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Gustav M. Watkinsnew Dean of Agriculture
Watkins to ReplaceA
Miller as Ag DeanDr. Gustav M. Watkins, head of
the Departmentof Plant Physiology and Pathology since 1950, Has been named Dean of the School of Agri- rultm’e, effective July 1, President
T. Harrington announced yes- lerday.
The new agriculture dean will replace J. C. Miller in that position. Miller resigned effective June 30 to take a similiar job at Oregon State University.
Watkjns joined the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Staff as a research worker in plant pathology in 1935, leaving in 1941 to accept a position as associate professor at Sam Houston State College in Huntsville. Watkins joined the United States Depart-
Aggies to Attend Dallas Meeting On Advertising
Ten Aggies and one faculty member will leave the campus Sunday afternoon to attend an annual function of the Dallas Advertising League to be held in Dallas May 4-G.
Nine journalism majors and one business administration student, all specializing in advertising, and W. D. Calvert, assistant journalism pi-ofessoi’, will be taken on a tour of advei’tising establishments in Dallas.
Festivities will begin with a buffet in the Adolphus Hotel Sunday evening and. will get into full swing Monday morning.
The group will tour the advertising department of Sanger’s, Titche-Goettinger and Neiman- Marcus department stores and eight advertising agencies. A tour will be made of the Dallas Morning News, WFAA-TV, KRLD-TV, the new Dallas Federal Saving's and loan Assn., several paper companies and planting and engraving plants.
Students who will make the trip are Jim Baytes, Bob Kerr, John Di- Battista, Toby Mattox, Jim Moore, Gary Rollins, Dave McLain, Jim Coston, Bob Weekley and Bill Reed.
Board of Directors Pick System Banks
The Bank of the Southwest, of Houston, and The Fii'st National and Republic National banks, both of Dallas, were named depository banks for the A&M College System by the Board of Directors Saturday.
President M. T. Harxington was authorized to negotiate a depository agi’eexxxent with the banks. All funds under the control of the Board of Directors are kept on deposit in these officially designated depositox'ies, with interest being- paid by the banks on time deposits.
ment of Agriculture as plant pathologist in 1943. He left the depai’tment iix 1945 to enlist iix the navy. Until 1949 he was mycologist at the U. S. Naval Oxdnance Laboratory. In 1950 he returned to A&M.
He graduated from the University of Texas in 1929 with a B.A. degx-ee in botany and received his M.S. in botany from U T in 1930. Watkins was awarded a Ph.D. degree in plant cytology from Columbia University in 1935.
As a x-esult of his studies of cotton root x-ot, Watkins received a National Research Fellowship in 1939.
He is a member of the Amex-ican Association for the Advancement of Science, the Botanical Society of America, the American Phisologi- cal Society and the Society of American Plant Physiologists.
Engineers’ Society Adds 58 Members
A&M’s chapter of Tau Beta Phi, national scholastic society for engineers, initiated 17 seniors, 35 juniors and G alumni members at its spring initiation exex-cises in the Memox’ial Student Cexxter Assembly Room yesterday.
The spx-ing banquet was held in the MSG Ballroom last night.
H. W. Sindt, px-esident of the Texas Society of Professional En- gineers, delivered the principal ad- dress.
THE BATTALIONPublished Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 124: Volume 57 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1958 Price Five Cents
Board Amends RequiredGrade Point Ratio SystemNews of the World Jam*‘s Sairan
To I»e 1 fonored By ’58 Seniors
First Republican Files for Senate Roy Whittenburg, prominent Texas Panhandle business
man and civic leader, announced his candidacy in Amarillo Tuesday for the Republican nomination for the U. S. Senate. He was the first Republican to file for the office now held by Ralph Yarborough.
Whittenburg advocated the election of federal judges and criticized recent Supreme Court decisions in announcing his platform.
Gromyko Attacks Ike’s Plan Andrei Gromyko lashed out Tuesday in Moscow against
President Eisenhower’s proposal for international inspection of the Arctic, charging it is a bid for intelligence data on Soviet territory.
Gromyko’s attack came as the United Nation’s Security Council was debating the plan in New York City. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold urged the council to accept the plan as the debate opened Tuesday.
Senate Approves Pay Raise The Senate passed by an 87-0 vote Tuesday in Washing
ton a bill providing for a general pay raise for the Army, Navy and Air Force.
The bill now goes to the House where, if it passes, it will give raises to almost every officer and enlisted man with more than two years service. Added spending caused by the bill will amount to 576 million dollars in the first year.
