Nuts Cracked
With Sonic
Vibrations
A more efficient method of
cracking pecans using ultra
sonic vibrations is being de
veloped by the physics de
partment in cooperation with
the Texas A&M Research Foun
dation.
The old methods of cracking pe
cans are inefficient because a large
percentage of the nut meats are
damaged, and the shells get mixed
Avith the meats, according to Dr.
James G. Potter, head of the phy
sics department.
For this reason the Southern
Pecan Shelling Company has in-
\ r ested money in a project to de
velop better ways to separate the
shells from the nut meats.
Although no great amount of
progress has been reported, the
procedure is to place the pecans
in water, applying the ultra-sonic
vibrations to the water. The reson
ant frequency of the shells is not
the • resonant frequency of the
meats; therefore, the frequency
that avouM crack the shells would
not harm the meats.
Ftank C. Whitmore is devoting
half of his time to the project,
started in September.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1951
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Let Joe Do It
TPHE LATEST election returns seem to indicate the pro-
•*- posed amendment to change the method of investing the
Permanent University Fund has failed.
Why did the amendment fail to pass? There are pro
bably several reasons. One of which is the people who wanted
a progressive step taken stayed home. They depended on
their neighbors to do “the right thing.”
The major fallacy in such an argument is it appears
that our neighbors depended upon us to go to the polls and
do “the right thing.” It seems as if it just wasn’t worth the
trouble either to our neighbors or ourselves to go to the polls
and vote for what we believed in.
The latest election returns indicate that only about 10
per cent of the eligible voters went to the polls and exercised
their right to vote.
The frightening thing about these figures is that the is
sue at stake was five constitutional amendments. Five con
stitutional amendments would have a far more reaching and
lasting effect than a majority of the laws passed or policies
instigated by men in public office.
Apathy such as was shown in this election would
make it possible for a pressure group voting as a bloc to de-
New Wage Demand Five Aggies Enter Rodeo
Gets €10 Approval
Atlantic City, N.J., Nov. 16—(A 5 )
Philip Murray tossed all labor’s
traditional demands at once at the
steel industry today in a move to
gain “a substantial Avage increase.”
Murray got endorsement from
the CIO steelworkers unions 170-
man Wage-Policy committee yes
terday for a 22-point set of de
mands on the industry.
The union expects negotiators to
start Nov. 27.
Murray’s demands were so en
compassing that it amounted to
giving him a free ticket to nego
tiate Avhat he wants with the steel
industry.
As head of both the CIO and
its million-member steel union,
Murray started out on a course
supposed to get behefits in steel
and at the same time set new
standards for other CIO unions.
Besides asking for a “substan
tial wage increase,” Murray spe
cifically demanded an industry
wide union shop, productivity bon
us, severance pay, improved vaca
tions, premium pay for week-end
working hours, and a guaranteed
annual wage.
Six members of the Aggie Ro- Representing A&M are Jim
deo Team are competing in the Smith, Don Tabb, George, Jack
next to the last inter-collegiate Willingham, Bob Rankin, and Low.
rodeo held in Alpine Wednesday ie Rice.
through Saturday. Rise and Willingham are entered
Sponsored by Sul Ross College, in the calf roping contest, Avhilc
the three day rodeo will include Smith and Ranking have entered
the standard five rodeo events plus the bareback riding. Tabb and Gar-
a team tying contest. retson will enter bull riding.
Dr. Webb Speaks at
Monday Luncheon
Dr. Walter Prescott Webb, pro
fessor of history at the University
of Texas, will be the guest speak-
feat or pass an amendment in a manner favorable to them, er at a noon luncheon Monday at
It is not inconceivable that amendments pressured through Parker Dining Koom 111
because of public apathy would be detremental to what Organizations sponsoring the
we have come to consider our better mode of life. j; alk a U; the Le s, lsl £ tlve
Committee and the Women s Com-
The right to vote for or against something has been a mittee for Educational Freedom,
part of our life for so long that we tend to take it for grant- We ; bb ’ s s P.? ecb ’ non-parti-
ed. If the eligible voters would only stop and inspect the presentation of facts concerning
past they would find people who did not continually work ^^ced V/s ^ F Vance^’” an "
for their rights, often woke to the fact they no longer enjoyed Mrs. Vance will’ accept’ reserva-
those rights. tions, at $1.50 a plate, until 12
k T ' . . . noon, Saturday. Anyone in this
In our false sense of security we are prone to say some- area interested in attending the
thing comparable to that couldn’t ever happen in this coun- luncheon and hearing this perti-
, T j. ,, •, . 1-1,1, ii nent lecture is welcome, she added,
try. Just the attitude that something like that could never Spokesmen from the sponsoring
happen here” is indicative that it is possible for it to happen, organizations added that the two
mi l i £ . i , , ,,i clubs hope for a large turn-out of
The only safeguard we have for our right to go to the the local public to the luncheon, and
polls and vote without interference in a free election is the stressed that it will not be a poli-
continual use of that right. As long as people are constantly tlc T f mc(!tJng -
, ^ Reservations may be made by
aware of their rights and the obligations mfered by those calling Mrs. Vance, phone 4-5419.
rights, which include the exercising of otir right to vote, then Er. Webb, well-known historian
, , • i j* n ,i -i jp i of Texas, has had three books
we are relatively safe from the evils of complacency. published. His articles have been
’ ! printed in leading magazines and
his latest articles appeared in the
October and November issues of
Harper’s.
