Agronomists Study
Functions Of Clay
The Department of Agronomy
is using infrared libht rays to
study the still-mysterious function
of clays in soils.
The light used in this research
is the same kind produced by
household suntan lamps sold in
drug and department stores. But
that is about the only similarity.
Appearance-wise, the infrared
instrument looks like anything but
a suntan lamp. It is encased in
gray metal and has an assortment
of knobs and switches. In short,
the machine doesn’t look much
different from other electrical
equipment found in modern labor
atories.
THE INSTRUMENT, known as
a spectrophotometer, is being used
by Dr. George Kunze, agronomy
Food Preservation
To Be Emphasized
By Technologists
New ways of food preservation
will be emphasized here when the
Texas Section of the Institute of
Food Technologists holds its fifth
annual meeting March 20-21 at the
Ramada Inn.
Dr. Fred Gardner of the Depart
ment of Poultry Science, program
chairman, said the session opens
at 1:30 p.m. March 20 with a talk
on “Principles of Food Dehydra
tion.” J. J. Wingenbach of the
American Sterilizer Company at
Erie, Penn., is the speaker.
Another member of the sterilizer
firm, Morton M. Raymond, will dis
cuss “Applications of Food De
hydration.”
The last speaker of the after
noon is Richardo Arrendondo of
the United Fruit and Food Corpor
ation at San Carlos. His subject
is “Commercial Consideration of
Food Drying and Food Preserva
tion.”
Gardner said a meeting high
light will be a 6:30 p.m. dinner
talk by a A&M scientist who work
ed with Russian scientists aboard a
ship. He is Dr. Guy Frances-
chini of the Department of Oceano
graphy and Meteorology.
March 21 discussions start with
“Principles of Irradiation” by Dr.
G. M. Krise of the Department of
Biology. Next are “Nutritive
Value of Foods Sterilized with
Gamma Radiation,” Dr. L. R. Ri
chardson, A&M Agricultural Ana
lytical Service; and “Enzymatic
Approach to Fish Processing” by
Dr. W. W. Meinke of the A&M
Chemurgic Research Laboratory.
Gardner said the public has been
invited to hear the discussions.
High School Choir,
Talent Due Tonite
High school talent will be ex
hibited at the A&M Consolidated
High School auditorium Thursday
night when a talent show and a
choir concert will be held.
Co-sponsored by the Bengal
Belles and the A&M Consolidated
Speech Department, the talent
show gets underway at 7 p.m.
At 8:15 p.m. the Killen High
Concert Choir will perform. The
group, participating in its fourth
annual tour of the state, will be
making its first appearance at the
local high school.
Directed by Don Pugh, the chor
al unit has been a consistent first
division winner in University In
terscholastic League contests for
several years.
The 40-student organization will
be making stops at Huntsville,
Conroe and Houston before con
cluding their present tour.
The A&M Consolidated Concert
Choir is sponsoring the Killeen
singers who have performed with
the San Antonio symphony and the
North Texas State University
symphony.
No admission will be charged to
the concert.
professor whose special research
field is soil mineralogy and chemi
stry.
Kunze says there is still much
to be learned about clays in soil.
“We are kind of like a doctor
who knows his patient is sick but
frequently can’t pin down the
specific bug causing the ailment,”
he explained.
The agronomist has been work
ing for a number of years with
X-ray diffraction of clays, an
identification system based on the
distance between planes of atoms
in clay. With the spectrophoto
meter, he now can look at clays
from another angle and study the
energy of bonds between the atoms.
To use the instrument, Kunze
places a clay sample behind a little
glass window, throws a switch,
turns a knob or two, and the spec
trophotometer hums into action.
Various infraed light beam fre
quencies are directed at the sample
until one of the frequencies is ab
sorbed. When this happens, the
vibration frequency of the bond
between the clay atoms is equal
to that of the light.
All this is automatically recorded
on graph paper by the machine.
City Lawmen
To Assemble
Here Monday
Lawmen from approximately 25
Texas towns will be on campus next
Monday through Friday for the
second annual Justice of Peace
and Constable’s Institute, Wallace
D. Beasley, coordinator of police
training here, reported.
Conference speakers include at
torneys and law enforcement offi
cials, who will discuss subjects re
lating to the justice court.
