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londay.
hants hind Dr. Jack R. Harlan, plant research geneticist and a speak-
Uthe annual Agricultural Convocation, said that just be-
p ' ' nise a system is primitive does not mean that it is bad or
nproductive.
“Just because it is primitive and our farming is advanced
>es not mean that it will be easy for us (through assistance
•ograms) to improve the primitive system,” he said. “On
le contrary, the very stability and durability of the system
suggests that beneficial
changes will be difficult to in
troduce without serious risk
of upsetting the balance and
courting disaster.”
Harlan spent three months tour
ing certain areas in Africa, the
Near East and southern Asia in
1960. His convocation subject was
‘Agricultural Perspectives.”
The convocation is an event spon
sored by the Student Agricultural
Council in which a guest speaker
discusses some phase of agricultux-e
with the faculty, students and
guests.
Harlan said the famous Ameri
can “know-how” is largely con
fined to mechanization, marketing
and services.
“AMERICAN experience is gen-
DR. JACK R. HARLAN erall y inadequate and too irrele-
-fvant to cope with the problems of
subsistence agriculture,” he said.
The scientist suggested that ag
ricultural colleges can do a better
job of preparing foreign service
personnel by emphasizing such bas
ic sciences as botany and zoology.
Languages are important.
The humanities also need more
emphasis, he said.
“IN FACT, A liberal arts major
could probably learn agriculture
as readily as an agriculture major
could learn the liberal arts neces
sary to do a good job on a foreign
assignment,” the speaker pointed
out.
Harlan said a weakness of Amer
ican college training is that land
grant institutions have never
taught agriculture from a world
point of view.
“They have taught our own spe
cialized, limited and sophisticated
agriculture, but most of our grad
uates have never heard how most
of the people of the world do their
farming,” he said. '
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&M To Have
ven Attend
library Meet
T&M. will have' seven partici-
iiits at the 50th annual confer-
ite of the Texas Library Associ-
ion. The golden anniversary
eeting Thursday through Satur-
ly at Dallas has the theme, “Tex-
Libraries, 1980—The Challenge
the Future.”
Plans for the Cushing Memorial
iirary expansion program here
ill be part of a display of li-
aries under construction or being
larged.
Director Robert A. Houze and
iss Mayme Evans, documents li-
irian, will chair meetings. As
airman of the association’s leg-
iative committee, Houze will pre-
le at a joint meeting of the com-
iitee and the development group,
f also is chairman of the 19-
smber Council of Texas State
Aege Librarians.
Hiss Evans will preside at a
aeting of documents librarians.
Also attending from A&M will
i ilrs, Lynne Phillips, Mrs. Nan
irdwell, Mrs. Donna Stuart, Miss
hra May McFrancis and Mrs.
toothy Andrew.
Recently Selected
Edward J. Romieniec of
Columbia University has
been named head of the
Division of Architecture.
He will assume the position
this summer. Romieniec,
who taught here from 1956-
60, will replace T. R. Holle-
man.
Lecture Series
Slates German
Mathematician
One of the leading mathemati
cians in Gennany is on campus
Tuesday and will lecture on “Par
titions into Unequal Parts.” In
terested persons have been invited
to attend the Graduate Lecture at
8 p.m. in Room 146, Physics Build
ing.
Dr. Hans-Egon Richert of the
Mathematics Institute of the Uni
versity of Gottingen is visiting un-
cierfJshe auspices of the National
Se&nfe Foundation and as a guest
of the National Science Founda
tion’s Academic Year Institute for
Junior High School Teachers.
He is a native of Hamburg and
received degrees from the Univer
sity of Hamburg.
His special interest is number
theory, including such subjects as
prime numbers, evaluation of num
ber-theoretical functions and the
concept of density in the additive
theory of numbers.
Richert is a member of the
Deutsche Mathematiker - Vereinig-
ung and the American Mathemati
cal Society.
11 A&M Profs
Discuss Field
Of Agriculture
Eleven A&M faculty members
will be in Houston Wednesday to
outline the field of agriculture to
about 120 junior and high school
counselors.
The team will be made up of
three groups headed by Dr. A. B.
Wooten, associate professor in the
Department of Agricultural Eco
nomics and Sociology; Dr. Ruble
Langston, professor, Department
of Plant Sciences; and Dr. Ben
Camp, associate professor in the
Department of Biochemistry and
Nutrition.
Wooten will lead a discussion on
“What Is Modern Agriculture?;”
Langston, “What Are the Facili
ties Necessary for Preparing
Young Men and Women for Ca
reers in Agriculture?;” and Camp,
“What Are the Career Opportuni
ties in Agriculture?”
Other members of the group are:
Dr. Tyrus Timm, head of the
Department of Agricultural Eco
nomics and Sociology.
Dr. G. M. Watkins, director of
Agricultural Instruction. .
Dr. R. C. Potts, assistant direc
tor of Agricultural Instruction.
Dr. Richard Baldauf, associate
professor, Department of Wildlife
Management.
Dr. Page Morgan and Dr. R. S.
Halliwell, assistant professors, De
partment of Plant Sciences.
Dr. R. L. Skrabanek, professor
of rural sociology.
Dr. Ernest Smerdon, professor of
agricultural engineering.
Talks will be illustrated with
slides, charts, movies and demon
stration equipment.
The session is set for 8:30 a.m.
noon in the Testing Center Audi
torium, 1500 Louisiana, next to the
YMCA Building.
