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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, April 25, 1967 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Great Weekend! Driving Contest Scheduk (for those who stayed) What better way could “Randy Matson Day” be cele brated than with Randy breaking- the world’s shot put record he had established himself, before a crowd of more than 4,000 hometown fans ? This spectacular performance was only part of one of the most active weekends held on campus this year. The Backporch Majority and Skeeter Davis provided an exciting Town Hall performance before a small but lively crowd. A civilian sweetheart was chosen from a group of 12 beauties introduced to civilian students at a barbecue held at the Grove Theater Saturday. She was crowned at the dance later that evening held in the Memorial Student Center. Yes, cilivians, it was your weekend. Too bad most of you didn't stick around Friday to take part in it. Cancer Society Issues Call For Crusade Volunteers The American Cancer Society has issued a call for volunteers for its annual Crusade during Cancer Control Month in April. This is a call we hope many will answer. A great many people have responded in.the past; a great many people alive today are grateful they did. In thirty years the number of American Cancer Society volunteers has grown from fewer than 15,000 to 150 times that many. More still are needed. Thirty years ago, fewer than one out of five victims of cancer was being saved. Today it is one out of three. It could be one out of two without acquiring one bit of additional knowledge about cancer. To help make it one out of two, more vigil ance is needed and more volunteers to tell the story. Thirty years ago when the American Cancer Society issued the first call, many doubted that sufficient volunteers would answer. A generally hopeless attitude prevailed. But some who recognized the “special genius in volun- teerism,” were not discouraged. A great national organiza tion of volunteers was needed, they felt, if any serious gains were to be made against cancer. They argued: “When the dead and dying from cancer are regarded in a similar light to the slain and wounded on the field of battle, somewhat the same compulsion that leads to vic tory against an invading army will operate in the struggle to vanquish cancer.” The thirty years since have been amazing years. Amaz ing in lives saved. Amazing in assembling knowledge of cancer that promises eventual conquest of the disease. 1,400,000 men, women and children, alive today, the cured of cancer. Thirty years ago there were only about 165,000. We hope the American Cancer Society will not want for volunteers during this year’s April Crusade. Join now if you possibly can. For Parking Lot Saturda) A driving skill contest spon sored by the student branch of the Society of Automotive Engineers will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. on the A&M parking lots nearest the Consolidated High School cafe teria, by the golf course. According to Faculty Advisor Bob Fletcher “high schoolers, col legians and townspeople are eli gible and scored in each driving maneuver or characteristic. Grades will be entered for indi vidual, club and school classifica tion awards. “Current campus rallies have been geared to the racing of a few student s,” he continued, which often has been dangerous and in some cases disastrous. The events in the Aggie Driving Skill Program are original, quick, chal lenging and designed to fascinate every driver, at the same time emphasizing vehicle safety and education, without written exam ination.” Student Chairman Mike Kloppe said that a number of prizes such as tachometers and gift certifi cates will be awarded to the best driver in each category. Kloppe said complete prelim inary announcements will be made through all news media although the event is pretty well known around the campus fromthepi tice sessions already condiid In addition to a number of] tures and write-ups we hop* go out around the state. Atli two national magazines k asked for articles about the ti and the comparison abilities various classifications of drk Fletcher said the hope of project is to start a new, safes cational driving activity on A&M and other university t puses. He said that the approxii time for completion of the 18ti is 20 minutes. Sound Off “It’s a petition to Matson Week’!” extend ‘Randy Matson Day to ‘Randy Editor; The Battalion: Dear Sir; I was delighted to read your impressive views on demonstra tions here at A&M. (see Edi torial April 18) Since I so com pletely understand your situa tion and views concerning the in different student body, I want to offer these ideas for your con sideration, keeping in mind that during the Spanish