Unemployment Declines April unemployment declined 78,000 according to figures
released by the government Tuesday. The new figure of unemployed is now 5,120,000 and is the first time the figure has decreased from one month to the next since last October.
The Class of ’58 met last night in the Business Administration Building and voted in favor of leaving a class gift of $2,000 in memory of JamesSax-can toward the installation of an xxndergToxind sprinkler system for the drill field.
Sarx-an, ’58, was killed dux-ing Bonfire Week in 1955. He was ex-ushed between a truck and a car as he sex-ved coffee to Ags guarding the bonfire. Sax*ran pushed two other Aggies from the cax-’s path before he was hit. The annual Thanksgiving Day game, 1955, was dedicated to Sax-x-an, who died the night of the game.
It was also announced that Boyce House, columnist and famed “Texas Bx-ags” authox-, will be the speaker at the Senior Banquet in Duncan Hall, May 17.
Banquet tickets must be purchased from the Student Activities Office before May 7.
Class Work Eyed To Aid Education
The Board of Directors Saturday adopted an amendment to replace the 1.0 grade point ratio requirement to remain in the Corps. The 1.0 provision was included in the order passed by the board last fall establishing compulsory military training.
The amendment charges the college administration with the responsibility of requiring satisfactory academic performance of all students.
“This change was made on the recommendation of the Executive Committee of the Academic Council,” Dr. J. B. Page, dean of the college, said. “It places academic achievement of first importance and requires that the military train-
4ing program and all other non-
Solon Attacks Plan F or Def enseChange
WASHINGTON GT)—Rep Kilday D-Tex said today that Px-esident Eisenhower’s plan to revamp the armed forces could lead to a military organization moi'e powei’ful than the old German Genex-al Staff.
Gen. Nathan F. Twining, chaix-- man of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, disagreed, Twining said there ax-e enough safeguards in the reorganization bill to prevent the armed fox-ces from becoming too powerful. Not that they would want to, he added.
Twining continued his prolonged appearance before the House Armed Sex-vices Committee in support of the administration’s bill. Among other things it would concentrate strategic planning in a Joint Staff including x-epresenta- tives of all the military services.
AnnualOpens
Ag Rodeo Thursday
The select, six-man Aggie Rodeo team will move onto the local rojfeo arena tomorrow night at 8 as A&M Rodeo Club stages its ninth annual National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association show.
The x-odeo will run for three nights—May 1, 2 and 3. A mati-
YMCA Selecting Camp Counselors
Inerviews for 1958 YMCA Freshman Camp couixselox-s will begin tomorrow in the YMCA, Carl Ziet- low, “Y” associate secx-etary said yesterday.
All students wishing to be a counselor at one of the two camps to be held prior to New Student Week next September may obtain application blanks and arrange for an intex-view at the main desk in the YMCA, Zietlow said.
Last year’s camp counselors discussed qualifications and planned the intex-views at a steak fx-y last night in Hensel Park. They reported interest in the camp high among high school students hex-e for high school honox-s day last weekend.
nee pex-formance will get under way at 2 p.m. on May 3.
The Aggie team, now in secoxxd place in the Southern Region of N.I.R.A., was selected from membership of the rodeo club oxx the basis of outstanding pex-fox-mance.
Teams from 16 schools in the Southex-n Region will be x-epi-esent- ed in the x-odeo, which will offer eight coxxxpetitive events aixd a cutting horse contest. The events ax-e bareback bronc riding, saddle bronc riding, bull riding-, bull-dogging, calf tie-down roping, ribbon roping and two events for gix-1 entries, bax-rel racing- and goat tying.
Don Bissett will handle the announcing for the affair, while Royce Hudson, Eddie Farris and Tinker Clift handle x-oles as clowns.
The members of the team ax-e J. C. Dishixian of Beaumont, Eddie Fax-ids of Llano, Phillip Cox of Baytown, Doyle McSpadden of Ro- tan, Kennith Beasley of Fxeeport and Rodney Butler of Sulphur, La.
Tickets are now on sale for 50 cents and may be pux'chased from aixy nxember of the x-odeo club. The pi-ice of the tickets will be raised to 60 cents at the gate.
Cox-ps members may attend the rodeo non-reg.
Third Straight A&M Victory
Cox’s Paper Wins Interstate ContestJames R. Cox, senior electrical
engineering major, added another award to his record when he won the student paper contest of 7th District of the Axnerican Institute of Electrical Engineers last week at the University of Arkansas iix Fayetteville.
