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Ocean Water May Pass for Drinking American families may soon be drinking water from the ocean at a price not too much over the pre sent price of well water, which is diminishing in the United States, Dr. Donald W. Hood, associate professor in the Oceanography and Ifeteorology Department, said re cently. Hood believes eventually fresh Water can be extracted from sea Water at a cost of about 50 cents for 1000 gallons. This would leave 25 cents for expenses in getting the water to the users or a pro posed 75 cent per 1000 gallons cost to users. Assuming the average-sized family Uses 10,000 gallons of water per month, the cost would be $7.50 per month to users. Hood and R. R. Davison, chemi cal engineer, are in charge of a research project on sea water be ing conducted under a contract be tween the A&M Research Founda tion and the Office of Saline Water of the U. S. Department of In terior. Purpose of the study is to find an organic solvent to use in ex tracting fresh water from the ocean water. Many compounds have been in- 40 Expected For Traffic Course About 40 persons are expected to attend the third annual school on Traffic Engineering March 17- 21. Under the sponsorship of the Texas Transportation Institute, the Civil Engineering Department, the Texas Section of the Institute of Traffic Engineers, the League of Texas Municipalities and A&M, the school will cover problems in traffic engineering. “The course is being offered to assist cities in the training of per sonnel responsible for the various traffic engineering functions,” C. J. Keese of the Civil Engineering Department and director of the short school, said. vestigated for their suitability for use in the process in the course of the experiments. The solvent must extract fresh water from salt water and then release the fresh water when the solvent temperature undergoes moderate change. The research by the A&M scient ists is one of numerous desalina tion ideas being investigated by scientists throughout the U. S. as the nation’s water pi’oblem gets more critical each year. Hood and Dr. K. E. Harwell, now reseai’ch chemist for the Jefferson Chemical Company, Austin, re quire that a compound be found which has special qualities. It must be a liquid which will absorb large quantities of water without losing its identity, while at the same time, being nearly insoluble in water. Thus far the researchers have found at least two compounds which have almost all the pro perties needed. Present estimates place the cost of desalting water at from 5 cents to $3 per 1000 gallons with the cost decreasing each year as the value of the water increased, Hood said. “When we really need the watei’, the cost of desaltation will be cheap, no matter what the cost in dollars and cents,” he said. Dr. A. F. Isbell, chemistry pro fessor; W. H. Smith Jr., technician; and Mu-Tsu Wu, graduate assist ant, are assisting in the program. LETTERS Continued From Page 2 best school anywhere when it comes to turning out the best men anywhere. I have some advice to offer Mr. “Name Withheld Upon Request”. And that is to take a long look at this school and its traditions. And if he still feels that tradi tions are not for him, he’d better leave now while he can still find someplace that doesn’t think traditions are important. Graham B. Stiles ’58 How Soluble? Dr. Donald W. Hood, associate professor in the Ocean- ography and Meteorology Department and Mrs. Celia V. Waldrep, laboratory technician, inspect equipment that is used to provide a method of determining the solubility of water in solvent and thus obtain data on solvents for the desalination process. French Club Has Banquet The annual banquet of the French Club was held in the Ban quet Room of the Triangle Restau rant Saturday. Vic Wiening of the English de partment gave a reading of the “Rubaiyat” of Omar Khaygam and Miss Alive Neveu and Alice Gri- maldo presented native dances. Bill Yates was master of cere monies. Phil Farias, Holim Kim, Jerry Bent, and Fernando DePena were in chai’ge of arrangements for the banquet. Club sponsor is Dr. T. Com fort of the Modern Language De partment. If you want your scrambled eggs to be really creamy, cook them over hot water. r ' r M , -GROCERIES- Maryland Club COFFEE 1 lb Can 87c Nabisco—Sugar Honey Graham Crackers 1 lb Box 35c * No. 2 Cans—Lucky Leaf Sliced Apples 2 Cans 49c * No. 2 Vi Cans—Libbys Sliced Peaches Can 31c No. 2 Cans—Libbys Orange Juice 2 Cans 29c No. 2 Cans—Libbys Grapefruit Juice 2 Cans 25c CRISCO 31b. Can 89c Libbys—Asparagus Style Blue Lake Whole Beans .... Can 35c w 303 Cans—Kimbells Small Fresh Green Limas 2 cans 37c 303 Cans—Green Giant Big Tender Peas 2 Cans 41c Niblets—Whole Kernel i Golden Corn 2 Cans 35c 14-Oz. Bottles—Hunts Catsup 2 Bottles 37c 300 Size Cans—Hunts Solid Pack Tomatoes 2 Cans 33c -FROZEN FOODS- PICTSWEET Beef, Chicken, Turkey Pot Pies Each 29c Sliced Peaches Pkg* Sliced Strawberries 29c Baby Whole Okra Cauliflower Pkg. Baby Limas 29c Ford Hook Limas -MARKET- Deckers—Tall Korn Sliced Bacon 1 lb. 59c Deckers lowana—All Meat Jumbo Franks —- 1 lb. 49c PEN FED BABY BEEF CUTS Round Steak 1 lb. 89c Loin Steak ....