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Education Aid Proposals Revised HEW seeks agreement with Congress on bills that would help build schools and colleges The Administration has taken another look at the need for public school classrooms and college housing and revised its recommendations to Congress for education aid. Secretary Arthur S. Flemming of Health, Education, and Welfare, presenting the new "acceptable" terms at a news conference, said
Congress has done very little this session on health, education, and welfare. But agreement on how to act in these important areas seems closer than at any time in the past 10 years. The year 1960 could become the year of action on education aid, he adds, if Congress will do these things:
Chemistry-Geology Building Graces Campus Newest addition to the San Diego State College campus is this $3 million chemistrygeology building. The recently dedicated structure actually went into service in February, is playing host to nearly 1500 graduate and undergraduate students this semester. Comprising five stories—third story is at street level—the building houses some $600,000 of new equipment and offers 100,000 feet of floor space, including 30 principal laboratories, a main lecture hall, classrooms, balance rooms, instrument rooms, and supply areas. Guest speaker at the dedication ceremonies was Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, Nobel laureate in chemistry, and Enrico Fermi Award winner. 44
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• Provide for new elementary and secondary school classrooms by allotting grants to the states according to the formula used in the amended McNamara bill (S. 8) passed by the Senate (C&EN, Feb. 15, page 3 0 ) . • Provide for the states to match federal funds for the full term of the program. • Provide for new college housing by authorizing $225 million to handle the backlog of applications under the present college housing loan program. • Provide for $600 million in federal grants, payable for 20 to 35 years, to help finance private construction loans made either to public or private colleges. Secretary Flemming believes there is still time for Congress to act on these proposals (both houses plan to either adjourn or recess next week). But in order to complete a classroom construction bill, Senate and House conferees must iron out its terms. The House bill carries the controversial Powell Amendment, denying funds to any state that is resisting desegregation. The Senate bill would allow the states to use federal funds for either classroom construction or teachers' salaries, according to their needs. Both the House and Senate have passed omnibus housing bills that include a $500 million addition to the existing college housing loan program (C&EN, Feb. 22, page 5 7 ) . Secretary Flemming's proposals would provide barely enough funds to take care of the backlog of applications in this program; they would then switch college housing aid from a loan program to a system of yearly grants that colleges could use to help pay off the costs of private financing for construction. Loyalty Oath. In another action, the Senate voted to get rid of the loyalty oath required of students who receive loans under the National Defense Education Act. In its place, a new clause would make it a crime for a member of any organization advocating overthrow of the U.S. Government to apply for or receive an NDEA loan. An oath of allegiance to the United States, which the NDEA also requires, remains in the Act. Colleges have protested against the loyalty oath since the NDEA student loan program started in 1959. And at least 25 of these schools have refused to participate in the program because of the oath requirement.
Kellogg Engineers and Builds World's Biggest Olefin Plants
LARGEST OUTSIDE THE U.S. is the English Wilton Works of Imperial Chemical Industries, which now includes three olefin plants. Photograph shows Plant No. 3. All are the result of close engineering cooperation between Kellogg and I.C.I. Together, they represent a current output of 110,000 tons per year of high-purity ethylene, and a potential of 140,000 tons. Plant No. 1, commissioned in 1951, was the first full-scale adoption of the then novel process of oil pyrolysis developed in Kellogg's laboratories. Its success led to the addition of Plant No. 2 in 1956, and then to No. 3—representing a 6 0 % increase in olefin capacity—in 1959.
Whether your approach to ethylene is through the steam pyrolysis off hydrocarbons or the recovery off ethylene front gas mixtures, Kellogg has developed processes which can assure the optimum investment, operating costs, product purity, and yield. For more information about Kellogg's 2-billion-pound background in engineering and/or building ethylene plants, write for a copy of "Olefin Plants" Kelloggram.
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ACS Starting Salary Survey Under Way The ACS is distributing questionnaires for its annual Starting Salary Survey to the 1960 graduating class of chemists and chemical engineers. Until the actual figures are known, estimates based on past performance indicate this year's median monthly starting salaries will look like this: Chemists Bachelors Masters Doctors
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The ACS Starting Salary Survey has been made every year since 1952, except 1955, when a broader economic study of the membership was conducted. And each year the new grads have received higher salaries than those offered the previous class. The upward spiral shows increases of about 36c/c for chemists and 43% for chemical engineers since 1952. Last year, the ACS sent out some 6000 salary questionnaires. It expects to distribute somewhat more than that this summer because of the anticipated larger number of graduates. Graduates in the survey report, anonymously, their monthly starting salary, type of academic degree received, state where employed, and type of chemical employer. Those who receive 1960 questionnaires are asked to return them promptly to expedite reporting and to provide a fair sample of their class. C&EN expects to publish results of the 1960 salary survey in the fall; last year's report appeared in the issue of Oct. 19, 1959, page 64.
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A committee of 3 0 nuclear engineering experts from education, industry, and Government has started to take a close look at nuclear engineering education to see where it stands and where it should go. The American Society for Engineering Education and the American Nuclear Society are sponsoring the year-long study.
The Columbia University School of Library Service will hold an institute "Patents as a Source of Information" from June 27 to July 1. The course is for information specialists, rather than patent lawyers or librarians.
