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Cooperation Urged
In Sea Research
Fiesta Movie Schedule
SATURDAY
10:10 a.m.—“The Diving Saucer” (MSC Fountain Room)
1:10 p.m.—“Food from the Sea” (Fountain Room)
4:10 p.m.—“Conquest of the Deep” (Ballroom)
SUNDAY
2:10 p.m.—“Science of the Sea” (Ballroom)
Geophysics Grant
Awarded By Navy
Waters
Mutual
Stresses
Support
MOHOLE MODEL ATTRACTS ATTENTION
Roy Jorgensen explains a detail of the platform took seven month to build by
p>7,000 Project Mohole scale model on dis- Brown & Root engineers. Jorgensen is a
akfast [play in the lobby of the Memorial Student representative.-from the firm’s information
service,tenter to coed Fran Kimbrough. The repli- office in Houston,
ca of the Pacific Ocean floating research
Station
Mohole
Carries
Model On Display
$7,000 Price Tag
By DAN I PRESSWOOD
Battalion News Editor
Hydro-Space Fiesta’s Project
Mohole model on display in the
lobby of the Memorial Student
enter is no toy. It cost more
ban $7,000 and required seven
onths of construction.
The Brown & Root, Inc., exhibit
is a miniature of the $29 million
floating platform presently being
puilt in the Pacific Ocean in an
Effort to explore and sample lay
ers of the earth’s crust and
underlying mantle.
Roy Jorgensen, Brown and
Root’s public information office
representative here to explain the
ispects of the project to visitors
feels the operation may be bene
ficial for outer space exploration
as well as for inner space knowl-
adge.
“There is a possibility that
mowledge of the mantle may be
applicable to other planets with
in the solar system,” he explains,
‘for many scientists now believe
all plants were created about the
same time and may be quite simi-
ar in composition.”
Scheduled for completion in
early 1968, Project Mohole will
drill six to seven miles into the
earth’s surface at an ocean site
170 miles northeast of Maui, one
of the Hawaiian Islands.
This point has been selected
because of its thin layer of crust.
It is approximately six miles
thick at this site as compared to
an average of 20 miles beneath
the continents.
The Project Mohole idea of
drilling to the earth’s mantle
from a floating vessel was first
conceived in 1957 and was initi
ated through the National Science
Foundation.
Phase I of the project, a suc
cessful attempt to prove that the
operation of coring in deep water
was feasible, was completed in
1961 off the coast of lower Cali
fornia.
The second phase, presently in
operation, is the penetration of
the earth’s crust and mantle for
collection and study of rock
samples and scientific measure
ments to be made both during
and after completion of drilling.
Basic design of the drilling
platform with a dynamic posi
tioning system for the second
phase is virtually complete.
In a recent test drilling near
Uvalde, new tools developed by
the project were tried out in a
well drilled in basaltic rock. In
the same hole, new logging and
coring equipment was also suc
cessfully tested.
A grant of $760,529 by the
Geophysics Branch of the Office
of Naval Research to the Texas
A&M Department of Oceanogra
phy and Meteorology has been
announced by Dr. Willis E.
Pequegnat.
The funds will support a wide
range of oceanographic studies in
the Gulf of Mexico, the acting
department head said.
The grant provides 40 percent
of the operating funds for A&M’s
oceanographic research vessel,
the Alaminos, and contributes to
support of advanced students and
for staff research. Pequegnat
said provision for technicians,
ship operating expenses and pri
mary research is vital.
Eight research areas benefit
from the grant.
Circulation patterns and verti
cal temperature structure of the
Gulf and tropical Atlantic are
studied by Robert Reid, Dr. Dale
Leipper, John Cochrane and W.
D. Nowlin Jr.
Geophysical work along the
western Gulf is conducted by
John Antoine with deep water
geological study done by William
Bryant. Pequegnat is investigat
ing biological implications and
protection of environmental sens
ing equipment from marine foul
ing.
Air-sea interaction studies are
conducted by Dr. Guy Frances-
chini and oceanographic instru
ment development by Dr. George
Huebner and Donald Koelsch.
The environmental research fa
cility at Panama City supervised
by Roy Gaul will benefit also in
addition to water and sediment
chemical studies by Edward Ibert
and Lela Jeffrey.
By ROBERT SOLOYEY
Battalion Staff Writer
Rear Admiral O. D. Waters
told a Hydro-Space Fiesta au
dience Wednesday progress in
oceanography in the country
can only be obtained by complete
cooperation between government,
industry, and the academic com
munity.
Waters, Oceanographer of the
Navy, spoke on “Exploring the
Oceans—Navy Style” for the sec
ond Fiesta major address in the
Memorial Student Center Ball
room.
