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^Kleberg F oundation 4ids Research Here III i| l I i i lie 51t die 9< 21c 11c 11c Money from a cattle rancher who loved animals almost as nuch as people is helping Texas 4&M University to become an nternational center for wildlife nanagement and ecology. The late Caesar Kleberg, vice president and manager of the iprawling King Ranch in South ’exas at the time of his death 1946, is in the process of riving A&M $1.4 million over a leven-year period through his ! oundation. A&M’s Agricultural Experi- nent Station has already re vived $400,OOO for the first two rears of research and enhance- nent of wildlife resources for the public benefit. Dr. James G. Teer, program eader for Caesar Kleberg Foun- dation Research, said Mr. Kle- lerg’s trustees afford A&M an ipportunity to become known yorldwide as the center for ecol ogy, wildlife management and :onservation of natural resources. ALREADY, PROJECTS under way and proposed stretch from Texas to Africa to South Ameri- The international flavor is spected to expand, Teer pointed out. Programs call for thorough nvestigations of game ranching as a prospect for producing pro- ;ein for food-short world, espe- jially in underdeveloped coun- ;ries, and for furnishing sport lunting. “Mr. Kleberg was well-known or being interested in everyone ind everything,” Teer comment- “Friends say he had the anusual ability to recognize in stantly the potential good and latent possibilities in both m and animals.” “LIKE WILL ROGERS—one of IL Ur. Kleberg’s favorite characters he could recognize good in everyone he met and made friends with people from all walks of life,” he continued. ‘‘A lover of the great outdoors, Mr. Kleberg was one of the first sportsmen preach conservation of game and fish.” A&M staff additions under the program in the last nine months include Dr. Harold D. Irby, a waterfowl biology and marsh ecology specialist; Dr. Ernest D. Abies, whose interests include big jame biology and management plus radio-tracking and African nammals; Nathan K. Forrest, a specialist in game production eco nomics and harvest systems; Jeff iirby, an electronics technician with experience in estimating population characteristics of ani mals in the wild; and a secretary, Mrs. Brenda Hathaway. TWO NEW RESEACHERS, Ronald O. Skoog, coming soon from the University of California at Berkeley, and doctoral candi date Dennis Herlocker of Cor vallis, Ore., will go to East Africa this summer. Skoog will study the plains zebra at the Serengeti Research Institute in Tanzania, while Her locker will investigate vegetation- elephant relationships. In A&M’s game ranching pro gram, research is in progress on Nilgai antelope, axis deer, black- buck antelope and economics of game production and harvest sys tems. Teer said current plans call for some research regarding the blackbuck antelope to be done in Argentina. Also underway are native game animal ecology studies of prairie chickens, Bobwhite quail in South Texas, chemical and nutritional qualities of acorns, statistics in wildlife populations, ecology of the ringtail and white-wing doves in Texas and Mexico. THE Thursday, June 6, 1968 BATTALION College Station, Texas Page 7 Computers To Help Water Researchers NEW AGGIELAND EDITORS Editors for the 1969 Aggieland have been named and will begin work on the A&M year book as soon as the 1968 Aggieland is completed this summer. The new editors are as sistant Editor Mike Wright, senior journalism major from Victoria; Editor James Creel, senior accounting major from Fort Worth; and Assistant Editor Jimmy Mudd, senior agricultural economics major from Yoakum. SIIIRiM THEY ROTH MADE FRIENDS Humorist Will Rogers and rancher Caesar Kleberg strike a happy pose at the King Ranch in the late thirties. Rogers was one of many frequent visitors at the Norias division. In his will, Kleberg requested a grant be established for a world-wide center for wildlife research at Texas A&M University. Science Holds Interest For High School Students lodel Ocean Used