ExperimentStation Mineral Relation
To Age Studied
Receives 6 Grants
Six research grants amounting
to $18,750 have been made availa
ble to the Texas Agricultural Ex
periment Station, Dr. R. E. Pat
terson, station director, has an
nounced.
A Corpus Christi businessman
and rancher, John D. Hawn, has
provided $10,000 for research on
an economic evaluation of brush
control on ranges and pastures in
selected areas. B. R. Eddleman of
the Department of Agricultural
Economics and Sociology is project
leader.
A $4,000 grant is from Monsanto
Chemical Company of Saint Louis,
Mo., for investibations on anti
oxidants and amino acids in poul
try nutrition. Dr. J. R. Couch of
the Department of Biochemistry
and Nutrition is heading the re
search.
Dr. Raymond Reiser, also of the
Department of Biochemistry and
Nutrition, is conducting studies on
industrial utilization of agricul
turally produced fatty materials.
Corn Products Company of Argo,
111., has furnished $2,000 for the
work.
Eli Lilly and Company of In
dianapolis, Ind., has provided
$1,200 for studies on use of her
bicides in cotton production and
their effect on following vegetable
crops.
Dr. A. L. Harrison of the Plant
Disease Laboratory near Yoakum
has been notified of two grants
to support work on peanut di
seases.
The relationship of minerals to
the human aging process is re
ceiving increased attention in
nutrition research centers, an
A&M University scientist said
here Friday.
Researchers want to know, for
example, why broken bones in
elderly persons heal slowly and
improperly. What is the role of
minerals in the cause of skin
wrinkling in aged adults ?
Such questions were posed in
a talk by Dr. C. R. Creger of the
university’s Departments of Bio
chemistry and Nutrition and
Poultry Science at the sixth an
nual Institute of Food. Tech
nologists Texas Section meeting.
“In the bone case, we know
that something happens to inter
fere with proper metabolism of
calcium and phosphorus in aged
people. That something is still
unknown,” Creger said. “Many
times calcium and phosphorus are
deposited in muscle tissue instead
of bone where it belongs.”
Minerals are known to help
keep a young person’s skin turgid.
That is, they aid in keeping skin
cells charged with water. Result:
No wrinkling.
But as age advances, cells loose
their ability to hold water, so the
skin wrinkles. What happened to
the effect of the minerals ?
Creger and other nutritionists
would like to know.
He said another nutritional
puzzle in elderly people is their
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excessive excretion of potassium,
magnesium and manganese.
Scientists have learned much
in mineral research, but there is
a long way to go, Creger told the
food technologists.
“We can estimate pretty closely
the daily adult requirements of
minerals,” he explained. “How
ever, only rough estimates can
be made for children.”
Creger added that three bal
anced meals per day of foods
from local grocery stores will
usually supply all minerals a
person needs. In his opinion,
older people should eat plenty of
eggs and milk, which are two
good mineral sources.
Dr. J. R. Couch, also of the
Departments of Biochemistry and
Nutrition and Poultry Science,
outlined vitamins in human nu
trition.
He said Vitamin A, as such, is
found only in meats. However,
colored plants, such as carrots and
lettuce, contain carotenes and
other substances which the body
can convert into the vitamin.
Pure Vitamin A is colorless and
is essential to good vision and
healthy tissue.
Vitamin B 12 , found in meat
products, helps prevent anemia.
Couch emphasized that Vitamin
C is the most widely deficient in
humans because they seldom eat
enough fruits and vegetables. It
is necessary to healthy tissue, and
a severe shortage can lead to gum
troubles, swollen joints and scar
tissue sloughing.
Vitamin D is quickly supplied
through exposure to sunshine.
Long exposure is not necessary.
As for Vitamin E, Couch said
there is no conclusive evidence
that humans need the vitamin as
an anti-sterility factor. But it
is required for other body func
tions.
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THE BATTALION
Tuesday, March 30, 1965
College Station, Texas
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Wins Contest
France Gall, 17, a blonde
who has been called “The
Little French Doll,” sing’s
songs about dolls in Naples,
Italy. She won the 1965
Eurovision song- contest.
(AP Wirephoto via cable
from Naples.)
Palestine Problem Blamed
For Split By Arabs, U. S.
The United States entangle
ment in the Palestine problem
was blamed Saturday night for
the deterioration in Arab-Ameri-
can relations in recent years)
Dr. Khalid I. Babaa, director
of the Arab Information Center
in Dallas, voiced the claim to
students attending the annual
Spring Banquet of the Arab Stu
dent Club in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
“No appraisal of the Arab-
American relations is possible
merely by taking the immediate
present as our point of depature,”
Babaa said.
He then went on to point out
that for centuries the Arabs and
Americans were the best friends
and worked to help each other.
He reminded that the first coun
try to recognize the independence
of the United States was an Arab
State—Morocco, in 1789.
“The American-Arab friendship
continued for years until about
the time World War II ended,”
Babaa said. “Then the Americans
became entangled in the Palestine
problem.’
Chemist To Lecture Thursday
A noted chemist whose studies
of flourine have resulted in num
erous works will give a Graduate
Lecture at 8 p.m. Thursday. Dr.
Joseph H. Simons of the Uni
versity of Florida will speak in
Physics Building 146.
Subject of the free, public lec
ture is “Obtaining Properties of
of Primary Particles by Collision
Techniques.”
