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campus activities Monday panish Firemen’s Training School, versify Center. 8 a.in. lunicipa! Inspectors Training School, "deflower 7th Floor. 9 a.in. 1-Student Dance, 224-225 MSC, 6:30 Grove Movie, ‘The Birds,” 8:30 p.m. % hursdjy. ay eveiij 'enceit Tuesday panish Firemen’s Training School, University Center, 8 a.in. unicipal Inspectors Training School, Ider Tower 7th Floor. 8 a. in. lying Club, Ul MSC, noon, iggie Bass Club, Buddor Towvr 501, p.m. jrove Movie, “High Plains Drifter,” p.m. ^oliseui mil nts di Frid} e>gnp« lit 501 A: ’t Wednesday |panish Firemen’s Training School, rsity (.enter, 8 a.in. unicipal Inspectors Training School, Ider Tower 7th Floor, 8 a. in. ecreational Bridge, 137 MSC, 7 p.m. merican Bight of M ay Banquet, 224 7 p.m. AMU Sports Car Club, Rudder Tower 7:30 p.m. iggie Bass Club, Rudder Tower 404, p.m. Wkdanee, Rudder Tower 601, 7:30 prove Movie, “My Little Chickadee,” 0 p.m. He Co. 'ravitt, as United an offer f Texas dged in ompel Thursday tast Day of Summer Classes jnish Firemen’s Training School, Uni- pity Center, 8 a.m. Junicipal Inspectors Training School, Ider Tower 7th Floor, 8 a.m. Iggie Allemanders, 201 MSC 7:30 I Friday fecund Summer Session Final Exams firemens Training School, University iter, 8 a.m. litipal Inspectors Training School, ■derTimer 7th Floor, 8 a.m. Saturday immencement and Commissioning, ■tnllic White Coliseum, 9 a.m. _ Sunday Muslim Student Organization, Rudder bier 510, 1 p.m. Midwestern agriculture, governors discuss energy, health care rviunuAY, AUUUo I 8, 1977 BUY ONE — GET ONE FREE ’S United Press International AFTON, Okla. — Governors of America s heartland, a rich source of the nation s food supply and heavy consumer, of its petroleum products, began a three-day meeting yesterday concentrating on ag riculture, energy and health care. The 15-state Midwestern Governors Conference convenes at Shangri-La Lodge, a luxury resort on the tip of a slender peninsula called Monkey Island in northeastern Oklahoma’s Grand Lake O’ The Cherokees. Federal Energy Administrator John O’Leary will address the gov ernors today and Dr. W. W. Rostow, Texas University economics professor who was national security adviser to President Lyndon Johnson, will serve on a panel on the impact of the president’s prop osed energy policy. President Carter, Vice President Walter Mondale, Energy Secretary-designate James Schlesinger and Agriculture Secretary Robert Bergland all declined invitations to appear. Howard Hjort, chief of policy and budget for the U.S. Agriculture Department who is regarded a chief author of the President’s farm bill, will take part in a discussion of agriculture on Wednesday. “The summer meeting comes at a very critical time for the chief executives of the 15 states involved,” host Gov. David Boren of Ok lahoma said. “The three major issues — health, energy and agricul ture — are issues which have a dramatic effect on all our citizens’ everyday lives. “We hope to reach conclusions on behalf of our home states and transmit those ideas to the decision makers at the federal level.” Although pleased with House defeat of a proposed increase in the gasoline tax, Boren remained concerned about the possibility of gasoline tax plans or an “unreasonable” rationing program. “The Midwestern states would be among the hardest hit by either,” Boren’s news aide, Rob Pyron said. “This is where the per capita consumption of gasoline is so much higher than in the North east. It would be blatantly discriminatory.” Member states are Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Pyron said all of the governors are expected with the exception of Minnesota’s Rudy Perpich and West Virginia’s Jay Rockefeller. Florida Gov. Reubin O. Askew, chairman of the National Gover nor’s Conference, and former Utah Gov. Calvin Rampton also will participate. Although Oklahoma is an oil and gas exporting state, some other members are not and controversy is likely. “We expect a pretty spirited session on energy Monday,’ said. Pryon mj iderwater slide recorded ,&M scientists plot slide idity I imatelf .’ountv ationto hatdai nth missile-tracking device iS lineii- thref e underwater landslide,” until years ago almost undisco- is