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—urt many
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New Construction Material
—ong. It:
« co | ( j, f A new low-cost building ma-
on |jterial, designed to withstand high
_ ures car humidity over prolonged periods,
res 'is being developed by the Texas
, 'Transportation Institute of Texas
A&M under a $28,000 grant from
= Un-Auethe Interaational Cooperation Ad-
^tee is iisministration.
!=d by otk Chief ingredient of the “over-
as anesized” bricks is common dirt, but
=1 govern the decisive weather-resistant fac-
=isional S r tor is an inexpensive stabilizer
a iv {J . such as lime or cement.
m , ; Though earthen blocks are not
national new io Homebuilding, some adobe
houses of southwestern United
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selves states having stood for more than
100 years, the unstabilized material
will not hold up for any length of
time in moist climates. Soil sta
bilization as a means of preventing
damage by wind, rain and flood
is a major part of the TTI re
search. /
In laboratory and field testing,
blocks made of Brazos County
sandy clay, stabilized with 2, 4
and 6% lime, and 2, 4 and 6%
Portland cement, gave satisfactory
performance for Bob M. Callaway,
Wayne A. Dunlap, and Lyle A.
Wolfskill, the researchers. Blocks
made with raw soil, however,
showed rapid deterioration in the
testing.
The ICA-sponsored research is
ced a mult
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cussed by Warren C. Jeffery,
Product Development Manager at
McWane Cast Iron Pipe Co., Bir
mingham, Ala., at the February
meeting of the Texas Chapter of
the American Foundryman’s So
ciety.
The Aggie AFS student chapter
will host the meeting in the MSC
tomorrow night at 6:30 p.m. The
meeting, which will be attended by
75 members of the Texas AFS
Chapter, will consist of a banquet
and discussion of problems in the
foundry industry.
A&M is one of 13 student chap
ters affiliated with the interna
tional AFS and is the only one
actively functioning in Texas.
Membership is now 30 students.
The chapter’s yearly activities
Consist of three or four field trips
to foundries throughout Texas and
attending a Texas Chapter meet
ing and hosting the February
meeting.
Mich., will address the joint dinner
meeting of A&M student and Gulf
Coast (Houston) chapters of the
Society of Automotive Engineers
tomorrow night.
Blume will discuss the objectives
established for the design and de
velopment of Ford’s new series of
light weight commercial vehicles—
the Econoline van, bus and pickup
truck. They were introduced last
October as a new concept in
American-made trucks.
Blume joined Ford Motor Com
pany in 1947 as technical asistant
to the vice president of engineer
ing.
In 1951, he established the mili
tary vehicle department to design
a light-weight jeep and in 1953
was named chief engineer, Lincoln-
Mercury car engineering. Two
years later he was named chief
engineer of the Special Products
Division which later became the
former Edsel Division.
Blume joined Ford Divison as
assistant executive engineer in
June, 1958, becoming manager of
the Econoline engineering depart
ment in 1959. He assumed his
present position in December, 1960.
A 1931 mechanical engineering
graduate of Michigan State Uni
versity, Blume began his automo
bile career as a draftsman for
Oldsmobile Division of General
Motors Corp. When he left to join
Ford he had advanced to adminis
trative engineer.
designed to provide relief for
underdeveloped nations where un
skilled labor and densely-populated
slums combine to accentuate the
need for simple, inexpensive build
ing materials. Cost, excluding
labor, for a modest home of some
lumber and lime-stabilized soil
bricks is expected to be below $500
per unit.
Other projects by the TTI in
clude studies of economic effects
by new highway bypass routes
throughout the state.
A study concerning the bypass
for U.S. 81 (Interstate Highway
35) around Temple has just been
released. !
Prepared by C. V. Wootan and
H. G. Meuth of TTI, the report
is the result of a cooperative re
search project initiated in Novem
ber, 1957, between the Texas High
way Department, the U.S. Bureau
of Public Eoads, and the Texas
Transportation Institute. Besides
Temple, areas studied are in Rock
wall County and in Austin. The
three areas selected for analysis
had completed sections of express
way-type roadway which, with
minimum alterations, would meet
Interstate construction standards.
Specific objectives of the study
were to measure the changes in
land value, land use, business ac
tivity, travel habits, and general
community development associated
with the new highway facility.
Significant Impacts
The researchers indicate that
the new bypass route “has had sig
nificant impacts on this particular
area.” Land values showed an in
crease from $58 per acre before
proposed construction of the by
pass was announced to $822 per
acre after the bypass was opened.
By contrast, nearby land not in
the study area increased in value
by only 40 per cent over the same
period.
Changes in land use and in busi
ness prosperity were also pointed
out in the report. The area changed
from an agricultural section to
commercial and residential use.
