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Effects of silt usage unknown I Mb bA I I mliun WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1975 Mage j The Army Corps of Engineers wants to know what happens to po tentially poisonous heavy metals such as mercury, zinc, lead and cadmium that accumulate in places like the Houston Ship Channel. Heavy metals entering the water tend to end up in the bottom silt. The silt is often used in land fills, dumped into other underwater en vironments or used to fill marshes. The Corps has awarded TAMU’s Biology and Civil Engineering De partments a $100,000 contract to trace the route of these heavy met als. “We want to know if it is suitable for fills and what it does to the envi ronment where it’s dropped,” said Dr. Jerry Neff, a member of the investigating team. “A large amount of the metal ends up in the sediments where metal concentrations may be several or ders of magnitude higher than the surrounding water, Neff said. “They can get even higher where man impinges upon the aquatic en vironment like the Corpus Christi and Houston Ship Channels.” The group will take samples of sediments all along the Texas coast and determine the concentrations of heavy metals in them. These sam ples will then be tested in various aquarium environments. “We ll also use three types ol water for the tests: estuarine like in bays, ocean and fresh water,” Neff said. “This is because there is evi dence that some of the metal pollut ants behave differently in waters of different salinity. “For the studies we will use grass shrimp, which live on the sediment surface, a commonly occurring clam and two types of worm,” he said. “Regardless of their exact position in the fresh water or marine food web, they represent the lowest levels in their habitats “As a result, they would serve to transmit the accumulated metals to secondary consumers, which in turn may be eaten by humans,” he said. “We will expose the test animals to sediments containing the diffe rent levels of heavy metals and re cord their fate,” Neff said. “We want to know if the animal is chang ing the sediment and/or is the sedi ment changing the animals and which of the heavy metal types are available to them.” At a point when the level of tissue contamination is known, the ani mals will be transferred to clean water to see how fast they release the heavy metals. Scientists study cottonseed flour Flour made from cottonseed has long been known to be a high source of protein. It has also remained rela tively untapped as a food source. A Lubbock cooperative oil mill now has the capability to produce such flour. This development has prompted researchers at TAMU’s Food Protein Research and De velopment Center to try and de termine what kind of cotton, grown Compare the food savings at FedMart New store hours: Mon. thru Fri. 10 AM to 8 PM Saturday 9:30 AM to 6 PM Closed Sunday For extra savings on meat, try FedMart’s U.S.D.A. Inspected Calf. The price of beef is very high again. But now you can do something about it. Serve your family FedMart’s U.S.D.A. Inspected Calf. Check our prices below and you’ll find that Calf costs you substantially less than heavy beef, especially at FedMart’s low prices. It’s a great way to give your food budget a lift. FedMart’s Calf is about eight months old. 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The liquid cyclone process was developed by the USDA to produce a cottonseed product that is con sumable by humans. “This advantage ot being able to extract a high percentage of oil and food should make cotton more ad vantageous as a money crop,” said Dr. Russell Kohel of the USDA, who calls himself an “interested ob server.” “However, no real market has developed yet for the extra pro ducts.” The sites for the test plantings will be in the lower Rio Grande Val ley, Corpus Christi, College Sta tion, Lubbock and the high plains, El Paso and the irrigated west, Kohel said. To improve the quality of cotton seed for human food, more informa tion is needed regarding the influ ence of climate and genetic factors The team will make recommen dations to the USDA on what the optimum conditions for production are in Texas. Cooperation as good as competition After testing over 650 volunteers, a TAMU researcher says coopera tion did not prove any more helpful in learning a task than did competi tion. Dr. Linus Dowell, professor of health and physical education, re ports that neither men nor women learned a series of experimental tasks better because of being in a cooperative or competitive learning environment. Men did seem to learn the novel task more readily, he notes. Dowell explains the men may have been more challenged by the puzzle or may have had more experience in solving that type of task. In the experiment, competitive and cooperative groups were asked to look at a booklet describing a “game board” and then describe the rules that would account for the movement of a piece pictured on the board. “The question of cooperation ver sus competition is one that has in terested educators and psychologists for years. Educators want to know what situation moti vates the best performance from their students, Dowell said. “Although many studies have been made, no conclusive evidence has been presented in favor of either. There is as much disagree ment in the research as there is in individual opinions.” -CEz Andes ltd 52 “i SALES: AlumaCraft, Grumman, ABS Tejas & Blue Hole RENTAL: Special group rates DR. MICKEY LITTLE College Station, Tx. (713) 846-7307 Also your local booking agent for canoe &' kayak rentals on the GUADALUPE RIVER for TEXAS CANOE TRAILS. $15/day in cludes shuttle. Phone CANOES, LTD. for j details & reservations. I Clip and save HITCHIN’ POST West 25th and Sandy Point Ladies 1/2 Price Beer & Set-ups Closed Sunday Prefessietyal Personalized Nafr Service ftr men and wemen 7-401 32 5 Un I versify Dr. C»S, JA. I