now a reality for oil corn- executives. also is a reality to a team of A&M University engineers dentists. They are plying the floor around the Mississippi ■aused |t with sensitive instruments to i and re the vital signs of this elusive destructive phenomenon. ■e underwater slide, usually of iconsolidated mud that has ed out of the Mississippi River the help of some turbulent 'S, has toppled oil platforms in lulf. feng some space-age technology ji missile-tracking device on loan 5m Sandia Laboratories in New fxico the Texas A&M team led Urs. William Bryant and Wayne dap is plotting the movement of Jbottom and seeking to learn la | triggers it. Their base of opera- is a Shell oil production plat- afew miles out from the mouth s Mississippi. ■Fe have collected quite a bit of taiduring the winter, but because of its mildness there were few storms to produce necessary large waves, Dr. Dunlap explained. “We anticipate that the hurricane season at the end of the summer and early fall will manufacture some signifi cant wave action.” A series of transducers, pressure gauges and accelerometers (much like seismographs) have been put down on the bottom of the Gulf and below the mud line to measure the pressure on the unconsolidated silt and clay and any movement that oc curs. These mechanisms are all wired to recording devices in a small room on an offshore oil rig. “The information from the ocean bottom is transmitted by microwave to the mainland of Louisiana and then by land-line to our facilities here at Texas A&M,” Dunlap explained. He is a professor of civil engineering. “It is fed into a sophis ticated data acquisition package from a rocket-tracking station which allows us continuous monitoring and recording of everything that is going on at the ocean’s floor. The project has the name Sea- Swab (Shallow Experiment to As sess Storm Waves Affecting Bottom) and is a joint effort by Sandia, Shell Oil Company, Louisiana State Uni versity, Lehigh University, The Na tional Oceanic and Atmospheric- Administration (NOAA), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Texas A&M, which coordinates the overall effort. The project has received USGS funding of nearly $250,000 over the past two years. %htClotfies J'lo/se _ 5801 e.2FI+h 3f. <3%2^ TOWN f COUNTRY SttOPTlNG \g,SrnQ//\n s/ze bqf.'T" ^v/ere bosWj in OretcAqrVs] GETAM£A3LY5lA/?r ON ffiLL „ I £A6mon5... mv-awaynow! 'ck AwiVng V \\\ l ZJl-ZLT JT Ci —^II ■ ■■ ■ ■■ ^ Just Arrivedf sWf Oils? K, 3ll Moor 'iWorife- fra^Aic^-s Iso We’Ve I'osjf replehis/yzd oor i/\c<2i\s£ supply L FAST 29th STREET Missouri Gov. Joseph P. Teasdale promised to look after his state’s interests. “I know we ll discuss energy and water shortages,” Teasdale said. “We all have a common problem — we’re vulnerable. The states that depend on outside sources for energy have to stick together. I’ll bring that up. “We also need to preserve and conserve our water supplies so that states like Missouri which are at the bottom of the Missouri River are not left short by the upriver water users,” he said. Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson’s aides said he would push for an “adequate” state share of any increased federal gasoline tax. Various task forces will present reports during the conference, which may result in resolutions on a number of issues. It will not be all work, however. Shangri-La, pinpointed from land or water by a huge golf ball towering above its neatly manicured 18-hole course, is not conducive to an all-work schedule. “In three-short days we hope to give our out-of-state visitors a good slice of Oklahoma’s life style by providing examples of our numerous outdoor recreational facilities,” Boren said. The governors will be housed in $100,000 condominium duplexes overlooking the lake and will have access to recreational facilities including indoor and outdoor tennis courts, golf, bowling and bil liards, boating and fishing. There also will be a display of Oklahoma art, a visit by Indian leaders from eastern Oklahoma, Indian tribal dancers and a square dance exhibition. Lt. Gov. George Nigh will be master of ceremonies for a showcase of Oklahoma talent and art at a Wednesday evening dinner and ball. 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