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)n || £ battalion Researchers recommend Wednesday, December 1, 1971 College Station, Texas . | iere ’s this rural area. It needs i ribe developed. Things like more ■ | income distribution, higher jploynient and a better overall gjity of life are desired, but llution and higher taxes aren’t. you take a sociologist, an . i; „gist, an economist, an agri- ^° C ttral production specialist and ■ If v others. J 1 y3le f ( ve them a computer and I* la;f a model of the area inside i computer. A short time later, they’ll be able to tell you what has to be done. I hrased a little differently, this is what two researchers with the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology have suggested. Drs. Ray V. Billingsley and Ronald D. Lacewell are talking about computer simulation, call ing it potentially one of the most effective alternatives available for rural development research. “Simulation can be thought of computers to develop many majors as modeling a real life situation and then performing experiments on the model,” Billingsley said at a meeting of the Southern Farm Management Research Committee in Atlanta, Ga., last week. “Basic ally, these experiments are in the form of ‘what if’ types of ques tions.” What if taxes are lowered? What if a health clinic is built on the north side of the com munity ? What if a polluting industry relocates to the region? The computer can tell the plan ners what effect these variables would have on other performance variables, or on the system as a whole. “Modeling of physical facilities, such as new buildings, is not new to architects or engineers,” Bil lingsley said, “but it is new to the social scientists.” Billingsley and Lacewell, both of the Texas Agricultural Experi ment Station, listed as examples some models operating in the Dominican Republic, eastern Ten nessee, Nigeria and California. According to Lacewell, one model, set up in the Dominican Republic, is designed to tell plan ners what effect their efforts in population control will have on the general economy. The model is set up in such a way that changes in the rate of population growth will produce changes in death and birth rates. These will produce changes in the age composition of the popula tion, which will affect the size of the labor force and the con sumption patterns of the popula tion. A few more relationships are affected in the pattern with the final result showing that the country’s gross national product is not materially affected by the population growth rate. Gross na tional product per capita is, how ever. In other words, the individuals JSKAGGS > ALBERTSONS ^ ^ DRUGS & FOODS A REAL COUNTRY SAUSAGE FLAVOR! OWEN’S SAUSAGE It fiTEMi wlEPlpli U.S.D.A. CHOICE BEEF FULL CUTS LB. BAG 2 LB. BAG $ 1 15 BONELESS ROUND STEAK .“-i lb I 05 T0P " r A “ i? I 25 WIENERS - 78‘ iST „ 11» BREADED SHRIMP = Ill: M 3 ’ BONELESS round STEAK BONEKSS BOTTOM ROUND SWISS STEAK RUMP ROAST. “““““.“H « 95« GOUDA CHEESE '.t!™. 59' SLICED BACON .r > . 0, . R ’". m .T. ;« l S: 58‘ m w LONISTAR All MEAT BOLOGNA LUNCHMEAT ... LB 68* PANCAKE MIX..."’:: »v 48' PICKLES WHITFIELD P015KIWTROB M DELICATESSEN & SNACK BAR ECKRICH 75' ECKRICH ...“ l .“.V. , . 0 !. 0 f“ 49' NEW CROP SUNKIST TANGERINES PEAS C 303 $100 f 11 El ALBERTSONS - CHICKEN ^NOODLE OR CREAM OE MUSHROOM 6 «»' $ P° APRKOTsr.:. Q 2>, $100 PLASTIC WRAP. 1 . 1 !!'™"! 100 FT. OC< CARROT CAKES FRESH DAILY FROM OUR OWN INSTORE BAKERIES 8 INCH TWO LAYERS PEPPERS. -.Lzr GOLDEN DELICIOUS APPLES. = 29' YELLOW ONIONS S 2.23' COCONUTS. “"x ROMAINE LETTUCE .!= »25' SKAGGS ALBERTSONS ICE CREAM ALL FLAVORS 'A GAL. BANQUET FRUIT PIES APPLE, CHERRY OR PEACH 20 OZ. PKG. ALBERTSON S SHOESTRING POTATOES BAKERY DINNER ROLLS FRIED CINNAMON ROLLS 5». 5 |0B PLAIN OR SEEDED FRENCH BREAD LEMON MERINGUE HOURS MON. thru SAT. 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. SUNDAY 10 A.M. to 7 P.M. University Dr. At College Ave. CLEANSER DETERGENT , i ■ BLEACH , i 85 iACTION 1.77* AXION PUNCH DETERGENT are much better off than they otherwise would have been. The per capita GNP increases as the population growth decreases. Another model was set up to evaluate agricultural floodplains. Lacewell discovered that farmers in floodplain areas have a ten dency to limit their use of flood- plains through fear of flooding. Following the computer evalua tion, floodplain net returns have been shown to increase, on the average, as much as six to seven times over the returns prior to the evaluation. Billingsley and Lacewell sug gest that, for rural development research, submodels be developed in the areas of economics, physi cal land use, sociology and biology (ecology). Variables such as in come, employment, community services, pollution, resource use and tax base would be included. The submodels would be linked together by an executive program using the relationships among the submodels. “With such a model,” Billings ley said, “there is an opportunity to manipulate many policy vari ables and observe their effects in a very short time.” He stressed that the decisions regarding development objectives lie with the community leaders. “The model simply indicates the outcome of different actions,” he said. Monsanto Co. awards grants Monsanto Co. has awarded A&M three grants totaling $3,300 in support of the institution’s programs in chemistry and chemi cal and mechanical engineering. Dr. H. D. Grove Jr., manager of process technology at Mon santo's Texas City plant, pre sented the grants to Engineering Dean Fred J. Benson and Science Dean J. M. Prescott in campus ceremonies Monday. Dr. Grove is chairman of the Monsanto Aid- to-Education Committee for the southwestern area of the United States. The funds include $1,500 for the Chemical Engineering De partment, $1,000 for the Mechani cal Engineering Department and $800 for the Chemistry Depart ment. The firm awarded a $500 grant to the Petroleum Engineer ing Department earlier this year. Winkler awarded $500 scholarship Charles J. Winkler of Smith- ville has been awarded a $500 Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association schol arship for his studies at A&M. An electrical engineering ma jor, Winkler is an Army ROTC cadet, Company K-l fii-st ser geant and Distinguished Student. He was selected by President Jack K. Williams and Col. Thomas R. Parsons, professor of military science. Dr. W. B. Jones Jr., Elec trical Engineering Department head, supported Winkler’s nomi nation. The award is made annually at outstanding senior Army, Air Force and Naval ROTC institu tions. The recipient must be in a field of study leading to a career in communications and is selected on the basis of scholas tic standing, character and mili tary potential. Winkler has a 3.6 overall grade point ratio in TAMU’s 4.0 system, has been a Distinguished Student every semester and has straight A’s in military science. He is a member of Phi Eta Sigma, na tional freshman scholastic fra ternity, and the Institute of Elec trical and Electronic Engineers. Ifix receives scholarship Carroll G. 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