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HHH Briefed
On Upcoming
Apollo Flight
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. <iP> —
Vice President Hubert H. Hum
phrey Tuesday received a first
hand report from the Apollo 8
astronauts who will fly around
the moon at Christmastime, then
declared America’s space pro
gram “a wise investment.”
Making like an astronaut him
self, Humphrey performed a
make - believe rendezvous and
practiced formation flying inside
a mock spacecraft.
“I FEEL IT is a wise invest
ment on the part of Congress and
the public,” the vice president
said moments before his plane de
parted for Washington, D. C.,
after he and his wife, Muriel,
completed a five-hour tour.
HE WENT UP to the space
craft level of the Apollo 8 moon
rocket, 320 feet above the ground,
where he was briefed on launch
facilities.
He also was briefed in a space
craft hangar by Air Force Lt.
Col. James A. McDivitt on the
Lunar Module, the type vehicle
which actually will land on the
moon with two men. McDivitt
will be commander of the Apollo
9 earth orbit mission in which a
Lunar Module will receive its
first manned flight test.
NAVY CMDR. Richard F. Gor
don and Air Force Lt. Col. David
R. Scott helped Humphrey with
his mock rendezvous. Gordon is
a backup pilot for America’s
Apollo 9 Mission scheduled for
launch in February and Scott is
a member of the prime crew for
Apollo 9.
The vice president, in his role
as chairman of the National Aero
nautics and Space Council, made
his final visit to America’s space
port for a personal check on the
Apollo 8 astronauts who plan to
fly around the moon at Christ
mas.
THE BATTALION
Wednesday, November 20, 1968
College Station, Texas
Page 3
Yets Fight Asian Malaria
SIT-DOWN STRIKE
Helmore Farm’s two-year-old Irish Course staged this sit-in
recently at Laurel, Md., race course. Taken to the start
ing gate to be schooled in the art of a quick break, she
decided instead to take a leisurely look around, leaving
her exercise rider standing in the wings. (AP Wirephoto)
Bulletin Board
meeting with Brazos Branch
ASCE and TSPE.
Dallas Hometown Club will
meet at 8 p.m. in rooms 3-B and
3-C of the MSC. Thanksgiving
party will be discussed.
ATTENTION
ALL SENIORS AND
GRADUATE STUDENTS!
Make Sure Your Picture
Will Be In The
1969
AGGIELAND
Yearbook Picture Schedule
G-H-I—Nov. 11 - Nov. 15
J-K-L—Nov. 18 - Nov. 22
M-N-O—Dec. 2 - Dec. 6
P-Q-R—Dec. 9 - Dec. 13
S-T-U—Jan. 6 - Jan. 10
V-W-X-Y-Z—Jan. 13 - Jan. 17
CORPS SENIORS: Uniform:
Class A Winter—Blouse
CIVILIANS: Coat and tie.
PICTURES WILL BE TAKEN
from 8:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m.
NOTE: Bring Fee Slips
To
UNIVERSITY STUDIO
115 No. Main — North Gate
Phone: 846-8019
TONIGHT
Deep East Texas Hometown
Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
room 3-A of the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Associated General Contractors
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in room
110 of the Architecture Building.
Hillel Club will meet at 7:30
p.m. in the Hillel Building. Fri
day night services will be con
ducted at 8 p.m.
Finance Society will meet at
8 p.m. in rooms 2-B and 2-C of
the MSC. John Bostick, vice-
president and regional manager
of Nuveen & Co., Inc., will speak
on long-term fixed investments.
Beaumont Hometown Club will
meet at 8:15 p.m. in room 202
of the YMCA.
THURSDAY
Southern Louisiana Hometown
Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
the main lobby of the YMCA.
Rides will be discussed.
Dewitt - Lavaca County Home
town Club will meet at 9 p.m. in
room 203 of the Academic Build
ing. Thanksgiving and Christmas
parties will be discussed, offi
cers will be elected.
Orange County Hometown Club
will meet at 7:30 in the Academic
Building.
Panhandle Area Hometown
Club will meet at 8 p.m. in room
2-D of the MSC. Christmas party
and rides home will be discussed.
Williamson County Hometown
Club will meet at 7 p.m. in room
2-A of the MSC.
