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^ MARY LEE TREECE
late t«Miss Treece, a 19-year-old nursing major, attends T.W.U.’s
tudy Dallas Nursing Center. The Mesquite sophomore enjoys
dancing and dating. She dates an Aggie fish. (Battalion
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iabon: here Tuesday got a look at a new
it Ukconcept in aerial application of
engit chemicals.
are d They heard a talk and saw a
’sity i color movie on the Ag-Gem, a
man and load carrying device
rom ji which hovers just about the
j.jj e p ground on a cushion of air. The
craft is sometimes called an air
cushion machine. It is strictly
experimental and is not on the
market.
Ag-Gem, which stands for ag
ricultural ground effect machine,
was described by John Mercer of
; “ the Princeton University Aero-
space and Mechanical Sciences
b ® Department. He said the ma-
tick chine roughly resembles a flying
? im saucer that never gets more than
e«/i 2 feet off the ground. Usual “al-
titude” is a foot or less as it
kiffli) 1 skims over a field like an invert-
ed bowl with hidden wheels,
illfe: MERCER LISTED a variety of
of ti* advantages of Ag-Gem. Some of
Argon these included high safety corn
ed ill pared to conventional aircraft,
jes. economical payloads, operation in
fortt small areas, and it flushes the
hejjt pesticide down around the plant
p 0r t where it does the most good.
I ty; Compared to several other
j gs j standard agricultural aircraft,
^ ^ the air cushion machine would
cost less to buy, (estimated ini-
ir tial cost of $9,000), is probably
, f as economical to operate, and
possibly qualified airplane pilots
e nea would not be required.
“A ground effect machine is
artki; not necessarily easier to fly than
ol is an airplane,” Mercer explained,
ent’s “It is, however, much more diffi-
; of' cult to get into trouble than with
direct an airplane. For this reason, an
>r of operator is ready to go to work
will after a few hours of dual instruc-
niccption. This suggests that much
v j 90 r lower salaried operators can be
employed than those costs associ-
fj] e d ated with airplane pilots.”
ie dfP THESE FACTORS, he added,
}) 111, should give Ag-Gem an insurance
--^advantage.
The disadvantages ? Ag-Gem
has its share.
In its present stage of develop-
,, ment, the machine can not be
|f$ operated over tall crops like corn
and cotton. Experiments so far
have been with ground hugging
plants such as cranberries and
v potatoes, both of which survived
the air turbulence very nicely,
-r Mercer said.
The device does best, he said
over crops that form complete
ground cover. Otherwise, if bare
ground is exposed and dry, ter
rific dust clouds are generated.
Fertilizer spreading is one of the
Civil Engineering
To Hold Seminar
On Wood Design
A seminar on “Designing with
Wood” for engineering students
and practicing engineers will be
held here Tuesday.
The program, sponsored by the
Civil Engineering Department
and School of Architecture, will
be from 2 to 4 p.m. in the archi
tecture lecture room, according
to Dr. Robert M. Holcomb, civil
engineering professor. Prof.
James Marsh will make archi
tecture arrangements.
Dr. Holcomb said the three-
part program will be presented
by representatives of the South
ern Pine Association, Southern
Pressure Treaters Association
and American Institute of Timber
Construction.
“Physical properties of wood,
pole and piling design considera
tions, use of wood preservatives,
fire-retardent treatment, prin
ciples of glued, laminated lumber
construction and systems of fast
ening used in large laminated
sections will be covered,” Hol
comb added.
Few Realize Work Needed
To Cook Mess Hall Meals
Thursday, March 2, 1967
THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Page 5
machine’s brighter possibilities.
THE AG-GEM is slow (speeds
up to about 45 miles per hour) in
covering a given amount of
ground compared to airplanes, the
speaker said. On the other hand,
it saves a little time by not hav
ing to travel beyond the field for
turns and reloading.
By BILL DINGER
Battalion Special Writer
Few students, other than wait
ers, realize the tremendous job
involved in putting just one meal
before thousands of hungry Ag
gies, a job the mess halls perform
three times a day, every day, nine
months a year.
One person realizes this'^hercu-
lean task perhaps more than
other. He is Henry Wellnitz, food
manager for Duncan Mess Hall.
Until just recently, Food Serv
ice personnel worked what could
be called a split shift. Under this
system, they worked preparing a
meal or cleaning up for the next
only when a meal was being
served. They would then lay off
for a few hours, then come back
to work during the next meal.
Wellnitz explained how this has
been changed.
“EVER SINCE Duncan began
serving Aggies, its help has
worked in a split shift. Cleaners
and cooks would have to take a
break between meals,” he noted.
“As of Monday, however, clean
ers and cooks are on an eight-
hour, staggered shift. The first
shift punches in at 5 in the morn
ing. They’ll get everything ready
for the breakfast meal, prepare
the meal, and clean up after the
meal. They stay until 2 in the
afternoon.”
Something looks wrong here.
Five to two? That sounds like
nine hours. Wellnitz explained
the extra hour as being two half-
hour periods given the mess hall
help to eat the two meals a day
provided for them. During this
hour they receive no pay.
