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THE BATTALION
Wednesday, July 1, 1970
College Station, Texas
Page 5 j
Architect use torch as means
of expression, profit and hobby
By Fran Haugen
Zap!
A 2,100°F. blue - white flame
spews orange sparks in every
direction. What looks like a
Fourth of July sparkler is the
welding tool of artist-architect,
Rodney Hill.
Zap! A butterfly’s wing.
Zap! An elephant's tail.
Zap! Zap! The finishing
touches on a 50-pouhd castle.
The man behind the welder’s
goggles in the four-pocketed,
light blue sweatshirt and faded
jeans knows what he’s doing.
With the flick of the flame pro
duced from an oxygen-acetylene
mixture he bends a rod of high
tension steel to create an origi
nal wire sculpture.
He can turn out a $30 four-
inch high praying mantis in less
than an hour. An elaborate cas
tle complete with a drawbridge
that can be lowered or raised,
courtyard, balloon and flags fly
ing takes two weeks. It sells for
$800.
It hasn’t always been quite as
easy as it is now though, Hill
admits.
“What used to be painstaking,
now takes me % of the time it
did,” he said. “You learn how
Fertility factor in
plants is nitrogen
Nitrogen is the limiting fer
tility factor for forage produc
tion in most soils, the main rea
son being that plants don’t get
a real chance to use it.
Dr. Alan Swoboda, speaking
during the fifth annual Pasture
and Forage Crops Short Course
here last week, said plant use
of applied nitrogen is usually
very low, ranging from 40 to 80
percent.
The reason, he explained to
about 100 persons attending the
session, is due to loss from the
soil before plants can benefit.
Swoboda, an assistant profes
sor in the Soil and Crop Sciences
Department, described three
common ways nitrogen is lost
from soil: Volatilization, deni
trification and leaching.
Volatilization is the gaseous
loss of nitrogen from the ground
surface, which Swoboda said can
be reduced by working the ferti
lizer into the soil. Losses are
heavier on alkaline soils.
Denitrification is the biologi
cal reduction of nitrate and ni
trate to gases, which pass into
the air. Experiments have shown
that about 15 percent of the ni
trogen applied is lost because of
this process.
Leaching, which many farm
ers and ranchers are familiar
with, means that fertilizer nu
trients are washed down through
the soil and out of reach of the
plant roots. Losses are higher
on sandy soils.
“It is not uncommon to lose as
much as 40 to 50 percent of the
applied nitrogen in sandy soils
following a heavy rain,” the
speaker pointed out.
Swoboda said recent work in
dicates that nitrate leaching also
can be a problem on clay soils.
“Water movement through
well structured clay soils is
much faster than popular belief.
It has been shown that as much
as 1 inch of water per day, for
a period of several weeks, can
move through these soils,” he
said.
Another speaker, Dr. L. S.
Breuer of the Animal Science
Department, said the long-stand
ing recommendation for phos
phorus as supplements for beef
cattle still appears to be a good
one and should take care of most
mineral deficiency situations.
“Use of bonemeal or a trace
mineral- fortified phosphorus
supplement will provide insur
ance against a trace mineral de
ficiency,” he said. “Use of mag
nesium supplement appears jus
tified under conditions showing
a history of tetany.”
Phil Nix, pasture specialist,
listed the advantages and disad
vantages of loose hay stacking,
an old system enjoying a new
popularity.
Advantages include lower har
vesting costs, no hay barn in
vestment, built-in self feeding,
no big labor requirements, hay
storage at higher moisture, and
lower costs and upkeep of equip
ment.
Disadvantages are reduction
of marketable hay, hay should be
stacked where grown, less con
trol of consumption by livestock,
large stem forages do not stack
as well as fine stem hays, and
stacks must be in well-drained
locations.
Nix said some producers have
tried head gates, adjustable
metal bars and wire gates to re
duce hay wastage, but they
usually have found that not
enough hay is saved to justify
the cost and labor.
MSC SNACK BAR
Any 7-day board students who will be on campus July
4, 5, 6, 1970 may dine at the MSC Snack Bar. 5-day
student may dine July 6. Your meal card must be pre
sented in order to dine without charge. Snack Bar will
be open from 7:15 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. each of these 3
days. Enter through east entrance adjacent to Post
Office.
