ICC Ellery Queen Not So Urbane indicate tk GAINESVILLE, Fla. OP) — key point t' Christopher Rebecca Lee, a 30- Europe,” Qk year-old university freshman, pays that her father, a detective •t the UniinStory writer, Ellery Queen, was re is only : not as urbane as his books would 1 coexistent! indicate. an and Ctil “Here’s Ellery — tall, dark,” Hiss Lee said of her father's fic- ||i>nal sleuth. “Here’s dad — T T short, fat. It’s hard to make the flegl transition.” i “My father was a fairly domi- • |»nt personality in his own home If 1 !Ape ... A great premium was placed ^ on intellectual competence in our ■rom the P house. Consequently I think that the Canad w * thout mean i n £ to he scared the hell out of us.” _ j , iMiss Lee said that her father, 1 in the ^ an ^ re< i ^ jee > died in 1971, r .^Irould not have approved of her Several ^M C ' s ’ on to res i^ n f rom a New York public relations job to en- ln ' roll at the University of Florida lectures felthis fall as a zoology major, its on basi(Bi getting Ae did most of the writing while ’ Thompsc: Dannay concocted plot, did re- d everythiifisearch and edited, jping up it Miss Lee and seven other Lee ises,” children grew up on an estate jin Roxbury, Conn. Her mother, Kaye, is still alive. S K “My fifth grade English teach- Ejr was such an Ellery Queen fan and had this image of my father as this gorgeous WASP (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant),” Miss Lee said. When he visited the school one day, she suddenly realized that Ellery Queen was a short, fat man in overalls and red socks, Miss Lee said. “She was really destroyed.” Miss Lee said, “Ellery Queen’s appeal has basically been that most of his detective work was done through his brain. He wasn’t a James Bond, a knock- em-up, shoot-em-down. He wasn’t a Mickey Spillane.” “My father felt very strongly that there was something special about writing,” she said. “He often said writing was a torture. He had this big thing for suffer ing, the Jewish disease.” Miss Lee said she did not en joy reading her father’s books because he drew too frequently on family friends. “My mother would use pet words and mannerisms that would frequently appear in his books,” she said “When I was a teen-ager it would wreck it for me. I’d be reading about this glamorous woman and then out would come one of my mother's phrases.” Spacecraft Center Loans Meteor Analysis Equipment Equipment for meteor analysis has been placed on long-term loan with Texas A&M University by the Johnson Spacecraft Center. The meteor radiation analyzer (MRA) will be used under the direction of Dr. Ronald Schorn, Dr. George Kattawar and Dr. Edward Fry of TAMU’s Physics Department. They and Dr. Gil bert Plass, department head, con duct a variety of astronomical research. Graduate student Bob Johnson of Plano will employ the MRA in his master’s degree research. A one-of-a-kind system, the unit was constructed for Nasa under Lockheed Electronics Co. con tract. NASA budget cutbacks prevented planned JSC observa tional programs. The equipment is valued at more than $200,000. JSC scientist Burton Cour- Palais and engineer Robert Ma- TAMUFC TEXAS A&M FLYING CLUB Meeting Thurs., Oct. 4 8:00 p. m. Room 229 Chemistry Building All Interested Persons Please Attend ins $3 door i MSC Interviews for membership on the 19th Stu dent Conference on National Affairs Commit tee of the Memorial Student Center will be held October 8-12. Interested students with a minimum GPR of 2.5 overall should apply at the SCON A Desk in the Student Programs Office of the MSC before Wednesday, October 10. riah designed the system. They will visit TAMU in mid-October to consult in equipment setup. The MRA detects light-emitting meteor trails through nine pho tometers that permit study of the meteor’s chemical composition. A rotating shutter chops the trail into segments, allowing a meas ure of the meteor’s velocity and mass. The system also indicates the direction the meteor is travel ing, according to Schorn, a profes sional astronomer. Schorn believes the system will detect second - magnitude and brighter meteors, an atmospheric phenomenon caused by grain of sand to marble-sized material colliding at very high speeds with the earth’s air covering. He said the MRA will be set up at the TAMU Research Annex. Later use at McDonald Observa tories in West Texas is possible. Schorn does planetary research there. The system consists