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Library Policy
ieminar Focuses On Health, Safety change Planned
Occupational disease and injury
significant aspects of A&M’s
icupational Safety and Health
Instructors Summer Institute.
The seminar which ends Aug.
if is funded by a grant from the
ational Institute for Occupa-
nal Safety and Health, U. S.
lepartment of Health, Education
d Welfare.
The professional-level course is
Irected for college professors
■om across the country by the
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Hygiene and Safety Engineering
Division of A&M’s Department of
Industrial Engineering.
Instruction is offered to par
ticipants by noted authorities
from industry, engineering and
medicine in key areas of occu
pational disease and injury, in
dustrial toxicology, airborne con
taminants and perspectives in en
vironmental health.
Dr. Dave Discher, M.D., speak
ing to participants in the sem
inar, established the predicament
brought to working people by
modern high-level technology.
“Management today focuses
upon production and economic
problems,” he charged. “And, un
fortunately, ‘people problems’ are
of lower priority.
“The entire scheme of manage
ment from executives on down to
grass roots supex-visors pays min
imal attention to the physical
and psychological problems of the
people around them.”
The associate professor of en
vironmental health at the Uni
versity of Washington noted that
insufficient education on the im
portance of safety and safe equip
ment is a vital reason why many
work environments are unsafe.
“Many companies simply be
lieve it is cheaper to financially
and economically invest in insui'-
ance, rather than insure safe
equipment and its operation,” he
pointed out.
Directing the seminar is Dr.
Ralph J. Vernon, professor and
head of the Division of Hygiene
and Safety Engineering, Indus
trial Engineering Department.
He believes the Occupational
Safety and Health Act of 1970,
as well as the Consumer Product
Safety Act, have made important
contributions to society’s aware
ness of the importance of a safe
work environment.
Circulation policy will under
go a major change Sept. 1 at the
A&M library to make books most
in demand available to more stu
dents.
Circulation Librarian Mel Dodd
announced the general loan or
circulation period will become
two weeks instead of one month,
effective Sept. 1.
The change was adopted by
university librarians after study
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by a subcommittee of the Uni
versity Library Council of sev
eral aspects of library services.
A&M students and faculty consti
tute the Library Council which
discussed the subcommittee re
port in some detail.
Dodd also announced a
strengthened program to recall
for anyone any book on semester
loan to a faculty or staff mem
ber. Such a policy has been in
effect, but efforts to recall ma
terials needed by someone else
will be given higher priority.
“The change in general circu
lation period, plus the recall
measures, should make all library
materials more accessible to us
ers,” Dodd said.
Oil, Gas Lease
Sale Scheduled
AUSTIN—The biggest oil and
gas lease sale on Texas public
lands in a quarter century is
scheduled October 2.
Land Commissioner Robert L.
Armstrong said 1,348,610 acres
in 1,712 tracts will be offered for
lease consideration.
Most of the state tracts are
submerged acreage in the Gulf
of Mexico. Nine hundred and 40
Gulf tracts totalling 998,610 acres
have been nominated, plus 563
tracts in Texas bays and inlets
including 267,678 acres.
Oil and gas firms and individ
ual bidders offer bonus payments
via sealed bids on leasing of the
state-owned tracts for a period of
five years to explore and develop
minerals. Armstrong said a rec
ord high interest is indicated in
potential oil and gas production
on state lands.
“This will be the largest sale
in more than 25 years,” said
Armstrong.
A sale involving nearly one mil
lion acres of land in 1965 brought
more than $39 million in bonus
payments to the permanent school
fund.
Armstrong said the current
sale is doubly significant because
leases will enable the state to
take its one-sixth royalty pay
ment in gas or oil instead of cash.
A court case is now pending
to detei-mine if this can be done
on existing leases. The “in kind”
provision, specifically allowing
the state to take oil and gas as
well as cash, will be written into
the October bid propositions.
Armstrong said this will permit
the state to offer cities the op
tion of buying some of their na
tural gas directly from the state
at fair market value.
Single Member
Districts Pushed
First legal move in an effort
to have eight more counties di
vided into single-member legis
lative districts was launched last
week.
David Richards, Austin attor
ney retained by the State AFL-
CIO, seeks authority for 10 indi
viduals to intervene in a Tarrant
County House redistricting case.
Travis, Lubbock, McLennan, Nu
eces, El Paso, Hidalgo and Gal
veston into single-member House
districts. Each of the counties
now has two or more representa
tives elected countywide. Richards
claims this “unconstitutionally di-
and political elements.”