Simons also will discuss “Fluo
rine Chemistry” to the Chemistry
Colloquium at 4 p.m. At 12:40
p.m. he will lecture on “A Philo
sophy of Science” to the National
Science Foundation Academic
Year Institute participants.
Simons is a member of many
learned and honor societies and
is counselor of his section of the
American Chemical Society.
He edited the six-volume “Fluo
rine Chemistry” authored “A
Structure of Science” and pub
lished many papers.
Dr. Simons is the discoverer
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Program Reset
By Great Issues
The last presentation of the
“World Around Us’ series, spon
sored by the Great Issues Commit
tee, has been rescheduled for April
9.
Jerry Stevens, publicity chair
man of the committee, said “Es
cape from Tibet” is scheduled for
8 p.m. in the MSC Ballroom. The
event was originally set for April
2.
Thubten Jigme Norbu, brother
of the Dalai Lama, will tell the
story of intrigue and violence be
hind Red China’s overthrow of his
country. It will also feature his
exciting escape from the Red
Chinese.
Kiwanis To Host
Pancake Supper
Murray Brown and Perry Shir
ley, presidents of the College Sta
tion and Bryan Kiwanis Clubs,
respectively, have announced that
Saturday is Kiwanis Pancake Day
in the Bryan-College Station area.
It will be held at the National
Guard Armory in Bryan between
4 and 9 a.m.
The Pancake Supper is an an
nual affair for the twin-city area.
Last year, over 2,000 people en
joyed the bacon, syrup, coffee or
milk, and “all the pancakes you can
eat” for 50 cents. Profits made
from the joint effort is pledged
to various community projects sup
ported by the two Kiwanis Clubs.
Kennel Club Gives
Yet School Grant
A $500 grant-in-aid for the Col
lege of Veterinary Medicine from
the Fort Worth Kennel Club has
been announced by A&M Presi
dent Earl Rudder.
The grant is in support of re
search on the thyroid function in
dogs being conducted in the De
partment of Veterinary Medicine
and Surgery under the superivsion
of Dr. E. W. Ellett, associate pro
fessor of veterinary medicine and
surgery.
“The impact of American inter
vention since the Palestine prob
lem was first brought before the
United Nations is unmistakable.
American pressure in one form
or another exerted on a number
of delegations, compelled some of
them to adopt the policy sug
gested by the United States re
garding the Palestine question.
“It is no secret that such
American pressure was decisive
in pushing the Partition Resolu
tion of Nov. 29, 1947 through the
General Assembly,” Babaa con
tinued.
“This United States support of
Israel has resulted in their being
able to get away with impunity
in her expulsion of over one
million Arab refugees from their
homes,” he continued.
For the most part, the dispute
between the Arab-Israeli conflict
MSC Addition
To Emphasize
Student Needs
A major expansion to the Memo
rial Student Center is being con
sidered by the board of directors.
Estimated cost of the addition
has not been announced. Thd
board has approved $15,000 for an
architect’s study of the proposed
expansion.
James P. Hannigan, dean of
students, said proposed plans call
for extending the west wing of
the MSC south to the parking lot
behind the building with emphasis
on student needs.
Hannigan said the addition
would include a number of ad
ditional meeting rooms for stu
dent organizations.
He said the proposal also in
cludes enclosing the sun deck of
the MSC, located above the Foun
tain Room of the MSC and outside
the ballroom.
“This would not only give ad
ditional space for the Fountain
Room, which would be accessible
via a spiral staircase from the
main floor, but would also pro
vide additional space for meetings
and dances in the ballroom,” Han
nigan commented. ,
Financing of the proposed ad
dition to the MSC may come from
a student use fee approved by the
A&M Board.
remains poorly understood, Babaa
believes.
“Essentially, it is an act of
dispossession—a whole multitude
of people dispossessing another
people from their ancestoral
homeland. It is an act of estab
lishing a foreign state in the
heart of the homeland of another
people, displacing the original
owners and installing new-com
ers,” he said.
Babaa described Arab Nation
alism as a movement to re-unite
their homeland and to emancipate
themselves from any foreign
domination.
“Such a movement should re
ceive the whole-hearted support
of the United States rather than
opposition or indifference, espe
cially when it is a bulwark
against the spread of communism
in the Middle East,” he concluded.
Recreational
Use Of Land
Speaker Set
Various considerations for rec
reational use of land will be dis
cussed Wednesday and Thursday
at A&M University by a lecturer
from Utah State University.
The speaker is S. Ross Tocher,
associate professor of forestry. His
lectures are sponsored under the
visiting scientist programs of the
Society of American Foresters and
the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Charles Leinweber, head of
the Department of A&M Range
and Forestry, said recreational use
of land, both private and govern
ment, is an expanding field. In
response to the trend. A&M is
establishing a Department of Rec
reation and Parks which will begin
operation this fall.
Tocher will conduct three lec
tures Wednesday, all in Room 112
of the Plant Sciences Building.
Times and titles are 8 a.m., “In
ventory Recreational Water in Re
mote Mountain Areas”; 1 p.m.,
“Opportunities in Natural History
Interpretation”; and 7:30 p.m.,
“Techniques of Recreation Site
Management.”
His Thursday lecture is set for
8 a.m. in Room 103 of the Plant
Sciences Building. The title is
“Intercepting the Tourist.”
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