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THE BATTALION Wednesday, December 13, 1972 College Station, Texas Page 3 Ag Experiment Station Makes Food For Shuttlespace Program When NASA’s Shuttlespace System goes into operation about four and a half years from now, research underway by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station will make the food catering situ ation more efficient and easier. Scavenger Hunt The first prize of $25 in the Student Purchase Program Scav enger Hunt was won by Mama Schneider. Second prize of $15 went to Nancy Yates and the third prize of $10 went to Jacalyn Ferguson. Contestants were given a blank The TAES is working on ways to keep vegetables and cereals tasty and nutritious, yet light and compact—no easy assignment. Shuttlespace is a relay system to and among space stations. It is the next step after Skylab and puzzle and had to visit as many of the 39 participating stores as possible to collect clues. Clues consisted of a product in each store, and the student had to look around and guess it. First prize went to the collector of the most correct clues. will enable astronauts to probe deeper into outer regions. Actually, the space effort is not new to TAES. The agency has been consulted about foods and preservation methods since the be ginning of the Apollo series. Some of the snacks now being nibbled by Apollo 17 astronauts stemmed from Experiment Station studies. The man heading up Shuttle- space food research for TAES, Dr. E. E. Bums of the Soil and Crop Sciences Department, says he and his associates have been working on the project about a year. Burns, a food technologist, said the Experiment Station has the “commodity expertise” to delve into such studies. “We are constantly seeking veg etable varieties that lend them selves to freeze drying and com pression,” he said. “This means that plant breeding and genetics also come into play.” The main problem in developing space travel foods is bulk. So far, freeze drying is the best method because it affects food quality less than any other preservation technique. After freeze drying, the vege tables are compressed into candy bar sizes, then sealed in heavy Winners Named BATTALION CLASSIFIED plastic. No refrigeration is re quired. To eat, remove the bar from the plastic and add water (rehydra tion). The vegetable fluffs back to its normal state, and its tex ture is damaged very little. Bums’ investigations to date have been mostly on vegetables. The cereals phase is yet to come. Vegetables which have worked best so far are green beans, car rots, com, peas and spinach, which the scientist says are iten not likely to encourage little bo^ s to become astronauts. “But then, our astronauts have never been real spinach buffs,” he WANT AD RATES Oik day . 5c per word if per word each additional day Minimum charge—75c Classified Display $1.00 per column inch each insertion WORK WANTED Experienced typing near campus. All kinds. 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Strangely, fruits have posed no difficulty. “In fact, we just reached back a couple of thousand years and copied the sun-dried fruit tech niques of the ancients,” Burns ex plained. The fruit is dried, mashed into thin sheets and then rolled up like a sheet of paper. Or it can be cut into bite-size chips. Burns said the final product is light in weight, tasty and keeps well. Resonance by Steve Grayson Since this is the last Wednes day in the semester, I’m going to wrap this column up with some of the albums I never got around to mentioning. Here is a partial list of my “Of The Year” records. Biggest Surprise — Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Air men’s “Hot Licks, Cold Steel and Truckers Favorites” is really en joyable country and western. They look like just another long haired band, hut they sound like pure shirt. Nicest Surprise — Herbie Mann’s “Push Push.” I knew Mann was a great flute player, though his music had always been a little too sugary. But when his flute joined up with the late great Duane Allman’s guitar, the sugar with the spice, so to say, things really got cooking. They run through a variety of songs to gether. This is the best instru mental album I heard this year. Loudest Crash—My opinion of Chicago after examining “Chi cago V.” What is all this “fabu lous” poster business ? Chicago may soon be the pop stars they seemingly want to be if the music of “Chicago V” is any indication. Most Intriguing — Van Morri son’s “Saint Dominic’s Preview,” masterfully produced, totally en grossing. Morrison’s style is unique. Here he uses background vocals in place of studio strings. “Almost Independence Day” and “Listen to the Lion” are almost scary in their complexity, but their suggested meanings are only suggested. Most Entertaining—“Elvis Live at Madison Square Garden.” You can’t help but he an Elvis fan after listening to the man belt out his music from “Hound Dog” to “Suspicious Minds.” With a tight rock hand and the Sweet Inspirations behind him, Elvis is overwhelming. Sweetest — The stuff Bread passes out is so sweet they should be checked for diabetes. “Diary” or “Guitar Man” or whatever their latest one is called is more of the same. Grossest—“Mom’s Apple Pie,” by the group of th same name. Terry Knight, of Grand Funk Railroad fame, has a new piece of junk to promote, and they are even more a piece of junk than GFR were, believe it or not. But even Knight went over his head in designing their first album’s cover. A more apt title for the thing would have been “Lia, the Lizard Lady, Tantalizingly Dis plays This Year’s Winner of the Annual Porno-Pastry Contest.” Another grand flunk for Knight. Best Single—“Layla” by Derek and the Dominoes, with Eric Clapton in command. Duane All- man continues to haunt us as it is he and Clapton that rip, wail and grind their way thru the first half of the song and then sit back quietly as the most startling change of pace flows us up to the final birdie tweet. Ecology-Minded Ag Senior Deals In Organic Products By TED BORISKIE Staff Writer Ecology comes natural for Bob Williams; it’s his job. Williams, a journalism senior from Dallas, sells organic prod ucts in his off hours. The products range from food supplements and toiletries to cleaning aids which contain no synthetic materials. “The rewards from this job are unequaled anywhere,” he said. “In this throw-away society where everything is synthetic, it’s nice to know what you’re selling will not harm the environment.” Williams’ company, Shaklee, was founded in 1915 and deals exclusively in organic foods. With the recent interest in ecology, the products have experienced a tre mendous growth of popularity. “They’re very well konwn in California,” he said, “and a lot of people in the North and on the East Coast have heard of them, but in the South they’re still rel atively unknown.” Williams deals primarily with food supplements and cleaning aids. A cleanser he sells is strong enough to wash a car but, being organic, safe enough to wash babies. “Most of the products have a soybean base,” he said. “The soy bean is nature’s most versatile plant. They’ve discovered hun dreds of uses for it, like the uses George Washington Carver dis covered for the peanut.” Some people are misled, think ing vitamins are a cure-all. “Vitamins are not used to real ly cure anything,” said Williams. “Vitamins are a preventive meas ure that supply the basic needs your body has to keep it healthy. “Your body can tell the differ ence between natural vitamins and synthetic vitamins.” Williams finds that many peo ple are skeptical about a cleanser made out of organic materials. “I was skeptical when I first heard about it,” he said. “I check ed it out thoroughly and found that it really works and is com pletely safe, safe enough to eat. To housewives, especially ones with young babies, that should be very important.” 1. Are you interested in the practical ap proach in technical training-? 2. Would you prefer one of the many good paying jobs that are unfilled because of scarcity of trained electronic technicians? 3. 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