Traffic dependent businesses on
the old route were severely affected
by the new bypass route, while
non-traffic dependent firms “ap
peared to receive some economic
stimulus from the reduced traffic
congestion.”
The Temple report is the second
in a series of studies on the eco
nomic impact of the Interstate
Highway System in selected areas
in Texas.
Dr. Francis O. Rice
.. . delivers address tonight
DR. RICE
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lent teacher and his many students
have carried the torch of chemical
knowledge into industry, education
and government. Dr. Wayne C.
Hall, Dean of the Graduate School
said, “Rice’s work on free radi
cals, kinetics and mechanisms may
truly be said to have resulted in
the re-formulation of a chapter in
modern chemistry.”
In 1931, Rice proposed that, dur
ing pyrolysjs, many organic mole
cules undergo a primary decom
position into free radicals. This
led to his classic paper with Herz-
feld, a colleague at Johns Hopkins,
which showed that complicated
radical chain mechanisms could be
described by simple kinetic laws.
Recognizing the limitations of
studying systems by the analysis
of reaction end-products, he de
vised methods of studying reac
tions by the paired mixtures of or
ganic compounds and their deuter-
ated counterparts. Rice developed
other techniques for studying
equilibrium and stationary state
systems.
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THE BATTALION
Thursday, February 9, 1961
College Station, Texas
Page 3
Field Swells To Near - Record Size
In Special U.S. Senate Free-For-All
By The Associated Press
The field in the special U. S.
Senate race swelled to near-rec-
ord size Wednesday as V. C. (Bus
ter) Logan, a McKinney business
man, paid his $50 filing fee and
became candidate No. 27.
The record number of entrants
in a U. S. Senate rate, set in 1941,
is 29. The 1957 special election
drew 23 candidates.
“Anybody voting for me will be
voting for himself,” said Logan,
who added that he is running “be
cause I want to represent the tax
payers. The Texas taxpayer has
no representation at present.
Logan, 44, lives in Celina and
operates an appliance business in
McKinney. He said he is not a
politician.
Potential candidates for the
Senate seat vacated by Vice-Pres
ident Lyndon Johnson have until
Mar. 4 to pay their filing fees.
The election will be April 4.
Other candidates were busy
campaigning around the state
Wednesday and several announced
jam packed campaign schedules.
Congressman Jim Wright of Ft.
Wortlx said he will carry his bid
for votes to the lower Rio Grande
Valley Thursday and Friday.
He will be in the Brownsville
area Thursday and in Raymond-
ville, Harlingen, Weslaco, Edin
burg and McAllen Friday. He will
be guest of honor Thursday night
at a valley-wide press party in
connection with international
Charro Days in Brwonsville.
In Lubbock, Atty. Gen. Will Wil
son came out for larger sugar
quotas for American growers. He
addressed a meeting of his Pan
handle backers.
“The Sugar Act is scheduled for
reconsideration by Congress this
spring,” he said. .“In these con
gressional deliberations Texas will
have the opportunity to lead in
securing for our nation’s farmers
a bigger share of raw sugar pro
duction.”
He said greater use of Ameri
can sugar by sugar refineries
would “be a first step in putting
brakes on declining farm income
and it will put skids under Cuba’s
long lead, in raw sugar produc
tion.”
John Tower, the lone Republi
can in the race, announced the
formation of a statewide advisory
committee headed by Mrs. Dan
Moody of Austin and Dr. George
C. Hester of Georgetown.
Mrs. Moody is the wife of for
mer Gov. Dan Moody. Dr. Hester
is a professor at Southwestern
University. He was chairman of
the new taxes subcommittee of
Gov. Price Daniel’s state Finance
Advisory Commission.
Maury Maverick Jr., of San An
tonio announced he has named Dr.
Bill Crane, professor of govern
ment at St. Mary’s University, as
head of a statewide Texas teachers
for Maverick organization. Crane
also is Maverick’s Bexar County
campaign manager.
State Sen. Henry B. Gonzalez
of San Antonio, a candidate for
the U. S. Senate post, is scheduled
as the main speaker for the state
convention of the League of
United Latin American citizens in
Corpus Christi Saturday.
A state-wide collegiates for Gon
zalez meeting has been set for
Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the Gun
ter Hotel of San Antonio under
the leadership of temporary chair
man Art Yarborough. Delegations
from The University of Texas, St.
Mary’s University, Texas A&I
College, Del Mar College and oth
ers are expected to attend, Gon
zalez’s office said.
Tests Show
Good Results
Tuberculin tests have been given
to over 900 children in the first
and second grades of Bryan, Fair-
view, and John M. Moore schools
with only 12 positive reactors
found, according to a report sent
to the TB office by Mrs. Mildred
Turner, chairman of the case find
ing committee of the TB Associa
tion.
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