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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, APR. 14, 1976
Page 5
Folklore, singing
will highlight meeting
In the continuing research at
Texas A&M, to stave off world star
vation, the latest advance is teaching
chickens to raise fish.
The University scientists are refin
ing a plan for chicken coops to be
built atop fish tanks stocked with
tilapia, a tasty African food fish. The
chicken droppings, rich in protein,
will become the major source of food
for the fish below.
The droppings will also fertilize
the pond and stimulate algae
growth, which the fish also eat.
This is a part of the research being
done at the Texas A&M Aquaculture
Center on fish farming. The
unfishy-tasting tilapia is under cost-
production study.
Until tl iree weeks of age the fish is
unspecified in sex characteristics.
However the researchers have sol
ved this problem.
The young fish are fed a male
hormone which promotes male de
velopment. This serves to keep the
young fish from spawning at too early
an age.
At the fish farm, located on the
Texas A&M Farm, study is also con
ducted on channel catfish and fresh
water shrimp. Catfish study is con
centrated on improving weight gain
through diet.
The fresh water shrimp, may grow
as large as a man’s fist. It is being
studied as a commercial crop under
the direction of Dr. R. W. Brick at
the Texas A&M Research Annex.
The Annex is at the old Air Force
Base on the Caldwell Rd.
Living with the tilapia and the
channel catfish at the farm is a big,
red rooster named “Big Red ”. He
was an experimental rooster kept at
the farm, but escaped his cage one
day and has become a sort of mascot.
He comes and goes of his own free
will and eats fish food. He doesn’t eat
chicken feed anymore.
The Aquaculture farm was estab
lished to develop farming
techniques for production of fin
fishes and invertebrates for food and
to develop management techniques
for artificial bodies of water for sport
fishing.
The farm is under the direction of
Dr. R. R. Stickney.
There are 24 experimental ponds,
each about the size of the University
Center fountain. A reservoir feeds
Brazos River water into the ponds.
A wet lab allows the researchers to
raise certain kinds of fish under con
trolled water conditions. A dry lab
serves for experiments.
The ponds at the fish farm also
serve as demonstration models.
Folk music and folklore papers
will be presented at the 60th annual
meeting of the Texas Folklore Soci
ety this weekend in Arlington.
The Texas A&M delegation will be
headed by Sid Cox of the English
Dept. Last year 58 A&M students
attended the three-day convention.
Three of the papers presented last
year were written by former A&M
students.
The convention will be
punctuated with informal sessions of
music and singing, done on a volun
tary basis by the folk enthusiasts.
The society is mostly composed of
university professors and students.
Anyone may attend the convention
beginning Thursday evening. There
is no registration fee for the particip
ants. Interested students and faculty
members should contact Sid Cox at
845-3451.
First Lady guest at San Antonio
Woman gets license
For Indianapolis 500
Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS — Janet Guth
rie, the first woman to drive a car
in the Indianapolis 500, was granted
a conditional competition license
today by the U.S. Auto Club.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (AP) —
First Lady Betty Ford, named an
honorary grand marshal of the Fiesta
River Parade, will ride in a specially
constructed barge.
The barge will have a clear shield
for the First Lady’s protection, said
Tim Word, commander of the Texas
Cavaliers who will sponsor the
parade.
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Some 250,000 are expected to line
the San Antonio River for the first
procession of the week-long Fiesta
San Antonio celebration from
Monday to Saturday. The parade
opens the Fiesta.
Illness preceded
Hughes’ death,
doctor reports
Associated Press
ACAPULCO, Mexico — On the
day he died, Howard Hughes
weighed only about 80 pounds, his
hair and beard were long and
stringy, and his body was pitted with
bedsores, a Mexican doctor who at
tended him reports.
Hughes was unconscious, dehyd
rated, had a head infection and was
suffering fiom kidney failure, Dr.
Victor Manuel Montemayor Mar
tinez said in a signed declaration
given to the Mexican attorney gen
eral’s office.
The doctor said after examining
Hughes he did not expect the bil
lionaire to live more than a few
hours.
Hughes was taken from his penth
ouse at the Acapulco Princess Hotel
and flown by private plane to Hous
ton, Tex., on April 5. He was dead
when the plane landed.
Federal Judge Antonio Uribe
Garcia made Montemayor’s state
ment available to newsmen Tuesday
along with those from others ques
tioned during a police investigation
into Hughes’ death.
Montemayor’s declaration said:
He was called to the 20th-floor
penthouse about 5 a.m. April 5 and
found Hughes “half naked with only
bedsheets covering his body,
. . . very pale, with his right eye
open, the left not so much but about
half open, breathing in pants,
slowly, in a state of complete uncon
sciousness.”
His eyes showed little reaction to
light, and his neck and face twitched.
Hughes’ hair was long, thin and
gray, his beard stringy and dark
chestnut in color. There were
numerous bedsores on the body.
Aides said an open sore on the left
side of Hughes’ head was the result
of a benign tumor than had been
aggravated by a blow received in a
fall. One of Hughes’ aides told the
court he suffered the fall in the
Bahamas before he came to Acapulco
Feb. 10.
Montemayor said Eric Iverson
Bundy of Hughes’ staff appeared to
be in charge, and there were also two
American doctors and a bodyguard
in the room. When the Mexican
expressed surprise that Hughes had
been kept in the hotel in such condi
tion, they told him Hughes was hard
to deal with and did not want to go to
a hospital.
An ambulance arrived about 8:15
a.m., the doctor said, and the driver
reported they left for the airport at
10:30 a.m. The driver, C. Jaime
Quevedo, said he saw his
passenger’s head as he was lifted into
the plane, and he was “unconscious,
not moving.” He said he could not
tell if the transferred person was
alive or dead.
Another private secretary who was
present, C. A. Waldron of Sun Val
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Hughes to Houston was made by Dr.
Wilbur Thain, 50, of Logan, Utah,
one of the two American doctors
present.
Waldron was cleared Tuesday of a
charge he forged Hughes’ signature
on the recluse’s tourist card when he
arrived from the Bahamas. Judge
Uribe Garcia ruled there was no evi
dence to sustain the charge.
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