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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1981
Today s Almanac
Local / State
United Press International
Today is Wednesday, Sept. 16,
the 259th day of 1981 with 106 to
follow.
The moon is moving toward its
last quarter.
The morning star is Mars.
The evening stars are Mercury,
Venus, Jupiter and Saturn.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Virgo.
American historian Francis
Parkman was born on Sept. 16,
1823.
On this date in history:
In 1630, the Massachusetts vil
lage of Shawmut changed its name
to Boston.
In 1893, more than 100,000
people rushed to the Cherokee
Strip in Oklahoma as the area was
opened to homesteading.
In 1963, the Asian nation of
Malaysia was created, occupying
the southern portion of the Malay
Peninsula and the northern part of
Borneo. The country is the world’s
largest producer of rubber.
In 1974, President Ford offered
conditional amnesty to Vietnam
draft dodgers and evaders. They
could come home if they per
formed up to two years of public
service.
A thought for the day: Amer
ican author and humorist Mark
Twain (Samuel Clemens) said,
“There are several good protec
tions against temptation but the
surest is cowardice.
Sundial enhances floral test garde
By MARTY BLAISE
Battalion Reporter
A visit to the Texas A&M Uni
versity floral test gardens will re
veal more than rows of flowers. A
huge sundial has been donated to
the University and placed in the
garden area.
The 60-inch armillary sphere,
or sundial, is located across from
the Joe Hiram Moore Communi
cations Building on Houston
Street.
The sundial was donated as a
gift to Texas A&M by Searcy
Bracewell, Class of 38, an attor
ney in the Houston firm of
Bracewell and Patterson. Dedica
tion of the sundial will take place
September 26 before the first
home football game.
Grounds maintenance workers
installed the main sculpture and
the concrete base in early Septem
ber. Sidewalks surrounding the
sundial are under construction
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and should be finished before the
dedication ceremony.
A plaque describing the dona
tion as a gift has been ordered and
should be installed on the sundial
before the dedication, J. Wayne
Stark said. Stark is a special assis
tant to the President for Develop
ment of Cultural Programs.
Besides being an attractive
piece of art, the sundial provides
useful information about the
earth’s rotation. Observers can
even determine the time of day by
watching the shadow of the center
rod.
One large vertical ring on the
sundial represents a meridian —
an imaginary circle around the
earth — passing through College
Station. On the inside of this ring
is a band decorated with the signs
of the zodiac, which represents
the celestial equator.
Slanting up through the middle
is a rod representing the earth’s
rotational axis. The sundial is de
signed so that the center of this
rod points toward Polaris, the
North Star.
During the daily rotation of the
earth, the shadow of the central
rod moves across the inside of the
equatorial band, passing from one
hour to another and showing the
apparent sun time in College Sta
tion.
Stark said although other sites
were considered, the present site
of the sundial was chosen because
it is in an area of direct sunlight.
The longitude at College Sta
tion is 96 degrees, 21 minutes
west, but because the clocks are
set for Central Standard Time, the
longitude is actually 90 degrees
west. College Station clocks show
the standard mean time of the sun
in New Orleans, 380 miles to the
east, so that when the sun is on
College Station’s meridian at
noon, it is 26 minutes after noon in
New Orleans. Since the sundial
shows the apparent time of the
sun, it will average about 26 mi
nutes slower in comparison to the
time on a clock.
Because the earth moves
around the sun more quickly dur
ing the winter and more slowly
during the summer, the apparent
time on the sundial will vary by a
few minutes during these times.
On September 23, the date of
the Autumnal Equinox (one of the
two times of the year when the sun
crosses the celestial equator and
day and night are e
the shadow of the equatu
on the sundial will fo.
the center of the axial rojl
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moved 13 inches up ^ t r
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mentsof more than tw°y tafai .
and two feet down
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sonal variations in the^ Ent(
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his two children from the Aurora
home of his estranged wife.
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