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Thursday, May 18, 1967
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TINY CRAFT FOR PROJECTED LONG FLIGHT
Dr. Francis X. Sommer, of Barbourville, Ky., stands beside his single-engine airplane at
Barbourville. With extra fuel tanks, he hopes plane will take him and Dr. John Rieber
18,000 miles around world. This is planned as part of 40th anniversary of Lindbergh’s
New York-Paris flight in 1927. (AP Wirephoto)
Graduate Begins Practice
In Education, Psychology
Metal Boxes Aid Forecasting
The Education and Psychology
Department’s fourth doctoral
graduate will enter the practic
ing education world next fall.
Paul L. Stevens, 45, expects to
receive his Ph.D. in August. He
has been employed as associate
professor in the School of Educa
tion at Southwest Texas State
College, effective Sept. 1.
“Paul’s position is quite an
honor for the department,” stated
Dr. Paul Hensarling. The educa
tion and psychology head noted
that earlier A&M education doc
toral graduates are professors at
Texas Christian University, the
University of Jordon and a Bryan
Public Schools official.
Stevens, formerly of Fort
Worth, is completing require
ments for his doctorate in educa
tional administration. His dis
sertation involves regional educa
tional service center development
through the Texas Education
Agency.
The 1951 A&M graduate will
Services Held
For J. W. Hall
Funeral services for J. W. Hall,
80, of Bryan, a former manager
of the Texas A&M University
Press, were held this afternoon
at Hillier Funeral Home in Bryan.
Hall, an employe of the A&M
Press for 25 years died Wednes
day in a Bryan hospital.
The Rev. Morris House, pastor
of First Methodist Church, offi
ciated at funeral services. Burial
was in the Kurten Cemetery.
Survivors include a daughter,
four sons, four sisters, a brother,
17 grandchildren and four great
grandchildren.
Forms Needed For
Veteran Allowance
Students now receiving veteran
educational allowances who plan
to stay in school this summer
must complete forms at the Stu
dent Affairs Office in the base
ment of the YMCA.
Any person eligible for such
allowances who has not applied
and wishes to do so may obtain
necessary forms at that office.
Further information concern
ing veteran benefits is available
at the office or by calling 846-
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instruct in the SWTS teacher
training program, announced
Education Dean Lloyd Rogers.
Stevens has worked in the same
area at A&M under Dr. William
W. Stokes, as graduate assistant
During 18 years in Harris
County educational positions,
Stevens was probation officer for
the county and Galena Park
School District, where he was also
a high school history teacher and
assistant superintendent.
While in Harris County, he
earned his masters degree in edu
cational administration at the
University of Houston. From
1960 to 1964, he was Hereford
schools superintendent.
The new Southwest Texas pro
fessor is a member of the Texas
State Teachers Association,
American Association of School
Administrators, Texas Associa
tion of School Administrators,
Phi Delta Kappa and TEA’s
special committee on textbook
problems. He is past president of
the Panhandle Superintendents
Association and state committee
Students Set
Tire Record
TYLER, Tex. <A>) — Tyler Jun
ior College Wednesday claimed a
new “tire-stuffing” record when
37 of its skinniest students man
aged to climb into a huge 44.5 by
45 casing.
Dale Ayres, president of Kap
pa Sigma Lambda, which both
sponsored and won the event, said
it broke a record of 24 set by
Stephen F. Austin College. He
said Washburn University cur
rently is third with 23 students
stuffed into a tire.
The women’s title in Wednes
day’s contest was claimed by 35
residents of the Nurses Dormitory
who managed to stuff themselves
into the tire.
At one time 40 girls managed
to get in the tire but were dis
qualified because they came from
three organizations, not one as
required by what Ayres said were
the official rules in the tire-stuff
ing contest.
consultant for writing a “Hand
book for Pupil Accounting.”
His civic activities include
Kiwanis, Chamber of Commerce
and church board chairmanships.
Stevens and his wife, the
former Dale Wray of Houston,
have two sons. Mickey, 22, is in
the Army. David, 20, is a junior
in the Corps of Cadets at A&M.
The family resides at 419 Tauber,
College Station.
Bonds Are Sold
Worth $800,000
Brazos county officials sold
$800,000 in bonds to the Re
public National Bank of Dallas
Monday at an interest rate of
3.81 per cent over the next 21
years.
The bonds had been approved
by Brazos county voters in a spe
cial election last month to finance
construction of a western by-pass
around Bryan-College Station.
Davis McGill, the county’s fin
ancial agent for the bond issue,
said that the comissioner’s and
all officials concerned were very
happy with the rate. McGill says
that the 3.81 per cent will amount
to about $397,000 in interest.
Last week, the county comis-
sioners approved a 25 cent tax
rate which will affect about 25
per cent of the residents in Brazos
county.
Funeral Today
For S. 0. Payne
Funeral services for Sidney O.
Payne, 85, of 1900 Reese, Bryan,
was held today in the Hillier
Funeral Chapel in Bryan.
Payne was a retired employe of
the Texas A&M University Power
Plant. He died Tuesday in a
Bryan hospital.
The Rev. Bob Owens, pastor of
Calvary Baptist Church, Bryan,
officiated at funeral services.
Burial was in the Bryan City
Cemetery.
Survivors include three daugh
ters, a son, a sister and six grand
children.
A future hunter tramping
through a Northwestern United
States forest may run across an
unusual metal unit in an isolated
clearing.
