Nixon names Moorer highest military post
WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Nixon today named Adm. Thomas H. Moorer as new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, succeeding Gen. Earle G. Wheeler to the nation's highest ranking military post.
Moorer is now chief of naval operations. Wheeler, 62, who has held the office since July, 1964, plans to retire when the change becomes effective July 2, subject to Senate confirmation of Moorer.
Nixon at the same time designated Vice Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., now commander of naval forces in Vietnam, to succeed Moorer as Navy chief.
Moorer, 58, will be he second Navy man to hold the position of chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Adm. Arthur Radford held the post from 1953-57.
Moorer, a native of Mount Willing,
Ala., was named chief of
naval operations June 3,1967,and was re-appointed by President Nixon last July 12.
Zumwalt, 49, a native of San Francisco, has been serving since September, 1968, in the dual role of commander of naval forces in Vietnam and chief of the U.S. Naval Advisory Group.
Wheeler has been chairman of the Joint Chiefs two years longer than the normal four-year term and his retirement was expected. His full term expired in July, 1968, but was extended for a year by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Last July, Wheeler agreed to a request by Nixon to stay on for an additional year.
The other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are Air Force Gen. John D. Ryan, the Marine Corps, commandant, Gen. Leonard F. Chapman Jr., and Army Gen. William C. Westmoreland.
KU Museum of Paleontology receives collection of fossils
The Museum of Invertebrate Paleontology at the University of Kansas received a collection of fossils from the Humble Oil Company on March 19.
This collection, containing some 1500 thin sections of the new species of foraminifera, is the result of the published work of John W. Skinner, a geological scientist for Humble Oil, and Garner L. Wilde, professional geologist also from Humble, said Alan Kamb, assistant curator at the KU paleontological museum.
Kamb said that this collection is one of the largest and most complete collections of fossils obtained from outside sources. He said the collection is valuable in that it contains specimens that existed in a very limited time period thus representing certain aspects of the geological structure of Kansas.
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The animals themselves, called fusulinids, are football shaped and highly complex in structure. These fusulinid fossils are used by oil companies to determine what geological stratum they have drilled through to give them an idea of the structure beneath their rigs, he said.
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