Page 6 College Station, Texas Thursday, June 30, 1966
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Water Research Project 5002
Rainfall Data Recorded In
3 Counties
Country store chats, old fire
arms and pioneer American
homes dovetail with rainfall rec
ords collected from the East
Yegua Creek basin.
Water Research Project 5002,
under Texas A&M University me-
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teorology professor Dr. Robert
A. Clark, corelates rainfall data
from 35 gauges over the 243
square- mile Lee, Milam and Bur
leson County watershed with
pictures made by A&M's radar
systems.
Data from the three-year pro
gram co-sponsored by the Water
Research Institute will be stu
died to devise a means of record
ing rainfall by radar.
Jake Canglose, department re
search engineer, and Clark have
placed gauges with 32 volunteer
observers in the area. Data is
also gathered from two weather
bureau stations and a geological
survey stream gauge.
Folk making monthly reports
range from a 13-year-old daugh
ter of a veterinarion to a pio
neer couple whose entire lives
have been spent in the sandstone-
studded clay hills.
Volunteer observers were
screened through county judges
and sheriff departments, and sev
eral were located through Can-
glose's and Clark’s visits at stores
and homes.
At Tanglewood, a chat at Phil
lip’s general store “discovered”
the S. E. Lynns, area residents
since 1878. Shirley E. Lynn, 88-
year- old retired farmer, has
turned Lee County soil for a liv
ing since 1907.
His wife, Hallie, writes for
Rockdale and Giddings news
papers while she isn’t canning
homegrown peas, and sweet pota
toes or fishing. The energetic
Mrs. Lynn is Tanglewood’s cor
respondent and kept rainfall rec
ords 10 years before A&M radar
meteorologists installed record
ing and Clear-Vu gauges outside
her front gate.
The reporter finds changing
drum charts of the clock-operated
gauge no problem.
“I’m up at 5 o’clock every
morning,” she remarked. House
work is done by noon, and daily,
at 1 p.m., she fishes a lake near
by.
Relics of the past interest her
husband. He removed an old
colonial-pillared home on their
farm.
“All the wood was hand-planed
and mortise-jointed,” he discribed.
“I still have some of the oak
beams. There isn’t a worm hole
in them.”
Crops and weather are con
versation staples with East
Yegua basin folk. Jake arranged
to pick up some 21 pea pods to
show his A&M horticulture
friends.
Judith Parmelee took up rain
charting at a Rockdale junior
high science project. The eighth-
grader skipped summer camp this
year to take a speedreading
course. She’s an “A” student and
daughter of rancher-veterinarian
Dr. John J. Parmelee.
Canglose and Clark remain in
contact with observers, to answer
questions, iron out problems,
maintain equipment and present
each with a certificate. The
framed sheet carries a back
ground picture of 6 and 15-foot
radar horns at Bizzell Hall.
The service often pays off both
ways. C. R. Jackson, a farmer
near Chriesman, voiced a corn
problem.
“Coons are cleaning the patch
out,” he remarked. ”If you know
any hunters with good coon dogs,
send them to see me.”
Rain gauges in the East Yegua Creek watershed are
operated by a cross section of Milam, Lee and Burleson
County folk. Judy Parmelee, in picture at left, 13-year-old
daughter of a rancher-veterinarian Dr. John J. Parmelee,
charts precipitation at her home three miles south of Rock
dale. Mr. and Mrs. Shirley E. Lynn record rainfall at
Tanglewood, 10 miles north of Lexington. The retired
farmer, 88, has worked the farm since 1907.
Synthetic Rocks
From Raw Clay?
Texas A&M Researchers soon
will be producing synthetic rocks
from raw clay.
Their studies will be stepped
up through the addition of a $20,-
000 rotary kiln scheduled to go
into operation in July at A&M’s
Research Annex.
Checkout trials are set next
month, with full-scale research
to roll in September.
The research, explains Dr. Wil
liam Ledbetter, is in cooperation
with the Texas Highway Depart
ment and U. S. Bureau of Public
Roads. Now in its second year,
the research is expected to draw
$350,000 support by the end of
the fifth year, Ledbetter said.
