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Thursday, August 3, 1967 Clubman Sportscoats * 3im $tnrnesi ^ w mcnb uicnr . 7l3/H22-fi21t • IIHVAN. I Just Arrived Aggie War Hymn Musical Door Chimes $5.95 Special order due to numerous requests “add 50^ for out of town order” AGGIELAND FLOWER AND GIFT SHOPPE 209 University Drive Page 4 College Station, Texas THE BATTALION Puerto Rican Good Promoter For International Relations Representing Puerto Rico as an instructor in Texas A&M’s spe cial school this week for Spanish speaking firemen is a strong pro moter of good international rela tions. He is Raul Gandara, chief of fire service for Puerto Rico. The 38-year fire service veterans di rects the activities of 89 fire de partments and 987 paid firemen. “Teaching these men to fight fires is important,” Gandara said, “but it is even more impor tant that they learn the Ameri can way of life. As they come to understand what a democratic government is like, they will go back home with a feeling of friendship and brotherhood.” Gandara has a wealth of ex perience in boosting international good will, especially among fire men. He was president of the FRESHMEN: BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIAL AL HIRT... and SMU Town Hall 67-68 Presents Its SERIES Opener On Sept. 15, 1967 In G. Rollie White Coliseum At 8:00 P. M. Student Activity Cards and Season Tickets Will Be Honored. Ticket Prices Are As Follows: Dates — $2.00 Gen. Admission — 3.00 Pub. School — 2.00 Tickets Go On Sale Sept. 5, 1967 At Student Program Office In The M.S.C. From 9:00 A. M. To 5:30 P. M. Monday Through Friday. 4 9,000-member International As sociation of Fire Chiefs in 1965. A board member of the National Fire Administration Institute of New York State University, Gan dara also is on the Latin Ameri can Committee of the Interna tional Association of Fire Chiefs. Henry D. Smith, chief of the Texas Firemen’s Training School for A&M’s Engineering Exten sion Service, credits Gandara with a major role in helping or ganize the newly established school fo" Spanish-speaking fire men. “Chief Gandara has conducted a number of administrative schools for firemen in South and Central America,” Smith re marked. “He helped us organize this school and even secured 12 scholarships to assist visiting firemen.” “People have been afraid of the language barrier in the past,” Gandara pointed out. “They are overcoming this. I be lieve the popularity of the school will spread and we will have a big response from prospective instructors for future schools.” Participants in the initial school include 84 firemen from Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaguara, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Puerto Rico, New Mexico and Texas. NEW LIGHTS FOR KYLE FIELD Two new lighting structures for Kyle Field await placement as work continues on 4 field’s expansion project. The 165-ft. structures will replace the old lighting system, Cyclotron Action Within Next Two Texas A&M’s cyclotron is al most ready to operate, Dr. John A. McIntyre, associate director for research at the Cyclotron Institute, has announced. “We may have a beam in the next week or so,” he predicted to more than 100 persons in a lec ture Monday night on the cam- put. The beam to which he referred will be billions of protons, those invisibly small parts of the cores of atoms. El-Sayed To Head Cruise For Oceanography Dept. Dr. Sayed Z. El-Sayed, Texas A&M Oceanography professor, has been selected by the National Science Foundation as chief scientist for a 41-day trans-At lantic cruise of the Eltanin. The U. S. Antarctic Research Program representative is nor mally an NSF official. As chief scientist, El-Sayed will be responsible for manage ment, coordination and schedul ing of scientific programs aboard the 266-foot NSF research ship. Twenty universities and agencies to be represented include the La ment Geological Observatory of Columbia University, the U. S. Weather Bureau and the Smith sonian Institute. El-Sayed also will head a three- man A&M party which will con duct biological productivity stud ies on the voyage from Brisbane, Australia, to San Francisco. Dean Letzring, Oceanography Department technical operations coordinator; Argentina visiting professor Aquiles De Romedi, and George Weissberg, graduate research assistant from German town, Pa., comprise the party. Workers at the institute are now testing the vacuum system and plugging leaks so the pro tons can whirl about inside the machine without hitting air par ticles. The cyclotron scientists plan to create the beam and test it for some time inside the machine be fore bringing it out for experi ments. Some of the experiments de tailed by Dr. McIntyre include study of the “spin orbit force” between protons. “What we’re going to be able to do is get a polarized beam out of our cyclotron,” he said. This means that the protons would mostly be spinning in the same direction as they emerge — like the balls of a golfer who slices all his drives and never hooks them. The ability to polarize a beam is an advantage of the A&M cy clotron, one of about ten “new generation” machines. Although modeled after a similar machine at the University of California at Berkeley, the A&M cyclotron has a number of improvements. Other experiments include what nuclear physicists call the “three body problem.” This means, roughly, they want to know every thing which can happen when a Foresea Weeks proton slams into or comes* a nucleus containing a protom a neutron. And, said McIntyre, the cyt tron will be used to shoot prelt into very heavy nuclei, those* taining scores of protons and* trons. The heavy nuclei se to be stuck together with vr ing amount of force — mesii some protons and neutrons e be knocked off easier than otk Asked about possible praefc applications of the work, Mi: tyre replied, “We don’t km* that’s the point. But everyt we have discovered in the [« has turned out to be useful.” Math Course Set A mathematics short school! area water works employes iss Aug. 21-25 at Bellaire by t Water Utilities Training E sion of Texas A&M’s Engine ing Extension Service. The 20-hour course will i taught by Leon Holbert, Deli Blajock and W. R. Holt of i TEES staff. Holbert said emp: sis will be on application mathematics in areas of sanit tion, bacteriology, chemistry a hydrology. "• " • * “J — ■ ■■■ ■■ y TU. CHEATER ^ ATTORNEY ABOUND LAW Hr Welcome to JUBILEE JUNCTION ORIGINATED BY MR. AND MRS. MARION PUGH OF COLLEGE STATION, JUBILEE JUNCTION IS THE ONLY WESTERN TOWN IN SOUTH TEXAS WITH COMPLETE AND SCALED BUILDINGS. 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