Judging Teams Capture Titles

The A&M Department of Animal Husbandry has pro­duced three national champion senior judging teams in the short space of two consecutive years.

These teams covered the categories of livestock, wool and meats and the years were 1958-1959. The livestock group was the national champ in 1959, taking first place at threemajor shows. Championship honors also went to the wool team during the past year, while the meats team was the top winner in 1958.

Coached by WytheCoached by Assistant Professor

L. D. Wythe Jr., the livestock team won in the face of stiff com­petition at Fort Worth’s South­west Exposition and Fat Stock Show, the American Royal Live­stock Show at Kansas City and the king of all the stock events, the International Livestock Show at Chicago.

Members of the team were Car­rol Osbourn of Valley Spring; Robert Van Winkle, Kilgore; Ken- net McGee, Montalba; Lovell Kuy­kendall, Cherokee; Joe Joyce, San Marcos; and Jim Holloway of Stan­ton.

Kansas CityAt Kansas City, the Aggies were

high pointers in sheep judging, fourth in cattle, six.th in quarter horses and 11th in swine. Osbourn was fifth high individual in all classes of livestock; Joyce, third in

Last Appeals Go Into Mail For Dimes Aid

The last of 10,026 individual ap­peals for the New March of Dimes campaign to prevent crippling dis­eases went into the mail Tuesday !o Brazos county residents, it was anounced today by Dr. Paul Hen- sarling, county campaign director.

Each appeal contains an envelope which gives area residents a per­sonal wav to participate in the National Foundation’s program of prevention and research. This year, funds will go to fight birth defects and arthritis as well polio. These three cripplers affect one out of every four families in this country.

“As leader of the fight against crippling diseases,” said Dr. Hen- sarling, “the National Foundation must have more support than ever to finance its vital programs of patient aid and medical research md to train urgently needed dis­ease fighters.”

As funds become available to the county chapter, he pointed out, fi­nancial assistance will be provided to children through age 18 who suffer from arthritis or certain birth defects. As in the past, vic­tims of paralytic polio will also be aided.

“Concerted public support of the March of Dimes was responsible for the Salk vaccine,” he said. “Similar support now will, we hope enable us to find answers to at least two more of the nation’s ma­jor health problems.”

Dr. Hensarling also said that in the event anyone fails to receive a mailer or loses his, he may make his contribution by mailing his check to P. O. Box 1067 in Bryan.

Dorm Dedication Set Next Saturday

COLLEGE STATION, Tex. <A>)_ Henderson Hall, new athletic dor­mitory, will be dedicated at A&M College Jan. 16 and the ceremony will be followed by the annual dinner honoring football and cross­country teams.

The dormitory is named for the late Bill (Jitterbug) Henderson great A&M athlete.

President Earl Rudder of A&M will preside at the dedication of the Hall. H. B. Zachry, president of the A&M board, will give the for­mal address.

Henderson’s widow and mother will attend the ceremonies at which Homer Norton, football coach at the time of Henderson’s playing days prior to World War II, will speak.

The Aggie star earned 11 var­sity letters in 5 sports and 3 freshmen numerals. He also won the intramural heavyweight box­ing title.

Henderson died at the age of 36 of multiple sclerosis in 1955.

sheep, and Holloway was sixth in sheep.

Chicago International.In winning the International at

Chicago, the A&M students piled up 4,491 points out a possible 5,000 and defeated about 40 teams rep­resenting all the major agricultural colleges in the United States.

Osbourn was the high man in the entire contest, with 929 out of a possible 1,000 points. McGee was fourth hig’h individual, getting 916 points.

A&M was highest in swine judg­ing-, earning 1,606 points out of a possible 1,750. Osbourn, McGee and Van Winkle ranked one, two and three, in that order for a clean sweep of top places. Swine judg­ing usually is dominated by Corn Belt Schools.

The Aggies tied for fourth in beef cattle judging at Chicago and tied for second in sheep judging. They also tied for first place in judging Suffolk sheep.

The year 1959, then, was a triple crown year for the Aggie livestock team.

Three Second Places Following its national champion­

ship in 1958, the A&M meats judg­ing team in 1959 took three straight second places at Fort Worth, Kansas City and Chicago. The coach was Frank A. Orts, re­search assistant in the Department of Animal Husbandry.

Team members were Don Os­bourn of Valley Spring; Leroy Keese of Bandera; Henry Fitzhugh of San Antonio and Joyce.

