THE BATTALION
Wednesday, October 23, 1968
College Station, Texas Page 3
Ag Students
Name Leaders
Officers of the 1968-69 Student
Agricultural Council were elected
recently after a s u ;p p e r at
the home of Dr. R. C. Potts,
Associate Dean of Agriculture for
Instruction.
Sam Reeves, a senior wildlife
science major from Beaumont,
was elected chairman of the coun
cil. He is president of the Fish
and Game Club.
Vice - Chairman is Kenneth
Graeber, junior from Brenham.
Graeber is an agricultural eco
nomics major representing the
Agricultural Communications
Club.
Diane Ruedich, a senior flori
culture major from Marion, is the
secretary. She is president of the
Floriculture Club. Howard Hicks
was elected treasurer. He is a
senior from Bandera and presi
dent of the Agricultural Econom
ics Club.
Tom Curl, a junior agricultural
journalism major from San Juan,
is the council reporter. Curl is
president of the Agricultural
Communications Club.
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Albuquerque, N. M., police detective Don Fuller (right),
take a close look at the piece of equipment he will intimately
become acquainted with during the next six weeks. It is a
polygraph machine, commonly referred to as a lie-detector.
Discussing procedures with him is A&M Police Training
Division instructor Art Butler.
Ag Enrollment Up
Total enrollment in the College
of Agriculture amounts to 2,431
students for the fall semester
compared to 2,215 a year ago.
Dr. O. H. Kunkel, dean of agri
culture, said the College of Agri
culture is ranked Number 2 in
enrollment, with the College of
Engineering in first place. The
College of Agriculture has just
above 18 percent of the Univer
sity’s total enrollment.
Of the 2,431 for all students in
the College of Agriculture, 1,661
are undergraduates. At this time
last year, undergraduates num
bered 1,560.
Kunkel emphasized that the
College of Agriculture enrollment
figures do not include students
enrolled in pre-veterinary medi
cine. Other land-grant institutions
do place such students in agricul
tural enrollment.
New sounds have invaded quiet
clearing in remote woods of East
Central Texas.
Now competing with the sigh
ing of wind in scrub and pin oak,
black jack and persimmon trees
is the steady hum of air blowers.
Birds chirp against the back
ground chatter of a typewriter.
When two micrometeorological
stations are calibrated and func
tioning properly, only an occasion
al visitor will disturb the tranquil
scene.
A 108-foot high tower that
throbs with electronic life and a
large trailer van have become a
part of the East Yegua Creek
watershed country.
Electrical pulses that flash
along a bundle of cables from
tower to van may aid the quest
to more accurately predict weath
er.
Two of the micrometeorological
stations between Lexington and
Caldwell will be operated by Tex
as A&M’s Meteorology Depart
ment as part of Project Themis,
Department of Defense-funded
multi-pronged reseearch program
at A&M.
Stations on H. H. Cauffield and
W. C. Stegmiller land produce a
Waco phone book-size volume of
data daily on wind speed and di
rection, soil temperature, relative
humidity and insolation, amounts
of solar radiation.
Whirling anemometers measure
wind speed at one-quarter, one-
half, one, two( four, eight, 16 and
32 meter levels. At the same
distances above ground are dry-
wet bulb thermometers. Cable#
that disappear into the ground
at the foot of the tower take soil
temperatures at three, six, 12, 25,
40, 65 and 100-centimeter depths.
Electronic apparatus in the van
takes data from 25 instruments
on the tower and a pyrheliometer
on a 12-foot tall “goal-post.” It
is printed out automatically on an
IBM typewriter and can be per
forated onto tape for direct com
puter input and anlysis.
The automatic stations will be
checked daily by George Hines,
department technician. John C.
Kocher, electronics technician,
makes major repairs. Two sta
tions about eight miles apart are
being set up by a crew headed by
Robert Rogers, research engineer
with Dr. William H. Clayton.
The meteorology professors will
use data to verify simulated at
mospheric models.
“We’ll try to use it,” noted Dr.
Vance E. Moyer, Meteorology De
partment head. The department
operates the stations that were
designed, built and utilized by
Clayton in his 1960-62 Dallas
tower project.
Data taken is at the micromet
scale, which is to the oveerall
weather of an area as a leaf is
to a forest.
“This is more search than re
search for us,” Moyer went on,
“We’ll be looking for ways to
tie in with our research in the
watershed.”
The East Yegua basin is located
at optimum range for meteorol
ogical study with the department’s
dual beam radar system, also part
of Project Themis. The East
Yegua is covered by a network of
stream and rain guages to corre
late rainfall and runoff with radar
findings
The micromet stations are be
low the radar beam, which is line
of sight. Meteorologists have yet
to “tie” together weather up
where clouds tumble and thunder
storms roll to that within 100
feet of the ground.
Ransdell Files
ForHolleman’s
Council Office
Cliff H. Ransdell has announced
his candidacy to fill the unexpired
term of the late City Councilman
Theo R. Holleman.
Ransdell, a resident of College
Station for 31 years, is currently
Assistant Dean of Engineering
at the University.
In making his announcement,
Ransdell stated that, if elected,
he would work for continued
growth of the community on a
sound financial basis. “With the
growth in our city, I am aware
of the many problems which con
front us,” he said, “and accept
the challenge to be a part of the
administration guiding its direc
tion.”
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