Other researchers for the Texas
Transportation Institute are Re
search Engineer Bob M. Calla
way, bituminous materials, and
Dr. W. M. (Mike) Moore, base
materials.
Research Assistant Jim Hous
ton supervised design and con
struction of the kiln.
The kiln is being built with
funds from the Featherlite Cor
poration of Austin, Gifford-Hill
of Dallas, A. P. Greene of Hous
ton, and Texas A&M.
‘The kiln is superior to any
other research kiln in the coun
try,” Ledbetter said. “It has
more controls in addition to its
larger size.” It is 25 feet long
and has an outside diameter of
three feet. It tilts for variation
in angles and rotation speeds . . .
these angles determine how fast
material goes through it. The
kiln can raise temperatures to
3,000 degrees.
“In essence, the kiln trans
forms clay into man-made rocks,”
Ledbetter continued. “You can’t
cut the aggregate with a knife.
And with the proper type clay,
you can produce aggregate which
weighs about half as much as
nature’s rock, but is just as
strong.”
Ledbetter noted aggregate is
used for roadway base and in
concrete pavement.
“In my research, I’m trying to
correlate fundamental aggregate
properties with behavior and per
formance of concrete structures
made with these materials,” he
pointed out. I am interested in
the quality that can be obtained
. . . the full range of variables.
It will be industry’s problem to
probe the economics of aggregate
production.”
Ledbetter expanded about re
search goals.
“One in 1,000 clays makes
lightweight aggregate,” he said.
“Trace elements cause the clay
to bloat. These elements cause
thousands of bubbles in the clay,
and the clay becomes a poor but
strong form of glass.
“We will research many grades
of clay. If lightweight is not
needed, I think we will find in
numerable sources for suitable
synthetic aggregate.”
Although economics are not a
primary goal of aggregate stu
dies, they are an end result.
“Savings in weight result in
less expensive structures,” Led
better commented. “With this
aggregate, you can use up to one
third less concrete. This offsets
higher cost of synthetic aggre
gate.”
Along the coast and eastern
border of Texas, suitable sources
of natural rock are almost non-
existant, Ledbetter said. Natural
gravel used in construction in
Houston often comes from as far
as New Braunfels.
“The Texas Highway Depart
ment is interested in this re
search because of the hauling
distance for road base materials,”
Ledbetter explained. “If syn
thetic aggregate could be econo
mically produced on the job.
long-distance hauling costs could
be tremendously reduced.”
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An expert in special education,
Dr. Edward J. Wiley will join the
Department of Education and
Psychology at Texas A&M July
16.
The former business and social
worker will replace Dr. Roger
Harrell, who joins the U.S. Office
of Education on a year’s leave of
absence.
intendent of schools at Relpj
Kansas, and a district adjoinitj
Wichita before it was absorb
into the larger system.
The University of Oklahoma-
trained professor comes to A&M
from Wichita, Kansas, and direc
torship of a Special Education
Service and Resource Center. He
recently obtained funds for the
$850,000 center under Title III
arrangement.
“Dr. Wiley’s work in the de
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psychology head. “We welcome
him especially because one of the
new areas of instruction we ex
pect to develop within the next
few years in special education.
Dr. Wiley will be able to assist in
preparation for this eventuality.”
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homa in 1957 and 1964, with
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ministration BA was taken at
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homa City in 1954. Special in
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and working with underprivileged
children.
Olson Named TTI
Project Director
As director of special education
for Wichita public schools, he
supervised 70 teachers.
The new A&M assistant profes
sor taught emotionally disturbed
children at Central State Hos
pital in Norman and was super-
Dr. Robert M. Olson, assists
research engineer for the T(
Transporttaion Institute at T(
A&M, has been named co-direflj
of TTI’s highway sign reseaij
project.
Olson received his doctorate j
civil engineering at A&M in Mi)
He has a master of sciences
gree from Rice and a bachelor!
sciencein civil enginering fr«
the University of Texas.
Neilon J. Rowan of TTl’shiji
way design and traffic engines
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