Inquisition, anyone voicing an opinion con trary to that of the administra- A&M Trio Conduct Search For Buried Mountain Range tion, was likely to be subjected to measures designed to improve their moral and spiritual enlight enment, and I understand that either expulsion or suspension can do this. First, I have noticed an abso lute absence of martyrs here at Administration (Continued From Page 1) Texas A&M departments into separate departments. CHANGES CALL for the Edu cation and Psychology Depart ment to be split into individual departments of education and psychology. Separation also was okayed for the History and Gov ernment Department. Dr. Paul R. Hensarling is head of the Education and Psychology Department and Dr. J. M. Nance heads the History and Govern ment Department. The board noted increased en rollments were key factors in the department divisions. Dr. Vance E. Moyer, acting head of the Meteorology Depart ment, was promoted to depart ment head status. Dr. Carl W. Landiss was ap proved as Health and Physical Education Department head. He will replace Carl Tishler, who re tires August 31. The board approved a request for changing the title of execu tive officer Jack Keese of the Transportation Institute to direc tor. Promotion of associate profes sors to professor status was ap proved by the board for Earl S. Webb in agricultural education, Curtis L. Godfrey in soil and crop sciences, Teddy J. Hirsch in civil engineering, Thomas J. Kozik in mechanical engineering, E. B. Doran Jr. in geology and geo graphy. Also Edward S. Packenham in' accounting, Donald G. Barker in education, Harry P. Kroitor in English, David R. Bowers in journalism, D. C. Conway and R. M. Hedges in chemistry, R. J. Freund, R. R. Hocking and J. N. K. Rao in statistics, E. W. Ellett in veterinary medicine and sur gery, and R. W. Moore in veteri nary microbiology. The board also approved the re appointment of Dr. Chris H. Groneman, Industrial Education Department head, as chairman of the A&M Athletic Council. A Texas A&M geologist and two graduate students are search ing an 80-mile stretch of Texas between Austin and College Sta tion for a mountain range more than 250 million years old. The range, an extension of the Ouachita Mountains in Arkansas and Southeast Oklahoma, are “many thousands of feet below the surface,” explained Dr. James E. Case, former U. S. Geological Survey researcher and A&M as sistant professor of geology. Case, Edward C. Park of Col umbia, Tenn., and Patrick Gordon of San Antonio are “sounding” out the chain by gravity and mag netic surveys. Measurements at one to two-mile intervals deter mine variations in the earth’s gravitational and magnetic fields caused by distribution of heavy and light rocks. By locating dense rock of the buried mountain line, Case and the geology graduate students are locating its steeper slopes and faults along its margins. “I believe the axis of the chain is about 30 miles east of Austin,” the professor said. “At Elgin, it is 5,000 to 10,000 feet below the surface.” The “Texas Ouachitas” have been covered by “Younger” rocks in the intervening 250 mil lion years. More than 560 gravity deter minations in an area 20 to 30 miles wide and 100 miles long have been made in the informal cooperative research with the University of Texas. Case worked for USGS 11 years before he came to A&M in 1966. His most recent research centered on the Rocky Mountains, includ ing geological mappings, gravity and magnetic studies of the Colo- Survey Conducted Tonight rado plateau and Rockies. “I’m in the field two days a week while Park and Gordon spend about a day a week on the work,” Case said. “We’ll get go ing in earnest in June. By the end of the summer, we’ll have a thousand to 1,200 values.” He said the 270 to 300 million years old Pennsylvanian forma tions slope toward the continental shelf and may be 30,000 to 50,000 feet deep at College Station. “We have reason to believe the Ouachita chain arches through San Antonio, South Texas, -Mexi co and outcrops near Marathon,” the University of Arkansas grad uate said. Gravity, a tool for working big geological features, was used by Case in previous research for USGS. While studying for his Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley, Case and Dorothy H. Radbruch prepared a detailed map of geologic hazard zones be tween San Pablo and San Loren zo, Calif. The Eastbay map, placed on public file in San Francisco, lists all known earthquake faults, ma jor landslides and slide-prone areas. It pinpoints regions where USGS believes an earthquake could trigger huge landslides. Some of the areas contain hun dreds of homes. The scientist interested in tec tonics — earth structural fea tures as a whole — of Western Colombia in South America said the 1906 