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Activation Analysis Project Showing Early Stage Results v l« A&M scientists are busy these lays developing and building a (aching and research system which (still relatively new in the field il qualitative and quantitative italysis of materials. The program is known as the ictivation Analysis Project and jvolves the analyzing of substanc- is through use of atomic energy, tonic counters and sorters and tonic computers. The classical system of qualita- jce and quantitative analysis of jaterials ha& .been, and still is, (y chemical methods. Qualitative dialysis is the determination of iltments present in a substance, (jiantitative analysis is the deter- nination of the kind and amount d elements present. According to Dr. R. E. Wainerdi, ilo is heading up the Activation laalysis Project, chemical analysis ii accurate but is often time con- suing and tedious. Wainerdi also is Assistant Dean ti Engineering and an associate pfesor of petroleum engineering. Activation analysis promises to hfast, economical and highly ac- rnate, he said, but the system is K likely to entirely replace stand- aJ chemical methods. Associate Head Associate head of the Activation lislysis Project Laboratory is Dr. Itrek Gibbons, an associate pro- tor in the Department of Chem- ilry and an outstanding English nientist who will be at the college hr a year. What is a typical activation lalysis procedure? Briefly, it is le following: Any material, when made slight- I radioactive, gives off radiation ikich tells what it is made of. First a sample of the substance isplaced in a vial and then put into ii accelerator. The one at the p laboratory is a 150,000 volt irierator that could sit on top of (large table. It is a compact ver- [iiiof the huge and more familiar lion smashers. le in the accelerator, the ample is bombarded with neu- koiis, and the material begins to emit gamma rays. The rays are different for each element, and the number of rays tell how much of each element is in the sample. Electronic apparatus then counts and sorts the rays and records the findings on punched tape. The next step is to feed the tape into a ma chine that transfers the informa tion to IBM cards. Girl Scouts Plan Operetta Friday Night Girl Scout Troop 32 of College Station will present an operetta, “Let’s Go Camping Together,” at the Girl Scout House, Rountree Drive, Friday at 7:30 p.m. The public is invited. Tickets may be obtained by calling Mrs. LeRoy C. Brown, any member of the troop, or they may be pur chased at the door. Price of tickets is 25c for adults and 15c for chil dren. Mrs. Robert Peach is directing the operetta, assisted by Mrs. John Irving, troop leader. Purpose of the operetta is to raise money for a trip to Mexico which the troop plans to take dur ing the Easter holidays. The thir ty-seven troop members, along with their leaders and a number of parents, will leave College Station early Thursday, Mar. 30. Their first night out will be spent at Eagle Pass where they will meet with the Mexican troop of Piedras Negras for a “get acquainted” af fair. Friday morning they will cross the border into Mexico and travel to Nueva Rosita where they will set up camp. Saturday will he spent at the market place in Rosita and at the Kickapoo Indian Village. The girls will attend Easter serv ices Sunday morning at the church in Rosita. Early Monday morning, the scouts will break camp and re turn to College Station. We all make mistakes... / i —'• ERASE WITHOUT A TRACE - ON EATON’S CORRASABLE BOND Touch-type, hunt-and-peck, type with one hand tied behind your back—it’s easy to turn out perfect papers on Corrasable. Because you can erase without a trace. 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Early Stages Wainerdi said the whole activa tion analysis setup is still in the early stages of development, and there is much to learn about the technique. One of the features of the Acti vation Analysis Laboratory is that much of its complex equipment has been designed and built here. Wainerdi emphasized that this work has been a group effort since early 1958 by electrical engineer ing students and members of the college staff. At present there are seven staff members, including four electrical engineering gradu ate students working on the proj ect. The graduate students are Lloyd Fite of Carthage, project engineer working on his Master of Science degree; John Lee Shanks of Bee- ville, a doctoral degree candidate; Walter Breen of San Antonio, and James E. Anderson of Woodville, both working on Master of Science degrees. Project technician is Antone Ne- mec of College Station. THE BATTALION Tuesday, March 7, 1961 College Station, Texas Page 3 MECHANICS, PHOTOS A ppr oximat ely 100 Attend Conference Atomic Accelerator . part of Activation Analysis Projects Boy Scouts Build Bridges At Campsite The Boy Scouts of Troop 802 are building bridges over two inlets of the lake at their Pleasant Acres campsite. Under the supervision of Scout master Sid Loveless, Assistant Scoutmaster Jim Amyx and Chair man Fred Worley, the boys have set piles and hauled timber for one bridge completed last week and for another under construction. This project followed the com pletion of a ceremonial circle for campfire meetings, two raised bar becue fire beds and two floor slabs for the patrol squad tents. Two new boys, Tom Shelton and Bill Loveless, were welcomed to the Davy Crockett Patrol at the last troop meeting. Plans were made for the Apr. 14-15 Camporee to be held in Bryan and for the June 18-24 camp at Camp Strake near Conroe. Soviets Snub Luncheon Given By Hammarskjold By Th« Associated Press , UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.