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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, August 5, 1970
THE BATTALION
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
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There’s a new
watermelon;
it’s seedless
The eating is as good, but the
fun that many small fry have of
spitting seeds when eating wa
termelon, is missing from the
seedless watermelon.
“I keep having this recurring nightmare that I can’t
figure out! It’s always the same—LSU., Ohio State and
Michigan!”
School
Lt. Perry assigned overseas
(Continued from page 1)
A 1969 Texas A&M graduate,
Army 2nd Lt. Howard S. Perry
III of Bryan, has been assigned
overseas.
Howard HI received the bache
lor degree in management in
1969. He was assigned in Ger
many with the 5th Battalion of
the 81st Artillery, an airborne
field artillery unit.
Lieutenant Perry attended the
artillery officers basic course,
jump school and was one of five
graduates to receive the Ranger
tab at the recently-completed
school. A class of 140 gradu
ated out of 257 that started the
strenuous course.
His father is civilian student
activities director at A&M and a
lieutenant colonel in the Army
Reserve. Mr. and Mrs. Howard
S. Perry Jr. reside at 2523 Wil
low Bend, Bryan.
nice when you start rolling from
side to side at sea,” Raun said.
Raun said very few of the
cadets were from Gulf Coast cities
and that a lot of the upperclass
men were from northern states.
After Puerto Rico came Browns
ville and the last foreign coun
try the cadets visited—Mexico.
The vessel docked at a new deep
water port at Port Lvara and
took on approximately 75 more
passengers—state officials and
guests for the cruise to Galveston,
the Clipper’s home port.
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GIFT SHOP
CARDS
JEWELRY
STATIONERY
SCHOOL SUPPLIES
SWEATSHIRTS
LEATHER GOODS
PIPE SHOP
DECALS
RUSSELL STOVER CANDY
AND
STEREO RECORDS
OF THE
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AND
SINGING CADETS
Guidelines sought
on public reaction
The melon has no seeds, but
small seedcoats are present in
the meat of the melon, Dr. J. E.
Larsen, Texas A&M University
Extension horticulturist, said.
The seedcoats look very much
like a small, immature cucumber
seed, both in size and color, and
are completely edible, he said.
“Most seedless watermelons
are of the Tri-X hybrid 313 va
riety and are dark green with
faint, lighter green stripes,” he
explained. “The melon may oc
casionally have four or five ma
ture seeds present in the meat,
but this is rare.”
Seedless watermelons are gen
erally sweeter than other melons,
Dr. Larsen said, and urged con
sumers to try one.
A Texas A&M University geog
rapher believes he can help re
duce some of the shock waves
which often follow environmental
decisions, such as involved in
construction of a freeway or crea
tion of a landfill.
The researcher, Dr. Earl F.
Cook, quickly points out he can
not change public reaction. He
may, however, be able to furnish
guidelines to help predict the
reaction — letting the decision
makers know what to expect.
In short, Dr. Cook hopes to
devise ways for measuring en
vironmental attitudes.
“If some means can be de
vised,” he observes, “it should be
very useful to planners and poli
ticians in determining future land
uses and activities.”
“Engineering and economic fac
tors are relatively easy to take
into consideration in determining
locations for highways, landfills,
factories and other installations,”
Cook continues, “but people who
are planning strictly on the basis
of economics and engineering are
running into increasing public
opposition.”
Dr. Cook is centering his study
on the coastal zones of Texas
and Louisiana. He has already
initiated environmental attitude
studies in Corpus Christi and
Avery Island, La.
The Corpus Christi project in
volves a study of the attitudes
leading to adoption of a 1966 city
ordinance regulating oil and gas
drilling in Corpus Christi Bay.
This action was taken long be
fore the Santa Barbara oil leak
which prompted widespread pub
lic outcry.
Studies of Avery Island are
totally different, revolving
around the managerial philoso
phies of the family-owned cor
poration which operates the en
tire strip of land noted for pro
duction of Tabasco sauce.
The Avery-Mcllhenny family
operates Avery Island to last
forever, Dr. Cook relates. Oper
ations include contouring to pre
vent erosion, reclamation of sur
rounding swamp and marsh areas
and restoration of land in gen
eral.
“When oil was first discovered
on the land back in 1942, the
family began planning for restor
ation,” the Texas A&M profes
sor notes.
“If we managed our public re
sources with the same philosophy
as the Avery-Mcllhenny family
has practiced on Avery Island,”
he adds, “we would have a better
basis for solving our long-range
environmental problems.”
Dr. Cook, who jointly serves as
a geography professor and asso
ciate dean of geosciences, plans
to expand his study to include
other areas — particularly urban
areas — along the Gulf Coast.
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