THE BATTALION
Page 4 College Station, Texas Thursday, October 3, 1963
Biological Control
For Flies Studied
Science has moved a step closer
to biological control of houseflies
with the discovery that females
flies produce a chemical substance
that attracts males flies, says the
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
Entomologists have found that
the substance is highly specific m
its attraction, not attracting fe
male houseflies or flies of other
species. The Department says that
though more work is needed be
fore the attractant is practical, it
could be a preliminary step in de
veloping new ways to control this
insect pest.
The substance may be used to
lure flies into traps, to poison
baits, or to a chemical sterilant.
A prime advantage of attractants
is that any chemicals combined
with them do not come in contact
with people, crops, livestock, fish
or wildlife, the USD A explains.
Scientists of the USD A tested
the attractant with the use of a
device which did not allow the
male flies to see the females. Fe
males were also frozen so that
they made no sound and placed
in the device and the male flies
once again were attracted to them.
FFA Officers Aid
Training Program
For High Schools
A&M officers of the collegiate
chapter of the Future Farmers of
America went to Jacksboro, Sat
urday, for a Leadership Training
School.
Purpose of this school is to
develop leadership in high school
officers and give them an under
standing of their .duties. The col
legiate officers benefit because
they gain valuable experience in
supervising high school boys, a
group spokesman said.
Members of the collegiate chap
ter are Jim Panning, president;
Burell McKelvin, vice-president;
Weaver Calloway, sentinel; Charles
Urbanic, reporter; James Eng-
brock, secretary; Walter Presher,
treasure; and advisor, Ronnie Lew
is.
About 50 high school boys from
different F.F.A. chapters attended
the school.
From these tests researchers con
clude that the smell emitted by
the females was the attracting
force.
Future work on the project will
attempt to isolate, and chemically
identify the substance and learn
where it is produced in the female
fly’s body. By the use of such at
tractants USD A scientists hope to
be able to develop insect control
methods that are specific in their
action and thus lessen the danger
to beneficial forms of life.
Remodeling Is
MSC’s First
In 13 Years
The Memorial Student Center is
undergoing its first major renova
tion since the million dollar struc
ture was completed 13 years ago.
The MSC’s 66 guest rooms will
be repainted and redecorated
throughout with new drapes and
new lamps, J. Wayne Stark, MSC
director, announced. Some new
furniture will be added, and the
remaining furniture will be refin
ished.
The work is being done by
Evans and Monicle of Houston, an
interior decorator firm, at a cost
of $15,000.
Another $15,000 worth of re
vamping has begun in the bowling
and billiards department to pro
vide additional recreational facili
ties for students and faculty. New
drapes, spectator chairs, billiards’
tables and other features are be
ing added.
The renovation is part of a long-
range project of the MSC staff to
maintain modern facilities for stu
dents, campus visitors and resi
dents of the area.
Each of the guest rooms, hotel-
type living quarters, will receive
some new furniture, Stark pointed
out. Some of the current furni
ture has been refinished and
stained to a darker color.
The center, dedicated in memory
of the University’s former stu
dents who died in World Wars I
and II, was completed in 1950 and
officially dedicated in April 1951.
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Champagne Party Gave Her Travel Headache
Dianne MacKeown, 26, a Pittsburgh, Pa., artist walks with
customs official on arriving in Southampton, England, from
New York aboard liner Queen Elizabeth, a voyage she
blames on a champagne farewell party. Miss MacKeown
said she had gone aboard the liner with other people to bid
farewell to a friend who was traveling to Cherbourg,
France. “We all went to a champagne party,” she said.
“We were all tired from being up the night before and
flaked out and went to sleep.” British immigration officials
refused her permission to land. (AP Wirephoto)
3 Extension Workers, Profs
To Serve As Fair Officials
Three university professors and
extension husbandrymen will leave
Friday for Dallas to serve as of
ficials in the State Fair Livestock
Show.
Dr. Knebel Returns
From Conference
Dr. Earl Knebel, head of the
Agricultural Education Depart
ment, returned Friday from Ok
lahoma State University where
he attended the National Confer
ence on Problems of Rural Youth
in a Changing Environment.
Winthrop Rockefeller was the
chairman for the conference
which was attended by delegates
from every state except Alaska.
Knebel was on the committee
discussing “New Dimensions of
Vocational Education for Rural
Youth.” Topics emphasized by
the committee were the aware
ness of the President as well as
Congress of the fact that voca
tional education is needed to re
duce the unemployment, and the
support of a bill in . Congress
which would grant vocational
education an additional $2 mil
lion.
