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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.
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Temperamental isn’t the word
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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,
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