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Oral Histroy Report
INTERVIEWEE: Luther G. Jones
INTERVIEWER: Charles R. SchUltz
SUBJECT:
with emphasis omlife as a
PLACE:
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
DATE: August 22, 1974
CRS:
your
birth, and
LGJ:
your
was
2
LGJ:
mac
get it
of
was very rare in thos
in
3
Belton, Texas.
fr
can
to get :
CRS:
LGJ:
CRS:
LGJ:
calle~
What was your major at Princeton?
Geology
How did you happen to pick that field?
Little
.~ place
And many
an end,
all tha~
I was
ers: ¥0u
CRS: 18
CRS: So, I
at that point Western Europe
LGJ:
had
to
of
~b le
extent
CRS:
LGJ: No, by the National Forest Service.
CRS: The U. S. Forest Service.
LGJ:
to
says
to it.
on
to
in '
CR~c
our master's, did you
LGJ: Yes.
LGJ:
as
we
istant
ourses?
~ T,
t,
it
LGJ:
LGJ
of 1
the
CRS:
been
Yes.
, On both the
take
and the masters degree.
up in the neWspaper somewhere that you organized
must have
two
you, tO
LGJ: '.
CRS: That was the re for your dissertation?
LGH: Yes sir. Here at A&M.
CRS: then I
of
LGJ:
CRS: Did you have to do a proposal for your dissertation?
LGJ: And Dr. Hedges, of ¢ourse~
CRS: Did you have to do a written
LGH:
me ~
CRS:
the
LGJ:
Mr.
and
CRS:
we do
would ~bmit
that time.
of
· we had
on it
and
LGH:
but
Nelson
CRS: And
LGJ: Yes sir, we called it later, Soil Science.
point?
you
as
LGJ:
I
was happy to say.
zCRS: And so, you were there what, four years?
LGJ: Three.
CRS: Three.
LGJ:
CRS:
LGJ: little extra,
'27.
CRS: O.K. Then you came here in '26?
LGJ: Yessir.
CRS: Back to the Agronomy Department?
LGJ: Yessir.
degree then?
CRS
Acting Head~
c s:
LGJ:
1944.
6
, I
in
LGJ:
i
i
CRS:
graduate students working under you at
7
LGJ' Yes,
being it
started on
CRS: The water requirement?
LGJ:
able
to
CRS: Was
I guess
LGJ:
CRS:
LGJ:
CRS:
Yes, that is the whole plant.
The whole plant.
Including the very minor lint received.
get
the amount of water necessary,
to,how
error,
to the re
cRs: DOes
LGJ: The,
CRS:
LGJ:
to
CRS:
Reeves
the Bull
Nettle,
Bull Nettle
CRS: You did do a lot of supervising of research?
CRS: What was your teaching load?
CRS: Eighteen hours, which meant that there was not a whole lot of time
for research,
LGJ:
view, s
at one
and ~ to
classes
LGJ: Some
and I had
could
CRS: The size of the class I take it was limited by the size of the room.
LGJ: Yes sir.
in
LGJ: '
at
up
but
'27
was
near
being
30%,
I
and
tooth
Prairie
that
man,
at
on
CRS: When
campus? In
LGJ:
of
house
say from '27 on, did
you live on
ark's
his
CRS:
Field?
LGJ:
S'
eR .
CRS:
or
Kyle
10
LGJ:
CRM:
G -
LJ.
es on the.campus, for a good long while.
and the librarian~
CRS: Theywere pr~rily staff instead of faculty.
LGJ: Yes sir.
~CRS of socializing among the famil~ies
Who
decided
CRS:
1919,
hous
to
in the
not only
make
I was able
a
CRS:
LGJ:
CRS:
CRS:
CRS:
LGJ:
CRS:
LGJ:
CRS:
At one point, they called them casuals.
Casuals, yeah.
So, you had a separate dining area within Sbisa for meals.
Yes sir.
11
that
the ~
and
the City
dollars.
CRS: You mentioned that you only had one road.
now called
CRS: to have
LGJ:
is now
houses
CRS:
between
LGJ:
And I
into the
into the'
board of
John
A&M
to t
LGJ:
I
them,
from the
CRS: That was where?
LGJ
LGJ: Yes sir. It's not
CRS: Two.
LGJ: It does w~ll to be
CRS:
school
the
LGJ: That's
CRS: Where?
LGJ:
12
old
brick building is that faces Jersey
is it?
~he middle
be, by
place was.
Youpon
those days.
CRS: At
to
LGJ:
That'
to
CRS:
LGJ
CRS:
LGJ:
CRS:
LGJ:
of
13
This store that was on the campus, how long was that tm existence?
About 10 years.
Did that start in '38 Or '39?
It was in the '30's.
line
CRS:
LGJ:
CRS:
LGJ:
Pete
I would have
was ~eed unique.
It
Where the cOllege would run
man could ~
in for that
CRS: Where was it located?
have been a uniqUe sort of situation.
LGJ: It was located in a wooden shack behind where Homer Adams has his
insurance store.
LGJ: It is i
CRS: It
LGJ:
I
bank
is Dr.
Mrs.
CRS: ~
sold that
LGJ: Yes.
Bank?
CRS: Was that always its name, or did
put
the
14
eRS: No, I hadn't heard anything.
LGJ:
which I
m~n
the
to M
in
a share
and
met ~
and
line.
CRS:
have continued your connection withthe University
of
of
LGJ: Yeah, my interest in it has continued. I guess you could cai1 it a
director.
CRS: You're still on the BOard of Directors at the bank?
LGJ: At the age of 80~
LGJ:
CRS:
LGJ:
CRS:
of
Yeah
I see.
LGJ:
Street,
World War?
LGJ:
areas.
~n
housing
CRS: This is F. B. Clark?
his
the
$2,
not
j-
LG .
had
can
CRS:
LGJ:
We
the
out
people who were
of our
how