At the Kansas City event, Os­bourn with fourth high individual in beef grading; Joyce, fourth high individual overall and Fitzhugh, 10th high man overall:

Chicago AgainThe A&M group scored 2,591

points of a possible 3,000 at Chi­cago’s International show to win

ap-' second place. Fitzhugh was high point individual in the overall con­test, stacking up 884 points of a possible 1,000. Joyce merited sev­enth place with 871 points.

A&M was first in beef grading and Osbourn was high point in­dividual in that class. The team was second in lamb judging, with Joyce getting the high point hon­ors. Other placings for the Ag­gies were seventh in pork judging and eighth in beef judging.

Members of the 1959 national champion Aggie wool judging team were Kuykendall, Joyce, Hudson Glimp of Burnet and John Hodge of Salado. They won the honor by edging out eight other teams as Kansas City’s American Royal. Coach was C. F. Parker, instruc­tor in the Department of Animal Husbandry.

Joyce was high individual in the entire contest, first in breed flee­ces, fifth in grading fleeces and fifth in commercial fleeces. Hodge was second high individual in the overall contest and first in grad­ing fleeces.

There were no wool judging events at Fort Worth and Chicago.

The BattalionVolume 59 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1960 Number 55

Ernest Lindley To. SpeakTonight in G. Rollie White

Heavy Schedule Set for Newsman

GymnasticsHenry Walton, Chjnules Teas, Ramino Galin­do and Johnny Hehnin of the A&M Gymnas­tic Team g-o through their paces in prepara­tion for an exhibition at the A&M-Univer-

Actionsity of Texas cage clash Friday night in G. Rollie White Coliseum. They will appear in half time ceremonies.

In Washington Tuesday

Three Staff Members Get Highway Research Award

The 1959 Highway Research Board Award was presented to three staff members of A&M at the opening session of the Board’s 39th annual meeting in Washing­ton, D. C., Tuesday, Jan. 11.

Harmer E. Davis, chairman of the Executive Committee and di­rector of the Institute of Trans­portation and Traffic'Engineering, University of Califoimia, presented the award for the paper entitled, “A Study of Freeway Traffic Op­eration”. • ■ <

The winners are Charles J. Keese, head of the Highway and Traffic Engineering Section of the

Texas Transportation Institute and professor of highway and traffic engineering, Department of Civil Engineering; Charles Pinnell, as­sistant research engineer with the TTI and assistant professor, De­partment Of Civil Engineering, and William R. McCasland, formeily research assistant with the Insti­tute, now on leave studying for a doctorate in engineering degree at the University of California.

The champion paper pointed out the design factors having greatest effect on freeway traffic operation and presented much factual infor­mation valuable to designers in the

Army Juniors are faced with an unexpected dilema in recent training- in the Practical Work Period. The period, a part of the cur­riculum in the Department of Military

Practical Work Period ProblemScience for advanced training, is an example of the unexpected problems of warfare— as this sudden grass fire.

correlation of freeway design and operation.

The Highway Research Board is a cooperative organization of the highway technologists of American operating under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council and with the support of the several highway departments, the Bureau of Public Roads and many other organizations interested in the de­velopment of highway transporta­tion.

The purposes of the Board are to encourage research and provide a national clearing house and cor­relation service for research ac­tivities and information on high­way administration and technol­ogy.

The annual award by the Board, established in 1940, is made an­nually to “recognize the authors of paper's of outstanding merit.”

By JACK HARTSFIELD •Battalion Staff Writer

Ernest K. Lindley, director of the Washington Bureau of Newsweek Magazine and noted television commentator, faced a busy schedule of events at 10:30 this morning upon arrival at Easterwood Airport for his scheduled 8 p. m. ap­pearance tonight as principal speaker for the second Memorial Student Center Great Issues presentation to be held in the MSC Ballroom.

Included in his busy agenda were a television appearance on “Town Talk” at KRTX-TV at U a. m.; lunch in Duncan Dining Hall at noon ; press conference in the MSC Social Room at 1:30; and an informal coffee in room 2-C and 2-D of the Center for student members of all the college publications and members of the Depart-"* 1 ‘ment of Journalism staff and jounralism students at 2:30.

Tonight at 6, Lindley will be honored at a dinner in Room 2-A and 2-B by the Great Issues committee. Lindley will give his address, titled “Washington Tides,” following the dinner in his honor.

