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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1981
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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
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Time: 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Place: Holiday Inn
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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
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noon
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m. Monday through Friday
campus
students who desire to
purchase Board Plans may contact
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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
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offshore platforms. ^
The new tunnel, Nor*~™
will better simulate the t
atmosphere, and would lie .
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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* Social Secretary and
* Concession Chairman
along with membership applications for the following committees:
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Applications can be picked up and turned in Rm. 216 MSC in the®
Council Cubicle and are due in by 5:00 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11.