By-Products Become Useful
As Result of New Research
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Pandas, Bears and Trains
Bryan Fireman Kizer Bomskie poses with men will then repair the toys and they will
the toys collected by College View residents be given to children in Bryan and Brazos
and donated to the department. The fire- County.
Broken Toys Collected
Idea in Apartment Council
Proves Profit To Children
By TOMMY HOLBEIN
Battalion Staff Writer
When people with an idea get
together, quite often the results
turn out very profitable. This is
what happened when the members
of the Apartment Council decided
to gather broken toys to be given
to needy children next Christmas.
April 12, several members of
the Council acquired a pickup and
visited all 466 apartments in Col
lege View Village, after first pre
paring a memorandum sheet and
sending it to all residents there.
“The people out there were cer
tainly receptive to our efforts, and
before it was over, I though we
might break a spring with all that
load of toys. They not only filled
up the bed of the truck, but cov
ered the cab and hood as well!”,
said Dick Robertson, one of the
men responsible for the gathering.
Event Moved Up
Robertson explained that the
event was rushed up somewhat
because of the approaching Easter
holidays, and that the people
weren’t quite as prepared as they
might have been, but nevertheless,
the residents of College View re
sponded very well.
“We contacted the Bryan Fire
Department, and asked them if
they would like a load of toys to
get busy on to avoid the usual
Christmas rush, which usually re
sults in the firemen being engulfed
with toys just before Christmas.
They readily agreed to the idea
and we surely got them a load,”
said Robertson.
“The toys included 'four very
good bicycles and various large,
heavy toys such as tractors and
cars. We were only asking for
old, unusable toys, but some of
them were in very good condition.
There were a number of ladies’
shoes donated, although not asked
for.”
Want Another Drive
Robertson said that many of the
seniors living in College View were
very enthusiastic about the idea
apd \suggpsted that the Council
sponsor another drive during dead
week at the close, of the semester,
since many of the seniors will, be
graduating and will have many
surplus items they might donate.
“It was originally planned that
we might conduct another toy
gathering during the first part
of September, but the seniors of
College View have moved the date
up for us, if plans go right,” said
Robertson. “I believe it would be
a good idea to hold one semi-an
nually, just before the seniors
graduate and I believe we could
get a great deal of reception out of
such a drive,” he added.
‘doubly-sure. . .’
‘When we were gathering the
toys, it was always made doubly-
sure that the toys we picked up
Were the right ones, and as a re
sult, we had no trouble, what-so-
ever. One little girl was very co
operative and brought out a pair
of her own skates for us, saying
that she had outgrown them and
didn’t need them any more,” said
Robertson.
Other men participating in the
drive included James Snelgrove,
James A. Freddy, Kelly Chapman
and William H. Flynt.
When the toys were unloaded in
a garage across from the U. S.
Post Office in Bryan, they covered
the entire floor space of the -double
garage.
Egg Hunt Sponsored
The Apartment Council also
sponsored an Easter-egg hunt for
the children living in college apart
ments, held in Hensel Park on
April 3, with five silver dollars
being offered as first prize, do
nated by Sear, Roebuck and Co. of
Bryan.
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Research just completed, at the
Texas Transportation Institute has
resulted in converting millions of
tons of industry by-products into
valuable building materials, it was
announced here today by Bob M.
Callaway, Institute research engi
neer.
Callaway, also a faculty member
of, the Department of Civil Engi
neering, disclosed that research has
resulted in finding new uses for
by-products of the rock asphalt
mining industry. Successful use is
also being made of skid-resistant
asphaltic surfacing, which uses
slag as a basic ingredient.
Successful Hot-Mix
Today’s announcement dealt spe
cifically with the fact that T.T.I.
research engineers have developed
successful hot-mix surfacing ma
terials using screenings or “fines”
left over as a by-product of min
ing rock asphalt.
These fines are a coarse powder
which comes down in the screen
ing process where rock asphalt is
being mined, crushed, and pre
pared for use in paving mixes. Re
search was done for White’s Uval
de Mines, a San Antonio firm op
erating the largest limestone rock
asphalt unit in the Southwest, near
Uvalde.
Find Use for Screenings
Last spring, Callaway and his
staff were asked to investigate the
possibility of finding a use for
these screenings — currently ac
cumulated in the hundreds of thou
sands of tons — and the result has
been development of hot-mix prep
arations where screenings are used
as major components.
Already in Use
Surfacing mixtures using the
rock asphalt fines already have
been put down on two residential
streets in College Station. This
paving is standing up under traf
fic in good shape.
The Whites Mines rock asphalt
screenings were recently used in
a commercial contract job on In
terstate Highway 35 near Laredo.
This is a highway carrying eight
traffic lanes, and. the hot mix uti
lizing the rock fines extends for
several miles.
Test Sections Laid
Last summer, T.T.I. research en
gineers supervised the laying of
test sections on one Texas high
way and on streets in Bryan and
College Station of a skid-resistant
paving material produced from
slag that results from the burning
of lignite at the power plant at the
Aluminum Co. of America’s Rock
dale, Texas, smelter.
This slag, and fly-ash, also a by
product of the lignite burning have
been developed into several prod
ucts of value, Callaway points out.
Slag has been used to produce a
high-quality, skid-resistant pave
ment particularly valuable as a
safety factor on curves, at inter-
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Hancock Named Fellow of AAAS
Dr. C. Kinney Hancock, professor Hancock has been at A&M since
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