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
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pointed out.
Tomatoes, melons and such sal
ad greens as lettuce have eluded
every effort toward preservation
for space travel. No one, Burns
says, has figured out how to
freeze dry a tomato and still
keep its original quality.
But despite these failures, the
scientist believes that a full se
lection of vegetables and cereals
will be available by the time
Shuttlespace becomes a reality.
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
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2. Would you prefer one of the many good
paying jobs that are unfilled because of
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3. If you are interested in unexcelled train
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years, don’t procrastinate another day.
Call or visit:
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
ENGINEERING EXTENSION SERVICE
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A&M Research Annex
F.E. Drawer K
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822-2323
Classes Begin
March 12, 1973