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■ ,JV; ’ ' . iv • ' ■ - ' 1 • >'JV ■ ■ N , . Tuesday, September 21, 1971 College Station, Texas Page 3 THE BATTALION ? Campus briefs Chem Dept. receives $5,000 grant from Gulf Corp. ty. offers tls opportunitj ind customs n d especial, n their tun can lx stating tij f f the meet vill be heU -3, at 7:(t y Room d ation call 5-0576) -0418). lalikas Raphael A&M’s Chemistry Department has received a $5,000 unrestricted Gulf Oil Corp. grant to support I research of the Thermodynamics Research Center. Presenting the award during ceremonies at A&M was Dr. Nor man D. Coggeshall, vice president and director of Gulf Research and I Development’s Exploration and Production Department. Representing the university were Dr. John C. Calhoun, aca demic vice president; Dr. A. E. Murtell, Chemistry Department head; Dr. B. J. Zwolinski, chem istry professor and Thermody namics Research Center director, and Dr. R. C. Wilhoit, chemistry associate professor and research center associate director. Dr. Zwolinski noted Gulf Oil also made $5,000 grants to the center in I960 and 1967. The grant money will be used in the areas of thermochemistry and physical properties of fluids and mixtures of hydrocarbons and related compounds, Dr. Zwolinski said. A luncheon honoring Dr. Cogge shall, who received the 1970 American Chemical Society Award in Instrumental Analysis, was held at Briarcrest Country Club at noon Saturday. Allen presides at conference Dr. William R. Allen, A&M economics professor, presided at meetings of the annual conference of the Western Economic Associ ation at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. Dr. Allen delivered the presi dential address entitled, “David Hume and Other Dead Economists on Economic Order.” He also participated this month in the International Conference on Monetary Policy and East- West Trade at Stresa, Italy. The Alcoa Foundation awards TAMU $20,000 for continued professorship f 1110 )on’t. comb iu To IAIR J A&M has been awarded $20,000 by the Alcoa Foundation for continuation of a professorship in electrical engineering. Dr. Robert D. Chenoweth was again designated the Alcoa Pro fessor of Electrical Engineering. He has held the position since it ■was created in 1966. The funds were formally pre sented Monday to A&M President Jack K. Williams by George Myers, engineering and power manager at the Aluminum Com pany of America’s Rockdale Works. Dr. Williams praised Alcoa of ficials for making such funds available to attract and retain top professors. Myers noted the A&M grant is part of more than $70,000 to be awarded by the Alcoa Foundation this year to 12 Texas colleges and universities and the Texas Foundation of Voluntarily Sup ported Colleges and Universities. In addition to the professor ships, the foundation also pro vides funds for fellowships, schol arships and direct grants. Earlier this year, A&M received Alcoa grants totaling more than $6,000. The Alcoa Foundation uses its net income for religious, chari table, scientific, literary and edu cational purposes, Myers explain ed. He said gifts are divided about equally between educational and non-educational gi'ants. Dr. Williams and Dr. Cheno weth were joined in the accept ance ceremonies by Engineering Dean Fred J. Benson and Dorsey McCrory, development director. PALACE LAST DAY James Stewart in “FOOLS PARADE” STARTS TOMORROW Show Times 1:30 - 3:30 - 5:30 - 7:30 - 9:30 W i John Wayne ■ Richard Boone Big Jake* A CINEMA CENTER FILMS PRESENTATION 7 ECHNCOLOR*PANAVlSION* A BATJAC PRODUCTION A NATIONAL GENERAL PICTURES RELEASE CAMPUS uilz LAST DAY “THE REINCARNATE’ STARTS TOMORROW A STORY OF HEROES HfcJ. Some will panic. Some will die. One will win. steve McQueen LE MANS’ A CINEMA CENTER FILMS PRESENTATION PANAVISION-Cotor by DE LUXE. A NATIONAL GENERAL PICTURES RELEASE fGl^ 1 mpr — — • > ■ v t„•: ... ;v . i • QUEEN TONITE — ADULT ART “OVERDOSE OF DEGRADATION’ TONITE AT 8:00 P v M. “MACHINE GUN McCAIN” At 9:45 p. m. “I WALK THE LINE” Skyway Twin WEST SCREEN AT 7:50 P. M. “PRIVATE DUTY NURSES” At 9:30 p. m. “STUDENT NURSES” EAST SCREEN AT 8:00 P. M. “THE DESERTERS” At 9:50 p. m. “TRUE GRIT” conference was co-sponsored by the University of Virginia and CESES, an Italian research cen ter. Somerville bike ride to be planned tonight There will be a meeting to night at 7 at the Fountain for those who are interested in plan ning a bike ride to Somerville this weekend. Only those with 10-speed bikes should come. A bike club may be formed if enough people are interested. Eugene Ellis to speak at forestry meeting Key note speaker for the 57th Annual Meeting of the Texas For estry Association will be Eugene E. Ellis Jr., vice president of In ternational Paper Co. and general manager of the Southern Kraft Division. W. W. Raborn, TEA president, will preside at the meeting which will be held at the Sheraton-Crest Inn in Nacogdoches October 22. Other speakers scheduled for the meeting are U. S. Senator John G. Tower, senior senator from Texas, and John R. McGuire, associate chief