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Monday, Oct. 29, 1962 University Daily Kansam
Andes Probed By Infrared Photos
NEW YORK - (UPI) - Infrared aerial photography, used by the military to locate targets and gather intelligence, is turning out to be useful in unlocking the secrets of prehistoric peoples and unexplored lands.
American explorer George Michanowsky, who first used infrared aerial photography for archaeological purposes, took pictures on a recent expedition to the central Andes area of South America that have great potential value in avalanche warning, geology, air safety and economic development.
MICHANOWSKY, president of the Amazonia Foundation of (50 W. 77th St.) New York, led an exploration party in South American air force planes over the craggy, mistshrouded Andean peaks to photograph unexplored regions near Bolivian-Peruvian border.
Michanowsky's pictures reveal mysteries of the Andes that normal photographic film would not have recorded. The crisply detailed photos show scenes not visible to the naked eye because of the ever-present, sometimes dense fog, mist and clouds over the Andes.
"INFRARED photography reveals certain combinations which can't be detected in convention photography." Michanowsky said. "It permits pinpointing of land surface characteristics, penetrates fog and mist, gives more contrast and detail on the ground."
"Under a stereoscopic microscope the infrared pictures bring up detail so well you can see small rock fragments on top of snow fields. You can distinguish wet snow from dry snow and new snow from old snow."
Infrared photography also can somewhat eliminate the camouflage effect of ground level foliage to disclose prehistoric roads and ruins; that's the archaeologist's interest.
OF IMMEDIATE practical value
Entry Request Still a Problem
The KU International Club has requested that the Mexican government notify them by Nov. 15 of their decision to grant or deny students from 46 foreign countries permission to cross the border Dec. 19.
Fritz Gysin, Basel, Switzerland, graduate student, and Helmut Reichelt, Konstanz, Germany, graduate student, wrote the Mexican Minister of Immigration after the Mexican consulate in Kansas City refused persons from 46 nations authorization to make the club's annual 10-day Christmas tour of Mexico.
THE GROUP WILL visit Mexico City, Oaxaca, and Acapulco. Gysin said they had written seven Mexican hotels requesting information about accommodations. Approximate cost of transportation and lodging will be $125. Each member will nav his own food bill.
Deadline for the first $15 deposit is Dec. 15.
At the international club meeting Friday night Gysin announced that students making the trip must have smallpox vaccinations and tetanus shots.
The announcement was followed by a singing session with Peter Eigen, Erlangen, Germany, graduate student, teaching the group German folk songs. Foreign students later participated in a pumpkin-carving contest.
Loan Money Will Be Available Until Dec. 1
National Defense loan applications for the spring semester will be accepted until Dec. 1.
Robert Billings, aids and awards director, said cancellations and early repayments have provided limited funds and permitted cancellation of the earlier "no funds" announcement.
Application blanks may be obtained at 222 Strong Hall. Applicants will be notified by Jan.15 of the decision on applications.
to the South American governments which cooperated with Michanowsky is the capability of infrared photographs to show unstable soil and rock conditions -potential avalanches.
Death-dealing mud avalanches are frequent in the Andes. Last January, thousands of tons of mud and rock cascaded down Mt. Huacaran in Peru, engulfing several villages. The death toll exceeded 3,000.
Location of unstable terrain is vital to engineers and construction men seeking to build roads, homes and industrial sites in the undeveloped Andean highlands. A broad-scale infrared photo survey logically would be a prerequisite to development of the area.
Geologists find Michanowsky's photographs of the Andean Mountain cliffs invaluable in studying the basic structure of a range, not to mention the information they may yield on its economical potential.
AUFS Southeast Asia Expert Begins KU Lectures Today
Albert Ravenholt, American Universities Field Staff expert on Southeast Asia, will begin a nine day visit at KU today.
In 1936 he returned to the United States and joined the Institute of Current World Affairs and spent a year at Harvard studying the Orient.
He will speak to various groups and classes around the campus during the week.
In 1948 he returned to China to follow the civil war to its climax. From 1951 to 1957 he participated in AUFS visits to member institutions.
Ravenholt is one of four experts that will visit the campus this year. AUFS men specialize in many areas of the world and all make regular and extended stays in their foreign areas.
RAVELHOLT HAS been a specialist in the Far East since the beginning of World War II when he was a correspondent.
IN 1958 HE RETURNED to Asia
to write and travel in Formosa and
Hong Kong and report on developments in Nationalist and Communist China.
Ravenholt has written for the Chicago Daily News Foreign Service, Foreign Affairs, Reporter magazine and the Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the Year for 1957.
Ravenholt will talk to 29 meetings during the week.
Fulbright Provisions To Be Discussed
Francis Young, executive secretary of the Conference Board of Associated Research Councils, will consult Thursday with the KU faculty on new provisions for Fulbright foreign teaching and research grants.
The board screens applications and publicizes the Fulbright faculty programs. It is also working on details for 1963-64 NATO Advanced Research Fellowships available for established scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
Recital to Feature Student Musicians
Six KU student musicians will be featured in the Fine Arts Honors recital at 8 o'clock tonight in Swarthout Recital Hall.
These students were selected by the Fine Arts faculty for outstanding performances last semester.
They are Jo Archer, Ottawa junior, Leanna Hilmer, Hutchinson juniion, and Roger Rundle, Clay Center sophomore, pianists; Bryant Hayes, Alexandria, Va., junior, clarinetist; William Booth, Sedalia, Mo., junior, and Dona Blank, Hutchinson sophomore, trombonists.
The program will include Brahms "Sonata in E Flat" played by Miss Hillmer and Hayes, and Prokofieff's "Sonata No. Three in A Minor," a piano number by Rundle.
Miss Blank has selected the "Trombone Sonata" by George McKay for her solo. Booth will play Paul Creston's "Fantasy for Trombone," and Miss Archer has chosen a piano arrangement of "Sonata No. Three" by Dello Joio.
Bring it Back you Rascal you!
We went to the mountain to make 1963 Ford-built cars go 30,000 to 100,000 miles between major chassis lubrications
Quite a task faced Ford Motor Company engineers when they set out to eliminate the traditional trip to the grease rack every 1,000 miles.
Like Mohammed, they went to the mountain—Bartlett Mountain on the Continental Divide in Colorado. More molybdenite is mined there than in the rest of the world combined. And from molybdenite ore comes the amazing "moly" grease that helps extend the chassis lubrication intervals for Ford-built cars. This grease sticks tenaciously to metal, stands up under extreme pressures and resists moisture, pounding and squeezing. It is slicker than skates on ice!
New, improved seals were developed. Bushings, bearings and washers of many materials were investigated. Slippery synthetics, like nylon and teflon, were used a number of new ways.
The search for means to extend chassis lubrication also led to New Orleans—where experimental suspension ball joints tested in taxicabs in regular service went two years without relubrication.
It took time. And ingenuity. But the effort paid off when Ford-built cars were the first to build in chassis lubrication good for 30,000 miles or two years—whichever came first.
Another assignment completed—another "Ford First" and another example of how Ford Motor Company provides engineering leadership for the American Road.
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