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Page 6 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1981 Local 1 AGGIES! Douglas el] Propeller blows up a storm for engineers Jewelry A&M contraption benefits builclei 10% AQGIE DISCOUnT ON ALL MERCHANDISE WITH STUDENT ID (Cash Only Please) We reserve the right to limit use of this privilege. Downtown Bryan (212 N. Mlain) and Culpepper Plaza MSC AGGIE CINEMA PRESENTS “ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST” —Los Angeles Times, Charles Champlin —New York Daily News, Rex Reed —Saturday Review, Judith Crist —National Review, John Simon —New York Post, Archer Winston —Associated Press, Fred Yager -Newhouse Newspapers, Richard Freedman —After Dark, Norma McLain Stoop Wt ea CANNES FESTIVAL AWARD WINNER’ BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR WINNER of lO AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY AWARDS Including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor 7:30 P.M. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9 RUDDER THEATER $1.50 WITH TAMU I. D. ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE AT MSC BOX OFFICE MON DA Y-FRIDA Y 9-5. TICKETS ALSO A VAILABLE 45 MIN UTES BEFORE SHOWTIME. Engineers are testing the effects of blustery Southwest winds on Sun Belt city skyscrapers by putting a scale model on a turn table and trying to blow it away with 200 mph gusts from a World War II bomber propeller. “We don’t tell our clients what to build,” said aerospace engineer Dr. Dave Norton who heads the project at the Texas Engineering Experiment Station lab. “But we do give them a lot of information, and from that en gineers do such things as increase or decrease strength of windows.” Technicians at the lab have put together whole sections of Dallas, Houston, Tulsa and other cities for their tests. The scale models are placed, as needed, on a rotating pad inside the station’s biggest wind tunnel, and a propeller from a B-29 bomber is cranked up to suck wind across the model. Texas A&M University en gineers say the Rube Goldberg contrivance works well. The turntable makes it possible to test from every direction, and the models have sensors inside to record wind effects and to trans mit the data to a computer. Each test starts with a look at the ground. Norton and research engineer John Ribbe walk over the proposed site, measuring the height of existing buildings and checking city maps for new con struction. Based on Norton and Ribbe’s reconnaissance, technicians from the station’s Environmental Aerodynamics Laboratory build the model — using wood and styr ofoam for surrounding buildings, and aluminum for the building being tested. The completed model — an accurate scale reproduction of the BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE AT POST OAK MALL COLLEGE STATION, TX CBL & Associates, Inc., owner/developer of the soon-to-be completed 1,020,000 square-foot enclosed Post Oak Mall in College Station, TX, is hosting a Franchise Meeting — open to the public. If you have ever considered owning your own franchise busi ness, CBL & Associates, Inc., is providing this opportunity for you to fully ir vestigate the possibilities of operating your own business in the Post Oak Mall. Representatives of several fran chises will be available to discuss their operations and answer your questions. > Athlete’s Foot Athletic Attic Bathtique C & C Foods Captain D's Chick-Fil-A Flowerama Hickory Farms Just Pants Long John Silvers Microwave Cooking Orange Julius Philly Mignon Shakey’s T-Shirts Plus PLAN TO ATTEND: Date: Tuesday, Sept. 15, 1981 Time: 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Place: Holiday Inn 1503 Texas Ave. South College Station, TX ATTENTION OFF CAMPUS STUDENTS Department of Food Services accept students who board fees were not on quota list. Those who were issued will present slips to validation team in Souper Salad (Sbisa) between a.m m a.m noon a.m m. Monday through Friday campus students who desire to purchase Board Plans may contact Fiscal present validation. city — is then subjected to winds representing the kind of storms that blow up once every 50 or 100 years. The results tell builders what to expect from their designs. “Construction is so expensive today that builders are looking for every possible edge,” Norton said. “With our data they can de cide, for instance, what thickness of glass is needed on each floor.” Just that kind of information has helped with designs for Reunion Tower in Dallas and the 39-story Continental Tower, proposed for construction in downtown Hous ton next year. Norton said interest has grown to the point that Texas