Official reports from June board meeting The June meeting of the ACS Board of Directors was planned as essentially a "retreat" session, held at the society's Belmont Conference Center, near Washington, D.C. As a result, committee activity was limited. Reports of those committees that reported to the board are printed below.
Society Committees Budget & Finance The committee reviewed the budgetary performance report and found that, for the three months ending March 31,1984, revenues from the society's operations were in almost all cases ahead of budget, and expenses were generally either on or below budget. The committee received a report on the current financial condition of the society as of May 31. The society remains in a good financial position, with major areas of improvement beyond budget in advertising and investments. Expenses also are showing good performance compared to budget with favorable variances in almost all cases. Reports were received from three committee task forces concerning the ranking of society programs, the assignment of programs to various budget categories under the new general fund income policy, and a statement of goals and objectives of the committee. Joseph A. Dixon, chairman Chemical Abstracts Service The committee discussed trade secret protection; reports from its various task forces; status of the Columbus property tax exemption case; a marketing division status report which focused on an overview of the technical services program in the on-line services department; the proposed joint program with the Division of Chemical Information at the Philadelphia ACS meeting; and pricing changes for 1985 for various CAS publications and services. Gordon L. Nelson, chairman
Board Standing Committee Public Affairs & Public Relations The committee voted to recommend to the board of directors that the ACS dues letter include a request to members for the names of their Congressmen and/or
Senators with whom they are personally acquainted. Those ACS members responding would be used as a resource, for example, to disseminate ACS official policy positions to Congress. After extensive discussion, the committee agreed that the staff of the Department of Public Affairs would continue to answer inquiries received from Congressional offices and government agencies, as the department has always done, rather than actively solicit inquiries as was done through the Information Service for Government. Therefore the committee voted to recommend terminating the Information Service for Government Program. A decision on use of the funds already budgeted for that program was postponed until the committee's August 1984 meeting when a new director of public affairs is expected to be on board. Acting for the board of directors, the committee approved policy statements dealing with competition in federal contracting, EPA's "Hazardous Waste Management System/ 7 a uniform government patent policy, and effective patent laws. Robert B. Fox, chairman
Other Committee Chemistry & Public Affairs (joint w i t h council) The committee unanimously passed a resolution commending Robert G.
Smerko for his years of outstanding service to the society and to CCPA. Status reports were received on the regulatory activities of the task forces on Occupational Health & Safety, on the Toxic Substances Control Act, and on the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act. The two ACS Congressional Fellows— Deborah A. Amaral, office of Sen. Max A. Baucus; and Don A. Kaufman, office of Congressman Phil Sharp—reported on their current activities. The status of a National Academy of Sciences study on needs for physical facilities at university departments of chemistry was reviewed. Also reported were: • The Senate changing of a "statement of policy" in the pending Export Administration Act which had once been favorable to free exchange of scientific research findings. • The House amendment to the NSF authorization which adds the word engineering throughout the NSF Organic Act. • The status of DOE's consideration of the ACS recommendation that an advisory committee on the chemical sciences be established in the DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences. Norman Hackerman, chairman Your views on matters reported by committees will be welcomed by the respective chairmen. Letters sent in care of R. N. Hader, 1155—16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, will be forwarded promptly.
ACS dues, section allotments to rise A C S m e m b e r s h i p d u e s , as r e p o r t e d earlier, are slated to rise to $67 n e x t y e a r from $65 t h i s year as a result of council action this spring in St. Louis (C&EN, April 16, page 7). As t h e dues i n c r e a s e , so w i l l allocations from m e m b e r s ' d u e s to C&EN a n d local sections. U n d e r t h e ACS b y l a w s , t h e allocation to C&EN is set at 23% of actual dues. Thus, this allocation will rise to $15.41 p e r full-dues-paying m e m b e r i n 1985 from $14.95 this year. For local sections, t h e base allotm e n t for each section w i l l rise to $1460 n e x t y e a r from $1420 i n 1984, according to ACS treasurer Ellington M. Beavers. This figure is calculated, as specified in t h e bylaws, essentially
b y m u l t i p l y i n g t h e v a l u e of t h e 1984 basic a l l o t m e n t b y t h e same factor b y w h i c h n a t i o n a l d u e s are to rise for n e x t year, w i t h t h e resulting a m o u n t r o u n d e d to t h e n e a r e s t $10. T h e $2.00 increase in n e x t year's n a t i o n a l d u e s r e p r e s e n t s a 3.077% i n c r e a s e over 1984. A p p l y i n g t h a t p e r c e n t a g e to t h e 1984 basic allotm e n t of $1420 yields a n increase of $43.69. W h e n r o u n d e d to t h e nearest $10, t h e basic a l l o t m e n t for 1985 c o m e s o u t to $1460, or a n increase of 2.817% o v e r 1984. I n a d d i t i o n to t h e base a l l o t m e n t , e a c h local section w i l l receive for 1984 a " y e a r l y a l l o t m e n t " based o n t h e s u m of its m e m b e r s h i p a n d t h e n u m b e r of n a t i o n a l affiliates asJuly 16, 1984 C&EN 37
Bioregulators Chemistry and Uses