The apparently out-of-place
device, sealed against elements,
prowling animals and prying fin
gers, carries an identification
plate marked “World Weather
Watch.”
The barrel-size instrument is
the present-day meteorologist’s
daydream for more accurate, in
clusive weather forecasts.
Similar devices of a buoy type
will probably be found scattered
through the world’s oceans and
seas.
The automatic, self - regulated
apparatus, perhaps placed by
helicopter and checked only once
in a decade, will record weather
information at programmed in
tervals.
The unit’s atmospheric infor
mation, taken world-wide at the
same time, will be telemetered to
satellites, relayed to a large com
puter complex and turned into
weather maps for every area of
the world.
The meteorologist’s key prob
lem, according to Dr. Vance E.
Moyer, Texas A&M Meteorology
Department head, is collecting
data about temperature, humidi
ty and pressure — factors re
quired in equations that produce
today’s synoptic weather maps
from which forecasts are de
duced.
He noted that during the re
cent International Geophysical
Year only 10 per cent of the
earth’s atmosphere was under ac
curate study.
Recent technological advances
are increasing man’s capability
to get a more detailed look at the
earth’s thick envelope of gas.
But information presently uti
lized is still inadequate to make
precise evaluations of how the
air layer will behave—and pro
duce weather.
Expense is the bottleneck. An
A&M study for Eglin AFB offi
cials in Florida estimated opti
mum instrumentation for the Eg
lin Gulf Test Range to minimize
firing risk.
Meteorologists decided seven
upper atmosphere sounding sta
tions around the Gulf of Mexico
would do the job, at a half mil
lion dollar price tag not includ
ing men’s salaries. The entire
weather system outlay for the
first year was estimated at over
$11 million.
“Weather forecasters are do
ing a remarkable job,” Moyer de
clares. “There is no reason to
expect the accuracy they achieve
considering skimpy data with
which they have to work.” U.S.
Weather Bureau forecasts are
considered 85 per cent correct.
Development of more reliable
forecasting hinges on six areas
of research and development.
Meteorologists are working on
more sophisticated use of com
puters, non-linear secondary dif
ferential equations, LASER tech
nology, radar, constant density
balloons and weather satellites.
Present forecasts are made
from computer - drawn maps is
sued from Suitland, Md. Atmos
pheric information on tempera
ture, humidity, pressure and
wind is derived from radiosondes
and weather stations across the
hemisphere. Data collected inde
pendently at the same Green
wich standard time is inserted in
Suitland computers through dif
ferential equations. The compu
ter “answer” is maps showing
pressure, vorticity (wind) and
other information forecasters use
in making weather estimates.
Besides inadequate sampling,
problems crop up in the equation
and scale of the material.
Weather as humans view it is
on the mesoscale. Sunlight, wind,
snow, rain, sleet and clouds are
“cells” of the synoptic (conti
nental or hemispheric) basis by
which the computer treats air
masses.
The differential equation does
not lend itself to solution. It
does not handle hard numbers
that are used in totalling grocery
bills and figuring junior’s school
grades.
Skimpy radiosonde and station
data must be extrapolated to fit
a grid system the computer can
handle.
“Human interpretation is still
required to produce forecasts,”
Moyer noted. “But the time will
come when complexes of ma
chines will make the total fore
cast. I don’t expect to live to see
it,” the 52-year-old department
head said.
Laser research at Northwest
ern and Texas Universities seeks
a way to collect upper air infor
mation by amplified light beam.
Another tool, radar, is a per
fect forecasting device, accord
ing to Geosciences Dean Horace
R. Byers.
“Radar is ideal for short-term
predictions where weather sys
tems are intact and moving. It
is extremely accurate to 150
miles, where the earth’s curva
ture causes its line-of-sight beam
to miss low-lying weather,” By
ers commented.
He said radar detects objects
such as tornadoes, after the fun
nel touches the ground.
“The recent Chicago tornado
touched down the first time at
the point of destruction,” he
stated. “In the Topeka, Kan.,
destruction of Washburn Col
lege, radar gave 45 minutes
warning and the area was evac
uated with no life loss.”
He said Stuart Bigler of A&M
received an award for predicting
tornado movement into the Bry
an-College Station area in 1956.
Bigler is now in charge of
Weather Bureau radar programs.
“It’s possible better and cheap
er automation will fill observa
tion requirements for more ac
curate forecasts,” Byers went on.
“But there is nothing on the
horizon now to fill this need.
Automatic reporting stations are
still too expensive.”
Satellite meteorology, the field
of Dr. Aylmer Thompson, will
eventually assist in the meso
scale weather picture, he says.
“The satellite program is tre
mendously oversold,” Thompson
added. “Many people believe that
a satellite put in orbit will im
mediately start giving detailed
weather data.”
“Present satellites show cloud
formations from which smaller
scale weather features may be
deduced,” the professor went on.
“Extensive research will be re
quired for technique perfection.”
Powell Urges
Staff To Use
West Side
University employees working
in the Academic Building or
buildings west of it are encour
aged to use accesses on the west
side of the campus by Ed E.
Powell, campus security chief.
“Since FM 2154 has been im
proved,” Powell said, “those em
ployees could come up Jersey
Street, get on FM 2154, enter the
campus at Routt Boulevard, and
get to buildings like the MSC,
the YMCA, or the Academic
Building much faster than by
trying to fight all the traffic on
the north or east sides of the
campus.”
Powell said this would greatly
reduce traffic problems which oc
cur at the four peak periods: in
the moi-ning, before and after
lunch and in the evening.
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