A&M is building a new tunnel specifically to test Ur DEfL Itior offshore platforms. ^ The new tunnel, Nor*~™ will better simulate the t atmosphere, and would lie . ,i . irm provement over the tun# „ ase rently in use. That hi® built 35 years ago to tests designs. Texas art and artists featured in new bool Un Canvases and cameras and artists who have used them to cap ture some of the most picturesque scenes in Texas are featured in the two newest books from the Texas A&M University Press. “Texas West of the Pecos” is the title of one that showcases the col or photography of Jim Bones Jr. The other is “The Texas Hill Country: Interpretations by Thir teen Artists.” The latter includes the works of Kelly Fearing, Michael Frary, Jon Guerin, William Hoey, William Lester and Ralph White, all of Au stin; Ivan McDougal, Clay McGaughy Jr., and Gordon West, all of San Antonio; Ancel Nunn of Palestine; Woody Gwyn, a native Texan now residing in Galisteo, N.M.; Emily Guthrie Smith of Fort Worth and E.M. “Buck” Schiwetz of Westhoff. The book includes an introduction by A.C. Greene of Dallas and foreword by John Paul Leeper of San Antonio. “The Texas Hill Country,” the fifth publicaton in The Joe and Betty Moore Texas Art Series, is a 128-page publication highlighted by color reproductions of 49 paint ings by the 13 artists. to 3 p.m. and 5 to 8 p.m. at The Wooden Star. Other autographing parties for the artists are scheduled in Au stin, 2-6 p.m. Sept. 20 at Watson and Co. Books; San Antonio, 6-9 p.m. Sept. 24 at Rosengren’s; and in Fredericksburg, 2-5 p.m. Oct. 8 at the Main Book Shop. A reception honoring Bones is scheduled at the Dallas Museum of Natural History at Fair Park Sept. 25. The 7-9 p.m. reception 01 also marks the opening. . hibit at the museumofte p"*' graphy, including some ofi f tures in “Texas West Pecos.’’ Bones also will be ho autographing parties is from 11 a.m. to4p.m.Sepl| the Whole Earth Prom and twice in Houston, K p.m. Sept. 30 at Allied lid Bank and 5:30-8 p.m. Post Oak Books. Rare disease t off olll ups colt rataiitif Bones, formerly of Dripping Springs and who now calls Terl- ingua home, assembled 96 of his best color photographs for “Texas West of the Pecos” and also wrotp the text. The 136-page book is the fourth publication in The Louise Lindsey Merrick Texas Environ ment Series. One of the Texas A&M University Press’ first books, “Texas Heartland: A Hill Country Year,” featured Bones’ photography. All 13 of “The Texas Hill Coun try” artists will attend a public re ception in Houston Sept. 17 to commemorate publication of the book. Their paintings will be at the reception scheduled for noon State diagnostic experts predict a rise in the reported cases of a rare but deadly disease among colts caused by a bacteria which is not easily identified, said Dr. Lar ry Jones, head of pathology at the Texas Veterinary Medical Diag nostic Laboratory. Tyzzer’s disease left nine foals dead statewide this past spring, the largest outbreak in Texas since the infection was first identified 17 years ago in Kentucky, said Jones. Jones emphasized, however, that the number of cases was small — usually one per herd — com pared to the hundreds of mares which produced foals last year on large horse breeding farms across Texas. Tyzzer’s Disease which dam ages the liver usually affects a foal in the first two months of life, Jones said. It can kill so quickly that some animals are discovered dead when a few hours earlier they appeared healthy, he said. Tyzzer’s Disease becomes apparent in a foal when it shows a Ui AMAi iat conti latioi ler s bei ntroll ran sudden onset of high fe« n( ]ay diarrhea followed by a te: ke an coma, Jones said. Scientists believe Iyb e the ease — named after theve Loea rian who first spotted tk among mice in 1917—ista red from the gastrointesti of the mare to her foal« foal nibbles on thedroppii mother. This shouldnotoc pasture situation wheretk|'> Shul and foal are constantly mo* reti Jones said. prerci The suspect bacteria, i*® s st piliformis, usually restsia 1 testines of young a to complete the cycle, J( Jones said scientists dor] why the bacteria leave tfc| travel to the liver, or how! the disease effectively. Because the sicknessisij to confirm using laboral teria cultures, Tyzzer’s isj confused with several eases such as shigella infe Arabian adenovirus infe Pathetic Earthlings- - - WHO con save you NOW ? Music by QUEEN to a In D atherec cnic, s lie to 1 * many “g on tl But i Sided t fd won I "We 1 K' ^ tun Thurs. Sept 7:30 & 9 $1,51 MSC/Cepheid Variable Rudder AuditoriuC^ “igan Contr m vice 'mtrollf 'vork. 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