loute 3 Research
lesults Released
lesearch data on the Texas City
erchange on Route 3 from
aston to Galveston has been re-
sed by Texas Transportation
titute researchers at A&M Uni-
sity in the form of a publica-
entitled, “Lighting Studies at
Has City Wye."
The researchers said results of
lighting study will be of in-
est to motorists who travel
ate 3 which connects Houston
1 Galveston.
The Texas City Interchange on
ate 3 was experimentally light-
with several arrangements of
irhead luminairies so that many
nbinations of spacing and
lunting heights could be em-
yed. The visual effects of var-
combinations of lights from
of the approach directions are
icussed in the publication availa-
through the Institute or the
blications office of the Texas
ig'ineering Experiment Station.
The study considered the potent-
areas of conflict for a driver
len approaching and passing
■ough the intersection from eith-
of two directions—from Texas
ty or from Galveston. Evalua-
n of the approaches from Gal-
ston and Texas City were made
mg the continuous, intermediate
d minimum spacings of lumi-
ires on 30-to-45-foot mounting
ights in clear, dry weather.
At each location and for each
;hting condition data were taken
the horizontal and vertical
adway illumination distribution,
the roadway brightness of at least
five targets and their background
at various locations, relative vi
sibility of at least five targets,
transition brightnesses of the
roadway for several hundred feet
ahead, roadway reflectance charac
teristics, and other elements of
visual guidance that were present.
Data for each lighting arrange
ment were considered on the bases
of adequacy of the brightness pat
tern to reveal objects, and develop
guidance information, variation in
relative visibility within the cen
tral field of view, transition of
brightness patterns from one zone
to another, glare effect of the
luminaires, and magnitude of the
driver’s eye adaption and its rate
of change.
FUTURE PILOT GETS INDOCTRINATED
Marine, Naval Air Team
Offer Flight Programs
Aggies Receive
urf Scholarships
One $400 and two $300 scholar-
lips were given at the Texas
lirf Grass Conference held here
st week.
Allan Luymes, plant and soil
:ience major from Sioux Falls,
D., received the $400 scholar-
iip, Robert Heine, agronomy
lajor of Throndale, and David
yers, agronomy major of Hal-
tsville received the $300 awards,
it since both will graduate in
muary, each will receive only
150, said Dr. E. C. Holt, profes-
>r of agronomy.
Requirements for the $400
iholarship from Golf Courts
uperintendents Association o f
merica and the two scholarships
rom Texas Turf Grass A ssociation
re the same.
Special trained Marine and Na
val teams from New Orleans and
Dallas Naval Air Stations are
presently on Campus through Fri
day in the Memorial Student Cen
ter to present information about
flight programs to interested stu
dents.
Actual qualifying tests are be
ing offered to interested freshmen,
sophomores, juniors and seniors.
The tests may be taken without
obligation.
History Prof Finds
ConfederateReport
A Confederate report discovered
by Dr. Allan C. Ashcraft, assistant
professor of history at A&M Uni
versity, appears in the Autumn is
sue of “The Chronicles of Okla
homa." The report entitled “Con
federate Indian Department Con
ditions in 1864” reveals conditions
among the Choctaw and Chickasaw
Indians during the Civil War.
The report is that of Col. R. W.
Lee, assistant superintendent of
Indians affairs of the Confederacy.
Ashcraft’s interest in the Trans-
Mississippi Department of the
Confederacy led to his discovery of
Lee’s unpublished report, which is
to be followed in subsequent issues
of the Chronicles by other related
documents prepared under Ash
craft’s editorship.
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The navy is offering four dif
ferent programs of flight training,
leading to commissioned rank and
designation as a navy pilot or a
naval aviation observer. 20/2C0 vi
sion will qualify for two of the
programs.
“AOC”, aviation officer cadet
program, offers the qualifying col
lege graduate, married or single,
the chance to receive a commission
after completion of basic flight
training. Following completion of
the flight training the AOC will
receive his wings.
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enables a student who has com
pleted a minimum of 60 semester
hours to enroll as a Naval Avia
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training program and commission
ing.
“NAOC”, is a non-pilot training
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Aggies, Owls Tie
For 5th In Debate
Two debate teams representing
A&M University won six out of
14 sessions to give the Aggie de
baters a tie for fifth place with
Rice University in the Southwest
Conference Debate Tournament in
Dallas over the weekend.
The Aggie team of Robert Den
ney and Paul Humphries, debating
the affirmative, won four of their
seven debates.
