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Wednesday, January 19, 1972
College Station, Texas
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Dowdy decides not to seek re-election
TION DALLAS (SP) — Rep. John
fewdy, D-Tex., of Athens, who
846-37(h 5 B PP ea ^ n ^ conviction of
™ ry and conspiracy at Bal-
re, said Tuesday he will not
re-election because of ill
Hth.
owdy made known his deci-
li in a letter issued from his
hington office.
‘My decision was made in ac
cordance with the professional
advice of my personal doctors,
who warned that a vigorous po
litical campaign would likely
complicate the serious health
problems I have suffered in the
past 16 months,” Dowdy said.
The New York Times advised
Dowdy last Sunday to resign.
At his trial the government
contended that the 10-term con
gressman accepted a $25,000
bribe at Atlanta airport Sept.
22, 1965. He was indicted on
charges that he helped side
track a Justice Department in
vestigation into a Maryland
home improvement firm in re
turn for the money.
Dowdy, the first congressman
in office to be found guilty of a
criminal offense in 15 years,
faces a maximum possible pen
alty of 40 years in prison and
$40,000 in fines, but his lawyers
are seeking a new trial.
The 59-year-old congressman
has consistently denied the alle
gations against him and tried
to have the indictment quashed
on the ground of congressional
immunity. He charged a politi
cal frame-up by those who re
sented his work in the House
District of Columbia Committee.
In his Washington statement,
Dowdy referred to many calls
from friends encouraging him or
his wife to run.
“As I have previously an
nounced,” he said, “I will con
tinue to serve in the House of
temote Sensing Center
rganizes vegetation lab Acorns studied for use in human diet;
Representatives until my pres
ent term expires in January of
next year.”
State Sen. Charles Wilson of
Lufkin has announced for the
seat now held by Dowdy and last
week Norman T. Birdwell of
Hardin County Kountze also
filed as a candidate.
Most of Dowdy’s district was
placed into a new district with
no incumbent by the 1971 Texas
Legislature.
His home county, Henderson,
was put in the district of U.S.
Rep. Wright Patman, a 40-year
House veteran from Texarkana.
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&M’s Remote Sensing Cen-
t has organized a new Vegeta-*
r Systems Laboratory for re-
ch into land use planning.
Dr. John W. Rouse Jr., RSC
ctor, announced Dr. Robert
Haas will head the lab. The
organization, Dr. Rouse
d, is the first formal RSC
iboratory in the College of
iculture. Cooperating is the
as Agricultural Experiment
tion.
he center has five additional
ibs — space technology, optics,
ironmental quality, data an-
sis and microwave-infrared
items. Remote sensing in-
ades aerial natural and infra
photography, radar, mechan-
infrared scanning and mi-
iwave radiometry.
&M’s RSC serves the col
es of agriculture, engineer
ing. geosciences and science, Dr.
se pointed out.
r. Haas, assistant professor
range science, worked under
ote sensing pioneer Dr. R.
Colwell last spring while a
itdoctoral research assistant.
Dr. Haas said the Vegetation
Systems Laboratory will re
search remote sensing techniques
as a tool for land use planning.
He hopes to detect and measure
small seasonal differences of
vegetated areas, and infer veg
etation conditions and land use
potentials of broad areas.
“Man is making increasingly
greater demands on the world’s
resources,” Dr. Haas said. “We
must find ways of planning for
the use of natural resources
without destroying nature. This
is one of the goals of our re
mote sensing research,” he ex
plained.
Dr. Haas said the RSC is em
phasizing research into renew
able natural resources, such as
rangelands and forests.
He stated rangeland, on a
world-wide basis, occupies ap
proximately 50 per cent of the
land mass. In Texas, however,
more than three-fourths of the
state’s 169 million acres are still
covered with natural vegetation,
including both range and forest
lands.
squirrels used in taste test panel
Acorns, one of ancient man’s
food staples, are being studied
at A&M with the idea that the
nuts might have a place in mod
em diets.
The fruit of the oak, in fact,
is still finding its way to dinner
tables among poorer classes in
such places as Italy and Spain.
These people utilize the nuts in
bread, cake and even as a coffee
substitute.
American pioneers learned
from the Indians how to use
acoms in gruels, cakes and tor
tillas. The usual process was
hulling, grinding, and then leach
ing with boiling water or water-
ash soaks to extract tannin and
other bitter principles. The re
sult was pounded into a meal.
At A&M, Graduate Student R.
P. Ofcarcik and Dr. E. E. Burns
of the Soil and Crop Science De
partment are studying the chem
ical and physical properties for
human use. And, ever-mindful
of wildlife, the study team has
a taste testing panel of squirrels,
Dabbs completes last book of Palacio series
Publication of the last book
pi a three-volume series of “The
wriano Riva Palacio Archives”
pr Dr. Jack A. Dabbs of A&M
has been announced.
\ The volume concludes the
^ (lengthy project Dabbs began in
V 1954 under sponsorship of the
^ \f Institute of Latin American
Studies, The University of Texas.
Dr. Dabbs heads the Modern
Languages Department at
TAMU.
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The Palacio archives project
is part of a larger plan of the
UT institute to make available
to scholars an extensive collec
tion of documentary manuscript
material in the Latin American
Library at Austin.
Dabb’s recently completed work
is a detailed description of the
library archives of Mariano Riva
Palacio, one of the leading polit
ical figures of 19th Century
Mexico. The books were pub
lished in Mexico.
Palacio’s personal papers, in
cluding more than 10,000 letters
and documents, were studied and
summarized in the first two vol
umes. The third volume is an
alphabetical index to the first
two volumes.
Dr. Dabbs noted the books will
expedite research in Mexican his
tory from original sources.
nature’s own acorn gourmets.
All sorts of tests have been
devised, Burns said. There is
variability according to the kind
of oak. Other tests measure
moisture, protein and fat. The
amount of tannin is an index
of bitterness. Physical proper
ties include size, shape, color and
texture of shell and kernel.
Generally, crude protein va
ries from 4 to 7.5 percent, and
fat is about 15 percent. Sam
ples from the sandjack, water
and southern red oaks tended to
be higher. The fat content from
acorns of one southern red oak
was 31 percent.
Burns said evaluation of some
samples was difficult because of
masking effect of bitter ma
terials. Some acorns, however,
were almost bitter-free, sweet
and flavorful.
The squirrel taste panel was
highly selective and consistent
in its preferences. Acorns with
low tannin pleased their palates
the most. The bushy tailed con
noisseurs demonstrated that their
favorite nuts came from the post
oaks and the red and black oaks.
Burns said further develop
ment of acorns as a food source
will involve two approaches.
First, a selection program is
needed to find nuts of top taste
and nutrition. Second, a process
ing technology should be devel
oped to cheaply and quickly re
move bitterness found in nearly
all acorns.
The wide availability and nu
tritious composition gives acorns
considerable potential as a hu
man food, Burns said.
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