The famed news analyst was educated at Indiana University, the University of Idaho, the University of Kansas and Oxford University in England on a Rhodes Scholar­ship. During the First World War, he served as a second lieutenant in the U. S. Army,

Editor in CollegeWhile in college, Lindley edited

a small-town newspaper for atime and, on returning from Eng­land in, 1924, went to work as a repoi’ter for the Wichita (Kansas) Beacon. In December, 1924, he joined the reportorial staff of the New York World. He became a political writer, and in 1928 covered the presidential campaign, travel­ing with A1 Smith and Herbert Hoover. He has covered every na­tional election since then.

Moved to Tribune In 1931, he moved to the New

York Herald-Tribune as a political writer, and in 1932 traveled with Franklin D. Roosevelt during his presidential campaign. He was transferred to the Washington Bureau of the New York Herald Tribune in 1933, and in 1936 cover­ed the Republican candidate’s (Alf Landon) presidential campaign for that paper.

Appointed Correspondent In 1937, Lindley was appointed

Chief of the Washington Bureau of Newsweek Magazine. He was made director of Newsweek’s Washington Bureau in 1954. In ad­dition to supervising the coverage of Washington for Newsweek, he writes a weekly column, “Washing­ton Tides”, and also writes two columns a week for a number of newspaper's. He covered the na­tional conventions of both parties and the Presidential campaigns of 1940, 1944, 1948 and ,1952. During the 1952 campaign, he traveled with both major candidates. He predicted the nomination as well

(See LINDLEY, Page 6)

Charity Drive Receive Local Aid from Youth

A concentrated drive by Brazos County youths is being carried out against crippling birth defects, arthritis and polio.

Headed by Miss Ann Rudder, general chairman; Bryan Captain Sally Lehr; and Judy Rasmussen, College Station Captain, the teen­agers are making all-out efforts to raise money for the New March of Dimes campaign now in prog­ress.

Sixty girls—30 from Stephen F. Austin and 30 from A&M Consoli- dater—will make a halftime ap­pearance at the A&M-Texas Uni­versity basketball game Friday night in the G. Rollie White Colis­eum.

The teenagers will sift through the spectators and take contribu­tions for the New Mai’ch of Dimes.

Saturday night, the teenagers realized $12.15 from a blanket throw at the Bryan-McCallum bas­ketball game in Bryan. Plans call for additional blanket throws at other Bryan home games. A blanket throw is planned for Sat­urday night at the A&M Consoli­dated game.

Other activities include a teen­age talent show Jan. 27 in the SFA auditorium. Talent repre­senting Bryan and College Station and surrounding communities will appear on the show.

Plans are still incomplete for the sale of 250 records by the Kingston Trio. The records will sell at 75 cents each.

New March of Dimes crutches will be sold on street corners in Bryan and College Station Satur­day by members of the Brazos county 4-H girls. Miss Emily Rit­ter of the SFA faculty is sponsor. Another crutch sale is slated for Jan. 30.

A final teenage dance which will climax youth drives for the New March of Dimes in Brazos county.

After Criticism of US Plan

Brucker Shortens VisitSEOUL, Korea (A>>—U. S. Army

Seci-etary Wilbur M. Brucker is cutting short his far eastern tour following criticism of his state­ment that the United States will defend Nationalist China’s off­shore islands from Chinese Com­munist aggression.

In a clarifying statement today, Brucker said his remarks at a news conference in Taipei “did not infer or state any change of U. S. policy.” He implied that the United States already had defend­ed the offshore islands by escort­ing convoys of supplies and troops to them during the Communist ar­tillery bombardment of the Que- moy group in the fall of 1958.

The secretary is winding up a three-week tour of U. S. bases in the Far East. He said he would

arrive back in Washington Jan. 19, instead of Jan. 22 as originally scheduled, to appear before hear­ings of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

He refused to comment on specu­lation that he had been summoned home to explain his remarks in Taipei.

The Army said Brucker would leave Seoul for the United States Saturday, make brief refueling stops in Japan and the Aleutians, and would omit a scheduled visit to Japan.

The Army secretary told the news conference in Taipei Sunday that the United States w’ould de­fend the Nationalist-held islands just off the mainland against Com­munist aggression. He added that in defining aggression, he drew no

distinction between the areas cov­ered by America’s mutual defense treaty with Nationalist China and areas outside the treaty.

The secretary’s remai’ks were interpreted in some quarters as a new statement of American poli­cy toward the Formosa Strait. Under the 1955 Chinese-American treaty, the United States is com­mitted to defend the island of For­mosa and the adjacent Pescadores. The off shore islands are not in­cluded, but Congress subsequently authorized President Eisenhower to defend them if he judges they are being used as stepping stones to invasion of Formosa and the Pescadores.

On his arrival here Wednesday Brucker said his remarks had been inadequately reported.