THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1978
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A program in real estate careers
has been launched by the Texas
Real Estate Research Center
(TRERC) at Texas A&M University.
“Traditionally real estate has been
a field which attracted persons later
in life,’’ said Dr. A.B. Wooten,
TRERC director. “We hope to
change that. Real estate has a pro
found effect upon the state and na
tion and is a career field which
should appeal to highly motivated
young men and women who want to
create their own success stories.”
Dr. Wooten said many colleges
and universities offer some form of
real estate education for the
career-minded student.
TRERC has developed a
brochure entitled “Building a
Future in Real Estate.” The bro
chure is available free to interested
persons. Three posters are also
available for teachers, counselors
and other educators in contact with
students.
The research center has also de
veloped a follow-up program to give
more information to would-be real
estate practitioners.
“Because land and its use is such
an important part of our lives,” ex
plained Dr. Wooten, “real estate
thrives today as one of the nation’s
largest industries. Real estate is not
only big business — it is a diverse
one.”
TRERC officials note that real es
tate directly or indirectly generates
one of every 10 jobs and one-eighth
of all income in the private sector.
There are approximately 4.3 mil
lion people employed directly in
real estate nationwide, and another
two million in other allied indus
tries.
The total value of real estate
goods and services produced annu
ally in Texas between 1947 and 1975
rose at an annual compound rate of
nearly 8 percent.
Real estate produced $150.7 bil
lion in goods and services nationally
last year, 11.5 percent of the private
sector’s portion of the gross national
product in 1977.
Dr. Wooten said that despite the
number of people involved in real
estate, there is always room for the
success-minded individual.
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PRESENTS
Katherine Hayes, right, receives advice from
Marcie Stimmer, of Midland, at the Dressage
clinic held last Saturday and Sunday at Pleas
ant Acres Stable in Bryan.
Researchers
receive grant
for plant study
A grant for $109,000 has been
awarded Texas A&M University to
study the desert plant guayule as a
commercial source of rubber, said
Texas A&M President Jarvis E. Mil
ler.
Guayule (wy-oo-lee) is is regarded
as one of the more promising
“energy crops” in the agricultural
field of petroculture.
The feasibility study was funded
by the new Southwest Border Re
gional Commission, whose mem
bers include the governors of
Arizona, California and New
Mexico, as well as Texas Gov.
Dolph Briscoe.
Guayule is a shrub that produces
rubber chemically identical to that
produced by the Asian rubber tree.
“The commission was organized
to funnel federal grants to states
along the United States and Mexico
border,” Miller added. “Texas A&M
received the first and only grant ap
proved so far.”
Miller said Texas A&M re
searchers will welcome the oppor
tunity to develop petroculture in
semi-arid regions.
The guayule project headquarters
will be at the Texas A&M University
Research Center in El Paso, with
some tests carried out in Pecos. Dr.
Jimmy Tipton, plant scientist with
the Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station in El Paso, will head the
study. The grant will be adminis
tered by the Texas A&M University
Research Foundation.
Miller said the funds will be used
to identify various guayule species,
determine rubber content and find
which are most resistant to disease
and insects. Tests will be conducted
on three five-acre plots and will in
clude irrigated and non-irrigated
conditions.
Guayule is not new, nor is the
interest in it as a rubber source.
Spanish conquistadors in the 1500s
found Aztec Indians using the plant
to make balls for a game similar to
basketball. Indians in Mexico also
used it for chewing gum.
The plant provided almost 50
percent of the United States’ rubber
needs, and 10 percent of the
world’s, in the early 1900s. The
government spent $45 million dur
ing World War II for development
of guayule as a domestic source of
natural rubber. After the war, how
ever, interest lagged when Asian
rubber again became plentiful.
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