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Four staff members of the De-
rartment of Agricultural Educa-
;ion are participating in the 13th
knnual Southern Regional Con
ference in Agricultural Education
being held at Texas Tech.
Major emphasis will be placed
pn research pertaining to the 1963
National Vocational Education Act.
The conference will run through
Friday.
Dr. Earl Webb, associate Profes
sor in the A&M Department of
Agricultural Education, and T. L.
jeach, head of Texas Tech’s De-
jartment of Agricultural, will
ierve as conference co-chairman.
)r. Earl H. Knebel, head of A&M’s
Department of Agricultural Edu-
:ation will serve as general chair-
nan of the second general session.
Dthers attending will be Billy F.
g gre fjHrick, assistant professor and Bill
terial i B P ac ' tson < graduate teaching as-
Ksistant.
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THE BATTALION
Thursday, July 30, 1964
College Sttation, Texas
Page 5
Automatic Lawn Sprinkler
Saves Time, Effort, Cash
Consider the poor fellow armed
with water hoses and sprinklers,
preparing to quench the thirst of
his parched lawn.
Then there’s the other fellow
who simply turns a valve, which
sends water through underground
pipes in order to satisfy the lawn’s
thirst.
But Theodore (Ted) A. Noyes
really has the time-consuming
chore all figured out. The water
sprinkling decision is made by an
electronic gadget he designed.
Noyes, a mechanical engineering
professor at A&M University, de-
Trio Of Beauties
Miss Texas of 1965, Sharon McCauley of their trophies at the climax of the Miss
Athens, center, and her runners-up, Lenda Texas Pageant held in Fort Worth Satur-
Lee Varley of Fort Worth, left, and Marilyn day. (AP Wirephoto)
Kay Lewis of Arlington, right, pose with
$3,000 Granted
By Union Carbide
A gift of $3,000 from the Union
Carbide Educational Fund for
scholarships and grants has been
received by A&M University R.
M. Logan, director of student aid,
announced.
The gift underwrites four $500
scholarships for the Union Car
bide Engineering Scholars and
$1,000 for the Fund Improvement
of Teaching.
cided to enroll at the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology two
summers ago.
One major problem was what to
do with the plush lawn he had
spent years cultivating. The pro
fessor hired a high school lad to
carry the water hoses and to mow
the lawn.
Before the next summer arrived,
Noyes felt he could save money by
installing his own system. That’s
what he did, but one problem still
remained: how to turn the under
ground sprinkler system on from
Massachusetts ?
Noyes decided the thing had to
be completely automatic.
Now, at exactly 10 :30 each night,
a collection of mechanical gadgets
makes the decision whether to
water or not, while Noyes is sleep
ing.
Here briefly is how the system
was designed.
Noyes purchased valves and
sprinkler heads, the only materials
he had to buy.
He took the guts from an old
clock and fastened the gears to a
long cylinder-shaped, hollow pipe.
An extra gear in the mechanism
resulted in one complete revolution
of the drum for each 24 hours.
A piece of brass screen, buried
about two inches down, serves as
the moisture sensor. Eight valves
feed water to different areas of his
lot.
At 10:30, the mechanical brain
comes on, Noyes explained.
“It first determines if the soil
is wet or dry,” the professor added.
“If the soil is wet, an electrical
current flows and switches off a
circuit to the sprinklers.”
“If the soil is dry, current reach
es the solenoid valves in a timed
sequence to begin the watering.
Each watering circuit is individual
ly timed to ration water needs, de
pending upon the area of the lot.”
This operation is repeated every
24 hours while the Noyes family
snoozes on.
The A&M mechanical engineer
said the unit has reduced his water
bill over 50 percent. The entire
system, minus his own labor, only
cost $300.
One problem still plagues Noyes,
however—mowing the lawn.
History Prof Challenges
umber Defending Alamo
is, a sf«| jj qw man y men djgd defending
superset|h e Alamo?
the AM
of Aen-I Dr. Thomas L. Miller of the
1 as University history faculty
llaces the total at 175 men but
says further research may elimi-
k, headof la ^ e “ a ^ ew more names from my
A&M,
ist.” He has strong doubts about
t'perhaps half a dozen men” on his
ist but lacks sufficient proof they
were not at the Alamo.
Earlier studies have placed the
total at 183 or 187 defenders.
“It was but a small affair,” Gen
eral Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
aid that sunshiny morning after
he grim fight ended with the Ala
mo defenders dead. Mexican losses
ptaled some 600 killed and wound-
fed,
I Mexican reports concerning the
(Humber of Alamo defenders vary.
Dne account places the total at
183.
Miller’s interest in the roll of
men and boys who fought for Tex
as in 1835-36 dates to his doctoral
fetudies under the late Dr. Walter
Prescott Webb of the University
of Texas.