of an equatorially mounted package containing the light-sensitive de vices and associated electronics. The detected light of a meteor trail is converted to an electrical signal and, through a logic urtit, digitized and stored on magnetic tape. The system includes a power supply. Schorn said taped data can be programmed directly into the de partment’s computer for analysis. The detector unit contains photometers of different sensi tivities and filter capabilities in a 22 by 16 by 10-inch package. The unit’s effective collecting aperture is five centimeters per photomultiplier tube. “The system is designed to operate automatically once it is in operation,” Schorn said. “The optics cover a field of view of 23 degrees. The motor-driven equa torial mounting keeps the detec tor unit pointed at a particular part of the sky.” 24 YEARS EXPERIENCE! Tune ups, brake jobs, valve jobs, motor replacement — entire range of automotive needs for your car! State Inspection Station DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE ROBESON MOTOR 724 N. Main, 822-2622 Teen Burger and French Fries ASW 4611 Texas Avenue Open Weeknights Till 11:00 p. m. Weekends Till Midnight Beef Pattie With your choice of let tuce, tomatoes, pickles, onions, bacon strip. 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De termined to avoid a repeat of last year’s energy equeeze, TAMU’s Physical Plant person nel, like the proverbial squirrel, are stocking up for a long, cold winter. Two new one-million-gallon fuel oil storage tanks have been completed since last fall and are now receiving fuel oil shipments to fill their capacity. “Last year TAMU had a fuel oil storage capacity of only 150,- 000 gallons,” noted Wayne Ter rell, information manager of physical plant. “When the unex pected natural gas curtailment hit us, our underground storage represented only a four day sup ply of fuel to keep our steam generators running. It seems we had tank trucks constantly lined Biology Institute to Serve Life Sciences Problems The Institute of Developmental Biology has been formed at TAMU to serve as a base for studying fundamental problems in the life sciences. TAMU President Jack K. Williams said the new institute in the College of Science will be directed by Dr. Herbert A. Roller. Roller and a colleague, Dr. Karl H. Dahm, also of TAMU and who will head one of the institute’s units, are credited with the first isolation and chemical synthesis of the juvenile hormone, one of two hormones in insects which regulate developmental processes. “The institute will be a driving force to enlarge TAMU’s contri bution in the international effort to investigate basic problems in biology,” Dr. Williams noted. “In addition to its research activities, the institute will provide chal lenging academic programs for undergraduate and graduate stu dents, post-doctoral fellows and technical personnel.” Besides support provided by the university, the program has outside funding which totals nearly $1 million over the next five years. The bulk of the fund ing was provided by a National Science Foundation grant to Roller and Dahm for studies con cerning the role of hormones in development. “Our efforts in developmental biology over the last five years have proved successful with re spect both to scientific achieve ment and funding,” pointed out Science Dean J. M. Prescott. “It is evident that this area is one of the most productive ones in biology, and it is now highly appropriate that our research and instruction efforts in develop mental biology be placed in an organizational context.” Wolfe Speaks At Seminar Dr. Arthur Wolfe, associate professor of management at TAMU, will be the featured speaker at this week’s senior en gineering seminar session Thurs day in the Zachry Engineering Center. Dr. Wolfe will address senior engineering students on aspects of being a professional manager, according to course instructor James H. Caddess. Dr. Wolfe’s talk is one of a series of presentations to mem bers of the required engineering course participants which expose the students to professional engi neers and management person nel. Caddess noted that although student attendance is required, he and the class welcome visitors interested in topics for the se mester-long course. The course is a part of the Mechanical Engi neer Department’s curriculum. Meetings are held each Thurs day in Room 203 of the Zachry Center at 10 a.m. FOR BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED “Most of the fundamental prob lems in life sciences are in the field of developmental biology or associated with this field,” ob served Dr. Roller, professor of biology who joined the TAMU faculty in 1968. “The study of development is by far the most derived, and, therefore uni fying concepts will emerge only where questions of biological sig nificance are extended from one level of complexity to the next by scholars from different discip lines, broadly trained to bridge the fields.” Dr. Roller said the institute will consist of units, headed by senior scientists, dealing with endocrinology, natural products chemistry and biochemistry, phys iology, and organ and tissue cul ture. Staff members hold profes sorial appointments in the Bi ology, Chemistry and Biochem istry and Biophysics Depart ments. Initially, scientists in the Insti tute of Developmental Biology will focus on the study of the biochemistry and role of the juve nile hormone in cell differenti ation, morphogenesis and cellular organization. Dr. Roller, who received his formal education in Germany, is active in several biological en deavors on both the national and international levels. He has been a member of the National Science Foundation’s Panel on Regulatory Biology for three years and serves as director of research for the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology head quartered in Nairobi, Kenya. He also collaborates with scientists in several European programs. Last year he was elected a mem ber of the world’s oldest inter national academy of science, the Leopoldina. Since 1967 Dr. Roller served as a scientific advisor to industry where he has been actively in volved in the development of various new types of insect growth regulators, compounds which are the basis for a new approach to insect control. up on Asbury Street to keep that one storage tank supplied.” Terrell explained fuel oil is the back-up fuel to natural gas in the production of campus elec trical energy and environmental conditioning for buildings. But with natural gas curtailment be coming almost a fact of life, TAMU must be prepared to sup- (plement the demand with the more expensive fuel oil. In view of the federal govern ment’s recent mandatory con trols on propane and fuel, Ter rell believes that TAMU made a wise move in expanding its storage capacity as early as pos sible. The new federal guidelines call for priority of propane to resi dential users followed in descend ing order by: agricultural pro ducers, food processors, mass transit companies, hospitals and nursing homes, industrial ve hicles and equipment used in doors, fire and police depart ments, oil and gas drillers, small businesses and gas utility com panies that use propane to beef up their output of natural gas during peak consumption periods. Energy experts expect roughly the same priority system will ap ply to fuel oil when those new regulations are posted later this month. Even with indications that nat ural gas curtailments will again be severe this winter, Terrell feels better about TAMU’s situ ation. “We have expanded our fuel storage tremendously. In addition to the two one-million- gallon above ground tanks locat ed above ground tanks located away from campus, we have add ed another 150,000-gallon under ground storage tank on main campus. This gives us a total of 2.3 million gallons of storage representing a full month’s sup ply.” Terrell emphasized the contin ued need for conservation of en ergy during the winter months. “Although we have additional ca pacity this year, we will not know the adequacy of our system until we actually see how severe the energy crunch will be this year.” *JPyl\< i; * TODAY _ 5:30 - 7:35 - 9:40 “SOUNDER” (G) CAM PUS • 4 ^ \ m NOW SHOWING 5:30 - 7:35 - 9:40 Paul Newman In ‘MACKINTOSH MAN” (PG) Skyway Twin ;f °* 1 vf ■ 1 ^ WEST SCREEN AT 7:40 P. M. “LAST AMERICAN HERD” At 9:25 p. m. “VANISHING POINT” EAST SCREEN AT 7:45 P. M. Clint Eastwood “HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER” At 9:30 p. m. “PLAY MISTY FOR ME” (Both Rated R) FRESHMEN! JOIN THE "IN'' CROWD MAKE CERTAIN YOUR PHOTOGRAPH IS IN THE 74 AGGIELAND. FRESHMEN MAKE- UP PICTURES WILL BE TAKEN OCTOBER 14 AT UNIVERSITY STUDIO IN NORTH GATE. COME BY 8 A.M. TO 5 P.M. OR CALL 846-8019 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. UNIVERSITY STUDIO 115 College Main N. Gate