TRI-COUNTY TEACHERS CREDIT UNION
P. O. Box 646
Bryan, Texas 77801
Presents
If one borrows money at his credit union’s rate of
1% per month on the unpaid balance, he agrees to an
annual interest rate of 12^. That’s not as bad as it
sounds. Assume a $300 loan due in 12 installments of
$25 plus interest at 1% per month. The ledger card
would appear as follows:
Date
Interest
Principle
Balance
300.00
1-1
3.00
25.00
275.00
2-1
2.75
25.00
250.00
3-1
2.50
25.00
225.00
4-1
2.25
25.00
200.00
5-1
2.00
25.00
175.00
6-1
1.75
25.00
150.00
7-1
1.50
25.00
125.00
8-1
1.25
25.00
100.00
9-1
1.00
25.00
75.00
10-1
3.00
25.00
175.00
11-1
.50
25.00
25.00
12-1
.25
25.00
-0-
Upon adding the interest column, we find that this
person paid a total interest of $19.50 for $300 loan for
1 year. By dividing by 3, we discover that even though
his note called for 12% interest, he only paid $6.50 per
$100 per year. To have the truth about interest, com
pare the actual dollar cost, not the percent quoted.
to control the melting of the
steel, instead of using just
guesswork.”
Hill who grew up in a world
of art (both of his parents are
artists), began wire sculpture
five years ago. Because he was
shaping canvas over wire forms,
he had to take up welding, and
the welding “just carried on.”
Hill still carves tables, doors,
stairheads, crucifixes and toilet
seats; paints; and dabbles in
plastics, but bringing metal to
life is his major interest now, in
addition to being his livelihood
during the summer. He teaches
second year architects design at
A&M during the school-year.
“Zot,” Hill says and points at
his forehead when asked where
he gets his ideas, “from my
imagination.” Some of the 1,000
sculptures he has done also come
from life or photographs.
“A good piece of work com
municates,” Hill said. “An artist
receives input in five senses. He
must exaggerate colors, forms
and textures to stimulate the
viewer and make up for the
senses lost.
“Nearly all my sculptures are
exaggerated. The people have
bigger hands and feet and exag
gerated facial features. My cas
tles (he’s done five—all differ
ent) are caricatures of any real
castles.” He says these super-
complicated structures are a
composite of castle styles over
a 500-year period.
“I feel like I live in a castle
when I build it,” the 31-year-old
sculptor. “When you can imag
ine you’re lowering the draw
bridge and walking in the court
yard, that’s when it’s fun. Sculp
ture as just a three dimensional
object is useless.”
Hill confesses that he some
times discards partly completed
sculptures because at these times
it “takes more time to change
the mistake than it does to start
fresh.”
Many artists have the hangup
of clutching on to something
they’re making even if they
think it’s bad, he said.
“You have to be able to close
your eyes and throw it away,” he
advised, “because no matter how
good you think it is now, a year
from now you’ll think it’s bad.
Many artists don’t even look at
anything they’ve done that’s a
year old because they advance
so much in a year.”
Aggies can view many of his
pieces, including one of his cas
tles, in the glass cases at the
Memorial Student Center now
through July 10.
He has also exhibited in Salt
Lake City and at Macy’s in New
York.
The personable artist sells
most of his pieces, half of them
on commission.
In the future Hill says he
wants to do some bigger pieces.
He presently is working on a
metal wall sculpture which is a
parody on attorneys for College
Station law firm Goode and
Jones, and he will construct a
metal fountain for an Air Force
retirement center in San Antonio
if the plans are approved by
military authorities this week.
He worked six years for archi
tectural firms in Houston and
Dallas after earning his bache
lor’s degree. He has also been
camping in Europe, Russia and
Egypt.
Hill resides with his wife Su
san, also an artist; 18-month-old
son Bunker and 150-pound Great
Dane “puppy” at 119 Lee St. in
College Station.
Smith appointed
libraries director
John B. Smith has been ap
pointed director of libraries.
Smith, a 1960 Texas A&M
graduate, has served as acting
director the past year.
Announcement of the appoint
ment was made at the Tuesday
meeting of the board of direc
tors.
After receiving his under
graduate degree in English, he
earned a master’s degree in li
brary science at Columbia Uni
versity in 1963.
Prior to joining the staff in
1966 as assistant librarian,
Smith was assistant law librar
ian at Columbia.
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