Page 4 College Station, Texas Thursday, July 30, 1964 THE BATTALION Living Memorial Growing Fast For 1886 Graduate Helge Ness who graduated from A&M College in 1886 and as a botanist spent the rest of his life here until he died more than 30 years ago, has his own living memorials. The “Ness Oaks” are exceptionally fast growing. Ness was a pioneer in forest tree breeding and so far as is known he was the first in Ameri ca and among the first in the world to produce controlled hy brids between species of forest trees. He also was a colorful charac ter as recalled by friends and in dicated by correspondence files. “One of the grand old men of Texas A&M” is Ernest Langford’s description of Ness. Langford, now the university archivist but for many years head of archi tectural instruction, resided next door to the Nesses before the botanist died Dec. 30, 1928. “The hybrid vigor of the Ness Oak is extremely outstanding,” Professor Homer T. Blackhurst said of the strain. A memorial plaque honoring the memory of Ness was mounted in 1961 on one of the two Ness oaks Student Slates Colorado Meet Billy Richardson, A&M Univer sity graduate student, will present results of his research at the Amer ican Institute of Biological Scienc es meeting in Boulder, Colo., Aug. 23-28. The Channelview resident has been studying the effects of ioniz ing radiation on seed germination. Richardson examined the influ ence of light on the germination of nine ornamental plants used for decorative purposes and two let tuce varieties. “Most seeds are light sensitive to some extent,” Richardson com mented. He found that some plants grew faster once irradiated while other varieties had opposite responses. “Generally speaking, red-filtered light greatly promoted germina tion compared to dark-germination seeds, and near infra-red light greatly reduced germination,” Richardson explained. The gamma-irradiation was ac complished by exposing the seeds to a Cobalt 60 source, housed at the A&M Nuclear Science Center. A Robert E. Lee High School (Baytown) graduate, Richardson received his bachelor’s degree in floriculture and worked as a tech nician in the Department of Flori culture until he entered military service in 1959. He received his master’s degree in January. His research with seed germination was used to fulfill partial requirements toward his ad vanced degree. Richardson cur rently is working toward a doc torate in plant sciences. ARE ALL GREAT CHEFS TEMPERAMENTAL? We can’t really say if they’re all temperamental... but we know about the chef at Ramada Inn! His disposition is so miserable ... his voice so loud and abusive — if his food wasn't so spectacular he’d be out of work tomorrow! Temperamental isn’t the word for him. But the way he pre pares a steak! Easily angered? Salads like you've dreamed of! Mean and sassy? Well, we didn't hire him because he was a nice guy; MONDAY THRU FRIDAY Businessmens’ Lunch .75 up EVERY SUNDAY Buffet $2.00 For Evening Dining Try Our Delicious Steaks In The Beefeaters Room RAMADA ‘stay J h s&ss* in front of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station building. Three other trees are just east of the Kyle Field stands. Hybridization of crossing plants or trees provides vigor, faster growth and that is just what the Ness oaks have done. Blackhurst said “in diameter 5 Dates Set For Required National GRE A&M University again will be a testing center for the national Graduate Record Examinations re quired of applicants for admission to many A m e r ic a n graduate schools, S. A. Kerley announced as director of the campus Counseling and Testing Center. “Texas A&M also participates in the institutional testing program of the Educational Testing Service and graduating seniors will take the tests on da t e s to be an nounced,” he said. The national test dates for 1964- 65 are Nov. 21, Jan. 16, March 6, April 24 and July 10. More than 80,000 persons took Graduate Record Examinations last year, the Educational Testing Serv ice announced from its headquar ters at Princeton, N. J. For the first time this fall an Advanced Business Test, designed for candidates who have majored in business administration at the undergraduate level, will be of fered, Kerley said. Candidates are permitted to take both the Aptitude Test and one Advanced Test on any nationwide testing date. they are greater than the parent tree was, judging from pictures taken years ago.” Dr. Blackhurst said the Ness strain has grown twice as rapidly as other oaks. An overcup oak and a live oak were crossed in 1909 and 1910 by Ness to produce his hybrid trees. Professor Fred R. Brison who retired recently recalled at the plaque ceremony in 1961 that Ness had said “The speed of growth of the oak is slow and before the hybridizer can really judge of the success of his work, life is gone. . . . He is workilng for another generation.” This very slowness of growth has discouraged work in hybridi zing forest trees, although more attention now is being paid the