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Warm,
cloudy,
humid
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, August 26, 1970
Thursday and Friday — Partly
cloudy mornings, cloudy after
noon, scattered thundershowers
Friday afternoon. Southerly winds
10-15 mph. Low 74 degrees, high
98 degrees.
Weekend — Continued partly
cloudy to cloudy, heavy rain
showers Sunday afternoon. South
erly winds 10-20 mph.
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Aggies giving
new Astroturf
ood workout
Heading into the 1970 season
opener against Wichita State—
just two and a half weeks away
-coach Gene Stallings and his
footballers are giving the new
AstroTurf playing fields a good
workout.
Stallings wasn’t too pleased
with Tuesday night’s workouts,
the fourth in pads since two-a-
days started last Thursday. “I
don’t think we improved much
tonight,” Stallings said.
The brightest spot was the re
turn of Dave Elmendorf from an
outstanding summer of baseball.
Elmendorf took up his football
gear after leaving the National
Baseball Congress tournament in
Wichita, Kans., Monday.
“It’s good to get Elmendorf
back,” Stallings said. “He’ll pick
things up.”
Elmendorf, who gained All-
Southwest Conference honors at
safety last year, spent his first
day of workouts running at right
halfback after a shoulder injury
to Clifford Thomas which re
quired surgery. Thomas will be
out about two months.
Though not pleased
general workout, Stallings was
happy with the punting of senior
Jimmy Sheffield. Sheffield was
kicking the ball 40-45 yards with
tremendous height.
Stallings has invited all area
fans to an open house at 8 p.m.
Sunday to visit with the varsity
players and examine the Astro-
Turf and Tartan track.
Band to hold
open house
Open house will be held at the
new Texas Aggie Band hall Sept.
12, date of Texas A&M’s 1970
football opener at Kyle Field.
Brief ceremonies on the south
steps of the new facility are
scheduled for 10:30 a.m., an
nounced Lt. Col. E. V. Adams,
band director, and Texas Aggie
Band Association president Hom-
er A. Hunter of Dallas.
with the Aggies show enthusiasm—Preparations
match against Wichita State are in full force as coach
Dee Powell supervises the practice session of the defensive
aggressive contact breaks
(Photo by Frank Griffis)
the new AstroTurf.
Researchers study possibility
of using fly ash from industry
Local researchers, backed by
industry, are studying the feasi
bility and profitability of utiliz
ing fly ash, formed when lignite
is burned for fuel in power gen
eration.
Prof. Bob M. Callaway is work
ing on such a project under spon
sorship of Industrial Generating
Co., Gifford-Hill & Co., Inc., and
Alcoa.
The fly ash study coincides with
construction of a new power plant
near Fairfield in East Texas.
Construction of the plant, sched
uled for commercial operation for
the peak season of 1972, is being
managed by Industrial Generating
Co. as agent for the owners,
Dallas Power & Light Company,
Texas Electric Service Company
and Texas Power & Light Com
pany.
Most of the particulate matter
will be removed from the plant
stack emission by electrostatic
precipitators, emphasized Calla
way, a civil engineering professor.
10-ton bugle stand moved
to south end of dorm area
ou
One of A&M’s oldest memorials
has been moved for the second
time.
A 10-ton bugle stand memorial
to a popular Aggie killed in 1935
as been moved from the north
of the Corps dorm area to
south end.
Landscape Architect Robert
acker noted the bugle stand will
e used more at the south end,
"’here it replaces a small bugle
stand
apparently lost during con- mer
Action activities this summer.
Bucker said contractors work-
jd in the 12-dorm area most of
6 summer and removed the
8 °uth bugle stand before digging
40-foot ditch.
When workmen were ready to
re Plaee the stand they found it
missing.
We will probably find it in
someone’s room,” Rucker specu
lated.
The memorial to Edwin (Pat)
O’Brien Bellinger, class of 1936,
was located at the north end of
the esplanade near the Corps
Staff dorm, but it had not been
in official use for many years.
Rucker had the steel and con
crete memorial moved and it will
have daily use starting Monday.
Bellinger was killed in the sum-
of 1935 while at summer
Army cavalry training camp at
Brackettville. His horse fell and
crushed him.
Bellinger was the official col
lege bugler and his classmates
honored him with the bugle stand
dedicated on Mother’s Day in
1936.
