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.
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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.
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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
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Beef, Chicken, Turkey
Pot Pies Each 29c
Sliced Peaches Pkg*
Sliced Strawberries 29c
Baby Whole Okra
Cauliflower Pkg.
Baby Limas 29c
Ford Hook Limas
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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
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Fancy Delicious
APPLES lb. 10c
Ruby Red
GRAPEFRUIT each 5c
California
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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.
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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.
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