subject, Blackhurst said. Ness also labored in other ways for future generations of Texans. He worked extensively at improv ing berries and developed the Ness berry by crossing the wild Lou isiana dewberry and the raspber ry. In turn the Ness berry stock was used in developing the Brazos blackberry which is finding wide acceptance. Brison recalled earlier how a group of A&M students on an agronomy field trip invaded a ber ry patch Ness had developed in that work. The class was caught redhanded by Ness. “He excoriated with great relish and mounting enthusiasm the en tire class (the instructor included) in all the seven languages at his fluent command,” Brison recalled. “His general theme was that Texas was on the verge of becoming a land of berries, but our unfortu nate excursion had reduced that possibility to naught.” Cardboard Usam e Expanded TbRoojH James H. Marsh, III, is an as sociated professor of architecture who mixes research with a regular diet of teaching. His best-known work involves thin-shell construction, using a “spider webb” of steel rods, sprung into position and sprayed with con crete. Once the concrete hardens, the structure is permanent. One of the New York World’s fair buildings was constructed on the Marsh theory. The professor’s latest project al so involves a thin-shell facility, NEW CONSTRUCTION . . . Miss Joan Hager, right and Mrs. Linda Kelley test a structure of cardboard. but instead of using steel, Marsh is experimenting with plain card board. “A sheet of paper is flexible,” Marsh commented, bending a piece of paper. “But if we fold the paper like bellows, the paper develops a longitudinal strength.” The corrugated cardboard used is thin, but the inner portion is Geological Oceanographers Puzzled Over ‘Light Rock’ wrinkled to give it strength. Working with Marsh is Rosck (Rocky) P. Thorpe, a U.S, (it artm Force captain back at A&M font « vanced studies. Their finished product is a ion. ble curved roof, which would 1* ideal for outdoor covering for patio, for instance. It consists d many strips of cardboard, witli waterproof coating applied to tfe entire surface. i . Marsh and Thorpe estimate tli total cost of materials for fe ion a \nnui ferem oeing Ma. on res Natio The < eight foot squdre roof section!; f Bor , 11 less than $5. The structural applications i roofs constructed with corrugate cardboard could be applied to at most any buildiftg type, Marsha plained. “But most likely would be c* fined to residences, schools or shti ters,” he added. “Strength, weigh cost and ease of handling are fsrP” 0 ^’ tors that make the material Dr. portant. sistan A&M University geological oceanographers have a puzzling bit of evidence brought up from the bottom where the Gulf of Mexico is almost 12,000 feet deep. The evidence is in the form of whitish “light rock” or concretion found in clay deposited a million years ago. This makes it some of the oldest sediment recovered from the bottom of the Sigsbee Deep, deepest part of the Gulf. The bits of “light rock” and clay material recovered in one of the 40-foot cores or samples brought up from the Sigsbee Deep leads to geologically exciting questions about the shaping of the Gulf of Mexico. One interpretation is that it has been a large basin for much longer than some specialists now believe. Other cores taken within half a mile of where we found this concretion contains clays and the other materials found on the bot tom throughout the Sigsbee Deep,” Bill Bryant said. The A&M as sistant professor headed the sci entific party on a recent cruise when the Research Vessel Alaminos sailed from Galveston to the south western Gulf and took the deep Identifying the concretions has proven interesting. Geologists here and in a major oil company labora tory at Houston attempted to identify a sample by X-ray dif fraction. High-powered microscopic study of the concretion and clay re vealed the fossilized remains of creatures which became extinct about a million years ago. Thus the dating. A&M geological oceanographers hope to sail early next year on another cruise and take more cores from the Sigsbee Deep. How strong is the roof? ‘We test loaded it with weigh Fea fereiK greater than that of man,” Mari! * on > 5 commented. “It’s strong.” The interior makeup of the mi includes many strips of cardboari and a honey-comb type core con structed of strips of corrugatei cardboard about IVk-inches deep, Thorpe is continuing the re search to develop cardboard stro tures of different shapes. Thomas To Join Faculty In Sept. nd r atiori direct h ai Educs Hoi Dr. Richard E. Thomas, a spe cialist in mechanics of supersoniil, spaceflight, will join the Ai)!| 6 University Department of Aertel Dr. space Engineering Sept. 1 as aiF&M associate professor. The appointment of Thomas was llaces lays announced by A. E. Cronk, headoi pate ‘ aerospace engineering at A&M, DELICATELY FLAVORED SMOKED HAM Whole or FULL Shank Half. Fully Cooked. 12 to 16-Lb. Avg. 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