It was first located in the
circle on Houston Street near the
YMCA. The circle was removed
in 1957 and the memorial was
moved to the north end of the
Corps esplanade.
The original idea was to make
the memorial a campus landmark
and at the same time the circle
slowed traffic on Houston Street.
The street became a bottleneck
for bus and truck traffic.
Workmen from Brown-McKee,
Inc., of Lubbock, the contractors
on the power house and chilled
water lines, used a crane to move
the heavy memorial.
It is currently sitting on the
esplanade grass across from the
Memorial Meditation Garden in
front of Duncan Dining Hall.
Rucker emphasized it will be
set into the ground and landscap
ed in the near future.
Bugle stand moved
While it will have avoided pollut
ing the air, the professor noted,
the firm will he left with a costly
disposal problem if the fly ash is
merely trucked off and dumped
in a suitable manner.
Rather than wasting it, Calla
way is working out formulas and
manufacturing techniques to proc
ess the fly ash into lightweight
aggregate.
Lightweight aggregate is being
used to construct buildings more
economically, the researcher
pointed out. Houston’s Shell
Plaza, which will be the tallest
structure in the Southwest, will
be built with conventional light
weight aggregate.
Another excellent use for Calla
way’s fly ash concoction involves
highway construction.
“This material has proved itself
beyond question as a first-class
skid resistant aggregate,” the pro
fessor observed.
Nearly 4,000 miles of Texas
highways containing similar ag
gregate are already in service. A
hot-mix asphalt lightweight ag
gregate surfacing was installed
by the Texas Highway Depart-
Open House
set for fans
Bryan-College Station and
area football fans are invited
to an “open house” inspection
of the new AstroTurf, Tartan
track and weight training
room Sunday night.
The varsity football squad,
wearing game jerseys, will be
on hand at Kyle Field, thus
giving the general public an
opportunity to meet and visit
with the young athletes.
The “open house” will run
from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Local
and area citizens will be able
to closely inspect the new
playing surface on Kyle Field
and on the practice field south
of the stadium. They also can
inspect the weight training
room in DeWare Fieldhouse, a
facility that recently has been
carpeted with AstroTurf.
Numerical rosters of the var
sity football players will be
available, thus allowing visi
tors to pick out players with
whom they’d like to visit.
The Aggies will play five
games at Kyle Field this sea
son, starting with the season
opener against Wichita State
at 7:30 p.m., Sept. 12.
Eight of the 11 games in
1970 will be on artificial turf.
The three games on grass will
be at LSU, Ohio State and
Baylor.
ment on Interstate 35 in Austin
following a series of multi-car
skidding accidents. No such acci
dents have since been reported.
Gallaway is actually assigned
to Texas Transportation Insti
tute, the research arm for the
Texas Highway Department. He
heads TTI’s Materials and Con
struction Division.
In processing the fly ash for
testing as aggregate, Gallaway
uses a powerful mixing machine
and a device similar to a ham
burger grinder. The material
emerges in the form of small pel
lets which vary in size according
to settings on the grinder.
The material is then run
through a rotary kiln at 2,000
degrees Fahrenheit, during which
time the material undergoes chem
ical changes and become inert—
looking even more like rock but
lighter in weight.
Gallaway noted the material is
lightweight because, when heated
to a sufficiently high tempera
ture to become semiplastic it
swells like bread as gasses are
formed within the pellets. It is
taken out of the kiln in this
swollen condition and “freezes”
or hardens when it hits the cool
outside air.
The bread-like air pockets ac
count for the material’s excellent
skid - resistance, Gallaway ob
served.
The professor began light
weight aggregate studies in 1961.
His current fly ash research is
an outgrowth of a project spon
sored by Alcoa and TP&L at
Alcoa’s Rockdale plant.
So far, Callaway’s laboratory
work on fly ash indicates a
strong possibility that utilization
of fly ash for aggregate may be
profitable.
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Cadet officers
here for week
of preparation
Cadet officers of the 1970-71
Corps of Cadets reported Satur
day for a week of preparation
for the fall semester start of
classes.
More than 200 cadet leaders
will be involved in the Command
ers Conference and other activi
ties announced Col. Jim H. Mc
Coy, commandant.
Classes begin Aug. 31, two
weeks ahead of the 1969-70
school year’s first classes.
