Article discusses the creation of the Washington National Monument and the tribute stone placed by Cherokee, Chickasaw, Stockbridge, Creek, and Choctaw delegates at the completion of the memorial.

Article describes the agricultural programming the United States government promoted for Cheyenne and Arapaho lands in the late nineteenth century. William D. Pennington describes the attempt and ultimate failure of the policies in transforming nomadic groups into agrarian ones.

Article describes the beauty and history of Benson Park near Shawnee, Oklahoma. Kenneth R. Bain, Rob Phillips, and Paul D. Travis explore its attraction as a recreational area and the many leisure activities that were possible there until its eventual decline in the face of industry.

Article provides an account by Francena Lavinia Martin Sutton, one of a party of five women and three children who journeyed to Arkansas in the midst of the Civil War. Sutton relates struggles they faced on the road and interactions with Choctaws, who hosted them when they wandered into Indian Territory.

Article describes the process of establishing trade and general stores on the Indian Territory frontier, both by white settlers and Cherokees establishing themselves in their new lands. Duncan M. Aldrich discusses the history of business and entrepreneurship in Indian Territory.

For the Record section including the minutes of the quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on October 26, 1978. It also includes a gift list for the third quarter of 1978 and lists of new annual and new life members of the OHS.

Notes and Documents column including announcements about the selection of Native American art from the Oklahoma Historical Society collections, an art show being held, the induction of a new board member of the OHS, and the Canadian Association for American Studies 15th annual conference.

Article describes the history of military instruction of cadets at Oklahoma State University from 1891 to 1951. Philip Reed Rulon discusses curriculum, uniforms, and postwar training before World War I and World War II.

Article discusses the economic and political state of the Choctaw Nation during the Civil War. James F. Morgan investigates the incentives the United States government and Confederate States of America offered the Choctaws to illicit an alliance.

Article provides an overview of the political careers of the congressional committee chairmen from Oklahoma during the years of 1907 to 1937. Philip A. Grant, Jr. examines their role and impact in United States politics.

Article describes the history of Girl Scouting in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Lynda M. Sturdevant discusses the formation of the Girl Scout Council and the many volunteer projects carried out under their leadership, which included tree and flower planting, drives and projects, and making cookies for the troops during World War II.

Article describes the history of flood control in the Red River Valley after decades of damage caused by flooding in the region. James Ware focuses on the impact of the United States Army Corps of Engineers and their work to reduce this damage through projects and recommendations.

Article discusses the history of historic preservation in Oklahoma and the involvement of the Oklahoma Historical Society and the University of Oklahoma in establishing preservation projects, marking sites, and performing research about the historical significance of these sites.

The Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory has an unirradiated enriched uranium reprocessing facility. Various types of solutions are generated in this facility, including distillates and raffinates containing ppm of uranium and concentrated solutions with up to 400 grams U/t. In addition to uranyl nitrate and HNO{sub 3}, the solutions may also contain zirconium, niobium, fluoride, and small amounts of many metals. A uranium solution assay system (USAS) has been installed to allow accurate and more timely process control, accountability, and criticality data to be obtained. The USAS assays are made by a variety of techniques that depend upon state-of-the-art high-resolution Ge(Li) gamma-ray spectroscopy integrated with an interactive, user-oriented computer software package. Tight control of the system's performance is maintained by constantly monitoring the USAS status. Daily measurement control sequences are required, and the user is forced by the software to perform these sequences. Routine assays require 400 or 1000 seconds for a precision of 0.5% over the concentration range of 5--400 g/t. A comparison of the USAS precision and accuracy with that obtained by traditional destructive analytical chemistry techniques (colorimetric and volumetric) is presented.

A new type of electron-positron collider based on superconducting linacs is proposed. As in other schemes, the bunch energy is recovered by deceleration in the opposite linac, but the spent bunches are dumped after a single pass, thus avoiding many problems connected with their re-use. The needed low energy particles are produced by the monochromatic photons radiated coherently by the high energy bunches in a wiggler magnet before deceleration.

During the development of nuclear energy, a number of apparent anomalies have become evident in nuclear criticality. Some of these have appeared in the open literature and some have not. Yet, a naive extrapolation or application of existing data, without knowledge of the anomalies, could lead to potentially serious consequences. This report discusses several of these anomalies.

The technique of capture reaction studies of giant resonance properties is described, and a number of examples are given. Most of the recent work of interest has been in proton capture, in part because of the great utility (and availability) of polarized beams; most of the discussion concerns this reaction. Alpha capture, which has been a useful tool for exploring isoscalar E2 strength, and neutron capture are, however, also treated. 46 references, 14 figures. (RWR)

The computer program SEPHIS, developed to aid in determining optimum solvent extraction conditions for the reprocessing of nuclear power reactor fuels by the Purex method, is described. The program employs a combination of approximate mathematical equilibrium expressions and a transient, stagewise-process calculational method to allow stage and product-stream concentrations to be predicted with accuracy and reliability. The possible applications to inventory control for nuclear material safeguards, nuclear criticality analysis, and process analysis and control are of special interest. The method is also applicable to other counntercurrent liquid--liquid solvent extraction processes having known chemical kinetics, that may involve multiple solutes and are performed in conventional contacting equipment

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The procedure for fabrication of porous sintered-ceramic separators and the technical feasibility of using such separators in Li-Al/molten LiCl-KCl/FeS battery cells have been investigated. Processing techniques have been developed to fabricate ~1.5-2.5 mm thick, ~35-60% porous, flat, sintered Y{sub 2}O{ sub 3} and MgO separator plates with sufficient strength to allow handling prior to and during cell assembly. These separators performed successfully in laboratory-scale cells for up to ~2000 h and 283 cycles, indicating that the concept of a sintered separator is viable for Li-Al/FeS batteries. The particularly attractive features of these separators are potentially low cost, pre-fabricated form that allows easy cell assembly, and small pore size (average diameter 0.5-1.0 ~m) which provides good particle retention. The test results from the sintered-separator cells indicate that Y{sub 2}O{ sub 3} is probably unsuitable for long-term performance in Li-Al/FeS cells because of its reaction with the positive active material. This is in agreement with the recently reported data on cells with Y{sub 2}O{ sub 3} felt and powder separators. Sintered MgO separators, however, showed good chemical and mechanical stability in the cell environment. (auth)

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