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Page 6 age 51 •*T( fcitt 5vS Vlai ^ab o s Cex OC >il « }ipl ind ip^t squ is J tal: A& tio sit in< E> to) lie pl io c; ' Ai ei t\ it k c . n 't THE BATTALION TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1977 Embrey s Jewelry We Specialize In Aggie Rings. Diamonds Set — Sizing — Reoxidizing — All types watch/jewelry Repair The last degree.. Was it Churchston Windchill wl invented the air cooling formula; Aggie Charge Accounts :30 846-5816 Ride a bicycle Help keep our environment clean By DICK WEST United Press International WASHINGTON — In a way it is edifying, albeit rigorous, to have much of the nation enduring the most horrendous winter on record. This country, as you know, is in the process of shifting over to the metric system. And a slow process it is. The weather service is doing its part by including Celsius readings in its temperature reports. But most of us continue to think Fahrenheit. Due to the severe cold wave, however, we are paying more atten tion to temperature reports than we usually do. Which means the Cel sius scale will become meaningful to us that much sooner. In that regard, it seems fitting that we should pause at this time and pay tribute to the men who gave us our temperatures. All of us are familiar with the re doubtable Gabriel Daniel Fahren heit, the German instrument maker who in 1714 devised the scale that bears his name. And most of us are familiar with Anders Celsius, the Swedish as tronomer who in 1742 devised the scale that is now part of the metric system. Originally, Celsius’ scale was called centigrade, but that created a good bit of confusion. It caused many people to assume that the The Lighter Side Now Better Than Ever. You Will Be Pleased With These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods. Each Daily Special Only $1.49 Plus Tax. “Open Daily” Dining: 11 AM to 1:30 PM — 4:30 PM to 7 PM . MONDAY EVENING SPECIAL Salisbury Steak with Mushroom Gravy Whipped Potatoes Your Choice of One Vegetable Roll or Corn Bread and Butter Coffee or Tea TUESDAY EVENING SPECIAL Mexican Fiesta Dinner Two Cheese and Onion Enchiladas w/chili Mexican Rice Patio Style Pinto Beans Tostadas Coffee or Tea One Corn Bread and Butter WEDNESDAY EVENING SPECIAL Chicken Fried Beef Steak w/cream Gravy Whipped Potatoes and Choice of one other Vegetable Roll or Corn Bread and Butter Coffee or Tea THURSDAY EVENING SPECIAL Italian Candle Light Spaghetti Dinner SERVED WITH SPICED MEAT BALLS AND SAUCE Parmesan Cheese - Tossed Green Salad Choice of Salad Dressing - Hot Garlic Bread Tea or Coffee FRIDAY EVENING SPECIAL BREADED FISH FILET w/TARTAR SAUCE Cole Slaw Hush Puppies Choice of one vegetable Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee SATURDAY NOON and EVENING SPECIAL “Yankee Pot Roast Texas Style” Tossed Salad Choice of one vegetable Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee “Quality First” SUNDAY SPECIAL NOON and EVENING ROAST TURKEY DINNER Served with Cranberry Sauce Cornbread Dressing Roll or Corn Bread - Butter - Coffee or Tea Giblet Gravy And your choice of any One vegetable scale was developed by Ludwig Centigrade, a Polish storm door salesman. To make certain credit was given where credit was due, the General Conference on Weights and Mea sures in 1948 officially named the scale after Celsius. So much for the Big Two of tem perature. But what of the Big Three? Does the name Rene An toine Ferchault de Reaumur ring a bell? If not, you may need reminding that de Reaumur was the French naturalist who in 1730 cooked up a scale, still in limited use, graded from zero to 80. Note that these temperature ti tans were Europeans. Jingoists that we are, this causes us to wonder whether any Americans have con tributed to the onward and upward march of thermometer readings. The answer is a ringing affirma tive. There is, for example, the wind-chill factor. Contrary to what they would have you believe in Great Britain, the formula for measuring the cooling effect of moving air on the human body was not worked out by Churchston Windchill, the English weather vane designer. The measurements were de veloped from experiments per formed by a U.S. expedition to Antarctica in 1939. And that isn’t all. In 1804, Hiram Blazes, a Mt. Balderdash, N.H., bear bristle im porter, discovered that when he ran around the house naked in tempera tures below 26 degrees, he began to turn blue. That led to development of the scale by which we determine tem peratures that are “as cold as blue Blazes.” Similarly, in 1784, Elray phet, a Sump City, N.C., digger, found that when the tec ature dropped below 27 degra would freeze corned beefhasl That was the origin ofthesc^ which we identify weather ti “as cold as a well digger’s hasl All of us in the U.S. frigid owe a debt of gratitude to i temperature pioneers. For Ij not been for them, we woui know how cold we are. Texas roads to he impron Cities involved help pay 0lc<ini Top of the Tower Texas A&M University Pleasant Dining — Great View SERVING LUNCHEON BUFFET 11:00 A.M. - 1:30 P.M. Each day except Saturday $2.50 DAILY $3.00 SUNDAY Serving soup i? sandwich 11:00 A M. - 1:30 P.M. Monday - Friday $1.50 plus drink Available Evenings For Special University Banquets Department of Food Service Texas A&M University “Quality First” The Department of Highways and Public Transportation Commis sion has approved the 1977-78 Urban System Program, Joe Hanover announced today. Hanover is the district engineer. There are four new projects for district 17 in the proposed program. One project is the proposed ex tension of Pinfeather Road to FM 2818. Right of way has been ac quired and Brazos County will help pay for the cost of curbs and gutters. The extension of Holleman Drive in College Station from FM 2154 to seven-tenths of a mile east is another project. New overhead directional have been planned for certaini sections of Texas Ave. behveei 21 and Southwest Parkwayinft and College Station. Other projects include the sion and extension of ro Huntsville and Navasota. The approved program is *]uli Re Univer mated to cost $964,000. Oft ^ ur * n 8 amount the local governmenlt IFifty v< tributions are estimated $147,000. Hanover said preliminary work on all of these projects si begin soon. ATTENTION FOREIGN STUDENTS lexas A& the he search i wants faciliti There will be a Dr. C; I also ex student pM an Iniversit SPRING RETREAT „ enter t for all foreign students sponsored by the Baptist Student Union on Friday and Saturday, Januaf| 28 and 29. The cost will be $6. All members of the family are invited. There horseback riding, canoeing, hiking, sports, hay rides, Bible studies and a good time to meet new friends. ones (C Estab hleobot Jve Sou cility, buntry 1 g by th For more information, call 846-7722. Althou iarly all icultu ide the consu Vaug in We lynolog reruvi Ised to Save $10.00 to $59.90 if you act now. 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