d Study Pilings A Texas A&M Coastal and Ocean Engineering researcher is using a wave tank to delve into technical problems which cause offshore oil companies big head aches. He’s Dr. Robert M. Sorensen, a 29-year-old assistant professor who’s just getting his feet wet at Aggieland. ! “I’m just now getting started on a study of effects of surface roughness on ocean wave forces on cylindrical piles,” Sorensen said. “Most of these pilings are used for offshore oil rigs.” “NOBODY HAS STUDIED the problem to find out what type roughness occurs,” the University of California at Berkeley gradu ate remarked. “We’re building a pile to be erected in a laboratory wave tank. Then, we will use a strain gauge to measure force caused by waves.” Sorensen’s plans call for a pile three inches in diameter to be researched in the model here. Fluid mechanics theory and equa tions will help him predict values for the prototype which might be 20 feet in diameter in the ocean. “The crux of the whole thing is economy,” the intense engineer commented. “If I feel something should be changed, it’s much easier to change in the model than on the real thing. Less ex pensive, too.” “IN THE LABORATORY, we can study various sea growths and their effect on piling,” Soren sen explained. “This way we will eventually know which materials might be considered rough. Also, we will find which materials are most resistant to sea growths— such as smooth steel.” Simulating the ocean’s rough ness soon will be easy in a civil engineering laboratory. It’s to be done with a motorized machine which whips salt water into de sired wave heights down a 120- foot long wave tank two feet deep and three feet wide. Tuxedo Rental at jltm Starnes ^ ^ men's uienr Texas high school students have a flare for science and ap pear ready to light it, observed a Texas A&M exhibits manager. Don Jensen of McKeesport, Pa., spoke to more than 130,000 high school students the past school year in conducting a “This Atom ic World” program sponsored by A&M, Oak Ridge Associated Uni versities and the Atomic Energy Commission. Designed to stimulate student interest in careers in atomic energy, the program employed demonstration equipment to show how atomic energy is obtained and used in agriculture, industry and medicine. Jensen presented the program in about 190 schools in the Pan handle and Northeast Texas. Each time he set up the 800 pounds of equipment, Jensen talked to an average group of 700. “There were exceptions, but most of the kids were very in terested, responded well and in dicated they learned something from the presentation when I talked to them in science classes afterwards,” the 36-year-old A&M graduate remarked. The “Atomic World” exhibit, one of 14 operated throughout the U. S. in 1967-68, was also set up for Army and Navy personnel at Fort Hood and Dallas. It was video-taped for three 15-minute TV p ro g r a m s by the Dallas school district and presented at a Panhandle city’s Lions Club luncheon. The start of Jensen’s 32,000- mile tour through 105 cities and towns was shaky. Enroute to the first appearance at Dalhart last September, the panel truck en countered a wind storm between Wichita Falls and Amarillo. “I had to stop and wait it out,” Jensen said. “The wind almost blew the truck off the highway.” There were other nervous moments. To demonstrate medical use of trace elements, an “atomic cock tail” (colored water) was con sumed by a student volunteer. A specially-equipped Geiger counter with its own radiation source was used by Jensen to pinpoint the “cocktail element” near the thyroid gland. “One fellow almost fainted,” Jensen smiled. “I had to hold him up until he regained his com posure.” The program manager was more perturbed than a young lady who participated in another experiment. A Van de Graff gen erator was supposed to demon strate electricity and magnetism by making her hair stand on end. “She had on a wig,” Jensen lamented. “When it began rising off her head, the audience went wild. I was horrified; figured she would get upset. But