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'AirM’s program unique
Students get radar training
By BECKY DOBSON
Battalion Reporter
Texas A&M University's
meteorology students get the
only hands-on radar training in
the United States, even though
almost a score of other institu
tions offer advanced degrees in
the field.
“Many schools teach a radar
course without radar instruments
and others teach radar but never
allow the students to run it,”
Kenneth C. Brundidge, head of
the meteorology department,
said. “The students actually run
the radar here.”
The radar equipment the stu
dents are allowed to use has an
effective range of 250 miles. It
can detect hurricanes, tornadoes
or any form of precipitation
within that range.
The height of the Oceanog
raphy and Meteorology building
itself serves to make the weather
station the most powerful in the
area. The radar antenna on top of
the building is more than 200
feet above ground and 30 inches
in diameter which accounts for
its broad range, Brundidge says.
Brundidge says meteorology
continues to bloom as a service-
oriented profession, although
jobs are presently confined to
government and a few private
consulting firms.
The department has produced
TV figures such as Ron Godbey
and David Finfrock. Both are
weathermen for TV stations and
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Battalion photo by Paige Beasley
Meteorology students track approaching front on TAMU
weather radar.
radio stations in Fort Worth.
John Adams, whose voice is
familiar to many who watched
channel 3 weather in Bryan, is
now working for a station in
Beaumont.
Meteorolgy was first taught
here in 1949 and became a sepa
rate department in 1965. It now
includes 200 undergraduate and
graduate majors and has a staff of
14 faculty members.
The department offers spe-
cially designed courses for edu-
cation, architecture, agriculture
and science majors. The one-
hour course for non-majors at
tracts almost 250 students a
semester.
During times of severe
weather the department’s
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ported to local civil defense and
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Carter’s veto of beef bill
is ‘slap at cattle industry’
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KANSAS CITY - President Car
ter’s veto of the beef imports bill,
some cattle producers say, is a slap
at the industry for short-term politi
cal gain.
Producers, interviewed Sunday at
the 80th American Royal exposition,
said the veto announcement Satur
day was no surprise. Administration
officials had predicted the action,
but lack of a surprise did not make
the news any easier to take.
As he watched judging of young
sters’ prize cattle, Carlton Noyes
said the president put short-term
politics ahead of the need for a vi
able cattle industry and future suffi
cient supplies.
Noyes, president of a group
which produces Limousin cattle
from France, said, “I do feel that he
is making a tremendous mistake in
putting politics ahead of the good
agriculture can do for this country.”
There was no disagreement be
tween the industry and the adminis
tration on a counter-cyclical formula
to raise imports during times of low
domestic production and reduce
them during times of high produc
tion.
The disagreement involved a
provision in the beef imports bill
which would have strongly re
stricted the president’s authority to
increase or suspend beef imports.
Cattlemen said that when they
made money this year after four lean
years, the president sought to ap
pease consumers with a June 8 an
nouncement increasing imports.
The result was a drop in domestic
prices.
“He’s playing politics with the
consumer,” said Noyes, who runs a
feedlot and ranching business in Or
leans, Neb.
“Agriculture is such a small
minority that he doesn’t feel it is
necessary to satisfy agricultural con
stituents,” he said.
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Satellite to probe space
United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL — A satellite equipped to map the X-ray
patterns of the universe which are beamed from the mysterious pul
sars, quasars and black holes rode into orbit Monday morning atop an
Atlas-Centaur booster rocket.
The High Energy Astronomical Observatory will be orbiting from
280 to 335 miles above Earth, pointing its powerful telescope at the
radiation sources and transmitting back pictures that may explain the
astronomical wonders.
For the first time researchers will be able to “look at objects, see
exactly where the action is taking place and from that better under
stand the whole astrophysical system that is working out there to
produce these X-rays,” program scientist Albert Opp said.
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