Concrete Firm To Locate
Headquarters on Campus
The National Bituminous Con- The announcement was marie hy
crete Assn., a non-profit organiza- Dean of Engineering Fred J. Ben-
tion of some 600 producers ofson and Bryan-College Station
bituminous concrete, has decided toChamber of Commerce, President
locate its research headquarters onTravis Bryan, Jr.
the A&M campus. Working to encourage the or-
Ag Eco, Sociology Gets New Professor;
To Conduct Research in Grain Market
Charles W. Brown has joined
the Department of Agricultural
Economics and Sociology as an
assistant professor.
The new faculty member will
conduct research in the field of
grain marketing.
Brown, who was reared in Heb-
bronville, received his B.S. degree
in agricultural economics in 1957
and his M.S. degree in the same
subject in 1958 at A&M. During
the past two years, he has com
pleted course work and other ma
jor requirements for a doctorate
degree from Oklahoma State Uni
versity.
He is a member of Alpha Zeta,
Phi Kappa Phi and the American
Farm Economics Assn.
Brown and his wife live at 2602
Morris Lane in Bryan.
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ganization’s location at the school
were A&M, the cities of Bryan and
College Station, the Bryan Indus
trial Foundation, Inc. and the
Bryan-College Station Chamber of
Commerce.
Objectives
Primary objectives of the associ
ation are to improve the specifica
tions for, the materials used in
and the construction procedures for
bituminous concrete.
Dean Benson said the association
has adopted a research program
which contemplates expanding ex
penditures for research in various
fields having to do with bituminous
concrete.
Initially it is planned that the
research will be carried on through
support of university programs,
co-operative projects with state
highway departments or federal
agencies and contracts with re
search institutes. In addition, some
funds will be available for scholar
ships for graduate students inter
ested in bituminous concrete.
Advantages
“The advantage to A&M of the
location of the association’s re
search activity and possible labora
tory here lies in the fact that the
association program will augment
and support our existing research
and teaching program in this'area,’’
Benson said.
The association plans to have
two persons in its A&M office,
which will tentatively be set up
by Sept 1.
Dr. Rose Resigns;
Goes to California
Dr. Aaron Rose, director of the
Texas Engineering Experiment
Station, has resigned his position
here, effective the latter part of
August, to accept a technical ad
ministrative position with the
United Technology Corp., Sunny
vale, Calif.
The company is a wholly owned
subsidiary of United Aircraft
Corp.
$99,000 Contract
Given Meterology
Practicing Square Dancing
The Memorial Student Center was filled Aug. 20. Held here each year under the di-
with the strains of square dancing music rection of College Station Dance Instructor
and the voice of the square dancing callers Manning Smith, the institute attracts danc-
as the 10th annual Square and Round Dane- ers from throughout the United States and
ers Institute opend Aug. 15 and ran through Canada.
13 ME Students Receive $8,900 in Scholarships
More than $8,900 in scholarships
have been awarded to 13 students
who will be juniors and seniors
and to one graduate, in the Depart
ment of Mechanical Engineering
for 1960-61.
The scholarship winners are as
follows:
Kenny E. Siler of 8019 Pennsyl
vania, Joplin, Mo., $250 from the
B. and H. Instruments Co. of Fort
Worth.
Ted R. Miller of 1224 E. North,
Kilgore, $250 from the B. and H.
Instruments Co., Fort Worth.
B. J. Redding of College Station,
$500 from the Cabot-Carbon Com
pany, Pampa, Tex. ■
Donald L. Adams of Premont,
$500 from the Chemstrand Corp.,
Decatur, Ala.
Roger A. Williams of Henderson,
$500 from the Continental Oil-Co.
of Ponca City, Okla.
Fred B. Hudspeth of 5605 Truett
Ave., Houston, $500 from the
Hughes Tool Co. of Houston.
Clifford D. Thompson of 1410
Anson, Abilene, $300 from the
Leveritt Brothers Scholarship Fund
set up by Frank W. Leveritt of
Port Arthur and Wilton H. Lev
eritt of Houston.
Donald F. Boren of 605 W. La
mar, McKinney, $300 from the
Mission Manufacturing Co. of
Houston.
Edward J. Szymezak of 1225
Neyland, Houston, $200 from the
Rowan Drilling Co. of Fort Worth.
Charles R. Martell-*of 509 Border
St., Orange, $400 from the Western
Electric Co. of Oklahoma City. All
seniors.
Ray M. Bowen of 7521 Caruth,
Dallas, graduate, $2,100 from the
Shell Oil Co. of New York.
Thomas C. Paul of 404 Morning-
side, Albuquerque, N. M., $500 from
Cabot-Carbon Co., Pampa, and
Richard W. Burr of Freeport, $300
from the Trane Co. of LaCrosse,
Wis. Both are juniors:
Weather forecasting will become
a purely objective science if re
search being done by the Micro-
meteorological Section of the De
partment of Oceanography and
Meteorology and other groups
across the nation bears fruit.
The A&M group has received a
$99,478 contract from the U. S.
Army Signal Supply Agency for
continued study in the field of
objective meteorological forecast
ing. For the past four years the
group has been doing research on
the same problem under similar
contracts from the U. S. Army
agency.
Under Dr. Clayton
Under the direction of Dr.
William H. Clayton, the new proj
ect calls for the construction and
field testing of a special purpose
meteorological forecasting com
puter.
The field testing will start Aug.
15 at 10; station near the KRLD-
TV transmitting tower at Cedar
Hill, Tex. Before field testing can
begin, an automatic sampling sta
tion must be constructed to be
used in conjunction with a similar
machine already constructed, Clay
ton said.
A&M Group Most Active
Although this type of research
is being done by several groups in
the United States, the A&M group
is the most active and has the
most experience in the field, sa
Clayton.
Already being used on a limit*
basis by the armed forces, the ne
weather forecasting method wi
eventually take the human cham
of error out of forecasting an
make it similar to the solving <
problems by the digital compute]
in the Data Processing Center, sai
Clayton.
. . many formulas . .
“Before this objective is reachec
many formulas must be worked on
and proved which is what we ar
attempting to do,” said Clayton.
At present Clayton and his grou
are using a computer which use
46 equations at 12 levels, whic
means it uses 552 formulas an
even more formulas must be dis
covered, according to Clayton.
“The only way we are going t
be able to make definite weathe
forecasts that are accurate is t
perfect the method we are workinj
on,” said Clayton.
When the method is perfected
anyone can feed data on weathe:
conditions into the machine an<
it will do the forecasting, sait
Clayton.
Last One Year
The current program will las'
approximately one year and wil)
employ about eight men and th<
Cedar Hill testing sites at varioul
times, Clayton said.
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