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Technology helps
produce lean beef
In Advance
By Michelle Carney
Reporter
Health conscious consumers’ recent
demand for leaner beef has forced the
beef industry to produce a higher quality
meat.
Consumers want less fat and more
beef. Dr. Jim Stouffer said.
In a three-day seminar at the Louis
Pearce Pavilion this weekend, about 40
students and private ranchers from across
the nation learned to measure the amount
of meat and fat in beef through ultra
sound scanning.
Referred to as the “father of ultra
sound” by training session participants,
Stouffer has worked with ultrasound
since its introduction in 1958.
The original ultrasound machines are
primitive compared with modern tech
nology, he said. “The real breakthrough
is that today’s ultrasound scanner was
originally developed for obstetrics.”
“As consumers demand quality beef,
the beef industry has become more con
cerned with consumer health,” Stouffer,
a newly retired meat specialist from Cor
nell University, said. “It’s the old law of
supply and demand.”
Ultrasound in cattle is the same tech
nology used in hospitals on humans. “It
is human technology with animal appli
cations,” Lorna Pelton, extension asso
ciate for Texas A&M, said.
“With ultrasound we can look at mus
cle and fat thickness, which are two ma
jor carcass traits,” Pelton said. “This is
beneficial because the muscle and fat can
be observed without slaughtering the ani
mal.
“Through ultrasound cattlemen are
now able to select quality cattle and pro
duce leaner beef,” Stouffer said. High-
grade cattle are separated from the lower
grades and bred.
“By continually breeding high quality
cattle, we can ultimately achieve a leaner
beef market,” he said. “Ultrasound scan
ning gives us quality control over each
animal.”
Readings taken from ultrasound scan
ning measure fat thickness opposite the
12th and 13th ribs, which is the area
quality-graded for eating. A cross-sec
tion view also is measured.
“Ultrasound helps cattleman find ani
mals with superior muscle traits. This
means leaner beef.”
Stouffer, chairman of the task force
leading the training seminar, said that his
committee establishes guidelines for pre
cise ultrasound testing.
“The purpose of the task force is to en
sure the integrity of those analyzing
cattle through effective training,” Stouf
fer said.
To obtain readings, mineral oil is
placed on the animal’s coat to help ultra
sonic signals travel through dense tissue,
Stouffer said. These signals are trans
mitted and displayed on a small screen
and filmed on a video-cassette recorder
for later interpretation.
Cost of ultrasound scanning is approx
imately $10 a head, Stouffer said. The
positive impact it has on the beef indus
try doesn’t make price a major concern,
he said.
Local artist’s work to be displayed
College Station artist Nita Gaye
Harding’s paintings will be on dis
play during October and November at
the College Station Community Cen
ter, 1300 Jersey Ave.
Harding works with oils, acrylics.
and watercolors. She supplies bou
tiques throughout Texas with hand-
painted outfits and shirts.
'The exhibit will be open Monday-
Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Cancer society sells festival tickets
The American Cancer Society is
selling Renaissance Festival tickets at
reduced prices. The cost is $9 for
adults and $5 for children.
Tickets are available at the ACS
office at 3207 Briarcrest. For eact
ticket sold, the ACS will receive SI.
Proceeds will benefit the coramii-1
nity through patient services. [
education, and research.
City parade entry deadline announced
The deadline for entries in the 1988
Bryan-Collcge Station Chamber of
Commerce Holiday Parade is Nov. 4.
The “Magical. Musical Christmas”
parade is scheduled for Dec. 4.
Entry forms are available at the
College Station Community Center,
the Brazos Center, the Bryan and
College Station Chambers of Com
merce, the Bryan and College Statioi
City Halls and the Bryan and Colleyt
Station Parks and Recreation Depan-
ments.
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For more information, call 8ft
5611 or call the Chamber of C»
merce Convention and Visitor Be
reau at 260-9898.
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Former chief of staff to speak atRuddv
Stouffer, who introduced the new ul
trasound technique in Spring 1984, said
this screening tries to identify accurately
superior lines of cattle for leanness.
“It is a tool that objectively selects
high quality animals that yield the leaner
beef demanded by consumers,” he said.
