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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
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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.
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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.
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