she was very calm about it all.” A&M bulletins and guidance counselor material was left at each school on Jensen’s schedule. “A lot of students asked for ap plications and brochures on physi cal education, nuclear engineering and physics,” he added. “There seemed to be a lot of interest in A&M because of its science pro grams.” Don’s wife, Charlotte, who maintained contact by telephone, is happy to have him home awhile. After a month of training at Oak Ridge in August, Jensen plans to start a year-long South Texas tour with the “Atomic World” program in September. BUSIER AGENCY REAL ESTATE • INSURANCE F.H.A.—Veterans and Conventional Loans FARM & HOME SAVINGS ASSOCIATION Home Office: Nevada, Mo. 3523 Texas Ave. (in Ridgecrest) 846-3708 Call 822-1441 Allow 20 Minutes Carry Out or Eat-In THE PIZZA HUT 2610 Texas Ave. RIFLE, Colo. (A 5 ) — During the hunting season, two women tour ists asked Lucien Freddie, “Can we get a picture of your bear?” Freedle told them to go ahead. What he didn’t tell them was the “bear” lashed to the top of his truck cab was the dressed carcass of a Hereford calf he had bought. The Texas A&M University Water Resources Institute has received a federal grant of $43,- 998 to study scientific informa tion retrieval systems on water resources. Dr. Ernest T. Smerdon, insti tute director, said the research will involve a field evaluation of different computer systems which provides scientific data to agen cies and individuals concerned with water problems. He said there is a great amount of information on water resources being published, but it is often impossible for researchers to be aware of this material. “Through techniques using the computer, it is possible to selec tively provide published informa tion to individuals according to their specific interest,” the direc tor said. “For example, an indi vidual concerned with irrigation problems could be provided ab stracts of all published papers and data dealing with the phase of irrigation related to his in terest.” Associate directors of the proj ect at A&M are Dr. John Her- bich, professor of civil engineer ing, and Eugene Smith, computer specialist. Project consultants are Dr. John C. Calhoun, vice president for programs, and Dr. R. J. Freund, associate director of the Institute of Statistics. Mosquito Control Planned In B-CS Texas A&M maintenance per sonnel are joining forces with Bryan-College Station officials to declare war on the community’s bumper crop of mosquitos — as soon as the rains stop. O. O. Haugen, operations super intendent for A&M’s Physical Plant Department, said university personnel will spray the campus and surrounding area with a diesel fuel-DDT mixture when weather permits. Haugen explained the spray is ineffective if applied in the rain. Local residents, he continued, can help reduce the mosquito problem by removing any out door containers around their homes which hold water and al low the pests to breed. The Church..For a Fuller lile..For You.. EVERY efOIIRMEY THE CHURCH FOR ALL . . . ... ALL FOR THE CHURCH The Church is the greatest factor on earth for the building of character and good citizenship. It is a storehouse of spiritual values. Without a strong Church, neither democracy nor civiliza tion can survive. There are four sound reasons why every person should attend services regularly and support the Church. They are: (1) For his own sake. (2) For his children's sake. (3) For the sake of his community and nation. (4) For the sake of the Church itself, which needs his moral and material support. Plan to go to church regularly and read your Bible daily. Copyright 1968 Keister Advertising Service, Inc., Strasburg, Va. The caravan has travelled through the des ert for many days . . . and the men are glad to see the tall date palms of the oasis in the ®®® distance. Here they will rest and refresh themselves beside the cool spring before con tinuing on their way. Every journey is made easier if it is broken by intervals of restoration and re newal. Even life itself can be a weary road if it does not contain times and places where we can pause to gather new strength. Where can modern men and women regain the equilibrium and peace of mind that they need so badly? Fortunately, we too have an oasis . . . the Christian Church. The teachings of Jesus offer deep wells of comfort for the spirit, and springs of joy to revitalize any life that lacks goal or purpose. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday I Kings I Kings Isaiah Isaiah Matthew John John 19:1-8 19:9-18 35:1-10 58:6-12 10:5-15 4:1-15 4:16-26 <212? t <si2? t <si2? t <si2? + < TT7J + <TT77 + <£22? + <£22? + <£22? + <22? t <5±2? + <5l2? CALENDAR OF CHURCH SERVICES ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL 906 Jersey Street, So. Side of Campus Rector: William R. Oxley Asst.—Rev. Wesley Seelifier 8:00 A.M. & 9:15 A.M. Sunday Service: A&M CHURCH OF CHRIST 8:00 * 10:00 A.M. Worship 9:00 A.M.—Bible Study 5:15 P.M.-—Yountr People’s Class 6 :00 P.M.-—Worship 7:15 P.M.—-Atrfrie Class 9:30 A.M.—Tues. - Ladies Bible Class 7:15 P.M. Wednesday - Bible Study UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN (Missouri Synod) 8:45 A.M.—Morninir Worship 10 :00 A.M. Bible Class UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP .105 Old Highway 6, South 10:00 A.M.—Church School 8:00 A.M. -Adult Service A&M PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE 9:45 A.M.—Sunda 10:45 A.M. >> :M0 P.M. 7:00 P.M. .—Sunday School —MorninK Worship — Young- People’s Ser -Y oung Preachi ng Service CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY 9 ::>0 A.M.—Sunday School 11:00 A.M. Sunday Service 11:00 A.M.-2 P.M. Tues. Reading Rm. 7:00-8:00 P.M. Wed., Heading Room 8:00 P.M. Wed. Evening Worship FIRST BAPTIST 9 :30 AM—Sunday School 10:45 AM Morning Worship 6:10 PM—Training Union 7:20 PM—Evening Worship 6:30 PM—Choir Practice & Teachers’ meetings (Wednesday) 7:00 P.M. Midweek Services (Wed.) SECOND BAPTIST 710 Eisenhower ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC Sunday Masses -7:30, 9:00 and 11:00 FAITH CHURCH UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST 9:15 A.M.—Sunday School 10:30 A.M.—Morning Worship i':3!) P.M. Evening Service COLLECiE HEIGHTS ASSEMBLY OF GOD 15 A.M. Sunday School Morning Worship Young People’s Service Worship tay 11:00 A.M. Mornin; 6 :.!l) P.M.-—Young 7 :30 P.M. Evenii A&M METHODIST 8:30 A.M.—Morning Worship :45 A.M. Sunday School -1VT n I r >1 ship 9:45 A.M.- Sunday School ■ch Service :30 P.M. -Training Union 7:30 P.M. -Church Service 11 :00 A M.—Chur< -Trainin OUR SAVIOUR’S 8:30 & 10:45 A.M. LUTHERAN The Church at Worship 9:30 A M.-—Bible Classes For All Communion 1st Sun. Ea. Mo. —Sun. .—Chu 9:46 A.M.—Church School 11 :00 A.M.—Morning Worship 6 :00 P.M.—Sun. Single Stu. Fellowship 7 :15 P.M.—Wed. Student Fellowship 6 :45 A.M.—Fri. Communion Service Wesley Foundation Holy CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH 3205 Lakeview 9:45 A.M. Bible School 10:45 A.M.- Morning Worship 6 :00 P.M. Youth Hour 7 :00 P.M. Evening Worship 11:55 A.M.—Morning Wor 5:30 P.M. -Campus & Career Class 5 ‘30 & 6:00 P.M. MYF Meetings CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST O.*' LATTER DAY SAINTS 20ih East and Coulter, Bryan 8:30 A.M.— Priesthood meeting 10:00 A.M.-—Sunday School 5:00 P.M. Sacrament Meeting FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH Homestead & Ennis 9:45 A.M.—Sunday School 10:50 A.M.—Morning Worship 5 :30 P.M.—Young People GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH 2505 S. College Ave., Bryan An Independent Bible Church lay £ 11:00 A.M. —Morning Worship 7:30 P.M.—Evening Worship Juneraf ^Jlo BRYAN, TEXAS 502 West 26th St. PHONE TA 2-1572 Campus and Circle Theatres College Station College Station's Own Banking Service University National Bank NORTH GATE Sure Sign of Flavor Sure Sign of Flavor SANITARY Farm Dairies Central Texas Hardware Co. BRYAN • HARDWARE • CHINA WARE • CRYSTAL • GIFTS ICE CREAM AND MILK The Exchange Store “Serving Texas Aggies” bb&l BRYAN BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION