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At Telephone Technician School A&M to Train Navajo Indians . ' . ' fT-QininO' will Page 4 College Station, Tex^s Wednesday, October 16, 1969 THE BATTALK Campus Briefs — Ck Texas A&M, private enterprise, a federal agency and the Navajo Indian Nation are cooperating on a technical training program to provide jobs for young Navajo men—many of them Vietnam war veterans. Ed W, Kerlick, chief instructor for A&M’s Electric Linemen and Telephone Technician Training Division, announced the Texas Engineering Extension Service will train 10 New Mexico and Arizona Navajo men as tele phone technicians. Kerlick has returned from a fact-finding trip to the Navajo Nation and reports the training should start shortly. The Texas Mid-Land Telephone Co., owned by Batt Wimer of Grandview, recently purchased the Navajo Nation’s telephone system from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Navajos will own 20 per cent of the company. Kerlick noted the new com pany, Navajo Communications Co., will serve over 11,000 sub scribers in a 27,000-square-mile area, with headquarters in Win dow Rock, Ariz. Wimer wanted the Navajos to be a part of the company. Be cause of the reputation of A&M’s training school, he contacted Ker lick about training. Kerlick met with Robei-t Mc- Cullum, assistant area director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs; Bob Tillman, superintendent of the Navajo Communications Co.; John Yarborough, training direc tor for Texas Mid-Land; Wimer, and Navajo chiefs in Window Rock to outline the A&M train ing and facilities. The A&M training chief said everyone is enthusiastic. Kerlick’s proposal is to send the 10 Navajos to the A&M tech nical school for eight weeks of preparatory training for tele phone technicians. The Indians will then go back to the reserva tion for three months to work on the communications system. Then they will return to A&M for five weeks of cable splicing and cable fault location training. They will return to the reserva tion for three more months and then come back to A&M for the final four weeks of training in key system installation, trouble analyses and telephone system repair. “This is a real challenge for our staff,” Kerlick admits. “They have a need and we have the ca pabilities.” Kerlick said the Navajos will select 20 young men from differ ent areas of the reservation and they will be screened to select the top 10 men. All will be high school graduates and emphasis will be given to Vietnam war vet erans. “Many of their people have been sent to technical schools but do not use the training because they want to return to the res ervation,” Kerlick pointed out. “Most Navajos won’t leave the reservation, even those who serve in the armed forces return. “We think this training will give some of them a vocation, and enable them to stay on their lands,” he maintains. Kerlick said no starting date has been set. Texas A&M currently conducts classes for telephone technicians under sponsorship of the Texas Telephone Association and Texas Statewide Telephone Cooperative Association. Reading Pla n May Aid A&M Students ■, •11 _ — Iri Would You Believe? Fresh From The Gulf OYSTERS on the half-shell or fried to order Served Right Here on the Campus 5 to 7 each evening at the famous Oyster Room MSC Cafeteria Improved succes in class work may be realized by university stu dents through a dormitory read ing program conducted by the Counseling and Testing Center, according to director S. Auston Kerley. Kerley said program equipment is now available to corps students and is being introduced in civilian residence halls. The individual, voluntary pro gram involves about 30 minutes work three times a week to read accelerators located in each hall. “Probably no other factor cor relates so closely with school suc cess as reading,” commented Fred Dodson and Jim Davis, who work with the center’s dorm program. “Because of the vast amount of material to be read, a student must constantly strive to increase his reading rate and improve his comprehension.” Increased reading rates and comprehension shorten study time on a given volume of materi al, leaving more time for other study, work or free time. “A student can probably finish the program in three weeks, but it is our hope that each student on to will use the reading accelerators other material and continue improve,” Davis said. Four or five 30-minute sessions should convince students of the pro gram's value, he believes. New students, especially, should check into the program, Dodson emphasized. Corps students should contact unit scholastic seregant’s for further information and program access. Civilian students should contact hall resident masters. Kerley said comments about the program