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Tuesday, March 21, 1967
College Station, Texas
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Finance Forum
To Meet Tonight
At Holiday Inn
Dr. Jack W. Coleman, head of
the Accounting Department and
acting head of the Finance De
partment, and James G. Mitchell,
assistant professor of finance,
will be speakers at the Family
Finance Forum tonight.
The forum, sponsored by the
City National Bank of Bryan,
begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Holiday
Inn.
C^hjman will speak on “Per
sonal Money Management,” while
Mitchell’s topic concerns invest
ment planning. Mitchell was a
stockbroker before joining the
A&M faculty.
Filing Announced
Town Hall Soph
The Student Programs Office
has begun issuing application
forms to sophomores interested'
in joining the Town Hall Staff
for next year, according to Ro
bert F. Gonzales, Town Hall
Committee chairman for 1967-68.
The forms, which will be avail
able until 5 p.m. April 5, must
be completed and returned to one
of the secretaries in the office,
Gonzales explained.
Nuclear Energy Discussed By Tuck
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DISASTER SCENE, 30 YEARS LATER
A monument to the 294 children and teachers killed in an
explosion March 18, 1937 stands in front of the New Lon
don School in East Texas. A spark from a switch detonated
accumulated natural gas that levelled the building called
“The Richest School in the World” because of the seven oil
wells pumping on the campus. The people of New London
rarely talk about the tragedy anymore but the towering
cenotaph at the rebuilt school is a memorial to those who
died. (AP Wirephoto)
Nuclear energy as a power
source for the future was dis
cussed by a noted physicist Fri
day in an address at Texas A&M.
James L. Tuck, chief physicist
of the Sherwood Project at the
Los Alamos, N. M., Scientific
Laboratory, spoke to the Texas
Academy of Science and other
groups meeting concurrently.
Tuck said the increasing popu
lation of the world will eventually
bring about depletion of conven
tional fossil sources of energy.
He referred to coal, oil and gas
as main sources of fossil energy.
Two possible nuclear sources of
energy to take care of man’s fu
ture needs were noted by Tuck.
These include fission of the heav
iest atoms—like uranium, and
fusion of some of the lightest
atoms—such as heavy hydrogen,
lithium and beryllium.
The former, he pointed out, is
already in being and fission pow
er plants are in the process of
taking over the task of driving
power stations throughout the
world.
Tuck was quick to explain that
the fusion power source from the
light elements is not yet an ac
complished fact. Accomplishment
LSU Scientist Uses Radar,
Telescopes To Track Birds
The moon, astronomical tele
scopes and radar have been used
by an LSU scientist to refute the
theory that migrating birds fly
around the Gulf of Mexico, rather
than go straight over it.
Dr. George H. Lowery Jr. pre
sented his trans-Gulf study at the
Texas Academy of Sciences-Texas
Ornithological Society meeting
here this past weekend.
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conclusions drawn by Dr. George
Williams of Rice University.
In a 1945 paper, “Do Birds
Cross the Gulf of Mexico in the
Spring?”, Dr. Williams theorized
that birds migrating from Mexi
co and Central America take a
coastwise route or skirt the Gulf
by following a path from the Yu
catan Peninsula to Cuba, the
Keys and Florida.
Dr. Lowery’s TOS lecture pre
sented visual proof migrant birds
take the direct route.
The bulk of evidence was com
piled through observations made
of the moon through low-power
telescopes.
“Through a telescope trained
on the moon, birds were counted
as they crossed the lunar disk,”
the past president of the Ameri
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worked out to estimate the num
ber of birds crossing a mile-long
line through the observing site.
Observers looked only at a sliver
of space.”
“A cross section of a cone of
sight from the moon to an ob
server covers only 27 square feet
of space at 3,000 feet altitude,”
he pointed out.
Not only does the observational
technique provide an index of the
total number of fowl passing
overhead, the zoology professor
added, but by orienting the face
of a clock on the moon, observers
described the direction of flight.
“In Jules Verne vernacular, we
have well over 20,000 hours under
the moon,” he commented.
Feldtman Is New
Prexy TAS Branch
Bob Feldtman of Pan American
College at Edinburg is the new
president of the Collegiate Aca
demy, a branch of the Texas
Academy of Science.
Feldtman, who succeeds Pat
Davis of St. Edward’s University
in Austin, was elected during the
70th annual meeting of the Texas
Academy of Science at Texas
A&M University.
Stations set up in Yucatan,
Commerce, Tex., Baton Rouge, St.
George Island in Maryland and
numerous other locations proved
the technique. A station at Com
merce counted 1,690 actual sight
ings in seven hours. The project
ed figure revealed 246,800 birds
passed over a line one-half mile
either side of the station at right
angles to the flight path.