A speaker, Its well as an author,
Dr. Webb was the speaker at the
Ninth Congress of International
Historians in Paris, France; last
year.
Bankers Association
Names Timm Advisor
Dr. Tyrus R. Timm, exten
sion economist and professor
in the department of agricul
tural economics and sociology,
has been named as one of the
five advisors in 1952 to the Agri
cultural Commission of the Amer
ican Bankers Association.
The announcement was made by
Francis Cocke, president of the
First National Exchange Bank of
Roanoke, Virginia, who is also
president of the American Bankers
Association.
Through its agricultural advis
ors, the American Bankers Asso
ciation maintains close liaison with
land-grant
Cocke said
our great educational institutions.
It is a two-fold job—one of educat
ing the bankers to serve farmers
more intelligently, and of helping
farmers to Understand the things
they can do to better credit risks.”
In addition to Dr. Timm, the
four other land-grant college ad-
visprs are Director J. E. Coke,
Agricultural Extension Service,
University of California; Dr. Van
Hart, professor of farm manage
ment, Cornell University; Hr. 0.
CliS Instructor’s
Views Published
The September issue of the Am
erican Vocational Journal con
tained an article pertaining to man
agement of Industrial Arts class
es. J. D. Chaney, Jr., instructor
of Industrial Arts at the Consoli
dated High School, Avas one of the
contributors to a national survey
B. JesnesS, chief, of the division conducted by the editor of the Jour
nal, and his responses were in
cluded among the ten most out
standing answers to the inquiry re
garding management of supplies,
materials, and general shop or
ganization.
Chaney is a graduate of Indus-
of agricultural feconotnics, UnWer-
sity of Minneesota; and Dr. Harry
Love, head of the department of
agricultural economics and sociolo-
colleges. President gy> Virginia Polytechnic Institute,
n this regard, ‘Sve Much of the commission’s work
need to have the work of the com- is carried oil by committees and
missian closely geared to that of Hr. Timm will work particularly trial Education at A&M and is at
with the committees on “Outside present taking some work toward
Bank Programs” and “Soil Conser- the master’s degree in the same
vation.” field.
Pravda Says US Trying
To Keep Satelites in Line
Moscow, No\ r . 16—(A 5 )—Pravda
today claimed the United States
ordered photographs taken of dele
gates applauding Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Vishinsky at the
U. N. assembly so the State De
partment could keep America’s
“satellites” in line.
The Communist party organ told
its readers Western delegates who
had applauded Vishinsky were lat
er rapped bn thfe knuckles by the
State Department.
Senator Hopeful of Accord
Soon On Civil Rights Plan
Washington, Nov. 16—(A 5 )—Sen- But Senator Byrd (D-Va), a
ator Anderson (D-NM) said today leader of the Dixie opposition to
he believes the Democratic party the controversial program, declared
split over President Truman’s civil
rights program can be closed in
time to “give us a united front”
in the 1952 elections.
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the indications at this time "appear
to be all against” a new unity.
Byrd pointed to Mr. Truman’s
prediction yesterday that his “Fair
Deal” program, which includes civil
rights legislation, will be part of
the platform the Democrats adopt
at the party’s nominating conven
tion next July.
Mr. Trurhan told his news confer
ence at Key West, Fla., that would
be the case regardless of whether
he runs again or someone else
heads the Democratic ticket. And
he repeated that he won’t disclose
his intentions until after he sends'
his annual series of messages to
the new session of Congress con
vening in January.
“If the President is right in his
forecast about the party platform,
especially as to civil rights, it will
touch off a bitter new fight,” Byrd
told a reporter.
The Virginian recently blasted
the Truman administration in an
Alabama speech, and he called on
Southern Democrats to “keep
themselves free to take whatever
effective action may be necessary
for-our fundamental freedoms.”
Just what that action might be
in the 1952 campaign is “still un
der study,” Byrd said today.
Anderson, chairman of the Dem
ocratic senatorial campaign com
mittee, said he is optimistic that
an end can be put to the intra
party strife over civil rights.
He added he hopes a civil rights
platform plank can be worked out
along the lines of the one drafted
by the platform committee at the
party’s 1948 convention.
Job Interviews
CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY is very much inter-
U ested in discussing employment possibilities with the
graduates of the class of 1952. Seven interviewers will
be on the campus of Texas A&M on November 21 and
22 for the purpose of interviewing seniors graduating
in February and June.
CONTINENTAL’S growth has been due to young ideas
U in each major department—Exploration, Production,
Refining, Marketing, and Administration. We will be
employing men for these departments in 1952.
A&M College Placembnt Office.
please contact the
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