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f/I Vol. 65 No. 129
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, July 22, 1970
Telephone 845-2226
Reactor slated
for shut down
for alterations
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Graduate lecture
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The nuclear reactor at the Nu
clear Science Center will be shut
down next month for alterations.
Dr. John D. Randall, center
director, said the reactor will be
out of operation the first two
week of August for modification
of the core to accept fuel follower
rods.
“We’ve burnt up so much fuel
that these changes have to be
made,” Randall said.
Five of the 25 TRIGA fuel
elements in the reactor were re
placed last year, due to increased
operations following the 1968
boost of reactor power to 1,000
megawatts. The reactor compiled
more megawatt hours in 1968
than in the previous six years
operation.
Users of the research facility
which recently expanded its lab
oratory quarters include 10 com
mercial institutions, six A&M de
partments and 12 presently-active
experimenters, Randall said.
The center also cooperates in a
reactor sharing program through
Atomic Energy Commission con
tract, with experimenters from
Prairie View A&M, Rice, the Uni
versity of Texas at Austin and
Sam Houston State using the
facility located near Easterwood
Airport.
Processing of reconstituted and
high moisture harvested grains
for fattening beef cattle is the
topic of an Animal Science De
partment graduate lecture Thurs
day.
The speaker is Dr. Donald G.
■Wagner, assisting professor, in
the Institute of Animal Sciences
and Industry at Oklahoma State
University.
Program time is 10 a.m. in the
Lecture Room of the Animal In
dustries Building.
Dr. Wagner is in charge of
feedlot cattle nutrition research
at Oklahoma State, and in this
position, is concerned with many
of the same problems in feedlot
cattle nutrition facing Texas feed-
Dr. Wagner received the B.S.
degree from Ohio State Univer
sity and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees
from Cornell University. His ad
vanced tarining was in Animal
Nutrition and Biochemistry.
He joined the Animal Science
staff at Oklahoma State in 1965
and served three years in Ethio
pia as a participant in the Okla
homa State AID Program in that
country.
Social cartoonist likes
brevity in expressions
By Fran Haugen
Social cartoonist Arie (pro
nounced R. E.) Schinnar likes
brief, to-the-point expression.
“If you can say something in
one line, why use two?” asks the
23-year-old Israeli who is study
ing architecture here. “I read very
Engineering trio telling
shrimpers how it’s done
What can engineers tell shrimpers about
shrimping?
For openers, a trio of graduate students
here have come to the conclusion a shrimp in the
open sea must be mighty unlucky to get caught.
If their plan pans out, there could be about
twice as many unlucky shrimp.
Tackling the problem are James A. Burke
of Dallas, Ralph E. Foster of Nashville, Tenn.,
and Walter A. Wicklein of Towson, Md. Burke,
an Army major, is studying for a master’s
degree in aerospace engineering, while Foster is
working toward a Ph.D. in industrial engi
neering. Wicklein, an Air Force captain, is
studying for a master’s degree in computer
science.
Their overall goal is to illustrate a systems
engineering research project. They zeroed in on
the shrimping industry because of its economic
significance in Texas and its apparent need for
technological change.
In striking contrast to the extent of
technological innovations in manufacturing,
transportation, agriculture and communica
tions, the researchers observed shrimp are
caught today just as they were a half-century
ago. They also found profit margins are
decreasing.
The problem is not a shortage of shrimp.
Best estimates indicate only two to eight
percent of the shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico are
caught each year. Unlike some other food
sources, a doubling of the shrimp catch would
have little effect on species survival.
“Such an increase would be about the
same as catching salmon for the canning
industry with a rod and reel,” quipped Foster.
“Increasing the catch by a factor of 10 would
have no effect on the future supply of salmon.”
The problem is one of efficiency, the trio
pointed out.
In a typical trawling operation, only one
shrimp is caught per 1,000 square feet. The
Texas A&M engineers have set their sights on
the seemingly modest increase of one additional
shrimp during such a drag. Four shrimp likely
inhabit a 1,000-square-foot area.
While the researchers are exploring the
need for change in all facets of the shrimping
industry, they are focusing their attention on
the trawl and related underwater equipment.
The standard Otter trawl has not been essen
tially altered since it was introduced about
1912.
One concept which deserves more study,
according to the Texas A&M graduate students,
involves the use of electricity to control move
ment of the shrimp. They noted the reaction of
shrimp to pulsed DC electric fields indicates
they can be “herded.”
If such a concept proves practical, the net
could be reduced to provide only enough
frontal area to act as a catch-and-hold device,
with electric wings extended on either side to
doors 50 to 500 feet from the net. This, the
researchers explained, would reduce drag and
extend the area covered.
While Burke, Foster and Wicklein wrestle
with the problem of bagging more shrimp in the
open seas, other researchers are taking a differ
ent approach by growing such seafood in Gulf
Coast ponds in economic feasibility studies.
Either way, more unlucky shrimp may
wind up on some lucky person’s plate.
Demonstration
highlights 41st
training school
A public fire-fighting demon
stration tonight highlights first-
week actiivities of the 41st an
nual Texas Firemen’s Training
School.
The fire show begins at 7:30 at
the Brayton Firemen Training
School south of Easterwood Air
port.
A record preliminary registra
tion of 1,548 for the one-week
municipal school was announced
Monday afternoon by Chief In
structor Henry D. Smith.
Smith noted the enrollment in
cludes 1,196 student firemen, 84
above last year’s first day regis
tration.
Smith predicted totals to climb
even higher from late registra
tion. Included in the preliminary
report are 352 instructors and
manufacturing representatives.
