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THE THRESHER
MARCH 20, 1953
Bavis, Daniels, Mile Relay
Place For Riee at Laredo
Emmett Brunson, the Rice Owls' outstanding track and
field coach has done it again in producing Ed Davis, slender
junior half miler. Davis, from Reagan of Houston, finally
came into his own in the Border Olympics at Laredo last
Saturday, running a 1:56.5 880 to place second behind Bill
Heard, Oklahoma Aggies' ace
middle distance man. Heard
set a new Border Olympics rec-
ord with a 1.55 flat in the pre-
liminaries.
Davis has been working hard for
Election Rules
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mittee. This list is to include the
50c registration fee plus all cam-
paign expenses that will be spent
through Saturday at 1:00 PM when
the campaigning is to cease. The
limit on campaign expenditures is
$25.00 for each candidate.
Below is a list of the Election
Committee Rules and Regulations
governing campaigning:
1. Expense Accounts must be
turned in personally to a mem-
ber of the EC or the EC can
assume no responsibility for
the receipt thereof.
2. Campaign advertising on the
campus shall be limited to
p,osters, blotters, signs, and
school publications. Any other
form of printed campus ad-
vertising must receive prior
approval of the EC before be-
ing put into use.
Such signs and posters must
not be greater than 12 sq. ft.
in area. The EC shall be the
judge of what constitutes a
sign and of the area.
4. Such signs and posters shall
iiL *)e limited to the academic and
engineering quadrangles.
5. Posters may be tied with
string onto suitable trees.
Nailing or otherwise harming
r tvges or shrubs, shall be pro-
hibited.
6. There shall be no signs sus-
pended over walks or road-
ways. y
7. No signs shall be placed on i
the inside or outside walls of |
buildings or on bulletin boards j
of the Rice Institute. i
S. Any signs or campaign meth- J
ods which the EC deems to be i
not in keeping with good taste
shall be removed immediately j
upon the notification of the '
candidate by the EC,
9, All posters must be removed j
from the campus over the
weekends and by 1:00 PM of j
the last school day preceeding '
the election (Saturday). j
10. Any special request by candi- j
dates for campaign procedures j
should have the prior approval 1
of tlrb EC.
Violation of the EC Rules and
Regulations may be cause for dis-
qualification of candidate.
O
Rice Host
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the convention. The convention is
comprised of business sessions and
panel discussions on problems and
projects connected with T.I.S.A. and
its member schools. Member schools
cooperate in giving assistance and
advice to each other. For example,
Rice is aiding those schools desiring
to establish honor systems, and the
schools of the Southwest Confer-
ence are helping the schools of the
Lone Star Conference to set up a
sportsmanship award.
The highlight of the convention is
the annual banquet, which features
an address given by a prominent
official. The 1951 convention speak-
er was Martin Dies; 1952, Secretary
of State John Ben Shepperd; and
this year, the speaker is to be
Judge Will Wilson, Associate Jus-
tice of the state Su^yeme Court.
some time, and showed promise of
his form by placing a strong sixth
in the Bill Williams' Cross Country
Race in Houston last December.
He handily beat runners from Tex-
as and A&M at Laredo, and if he
keeps up his steady improvement,
he should be a sure 5 points for the
Owls in the Conference meet at
Fort Worth this year.
Another bright light for the Owls
at Ladero was the showing of foot-
baller Billy Ed Daniels in the 440.
Daniels placed third in the quarter,
running the single lap in 49 sec-
onds flat. Earlier in the day he had
turned in the top qualifying time
with a :49.5. Wes Baker of A&M
won the race with an exceptional
:48.3, while Oklahoma A&M's Gene
Firth was second.
The next varsity meet is this
weekend, when they travel to Baton
Rouge, Louisiana to meet LSU and
Texas A&M.
Riee Host To
Swimming Meet
The Southwest Conference swim-
ming meet is being held in Houston
for the first time as the three-day
event got underway last night at
the Rice pool.
The distance swim, the 1500 yard
race, was the only event carded for
last night. There will be three ses-
sions each tonight and tomorrow
night, with preliminaries in the
morning and afternoon and finals
at night. Rice students will be ad-
mitted to the balcony on presenting
their blanket tax.
Teams will be entered from SMU,
Texas, Texas A&M, and Baylor.