Cox’s paper, entitled “Grid Current Measurements with A.D.C. Analog Computex-”, was judged best of the 19 papers in the contest. Papers wex-e presented by students from 19 of the 22 schools in the 7th Disti-ict. The district includes all schools with AIEE student bx-anches in New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and western Louisiana.
The victory marks the thix-d consecutive year A&M’s AIEE Chapter has won the contest. Previous winners were W. F. Osborn in 1956 and F. W. Muller in 1957.
In recognition of Cox’s winning papex-, the local society receives a cup. Cox will receive a certificate, a cash prize of $25 and an all ex- penses-paid tx-ip to the summer genex-al meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers which will be held in Buffalo, N.Y., this summer.
Cox previously won first place at the Southwestern IRE Conference in San Antonio and the IRE
Y* Cabinet Names Coffman President
Rob Coffman, junior from Fort Worth, took over the reins as president of the YMCA Cabinet last night as “Y” members installed next year’s officers at a steak fry in Hensel Pax-k last night.
Other officex-s of the 1958-59 cabinet are: Wayne Culberth, vice px-esident; David Wallace, secre- tax-y-treasurer; Junior Hickman, reporter; Bill Shenkii-, program chairman; Bill Stevens, senior representative; Jimmy Wolfe, junior representative; and Larry Day, sophomore x-epresentative.
Twenty-eight persons attended the steak fry. The officex-s were elected in a cabinet general election Monday.
contest between the University of Houston, A&M and Rice Institute sponsored by the Houston section of the IRE at A&M.
Students to Receive Journalism Awards
Sevex-al journalism scholarship winners will be announced at the second annxxal Journalism Awards Banquet at Del Marmol’s Restau- x-ant in Bryan Fx-iday night, Gayle McNutt, president-elect of Sigma! Delta Chi, said yesterday.
Calvin Clyde, president of the Texas Daily Newspaper Assn, will be gxiest speaker at the banquet which begins at 7.
Along with the naming of schol- ax-ship winnex-s, outstanding student publication workers and top journalism students from each class will be named.
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Ag Mental State Alleged‘Strong’ By Psychologist
A&M students probably have fewer serious mental disturbances percentage-wise than most other colleges, Di\ Warx-en Bonney, clinical psychologist on the college hospital staff told College Station Kiwanians yestex-day.
He said about five per cent of the A&M student body are seriously disturbed mentally, but this was nothing to be alarmed about and was in accordance with other colleges.
Mental illness is the No. 1 health problem in America, with more mental patients in the nation’s hospitals than all other serious illnesses combined, Bonney added. He said the medical field is taking the lead to treat mental illness as such.
“We need a px-eventitive fox- mental disorders, not a cux-e,” Bonney stated. “This is being aided by public schools, colleges, churches and civic associations thx-ough their work.”
The psychologist said usually only three or four psychotic breakdowns among Aggies occuxx-ed each year, although many each year have mental distux-bances, especially among entering freshmen.
“It is our job to remove these students and place them whex-e they may x-eceive treatment,” he said.
Bonney said the best treatment for most mental disox-ders was someone whom the disturbed person trusts and x-espects and who will talk the problem out.
“This is why a close relation between students and faculty is of such gx-eat impox-tance,” he stressed.
academic activities supplement the educational program.”
“The Academic Council andothers in the administx-ation of the college ax-e specifically charged with the x-esponsibility for governing student life and activities, both within the Corps of Cadets and among Civilian students on the campus,” Page said.
The policy x-ecognizes a single student body on the campus and spates that all students must meet the same high academic requirements and all activities must be conducted so that they contribute to the highest quality of academic achievement, said Page.
New PlanThe new plan x-eads as follows: “Effective the fall semester,
September, 1958, entering students with freshman classification will have military training as a part of their required curriculum for two years, with the exception of those who have had previous service with the armed forces, physically handicapped and foreign students.
“It is the intent of the Board in adopting this policy that the military training- be such as to supplement a high standard of academic training and the Corps of Cadets will be so administered as to achieve this goal. The administration (including all members of the Academic Council) of the A&M College is charged with the responsibility to see that this policy is so administered that students participating ixx the Corps and other non-academic activities maintain a satisfactory academic record.”
Passed UnanimouslyThe Board passed the new plan
drafted by the Council unanimously without x-evision, vice president Earl Rudder, said.
Students entering A&M next fall (see BOARD page 4)
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—iia.Lianon Slalt X’hoto
Arts & Sciences Awards Winnersleft to right, Robert J. Ring Jr., Stanley L. Barnes, Pete Dominic Ghilgieri.