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21.   KGS PRODUCED 156 MAPS, REPORTS LAST YEAR

       The Kentucky Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S.
Geological Survey, produced a total of 156 new maps and reports during
fiscal 1970-71. These documents are much in demand by such departments
of state government as highways, commerce, parks, natural resources,
and health. The oil, gas, clay, coal, fluorspar, zinc and construction
industries also are heavy users, as are schools, county agents, hunters
and fishermen, civil engineers, the Soil Conservation Service, and
those concerned with waste disposal. The U.S. Corps of Engineers is
another major user of these maps and other publications.

       From the campus sales office during the year, there were sold
more than 30,000 maps and reports. KGS also maintains over 100,000
linear feet of core samples from oil and gas wells, and over 11,000
sets of envelope samples of well cuttings--an official repository
that is visited daily for study by representatives of the state's
mineral industries. The work of KGS is divided into Mineral Resources
Investigations, Geologic Mapping, Water Resources, and Topographic
Mapping Revision. The Mineral Resources, Topographic Mapping, and
Water Resources programs are expected to be continuing operations.
The Geologic Mapping program, begun in 1960 in cooperation with the U.
S. Geological Survey, was expected to be completed in 12 years. In
1964, however, the schedule of appropriations was modified to extend
the completion date to 1978. At that time, the U.S. Survey is expected
to move its staff members now in Kentucky to another state for similar
work.

       Dr. Lewis W. Cochran recently said that the maps and reports
produced by KGS have resulted in great savings in the construction of
highways and buildings throughout the Commonwealth and consequently
have been of inestimable value to the state's economic development.
"We are proud of the Survey and its work. It is truly a public service
area in which Kentucky ranks among the nation's leaders and in which
the benefits to the State are quite large in proportion to the expen-
diture," he said.



22.   WOLFE COUNTY CHILDREN GET DENTAL TREATMENT

       By the end of the summer more than 1,000 disadvantaged children
in Wolfe county will have received total dental treatment through a
project administered by the Department of Pedodontics. Wolfe county
was selected for the program for several reasons: Lack of a full-time
dentist in the county created the greatest need; the county is a non-
fluoride area, which indicated a high level of tooth decay, and close
proximity to Lexington made the area convenient for dental students.
The upcoming fourth year dental students do the actual dental treatment.
Six dental trailers, furnished by the dental division of the State
Board of Health, are parked near the schools. The children either are
brought to the clinic by parents or friends, or the dental students
transport them from their homes. This is the last phase of a five-
year project conducted each summer during June and July. After the
summer program is completed, some of the dental students return to
Wolfe county six months later to examine patients needing follow-up
examinations.