AT 10 A.M., while this shift is
but halfway through its working
day, another shift punches the
time clock and begins its working
day.
“This group, along with the
first group,” Wellnitz went on,
“prepares the noon meal, and
then gets ready for the evening
meal. This group is also finished
in nine hours.
“I think this new time system
will create better morale in the
workers, as well as stimulating
more interest in the personnel for
their work,” he prophesied.
AS TO WHAT type of prepa
ration went into the fixing of an
ordinary meal, Wellnitz described
a typical day.
“Preparation time differs, of
course, with the type of food
being prepared,” he said.
“First, the mess hall is divided
into three basic sections: a meat
section, a vegetable section, and
a pantry section which prepares
all salads and beverages.
“Each section head makes a
list of everything his department
will need for the day, and turns
this in to Mr. (Oscar C.) Plantt,
the head chef. Everything is
ordered in cases, cans, etc. Plantt
then orders all this from the
storehouse, which is located in
Duncan’s basement.”
THE BASEMENT storehouse
of which Wellnitz spoke of has a
separate staff, and fills only the
orders of chief cook Plantt.
The basement storehouse
underneath Duncan mess hall
covers about as much space as
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does the mess hall itself. Cases
and cases of everything from
pineapple slices to emergency
chili (it takes less of the stu
dents’ board fees for the cooks
to make it in Duncan) are stacked
in row after row as high as eight
or nine feet, throughout the base
ment.
Due simply to a lack of space
on the ground floor, the Duncan
butcher shop is also located in
the basement, directly underneath
the kitchen area.
“WHEN THE needed supplies
arrive up in the kitchen, each
section takes what it ordered.
“Meat and pastry supplies,”
Wellnitz added, “must be ordered
a full day in advance, though.
The central pastry shop here in
Duncan, besides providing enough
delectables for the corps, also
supplies pastries for Sbisa Dining
Hall and some for the Memorial
Student Center.
“We try to keep the amount of
time from cooking to serving as
small as possible,” Wellnitz in
terjected. “In preparing a meal,
dishes are cooked on a fairly
rigid schedule, so that everything
will be ready at the same time.
WHENEVER possible,” he add
ed, “preparations for the next
day’s morning meal are made
during the evening meal, to ease
the work the following morning.”
It’s interesting to note that
Duncan buys nothing pre-made,
except for canned preparations
and fresh bread. All pastries,
doughnuts, cakes, pies, every
thing in this line, are prepared
in the central pastry shop. The
closest thing to ready-made pas
tries used are cake mixes.
“Using cake mixes,” Wellnitz
added, “makes mixing easier and
also insures more accurate mix
ing.”
EVERY ONCE in a while, a
groan of hunger rises from the
Corps when the waiters return
to their tables to say that they
can’t bring the “bull neck” back
for a third or fourth time. Well
nitz explained why a dish is cut
off so abruptly in such a case.
“Every recipe we follow is
broken down into batches to serve
100 people,” he explained. “This
is true with meat, canned foods,
vegetables, etc. We use institu
tional recipes. The chef is re
sponsible for estimating how
many batches to make.”
In this way, if three or four
waiters went back for additional
refills after the last batch had
been dished out, they would nec
essarily have to go back empty-
handed as the cooks cannot make
another batch for 100 when at the
most, 20 or 30 would get served.
“WE HAVE approximately 90
employees in an entire day.” “Un
der the new split-shift system,
however, there would be some
thing like 28 people working in
the kitchen proper and cleaning
up in the dining area at one time.
This number is exclusive of
butchers, pantry workers, store
room workers, etc.”
The only problem that Wellnitz
went into in detail was the prob
lem of waste. He attributed this
waste to the necessary flaws in
serving food family style in part,
and to careless waste of food by
Aggies.
“There is quite a tremendous
amount of food waste,” he said.
“Most of the edible food not used
by the students but prepared by
the kitchen is used to feed the
mess hall help. When students
make food inedible, they are only
hurting themselves.
“ON WEEKENDS, the only
thing we can do is to estimate
how much to make, by taking into
account the events taking place on
campus at the time, and by go
ing over past years’ precedents.”
TWO PERSONS that Wellnitz
praised very highly for their ex
cellent work are B. B. Suehs,
Duncan’s supervisor, and chief
cook Plantt.
“SUEHS PUTS his estimate of
attendance up on the mess hall
bulletin board, and the mess hall
operates accordingly,” Wellnitz
emphasized. “He and Mr. Plantt
coordinate closely.”
IF MORE Aggies knew how
planning and preparation went
into those meals that they rant
and rave about at times, maybe
some day instead of “Beat the
hell out of the mess hall,” visitors
would hear an honest wildcat for
the mess hall cooks.
MYSTERY STUDENT IN A BLACK BAG
Oregon State University’s class in Speech 113—Basic
Persuasion, has at each session a mystery student covered
by a black bag with only his bare fee showing. (AP Wire-
photo)
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Greenhut Revises
Economics Book
Dr. M. L. Greenhut, head of the
Economics Department, has re
vised his textbook for the Uni
versity of North Carolina Press.
“Plant Location in Theory and
in Practice” was originally pub
lished in 1956.
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