“Sea water costs us about $11
a fifth, and that’s a lot of money
for even a Texan to pay for
something you can’t drink,” he
cracked.
Tremendous costs means the
exploration and exploitation of
the oceans must be an effort of
cooperation and mutual support,
he emphasized.
Waters said the Navy’s mis
sion is to “survey the world
ocean on behalf of the U. S.
Navy and the navigator in gen
eral.”
The Naval Oceanographic Of
fice (NAVOCEANO) “is under
going a renaissance in sea go-
Atomic Energy Group Offers
Nuclear Research Fellowships
SIGMA DELTA CHI, professional journalistic society, is ex
pected to announce soon its slate of country and western stars for
ihe Louisiana Hayride, calendared for March 19 in G. Rollie White
Coliseum
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs will headline the show, an SDX
official has reported
THREE BATTALION staffers were hounded for autographs after
the TCU game last Saturday in Fort Worth
Editor Glenn Dromgoole, photographer Herky Killingsworth and
amusements editor Lani Presswood stayed around with their dates
for the freshman contest following the televised varsity game
About 10 rows down, several varsity cagers took seats for the
freshman clash .... A half dozen youngsters caught sight of their
maroon blazers and rushed down for autographs
Then they spotted the Batt staffers, who were also wearing
maroon blazers Up they charged
“You all Aggies?” the kids asked, waving pencil and paper in
hand
“Sure,” the Battmen replied
The staffers reported that there were several bewildered young
fans a few moments later, trying desperately to locate Dromgoole,
Killingsworth and Presswood on the Aggie lineup .....
A NOTE of interest: Students from more than 260 colleges
and universities in the U. S. have offered blood in support of the
R- S. Viet Nam policy The American Red Cross has already nesday.
collected 35,000 units under Department of Defense contract Students must pay a $5 fee
Summer fellowships in nuclear
research are being - offered to
graduate students in Texas col
leges and universities for the
seventh year by the Texas Atomic
Energy Research Foundation.
As many as six fellowships
will be awarded to graduate stu
dents of high scholastic standing
and with special aptitude in ex
perimental or theoretical physics,
electrical engineering or applied
mathematics.
All applicants, including those
who will begin graduate work
in 1966, will be considered. This
also includes instructors who are
working on advanced degrees.
Recipients will work on the
joint controlled the monuclear re
search program sponsored by the
foundation in the laboratories of
the General Atomic Division of
Dynamics in San Diego, Califor
nia.
The foundation is composed of
10 investor-owned electric utility
companies operating in Texas.
The program is the world’s
first and largest privately fi
nanced effort in this field Ulti
mate goal is to harness the nu
clear fusion process of the sun,
stars and the Hydrogen bomb for
the generation of electric power,
using the deuterium (heavy hy-
Deadline Set Saturday
For Grad Exam Filing
Saturday is the deadline for
graduate students to register for
the Graduate Record Examina
tion, Associate Graduate Dean
Robert W. Barzak reminded Wed-
drogen) of the oceans as fuel.
Recent fellowship winners from
Texas A&M include Paul J. Bot
toms in 1963 and Eddie Reyna
in 1962.
Further details may be ob
tained from the Texas Atomic
Energy Research Foundation, P.
O. Box 970, Fort Worth, Texas,
76101.
Deadline for applications is
March 1, 1966. Announcement of
awards will be made to selected
candidates by April 1, 1966.
The average Volkswagen dealer in the U. S. sold 406 new
chicles last year to lead members of the nation’s automobile in
dustries to an all-time sales record
The Texas Intercollegiate Student Association, of which Texas
A&M is a member, meets in Waco this weekend for its Con
ference on Higher Education .....
YOU’VE PROBABLY heard about the A&M prof who was
attending a meeting of the Campus Henpecked Husbands Club when
all of a sudden his wife sailed in, grabbed him by the collar, shook
him until his teeth rattled and exclaimed: “What do you mean by
attending this club? You’re not henpecked!” See Ya ’Round—
Mortimer.
at the fiscal office and bring
the receipt to the Graduate Col
lege office to complete registra
tion. Testing dates are March
4-5.
The GRE is required for all
advanced students, Barzak point
ed out. Graduate students should
complete the test during their
first semester of graduate study,
he added.
Shelter Course
Slated Feb. 26
A 15-week fallout shelter an
alysis course will be offered to
architects and engineers at Tex
as A&M beginning Feb. 26.
Jake Canglose, director of
Brazos County Civil Defense,
said licensed architects and en
gineers and senior students in
the fields are eligible for the free
course.
“Applied Fallout Shelter An
alysis” will include study of nu
clear weapons, protection fac
tors, dose rates, biological effects
and shielding studies and tech
niques.
