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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1973)
Former Batt Editor Joins Alcoa Staff ROCKDALE William R. senate president, president of dale. Mrs. Henry is attending THE BATTALION Wednesday, August 8, 1973 College Station, Texas Page 13 Read Battalion Classifieds (Bill) Henry, a spring graduate of A&M, has joined Alcoa’s Rockj dale Works as public relations assistant, according to Hal Rea gan, public relations manager. Henry will handle internal com munications and become editor of the plant’s employee magazine, The Ranger. The native of Big Spring at tended Howard County Junior College before transferring to Texas A&M, where he secured a bachelor’s degree in journalism. Henry was editor of Texas A&M’s campus newspaper, The Battalion, after serving as sports editor, and was student assistant sports information director. He was active in Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism society. A summa cum laude graduate of Howard County Junior Col lege, Henry served as student Young Democrats and sports edi tor of the campus newspaper. He also worked in the editorial de partment of the Big Spring Daily Herald while attending junior college. Henry was named to Who’s Who in American Junior Colleges and was cited as an “Outstanding Athlete of America.” He was chosen to attend the Governor’s and President’s Conferences on Children and Youth while at Howard County, and was an American Legion award winner, “Outstanding Student” recipient, a member of Phi Theta Kappa (national academic fraternity) and was the state’s first and sec ond place winner in sports writ ing. He and his wife, the former Sarah Harris of Colorado City, reside at 300 Childress in Rock- Texas A&M, majoring in special education. Bill Henry Natural Control Saves Money Pest control through natural biocides has cut municipal pest control costs from $7,000 to $2,- 500 yearly in Berkeley, Califor nia. By using natural pest con trols, the city is helping its budg- Sports Car Club To View Film “Racing Reborn,” a film his tory of motor racing during 1940- 48, will show tonight at a Texas A&M Sports Car Club meeting. The 27-minute movie highlights racing led by Italian-made cars in the Europe war years. Events in which Alfa Romeos and Ma- seratis are the cars to beat are shown at Nice, St. Cloud, Geneva, Turin and Indianapolis. The French Grand Prix at Rheims and new circuits return racing to its splendor in 1948. During the period John Cooper succeeded in building race cars on a Commercial basis and young Stirling Moss began to make his mark. TAMSCC films are free to the public and provided by the Shell Oil Co. The club meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Mimosa Room of the old College Station City Hall, 101 Church St. FOR BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED et and its ecosystem, and getting far better results without poi sons. Berkeley’s old pest control pro gram was based on the assump tion that all bugs on trees were bad. The Division of Biological Control found that the only tree killing insects present were oak- worms and aphids, so the vast majority of the trees needed no attention. Aphids, feeding on linden trees between spring and late October, were spattering cars with honeydew and eating young shoots. It was discovered that a gnat-sized parasitic wasp existed in Europe which laid its eggs within aphid eggs, destroying them. The wasp, Trioxys curvi- caudus, was imported to Ber keley. The trees were hosed with high-pressure water to knock off as many aphids as possible, then the trunks were painted with stickum to keep off ants. The wasps were released, and soon the aphids were under control. The oakworms succumbed to a well-known insect disease, Bacil lus thuringiensis, which attacks the caterpillars. UCLA entomologist Paul De- Bach believes that most insects in an ecosystem are naturally found alongside their natural ene mies. This makes most insects potential pests, but they remain innocuous while their natural enemies are present. The answer is to control only pests, not kill off natural enemies with general pesticides and thus allow poten tial pests to reproduce until they become actual pests. Biological control is being used in Connecticut, where forests in fested with spanworm are being reclaimed through a wasp simi lar to Trioxys curvicaudus. The USD A is providing $500,000 to 19 universities for a study of 6 crop systems — cotton, soybeans, alfalfa, fruits, citrus and pines — to find effective biological con trols. It has been predicted that pesticide use on these crops could decrease 50% in 10 years through this program alone. “Over 15,000 chemicals have been introduced as pesticides, and none of them work,” says Wil liam Olkowski, whose Ph.D. thesis at Berkeley is the city’s program. “Pesticides need continual appli cations and are only tempoi-ary. Natural controls solve the prob lem forever.” SUZUKI SPORTS CENTER See The Exciting TS-100K HONCHO FEATURING: FAMOUS 12 M0./12,000 MILE WARRANTY ROTARY VALVE ENGINE « PRIMARY KICK STARTER SPARK ARRESTER • CCI AUTOMATIC LURE ENDURO TYPE SINGLE LEADING SHOE BRAKES POWER TUNED EXHAUST • 19” TRAILS TIRE AND A SPECIAL PRICE Us E Y, OPEN 8 A.M. - 6 P.M. DAILY $499 good 0 * mm HARRY DISHMAN S uzuki sports center SUZUKI 2609 S. 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