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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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