—. 1 lb. 89c Porter House Steak 1 lb. 69c Meaty Short Ribs 1 lb. 39c Square Cut Shoulder Roast 1 lb. 49c Rib Chops .’ lib. 79c -PRODUCE- CARROTS Cello Bag 10c Fancy Delicious APPLES lb. 10c Ruby Red GRAPEFRUIT each 5c California CAL A VOS each 10c SPECIALS FOR THUR. AFTERNOON, FRI. & SAT. — MAR. 6-7-8 FOOD MARKET CHARLIE'S NORTH GATE — WE DELIVER — COLLEGE STATION Heat Pump Topic Of Staff Meeting Various aspects of the heat pump were discussed and pictured by Paul E. Chaney of Texas Electric Service Company, Fort Worth, at a recent meeting of the staff of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station. Emphasis was given to the ground coil heat pump for which a coil design formula was devel oped by the station after exten sive research involving Texas soils and an experimental heat pump installation. Chaney told of ac tual application of the formula by his company in experimental heat pump installations in four resi dences and an industrial building- in Foi t Worth. Dr. Parker Attends Seattle Conference Dr. Grady P. Par-ker, head of the Department of Education and Psychology, left Friday for Seattle, Wash., to attend a meeting of the National Association for Super-- vision and Curriculum Develop ment. Dr. Parker will serve as chair man of a group meeting on re search for curriculum improve ment. He was recently elected to a three-year term as a member of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Com mission. While in Seattle he will also at tend a conference of the American Association of School Administra tion. A&M Scientists Invited to Sea Lab Two members of the staff of the Oceanography and Meteorol ogy Department ar-e among 13 scientists invited to attend a sym posium on red tide at the Gulf Fishery Laboratory in Galveston, March 5-7. They are K. M. Rae, director of marine laboratory programs; and Albert Collier, chief scientist, Galveston Marine Laboratox-y. The symposium was arranged by the U.S. Depaxtment of Interior and will hear x-eports given on pro gress of research to determine causes underlying outbreaks of red tide, and development of meth ods of prediction and control. THe Battalion College Station (Brazos CountyTexas Thursday, March 6, 1953 PAGfe 3 Reserve Group Gets Merit Award A Certificate of Merit for Safety was recently presented the local advisory group for the U.S. Army Resex-ve units in Brazos and sux-- x-ounding counties. Maj. Gen. R. G. Card, comman der of the U.S.A.R. VIII Corps, made the awax-d for completion of 200,000 miles of accident-fx-ee driv ing of Ax-my vehicles by membei*s of the advisory group. Activities Group Formed in Milner Milner Hall residents have char- tex*ed the Milner Hall Activities Ox-ganization to px-ovide for dorm activities and functions Chuck Bol- ner, dox-m master, said yesterday. Out of 185 residents of the hall, 165 have paid the $1 membex-ship fee for membership in the organ ization, Bolner said. James D. McElx-oy, treasux-er of the group, registered the charter with Student Activities. It is the only such chartered organization on the campus. Social Whirl Aggie Wives Bridge Club will meet at 7:30 tonight in the Me- xxxox-ial Student Center. Hostesses will be Jean Harvey and Tx-ilba Keller for the regulars, Tex-x-y Broome and Mary Ann De Mar for the intermediates, and Peggy Law- x-ence and Chax-lotte Zimmex-man for the beginners. Winnex-s last week, in the regular group, wex-e Mary Lyles, high, Beverly Noack, second, and Louise Greene, booby. Intei-mediate win ners were Betty Holder, high, Mar garet Toler, second, and Tex-ry Broome, low. * * * Aggie Wives Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Brooks room of the YMCA. All membex-s are urged to attend. Plans will be made for the Aggie Wives Review Night, and pictures for the Aggie- land will be taken. * * * A covered dish supper for Agri cultural Engineering Wives and their husbands will be served at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the home of Mx\ and Mrs. O. Love, 405 Dunn. Members are reminded to bring their own silverware. Plates, nap kins, and cups will be furnished by the club. Conference For RtSU Couples Set For Friday Walter R. Delamarter, do mestic relations consultant for the Baptist General Conven tion of Texas, will be the featured speaker at the Chris tian Home Conference for married Aggies and their wives Friday at the Baptist Studexxt Center. The conference will open Fx-iday at 6:30 p. m. with a covered dish supper, followed