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To Be Speaker THE BATTALION Tuesday, January 16, 1968 College Station, Texas Page 3 ’Quakes Hit Sicily, 300Known Deaths By LAWRENCE LEE AP Aerospace Writer SPACE CENTER, Houston <2P) —Faced with a rapidly approach ing deadline for a firesafe Apollo spacecraft, NASA indicated Mon day its intention to consider “en riched air” rather than flame feeding pure oxygen for breath ing by astronauts in rockets on the launch pad. The pure oxygen atmosphere had been stoutly defended by the agency following the first Jan. 27, 1967, in which three astro nauts died inside their Apollo command module atop a rocket at Cape Kennedy. The air they breathed was 95 per cent pure oxygen, at a pres sure a little greater than that of the air outside their ship, and the oxygen helped turn their craft into a crematorium. The fire touched off a major redesign effort by the agency and the company which build the Apollo craft, the space division of North American Rockwell Corp. Intests ending Jan. 7, engineers at the Manned Spacecraft Center tried 38 times to set fires delib erately within the improved spacecraft. Five attempts result ed in blazes termed “unaccepta ble” by agency engineers. The agency said Monday that a mixture of 60 per cent oxygen Officer Election Slated By Society The College Station chapter of the American Meteorological So ciety will elect 1968 officers Thursday. The 7:30 p.m. meeting will be held in Room 305 of Goodwin Hall, announced Dr. Dale F. Leip- per, chapter president. Dr. Aikra Kasahara will pre sent the program, a discussion of weather systems origin, Dr. R. A. Clark, program chairman, an nounced. A visiting professor, Dr. Kasa hara is an affiliate professor from the National Center for At mospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. He was previously on the A&M staff as a research asso ciate. Kasahara joined NCAR in 1963 following work at the Uni versity of Chicago and New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Science. and 40 per cent nitrogen would be used within the dummy ship in a new round of tests beginning Wednesday. The decision was made by a flammability review' board head ed by Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, di rector of the Manned Spacecraft Center. “Based on medical, operation and engineering data, the 60-40 mixture of oxygen and nitrogen is one we definitely want to in vestigate,” said George Low, manager of the Apollo spacecraft program. “This is not to say that we will suspend investigation of other mixtures at various pres sures.” It is the first time the agency has said publicly it is willing to consider a closer-to-air mixture for spacecraft breathing. Air is a mixture of 21 per cent oxygen, 78 per cent nitrogen and traces of other gases. Pure oxygen, which was used for the Gemini and Mercury flights, was selected because it requires less “plumbing” — and thus, weight — than a mixture of gases. It also protects astro nauts from the dangers of nitro gen pressure sickness, such as the “bends” suffered by deep-sea divers. Spacemen venturing outside their craft for space walks, or extravehicular activities, use pressure suits designed to oper ate with pure oxygen. A mixed- gas atmosphere would complicate the design of the suits and make them heavier. Gilruth said in Monday’s terse announcement that NASA now retains three options: launching with the I'egular air that every one breathes, launching with en riched air, such as that to be used in the new tests, or launch ing with pure oxygen, as origi nally planned. In any case, the spacecraft’s environment system would re place the air or enriched air with oxygen, once the Apollo command module is in space. A 1965 agreement transferred to Jordan 2,300 square miles of virtually uninhabited territory in exchange for 2,700 square miles of equally desolate land which went to Saudi Arabia. But Jordan ecquired 11 new miles of sh.ci'eline along the Gulf of Aqaba, crucial for future development of the na tion’s only port, Acqaba. Rex Braun, member of the House of Representatives, will be the featured speaker at the regu lar business meeting of the A&M Hillel Club at the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Representative Braun will speak on some of the issues con fronting Texas State Government. Born in Kenner, Louisiana, Rep resentative Braun graduated from Southwestern Louisiana Univer sity. He served in the U. S. Marine Corps from 1942-1946 in the Paci fic and China Theatre. He now resides in Houston with his wife, Ruth and children, Mike, Lenny, and Debby. Representative Braun presently is the president of Rex Tailors, Inc., vice president of the V.&R. Corp., and is a former chairman of the board of Gulfgate and Northline shopping centers. His civic activities include area chair manship of the United Fund and he is a former president and coach of Spring Branch Little League football. He served as state rep resentative in the Texas Legisla ture in the 60th Session, 1966- 1968. His committees include Pub lic Health, Constitutional Amend- Thirty - four game warden trainees at Texas A&M will re ceive 40 hours of light duty rescue training here Jan. 29- Feb. 2. Taught by the Firemen’s Train ing Division of A&M’s Engineer ing Extension Service, the course represents the final segment of 20 weeks’ work at Aggieland by the trainees. John R. Rauch, a firemen’s training school instructor, will direct the school which empha sizes rescue squad operations. Topics include care and use of ropes, breathing apparatus, metal cutting