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Post 4692 will meet at 7:50 p.m.
at the Post Home. Meeting is
for members only. Prospective
members are urged to contact
“Spud” Adams at 846-3662 or
823-0941 or Ray Schultz at 846-
3191 or 845-4311.
American Society of Civil En
gineers will meet at 6:30 p.m. at
Clayton’s Restaurant. Dinner
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A&M veterinary pathologists
are conducting research to help
U. S. soldiers in Southeast Asia
combat malaria.
Part of a nation-wide project
to find new drugs for treating the
high mortality blood disease,
A&M personnel test toxicity of
various drugs on animals in a
laboratory-farm complex near the
veterinary medicine headquarters.
The highly-organized search is
a Department of the Army proj
ect encompassing numerous gov
ernment and civilian agencies and
laboratories throughout the U. S.
“THE PROGRAM was initiated
because of the high incidence of
malaria in our people in Viet
nam,” commented Dr. William W.
Bay, veterinary pathology pro
fessor. “Some drugs are now less
effective in treating malaria be
cause the organism has developed
resistance.”
New drugs developed by chem
ists and pharmaceutical firms are
examined from inside out and top
to bottom, not only to determine
if they can kill malaria organ
isms but whether the compounds
will have an adverse effect on
humans.
THE ARMY specifies drugs for
testing, in at least three species
of animals. Two of the three can
be small animals, such as rodents,
in which the level of toxicity can
be quickly and economically
checked.
At least one test in larger ani
mals is made after a drug passes
small animal examination. This
is where A&M veterinarians fit
into the project.
Each drug’s toxicity is thor
oughly analyzed from study of
dogs and pigs to which it is ad
ministered.
A pharmacology board at Wal
ter Reed Hospital decides on the
drug’s use on the basis of A&M
reports. Additional tests on pri
mates may be stipulated. Further
checks are made by human volun
teers.
BAY HEADS A&M investiga
tions involving six professionals,
three technicians and farm per
sonnel. They administer Army-
screened drugs to dogs and pigs
for varying periods, depending on
the drug. Periods of administra
tion may cover 14, 28, 30 or 90
days or a year, Bay explained.
A massive volume of data is
collected on changes in the tested
animals, including organ weights,
blood sugar, clotting time, red and
white blood cell counts, liver and
kidney function, tissue structure
and bone marrow.
“We check them from stem to
stern to see what’s going on in
the animal’s body as a result of
the drug,” the associate professor
noted.
“It’s possible a particular drug
may have the capability of killing
the malaria organism, but have a
toxic effect. Our work determines
if the drug makes an animal sick
clinically and whether it causes
physiological changes. Some drugs
have phototoxic effects. Tests on
pigs check skin reactions,” Bay
went on.
EYE ABNORMALITIES intro
duced by usage is the specialty
of Dr. Thomas Dukes. Others in
the Army-supported research are
Dr. Chester A. Gleiser, who works
with Bay in gross and microscopic
pathology; Dr. Kenneth R. Pierce,
clinical pathology, and Dr. Roger
Feldman, microscopic screening.
Bay said an agricultural graduate
is being added to supervise ani
mal care. About 30 animals are
used per drug test.
Sixteen drugs have been evalu
ated since the project started in
early 1966.
REPEAT PERFORMANCE
PHOENIX, Ariz. <A>> _ High
way Patrol Sgt. Ron Kurtzman
has assisted in the delivery of
five babies, three of them on the
same road in south Phoenix.
Portugal’s Tagus River bridge
is the fifth longest in the world,
exceeded only by four suspension
bridges in the United States.
ATTENTION
ALL CLUBS
Athletic
Hometown
Professional
and
All Campus
Organizations.
Pictures for the club sec
tions of the 1969 Ag-gieland
are now being - scheduled at
the Student Publications of
fice.
216 Services Bldg.
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A VOTE
FOR WALLACE
WAS A VOTE
FOR WHO ?
ELECTION
ANALYSIS
BY
RICHARD
SCAMMON
-nations leading expert on voting behavior
WEDNESDAY NOV. 20
Aggies free
Students $ .75
Gen. Adm $1.50
A POLITICAL FORUM PRESENTATION
MSC BALLROOM
8:00 PM