Oceanographers To Research
[ississippi Delta For NASA
A third research flight over
ie waters off the Mississippi
elta by Texas A&M space
leanographers is scheduled Mon-
w
I A&M scientists are in the
idst of a study to learn ways
^ conducting oceanographic re-
iarch from space. The research
funded by the U. S. Naval
icanographic Office in conjunc-
lon with NASA’s Earth Re-
jurces Program.
Technically, it’s a part of the
Ipollo spacecraft applications
rogram.
Under one phase of the project,
esearchers are seeking to deter-
line what happens to Mississippi
[iver water when it enters the
fulf of Mexico. Long-range re-
ults may produce new inform a-
ion affecting fishing, sedimenta-
ion and buildup of the delta.
DR. DALE LEIPPER, project
iead, expressed hopes for good
feather for the flight which will
riginate in New Orleans. The
luality of information gathered
luring the second flight, an Octo-
ier mission, was seriously affect-
id by bad weather, he said.
Among the changes from earli-
ir flights will be lower level
lasses for taking pictures. Pho-
ographs will be made from 1,000
eet or less altitude, at least 500
eet lower than in the initial
light July 7.
Dr. Guy A. Franceschini, ocean-
igraphy and meteorology re-
learcher for A&M, and Jim Ar-
lold, a graduate student in
neteorology under Dr. A. H.
fhompson, will conduct the re
search for A&M.
Dr. Franceschini is attempting
to develop a method of obtaining
a true picture of sea surface tem
peratures although there may be
intervening clouds between the
airplane and the ocean.
ARNOLD IS interested in cloud
pattern relationships to ocean
temperatures.
Approximately six tons of
sophisticated scientific equipment
is aboard the Convair 240 air
craft.
Project coordinator Don Walsh,
who is writing his master’s thesis
about the research, said results
of lower-level flights may include
better infra red measurements
closer to actual temperatures at
ground level. Checks will be
made with surface vessels to veri
fy data obtained from the air.
Other photographs will be shot
from 50,000 feet to give an over
all view of the area and aid in
future development of instrumen
tation.
If the A&M research is suc
cessful in proving that oceano
graphic research can be accom
plished from the air, additional
research may be conducted from
Apollo spacecraft in outer space.
Atom Smasher Described
In Grad College Lecture
THE BATTALION
Friday, December 9, 1966 College Station, Texas
Page 3
SAC Officer
Describes Use
Of Computers
Col. William Ratchford of the
Strategic Air Command Head
quarters at Omaha, Neb., told the
Society for the Advancement of
Management and the Association
of Computer Machines that SAC
is highly computerized.
Ratchford’s topic was “Man
agement Systems and Data Proc
essing.” As an introduction he
showed a 20-minute film that he
classified as “a slight bit of
propaganda.” The movie showed
how SAC combat readiness is
maintained to cope with any pos
sible defense threats.
Computers are used by SAC
for a variety of things, one of
the most important being the
analyzation of SAC strength as
compared to the strength of our
enemies.
The communication system of
SAC is complicated and vast. Di
rect telephone communication is
maintained at all times with the
President as he is the only per
son who can authorize the deto
nation of nuclear weapons.
Col. Ratchford explained the
set-up of the SAC Control Sys
tem with a series of slides. The
system is manned by 375 people
with an annual payroll of $2,800,-
000. Ratchford noted that most
of this has happened since 1956.
The mission of the SAC Con
trol System embodies four parts:
Force Control, Reconnaissance,
Force Management, and Future
Force Structure.
Four Air Force officers who
are experts in the field of com
puters accompanied Ratchford
and answered questions from the
more than 10O-member audience
after the formal presentation.
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Construction of the world’s
largest atom smasher and super
high-power microscope involved
sandwiching 80,000 four - inch
rings and discs into a tube two
miles long.
Dr. Jesse W. M. DuMond, Cali
fornia Institute of Technology
physics professor, Tuesday night
gave a Texas A&M Graduate
College lecture audience insight
into the construction and work
ing fundamentals of Stanford’s
two-mile linear accelerator.
Dr. DuMond served as a con
sultant for optical alignment of
the 10,000-foot research facility.
A physics student of his at Cal
Tech, Dr. W. K. H. (Pief) Panof-
sky, is now director of the Stan
ford accelerator and Dr. Du-
Mond’s son-in-law.
“PIEF DIRECTED construc
tion of the $114 million SLAG
(Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center) facility,” Dr. DuMond
commented. “I’m proud of the
fact that he got it built in six
years, inside the estimate.”
The huge research instrument
pulses electrical energy at 24,000
kilowatts peak power into the
tube, forming waves on which in
jected electrons ride at less than
one per cent below the speed of
light.
“Panofsky says relativity is no
longer a theory,” the National
Academy of Sciences veteran re
lated. “It’s engineering, other
wise the accelerator wouldn’t
work.”
“The SLAC accelerator oper
ates at 20 billion electron volts,”
he described. “At 360 pulses a
second, only three pulses—or
1/120th of a second—the instru
ment generates heat so fast in a I
cubic centimeter of tungsten that
it’s broken in three pieces.”
