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:ractioii he total iOO; as chaii Reseatt ee on rt asphalt) :cipient award le earna 1935. nasters 'acuity d of l 1957. time 4i (114 3(14 1005. 2114 REN CU- te LieenK n. isq nd for 1 experie Call cofe 4:30 , 1011 (IS ennis coni'' -3607.41 [HE BATTALION Tuesday, March 21, 1967 College Station, Texas Page 5 Finance Forum To Meet Tonight At Holiday Inn Dr. Jack W. Coleman, head of the Accounting Department and acting head of the Finance De partment, and James G. Mitchell, assistant professor of finance, will be speakers at the Family Finance Forum tonight. The forum, sponsored by the City National Bank of Bryan, begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn. C^hjman will speak on “Per sonal Money Management,” while Mitchell’s topic concerns invest ment planning. Mitchell was a stockbroker before joining the A&M faculty. Filing Announced Town Hall Soph The Student Programs Office has begun issuing application forms to sophomores interested' in joining the Town Hall Staff for next year, according to Ro bert F. Gonzales, Town Hall Committee chairman for 1967-68. The forms, which will be avail able until 5 p.m. April 5, must be completed and returned to one of the secretaries in the office, Gonzales explained. Nuclear Energy Discussed By Tuck Min ji ilHIi! DISASTER SCENE, 30 YEARS LATER A monument to the 294 children and teachers killed in an explosion March 18, 1937 stands in front of the New Lon don School in East Texas. A spark from a switch detonated accumulated natural gas that levelled the building called “The Richest School in the World” because of the seven oil wells pumping on the campus. The people of New London rarely talk about the tragedy anymore but the towering cenotaph at the rebuilt school is a memorial to those who died. (AP Wirephoto) Nuclear energy as a power source for the future was dis cussed by a noted physicist Fri day in an address at Texas A&M. James L. Tuck, chief physicist of the Sherwood Project at the Los Alamos, N. M., Scientific Laboratory, spoke to the Texas Academy of Science and other groups meeting concurrently. Tuck said the increasing popu lation of the world will eventually bring about depletion of conven tional fossil sources of energy. He referred to coal, oil and gas as main sources of fossil energy. Two possible nuclear sources of energy to take care of man’s fu ture needs were noted by Tuck. These include fission of the heav iest atoms—like uranium, and fusion of some of the lightest atoms—such as heavy hydrogen, lithium and beryllium. The former, he pointed out, is already in being and fission pow er plants are in the process of taking over the task of driving power stations throughout the world. Tuck was quick to explain that the fusion power source from the light elements is not yet an ac complished fact. Accomplishment LSU Scientist Uses Radar, Telescopes To Track Birds The moon, astronomical tele scopes and radar have been used by an LSU scientist to refute the theory that migrating birds fly around the Gulf of Mexico, rather than go straight over it. Dr. George H. Lowery Jr. pre sented his trans-Gulf study at the Texas Academy of Sciences-Texas Ornithological Society meeting here this past weekend. His findings, reported in “Re cent Studies of the Nocturnal Mi- ;nt tation M ouse i" 4 out of ® I E. ^ (0 cents V u Gita 11 (9. 6-7841 WED ;ed SION E ; X' 2819 ents -vice thr«| gration of Birds in the Region of the Gulf of Mexico” differed from conclusions drawn by Dr. George Williams of Rice University. In a 1945 paper, “Do Birds Cross the Gulf of Mexico in the Spring?”, Dr. Williams theorized that birds migrating from Mexi co and Central America take a coastwise route or skirt the Gulf by following a path from the Yu catan Peninsula to Cuba, the Keys and Florida. Dr. Lowery’s TOS lecture pre sented visual proof migrant birds take the direct route. The bulk of evidence was com piled through observations made of the moon through low-power telescopes. “Through a telescope trained on the moon, birds were counted as they crossed the lunar disk,” the past president of the Ameri can Ornithological Union noted. .1112' □ qt ran^ ■ insl 6, -ed loo n’uel Fit Save Iplu? 5 -ds 3 “A mathematical formula was worked out to estimate the num ber of birds crossing a mile-long line through the observing site. Observers looked only at a sliver of space.” “A cross section of a cone of sight from the moon to an ob server covers only 27 square feet of space at 3,000 feet altitude,” he pointed out. Not only does the observational technique provide an index of the total number of fowl passing overhead, the zoology professor added, but by orienting the face of a clock on the moon, observers described the direction of flight. “In Jules Verne vernacular, we have well over 20,000 hours under the moon,” he commented. Feldtman Is New Prexy TAS Branch Bob Feldtman of Pan American College at Edinburg is the new president of the Collegiate Aca demy, a branch of the Texas Academy of Science. Feldtman, who succeeds Pat Davis of St. Edward’s University in Austin, was elected during the 70th annual meeting of the Texas Academy of Science at Texas A&M University. Stations set up in Yucatan, Commerce, Tex., Baton Rouge, St. George Island in Maryland and numerous other locations proved the technique. A station at Com merce counted 1,690 actual sight ings in seven hours. The project ed figure revealed 246,800 birds passed over