relatively new area.
“We can’t say other types of
bacteria don’t cause this condi
tion, but the bacteria we discov
ered is capable of causing the
disease,” he continued.
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on shrimp in the Gulf and under
aquaculture for a condition
known as “cottony shrimp.”
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causing this condition have been
identified,” Lewis said. “To the
best of our knowledge, this is the
first time one of the parasites
has been reported in shrimp."
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