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CADET SLOUCH by Jin, Earle EvolutlOH deCldeS which tCXt
AUSTIN (A*) — An agreement
to remove from a sixth-grade
textbook a drawing depicting the
evolution of man was estimated
to be worth $1 million Wednes
day.
The State Textbook Commit
tee selected four of 16 sets of
books on the first ballot, then
voted through five more ballots
without getting the necessary 10
votes for a fifth set.
The vote stood 9-6 in favor of
Laidlaw Bros., a division of Dou
bleday & Co., over Jones-Kenil-
worth Co. All other publishers
were out of the race at the point.
A committee member mention
ed the drawing of the evolution
of man on page 40 of the sixth-
grade textbook and asked a Laid
law representative about it.
The representative, Felix
Laiche of Dallas, said, “I have
been authorized by the president
of Laidlaw if that question came
up to say we will remove the
drawing.”
“It was when I said my doctor’s appointment was in
Baton Rouge that it happened!”
Laiche waited eagerly for any
further questions. Publishers’
representatives do not speak to
the committee unless spoken to.
There were no more questions.
Laiche sat down in the packed
hearing room and watched the
seventh round of balloting.
Laidlaw won, 13-2.
Other publishers’ representa
tives crowded around Laiche and
shouted congratulations. A huge
grin lifted Laiche’s heavy cheeks.
Asked what it was worth to his
company for its social studies
textbooks for grades 1 through
6 to gain the committee’s ap
proval, Laiche said: “Oh, about
a million.”
He estimated the company
would spend $3.5 million on print
ing the books and would make a
net profit of about one-third.
In response to a question, he
said he worked on commission.
Final approval must come from
the State Board of Education at
its Nov. 13 meeting, but the board
normally accepts the committee’s
recommendations.
Approval means only that the
company may offer its books to
individual school districts. If all
five sets of social studies books
for elementary schools are okay
ed by the State Board of Educa
tion, that means each school dis
trict has a choice of five publish
ers for social study textbooks.
Three of the approved publish
ers were among those who had
books that drew protests at a
committee hearing Tuesday.
Charles H. Dahlstrom of Aus
tin found objection to this pass-
Receives funding
Measuring done by radiation
Means of detecting impurities
in metals and semiconductors
used in solid state electronics
will continue at TAMU through
a $36,300 National Science Foun
dation grant.
Dr. Emile A. Schweikert di
rects the Activation Analysis
Laboratory-based project, which
began last year and now totals
$48,300 NSF funding. The new
grant covers the next 12 months.
Schweikert and his group are
using activation analysis meth
ods to develop new analytical
techniques for measurement of
extremely small traces of light
elements, such as oxygen and
Bulletin Board
Tonight
Panhandle Home Town Club
will meet in room 3C of the Me
morial Student Center at 7:30 to
organize.
Student Senate will meet in
the Library Conference rpoip at hold elections.
7:30. Tuesday
Pre-vet Society* meets in room
cial room of the Memorial Stu
dent Center. All * Iranians are
urged to attend.
Organization of Arab Students
meets in room 2A of the Me
morial Student Center at 7 to
pr-- Tuesday
Bio-Medical Science Association
100 of the Chemistry building at
7:30.
Cepheid Variable Science Fic
tion Club meets in room 146 of
the Physics Building at 7:30.
Young Americans for Freedom
meets at old City Hall, 101
Church Street, College Station
at 7:30.
Friday
Society of Iranian students will
elect officers at 7:30 in the So-
will meet at 7:30 in room 210 of
the Veterinary Science Building.
Student “Y” Association will
hold a steak fry in Hensel Park
area 1 at 5:30.
Young Democrats will hear
Lane Denton, state representa
tive from Waco, speak at the old
College Station city hall at 7:30.
Junior Class Council meeting
will be held at 8 in the library
conference room.
nitrogen.
Activation analysis, a process
in which chemical composition is
determined by nuclear radiation,
can detect traces of elements too
small for measurement by other
means. Schweikert’s research is
concerned with measurement of
oxygen and nitrogen traces in
quantities as small as a billionth
of a gram.
New analytical techniques
under study are based on nuclear
activation analysis, using high
energy charged particles gener
ated by the university’s 88-inch
variable energy cyclotron.
“Particles we are working with
may open entirely new ways of
analysis,” the chief investigator
said. He said trace elements in
semiconductors affect solid state
properties of integrated circuits.
Reaching new accuracy levels
of measuring minute amounts of
oxygen in high purity silicon, for
example, is an important step
toward improved integrated cir
cuit design, Dr. Schweikert add
ed.
“Chemical analysis techniques
now in use are inadequate for
the high purity semiconductors
and metals available,” the asso
ciate professor of chemistry and
chemical engineering said.
Further advances in aerospace
and nuclear energy fields, solid
state electronics and electrical
design will depend on more sen
sitive analytical techniques. To
produce high purity materials,
better means of gauging effi
ciency of purification processes
and evaluating helpful or harm
ful effects of trace elements on
properties of metals and semi
conductors are needed, he said.
Working with Schweikert, a
member of the Activation Analy
sis Lab and chemistry depart
ment staffs, are post-doctoral
fellow Dr. Dale L, Swindle and
chemistry doctoral graduate Stu
dents Georgann Pifko of Dolton,
111., and David C. Riddle of Mar
shall.
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vich, Inc.’s first-grade textbook:
“A project: Teach the chil
dren the song, “Our Beautiful
Earth,” by Francis E. Jacobs,
which is about friendship. ‘How
Beautiful is the Green Earth, the
stars in the heaven above! But
what would the whole world be
worth if we did not fill it with
love, if we did not fill it with
love ?’ ”
“Why teach that love is the
primary value in the world?”
Dahlstrom demanded in his writ
ten protest. “I object to students
being taught to love all forms of
government in the world when
some of them are bent on de
stroying us. Why not use one of
our country’s songs such as
‘America the Beautiful’ and point
out some of the beauty and love
in our own country?”
The publisher said Dahlstrom
had taken the project suggestion
out of context. “The objective of
the lesson is to help children
appreciate pure air (oxygen con
tent of the air related to the
maintenance of the ‘green
earth’).”
One of the books that failed
to win approval, “The Human
Adventure,” a fifth-grade text
book published by Allyn and Ba
con, Inc., contains a line that
says, “From his background,
Jesus gained his ideas about
God.”
Mrs. H. G. Vanderlee of Tyler
argued that, “The Bible teaches
that Jesus was God in the flesh
on earth and knew God from the
beginning. The book is teaching
religion — a form of religion
contrary to fundamental Chris
tian belief.”
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