Activation Analysis Project
Showing Early Stage Results
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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.
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Finally, the cards are taken to
the A&M Data Processing Center
and run through electronic com
puters which work out the answer.
The availability of these computers
has made the whole project feasi
ble.
After activation, the process
should take no more than about 15
minutes, Gibbons said. In contrast,
chemical analysis might take from
several hours to several days.
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
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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
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command before the opening ses
sion Tuesday afternoon.
Afterward Nkrumah told report
ers: “African combined—support
ed by the United Nations—that’s
the only way to save the Congo.”
Asked if they had discussed
“Africa for Africans,” Stevenson
commented: “We discussed ev
erything, including the rent.”
Stevenson then went to the So
viet U. N. Mission on Park Avenue
for a 70-minute private talk with
Gromyko. The U. S. delegate said
as he came out of the mission:
“I was glad to see my old friend,
Mr. Gromyko.”
A U. 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
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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
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