Call of the wild
THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1975
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Bigfoot recording latest TAMU top single
More evidence claiming Bigfoot’s
existence has arrived at Texas A&M
University, including for the first
time an alleged recording of the elu
sive creature’s sounds.
Hair samples and photographs of
footprints and nests accompanied
the record sent earlier this week by
Alan R. Berry of Redding, Calif, to
Dr. Vaughn Bryant Jr., TAMU an
thropologist and botanist.
Bryant is last becoming this area’s
leading analyst of Bigfoot evidence
because of his past connections with
such findings and his credentials as a
recognized authority in prehistoric
diet, pollen and fecal analyses.
The sample, photos and record
join hair and fecal samples sent here
in April from two separate locations
in the Pacific Northwest. Those
samples are still under scrutiny at
the TAMU laboratories.
Both hair samples are reportedly
from Northern California and both
are similar in their light coloring and
appearance. But Bryant hastens to
add that such a preliminary judg
ment is by no means valid. He plans
a check comparison of the two hair
samples to check for similarities and
differences.
After listening to the 15-minute^
recording, of which only about half
actually contains Bigfoot sounds,
Bryant said the utterings seemed
similar to those of primates —
chimps, gorillas, monkeys, etc.
Berry, now almost a fulltime Big
foot hunter, says that Dr. William
Mason, primate behaviorist at the
Yerkes Primate Center at the Uni
versity of California-Davis, de
scribed the sounds as “definitely
primate” and recommended more
thorough analysis.
Berry claims the hair was found
on a tree with large footprints in the
snow nearby. Nesting areas were
found in the woods and photographs
taken. He explains, however, that
no actual sightings or photos of the
creature have been obtained from
his efforts, adding to the skepticism
from many corners.
He claims the recordings were
made from inside a wooden shelter
with a microphone and wire leading
about 10 yards outside the shelter.
The explorer explains to Bryant
that he sent the recordings to Syn
tonic Research, Inc., the same New
York firm that looked at Watergate
tapes.
Mike Kron, research associate
there, allegedly told Berry, “In my
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opinion, the sounds recorded have
been spontaneous in nature and
seem to have taken place at the time
of the original recording. ”
Berry also sent the four cassette
tapes to the Naval Weapons Center
in California which sent them back
after six months of attempted
analysis with no comment.
Now the recording has turned up
at TAMU, along with the photos and
hair samples.
Berry explains to Bryant that the
nest areas are unusual in that they
were very close to the human shel
ter and appeared to be constructed
in a way much more complex than
those of bears in the area.
Of all the evidence thus received
at Texas A&M, only the first hair
sample from Northern California
was accompanied by a reported
“sighting,” explains Bryant.
The fecal sample from near
Tacoma, Wash., and the sounds and
nests involved no actual sighting of
creatures, but in each case the find
ings did not appear to have been
made by animal life usual to the
areas.
Berry says that the creatures
were probably 30-50 yards away
from the hidden microphone, but
when recorded they sound almost
on top of it, a phenomenon that at
first led to skepticism on the part of
Syntonic.
But Berry says the remote vol
ume control of the unit, plus the
enormously loud projection of the
creatures, accounts for the apparent
closeness.
Drug moves
from leaves
to laboratory
A possible cancer drug originally
isolated from leaves found in
Ethiopia is in the process of being
produced synthetically at Texas
A&M University.
The Department of Health, Edu
cation and Welfare is funding the
effort of a research team headed by
Dr. Kenneth Harding to prove a
theory he brainstormed in a two-
hour period to artificially produce
the antitumor agent “Vernolepin.
The material was isolated in
leaves found in Ethiopia in 1965 by a
group taking random extracts from
plants and checking them for cancer
inhibitory qualities.
To really test the drug requires
huge amounts of the material that
can be produced quickly, cheaply,
and locally and that is where Dr.
Harding steps into the picture.
“We’re trying to develop a proce
dure for preparation of the agent in
the laboratory from readily available
organic chemicals,” Harding said.
“The project will develop simple
methods for the lab preparation of
the complex ‘Vernolepin’ molecule
which can then be used in making
structural variants for testing.”
“My basic idea for the synthesis
was developed in about two hours, ”
he added. “Then it took about three
months to document the idea and
prepare specific proposals, but this
year we expect to see some signific
ant results.”
Using penicillin as an analogy for
synthetic production of drugs, he
pointed out that it was originally de
veloped from a soil mold. However,
a more useful drug was produced by
manipulating small changes in the
molecule at the laboratory to im
prove the characteristics of the
penicillin.
“This is also a goal of ours in
synthesizing the Vernolepin,”
Harding observed.
Dinner theater
tickets on sale
at Rudder office
Dinner theater tickets are now on
sale for the Aggie Players produc
tion, “What The Butler Saw, at
Texas A&M.
The evening s entertainment is
planned in the newly renovated
Memorial Student Center Ballroom
June 26 and 27 and July 1 and 2.
Joining efforts in the new prog
ramming venture are the Aggie
Players, Memorial Student Center
Summer Directorate and Food Ser
vices Department.
Tickets, at the Rudder Center
ticket office, are $5 per student; $7,
non-student. Information is availa
ble at 845-2916.
A satire on the antics of a
psychiatrist and the zany clinic he
.operates, Joe Ortin’s “What The
Butler Saw” received top reviews
from a 1970 Broadway run. It has
been widely acclaimed as a dinner
theater production since.
Buffet dinner at 6:30 p.m. leads
into the 8 p.m. Aggie Players per
formance directed by Robert
Wenck.
The production is a first at
TAMU, note Wenck and Bob Bar-
bier, MSC summer directorate
president. It marks the first linkup
of the TAMU student theater com
pany and MSC.