Persons completing the course
will be certified as “Qualified
Shelter Analysts” by the Depart
ment of Defense and listed in the
National Directory, Canglose
note.d.
Conducted by James H. Marsh,
professor of architecture, the
course will be instructed by A&M
personnel. Jean Cantrell of the
physics department and William
Kellett and T. R. Holleman of the
architecture department are
guest lecturers.
Registration will begin at 9
a.m. Feb. 26 in room 202 of the
Architecture Building. Classes
will be from 9 a.m.-noon each
Saturday.
Information may be obtained
at the Brazos County Civil De
fense Office in the Courthouse in
Bryan.
HUNGRY PORPOISE OPENS WIDE
. . . LaFitte ready for another meal.
ing technology,” he said.
NAVOCEANO is working with
NASA’s Appolo and Gemini
spacecraft programs in using
photography and radar systems
to better understand such major
ocean current systems as the
Gulf Stream and the formation
of deltas, he revealed.
The cooperation means oceano
graphers may be able to obtain
data of great scientific interest
“with better resolution and selec
tivity than unmanned satellites,”
Waters added.
NAVOCEANO presently has 17
ships, one submarine and four
airplanes with which to carry out
research, but Waters noted their
future “pride of the fleet” will
be the USNS Silas Bent. The
$10.5 million ultramodern ship
will be the Navy’s first major
oceanographic ship to be designed
from the keel up with a com
pletely integrated survey system,
he noted.
The 285-foot vessel will be
capable of measuring depth,
gravity, magnetic values and a
wide range of other sophisticated
experiments. It will carry a
complement of officers, 44 en
listed men and quarters for 30
scientists.
“There is adequate laboratory,
drafting and office space permit
ting us to do real-time oceano
graphy in a manner previously
impossible,” he remarked.
In the past the Navy’s primary
method of obtaining an eye-ball
view of the sea floor has been
with underwater photography,
but the need for additional de
tail about the sea-botton has
called for improved techniques.
The Oceanographic Office de
veloped two-man submersibles
which greatly extended the depth
range of diving teams, who can
now sketch and photograph in
comfort the actual underwater
conditions for later study top
side, he said.
“In the past 10 years we have
learned more about the ocean
than we knew totally in 1955,”
added.
Dr. Sam Ridgway will conclude
Space Fiesta addresses Thursday
with an 8 p.m. talk on “Porpoises
that Join the Navy.”
Ridgway. A Texas A&M Veteri
nary School graduate and re
search veterinarian with the Mar
ine Sciences Division of the U. S.
Naval Missile Center, Point Mu-
gu, Calif., supervised the train
ing of an Atlantic bottlenose por
poise named “Tuffy” to work un
tethered in the open sea. The
porpoise was later used in the
SeaLab II project.
Popular Porpoise LaFitte
To Head For Home Friday
LaFitte the Porpoise, Hydro-
Space Fiesta ’66’s most consist
ent drawing card, is about to be
come a “dropout,”
About mid-morning Friday the
350-pound mammal will call it
quits after five days as an Ag
gie “fish.”
Unlike most dropouts, LaFitte
will go out in style. Aggies will
flip him into an oversized tub
and provide an escort to the air
port. From there, a chartered
plane will fly him home to a
salty setting—a Galveston sea
circus.
LaFitte has thrilled thousands
of flatlanders this week with
his finny frolics. He has posed
politely for hundreds of shutter-
bugs while gobbling a shark’s
share of fish.
For last day visitors, LaFitte’s
Thursday feedings are set for
9:30 and 10:30 a.m. and 2, 3,
5:30 and 7:30 p.m. He will not
be “at home” to visitors after
10:30 p.m.
The mighty mammal, loaned
by a Galveston owner, has caused
more scrambling by the spon
soring Great Issues Committee
of the Memorial Student Center
than a space hero, Navy admiral
and a reknown marine veteri
narian.
A call for help from Hydro-
Space Fiesta Vice Chairman Bill
Gross met with mixed results.
The committee bought a 7,200-
gallon plastic pool 4 feet deep
and 18 feet in diameter as a
“guest house” for the 350-pound
animal.
Personnel of a Houston pool
firm assembled and checked the
pool last week while a porpoise
circus operator at Aransas Pass
installed a filter system and
pump to change the water every
three and one-half hours.
Fiesta officials bought 1,700
pounds of salt to be added to
fresh water to provide a sea
water environment for LaFitte.
LaFitte is on a strict diet of
15 pounds of fish daily. Visitors
are asked to refrain from feed
ing him, but are invited to watch
his feedings.
A fence restrains overzealous
fans who aspire to pet the sharp-
toothed plunger.