Robert L. Ory, Editor U.S. Department of Agriculture Falk R. Rittig, Editor BASF Aktiengesellschaft Reports the latest research on the "miracle compounds" of agriculture — bioregulators. Covers the chemistry of these compounds and their applications and uses in improving crop yields and/or quality of various crops. Discusses synthetic bioregulators and their effects on major cereals, oilseeds, legumes, citrus, tree fruits, nuts, and more. Looks at bioregulator applications for resistance to insects, fungi, and microbial toxins; temperature extremes; and environmental stress. Also covers research on natural bioregulators present in certain crops. CONTENTS Introduction • Chemical Aspects of Some Bioregulators • Laboratory and Field Evaluation of Bioregulators • Plant Bioregulators in Cereal Crops • Tetcyclacis • Chemical Manipulation of Soybean Oil Quality • Trigonellins and Promotion of Cell Arrest in G2 of Various Legumes • Properties of Peanuts from Bioregulator-Treated Plants • Use of Bioregulators to Control Vegetative Growth of Fruit Trees and Improve Fruiting Efficiency • Sucrose Increases with Bioregulators • Plant Growth Regulator Uses on Citrus • 14C Abscisic Acid Transport and Metabolism in Source and Sink Tissues of Beta vulgaris • Effects of Bioregulators on Growth and Toxin Formation in Fungi • Biologically Active Natural Products from Fungi: Templates for Tomorrow's Pesticides • Effects of 1,1-Dimethylpiperidinium Chloride on Pests and Allelochemicals of Cotton and Pecan • Bioregulators of Host Plant Resistance to Insects • Effects of 1,1-Dimethylpiperidinium Chloride on Growth and Water Relations of Cotton in Semiarid Environment • Use of Leaf Optical Properties in Plant Stress Research • Chemical Modification of PlantResponse to Temperature Extremes • Bioregulators and Rubber Synthesis in Guayule Plant • Phytoalexin Synthesis in Plants Following Microbial Infection or Treatment with Elicitors Based on a symposium sponsored by the Division of Agricultural and Food Chemistry of the American Chemical Society ACS Symposium Series No. 257 296 pages (1984) Clothbound LC 84-10987 ISBN 0-8412-0853-0 US & Canada $44.95 Export $53.95 Order from: American Chemical Society Distribution Office Dept. 05 1155 Sixteenth St., N.W. Washington, DC 20036 or CALL TOLL FREE 800-424-6747 and use your VISA, MasterCard, or American Express credit card.
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ACS News signed to it as of Dec. 31, 1983, as stipulated in Bylaw VII, Sec. 8(b). As a result, the total allotments (base plus yearly) to local sections in 1984 range from $18,290 for the North Jersey Section (the largest section) down to $1688 for the Southwest Georgia Section (the smallest section). The total allotments for all sections in 1984 was $644,732. ACS divisions also receive an annual subsidy. One third of the subsidy is obtained from national dues to provide partial support for administrative costs of operating the divisions. The remaining two thirds is allocated from national meetings and expositions revenue as an incentive to organize quality programs. For 1985 the annual divisional allotment from national dues will consist of a base allotment of $500 for each division, regardless of size, plus $1.00 for each member and national affiliate of the division, counted as of July 1 from the previous year. For 1984, these allotments from dues
range from $6986 for the Division of Organic Chemistry (the largest) to $734 for the Probationary Division of Chemistry and the Law. All divisional allotments this year amount to $77,565. The remaining two thirds of divisional allotments, about $155,130, is derived from national meetings and expositions income. According to a formula approved in 1981, these funds are distributed on the basis of session attendance and meeting attraction. Thus for 1984, one half the allotment for meetings and expositions income, about $77,565, is being distributed proportionately among the divisions according to their relative success in attracting registrants to national meetings, as indicated by the preferences noted by attendees on their registration cards in 1983. The allotments to divisions for 1985 will depend on membership counts as of Dec. 31, 1983, and on tallies of registrants' preferences and session attendance during 1984. •
Letters Continued from page 4 witches, snake pits, and myriad other horrors. Behavior is changing and has been changed throughout history by engineers, scientists, and teachers, as well as by advertisers, councilors, conquerors, drill sergeants, employers, ideologists, judges, legislators, parents, psychiatrists, rulers, tyrants, writers, and zealots, among many others. Techniques for changing behavior have been recorded for millennia. We now know pretty well which techniques are likely to bring permanent change and which may bring retaliation. In a nuclear age, the primary goal of individuals and their organizations can be indefinite survival. In our world of extremely complex civilizations, we have discovered, almost unheralded, that survival is nearly always by cooperation rather than by conflict with others, despite overemphasis by mass media of confrontation. Others produce safe food and water; still others provide capital, clothing, communication facilities, energy sources, finished products, health care, love, raw materials, shelter, transportation, and hundreds of other items to preserve our way of life indefinitely in peace with dignity. Perhaps the first behaviors to be changed are those of people influential in changing behaviors based on myths and on the fantasy worlds of ideologists. "The ideologist (causepusher) is one of the most dangerous of all human types, because he is unconsciously enslaved to a part of himself which has mor-
tified, and this slavery is bound to manifest itself outwardly as tyranny" (Gabriel Marcel, "Being and Having," Peter Smith publisher, p. 166). Myths related to: administrative and cognitive authority, censorship, civil defense, nationalism, racial and religious superiority, power, spheres of influence, and war, among myriad others need to be dispelled. There is widespread belief in the absolute necessity for, and the harmlessness of, arbitrary, unilateral control (short of slavery) of others by threat, force, and punishment to achieve goals and to keep organizations from coming unglued. This myth needs delimitation. That "state control" is often an euphemism for tyranny needs more-credible dissemination. Basing policy on survival-ensuring cooperation rather than on myths of dialectics, rivalry, and even "survival of the fittest" (in perverse analogy to Darwin's theory) is essential. Freedom is properly distinguished from free enterprise because employers are freer than employees. That everybody's freedom is inalienably based on the physiology of their nervous systems rather than on ideology and preference can be taught. Emphasis on strife in some history books makes them questionable as guides to a strifeless future. In implementing survival-favoring behavior change, it is useful to recall that custom is a good preservative—even of nonsense. With indefinite survival in peace with digContinued on page 51