— The Soviet Union Monday snubbed a high-level diplomatic luncheon given by Dag Hammarskjold for Ghana Present Kwame Nkrumah. It was a clear warning that the Russians will continut to fight any Congo peace plan in which the U. N. secretary-general has a role—even at the risk of dis pleasing many Asian-African na tions. The snub came on the eve of the resumption of the 99-nation General Assembly, where the Congo crisis is the No. 1 issue. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gomyko was joined in the luncheon boycott by Bulgaria and Romania, the only other Commu nist delegations invited. Before the luncheon, Hammar skjold talked with Nkrumah for an hour, and late in the afternoon Gromyko paid a call on Nkrumah at the latter’s suite at the Waldorf- Astoria Hotel, presumably to ex plain the Soviet position on the Congo. This was only a part of intense diplomatic activity on the eve of the resumed 15th General Assem bly. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson, chief U. S. delegate, had a 90- minute breakfast session with Nkrumah, who will put his plan for an all-African U. N. Congo mwmmmrnm A COMPLETELY NEW AND UNiQUS INSURANCE PLAN FOR YOUNG TEXANS WITH AN EYE ON THE FUTURE* AMICABLE LIFE'S THRIFTY CAREER PLAN For young people looking to the future . « » for parents who want to share in the future of their children , • . Amicable Life Insurance Company of Texas offers a most unusual and reward* ing plan of insurance especially tailored for young people ogee 15 through 25. Amicable's Thrifty Career Plan-* Provides permanent life insurance protection 6? 0 premfufft COti, never before possible! Has liberal cash and loan values and paid-up life benefits. Guarantees the right to purchase an equal amount of insurance at age 25 . . . and again at age 28 regardless of health Ins* pairment or occupational hazards. 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N. spokesman said their talk dealt with issues before the resumed session, but the spokes man declined to go into any de tails. Stevenson came directly to the Hammarskjold luncheon in the Se curity Council lounge at U. N. headquarters after the talk with Gromyko. Events were shaping up for a sharp U. S.-Soviet clash on the Congo before the assembly. The United States has made clear its support for Hammarsk jold in his efforts to implement last week’s Security Council reso lution empowering the United Na tions to use force if necessary to stop civil war in the Congo. Ham marskjold has the responsibility to carry out the resolution, which had overwhelming Asian-African support. The same resolution calls for withdrawal of all Belgian military and semimilitary personnel, Bel gian political advisers to Congo lese authorities, and foreign mer cenaries. ■ But Belgium’s U. N. Ambassa dor Walter Loridan has informed Hammarskjold that his country cannot compel Belgians serving with foreign troops in the Congo to get out. Loridan also said Con golese authorities have a legal right to employ Belgians as po litical advisers and only the Con golese have the right to dismiss them. Approximately 100 persons at tended the 12th annual Mechanical Conference and Photo Workshop Friday and Saturday. Wesley Calvert, assistant profes sor in the Department of Journal ism and conference chairman, said emphasis was placed this year on photography procedures. Speakers attended from as far away as Salt Lake City, Utah; New York City and Cleveland, Ohio. The meeting was sponsored by A&M and the Texas Press Associ ation. One of the main attractions was an exhibit of prize winning news pictures in the Memorial Student Center. Some of the news picture topics discussed were super press cam eras, small newspaper darkroom operation, 35mm photography, pho to lamps and lighting, camera ver satility, putting life into news pic tures and new developments in negatives. Photography speakers were Jack Ely of Graflex, Inc.; J. Winton Lemen, Eastman Kodax, Roches ter, N. Y.; Milton Freier of the E. Leitz Co., New York; Don Mohler, General Electric, Cleveland; Bob Dickens, Burleigh Brooks, Inc., Dallas; Jim Southerland, United Press International, Austin, and Harvey Hooper, CORMAC Chemi cal Corp., Nashville, Tenn. Other speakers were Robert T. Manthorne, branch manager of GBC, Houston; H. J. Ward, presi dent of Porte Publishing Co., Salt Lake City; A. L. Smith, Carpenter Paper Co., Houston division, and Don J. Portman of Mergenthaler Linotype Co. . The Singing Cadefs gave a spe cial program of music Friday eve ning. President Earl Rudder and L. B. Smith of Brady, president of the Texas Press Association, welcomed conference members at a luncheon Saturday. Tours were conducted Saturday afternoon to the A&M Press, A&M Photo and Visual Aids Laboratory and the Data Processing Center. Ag Convocation (Continued From Page 1) the Student Agricultural Council for the purpose of providing a chance for all students and pro fessors in the School of Agricul ture to meet and hear a disting uished speaker discuss problems pertaining to the field of agricul ture. Termination of the program was presentation of the Attendance Gavel, a tradition of presenting a gavel made of wood from a banis ter of Gathright Hall, first build ing built on the campus. The gavel is presented each year to the student club within the School of Agriculture which has done most to promote faculty stu dent relations and interest in the program. Winner for this year was the Agricultural Economics Club. 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