TTA6 E BATTALION Tuesday, March 14, 1967 College Station, Texas Page 5 l(h at all tiii God thai' wherein nment.’ still has io want tl tO WO! CISC’s Loman Rifles Capture Title In Drill Meet FIRST PLACE INSPECTION TROPHY ish Drill Team Commander Roger Gomez, accepts the First Place trophy inspection from President Earl Rudder in the Texas A&M Invitational 0 rill Meet Saturday, Aggie Sweetheart Kathi Austin look’s on. DRILL COMPETITION One of thirteen ROTC drill teams performs during the fourth Texas A&M Invitational Drill Meet Saturday. Sam Houston’s Lowman Rifles won the overall trophy. (Photo by Russell Autrey) ft ATTENTION! JJnJll hometown and iOFESSIONAL CLUBS DEMyi club sweetheart pic- 4 WAN -es and write-ups must be ™ ’ned in to the Aggieland ^ ice by March 15, in order Idm/i’ them to appear in this r’s Aggieland. -*YLL SENIORS 30 HAVE NOT SE- ICTED THEIR PROOFS EASE DO SO BY 15 NER VRCH 1967 AT THE HVERSITY STUDIO IN ays l') RTH GATE, ivdoffi oil Gel 1 Is Don MARE PAY PUS « SUN SHINES yji a summer job ^MANPOWER IpSP' have muscle-building, bankroll- ^ Iding jobs for college men in ipS° r fes, warehouses, stores . . . in- rs and outdoors. And the rates e never better. If you want to set for summer, why not stop it your local Manpower office :n you’re home on Spring vaca- and tell us where you want to k (we have offices in over 500 ts throughout the world). •®WER* Li Equal Opportunity Employer Plant Research Stretches Lifespan Texas A&M scientists are bringing new life and growth to dying plant leaves with a sub stance that may lead to longer lifespans for man. Key to the life-prolonging Debaters Capture Wins In Last Meet Texas A&M debaters won first place and best speaker plus third in men’s extemporaneous speak ing at the 32nd Louisiana Speech Tournament to close out a win ning season. David Maddox of College Sta tion and Robert Peek of Jacks- boro swept junior division com petition in the 21-school meet for the championship trophy. Maddox took third in extempor aneous speaking and Ron Hinds of Midland was judged best speaker among 60 contestants in the junior division. Hinds aver aged 26 points out of a possible 30 in five rounds. In taking the Aggie Debate Team’s fifth trophy of the year, Maddox and Peek went unde feated in eight matches. They beat SFA, Northwest and North east Louisiana State, Rice and San Jacinto College in prelims. The duo lost one ballot to SFA in quarterfinals then posted 3-0 wins over Rice and the Univer sity of Houston for the first place trophy. Hinds and James Byrd of Houston defeated San Jacinto, Southeast and Northeast Louisi ana for an overall 11-2 combined team record. The junior debaters, including a freshmen and three sophomores, have competed in 10 senior tour naments this year for a .603 per- cantage, noted Carl Kell, team director. ConsolidatedPlans Clothing Drive The Student Council of A&M Consolidated High School is spon soring a clothing drive this week to help the needy children in Ap palachia. The drive is a division of the Save the Children Federation which last year collected more than 3,000,000 pounds of clothes across the United States. Boxes will be set up at the A&M Consolidated library and at the school office. Anyone hav ing old clothing is asked to de posit it at either one of the loca tions. Anyone who cannot bring his contribution by the school need only call members of the Student Council for home pickup. Dump Yard Fire Calls B-CS Units To Shoe Company Fire units from both Bryan and College Station were needed to control a fire Sunday night at the dump yard of the Interna tional Shoe Co. The Bryan Fire Department was called out at 8:50 and it in turn called the College Station Fire Department for assistance. The area is used to dump waste rubber products as well as ce ments used in the making of shoes. Firemen believe that the fire started from spontaneous combustion in the cements. The adhesives contain highly combus- table chemicals. Firemen did not, however, rule out the possibility that someone started the fire. The flames, whipped by high winds, spread to a nearby pas ture and burned about four acres before firemen were able to con trol them. Since burning rubber cannot be extinguished by water, firemen decided to let the fire bum itself out and simply to keep it from spreading. process is kinetin, a hormone that retards the aging process in plants. The chemical was first identified in 1956 and its rela tionship to growth was discov ered in 1960. DR. RUBLE Langston and a graduate student, Dr. H. B. Lagerstedt, now with Oregon State University, conducted re search beginning in 1964, that caused further growth in dying tobacco leaves. “We treated leaves with kinetin in such away that it not only pre vented aging, but rejuvenated the old leaf,” Langston said. Reports of the plant physiology research have stirred scientific interest from virtually all the 50 states and 22 foreign countries, including Switzerland, Turkey, Nigeria, Japan, India, Czecho slovakia, Belgium, Malaysia, Hungary, France and Poland. Kinetin was either brushed on a subject leaf or injected through its veins, Langston explained. “We’re not sure how its causes new growth. One of the chem ical’s properties is mobilization of cellular building stones—proteins and amino acids—to the leaf area whereit is applied.” He said the new growth turns a yellowing, aging leaf green and causes it to buckle in the rejuve nated area, from cellular division and growth forcing against sur rounding tissue. Kinetin apparently sends out signals causing building material to congregate in pools in the leaf structure. The Texas A&M sci entist said specially treated leaves retained life after four months in dark conditions that completely killed untreated, de tached leaves in three weeks. “We selected tobaco leaves be cause their period of senescence (dying) is about 10 days,” the professor said. ‘Some leaves die in 24 hours and others take six months.” The death of a tobacco leaf can be arrested as late as the eighth day of its 10-day dying period. The Plant Sciences Department professor has also made radio logical tracing studies of the com pound’s movement through the structure of a leaf. Cat^ he i- cop)'' A Few More of the Many Policyowners Here At Aggieland Rick Dibrell Ronnie Jones Larry Lawrence Mike Smith lg e :E Craig Griffith Jim Nagel Ronnie Brown Charles Partridge FIDELITY UNION LIFE 9ndWiance Local Office - 303 College Main North Gate 846-8228 Home Office Dallas, Texas “Kinetin is a compound similar to components of RNA and DNA,” Langston said. RNA and DNA are the governing factors of hereditary characteristics of animals, plants and human be ings. Complex DNA “messages” are the means by which all living tissueis formed. Kinetin was originally isolated from fish sperm cells. The only known retardant of the aging process of any living organism, it is now synthesized chemically at considerable expense. Volume production will reduce costs. Sam Houston State College’s Loman Rifles put together win ning basic and precision drills to capture the overall trophy at Texas A&M’s fourth Invitational Drill Meet Saturday. The Huntsville team, com manded by Don Voelter, missed only one first place in winning th^ 14-team competition. The Loman Rifies scored 1,082.36 out of a possible 1,225 points. The defending champion A&M Freshman Drill Team won the other top award for inspection, and missed repeating for the overall championship by 20.37 points. The “Fish” won third places in basic and precision drill. Other trophies were presented by A&M President Earl Rudder to Texas A&I’s Kings Rifles for second in basic and the Bucca neers of the University of Texas, Austin, second in precision. A special award was made to the girls’ drill team of the Uni versity of Texas at El Paso, the ROTC Sponsor Corps, for an exhibition drill. 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