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Wednesday, July 13, 1983/The Battalion/Page X Foley, D-J termine embers ( Sewing in Sbisa? Cherie Pack, a full-time employee of the food while Sfbisa is closed during the summer months, services department, catches up on a little sewing She is making smocks for employees to wear. rea land owners qualify Program honors titleholders by Gwendolyn Hattaway than tes, will can headi ouncedij ioned ict lat f the Mu „ _ Battalion Reporter ervance.j| At least seven farm and ranch r for a ippwners in Brazos County qualify he mistsoBor a procram that recognizes ^families who have had land in > been eiijj c<)nt h 1 uous agricultural produc- ie of Ales t ' on f° r 10^ years or more. 3uld poll I Q ual ‘fy in g families will be r Irecognized by the Texas Depart- '-ffifrient of Agriculture’s 1983 Bamily Land Heritage Program ml fm fin November. Recipients are ,. TSpresented a certificate and hon- OUmtlKmred at a sta j e ceremony at the rips of^* !a,e capitol. They also wiU receive a copy of the Family Land Heritage Re gistry, which gives a brief history of each qualifying farm and ranch and includes old photo graphs of the families and their homes. The registry is printed in the spring. “It’s quite an accomplishment to keep land in the family for 100 years,” Carolyn Baethge, of the Department of Agriculture, said Tuesday. “We have had to turn a few applicants down this year because we found out they had leased their land to some one else at one time or another.” The Department of Agricul ture believes that if the land was leased, the family didn’t play a significant role in the agricultu ral production, Baethge said. “The same rule applies if the owner isn’t a Texas resident,” she said. “It would be very diffi cult for a family to play a major role in agricultural production while living elsewhere.” Registration for the program, which began in 1974, is open un til August 16. Applications may be obtained 'earn wasi iventor louting evolved at some early as in the ffl :cessori« nple, w® Louis W > the coni liness see - ice creai ion-trad >ed in ;lties are rican viol tion is . Ice 0 r of a re to nts. ers broke three, H- ors and a reo C (! ' nd “So* s empl 0 ) 1 he onlfit ion me of ft h Ice Ctj known 1/2 off All Summer Dresses Jr. & Misses editor eloi any eed 300 f they are oeditlett'" ffort to n# so be sign* 1 ,er of the' 1 * re welco*r traintsas^ ence to exas ,hone Wednestb’; •egularw* ster, P 3 ' jvertistng teed McD* .ge Statn" 1 ’ d exclus' ,atches cr( J r matter^ ire Stadn"' Transitional Fashions.... New Fall Merchandise Arriving Daily Designing of prototype robot begins at A&M COLLEGE STATION — The first prototype robot to be designed by engineers in Texas A&M University’s new robotics laboratory is on the drawing boards, but its designers can’t give many clues to how it will look or what it will do. Under a confidential agree ment with Surgikos, a division of Johnson & Johnson, the en gineers are designing and will construct a robot to perform specific manufacturing tasks at Surgikos’ Dallas plant which manufactures medical equip ment. “It will be reprogrammable, use a laser and meet a variety of tasks,” says Dr. Gordon Hop kins, head of the laboratory and the school’s mechanical en gineering department. The laboratory is operated by the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, a research arm of The Texas A&M System. A second major project for the robotics laboratory, funded by Texas Instruments, involves the improvement of the vision system of TI’s 990 minicompu ter and a study of the effects of machining tolerances on robot accuracy. The work is being performed by professors Hopkins, Ben Mooring and Norman Griswold. The first project includes Dr. Dennis Bingham. “Industry wants students trained in optics, pattern recog nition, image processing and other areas of robotics,” Gris wold said. “Through these grants for research, we can bring students into the labora tory to see actual state-of-the-art work in robotics. At the gradu ate level, students can actually work on projects.” In the future, the researchers, 1 hope to design robots with bet-j ! ter vision and control. They also ,! intend to explore robotic mem-i ory requirements so that the? machines might “learn” more? similarly to the way humans do! “Robotics are essential for oui! society and it is absolutely neces-t sary that we in higher education, and high-technology research be involved in the study and de-: velopment of intelligent machinery,” Hopkins said. The engineering experiment station has devoted 5,000 square feet in the soon-to-be completed Engineering Laboratories Building for robotics research ai Texas A&M. Delayed loading of fuel may cost plant thousands from the county judge, County Historical Commission Chair man or by writing to Family Land Heritage Program, Texas Department of Agriculture, Post Office Box 12847, Austin, Texas 78711. The application asks for a brief history of the land — the original owner, subsequent owners and their relationship to the original owner. After com pletion, the application must be taken to the county judge to be signed. United Press International GLEN ROSE — Officials at the controversial Comanche Peak nuclear plant said they would again delay plans to load fuel into the plant’s reactor, which could cost $500,000 a day. “To put it simply,” plant spokesman Dick Ramsey said, “we’ve just got more work to be done than there’s time to do it between now and the end of September.” The plant, located southwest of Dallas, has been plagued by massive cost overruns and num erous questions about its safety. Utility officials said Monday they were moving the date for fueling the reactor from Sep tember to December. Ramsey said any postpone ment after that date could mean an additional $500,000 a day for replacement power and other costs. Officials said routine con struction and inspection matters forced the delay. They said the first reactor was nearly com plete, and the second about two- ithirds finished. Ramsey said plant officials still were awaiting a decision from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on whether current inspection procedures were acceptable. Tne fueling operation was de layed earlier this year. (0 Q. 0) tr o * 5 • < • 0) • 0) CL E o Ken’s Automotive 421 S. Main — Bryan 822-2823 “A Complete Automotive Service Center” Tune-Ups _ Q . Clutches * Brakes Front End Parts Replacement Standard Transmission Repairs All American Cars Datsun-Honda Toyota 10% Discount with v Student I.D. 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