Page 4 College Station, Texas Tuesday, November 10, 1964 THE BATTALION Student Loans Now Available A limited number of National Defense Student Loans will be made to assist full-time A&M stu dents during the spring term, R. M. Logan, chairman of the campus committee administering the loan program, announced. Application forms for the loans may be obtained from the Student Aid Office in Room 8 of the YMCA Building starting Monday and com pleted applications will be accepted until 5 p.m. Dec. 1. Logan said applicants will be notified of action taken on loan requests by December 18. “Under the terms of the federal act, loans may be made only to a student who can establish a serious need for such a loan,” Logan said. ’MitilctAri Supply tyix&xjJvz, ptcuMje4- -923 So. 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ASK ABOUT OUR AMAZING INSTANT CREDIT Redmond Terrace, Highway 6, So. 9 a.m. - 8 p. m. PLAN Librarian Job Eased With Data Processim rHE B. Data processing can be “a very powerful tool” in freeing librarians from clerical tasks so they can give more time to serving students and faculty. This was the gist of the message heard by librarians attending the first seminar on data processing for A&M Libraries staff members. Among the 65 persons present Fri day at one or the other of the iden tical seminars were more than a dozen guests from Arlington State College, Rice University, Sam Dynamite Out In Geology Exploration The dynamite blasts thousands of Texans have heard as geological seismic crews study the earth’s surface may go the way of the dodo. A&M marine geophysicists have a brand new air gun to use instead of dynamite charges, for example. Earlier forms of the air gun and an electric arcing device have been tested in recent years for marine seismic work. Crews working on land continue to use explosives but some use a device that drops a heavy weight to the ground, set ting off vibrations. The new air gun obtained for j A&M marine seismic work dis- ! charges bursts of compressed air. The gun and its “fish rig” with a total weight of 100 pounds lets off i an explosive “whoompf” every sec ond while instruments aboard the ship record the pattern of sound waves bouncing back from inner rock of the earth. The rig trailed behind the ship uses the sudden release of 12.5 cubic inches of air compressed to 3,000 pounds p e r square inch to produce the sound. “In the last 10 years there has been lots of study of sound sources,” John Antoine, a A&M re search scientist and marine geo physicist, said. He is a veteran marine scientist and the co-author of papers with Dr. Maurice Ewing, director of Lament Geological Ob servatory of Columbia University. “Explosives are expensive and considered rather dangerous,” An toine said succinctly. The new air gun is towed about 50 feet behind the research vessel and at a depth of 10 feet. Also trailed in the water is a string of hydrophones, listening devices. “You can hear a low whoompf. It’s not sound so much as feel,” Antoine said of the sensation as the air gun blasts. A large bubble rises to the surface after each ex plosion. “You should be able to fire the air gun every second or so, while with explosives 30 seconds is a good rate,” the research scientist said. Thus a great deal more data can be obtained. Houston State Teachers College and the University of Houston. A&M Library Director Robert A. Houze stressed the introduction of data processing techniques will not cost anyone his job. He said A&M libraries, like virtually all li braries, face spiraling demands for services and already are under staffed. “Direct service to faculty and students is our aim,” Houze said. “If we can let machines take over as much of the clerical work as possible, then we all can spend more time in service.” Close liaison with regular meet ings of representatives of the A&M, Rice and UH libraries was cited by Houze as the libraries move into the era of data process ing. Answering questions on A&M’s intensive study of automation with emphasis just now upon the serials or periodicals was Bruce W. Stew art. He is described as “the first full-time data processing super visor on the staff of an academic library in the Southwest.” Much of the seminar presenta tion was by Robert Anderson, a library specialist with the IBM Corp. Anderson defined data process ing as essentially information analysis and said the techniques were applicable to sucb varied li brary operations as serials, circu- | lation, acquisitions and cataloguing, j Much of his presentation was j essing techniques to library opfl!| tions.” ■ Cadet Corps To Observe Veterans Day The Corps of Cadets will b its brief, traditional, ceremonies! 12 o’clock noon Wednesday, Vf! erans’ Day, to honor Aggies fought and died for this nation. Plans for the ceremonies as a nounced by the commandant’s ol. fice include the traditional layit] of the wreath at the memorial a Old Main Drive, the sounding tj taps over the loudspeakers atoptls Memorial Student Center, andei: det formations in front of thedoi.l mitories. Neil L. Keltner as colonel of||*| corps will place the wreath atilifj marker near the Old Highway i| entrance. Official Asks Early Mailing For Holidays u Wv,* #' - Christmas is still over a raonil introductory material to data proc- . vwmam essing such as the punch cards. j awa y> ^ ut students should start getting their packages and caris ready to mail, the College State Anderson is closely involved in A&M’s intensive planning for I bringing data processing tech- | niques into Cushing Memorial Li- i | brary and also has assisted as Rice j | University introduced a few weeks ! | ago a mechanized circulation or ' charge-out system. The seminars planned especially for A&M Libraries staff members will be held regularly, Houze said in announcing plans for the series. He described the purpose as being j “to acquaint the library staff with | some of the problems involved and ! philosophies of applying data proc- Cotton Bowl Starts Ticket Drawing DALLAS