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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wednesday, December 7, 1966
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Tractor Discs Aid
A&M’s Alaminos
Gentlemen, there’s a barricade here, this street is closed,
and this area is hazardous! Access to this building is limited
due to construction modifications with access expected to be
worse later today! I can’t say this will be a routine mis
sion, but perhaps you can find your way to class!
A&M Memorials
Are Disgraced
Campusology: How are the 52 Aggies who lost their
lives in World War I commemorated?
“The 52 Aggies are commemorated by 52 trees around
the main drill field, which have 52 stone markers; 52 flags
fly over Kyle Field at each football game. A granite me
morial is situated at West Gate.”
Perhaps this answer would have been correct in the
past, but no more.
The flags still fly in Kyle Field, and the granite marker
is still at West Gate.
But the markers—each with the name and place of the
death of an Aggie killed in the war—no longer number
fifty-two.
There are 30 markers left. Twenty-seven have name
plates. Three have been torn off the stones, and all of the
remaining nameplates have been shamefully defaced, dented,
and surrounded by a conglomeration of weeds.
Today, as we recognize the 25th anniversary of the
disaster that touched off an even greater loss of American
lives, this apparent disregard for the upkeep of our World
War I memorials is especially unfortunate. Texas A&M has
always shown justifiable pride in its war record; its me
morials have traditionally been points of interest to visitors
on the campus. But those visitors might now reasonably
ask, on seeing the thirty battered markers around the drill
field, how well we are remembering our Warld War I dead.
By MIKE PLAKE
Texas A&M has successfully
tested a new light weight anchor
to be used on its research ship
Alaminos.
Dr. W. E. Pequegnat, professor
of biological oceanography, said
said the anchor weighs about one
third that of a conventional an
chor.
“It’s a new design incorporat
ing the use of tractor discs. The
discs are welded on two iron
limbs attached to a maip stem
pipe,” he added.
“The whole thing doesn’t weigh
over 300 hundred pounds and it
holds the ship secure, even in
heavy seas.”
How heavy?
THE PROFESSOR said that on
the last cruise they tested the
stability of the ship in 25 m.p.h.
winds and eight foot swells.
The ship dragged a little at
first, but as more cable was let,
it became stationary. The final
test showed about 15,000 feet of
cable used to secure the ship.
Two other instruments were
tested on cruise No. 16. A tripod,
built to hold a current measur
ing device 10,500 feet below the
surface of the Gulf, was tested
successfully. Fifteen feet tall, it
was lowered to the bottom and
adjusted. A current meter hangs
from its apex and measures the
flow of current between the tri
pod legs.
THE NEXT TEST was con
ducted on a housing for the cur
rent meter. Because most cur
rent meters are pressurized for
distances of up to about 5500 feet,
the electronic recording appara
tus in the meter was in danger
of being water damaged.
The technicans of the A&M
oceanography department put
their heads together, and invented
a casing sufficient to withstand
the pressure.
In addition to testing equip
ment, the cruise was used to ex
ploit an old theory about the wa
ter curents of the Gulf.
UNTIL NOW, it has been pre
supposed that there was little or
no current movement on the bot
tom of the Gulf. However, in
recent tests and on this cruise,
evidence indicated differently. In
stead of an ooze-type bottom, con-
sistihg of decomposed plant and
animal life from the higher wa
ter levels, the scientists found a
hard, clean material, later ana
lyzed to be “ironstone” because
of its density content of that
element.
Added to this was the dis
covery of sea anemonies small
animals normally found at differ
ent depths who subsist by attach-
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ing themselves to smooth sur
faces and feeding on different
types of water algae. The ane
monies were found to have grains
of sand on their body walls when
they were attached to the iron
stone.
THE DISCOVERY of the iron
stone, instead of ooze, at that
depth, and sand grains, which
normally go no farther than a
few miles offshore, indicate that
there may be some sort of current
at the 10,500 foot depth.
“We believe a current would
be needed to clean the rocks and
enable the sea anemonies to live
on their surfaces. Also, the sand
had to be brought from some
where near the shoreline. We were
325 miles due south of Panama
City, so there was hardly any
nearby shore.”
Pequegnat came here in 1963,
from Washington, D.C., where he
was a program director for the
National Science Foundation.
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By BARNEY FUDGE
Basketball season is underway,
and the Aggies have their work
cut out for them. The team is
young and should gain much valu
able experience this year.
Things are looking pretty bleak
as far as the revival of the 12th
Man Bowl is concerned. Con
struction on the new and improv
ed Kyle Field has begun, making
it impossible to hold the contest
on campus. Also, the game would
have to be held this semester be
cause the equipment can’t be used
during the spring semester. All
in all, we might have to “wait ’til
next year” for the return of the
bowl game.
At the last Senate meeting the
Welfare fund was the main point
of discussion. This fund was
established with the slogan, “a
Dollar from an Aggie, for an Ag
gie.” The money is to be used
in cases of true need. If you know
someone who has a severe finan
cial problem, tell him to contact
Don Allen, the Student Welfare
Chairman.
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Arrangements have been made
for the annual Pinkie Downs fruit
collection. Fruit from the Christ
mas Dinner is donated to the
veteran’s hospital in Temple.
* * * *
Remember Scott Blessing is in
St. Luke’s Hospital in Houston
and any Aggie living in that
area should make it a point to
visit Scott during the Christmas
holidays.
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