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: 1 a) J. f 6-IF-obt ' -Floating Laberaton; to Help ODnairt Oooaon iff Ore M $250,000 Vessel Being Built With Research Grants (Editor's note: This is an other in a series of articles on the research and public service projects being car ried on b the state's col leges and university. The articles are being written by Mrs. Wilma Morrison, longtime reporter of Ore gon education.) r By WILMA MORRISON ; The old gag about yachts -that if you have to ask what it costs to operate one, you can't afford it - holds for the research vessel soon to be built for Oregon State col leges' new oceanography de partment. When this 80-foot floating laboratory the first to oper ate full-time off Oregon's coast starts making its ex ploratory runs, probing coast al waters up to 300 miles off shore, its operational cost will be $500 every day it is out. The $250,000 vessel, which, it is hoped, will be built be fore the end of the year, is being added to the develop- TEMPERATURE. DEPTH - Here an OSC Nansen bottle hasn't been improved upon oceanography student takes temperature and 3ince it was invented in 1896 by famed po- depth readings from Nansen bottles that lar explorer, Fryoff Nansen. The have been lowered to precise depths. mental services of the state Research in the through a major investment of the U.S. Office of Naval : : GRANVILLE ::fk COLLECTION TRIP - WhUe waiting for the 80-foot re search vessel which U.S. Naval Research funds will provide for Oregon state's new oceanography department, staff and itudents make data collecting trips out of Yaquina bay on this 45-foot fishing vessel. Here a plankton net is being lowered to get count of microscopic animal and plant life on which larger forms of marine life depend. - educational resources of OSC. The Naval research agency provided an initial grant of $319,500 to pay for the boat and current operational ex pense. Another federal invest ment, $50,000 from the Na tional. Science Foundation, will pay for the oceanogra- phic equipment on the vessel. Presence of Expert Like many of the research and teaching projects that have brought federal and foundation money to Oregon's higher education schools, this i A i - - ! - .s..,V' jf -" - - . I 4" f jX'Xm S I'M TAKE SAMPLES - A bottom snapper, device that bites in to bottom sediment and brings up samples for analysis of ocean floor, is lowered by oceanography student from con verted fishing craft off Yaquina bay. An 80-foot research vessel to be built this year for the OSC oceanography de- partment will be research source for geologists, biologists, health and fishery people. - BA7 Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Drain Til - Brick:. Fhies 727 W. McAndrews COUNTERFEIT REBEL Greensboro, N.C.-(DPD-Don-ald Ruth was indicted by a federal grand jury Monday on charges of trying to sell counterfeit Confederate mon ey through the mails. The grand jury said Ruth adver tised it as the real thing. FORMER MAYOR DIES Atlanta - (DPB - Hogan Yan cey, 78, former mayor of Lex ington. Ky died here Mon First in Series Of Police Classes Slated Wednesday The first in a series of six police training classes will be held in Medford Wednesday, March 9, according to Med ford Chief of Police Charles P. Champlin, . who is in charge of, local arrangements. The police training courses will be held twice weekly in 15 Oregon cities. Champlin said the purpose of the school is to provide city and county police officers with training in advanced police subjects. Every city and county is invited to send officers to the nearest schools, which will be held in Coos Bay, Roseburg, Klamath Falls, Baker, On tario, Bend, Eugene, Albany, Salem, McMinnville, Astoria, Oregon City, The Dalles and Pendleton, besides Medford Instructors for the schools include agents of the FBI, of: ficers from the Oregon state police and the police depart ments of Portland, Salem, Eu gene and Albany. Once in Each City ' Each of the six classes will be presented once . in each city with the exception of Eu gene and Salem, where class es will be repeated to accom modate the large attendance, according to Champlin. Sponsors of the annual schools are the Oregon As sociation of City Police Of ficers and the Oregon State Sheriffs association, in coop eration with the FBI, the Ore gon state police, League of Oregon Cities and the bureau of municipal research at the University of Oregon. The schedule for the Med ford school and the instruc tors assigned are, March 9, field surveillances and inter rogation, Lt. Jack Strudgeon, Portland; . March 14, police ethics, Sgt. Richard Bouey, Oregon state police; March 16, accident prevention tech niques, Capt. Leland D. Weav er, Salem; March 21, informa tion sources and uses, Capt. Robert M. Burkhart, Albany; March 23, crime scene evi dence checks, larceny and homicide, Max E. Taylor, FBI; March 28, one-man car patrol, Sgt Dale Allen, Eugene. Americans Eating Too Fast, To Much Los Angeles-UPD-The head of the National Restaurant As sociation says Americans eat too fast and too much. Raymond C. Matson, of Omaha, Neb., said Monday Americans' have a tendency to bolt their meals and stuff themselves, when they should leave the' table a little hun gry to be completely satis fied. "This only indicates a lack of food appreciation - in a country where $18 billion a year is spent on just eating out,'' said Matson, who is here for the . Southern : California Restaurant Association meeting. (Knackstedt photo) one came to Oregon State be cause of the presence there of a recognized expert in the field. The man back of the ocean ography department and the research vessel is Dr. Wayne V. Burt, who came to the