He said average vectors of
Yucatan stations worked in 1963
were 323, 316 and 315 degrees,
projecting bird flights in a north
westward direction across the
Gulf of Mexico.
A 1952 project set up 265 ob
serving stations all over the U. S.
and three Canada provinces to
chart bird migration.
Dr. Lowery, director of the Mu
seum of Natural Science in Baton
Rouge, also showed radar time-
lapse motion pictures made at
a weather radar station south of
Lake Charles, La.
The unedited eight-minute film
of several days’ radar tracking
showed birds arriving from al
most due south of Cameron, La.,
a Gulf Coast city. The line-of-
sight radar beams at 200 miles
range rose above bird flight
levels, due to curvature of the
earth.
Purdue Professor
To Give Lecture
Dr. Durward L. Allen, wildlife
ecology professor in Purdue Uni
versity’s Forestry and Conserva
tion Department, will give a
Graduate College lecture here to
day.
“Moose-Wolf Ecology on Isle
Royale” is the topic for his 3:30
p.m. talk in the Biological Sci
ences lecture room.
Dr. Wayne C. Hall, A&M’s aca
demic vice president, said Dr. Al
len is known internationally for
work in population ecology of
game animals.
Dr. Allen is a member of nu
merous boards and committees
devoted to conservation and man
agement of the nation’s natural
resources. Since 1958, Allen has
done research dealing with pre
dation.
A native of Indiana, Dr. Allen
earned his Ph.D. in vertebrate
ecology at Michigan State Uni
versity. His undergraduate train
ing was at the University of
Michigan.
Journalism Prof
Publishes Survey
Dr. David R. Bowers, associ
ate professor of journalism at
Texas A&M, is the author of an
article in the spring issue of the
“Journalism Quarterly.”
The article, “A Report on Acti
vity by Publishers in Directing
Newsroom Decisions,” is the re
sult of a survey of 600 managing
editors of evening daily newspa
pers in the United States.
YOUR SIX
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BILL ALTMAN ’65
BUBBER COLLINS ’66
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of this, he emphasized, has been
described as one of the most dif
ficult problems of modern tech
nical physics.
Advantage of the fusion source
over fission nuclear energy, Tuck
commented, is that it does not
produce the dangerous fission
products which are so harmful
to life.
Tuck said the dangers are ex
aggerated at present. If fission
becomes a major source of power
for the world, it could be a major
hazard to life, he added.
Fusion power, being probed in
the United States as “Project
Sherwood,” is still a long way
off, Tuck explained. He said fu
sion power is being widely stud
ied throughout the world, with
Russia, Germany, England,
France, Japan, Italy and Sweden
among countries conducting re
search.
The distant glimmer of hope
for fusion power first appeared
in 1957 at Los Alamos, accoid-
ing to Tuck. It became public
knowledge in 1958, when for the
first time, a controlled thermo
nuclear reaction was achieved in
the laboratory. Prior to that
time, the only known thermo-nu
clear reaction was that in the
uncontrolled hydrogen bomb.
Some progress has been made
since that time, he said. Meas
ured in physicists terms of esti
mating success, the thermo-nu
clear reaction in the Sylli ma
chine at Los Alamos is within a
factor of 500 of success.
Tuck said President Johnson’s
supplemental budget now before
congress includes the only ther
mo-nuclear device mentioned by
name . . . the next generation
device in the Sylli line. The pro
posal calls for $8.5 million for
the Scyllac, which will take up
to four years to build.
Hopes are high, Tuck remarked,
that the machine will bring the
U. S. closer to thermo-nuclear
power.
Dr. Newman A. Hall, executive
director of the Commission on
Engineering Education, is to ad
dress a combined academy ban
quet at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Sbisa
Hall.
The Texas Ornithological So
ciety opened a three-day session
Friday morning with a talk by
Dr. George H. Lowery Jr. of Lou
isiana State University.
Half-day field trips conducted
by the Brazos County Ornitho
logical Society are scheduled Sat
urday and Sunday. The society
will hear an address by Dr. Keith
Arnold, A&M ornithology profes
sor, at 2 p.m. Saturday in Scopes
Hall.
Other activities of the TOS in
clude a dinner Saturday night at
the Ramada Inn, a board meeting
and general business session Sun
day morning at the A&M Me
morial Student Center.
Also meeting jointly with the
TAS are the Texas Branch of the
Animal Care Panel, and the Tex
as Society for Electron Micros
copy.
One of Friday’s featured papers
of the Animal Care Panel was by
William Greer of the Delta Re
gional Primate Center, Coving
ton, La. He discussed the selec
tion of primate species for re
search programs.
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