Officials estimate 2,725 will
enroll during the next three
weeks in either the municipal,
industrial or Spanish - speaking
schools. Each school runs Mon
day through Friday.
Complete registration figures
for the municipal school will be
announced tonight.
Smith pointed out most of the
firemen attending the municipal
school are volunteers represent
ing departments from small
cross-road settlements to small
cities. There also are men from
full-time paid metropolitan de
partments.
Another 800 men are expected
next week for the industrial
school and 175 are scheduled to
attend the Spanish - speaking
school Aug. 2-7.
Smith said the community fire
men represent small cross-road
settlements to full-time paid
firemen from large metropolitan
areas.
Smith noted $600,000 in con
signed equipment, over $65,000
in consumable fire - fighting
chemicals and $25,000 in fuels
are being unloaded at the train
ing field.
Approximately 180,000 gallons
of flammable liquids have been
donated by chemical and petro
leum companies.
Smith expects this year’s
school to be the largest ever
held.
“Even though the economy is
down, there is major interest in
fire safety and precaution,”
Smith says.
“A tighter economy has placed
more emphasis on the current
value of resources in our com
munities.”
Smith noted an 80-man pump
maintenance class, including sev
eral master mechanics, will re
build the pumps. Parts and
transportation are paid by the
individual communities while la
bor is provided as part of the
(See Firemen, page 3)
Journalists here
for annual confab
★ ★ ★
Firemen’s school
communications
now dependable
few books—if you can say some
thing in one page, why use 200?”
The brown-eyed, black-haired
social interpreter did poorly in
high school, but published a car
toon in the New York Times two
weeks before he turned 18.
He served as a lieutenant in
the 1967 Six Day War, and al
though he says wars are “not
necessary” he had ambitions aft
er the war to stay in the army
because, “I’m a beast like every
other animal.”
In Israel (his home is about
10 miles from Tel Aviv) he was
a cartoonist for three newspapers
—one liberal, one conservative and
one which wanted “the scoops.”
An opinion is part of Schin-
nar’s attire. He’ll give it to you,
but warn you that he may change
his mind 30 seconds later.
What follows are excerpts from
an interview with him. These are
his opinions—if he hasn’t chang
ed his mind.
On cartooning as social and
political comment—“I’m interest
ed in people and their behavioral
patterns, and they are funny in
deed. I don’t look for the funny
approach. I only try to point out
and exaggerate what people do,
think and react to their customs
and stupidities. Society has to
grow, evolve. Some people see so
ciety as finished (as far as de
velopment goes). I think we are
pretty mediocre, even less.
“I don’t think my cartoons are
funny. They’re a reflection of my
self. I don’t claim to be an artist.
I’m an expressionist. The car
toons are 95 per cent ideas, 5 per
cent emotion. I have the tendency
to twist things. I’m really very
(See Cartoonist, page 3)
Communications at the 41st an
nual Texas Firemen’s Training
School are dependable for the
first time.
Mason Lankford, fire marshal
for Tarrant County and FTS
communications supervisor, said
the communications network at
the Brayton Firemen’s Training
Field is a vast improvement over
past years.
Lankford noted early schools
had only voice communications
and for the past decade the school
has relied on overhead lines.
“The fires burned out lines, and
for the most part communications
were poor,” Lankford explained.
But 1970 is different.
More than 500 high school jour
nalists and their sponsors arrive
here next week for the 12th an
nual High School Publications
Workshop.
The one-week program is spon
sored by the Journalism Depart
ment.
Workshops are planned in both
beginning and advanced photog
raphy, yearbook production, pub
lications production and news
paper production, noted depart
ment head C. J. Leabo.
Experts from throughout the
nation will serve as workshop in
structors.
Activities start at 5 p.m. Sun
day with an opening convocation
and continue through Friday
night’s awards banquet.
A highlights of the annual
affair is the Miss Workshopper
Contest. Each participating school
nominates one entry. The Miss
Workshopper contest and dance
is scheduled Wednesday night.
Sam Pierson, Houston Chron
icle photographer and past presi
dent of the National Press Pho
tographers’ Association, will give
a special lecture at 8 p.m. Wednes
day in the Architecture Audi
torium.
Pierson’s use of visuals in
publications talks will be aimed
at all delegates, not just photog
raphy students, Leabo said.
A graduate of the University
of Houston, Pierson won the Joe
Costa Award, the highest award
presented by NPPA. His assign
ments have ranged from Presi
dent Kennedy's assassination, the
Apollo II flight and the USS Man
hattan's first voyage through
the Northwest Passage.
Howard Eilers, A&M photog
raphy instructor, and Mrs. C. J.
Leabo are workshop co-directors.
Heading the newspaper division
is Bill Ward, director of the mass
communications division at South
ern Illinois University, Carbon-
dale.
Assisting Ward will be Mrs.
Evelyn Dunsavage of College Sta
tion, Chet Hunt of the University
of Texas, Austin, Journalism De
partment and George Pearson of
St. Cloud State College (Minn.)
Journalism Department.
Mrs. Leabo heads the yearbook
division. She is to be aided by
high school publications sponsors
Ben Allnutt of Germantown, Md.,
Miss Hattie Steinberg of Minne
apolis, Minn., Miss Mary Frances
Freeman of Beaumont and Mrs.
Elaine Pritchett of Houston.
ill
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Student firemen—prepare to put out a fuel tank fire at the firemen’s training school
through this week. The firemen learn to put out fires such as this, as well as house and
truck fires.