and power rescue tools, ments, Examination of comptrol ler’s and Treasurer’s accounts, Military and Veteran’s Affairs and Representation before the Legislature. emergency methods of rescuing victims, use of devices for heavy lifting, and reconnaissance. Ted Felds, director of the Houston-Harris County Civil De fense Rescue Service; Harold Sorensen of the Brazos County Civil Defense Rescue Service; E. F. Sevison, A&M fire marshal, and Richard Pulaski, plumbing and pipefitting apprenticeship coordinator for TEES, will assist. Rauch said training includes a night exercise at Brayton Field, during which students will rescue “victims” from various emergency situations in “Disaster Village.” After completing the school, game warden trainees will move to Austin for tours of surround ing wildlife management areas and the state fish hatchery at San Marcos. Bob Evins, conservation super visor for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, said train ees will be commissioned as game wardens about Feb. 15 in Austin. PALERMO, Sicily — A shattering succession of earth quakes rumbled through the snowy and mountainous western tip of Sicily Monday. Police esti mated nearly 300 persons were killed. With many of the stricken com munities still out of touch, offi cials feared the final death toll might go to 500 or even more. The injured were expected to exceed 1,000. About 10,000 persons were left without homes and spent the night outdoors or under tents pitched by the Italian army. The quakes toppled houses, hospitals, medieval castles and churches in the worst disaster to hit the island since 1908.A hos pital at Montevago collapsed, burying 200 persons. Police said most were killed. Spurred by police reports of al most 300 deaths in the rubble of half a dozen towns and villages, the Italian government mounted a massive rescue and relief opera tion. Trucks, cars, ships and planes laden with tents, blankets, food and medicines, made their way through freezing weather to the disaster zone. Hundreds of home less huddled in the cold. Many built bonfires. The stricken area, considered a stronghold of the Mafia, is formed by a triangle of the towns of Salemi, Poggioreale and Santa Margherita di Belice. Several thousand homeless, fearing new shocks through the Brazos A&M Club Hears Grad. Dean Dr. Wayne C. Hall, Texas A&M’s graduate dean, will dis cuss the economic impact of graduate and research programs on the community at the Brazos County A&M Club meeting Wednesday. Officers will also be installed at the 7 p.m. meeting at Clayton’s Restaurant, announced Joe Buser, the club’s new president. The 1968 slate also includes Hoy Richards, first vice presi dent; Leonard Williams, second vice president; Bob Roepke, secre tary-treasurer; Jim Forehand, assistant secretary-treasurer, and Ed Cooper, council representative. Dr. Hall will conduct the in stallation. Telephone reservations for the ladies’ night meeting may be made by calling 846-8713. Roepke noted the meeting is the last before the membership drive deadline. volcanic island—the Mediterra nean’s largest and most populous —fled urban areas. Five tremors had shaken the region Sunday as it was digging out from one of the worst snow falls of the century. Seven more came Monday, starting at 2:34 a.m. Some of the jolts recorded nine points on the 10-point Mercalli earthquake scale, strong enough to knock down buildings. “It was like going on a ship and feeling dreadfully seasick,” said a Palermo woman who joined the crowds fleeing the capital into the countryside. Interior Minister Paolo Emilio Taviani flew from Rome. Pope Paul VI sent what the Vatican called a “conspicuous” sum to the victims. The picture of the mountainous farming region at dusk was a scene of death and desolation. In Montevago, where the hos pital collapsed, volunteer rescue teams and firemen, reinforced by army troops, were still digging mangled bodies out of the ruins. Most of the town was destriyed. Gibellina, a town of 7,000 in habitants, was totally ruined. Sulphur fumes belched through several cracks in the mountain side. Also wrecked was Sala- paruta, where 3,120 farmers lived. More than half the buildings in Santa Margherita di Belice, a town of 9,000 were destroyed, leaving only piles of plaster and local stone. Seventy per cent of Santa Nin- fa, with 6,422 inhabitants, was wiped out. No serious damage was re corded in the island’s main west ern cities of Palermo, Trapani and Marsala, although panic stricken Sicilians wearing only pajamas and topcoats, scurried away from their homes at the first tremor. For elder Sicilians, the quake evokes the bitter memory of the terrible earthquake of Messina in 1908. It destroyed the city with a loss of 75,000 lives. It was Italy’s second succes sive winter tragedy. Only 14 months ago, the north and central x-egions were ravaged by the worst floods in the nation’s history. Government officials gave this breakdown of the quake toll: More than 200 deaths in Mon tevago, about 40 deaths in Gibel lina, about 10 deaths in Castel- vetrano, about 10 deaths in Salemi and abqut 10 deaths in Santa Marcherita di Belice. Another 20 persons were reported to have died in various villages and ham lets of the area. 34 Game Wardens Complete Training With Rescue Work J M. Sch« (If you flunk, at least you'll be awake.) Sure you've used NoDoz to help you stay awake the night before an exam. But have you ever thought of taking NoDoz to make yourself a little sharper during the exam itself? Well, maybe you should. 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