CADET SLOUCH
by Tun Earle
Pollution source pinpointed
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THE BATTALION
Collar* Station, T«x»« .
23, 1972
“Next week it’s one cartoon a day, so today we’re doing
nothin*!**
Library employe retires
after 30 years of service
Th« A4M Library’s senior
faculty-staff member, Mrs. Ethyl
Cowan, retires this summer after
30 years of service. .
Mrs. Cowan was honored by li
brary personnel Thursday. The
junior librarian received a silver
serving tray and dish, inscribed
to recognise her service from
1942 to 1972.
“When I first started working
in the library as a student in 1966,
Mrs. Cowan eras a respected mem
ber of the library faculty,” ob
served TAMU Libraries Director
John B. Smith. “And she still is."
Bulletin Board
Tonight
Sports Car Clab meets at 7:30
in the old College Station City
Hall to discuss the Sept. 9-10
sports car weekend and the Me
morial Student Center orientation
booth.
Saturday
Msc Open House wMJLbe held
6:16-10:0. Booths drtttfcg and
major student activWHt will be
set up and tours of the building
will be given. ’
Tuesday
A6M Wheelmen will form com
mittees for the fall at 7:30 in the
Art Room on the third floor of
the MSC.
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Mrs. Cowan’s daughter, Mrs.
Doris Ramsey of Wheelock, also
works at the TAMU library in
the serials department.
“She has been here almost 20
years,” Mrs. Cowan proudly
stated.
The retiring librarian has su
pervised sending library materials
for bindling during her entire
career.
“All of the bound magatines,
periodicals and newspapers in our
collection and most of the rebound
books have gone through her
hands,” Smith remarked. Mrs.
CoWan prepares materials for
shipment to the Universal Bindery
in San Antonio, keeps records and
processes in bound volumes for
shelving upon their nstum.
“It requires about two months,”
she said.
When Mrs. Cowan h«»;an work
ing at the library, she was one
of ip to 20 library staff members
and holdings totalled ; less than
100,000.. The staff today exceeds
ISO and holdings number almost
700,000.
A member of the Trinity Bap
tist Church, Mrs. Cowan said her
retirement will be devoted initial
ly to her flowers sad home at
209 N. McCulloch, followed by
travel.
Oceanogra
pin-pointed
'tMiMBi
the Gulf of Mexico.
The find indicates natural gas
seepage from mors than a dosen
areas, souse up to 100 miles apart,
may contribute to pollution of
Gulf Coast beaches, reported Dr.
William E. Sweet Jr., TAMU re
search oceanographer.
Dr. Sweet said he found and
photographed the natural seeps
last week in approximately 120
feet of era ter on the continental
shelf south of Cameron, La.
He reported finding at least 12
different gas seeps, and specu
lated there are two to three times
that number. He also expects to
find natural seepage of oil tars.
“The rate of bubbling is high
and continuous,” Dr. Sweet dis
closed, indicating “significant”
subsurface accumulations and a
major hydrocarbon source in the
gulf.
He has video tape recordings
of the bubbles and photographs
of bobbles coming to the surface.
^ The project coordinator said the
seepage “apparently doesn’t harm
fish, as we have pictures of them
swimming through bubbles.”
Research into the golf natural
hydrocarbons is sponsored by
TAMU’s Sea Grant Program and
11 oil companies.
Dr. Sweet pointed out offshore
oil rigs have been blamed for
much of the gulf water and beach
pollution. His findings show the
Parsons to speak
it PMS meeting
Col. Thomas R. Parsons, A4M
commandant of cadets, will make
presentations this month at a
Department of the Army confer
ence for new professors of mili
tary science
He will be at the Washington,
D. C^ conference Aug. 28-31 on
Continental Army Command
(CONARC) invitation. Col. Par
son's talks will be on recruiting
and professional development of
officers for ROTC Instruction
Professor of military science
at TAMU, he heads the Army
ROTQ detachment here and is the
ranking Army officer on the
campus.
is a major pel- in
Dr.!
FOR
BEST
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TRY
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t baa insisted for years
that most lumps of tar found
floating in the northwest portion
of the gulf are not refined prod
ucts, but naturally occurring hy
drocarbons seeping from faults.
Faults, he explained, are cracks
in the bottom sediment caused by
rising salt. Tbs cracks allow the
lighter-than-water hydrocarbons
to migrate to the surface from
natural pools below floor sedi-
of tar have bean found
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sediments mi many gulf sites.
Dr. Sweet said the research
effort Is to locate the source
the eeepe. determine the nature
and amount of seepage aad
chemical composition of the es
caping mats rial.
Dr. Richard A. Gayer, Ocean
ography Department head and
project director, said the 11 oil
companies supporting the second-
year operations are Atlantic
Richfield, Chevron, Cities Service,
Conoco, Gulf, HpmMe, Mara
thon, Mobil, Phillips, Sun and
Tennsco.
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