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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.
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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
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