THREE LARGE magnetic spec
trometers in the multiple-struc
tured switching yard will be used
to study targets scattered when
placed in the electron beam, Du
Mond added.
He said the accelerator is also
“a super high power microscope.”
Optical microscopes enlarge an
object the size of a living cell,
consisting of millions of atoms.
Electron microscopes “see” ob
jects the size of a virus, made up
of thousands of atoms.
“Stanford’s Mark III accelera
tor can ‘see’ an atomic nucleus,”
DuMond pointed out. “The two
mile accelerator can pick out a
proton, a particle inside an atom
nucleus.”
ALIGNMENT OF the two-mile
long tube to within plus or minus
one millimeter was one of the re
markable engineering feats per
formed in constructing the SLAC
facility, the professor went on.
He described a diffraction grid
utilized, since radiation blackens
glass or plastic lenses. Align
ment was achieved by moving a
24-inch aluminum support tube
by means of screw jacks at 299
points along the tube’s length.
“The curvature of the earth in\
two miles is 11 centimeters,” the 1
physicist noted.
“I suggested to Pief once they!
shouldn’t stop at two miles,” Du
Mond humorously commented. “1 1
told him he should put one end of I
an accelerator at Stanford and 1
the other at Cal Tech, where we
could use it.”
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dynamic BiC Duo
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bic’s “Dyamite” Ball
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CHRISTMAS GARAGE SALE
Dec. 7-8-9 8:30-5:30
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undi
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Listen to Jackson Radio Hour Sunday.
Rev. R. L. Jackson, the speaker for the
“Jackson Radio Hour” Sunday mornings
at 8:30 over WTAW, will pay a brief
tribute to Mr. and Mrs. P. L. (Pinkie)
Downs, Jr. this Sunday morning. All are
invited to listen. Pinkie Downs is best
known as “Mr. Aggie.” Tune in Aggies.
381tl
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BAND INSTR.
Back to school music sale. New pianos,
$15 per month. Used pianos, $10 per
month. New band instr., $10 per month.
Used pianos & band instr., $95 and up.
Tuning, repairs, and refinishing.
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LADIES
The personnel at our Golf Shop will
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Select Professional Golf Equipment for
that golfer of your choice.
Texas A&M Golf Course
Luke Harrison Manager 381t4
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y preceding publicati
:es must arrive in the t
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1 p. m. of the
ice
of
THE GRADUATE COLLEGE
Final Examination for the Doctoral Degree
Name: Lonnie Benard
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in Bio
chemistry
Dissertation: Metabolism of Strontium
Time: December 14, 1966 at 2 :15 p. m.
Place: Room 114 in Herman Heep Bldg.
Wayne C. Hall
. Dean of Graduate Studies 381t2
THE GRADUATE COLLEGE
Final Examination for the Doctoral Degree
Name: Wiff, Donald Ray
Degree: Ph.D. In Physics
Dissertation: An Electronic Energy Band
Calculation of Cubic Boron Nitride Via
the Augmented-Plane-Wave Method
Time: December 14, 1966 at 12:00 p. m.
Place: Room 146 in Physics Bldg.
Wayne C. Hall
Dean of Graduate Studies 381t2
MATH-CRAM SESSIONS in Houston.
Christmas holidays. Alg., Trig., Calc. Prac
tice exams. Small groups. Overhead pro
jector. Former instructor. Joel Newby,
SU 2-5935. 381t4
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THE GRADUATE COLLEGE
Final Examination for the Doctoral Degree
Name: Gaul, Roy David
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in Physical
O cean og raphy
Dissertation: Circulation over the Conti
nental Margin of the
Mexico
Northeast Gulf of
Time: December 14, 1966 at 3:00 p. m.
Place: Room 209-C-B in Goodwin Hall
Wayne C. Hall
Dean of Graduate Studies
381t2
THE GRADUATE COLLEGE
Final Examination for the Doctoral Degree
Name: Hoyle, John Richard
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in Education
Dissertation : Problem-Attack Behavior and
its Relationship to the Sex, Prior Teach
ing Experience, and College Preparation
of Selected Elementary School Principals.
Time: December 14, 1966 at 2:00
T ” : Room 404 in
Wayne C. Hall
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P-
Idg.
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THE GRADUATE COLLEGE
Final Examination for the Doctoral Degree
Name: Buhr, Johann Hermann
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in Civil
legree
Engineering
Dissertation : Freeway
Merging Control Systems
December 12, 1966 at 3 :00 p.
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ms
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Dean of Graduate Studies 380t2
THE GRADUATE COLLEGE
Final Examination for the Doctoral Degree
Name: Smith, William Boyce
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in Statis
tics:
bfsser^ntion : Parameter Estimation in the
Presence of Incomplete Sets of Succicient
Statistics
Time: December 13, 1966 at 3:00 p. m.
Place: Room 102 in DPC-Statistics Bldg.
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