Simeon Lake and Sam Henry Jr.,
taking the negative argument, won
two of their seven debates, John
F. Carson, debate coach and an
A&M English instructor, said.
Baylor University won the tour
nament championship.
Competing were the eight col
leges and universities in the South
west Conference.
“OCAN” is a cadet type of pro
gram working toward the “NAOC"
program. Single students with
20/200 vision or better can qualify.
“NAVCAD” and “OCAN" may
apply after 45 semester hours,
“NAOC” and “AOC” require 90
hours to apply.
Age limits are 18-25 for “NAV
CAD” and “OCAN”, 19-26 for
“AOC”, and 19 to 27Va for “NA
OC”. Veterans ages may be ad
justed up to 36 months for “OC
AN” and “NAOC.”
The Marine Corps aviation pro
grams may be inquired about at
the Marine booth in the MSC.
Kroiter Announces
A&M Bowl Team
Given Medallions
The four members of the A&M
College Bowl team will receive
medallions for their participation
on the General Electric College
Bowl.
Dr. Harry P. Kroiter, associate
professor of English and team
coach, said that the medallions
will be given to Lawrence Kel-
minson, Bobby L. Limmer, John
A. Schmidt and Calvin C. Simper.
There will be no formal presenta
tion, Kroiter said.
The $500 scholarship fund A&M
received for sending a team to the
College Bowl, Kroiter said, has
been deposited under the name of
the General Electric Company
Award, and will be dispersed by
Dr. Frank W. R. Hubert, dean of
the College of Arts and Sciences.
Anderson Writes
Magazine Article
Dr. John Q. Anderson, head of
the A&M University Department
of English, is author of an article
appearing in the latest issue of
“American Literature.”
Title of the article is “Lowell’s
‘The Washers of the Shroud’ and
the Celtic Legend of the Washer
of the Ford.”
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Conference Pred icts Longer
Life Expectancy For Man
“If scientists can find a cure for
old age, some of you may live to
be 400 or 500 years old,” a dis
tinguished professor of chemistry
told 90 delegates to the Collegiate
Research Conference here Monday.
Dr. Frederick R. Duke, a mem
ber of the chemistry faculty and
conference keynote speaker, also
predicted that scientists in the fu
ture will be able to “take some
thing not living and make some
thing living.”
“Now this may appear sacrile
gious to some," Duke commented
and then referred to man’s devel
opment in scientific fields. “Some
say if God wanted man to have
wheels, He would have made him
that way.”
Duke reported that 90 per cent
of all scientists who ever lived are
still alive today, emphasizing the
growth and youth of science.
“THE CHEMISTRY LITERA
TURE that has been published in
Bound Proceedings
Of Texas Industry
Confab Available
Bound copies of the Proceedings
of the Thirteenth Annual Texas
Industrial Development Confer
ence Sept. 26-27 on campus are
now available through the Texas
Engineering Experiment Station.
The conference, which drew top
Texas industrialists and business
men, was sponsored by the In
dustrial Economics Research Di
vision of the Texas Engineering
Experiment Station and was co
sponsored by the Texas Industrial
Development Council.
Included in the 120-page publi
cation are reprints of the speeches
presented during the conference by
Texas economists, industrialists,
and businessmen.
Also appearing in the publica
tion are remarks by J. R. Bradley,
head of the Industrial Economics
Research Division, Texas Engi
neering Experiment Station; Earl
Rudder, president of A&M Uni
versity; Raymond W. Hedges,
executive vice president, Odessa
Chamber of Commerce, Odessa,
and Thomas W. Finney, vice presi
dent of industrial development,
First National Bank, Dallas.
the last 10 years exceeds all pre
viously published literature in
chemistry,” the speaker noted.
Duke, at the same time, predict
ed that developments in science
will begin to level off.
“I’m afraid you are going to be
disappointed,” he said, “if you ex
pect this high rate of progress will
continue at the same rapid pace.
It’s getting harder to make big
discoveries, although there is plen
ty left to do.”
ANOTHER FACTOR that will
contribute to the leveling off pe
riod in science will be the lack of
engineers, Duke commented.
“There is a greater lag between
the discovery and application to
day,” the chemistry professor said,
“because the engineers have some
thing else to do.”
Duke said each student “must
develop his talents to the fullest
potential” and referred to the
needs of industry for persons with
advanced degrees.
“THERE IS PLENTY of oppor
tunity in this state and this na
tion," he added, “for those with
graduate degrees.”
The two-day conference is spon
sored by the Texas Academy of
Sciences to encourage science
scholars to enter graduate studies
once they complete their under
graduate work.
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