Texas is defending champion, and
the Longhorns have monopolized
the swimming title over the years.
However, SMU is favored to win
the crown this year. The Mustangs
won the SWC Relays at Waco in
January, and last weekend beat
Texas 52-32 in the Longhorns'
Gregory Gym pool.
Best chance for a new record will
be in the 200-yard backstroke. The
Mustangs' George McMillion bet-
tered the SWC record time for that
event with a 2:19.3 in the recent
duel with Texas. The Olympic
champion diver, "Skippy" Brown-
ing of Texas, has finished his eli-
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Owls Faee Aggies On Diamond Today
Two non-conference games with
Texas A&M have been added to the
baseball schedule of the Owls, and
the series will provide Coach Dell
Morgan's club with its first out-
side competition of the season. The
Owls played at College Station yes-
terday, while the second encounter
is scheduled for today on the Rice
diamond at 3 PM. The Owls will
close the busy week tomorrow with
a game against Port Arthur of the
Class B Gulf Coast League at Port
Arthur.
Three lettermen and five sopho-
mores comprise the probable start*
ing line-up for the season debut*.
The veterans are catcher Parke Da-
vis, second baseman Willie Witt,
and third baseman Tommy Reck-
ling. However, one of these return-
ees will be at new positions. Davis
lettered as an outfielder last sea-
son and made the all-conference
team as a utility player.
There will be twins among the
Owl starters. LaVon Cox is slated
for first base duties, and LaDon
Cox will be on-third of an all-soph-
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Get Ready For Spring With
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GYM SHORTS
POLO SHIRTS
Get Polaroid Sun Glasses or Caps with Visors to Help
You Enjoy the Owl Baseball Games!
THE RICE INSTITUTE
CO-OPERATIVE STORE
THE DU PONT
DIGEST
THE ENGINEER'S PLACE IN
Si'-®**
Another phase of Du Pont production activities
offers challenging work for the technical man
■m
E. H. Ten Eyck, Jr., B.S. in Ch.E., Syracuse '43,
Ph.D. in Ch.E., Brooklyn Polytech '50, and
W. H. Stevens, Jr., B.S. in Ch.E., Yale '50,
take recordings on a new nylon unit.
In most Du Pont manufacturing
plants you'll find two groups of engi-
neers working side by side to make
operations more efficient—to reduce
costs and improve quality. The spe-
cialized work of one group, the pro-
duction supervisors, has been rather
fully discussed in the Digest.
Equally vital is the work of devel-
opment men—the men responsible
for advising management when op-
erational changes should be madp for
economic or technical reasons.
Engineers from several fields of
training are employed in develop-
ment activities at Du Pont. It seems
D. S. Warner, B.S. in M.E., Purdue '47, and
G. R. Prescott, B.S. in Met. E., Columbia '49,
discuss improvements for stainless steel liners
in tubes carrying corrosive materials.
to have a special appeal for the man<«
who can take on a big problem, ana-
lyze its parts, and come up with a
thoughtful, reasoned solution.
Individual development studies
may begin in a number of different
ways. Often they are sparked by the
imagination of the engineer himself,
who, of course, must be familiar with
production costs, activities of com-
petition, and recent or impending
technical improvements.
Studies also may be inspired by
suggestions of production supervi-
sors or sales personnel, obsolescence
of equipment, advances in competi-
John Purdom, B.S. in Ch.E., Ohio State '49,
and Kenneth Kehr, North Carolina State '50,
discuss diagram of a process for improved re-
covery of an intermediate for high polymers.
tive products, or the presence of
unsatisfactory profit margins.
In a single study, the engineer may
draw data from laboratories, semi-
works and plant-scale experiments,
prepare an estimate of profits and in-
vestments and consult with numer-
ous specialists on various phases of
the problem, both within the Com-
pany and outside.
Having collected data from these
many sources and perhaps from an
independent study of his own, the
plant development engineer must
then assemble and evaluate the ma-
terial and prepare a recommenda-
tion that is based on sound engineer-
ing judgment.
Whether a product or process im-
proves from the standpoint of com-
petition, profit and efficiency de-
pends, in great degree, on the quality
of its plant development work. The
development engineer's job id a re-
sponsible one at Du Pont, and the
work of a good man is soon noticed.
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