Frisco quake, the 1964 Alaska earthquake which he studied and volcanic activity in Peruvian and Chilean Andes are part of a mountain building pro cess around the Pacific, from South America to Alaska. “Such activity is not likely in South Central Texas since the mountain-building process has been dead here since Permian time,” he added. But Case point ed out that other geologists have noted unusual earth changes in the Houston area. “Dr Dewitt Van Siclen (Uni versity of Houston geology de partment chairman) noted minor fault movement in the Houston area in his presentation at the A&M Texas Academy of Sciences meeting,” Case noted. “Some of the earth movement was along previous faults that were active before the country was populated,” he pointed out. He said it is possible that man made factors may underlie Hous ton area earth shifts. “Geologists proved several years ago that oil recovery in the Long Beach, Calif., area caused land to subside 30 feet.” A&M, and since Timothy Leary already has his guaranteed, it is quite unlikely that he or anyone else will sweep down upon our fearless leaders to strike their inhibitions from them. If you are really serious about the need for really topnotch demonstra tors, I am sure that the Favorite Son of the Postal Department, Allen Ginsburg, will be available (if you can stage the jailbreak to free him). Secondly, why bother with drugs and LSD. We already have an abundance of banana skins, morning glory seeds, lettuce, and Sbisa coffee which are available at a fraction of the cost of drugs and give the same results, so why should we raise our voices in dis content and spoil what little we have now. David E. Larremore ’70 MmlciAUSuppl 'Picture ptoMMt. Jit S*Col Uj* Av«-6(y«ft,Tun PALACE $4 to; Tr loc ad NOW SHOWING James Coburn In ‘IN LIKE FLINT TONIGHT—7:15-9:15P ADULT ART SERIES “LOVE STATUE" Ch MS cm/p LAST DAY TODAY __ “GUNFIGHTER AT ABILENE” & ‘ISLAND OF TERROE STARTS TOMORROW ^RICHARD ELKE if One i vi-v* frit* « i. For all your insurance needs See U. M. Alexander, Jr. ’40 221 S. Main, Bryan 823-3616 State Farm Insurance Companies - Home Offices Bloomington, 111. LET US ARRANGE YOUR TRAVEL... ANYWHERE IN THE U. S. A. ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD Reservations and Tickets For All Airlines and Steamships — Hotel and Rent Car Reservations Tickets Delivered —Call 822-3737— Robert Halsell Travel Service 1016 South College Avenue Bryan Volunteer workers will be con ducting a county and city-wide health habits survey and crusade in Brazos County and the Bryan- College Station area tonight. The survey, set up by the American Cancer Society, is be ing conducted in the state, coun ty and city in conjunction with the society’s annual crusade day. Block workers will be working house-to-house in Bryan-College Station and additional workers will be working throughout the county. Each Householder contacted will be requested to answer a brief questionnaire on a colored postcard. The cards, with no identifying marks will be sealed in an envelope and returned to the volunteer, or mailed directly to the Cancer Crusade headquar ters in Austin, Texas. The Survey is Health Educa tion Survey of the American Can cer Society is for compiling facts for effectiveness of the Public Education Program to find out what the residents of Brazos County have done concerning their health in the last year and how familiar they are with the Public Education materials. Brazos County Crusade Chair man this year is Mr. Sam Night. House to House Chairman is Mrs. Bib Pickens. Mrs. Pickens has organized a network of Area Captains for the house to house campaign. Busi ness Chairman for this year is Mr. John Van Osdall. They have been working diligently with Mrs. John Godfrey, President of the Brazos County Cancer Society, to bring to Brazos County the most sade for the individuals of our educational and far-reaching cru cify. They hope to have the best crusade ever. So, tonight when a crusade worker rings your door bell, pleace receive them so they can explain the material they bring to you, it may save your life, your friends life or a member of your families life. The greatest obstacle on the road to conquering cancer is fear, and fear exists because of lack of education. Only through educa tion can the Cancer Society tell people of things available to them today that will save their lives tomorrow. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported non profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the republieation of all news dispatches credited to it all news dispatclies cr otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontan use for or not paper and local news of spontaneou origin published herein. 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