Page 6 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1975
Opera comes to Granbury
Opening night draws celebrities
STEPHENVILLE — A celebri
ty-studded packed house, includ
ing' Gene Autrey and Texas Att.
Gen. John Hill, hailed the open
ing (actually the second grand
opening) of the 90-year-old Gran
bury Opera House Thursday
night. The production company,
made up of Tarleton State Uni
versity students and some area
personalities, provided what Paul
Baker, director of the Dallas
Theater Center, called . . an
excellent evening of entertain
ment.”
The Hollywood-style opening
was complete with limousines
and searchlights and included an
authentic judge to present the
prologue. Judge Jack M. Lang-
don, also chairman of the board
of the Granbury Opera Associa
tion, appeared wearing white-
tails and a beat-up Western straw
hat so that “. . . you all will know
what a real Texan looks like.”
Director Mary Jane Mingus
said the opening went “as smooth
as glass. We had a raucous crowd
that had a good time; I think.
First-night crowds are usually
very quiet, but this group (over
300 strong) was in the aisle boo
ing and hissing the villian and
cheering the hero.”
The melodrama was the first
production in the Opera House
since it closed in 1911. A com
munity effort produced a recon
structed showplace for the com
munity with a full-time summer
stock schedule. The students are
TAMU wind tunnel tests
complete on space shuttle
A TAMU team of aerospace en
gineers has completed wind-tunnel
testing of a mock-up scale model of
the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration’s space shuttle.
The space administration pro
vided the group, headed by Dr.
David Norton and Dr. Allan Parker,
an additional $15,000 this month.
They have been working with the
shuttle for the last five years and
have explored several problem
areas during their research. Their
current efforts are to calculate the
phenomenon of base drag.
Base drag comes from the large
blunt area at the rear of the aircraft
where the rocket nozzles are lo
cated. The task is to see just how
much the drag affects the flight
characteristics of the shuttle.
They have found that up to 50 per
cent of the total drag is from the base
when the shuttle is flying at a low
angle of attack (almost straight).
“No one else has done this sort of
testing, so we are the first line of
research in trying to define this
drag,” Parker said. “The idea is to
measure the forces and moments on
the base and compare them with the
forces on the complete vehicle.
Testing included measuring 32
points of pressure on the base of the
aircraft simultaneously at various
speeds in the wind tunnel.
Norton said that the particular
drag problem has been obscure
previously because most wind-
tunnel tests have been run with a
tail-mounting system that affects
the base drag. “We’ve eliminated
this, and now our tests will be used
to determine if previous informa
tion is accurate, he said.
Other tests are being run on the
shuttle in 24 wind tunnels across the
country as scientists struggle with
problems from flap systems to skin
drag. Total testing will total about
30,000 wind-tunnel hours.
“Our data is necessary so other
scientists can begin designing flight
paths and payloads to fit the
aeronautical capabilities of the air
craft as it is now,” Parker said.
The U. S.-manned space program
for the next decade centers around
the space-shuttle system. The con-
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receiving 12 hours college credits
for their summer’s work.
The first production is “Gold
in the Hills” to be followed by:
“Charlie’s Aunt,” a farce comedy
with music, July 10-27; “Pursuit
of Happiness,” a 1776 comedy,
July 31-August 17, and “Once Up
on a Mattress,” a hit musical com
edy, August 21-September 7.
The student group is learning
the theater from front to back.
They wired lights, made costumes,
painted seats and even sold ad
vertising to culminate a commun
ity effort that resurrected the
old opera house from a roofless
shell.
Local businessmen and artisans
gutted the building and rebuilt
it. Irreplacable window frames
were done by hand in a local
cabinet shop and donations of
time and equipment came from
every sector. One supporter of
the restoration noted, “I can’t
stress enough how this was the
result of everyone’s work. I’ve
never seen people unite and pull
together like this.”
The townspeople got the opera
house built but they still needed
actors. This is where Mrs. Min
gus, the Granbury Opera Com
pany, and Tarleton State Univer
sity joined to offer a program of
acting experience and college
credit while acting in a profes
sional summer stock company.
JoAnn Miller, a regular in the
Dallas dinner theater circuit and
a native of Arp, is directing the
restoration of the opera house
and producing the shows. She is
a night club entertainer who be
gan her career as a singer with
Tommy Dorsey’s band. Theater
goers will be able to hear her tal
ents in the two numbers she does
in the play’s saloon scene.
New road paving
better, cheaper
Two new types of roads will be laid arid tested in a joint venture by
TAMU, a French petroleum company, and Shell-Canada Ltd. One type
is to be tested in South Texas near Corpus Christi and the other at
Lufkin.
Prof. Bob Gallaway of TAMU’s Texas Transportation Institute, said
Shell-Canada will conduct the first field-equipment trials of a sand-
asphalt-sulfur road-surfacing material the week of July 17.
Representatives of the Texas and Louisiana highway departments and
selected contractors will be present for the second phase of the demonst
ration. The public will be restricted from the initial phases of these trials.
“The uniqueness of the mix stems from the fact that it is six percent
asphalt cement, 13 per cent sulfur and 81 per cent locally available
sand,” Gallaway said. ‘This produces a superior road paving material
that is estimated to be about 15 per cent cheaper than conventional
materials.
“Sand is substituted for the more expensive rock or graded aggregate
while the sulfur acts as a structuring agent for the sand. Rock is expen
sive to transport and sometimes hard to obtain. Also the price of asphalt
is accelerating upward due to the petroleum shortage,” he said.
Another field test will be held in Lufkin in August where a test section
of road will be installed on Highway 69. This portion will involve a
sulfur-asphalt emulsion as the binder, a process developed by a French
petroleum company. It will be sponsored by the Sulfur Institute.
The binder is 30 per cent sulfur and 70 per cent asphalt. The aggre
gates in this demonstration will be those normally used in pavement
building. A savings of about 15 per cent in total costs is estimated.
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