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T The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texar Wednesday, May 13, 1959 PAGE 3 Britain Announces Entry into Space Age LONDON OP)—Britain announc ed Tuesday it intends to enter the space age by launching its own earth satellites. Prime Minister Harold Macmil lan told the House of Commons that scientists had been given the go-ahead. The rocket that will carry the first one aloft to join the U. S. and Soviet satellites has not yet been chosen, Macmillan said. He expressed hope that a Brit ish rocket could do the job. The implication in his statement was that if this was not possible the British may try to borrow a rocket from the Americans. A team of British experts will travel to Washington shortly to discuss possible U. S.-British co operation, Macmillan said. The British decision was wel comed in Washington. The State Department expressed hope there would be many opportunities for the United States to cooperate as the British program develops, “thereby widening the area of in ternational cooperation in the peaceful use of outer space.” British scientists are trying to adapt military rockets, now be ing developed here, as satellite carriers. The main hope lies in the Bluestreak, a missile being- built to cover a range of 2,500 miles. Macmillan said Britain is also opening consultations with coun tries in the British Commonwealth for collaboration on the project. SAM HOUSTON ZEPHYR 10:08 a.m. 12:47 p.m. Lv. N. Zulch Ar. Dallas . . Lv. N. Zulch . 7:31 p.m. Ar. Houston . 9:25 p.m. FORT WORTH AND DENVER RAILWAY N. L. CRYAR, Agent Phone 15 • NORTH ZULCH Wet Leader Charles Hayden, University of Texas student, drags him self from Littlefield Fountain in the Austin campus. Hayden got the dunking from several students in opposition to his plan to gather students for a march on the Capitol in opposition to House Bill 812, a proposed fees increase bill. After the wetting demonstration fizzled. (AP Wirephoto). Cottonseed Markets to Develop From Research Work Here ? ir Markets for millions of tons of cottonseed are expected to develop in the South as the result of re search work done at the Cotton seed Products Research Laboratory here. A. Cecil Wamble, head of the laboratory, has announced that he and his staff have developed a new method of producing gossypol- free cottonseed meal suitable for poultry feeds. In the past, poul try and swine rations have not been based around cottonseed because of the toxic factor of gossypol, fatal, in heavy doses, to swine and poultry. Wamble and associates have suc cessfully produced a cottonseed meal with a free gossypol content below .06 of one per cent, and a total gpssypol below .18 per cent, and 41 per cent protein. In poultry feeding tests, person nel of the laboratory report that chickens raised on the gossypol- free cottonseed meal gain as swift ly and have as good a growth and mortality records as did those raised on rations based around soy bean meal, the chief competitor in this area. Wamble points out the the pro tein requirements in the South’s feed industry are, currently, for poultry and swine feeds alone, some two million tons annually. Of this amount, he estimates that about fifty percent could be filled by using cottonseed meal. At the moment, however, the market is for from 250,000 to 500,000 tons, largely because of failure to de velop an economical method for freeing cottonseed of gossypol. This leaves a gap for some quar ter to a half million tons, each year, of $40 to $50 per ton cotton seed, which Wamble believes can be converted for the poultry and swine feeding industry. The method developed in the laboratory of the Texas Engineer ing Experiment Station is one us ing n-octyl amine to clean up the meal, and at the present time, un der laboratory conditions, the meal is being produced at about $8 a ton less than the premium ordinar ily paid by feed mixers in the Southwest and West for soybean meal now used in swine and poul try rations. This favorable price differential, The Liberty Bell was cracked while being tolled in memory of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1885. Wamble points out, is being made without any recovery of the amines used. “If we can find a way to re cover part of the amines,” he says, “We’ll be in even more of a favor able position.” Amines, related to the amino acids which are the building blocks of proteins, are common by-prod ucts of many petro-chemical oper ations, Wamble says, adding that a number of Texas petro-chemical firms have already expressed con siderable interest in the possibili ty of supplying amines when .gos- sypol-free cottonseed goes into large-scale manufacture. More people keep going back for Camels than any other cigarette today. The Camel blend of costly tobaccos has never been equalled for rich flavor and easygoing mildness. Today as always, the best tobacco makes the best smoke. By-pass the fads and fancy stuff . . • Have a real cigarette- have a CAMEL tv \ V// rM./ ‘If he should get by you, Emma, double back for the Camels! 1 B. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Winston-Salem. N. C. 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