by Delamarter’s address on “A Sux-vey of Family Concex-ns”. Besides other speeches, an open discussion will highlight the evening. Saturday night’s program will feature a panel px-esentation on “Juvenile Delinquency. A Family Problem” and a final addx-ess by Delamarter on “Age Characteris tics of the Growing Child.” Delamarter holds a master’s de gree in social work and has done extensive woi'k in that field throughout the nation. His present duties include social case work ser vices in Baptist children’s homes, reexmiting professional staff mem bers and developing delinquency px'ojects through the City Missions Program of the Baptist General Convention. Tommy B. Harris, BSU married student representative, said all married Aggies and their wives were cordially invited to attend the sessions. A&M MENS SHOP 103 MAIN — NORTH GATE AGGIE OWNED BRUNSWICK Bowling Equipment Sold Exclusively At STUDENT CO-OP Manufacturing Engineer Lee H. Baker, like many other engineers, mathematicians and physicists, came to IBM directly from college. Here he tells how he found an excellent opportunity for creative engineering, in his area of the expanding electronic computer field, j What's it like to be with •‘It’s difficult,” Lee Baker admits, “for a college senior to feel confident when choosing a job. For four years the college student has been trained to be critical and deliberate about making decisions. Now, faced with the biggest decision of all, he has only a few months in which to have job interviews, weigh the facts, and select a company—not to mention passing exams and graduating at the same time.” Lee Baker, with a B.S. in Industrial Administration, came to IBM in 1953. Starting as a Technical Engineer in Production Control, he was immediately assigned to the General Manufacturing Education Program—a ten-month course with rotating assignments in all phases of the work—manufacturing, purchasing, pro duction. In addition to formal classroom study, he spent some time in the Boston Sales Office, calling on customers with an IBM salesman. His career was tem- | p Ij porarily interrupted by ll ||Pil!lP% H two years with the Air Force in Japan. Back at IBM in 1955, he has since been p’ro- H moted to Production Control Engineer. His present job is to design systems to insure a smooth flow of work through the plant where the famous electronic computers are manufactured. “It takes creative engineering ability to design these sys tems,” he says, “and it takes administrative ability to ‘sell’ a system to higher management and make it stick.” _ Many creative opportunities There are many creative opportunities in IBM Manu facturing Engineering for men with B.S. degrees in electrical, mechanical or industrial engineering. You may be concerned with the analysis, design and pro curement of tools and equipment needed to produce a wide variety of computers and other business ma chines. Or you may deal with plant layout, methods, production control or systems testing. “So much of our work is creative that it is often necessary to pro duce unique manufacturing equipment. This affords a chance for creative engineering of the first order.” How to select an employer To the college senior faced with a job decision, he Designing a control system has this to say: “Pick your employer by this simple test: Is the company expanding fast enough to pro vide adequate scope for your talents and ambitions? Is it interested in your long - range manage ment development? Will it treat you as an individual and match your abilities with the most challenging as signments?” For his part, Lee Baker feels IBM has met this test. Since 1953, he has seen new plants open, dozens of new products evolve, hundreds of ‘'Selling” the *y*tem management positions created. Increased stature, re sponsibility and reward have come his way. And he Hfif knows they will con tinue, for IBM sales continue to expand. Recently married, Lee Baker advises seniors to pay special atten tion to company bene fits. “They may seem like a yawning matter when you’re single, but they mean a lot when you assume family re sponsibilities. IBM benefits are certainly generous.” Company growth means opportunity This profile is just one example of what it’s like to be with IBM. There are many other excellent opportuni ties for well-qualified college men in Research, Develop ment, Manufacturing, Sales and Applied Science. Why not ask your College Placement Director when IBM will next interview on your campus? Or, for information about how your degree will fit you for an IBM career, just write to: Mr. R. A. Whitehorne IBM Corp., Dept. 812 590 Madison Avenue New York 22, N. Y. IBM INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION DATA PROCESSING • ELECTRIC TYPEWRITERS • MILITARY PRODUCTS^ SPECIAL ENGINEERING PRODUCTS O SUPPLIES • TIME EQUIPMENT^