The commandant said the 1970-
71 corps will consist of almost
3,000 cadets, more than 1,000 of
Luedecke greets
incoming students
President A. R. Luedecke wel
comed approximately 500 of the
university’s top freshmen Satur
day prior to opening of the 17th
annual Freshman Camp.
Luedecke presented his speech
on the YMCA steps to the select
group. Following his talk they
left by bus for Lakeview Meth
odist Assembly near Palestine.
Coeds will serve as counselors
and campers for the first time.
Seventy-five of the campers are
girls and 17 of 94 upperclassmen
counselors are women students.
Camping activities continue
through Tuesday.
YMCA Coordinator Logan E.
Weston noted the freshmen must
have a high school average of 85
or better, completed A&M’s sum
mer orientation program and the
boy or girl must have competed
in school sports or politics.
Twenty-three Texas A&M pro
fessors or Bryan-College Station
ministers will present programs
and panel discussions during the
camp.
Weston said the purpose is to
give the new student a better
understanding of the university
to aid in transition from high
school and home to the university
environment.
which will be freshmen.
Company and squadron offi
cers and non-coms will be among
the first back on campus, to
check new students attending a
two-day makeup conference into
dorms. Freshmen who partici
pated in new student conferences
earlier during the summer report
Wednesday, Aug. 26, and other
upperclassmen begin arriving
Aug. 28.
President A. R. Luedecke and
Dean of Students James P. Han-
nigan addressed corps staff and
unit commanders, executive offi
cers, supply officers and first
sergeants in a Monday confer
ence.
Colonel McCoy and Col. Keith
C. Hanna, professor of aerospace
studies spoke at the assembly.
The commandant swore in
Corps Commander Van H. Tay
lor of Temple, Deputy Command
er Thomas C. Bain Jr. of Dallas
and other unit commanders. Tay
lor then administered the oath to
all other cadet officers.
A command in-briefing Mon
day afternoon set the stage for
other activities during the week,
which included a Monday evening
commandant’s reception.
Other activities during the
week preceding classes include
Army and Air Force military ad
visors’ briefings, publications
and supply issue, unit meetings
and freshman uniform issue.
Cadet commanders also will
attend a housemasters and resi
dent hall advisors barbecue ar
ranged by Student Affairs Direc
tor Don Stafford.
New student assemblies Wed
nesday and Thursday evenings
will be conducted by Dean Han-
nigan. An assembly and open
house of local churches will be
conducted Thursday evening by
the local clergy and the Me
morial Student Center new stu
dent open house will be at 6 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 28.
McCoy said organization of the
corps will be completed on Sat
urday, Aug. 29.
Singing group set
for term auditions
The Singing Cadets hold fall
auditions in Room 119 of G.
Rollie White Coliseum from Aug.
31 until Sept. 11, announced a
spokesman for the group. Audi-
tioners should report between 2
and 4:30 p.m., the spokesman
added.
The Singing Cadets begin their
76th year ^.s the vocal instrument
for Texas A&M. In the 10 years
under the direction of Mr. Robert
L. Boone, the Cadets have be
come nationally acclaimed
through their appearances on the
nationally televised Miss Teen
Age America Pageant each fall
and the popular Mike Douglas
Show.
Invitations to perform have
come from every major city in
Texas. Shows have been present
ed from College Station to Beau
mont to Galveston to Victoria to
Corpus Christi to San Antonio to
Midland to Odessa to El Paso to
Lubbock to Amarillo to Texar
kana.
Programs already booked for
the coming year include the Miss
Teen Age America Pageant Dec.
5, two national conventions in
Houston, and the annual perform
ances in Houston’s Jones Hall and
San Antonio’s Hall of The Per
forming Arts.
Members of the Singing Cadets
come from almost every major
area of study on the campus and
include both civilians and mem
bers of the Corps of Cadets.
None of the members of the
group in the past have planned
to make singing their career, the
spokesman noted. They partici
pate because they enjoy singing,
the fellowship, and doing some
thing constructive for their uni
versity in way of public rela
tions, the group’s primary func
tion.
Fire at Engineering Center—Smoke veils most of the engineering center under construc
tion during a Monday afternoon fire in the structure’s basement. University officials
said the blaze caused no injuries and little damage.