Registration will begin at 8:30
a.m. Monday, followed by Beasley’s
talk on the institute’s objectives.
The Texas Law Enforcement
Foundation and Texas Association
of Justice of Peace and Constables
cooperate with A&M in holding
the institute.
FIRST KEY SPEAKERS will be
Norman A. Stewart, attorney and
associate professor of business ad
ministration at A&M. His talk is
entitled, “The Rights of the Ac
cused from the Prosecutor's View
point.”
David B. Gofer, Bryan attorney,
will discuss the accused’s rights
from the prosecutor’s viewpoint
Monday.
Albert L. Lee of Humble, justice
of peace, will outline the need for
suitable courtroom facilities. D. C.
Betts, supervisor of A&M’s Poly
graph Examiners School, will dis
cuss law enforcement, including lie
detector use.
OTHER SPEAKERS will be W.
B. Groce of Bryan, Texas Liquor
Control Board agent; Lonny F.
Zwiener of Austin, assistant attor
ney general; Robert S. Evans of
San Antonio, Parks and Wildlife
Department conservation chief;
W. C. Davis of Bryan, Brazos
County judge.
Japan Air Base
Sent Stuffed Bat
A&M University’s wildlife man
agement people recently filled a
far-away request for “a stuffed
bat.”
Airmen stationed at an U. S. Air
Force Base in Japan, after reading
an article in the Stars and Stripes
military newspaper that A&M had
undertaken a long range study
of bats, decided A&M would be a
good source for a mascot.
They contacted Capt. Lester R.
Hewett Jr., of the university De
partment of Air Science who, in
turn, relayed the plea to wildlife
management.
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Ultrasonics Used
To Measure Beef
SOUNDING OUT A LIVE BEEF STEAK
L. D. Wythe Jr., left, and USDA official, Dr. Robert Temple, operate Somascope.
Christian Citizenship Series Set Monday
The A&M Baptist Student Un
ion will sponsor a “Contemporary
Campus Christian” program Mon
day through Wednesday at 7 p.m.
in the First Baptist Church of
College Station.
Dr. William Pinson, professor of
Christian ethics at Southwestern
Baptist Theological Seminary in
Fort Worth, will speak Monday on
“Contemporary Campus Christian:
American Citizen.”
Tuesday night’s topic is “Con
temporary Campus Christian:
World Citizen.” William Lawson,
coordinator of religious activities
at Texas Southern University and
pastor of Wheeler Street Baptist
Church in Houston, will speak the
second night.
Dr. Ralph Langley, pastor of
Willow Meadows Baptist Church
in Houston, is slated for Wednes
day’s talk.
The progressive beef cattleman
of the future might be using the
science of ultrasonics to help breed
meatiness into his animals.
Ultrasonics is the scientist’s
name for high frequency sound, the
kind that can’t be heard by human
ears. Ships and submarines use
the principle to bounce sound off
of distant objects for detection
on sonar scopes.
And now researchers have de
veloped an ultrasonic system to
bounce high frequency sound off
layers of fat and muscle to meas
ure how much meat a breeding
animal has under that layer of
hide.
MEATINESS is about 50 per
cent heritable in beef cattle, so
it’s easy to see that a method of
quickly determining the character
istic would be a valuable tool in a
breeding program.
Dr. Robert S. Temple of Knox
ville, Tenn., investigation leader
for the U. S. Department of Agri
culture’s Southern Regional Beef
Cattle Breeding Project, has just
finished demonstrating the sys
tem at A&M.
The device is called a Soma
scope. Temple says the beauty of
using ultrasonic is that a measure
ment can be made of meatiness
just as the live animal stands there
in a holding chute. Only a few
minutes per animal are required.
Before, the only way to deter
mine actual meatiness was to
slaughter the animal and take
measurements on the important
cuts.
“And that kind of wear and tear
is hard on breeding animals,” Tem
ple pointed out.
THE USDA OFFICIAL says the
Somascope is most often to sound
out the ribeye muscle and the fat
around it, but the round and other
meat and fat areas also can be
tested. The ribeye is the main part
of a T-bone steak.
The Somascope looks much the
same as other complex electrical
apparatus often found in science
laboratories. There is the usual
array of vacuum tubes, lights,
dials, buttons and toggle switches.
The whole thing can be placed
on a card table.
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