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Page 3 Aggie blood drive nets 1,060 pints a piano ■n to all -s rang- i«n last music, ' piano. >P with *' event •ughtat persons related to Texas A&M, whether they are on the faculty, staff or a student. This cov erage also extends to their families. If any of these people are in need of blood, no matter where they are in the United States, Wadley donates blood free of charge. These people are not required to donate blood during the Blood Drive at Texas A&M. The Aggie Blood Drive started in 1959 and has been going strong ever since. It has three drives annually — one in the fall, the spring and the summer. The Aggie Blood Drive is sponsored by the Alpha Phi Omega and Omega Phi Alpha serv ice organizations and the student government. The next blood drive is scheduled for March 26-30, 1979. itoring I i rector m The mini- an 300 a. The I. E.V, egular Mike Paradis, a senior from Houston, is “under the needle.” He and more than a thousand other Aggies donated blood this Battalion photo by Beth Breaker week. Sherri Harris, a Wadley Blood Bank worker, seems to have the situation under control. nger was exas h by i all intil med agus m ntry ; for oHi- ree- fhis »Ire de uce has s ol day ing ete ter, ,'arl any for 20t the Shocked’ beef more tender By MARK PERRIN Battalion Reporter A group ol Texas A&M University earchers have developed a pro- is to increase the tenderness of efby using electrical stimulation. Dr. Gary Smith, animal science )fessor at Texas A&M, explained sdnesday the process in a seminar titled Meat Tenderness and ctrical Stimulation." He said the tjiderness of beef has been in- ased an average of 21 percent, sed on an eight-point scale, by ing electrical stimulation. Smith said Texas A&M cold not im the invention of electrical mutation, just the improvemmnt it. 1 think we know more alwot ictrical stimulation at Texas A&M an anyone else, he said. He said that in 1749, Ben anklin was looking for new ways use electricity. On thing he did skill turkey by electrical shock. When he ate the birds, Franklin notice an increased tenderness in the meat, and so he was credited with the invention of electrical stimulation. Smith said. Texas A&M got the idea from New Zealand, which got the idea by reading old U.S. patents. New Zea land's main interest is in using elec trical stimulation on sheep carcasses shipped to the United Kingdom and the United States, Smith said. Tenderness is the most important characteristic of meat, and one tough beef carcass could affect as many as 240 people if it were dis- tributed by' a supermarket, Smith said. Electrical stimulation not only in creases the tenderness, but also brightens the color of the meat an av erage of 12 percent and increases the marbling score by an average of 17 percent. Smith said. Electrical stimulation not only in creases the tenderness, but also brightens the color of the meat an average of 12 percent and increases the marbling score by an average of 17 percent. Smith said. Electrical stimulation not only in creases the tenderness, but also brightens the color of the meat an average of 12 percent and increases the marbling score by an average of 17 percent, Smith said. The device used by Texas A&M is called an Electro-Sting, and was tested for different time lengths and voltage settings. Using 550 volts for one minute on a beef carcass gave the best results. Smith said. The electrical stimula tion is not continuous but is a series of on-off cycles, he added. Dr. Z.L. Carpenter, Dr. T.R. Dutson, Dr. J.W. Saveli and Dr. R.L. Hosteller from Texas A&M along with D.R. Hammons of the United States Department of Ag riculture aided Smith in the re search. Smith said problems of installing the new system in commercial pack ing plants still exist, but he thinks that someday the process will be used by all packing plants in the United States. He said the process would add a cost to the beef of about 20 cents per carcass. A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE COLD, CRUEL WORID WOULD LIKE A FEW WORRS WITH YOU His name is Jim Thomson, and he might be able to make that world look a lot friendlier to you, with an opportunity for a career at Reed Tool Company Reed is one of the world's leading manufacturers a nd suppliers of drilling bits, tool joints, and fluid-end pump parts for the petroleum industry If you're majoring in engineering and are in terested in field, process, design, product, or project pork; or if you're majoring in business and are in- terested in field sales, Jim Thomson would like a few r°rds with you on October 16. 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