college six years ago, bring ing an Office of Naval Re search grant with him. Getting the money for the vessel and the research work of his department is for Dr. Burt the fulfillment of seven years of hard work toward just this goal. He had focus ed on this long before he came to OSC, was working to ward it during his earlier years with the Office of Nav al Research and the Ocean ography - Institute at '. Johns Hopkins. What does an oceanogra pher do? What is so impor tant a prospect to come from an oceanographic research and teaching - enterprise in Oregon that the Navy and science branches of the gov ernment will invest " substan tially in it? First Graduates Like many another science research area, oceanography got its great push out of World War IL Dr. Burt said the crisis discovery that "we knew' very little about the oceans." The first oceanogra phy class to be graduated in the nation-15 men of whom Dr. Burt was one-came out of Scripps Institute of Ocean ography at La Jolla, Califor nia, in 1948. The field is still not loaded. Where there were less than 50 oceanographers in the country in World War II, there are about 500 to day. . Oregon has been some thing of a blank spot on the oceanographic charts of the west coast. University of Washington cruises the Ore gon coast gathering data sometimes in the summer as does the Scripps Institute, but that is all: winter records are lacking. An ocean is not a homogen ous, uniform mass, Dr. Burt explained. It is a stratified body, layered like a deck of playing cards with water of differing temperature and sal inity. Deep circulation cur rents wind through the sea, pulsed by unknown combina tions of forces. It is the job of the oceanographer to meas ure and estimate the effect of these oceanic movements on the earth's climate and on marine life. Keep Monthly Records One continuing job of Dr. Burt's staff and students will be keeping monthly records of the varied temperature and salinity of waters off Oregon's coast. Salt is the de scriptive tag of ocean wa ter. If you know the temper ature and the salt content ov er an area you can estimate the currents. Also the water density can be told, and from the water density the chang es in water elevation. One major piece of equip ment on the research vessel tells something of what kind of knowledge is expected. A winch and a high boom car rying 18,000 feet (over three miles) of steel cable will per mit scraping the bottom for biological and g e o 1 ogical studies of marine life and bottom sedimentation. Or, with this boom, light trawls may be hauled through the water at any depth to pick up sea life. Coring devices may be let down to bring up samples of sedimentation lay ers on the ocean's floor. Fine meshed plankton nets (a five-foot one costs about $50) will tell the density of these almost microscopic plant and animal forms on which all other sea life de pends. Plankton Authority Dr. H. D. Frolander is the plankton authority on the OSC oceanography staff. Con tradicting the popular idea that plankton fills the ocean as thick as mustard in an abandoned farm field, he said, one-half part of plank ton" per million parts of wa ter is a lush crop on the Ore gon coast. Three parts per million is a record high on the east coast. Establishment of the ocean ography department will give other educational depart- .. ! 1! LOWERS BOTTLE - Bruce Hyatt, instructor in new OSC oceanography department, lowers a Nansen bottle, ingen ious device for taking water samples and temperatures at precise ocean depths. Salt is descriptive tag of water. When salt content and temperatures are known, currents and water elevations may be predicted. - Bob Rucker Counsellor OREGON FUNERAL PLAN , Th Only FUNERAL PLAN Sponsored by Oregon Funeral Directors Ass'n 25 Quince... SP 2-9210 ments and agencies a chance for a great variety of , proj ects tied in with the re search vessel - the geologists who are interested in the ocean floor as well as water content; the fishery experts; the public health people who have the major problem of water pollution, and the biol ogists and their study of mar ine life. The state's . investment in the new oceanography depart ment and the research vessel is only in the payment of teaching staff. This year there are three teachers and next fall Dr. Burt hopes to have seven, including a woman, one of the few women in the world who hold doctorates in oceanography. Worked Estuaries During his first four years at OSC Dr., Burt worked all Oregon's estuaries. On these he is ready to" answer ques tions, particularly on water pollution. His "Catalogue of Oregon Estuarine Waters" is now being printed for the state fish commission. In past two years, he and his staff and students have made regular short-distance data-collecting trips along the coast, using fishing boats. However, he is not about to offer any findings on Ore gon's offshore waters now. "The public always thinks we know more than we do," he said. "If you know a lit tle it is easy to talk glibly. In this business the more you know, the more you realize there is to learn . . . it's as MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. 10 Tuesday, March 8, 1960 1J though someone looked at the climate for one week and tried to explain it all." He referred again to the unknown layers and move ments' that make up the ocean and said, "It isn't un til . you have examined a whole lot of water a large number of times that you can begin to talk about what is happening in this stack of cards." Shop Hubbard Bros. our prices are alivaysloiv. xfw51: ( T I frf "SHAMROCK" W i All Steel Household fl llWHFFI RARRftW 111! 1 f . . 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