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1~ y vill house fhe com- oximately yrsics and vas a fac- ding site, int to ttie [• since a puter and ted. vice-pres- xas A&% r for the jtly under artments; irch Pw- A. Me- ition a )r. D. A. •ing, Con- ; which is of Me- cyclotron y for nu- y, actiw ti biolof!!' weigh- Wire- 'g programs ,xchanga : a cross and i"' ^vantafs ,ng hour 5 jscussiom dth busi- .putatioa 1 trend to- t in tii* yr queria* lagemeA t. 24-3«' seminar ith sin** ,gram i 11 f To rin’s et $ THE BATTALION Thursday, August 26, 1965 College Station, Texas Page 7 Project Underway Here To Plot Highways With Aid Of Computers PLANNING A TREE’ Charles Blumentritt, assistant research mathematician for the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M, pre pares a roll of magnetic tape for the IBM 7094 computer. Blumentritt has devised a program for developing high way routes by computer and is doing a study for the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads. Agricultural Briefs Sharp’s Thesis One Of U. S.’s Best One of the three best Masters thesis on agricultural economics in the United States this year, conies from Texas A&M. The thesis was written by Wayne W. Sharp, who was award ed a certificate and a $100 check at the American Farm Economic Association and Western Farm Economic Association’s annual meeting August 22-25 in Still water, Oklahoma. The thesis was completed at A&M in 1964 and submitted to the national judging panel this year. Each college or university of fering courses in agricultural eco nomics may choose the best thesis written at their school, each year, to submit to a national panel of researchers for judging. There is no first, second or third place designation, the top three are chosen, but not ranked. Sharp was raised on a ranch near San Angelo, attended high school in San Angelo, and was an outstanding 4-H Club member. He holds a B.S. degree in range man agement from A&M and an M.S. in agricultural economics from A&M. He has received an assist- antship to begin work toward a Ph.D. in agricultural economics at Michigan State University this fall. Sharp spent six months in Ar gentina as the 1964 International Farm Youth Exchange delegate from Texas. ★ ★ ★ Forty-five Texas county home demonstration agents are attend ing the Home Management Work shop, which will continue through Friday. The workshop is being held in the MSC. The keynote speaker was Dr. Margaret Liston, head of the De partment of Home Management at Iowa State U. She spoke Tues day on the meaning of manage ment. ★ ★ ★ Four research grants totaling $9,694 have been made available to the Texas Agricultural Experi ment Station, Dr. R. E. Patterson, station director has announced. The largest is $5,294 from the Esso Research and Engineering Company of Baytown for re search on influences of different mulches and covers on fall vege tables. Dr. C. J. Gerard of the Lower Rio Grande Valley Re search and Extension Center at Weslaco is heading the project. A grant of $1,800 is from the Chevron Chemical Company of Florida for studies on cotton de foliation. Dr. C. S. Miller of the Texas A&M Plant Sciences De partment is project leader. ! |: The Texas Valley Citrus Cim- mittee has provided $1,500 to support an economic analysis of the state citrus market. Research is being conducted by Dr. R. E. Branson of the A&M Agricultural Economics and Sociology Depart ment. A grant of $1,100 has been made available from the Niagara Chemical Division of the FMC Corporation for research on cot ton seedling diseases. Dr. L. S. Bird of the A&M Plant Sciences Department is supervising the study. ★ ★ ★ Dr. R. G. Reeves, widely known Texas A&M plant geneticist who retired several years ago left here Aug. 20 for his fourth major agricultural assignment in a for eign country. His destination this time is Egypt, where he will be a guest professor at Alexandria Univer sity. He is accompanied by his wife Mary. The scientist returned last March from East Pakistan after two years as chief advisor to the East Pakistan Agricultural Uni versity at Mymensingh. ★ ★ ★ Dr. D. C. Pfannstiel, assistant director for management opera tions with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, will leave here Sept. 1 for a one-year special as signment as visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin. Extension Director John E. Hutchison said that during Pfann- stiel’s leave of absence from Tex as A&M he will teach courses in administration and direct the graduate seminar program in the National Agricultural Extension Center for Advanced Study. ★ ★ ★ Ministers attending Texas A&M’s 20th annual Town and Country Church Conference Oct. 14-15 will receive a short course in dynamic agriculture in addition to topics directly related to their field. General theme for the meeting is “New Tools for the Church and Community in Town and Coun try.” Tom Prater, program chairman and Extension Service farm man agement specialist at A&M, said various areas of agriculture will be discussed by authorities in the College of Agriculture. mT * Larry Greenhaw m ’64 wv College Master Representative Fidelity Union Life 846-8228 AGGIES ... DON’T DELAY! Order Your Boots Now For Future Delivery - Small Payment Will Do YOUR BOOTS MADE TO ORDER Convenient Lay-Away Plan ONLY $55.00 A PAIR Economy Shoe Repair & Boot Co. 509 W. Commerce, San Antonio €A 3-0047 Computers may plot interre gional highways of the future for the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads. And they may aid Civil Defense officials in mapping possible evacuation routes in the event of nuclear attack. An assistant research mathe matician for the design and traf fic department of the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M has been awarded a $22,000 grant from the Bureau of Public Roads for a one-year study of developing highway routes by computers. Charles Blumentritt is pro gramming the IBM 7094 computer to provide minimum distances from any point in the United States to any other point in the nation within four seconds. He said it is the first time the nation’s traffic situation has been analyzed as a whole by computers. The 29-year old mathematician finds the shortest routes between two points by making “trees” with the computer. When the computer produces a solution to a specific problem the end result on paper resembles branches of a tree. Like trees, the computer’s solution has no loops. “My masters thesis here at A&M was on graph theory,” ex plained the native of San Angelo. “That’s where I developed the idea. The possibilities are un limited . . . it’s a fascinating area.” Blumentritt is working on “trees” by counties in preliminary investigations, but hopes to en large his scope to state highway networks eventually. He is preparing a manual for every state in the union to use for coding their networks into the same format. When the state codes are completed, they will be assembled by Blumentritt into a realistic national system. Some of the data for the re searcher’s program will come from the U.S. Department of Civil Defense. Blumentritt said the minimum path technique, the basis of all traffic assignment work, will be used in most of his research. Cost of building a single “tree” via computer is minimal, at least for the internal machine time. Fisheries Major In Puerto Rico Van Conner, a graduate wild life management student at Texas A&M, is in Puerto Rico this week for meetings with fisheries biol ogists. Conner is representing A&M’s Wildlife Management Department. 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