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ies” THE BATTALION Wednesday, March 20, 1968 College Station, Texas Page 3 Pinkie’s Wife Says Everything Keeps Changing CYCLOTRON EXPERIMENTERS Dr. Thomas Sugihara, center, points out a device used to align the beam of a cyclotron to Kenneth Hofstetter, left, and Joe Natowitz. The three Texas A&M researchers are the first to begin experiments with the university’s variable energy cyclotron. A&M Begin Cyclotron Researchers Nuclear Experiments Scientists have begun nuclear experiments with Texas A&M’s cyclotron. Targets of various materials, including cobalt, copper, alumi num and gold, have been bom barded with beams of alpha par ticles from the big accelerator. Energy of the alpha particles, which were brought about 20 feet outside the cyclotron, was 40 million electron volts, Whit Mc- Farlin, associate director of the Cyclotron Institute, said. Dr. Thomas T. Sugihara and Kenneth Hofstetter have collab orated in bombardment of a co balt target. The bombardment produces a radioactive isotope of copper which, when it decays, leads to excited states of nickel (nickel-60). “A theorist recently made cal culations based on a model as to what the excited states of nickel- 60 should be,” said Dr. Sugihara. “There >is some experimentation available, but not enough.” Joe Natowitz also has bom barded targets, this time foils of copper, aluminum and gold. “The experiments were to in vestigate the possibility of de tecting low energy recoil nuclei from the nuclear reactions,” Natowitz said. Sugihara, Hofstetter and Nato witz, all of A&M’s chemistry fac ulty, are staff members of the Cyclotron Institute. Workers in the cyclotron insti- ^\Nonderii//p/cture\ S’WsoN'Scsnr mitmufilVam Giii Campus Theatre March 31 — April 6 Advanced Tickets $1.00 <§>■ <!1> a MACHINE GIVES YOU TOTAL ENVIRONMENT! In a dark room the I MACHINE travels with you beyond plain walls into a bursting rainbow of color change. 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The Atomic Energy Commis sion has granted $250,000 for the spectrograph, which will allow extremely precise discrimination of nuclear particles. Other basic experiments are planned by the institute in the structure of the atomic nucleus and various interactions of atomic particles. In addition, a number of biological and medical investigations and materials re search studies are contemplated. A cyclotron accelerates nuclear particles to high energies and speeds by holding them in cir cular paths with an intense mag netic field while extremely rapid oscillations of an electric field push and pull them faster and faster. The high-speed particles are then able to penetrate the forces surrounding the cores of atoms and thereby give some indication of their structure, physicists ex plain. Texas A&M’s $6 million fa cility produced its first exterior beam of nuclear particles in De cember. Ashcraft Receives Award Dr. Allen C. Ashcraft, associate professor of history at Texas A&M University, was named the recipient of the “Award of Merit for Teaching” here March 11 at the annual Gamma Sigma Delta initiation banquet. Gamma Sigma Delta is an in ternational honor society of agri culture and veterinary medicine. Dr. W. F. Krueger, president of Gamma Sigma Delta, said the award is presented to a faculty member outside the College of Agriculture and the College of Veterinary Medicine who makes an important contribution in molding, building and developing students who seek an education. Gamma Sigma Delta wishes to give recognition to teachers in other fields who give of their tal ents and time beyond the call of duty in order that students may receive a better education, Krue ger said. Dr. H. O. Kunkel, dean of the College of Agriculture, presented the award to Ashcraft. Ashcraft was born in San An tonio in 1928. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from A&M in 1950. He was awarded his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Colum bia University. The latter de gree was completed in 1960. Ashcraft has served in both the United States Air Force and the United States Army. He cur rently holds the rank of major in the U. S. Army. Call 822-1441 Allow 20 Minutes Carry Out or Eat-In THE PIZZA HUT 2610 Texas Ave. PRESENT: A THOUSAND CLOWNS by: HERB GARDNER director: MR. C. K. ESTEN By VANCY MANNING Battalion Special Writer “Everything is c h a n g i n g,” “Miss Bea” Downs, wife of the late Pinkie L. Downs, says. “When we first came to A&M from Temple in 1940, it took us a whole day to travel here,” she said. “But now it takes only a few hours.” “A&M has grown so and added so many big buildings,” she said. She thinks that the biggest change at A&M has been the in creased enrollment. “The young people have changed, too,” she said. “At the first ring dance we attended, it seemed to me that the boys were afraid to kiss the girls. But now they aren’t as shy as before.” She does not approve of letting girls attend A&M. “Daddy (Pinkie) didn’t want girls at A&M,” she said. “He wanted a man’s school.” “Daddy didn’t see how the girls would be able to walk to class in the shoes they wore,” she re called. “No matter what changes might have taken place, Daddy would have always stayed at A&M,” she said. Pinkie Downs loved A&M probably more than anyone else. Anything that an Aggie ever gave to him he kept. “Daddy was crazy about the Aggies,” she said. “He loved them all and so do I. They’re such nice people.” Mrs. Downs is grateful to the Aggies for all the tribute they paid her husband, especially Sil ver Taps. Perhaps one of her fondest memories of her 28 years at A&M is the golden wedding an niversary celebration given her and Pinkie on Dec. 7, 1966, at the MSC. “After the party the five- tiered cake that Col. (Fred) Dol lar had baked was brought to our house,” she said. “We gave cake to everyone in the neighborhood. I still have the top layer of icing with the man and woman dolls standing in it.” She and Pinkie were married in 1916 in Temple. “Mother decided when she was 12 years old that she was going to marry Pinky Downs,” Grey, her daughter, said. “They were very happy to gether,” Grey said. Everything at A&M that was part of Pinkie’s life became part of hers too . She tried to attend all the social functions that he did because that was the way she wanted it. She will always have fond memories of A&M. “Daddy’s favorite place on campus was the MSC,” she said. “There used to be houses where the MSC is now,” she said. “I’m glad that they are going to ex pand it.” When she goes to lunch at the MSC with friends, students rec ognize and speak to her. “They remember me but I sometimes forget their names,” she said. “Mother gets upset if an Aggie remembers her and she can’t re member his name,” Grey said. “But with all the Aggies she has met, she couldn’t possibly remem ber all their names.” Former students and friends often drop by to see how she is doing. Recently, Sam Smith, class of ’32, of Uvalde stopped by for a visit. “He bought us a large loaf of homemade German bread,” she said. “He brings us a loaf near ly every times he comes.” She and her daughter live at 301 Dexter in College Station. They have two dogs, Lady and Duke. Lady, who has been at the Downs about two years, is a rather quite, watchful collie. Duke, a cocoa brown mini-toy poodle, is a bundle of energy. “Baby (Grey) and I are at tached to Duke and Lady,” Mrs. Downs said. “They are a lot of company.” She likes to take them for a walk every morning. She enjoys working in her yard because she says it helps her to sleep better at night. One of her latest ventures was planting a hedge in her back yard. She owns and drives a black 1949 Dodge. “It absolutely runs,” Grey said. “The only reason she drives it is so that when people ask her if she still drives she can say yes.” She refuses to tell her age. All she’ll say is that she was born July 1. She is 4 feet 11 inches tall and has brown eyes. When she came to A&M she had black hair. “A&M has turned my hair gray,” she said smiling. As to her what future plans are she said, “I plan to watch A&M grow bigger and bigger.” ALL JUNIORS and ALL SOPHOMORES Pictures for 1968 Aggieland T - Z Mar. 18-23 ALL MAKE - UP March 25 thru April 6 UNIV ERSITY STUDIO Miller Authors New Book Dr. Thomas Lloyd Miller, as sociate professor of history at Texas A&M, is author of a new historical work, “Bounty and Do nation Land Grants of Texas, 1835-1888.” It is an extensive revision of Dr. Miller's doctoral dissertation published by the University of Texas Press. “This new publication makes a significant contribution to the history of Texas,” said Dr. J. M. Nance, head of the Department of History and Government at A&M. “Bounty and Donation Land Grants of Texas will be of inter est to Texas historians in gen eral, and in particular to law yers, geneologists, and to those interested in studying the land grant system of Texas and the progression of settlement in the state,” he said. Dr. Miller previously has pub lished a number of articles on land grant policies of Texas. Pejovich Authors Research Study Dr. Steve Pejovich, associate professor of economics at Texas A&M, is author of an article on Yugoslavia which will be pub lished in “Series Studies in So cial and Economic Sciences.” The article is entitled “Trends in the Productivity of Capital in Yugoslavia.” Pejovich’s research was spon sored by the American Associa tion of Learned Societies. “Series Studies” is published by the National Institute of So cial and Behavioral Science. • '-i * i ; ; . • - >' • »• - Read Battalion Classifieds BiC Medium Point 18t BiC Fine Point 25» V® Despite fiendish torture dynamic BiC Duo writes first time, every time! arc’s rugged pair of stick pens wins again in unending war against bail-point skip, clog and smear. Despite horrible punishment by mad scientists, arc still writes first time, every time. 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