Reiser To Speak
At Lecture Series
“The Jewish Faith in Relation
to Scientific Discoveries” will be
discussed at 7 a.m. Wednesday
in another of the Faculty Christ
ian Fellowship programs in the
All Faiths Chapel. Dr. Raymond
Reiser of the Department of
Biochemistry and Nutrition will
be the speaker.
Coffee and doughnuts will be
served at the YMCA Building
following the program.
Tuesday, March 26, 1963
THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Page 3
Highway Engineers
Use Aerial Maps
The use of aerial maps as an
aid to geologists working with
highway engineers was cited here
Friday by a Texas Highway De
partment engineer Hubert A. Hen
ry of Austin was speaking to the
fourteenth annual Highway Geolo-
A&M Entomologist To Assist
In Study Of Biological Clocks
Fish frozen about 1,100 years
ago have been found in Antarc
tica’s Ross Ice Shelf. The spec
imens were in a remarkable state
of preservation.
An A&M entomologist, a Prince
ton University biology professor
and a University of Texas zoolo
gist are teaming up to tinker with
biological “clocks” in insects and
other animals.
They are A&M’s Dr. Perry Ad-
kisson, Princeton’s Dr. C. S. Pit-
tendrigh and the University of
Texas’ Dr. Michael Menaker.
A biological clock is a mysterious
mechanism in an insect that mea
sures length of day. It tells them
to come out in the spring when
days are getting longer and to begin
winter hibernation . when days
shorten at summer’s end.
THE CLOCKS set up time-de-
pendent rhythms. There are 24-
hour rhythms and 28-day lunar
rhythms, the latter influenced by
moon movements. Any plant or
animal sensitive to changes in day
length is said to be “photoperiodic.”
Pittendrigh says the clocks are
probably the same mechanisms that
enable birds and bees to navigate
and migrate.
His research has shown that a
fruit fly, an insect much used in
genetics studies, can tell the time
of day. By doing so, the fly
emerges from the pupal stage at
the most opportune time.
THE PRINCETON professor has
studied time measuring ability of
many animals, from one-cell or
ganisms to mice.
Adkisson is interested more in
the practical application of biolog
ical clocks in order to control such
crop-bothering insects as the pink
cotton bollworm.
Menaker, whose primary interest
lies in photoperiodism and dia
pause (hibernation), is conducting
research with the oriental fruit
moth.
Funeral Held
For Former
TABS Agent
Funeral services for George W.
Johnson, 77, were held Tuesday
morning at Hillier Funeral Home
chapel with the Rev. W. Morris
House, First Methodist Church, of
ficiating. He died Sunday night.
Johnson was born Jan. 13, 1886
in Panola County and was one' of
the first county agents in the Tex
as Agricultural Extension Service.
He resided at 2204 S. College Ave
nue in Bryan.
gy Symposium national confer
ence.
Approximately 75 highway engi
neers and geologists attended the
one-day meeting on campus. They
exchanged ideas on highway con
struction and maintenance.
‘ONE OF THE fastest growing
operations in the department” was
the description given by Henry to
the joint operation of the geology
and photogrammetry sections of
the hig-hway design office of the
Texas Highway Department.
Field work in geology remains
as important as ever despite the
increasing use of aerial photos,
Henry reported.
“We are only trying to elimi
nate some of the detail in field
work,” he said.
Another speaker warned that
paying insufficient attention to
geological factors in highway con
struction can lead to “engineering
disasters.” The warning came
from Adrian Pelzner of the U. S.
Bureau of Public Roads, Washing
ton, D. C.
THE SYMPOSIUM attracted
men from 14 states.
S. A. Lynch, head of the De
partment of Geology and Geo
physics, served as diairman of the
meeting.; ,
Visitors were welcbmed by Dean
of Engineering Fred J. Benson
and Henry, who spoke for the state
highway department.
The s/mposium was sponsored
by the Texas Transportation Insti
tute, the Depaftmer*t of Civil En
gineering and 1 -thfef^Department of
Geology and Geophysics, all of
A&M, the Texas Highway Depart
ment and the Texas Bureau of Eco
nomic Geology.
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inte our cms
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We went to the mountain to
make 1963 Ford-built cars
go 30,000 to 100,000
miles between major
chassis lubrications
Quite a task faced Ford Motor Company
engineers when they set out to eliminate the
traditional trip to the grease rack every
1,000 miles.
Like Mohammed, they went to the mountain—
Bartlett Mountain on the Continental Divide in
Colorado. More molybdenite is mined there
than in the rest of the world combined. And
from molybdenite ore comes the amazing
“moly” grease that helps extend the chassis
lubrication intervals for Ford-built cars. This
grease sticks tenaciously to metal, stands up
under extreme pressures and resists moisture,
pounding and squeezing, it is slicker than
skates on ice!
New, improved seals were developed. Bushings,
bearings and washers of many materials were
Investigated. Slippery synthetics, like nylon
and teflon, were used a number of new ways.
The search for means to extend chassis luba-;
cation also led to New Orleans—where
experimental suspension ball joints tested in
taxicabs in regular service went two years
without relubrication.
It took time. And ingenuity. But the effort paid
off when Ford-built cars were the first to build
in chassis lubrication good for 30,000 miles OF,
.two years—whichever came first.
Another assignment completed—another
“Ford First” and another example of how Ford
Motor Company provides engineering leader
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