Land grants were awarded to all
who fought for Texas, or to their
survivors, and Miller found de
tailed particulars of each man’s
military service in the General
Land Office files. The professor
spent days poring over the records
written in ink now faded with age.
In 1956 Miller completed his two-
volume doctoral dissertation,
“Bounty Land Grants of Texas,
1835-1888,” and then began study
ing records of the so-called Dona
tion Land Grants.
Miller’s dissertation is among
those cited by Walter Lord in “A
Time To Stand,” a popular account
of the Alamo published in 1961.
But Miller did not complete other
aspects of his study until after
Lord’s book was published.
Lord placed the number of de
fenders at 183. He also write that
additional information would like
ly change this figure.
“Lord’s work and my investiga
tion do point to the need for fur
ther research on the men of the
Alamo,” Miller said.
The A&M professor is author of
“The Roll of the Alamo” published
this spring in the quarterly publi
cation “Texana”. He earlier wrote
“Fannin’s Men: Some Additions to
Earlier Rosters” published in the
“Southwestern Historical Quarter
ly.”
Miller also wrote “Historical
Records at the General Land Of
fice” for the May issue of “The
Junior Historian,” a publication of
the Texas State Historical Associa
tion.
Miller and Lord independently
found evidence to omit four names
from the list of defenders pub
lished 30 years ago. The four are
Sherod J. Dover, Jose Maria Guer
rero, John G. King and Toribio Do
mingo Losoyo.
Miller also believes four more
names should be dropped. These
are George Brown, James McGree,
James Robertson and Jesse A.
Thompson.
Biologist Warns Pesticides
Will Be Killing Humans
“In ten years, human beings will
be dying of pesticide poisoning,”
warns noted biologist Dr. Clarence
Cottam, a former head of the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service.
The charge, appearing in an ar
ticle by Harold Mehling titled “The
Land Where Fish Go Crazy,” in
the current issue of SAGA maga
zine, is made in reference to the
enormous fishkill that has taken
place during the last five years in
the Mississippi and Atchafalaya
river basins in Louisiana. During
the last half-decade, approximately
10 million dead fish have dotted
these southern waters, greatly de
pleting the marine population and
depriving scores of independent
fishermen of their livelihood. Meh
ling has made an extensive per
sonal study of the people and con
ditions in this area.
In 1960, according to the SAGA
article, the first indications that
certain poisons were menacing ma
rine and other animal life in the
area showed up in the form of
thousands of dead catfish being
washed ashore by the tide.
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In the following years, the num
ber and variety of animals termi
nally affected increased to include
buffalofish, crayfish, crabs, ducks,
cormorants, cranes, robins and ot
ters.
“It is apparent,” says the maga
zine, “that the poisons are building
up, affecting bigger and stronger
animals, with man a definite pos
sibility for future infection.”
“The poison,” says author Meh
ling, “is apparently endrin, a lethal
insecticide that is being washed
out of the fields and into the
basins.”
According to government labora
tory tests with endrin, just one part
of the chemical to every 400 mil
lion parts of water creates a dos
age lethal to fish. An equally
frightening statistic indicates that
12 million pounds of endrin and
other related insecticides were laid
over the land that drains into these
basins last year alone.
Another dismaying aspect of the
situation, writes Mehling, is that
pesticides were used for 10 years
prior to the first noticeable fish-
kills in 1960, probably building to
a death-dealing level during that
period and which probably will re
quire a like period before reaching
the purity level of the 1950s.
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I’ll never forget the day we took this picture. The sun was shining
brightly and we’d gone for a ride in the country, my husband Tom, Thelma
and I. We came to this field full of daisies and we stopped, and I braided a
crown of flowers for Thelma’s head. She was wearing a brand new dress and
she had a new little parasol too. I thought she looked like just about the hap
piest and prettiest little girl alive.
How thankful I was! For our Thelma had just weathered her first seri
ous illness, and for several weeks there had been days and nights of in
credible anxiety and heart-rending prayer.
Now, watching Thelma in her new-found health, I thought of our church.
Not only our minister, but members of the congregation, people whom I
scarcely knew, had rallied to our side during Thelma’s illness.
Just having them — just knowing that they were adding their prayers to
ours, had meant so much. And now, I knew, they were sharing our jubilation.
How sorry I feel for people who don’t go to church. For they miss one of
life’s great truths — the knowledge that if you have the Church, you can
never again be alone. the church eor ai_v_ • all eor the church
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his children’s sake. (3) For the sake
of his community and nation. (4)
For the sake of the Church itself,
which needs his moral and material
support. Plan to go to church regu
larly and read your Bible daily.
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