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Wednesday, April 15, 1959
TKe Battalion -!- College Station {Brazos County?, Texas
William Hal Bishop, one of the
nation’s top thoroughbred trainers,
started 100 horses during the 29-
day Laurel, Mo., spring meeting.
— A LEGEND —
One night in ancient times, three
horsemen were riding across an
open desert. As they passed
through a dry river bed, a voice
called out of the night, “Halt!”
The riders reined in their horses,
and then the voice ordered, “Dis
mount—pick up a handful of peb
bles and remount.”
When the horsemen were again
in their saddles, the voice said
“You have done as I have com
manded. Tomorrow at dawn you
will be both glad and sorry.”
Mystified, the three men rode
off into the night.
As the sun climbed above the
horizon the next morning, they
reached into their pockets. A
miracle had happened, for instead
of the peebles, their hands were
filled with diamonds, rubies and
other precious stones.
And then they remembered the
strange omen. They were both
glad and sorry—glad they had
taken some, sorry they had not
taken more.
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Farm Writers Pick
Ag Grad President
Bee Landrum, ’50, farm editor
of The Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
was elected president at an organ
izational meeting Monday of the
Texas Newspapers Farm Writers
Assn.
W. W. Pittman, farm editor of
The Temple Telegram, was named
secretary-treasurer.
The association will meet next
in November at San Antonio.
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Electron Microscope Lab
Finds News Uses for Clay
Clay minerals that “grow” like
microscopic plants or animals may
someday be used to diagnose dis
eases, to hunt for oil, or to detect
submarines or mines on harbor
bottoms.
These are predictions of Dr. U.
Grant Whitehouse, head of college’s
Electron Microscopy Laboratory,
where he and his staff have re
cently succeeded in becoming the
world’s first scientists to success
fully “grow” the clay minerals,
under laboratory conditions with
ordinary pressures and tempera
tures.
Employing tiny seeds of clay so
small that 10,000,000 lined up
would measure less than half an
inch, Whitehouse and his staff
have produced distinctly different
clay materials from these seeds in
containers of salt water, using no
heat or pressure outside that of
the. normal room conditions.
“We have employed a method
that is a duplication of what na
ture does to certain clays in tur
bid, ocean water,” Whitehouse
says. He adds that under natural
conditions tiny seeds of some com
mon clays carried by rivers into
the ocean grow and change into
distinctly different clay minerals
in period ranging from four to five
years.
These particles of clay, or
“seeds”, are so small that to ob
serve and photograph their growth
requires the use of A&M’s $30,000
electron microscope, a device that
permits photography of minute
particles that cannot be handled
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Interweaving Growth
Whitehouse emphasizes that the
growth of the clay particles is by
an interweaving of several thread
like seeds to form a somewhat lar
ger unit, by fertilizing action of
saline waters. Branch like exten
sions or “shoots” progressively
grow outward from the larger seed
and recrystallize to produce tw r o
different clay minerals as the final
“fruit”.
The big difference in this
growth and that of many micro-
Price Daniel’s
Financing Bill
Gains Approval
AUSTIN (AP) — Administra
tion supporters fought off a sur
prising wave of opposition yester
day to push one of Gov. Price Dan
iel’s key deficit financing bills to
temporary approval by a 71-69
vote.
Twice the bill HB32, a proposal
to seize abandoned propei’ty in
banks and other businesses, ap
peared defeated when tie votes of
69-69 and 70-70 were announced.
Each time verification of mem
bers’ votes by a role call favored
tentative passage engrossment of
the bill.
The first tie vote was wiped
out entirely by members who
pleaded that some members did
not get a chance to vote.
Final passage of the abandoned
property bill would mean House
approval of enough of Gov. Price
Daniel’s program to wipe out most
of the 65 million dollar deficit
and turn the problem over to the
Senate.
The House vote came after al
most six hours of hot debate on
the bill by Rep. Marshal Bell, San
Antonio. Seventeen proposed
amendments were tabled, most of
them by 15 to 25 vote margins.
scopic plants and animals is that
the change is made, but no life is
apparent.
Whitehouse describes the re
search at the Electron Microscopy
Laboratory as fundamental, basic
research. “But,” he adds, “Results
obtained should save millions to
billions of dollars in development
of methods for solution of many
practical problems that must be
solved in the best interests of the
nation, and humanity in general.”
Provides Claims
For example, the clay work re
ported provides one of the first re
liable claims upon which methods
can be developed for location of
petroleum, by electron microscopic
examination of rock surfaces.
Whitehouse believes that early
diagnosis of some diseases by clay
treatment of blood samples is pos
sible, too. F or, he points out, some
disease agents react with certain
patterns to clay minerals, and the
ultimate hope is that medical tech
nologists will eventually devise
standardized tests which can be
conducted, inexpensively, under or
dinary laboratory conditions, to
utlize the basic knowledge gained
in the college clay studies.
Underwater Detection
For detection of underwater
mines and submarines, Whitehouse
says, a knowledge of the charac
teristics of the common ocean bot
tom clays as they relate to sound,
is obviously highly important.
Since World War II, sound detec
tion gear has been highly improv
ed, but a submarine, lying under
a cover of muddy ocean water or
silt is still a highly difficult ob
ject to pin-point acurately. The
knowledge obtained of clays that
commonly coat harbor bottoms,
Whitehouse points out, is giving
a definitely better basis of
precision results in sound detec
tion.”
The clays studied here are mont-
morillonites, very common to Tex
as, and having a high degree of
ability for expansion and contrac
tion, as contractors, home owners,
bridge builder's, and road engineers
well know.
Calendar Meet
Next Wednesday
A meeting will be held next
Wednesday at 5 p.m. in Room 101
of the YMCA to make plans and
reserve dates on the 1959-60 All-
College Calendar.
' (p. G. (Spike) White, manager
of Student Recreation and Enter
tainment, said all college activities
wishing to reserve dates should ei
ther attend the meeting or send in
their requests by mail.
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Business Aids
To Be Discussed
Here April 23
“Aids to Small Business Avail
able Through the Small Business
Administration,” will be discussed
here, April 28.
The address will be delivered by
Albert C. Kelly, deputy adminis
trator, Small Business Administra
tion, Washington, D. C., at the
closing session of the 12th annual
Accounting Gonferenee, to be held
April 27-28.
Kelly is one of a number of
outstanding authorities in the bus
iness field of the country, who will
deliver talks.
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Long-range programs are important
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“In a company dedicated to research and development,
a young man’s opportunities to learn more —to increase
his technical skills—are almost unlimited,” says 31-year-
old Harry Lawton, Jr., a General Electric engineer
engaged in the development of inertial guidance and
fire-control systems for ballistic missiles. “And to main
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all the technical training and skills we can produce.
“An important aspect of my job at General Electric
is the continuing opportunity to learn more. I’ve been
able to continue my education in the company’s Physics
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my work. Opportunities like this have helped me real
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