Conservationists
try to save timber
BEAUMONT (AP) — As Congress
considers making an area along Village
Creek in Hardin County a nature pre
serve, timber companies have been har
vesting trees in the area, conservationists
say.
Representatives for the Big Thicket
Conservation Association, the Texas
Committee on Natural Resources and the
Sierra Club have repewed calls for a
moratorium on timber harvesting by
Louisiana-Pacific Corp. along the scenic
creek and elsewhere in East Texas.
“This cutting proves our point,”
Maxine Johnston of Batson, chairman of
a TCNR task force on the Big Thicket,
told the Beaumont Enterprise.
“Homeowners who control 2 percent
of the proposed area cannot protect the
other 98 percent. Only preservation in
the Big Thicket National Preserve can do
that.”
Workers this past week started cutting
a five-mile corridor through land the tim
ber company owns along Village Creek
in Southeast Texas. The Big Thicket Na
tional Preserve is about 80 miles north
east of Houston.
Louisiana-Pacific officials in Conroe
did not answer telephone calls Sunday by
the Associated Press.
A bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. Charles
Wilson, D-Lufkin, provides for the pur
chase or exchange of 14,000 acres in
three areas along Village Creek in Har
din County, Big Sandy in Polk County
and the Canyonlands in Tyler County to
preserve the timber in those corridors.
Michael Deaver, President Rea
gan’s former deputy White House
chief of staff, will speak about presi
dential image-making at 7:30 p.m.
today in Rudder Theater.
As a key player in the image-mak
ing of Reagan’s presidency, Deaver
will give his insight into the processes
and players shaping the 1988 presi
dential election.
In recent years, Deaver has been
the subject of headlines for his con
troversial lobbyist activities.
After serving as Reagan’s deputy
chief of staff for five years. Deaver
resigned in 1985 to start the lobbyir.;
firm Michael Deaver and Associate
His connections with poweif;
government officials led many b
question the ethics of his businessi
tivitieson behalf of clients.
Testimonies Deaver gave dun:;
investigations into these activities Id
to his conviction for perjury las
month.
In his book "Behind the Scents,
Deaver presents an intimate
of the Reagan presidency.
Sponsored by MSC Great is®,
the lecture is free open to the public
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MSC presentation to promote Festival
Jugglers, giants, ogres, magicians
and other performers from the 14th
Texas Renaissance Festival will per
form at Rudder Fountain from 10
a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday.
The show, sponsored by MSC
Recreation, promotes the Festival,
which continues near PlantersviUe on
weekends through Nov. 13.
The festival also includes cha
races, stage shows, animal rides
games, cialls, a \ariety of foodinil
•lahorati ctistumes from the Rem |
sancc era.
rickets Idi the Festival at nil
Festival site. Tickets are $12lirl
adults and $6 for chiMrew
12. Children under 5 are free.
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Faculty Senate to discuss drug policy
The Texas A&M Faculty Senate
will meet Monday at 3:15 p.m. in 601
Rudder Tower.
The Senate will consider proposals
made by the rules and regulations
committee to add a University-wide
drug policy to the 1988-89 University
Regulations Handbook. The policy
deals with education, prevention, in
tervention and treatment activities as
well as disciplinary sanctions.
The Senate also will consider rec
ommendations from the scholarship
committee to comply with House Bill
1147, amended in 1987, which limits
the number of nonresident students
who arc allowed to pay resident tu
ition rates at public universities in
Texas.
Recommendations for immediate
increased funding for the SterlinjC
Evans and Medical Sciences Liln
ics to prevent irreversible losses k-
cause of rising costs also will be w
sidcrcd.
In other business, the Senate iso
peeled to consider the followings
ommendations that the Univeraty
• Establish guidelines to dett
mine which gfdups may solid«
campus and oversee an annual cam
pus donation campaign for
groups.
• Change University policy onik
transfer of course credits. The Hi
versity now accepts grades of"D' fj
transfer credit. Under the newprofo
sal, a grade of “C-minus" or ate
would be required.
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individuals with the following degrees: BS/MS in Petroleum, Chemical,
Mechanical, Civil and Electrical Engineering. Please contact your placement
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