Battalion Editorials
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1955
A Humble Spirit
Thinking back over the past few weeks of the football
season, we’ve come to the decision that it’s high time we
apologized to everyone that we’ve done wrong.
Here at Aggieiand we love our neighbors and just do not
like to see misiortune befall them. So to all that have been
picking A&M for the bottom rung of the Conference ladder,
and for the lower regions of the national football rankings—
we apologize for the wrong we have done you in making
you look rather silly.
And while we’re sounding off on a meek and humble
note, we might as well let the sports writers and the “football-
card makers” in on a little secret: Don’t bet too strongly
against us. After all, 400-plus yards isn’t exactly a fluhe,
you know.
And another pious note we might add: Gentlemen of the
Southwest Conference, please hurry up and decide something
about the Cotton Bowl.
After all, we’ve got to hold the thing, even if we only
enter the “second-best” team from our conierence.
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Meteorologists Plan Study
Using Weather Echo Photos
Dr. Davis Elected
President of ASM
Dr. W. B. Davis, head of the
Wildlife Management Department
has been elected president of the
American Society of Mammalo-
gists.
The ASM is an organization with
about 2,000 active members in ev
ery major country outside the Iron
Curtain. Prior to his election as
president, Davis had served the so
ciety as secretary, board member,
editor of the Journal of Mammalo
gy and as vice-president.
During his years as a wildlife
specialist, he has discovered and
described more than 15 new spe
cies of birds, reptiles, amphibians
and mammals.
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Journal Publishes
Article By Beasley
The Texas Police Journal, a
state-wide magazine and the offi
cial organ of the Texas Police As
sociation, is currently publishing
a series of articles written by Wal
lace D. Beasley, coordinator of
police training for the Engineer
ing Extension Service of the A&M
College System.
The articles outline the step-by-
step procedure by which a police
officer may most efficiently pre
pare his case. The material deals
with how to approach the crime
scene, how to secure witnesses and
statements, how to prepare work
able notes, how to prepare a case
envelope for the grand jury, se
lection, preservation and care of
evidence, selecting the charge,
courtroom conduct and other mat
ters.
CIRCLE
WEDNESDAY
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Pat O’Brien
— ALSO —
“They Were
So Young”
Scott Brady
A&M meteorologists will take
part in a research program of con
siderable complexity and scientific
importance beginning tomorrow
and lasting until Nov. 20.
About 20 radar stations in
various parts of the United Statds
will make photographs of weather
echoes detected in the largest co
ordinated operation of this type
ever attempted.
The project is sponsored by the
Cambridge Research Center of the
Air Force’s Air Research and
Development Command at Bed
ford, Mass.
After the photographs have been
made they will be sent to the Radar
Meteorology Section of the Ocean
ography Department. Scientists
will select photographs made at
the sapie time and fit them to
gether to obtain a picture of the
weather over half the United
States as observed by radar at that
instant.
These pictures will be. compared
with regular weather maps made
at the time to see what additional
information they provide.
The purpose of this investigation
is to determine how radar observa
tions of storms may be of help to
weather forecasters in improving
the accuracy and comprehensive
ness of their predictions. On a
smaller scale it has already been
conclusively demonstrated that
radar can provide the weatherman
with information about storms
which could be obtained in no other
way.
Prior to this time, however, only
the observations from single radars
or small groups of radars have
been available for study and the
area covered by the observations
has been much too small to permit
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Represents the Views of the Student Editors
A FEATURE ATTRACTION at
the A&M Consolidated Band Carn
ival Oct. 29 will be Dean Duncan,
junior from’ San Antonio, and an
amateur magician of note. Duncan,
a member of the International
Brotherhood of Magicians, has ap
peared at the MSC Cafe Rue
Pinalle, and won the Aggie Talent
Show for his tricks when he was
a freshman. He later during the
same year won the Texas Inter
collegiate Talent Show at Sam
Houston State College. He has
practiced being a magicial for 11
years, beginning when only nine
years old.
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comparison between the radar pic
ture and the development of the
average size storm which might
cover a quarter of the United
States and move half way across
the country in a few days.
Since the large scale radar pic
ture has not yet been obtained, it
is not known what information it
can provide to the forecaster or
how he could use it in the pre
paration of his prognostications.
According to Dr. Myron G. H.
Ligda, who directs the radar
Meteorology Section, if forecasters
had such radar pictures before
them while analysing their other
weather maps they would pro
bably use the radar observations to
locate fronts and squall lines more
accurately and evaluate the inten
sity of various weather conditions,
such as rainfall intensity, in
various critical areas of the storm.
Dr. Ligda feels that weather ob
servation methods now in use
frequently fail to reveal a complete
and accurate picture in complex
situations and that properly inter
preted radar observations would
be of material aid to the fore
caster in such cases.
If the large-scale radar observa
tions prove to be of significant
value to the forecaster, Dr. Ligda
foresees an eventual development
of the radar observation program
somewhat along the following
lines.
Second Installment
Due by Tomorrow
Tomorrow is the deadline for
payment of the second installment
of subsistence fees. For Corps stu
dents and other students paying
board, the payment is $59.95. For
those students not paying board,
the installment in $16.75. This
payment covers the period between
Oct. 21 and Nov. 21.
About 30 or 40 of the several
hundred radar stations in the
United States would be designated
as “Storm Observation” stations
and equipped with radarscope
cameras with which a photograph
could be obtained within a minute
or so after exposure. At designated
times all of these stations would
photograph their scopes.
These photographs would be
transmitted by facsimilie or wire-
photo to a central collection point.
At the collection center, skilled
analysts who had information con
cerning the characteristics of all
the varying types of radar used to
make the observation would as
semble the pictures and make a
consolidated analysis, evaluating it
with the aid of other conventional
weather observations.
This consolidated analysis would
then be transmitted to weather sta
tions all over the country by
facsimilie in the same manner that
weather maps are presently trans
mitted.
Dr. Ligda estimates that such
consolidated pictures could be in
the hands of forescasters about
30 to 45 minutes after the observa
tion, using presently available
equipment. It takes about twice
this time to distribute an analized
weather map.
In the weather station such con
solidated pictures have many pos
sible uses. More obvious among
these is in pilot briefing. With the
increasing use of airborne radar by
commercial airlines for storm
avoidance, Dr. Ligda says that
consolidated pictures shown to
pilots a few minutes before takeoff
wotild greatly aid them in the in
terpretation of what they would
eventually be seeing on their own
scopes while flying through storm
areas. There also appears to be a
very promising future for radar
storm observations in the field of
flood forecasting.
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