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6. GEOGRAPHERS HAVE SUCCESSFUL MEETING

    Dr. P. P. Karan, Department of Geography chairman, reports a suc-
cessful district meeting held in Lexington, and hosted by the depart-
ment.  The geographers--members of the Associsdon of American Geo-
graphers Southeast Division--read numerous papers at the convention
held November 22-23, and prior to the meetings they were taken on an
all-day tour of the Blue Grass, at which time they visited rural Negro
hamlets, studied pollution problems, urbanization of the horse farms,
and new industrial locations. The tour was arranged for the geographers
by Prof. Karl Raitz of the geography department. The Fayette County
Geographical Society, in collaboration with the geography department,
published an 84-page tour guide of the Blue Grass for the visiting
geographers. The convention dealt with a wide range of matters, such
as drought perception, plantation agriculture, urban gardening, Black
community, air pollution and respiratory deaths, highway environmental
impact, analysis of work trips, models of inter-city automobile travel,
political participation in Latin America, origin and diffusion of the
parking meter, log houses in Mexico, geography of human hair, and a
political geography of the U.S. in the year 2r000.



7. SERVICE TO SMALL BUSINESS EXPANDED

    A former advertising executive and business manager has been named
by the Office of Business Development and Government Services to assist
small business firms in 18 Kentucky counties. James M. Miller, Dan-
ville, has been assigned to help businessmen in Bell, Harlan, Knox,
Laurel, Whitley, Clay, Jackson, Rockcastle, Casey, Green, Taylor, Adair,
Russell, Pulaski, Cumberland, Clinton, Wayne and McCreary counties.
The appointee formerly was president of Beaumont Inn Foods, Inc.,
Harrodsburg, vice president of Staples Advertising Co., Louisville,
advertising manager of Federal Chemical Corp., Louisville, and assis-
tant manager of the industrial department of Peaslee-Gaulbert Corp.,
also of Louisville. Hie is a graduate of Northwestern University, with
a degree in economics, and has completed additional work in management
development at the University of Louisville. Consultation is available
to small business firms without charge on quality control, engineering,
management controls, finances, taxes and other specialized fields of
management. Where extended study is required and agreed upon, the
businessman will be advised of any charge before the work is undertaken.



8. ADVISORS VISIT PHYSICS DEPARTMENT

    An advisory council, whose members represent various industrial
organizations, visited the Department of Physics on November 12. Dr.
Ben Gossick, department chairman, said the council toured the facili-
ties, met with students and faculty, and were briefed on curriculum
and research. After returning home, the advisors will prepare recom-
mendations on how the department might improve to keep in step with
the needs of industrial firms that hire physicists, Dr. Gossick said.