a line one-half mile either side of the station at right angles to the flight path. He said average vectors of Yucatan stations worked in 1963 were 323, 316 and 315 degrees, projecting bird flights in a north westward direction across the Gulf of Mexico. A 1952 project set up 265 ob serving stations all over the U. S. and three Canada provinces to chart bird migration. Dr. Lowery, director of the Mu seum of Natural Science in Baton Rouge, also showed radar time- lapse motion pictures made at a weather radar station south of Lake Charles, La. The unedited eight-minute film of several days’ radar tracking showed birds arriving from al most due south of Cameron, La., a Gulf Coast city. The line-of- sight radar beams at 200 miles range rose above bird flight levels, due to curvature of the earth. Purdue Professor To Give Lecture Dr. Durward L. Allen, wildlife ecology professor in Purdue Uni versity’s Forestry and Conserva tion Department, will give a Graduate College lecture here to day. “Moose-Wolf Ecology on Isle Royale” is the topic for his 3:30 p.m. talk in the Biological Sci ences lecture room. Dr. Wayne C. Hall, A&M’s aca demic vice president, said Dr. Al len is known internationally for work in population ecology of game animals. Dr. Allen is a member of nu merous boards and committees devoted to conservation and man agement of the nation’s natural resources. Since 1958, Allen has done research dealing with pre dation. A native of Indiana, Dr. Allen earned his Ph.D. in vertebrate ecology at Michigan State Uni versity. His undergraduate train ing was at the University of Michigan. Journalism Prof Publishes Survey Dr. David R. Bowers, associ ate professor of journalism at Texas A&M, is the author of an article in the spring issue of the “Journalism Quarterly.” The article, “A Report on Acti vity by Publishers in Directing Newsroom Decisions,” is the re sult of a survey of 600 managing editors of evening daily newspa pers in the United States. YOUR SIX HERE AT AGGIELAND REPRESENTATIVES fe MELVIN JOHNSON ’64 LrARRY GREENHAW ’64 0 CHARLES THOMAS ’64 CHARLES JOHNSON ’62 BILL ALTMAN ’65 BUBBER COLLINS ’66 FIDELITY UNION LIFE O^Aumnce 303 College Main — 846-8228 of this, he emphasized, has been described as one of the most dif ficult problems of modern tech nical physics. Advantage of the fusion source over fission nuclear energy, Tuck commented, is that it does not produce the dangerous fission products which are so harmful to life. Tuck said the dangers are ex aggerated at present. If fission becomes a major source of power for the world, it could be a major hazard to life, he added. Fusion power, being probed in the United States as “Project Sherwood,” is still a long way off, Tuck explained. He said fu sion power is being widely stud ied throughout the world, with Russia, Germany, England, France, Japan, Italy and Sweden among countries conducting re search. The distant glimmer of hope for fusion power first appeared in 1957 at Los Alamos, accoid- ing to Tuck. It became public knowledge in 1958, when for the first time, a controlled thermo nuclear reaction was achieved in the laboratory. Prior to that time, the only known thermo-nu clear reaction was that in the uncontrolled hydrogen bomb. Some progress has been made since that time, he said. Meas ured in physicists terms of esti mating success, the thermo-nu clear reaction in the Sylli ma chine at Los Alamos is within a factor of 500 of success. Tuck said President Johnson’s supplemental budget now before congress includes the only ther mo-nuclear device mentioned by name . . . the next generation device in the Sylli line. The pro posal calls for $8.5 million for the Scyllac, which will take up to four years to build. Hopes are high, Tuck remarked, that the machine will bring the U. S. closer to thermo-nuclear power. Dr. Newman A. Hall, executive director of the Commission on Engineering Education, is to ad dress a combined academy ban quet at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Sbisa Hall. The Texas Ornithological So ciety opened a three-day session Friday morning with a talk by Dr. George H. Lowery Jr. of Lou isiana State University. Half-day field trips conducted by the Brazos County Ornitho logical Society are scheduled Sat urday and Sunday. The society will hear an address by Dr. Keith Arnold, A&M ornithology profes sor, at 2 p.m. Saturday in Scopes Hall. Other activities of the TOS in clude a dinner Saturday night at the Ramada Inn, a board meeting and general business session Sun day morning at the A&M Me morial Student Center. Also meeting jointly with the TAS are the Texas Branch of the Animal Care Panel, and the Tex as Society for Electron Micros copy. One of Friday’s featured papers of the Animal Care Panel was by William Greer of the Delta Re gional Primate Center, Coving ton, La. He discussed the selec tion of primate species for re search programs. HJUS. NLAJW.S PHJL CAN YOU WRITE US SOME LETTERS LIKE THESE? THEN YOU CAN PLAY A MEANINGFUL PART IN HISTORY-WITH LOCKHEED ELECTRONICS ATTHE MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER, HOUSTON. Mercury. Gemini, Apollo. These programs are only the beginning of man’s greatest adventure—the exploration of space. Here is a mission that will take generations. A mission that offers unusual and stimulating career opportunities with the Houston Aerospace Systems Division of Lockheed Electronics Company. 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