of the U.S. For est Service. Tower will be banquet speaker and McGuire featured speaker on the afternoon program. A&M profs participate in PE seminar Two A&M professors partici pated recently in an inter-agency planning seminar for the devel opment of a statewide program of Smith may be forced to call special session of legislature AUSTIN <A>) _ Gov. Preston Smith’s reported intention to wait until next June to call a special taxing and spending session of the legislature might be shat tered next week. The governor’s budget man, Dickie Travis, will meet with state Comptroller Robert S. Cal vert’s staff to hear some bad news about something called “cash flow.” Simply stated, there will be urgent demands on the state treasury next Sept. 1 that can’t be met if Smith calls the ses sion in June, say Calvert’s money men. “I’m predicting a cash flow deficit next Aug. 31,” said Jim Wilson, Calvert’s chief tax esti-" mator. Kenneth Kimbro, the comptrol ler’s chief clerk, said the fed eral government requires that the state’s matching money for Sep tember’s welfare payments be in the treasury on Sept. 1. Even if the legislature votes new taxes to cover added spend ing—including medical costs for welfare recipients — the money doesn’t flow immediately into the treasury. “It takes a little while when you raise a tax to get some money in. If they put a. sales tax increase in effect April 1, the tax is not due from merchants until July 31, which means most of it gets into the treasury in August ... I don’t see how a special session in June could get the money in there by Sept. 1,” Kimbro said. Travis said a telephone call this week from Wilson was “the first time I knew there was a possible problem.” He said he would pass on to Smith what he learns next week from the comptroller’s people. Two governor’s aides confirmed that Smith has been talking pri vately of waiting until June to call the special session, which is required since he vetoed the en tire state appropriation for the fiscal year that starts next Sept. 1. There are some pretty good arguments for wating that long. For one thing, Calvert will have had nearly a full year of experience in collecting new 1971 taxes and thus can give more ac curate estimates of what they— as well as previous levies—will bring in 1972. This could result in savings for taxpayers. Smith pointed this out in his televised veto message June 20. For another, the party prima ries will be over, which would diminish the possibility of law makers and statewide officials cluttering up the session with political grandstanding. According to some reports, sev eral of Smith’s recent appointees might be rejected by the Senate in the next special session, an other advantage in waiting as long as possible. , - » ; .•> ■ Rut if, Smith ,is. a nonrcandi- date or loses the primary, his slight authority over the legis lature would be weakened even more as a lame duck. “What could he gain political ly from calling it in June?” one governor’s aide said scornfully. The Texas Supreme Court might make up the governor’s mind for him if it decides the legislature must come back to rewrite the House redistricting plan which the court held uncon stitutional Sept. 9. New districts must be in effect by Feb. 7, the deadline for party primary can didates to file for a place on. the ballot. physical education and recreation for the handicapped. Dr. Linus J. Dowell, Jr., and Dr. John M. Chevrette, members of the university’s Health and Physical Education Department faculty, attended the series of seminars and workshops at Rocky River Ranch in Wimberly. Purpose of the meeting was development of guidelines for a coordinated state-wide plan for physical education and recreation programs specially designed for handicapped and mentally retard ed childi-en and adults. Organizations represented at the seminar included the Junior Chamber of Commerce, Texas’ state schools, the Texas Education Association, several colleges and universities and associations for the physically handicapped and mentally retarded. Bassett participates in education meeting Mrs. Mary Bassett of A&M’s College of Education faculty con cluded participation Friday in an Early Childhood Education Con ference in Galveston. The two-day meeting at the Galvez Hotel featured the Cur riculum and Instruction Depart ment instructor in a presentation on “Bilingual Early Childhood Ed ucation.” More than 300 teachers from kindergarten specialist to uni versity professor focused atten tion on the five-year-old’s school day at the conference. It was sponsored by the Texas Education Agency. Mrs. Bassett conducts the A&M Presbyterian Church kindergarten in addition to teaching at the university. OUR SPECIALTY 1/5 Carat Eye Clean Diamond For Senior Ring, $40 plus tax C. W. Varner & Sons Jewelers North Gate 846-5816 BRYAN AERO INC. AIR TAXI SERVICE Student Instruction Aircraft Rental DIAL 823-8640 Coulter Field Bryan TAMU • . I SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS PRESENTS \ I"’... 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