will be welcomed at the Counseling and Testing Cen ter, first floor, Academic Build ing. Students with problems of gaining access to the program should notify the hall representa tive, Dodson or Davis. Arizona’s Hopi Indians have found wealth through oil leases and mining conctssions. The Trib al Council now operates a clothing plant and is planning a combined motel, restaurant, and crafts cen ter, says the National Geographic Society. Newell Named Director Of Biomed Engineering Dr. Paul H. Newell, Jr. has been named director of the uni versity’s biomedical engineering program, announced Engineering Dean Fred J. Benson. Benson said Newell, who also was appointed professor of me chanical engineering, will co ordinate research efforts and de velop an academic program in biomedical engineering. Newell came to Texas A&M this month from the University of Alabama, where he was direc tor of the Center for Bio-engi neering, associate professor of mechanical engineering and as sistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation. ★ ★ ★ Food Scientists Initiate 25 Twenty-five graduate students here have been initiated into Phi Tau Sigma, the national honor society for food scientists. Society officers are Dr. E. E. Burns, president; Dr. Alice Stubbs, vice president; Prof. Rob ert L. Hostettler, secretary-treas urer, and Dr. Fred Garner and Col. Fred Dollar, counselors. Dr. Burns said the aims of the newly found chapter are to pro mote professionalism in food technology, serve as a liaison mechanism for the various areas of food science and to recognize and honor excellence in student and staff efforts. The A&M students represent ed various academic areas of food science including meats, dairy, poultry, fruits, vegetables, oil seeds, cereals and fish. Student members are Dennis Bogart, Darrie Brummett, James Bryant, Rowena Burns, Russell Cross, Linda Duggar, Ronnie Er win and Syed Gheyasuddin. Also, Otto Hampton, George Howard, Kamaluddin Hyder, Henry Kammlah, Abdul Karim, E. D. Maxon, Wallace Migura, Patrick Moeller, J. R. Norris, galph Ofcarcik, Jose Pomenta, Joseph Puig, James Regan, Ron Richter, D. E. Speights, Don Sullins and Lou Young. ★ ★ ★ Esso Awards $5,000 to A&M Esso Production Research Company has awarded a $6,000 unrestricted grant to the Ocean ography Department. Dr. Richard A. Geyer was noti fied of the award by C. R. Ho- cott of Houston, vice president of the exploration and produc tion research affiliate of Humble Oil & Refining Company and the worldwide affiliates of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey). “We hope the grant will fill some urgent need which might not otherwise be met by other available support,” Hocott noted. ★ ★ ★ Aggie Players Open Season With “Dinny” The Aggie Players opened their fall season this week with “Dinny and the Witches, ’ by William Gibson. Show time is 8 p.m. Gibson, also the author of “The Miracle Worker,” describes “Dinny” as a froYic on grave matters. It is a satire on the atomic age, yet in its own way, it is a tragedy, too. Three witches who control the world, become involved with Din ny, a musician, who accidentally takes over their powers. All time stops for 100 years, leaving the world in a worse mess than before, if that’s possible. The show will run through Thursday, and October 22, 23 and 24. 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I ,, , , Committee chairman Ricki^» lo of Dallas indicated the ■ ’ p.m. meeting will be in the r Assembly Room, providing I quate space for visitors « wish to view the 16mm, colon sound movies of the histi flight. Oshlo said persons wishioj view the 30-minute movie i not be committee members. NASA-produced movie was tained for committee pressi tion through Collins Radio 0 by club member Ted Witlifi j Taylor. Like Oshlo, he is senior electrical engineering! j jor at A&M. The radio committee open i “ham” station W5AC from k MSC, serves in nation-wide fi ^ munications networks in | event of catastrophes and [ < vides communications for am f construction of A&M’s Thai I giving bonfire. ★ ★ ★ Army Officer Tear Interviewing at MSI U. S. Army Officer Select Team will be at the Memo: Student Center today and Tht day. All senior men are invited get the facts on how they fulfill their military obligatj and also receive the execu training and challenge of leal ship offered to commissioned ficers in the U. S. Army, a spokesman said. The team can administer q' ification tests to any senior v| is interested in learning if he qualified for the Officer Cai date School College Option gram. The spokesman said tht tests in no way obligate the dividual to enter the service. Y Interested In The Episcopal Churclj 9 Classes for Inquirers Start Sunday October 19, 8:00 p. m. ST. THOMAS’ CHAPEL | 906 Jersey South Side of Campus