A. M. Meekma, extension dairy
husbandman, will serve as super
intendent of the open division of
the dairy show. Dr. O. M. Holt
of the Department of Agricultural
Education will be assistant super
intendent of the same division at
the fair. T. D. Tanksley Jr., ex
tension animal husbandman, will
head the open division of the swine
show.
Space Technology
Fellowships Here
Notice of the Space Technology
Laboratories Inc., doctoral and
post-doctoral fellowships program
for 1964-65 has been received by
Graduate College Dean Wayne C.
Hall. The program is open to ex
ceptionally competent students
who will have completed at least
one year of advanced studies in
engineering or the physical scienc
es by the end of this academic
year.
The fellowships are tenable at
the California Institute of Tech
nology or the Massachusetts In
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NOTICE!
MIXED BOWLING LEAGUES
BEING FORMED FOR
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Call VI 6-8721, Ext. 24, or come by
Games Area Desk for reservations.
FIRST MEETING FRIDAY NIGHT,
OCTOBER 4, GAMES AREA, M.S.C.
Fruit Thinning Material
Described As Promising
Two chemical fruit thinning ma
terials were described here Wed
nesday which have shown promise
in the Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station tests.
The chemicals were discussed by
George Madden, graduate horticul-
Sporting Club
Holds Meet;
Talks Featured
The A&M Game and Fish Club
held its first meeting of the current
semester recently in the main lect
ure room of the Agricultural Engi
neering Building.
Talks on wildlife conservation
were given. Dr. W. B. Davis, head
of the Dept, of Wildlife Manage
ment, spoke on opportunities for
students in the wildlife field. Stu
dents who worked for various con
servation agencies during the sum
mer gave short talks on their ex
periences.
Although membership in the club
consists primarily of wildlife
management majors, all interested
persons have been invited to at
tend.
The purpose of the club is to
broaden the student’s understand
ing of the wildlife management
field by presenting qualified speak
ers in the field.
ture student and a speaker at the
11th annual Peach and Plum
Growers Conference, held in the
Memorial Student Center.
The goal of chemical fruit thin
ning is to cut costs of an opera
tion ordinarily done by hand.
Madden said one of the chemi
cals, maleic hydrazide, has been
tested for the past two years.
Spraying at a rate of 1,000 parts
per million, researchers achieved
thinning 10 days after calyx or
shuck-split.
This year, tests were conducted
at the Montague and Stephenville
stations on Ranger and Red Globe
peaches. Thinning was obtained at
Baldauf 9 s Report
Used For Textbook
A paper by Dr. Richard J.
Baldauf of A&M University has
been accepted as part of a text
book for gifted high school biology
students. Dr. Baldauf is an associ
ate professor of wildlife manage
ment.
Published by the American Insti
tute of Biological Science, the two
papex’back editions contain assign
ments for advanced biology stu
dents. The books contain papers
from 80 scientists over the United
States.
an average dosage of 1,000 part
per million 7, 10 and 13 days afte
calyx-split. Of these three date
seven days after calyx-split %
found best for Rangers.
THE OTHER chemical, diet;:
was tried at 1,000 parts per at
lion at Montague 7, 10 and 13 dap
after calyx split. Even thdiif
trees were over-thinned in eveti
case, there was no adverse effe
to the fruit remaining on the te
Madden said. Since this compotn.
shows such promise it will be m.
at lower concentrations in 1964,
The horticulturist emphasize
that much research remains toll
done before these or other diet,
cals can be approved for uselij
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farmers. But he does believe I
thinning method will become i
reality for peach orchards.
He said chemical thinning (
commercial apple orchards Is
been in practice for about 16 years
HAND THINNING of peach®,
chards costs the producer from j?
to $100 an acre, Madden poiife
out. Chemical treatment, whenii
veloped, could cut that cost tit 1
siderably.
The two-day conference, wil
ended Wednesday, was sponsoE| Artillery fire
by the Department of Soil ai bu j ation of the <
Crop Sciences in co-operation
Old
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— — r- -g) n campus.
the Texas Peach and Plum Gror| porded many dis .
ers Association.
AOSTA, Italy <d?> — They’re
making it easy now to get to the
top of 15,781-foot Mont Blanc,
highest peak in the Alps. There
is a landing field for helicopters
1,300 feet from the top. From
there guides lead tourist up rela
tively easy, snow covered slopes
to reach the summit in a two-hour
walk.
more startling tl
men sighted thei
thick brick walls
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expect to complete their degree red, j • »
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deadline date for filing applications™
October 21, 1963.
January graduates may begin on
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