Tuskegee, Ala., August 20—Students of Tuskegee Institute may soon be walking to their classes over the tops of luxuriant forests and eating their morning cereal under the blue waters of a picturesque lake. The Institute’s purebred Holsteins may be a bit surprised to find that what appears to be murky swamp crosses their familiar lush of kudzu pasture. And the herd of milk goats—oh well, goats are supposed to be silly enough to eat anything, ersatz or otherwise.
President F.D. Patterson has recently turned over a portion of the Tuskegee campus to Austin W. Curtis, assistant to Dr. George W. Carver, internationally famous scientist, as an outdoor testing field for application of camouflage paints to various types of surfaces.
Mr. Curtis is working night and day at the Carver Laboratories at Tuskegee Institute on paint formulae to be used by the War Department for camouflage activities by the US armed forces.
Mr. Curtis recently returned from Detroit, Mich., where he spent much time with the research chemists in the laboratories of the Ford plant, testing various products for use in the war effort.
Previous to the Detroit visit Mr. Curtis went to Fort Belvoir, Va., for conferences with army officials relative to the use of Carver paints for camouflage purposes.
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