Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "With the Oklahoma Hospitality Club bazaar just a few days away, Mrs. Ernest Daily, left; Mrs. C. E. Moody, center, and Mrs. John Bushnell gather up items to be sold."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Donna Hamil holds the high-point trophy she won riding Harlan Chief at Yukon in May."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Barry Hansen - the "doctor" who brought dementia to Oklahoma City radio listeners - put on a top hat and tails, laced up his black tennis shoes and breezed into town for a little Halloween madness."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Petite Christy Borelli, Continental Oil Co.'s first woman administrative trainee to work in an oil field, makes adjustments on an oil rig valve."

The program objective is to identify and evaluate a technique to remove hydrogen sulfide from geothermal steam before it is used for power generation. The last six months were spent in the literature search, sorbent preparation and evaluation, and construction of an experimental apparatus. Zn0, mentioned in the original proposal as a good candidate for H/sub 2/S adsorption, was verified as such by the literature search and laboratory experiments. However, regeneration of sulfided sorbent proved to be difficult. The interests were, then, switched to formulating sorbents made of mixtures of different kinds of metal oxides. At present, two sorbents were formulated which, when evaluated with a gas adsorption apparatus in the laboratory, possess better H/sub 2/S adsorption-regeneration capabilities than Zn0 or sorbents obtained from catalyst manufacturers. Large-scale gas adsorption equipment for use with simulated geothermal steam has been designed, built and shakedown operation of the equipment is in progress.

A tabulated summary is presented of the hazards and undesired events which may lead to system damage or failure or personnel injury or death in the ground handling, transport, launching, operation, re-entry, and impact of the Brayton Isotope Power System fuel source for spacecraft power supplies. (LCL)

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Two separate fires believed to be arson created a problem for Oklahoma City firemen at 8:15 a.m. today in the old Earl's, Inc., clothing store at 315 W Main."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE courtesy of a broken main at on Robinson in downtown OK City."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether article 5547-63, V.T.C.S., requires that testimony taken at commitment hearings be transcribed and forwarded to the mental hospital receiving the patient.

Progress is reported for a program to demonstrate by 1976 an experimental gas turbine powered automobile which meets the 1978 Federal Emissions Standards, has significantly improved fuel economy, and is competitive in performance, reliability, and potential manufacturing cost with the conventional piston engine powered, standard size American automobile. The endurance engine was modified to incorporate a power turbine drive to the regenerators in order to simulate free rotor (upgraded) conditions. A portable baseline engine fixture complete with controls, intake, exhaust, and transmission is being assembled for odor evaluation. An additional 502 engine hours were accumulated on ceramic regenerators and seals. No core or seal failures were experienced during engine test. Initial fixture tests of zirconia seals show torque levels comparable with nickle oxide seals against the same matrix. An ambient compensation schedule was devised for the upgraded engine integrated control, and the integrated control system specifications were updated. A proposed hydromechanical automotive continuously variable ratio transmission (CVT) was evaluated and approved for preliminary development. Tests of heat rejection to the oil for lined versus linerless insulated engine assemblies indicated no heat loss penalty in omitting the metal liners. A study was made of various power turbine rotor assemblies and a …

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The major effort in the high-energy nuclear chemistry program was the study of cross sections and kinematic properties of products formed from the interaction of 1- to 300-GeV protons with heavy- (Bi and U) and medium-mass (Cu, Ag) nuclei. The products studied ranged in mass from approximately 20 to that of the target nucleus. Except in the case of near-target product nuclei ($delta$A approximately 10 to 20), no substantial change in cross section or recoil properties was observed at 300 GeV from those measured at 11.5 GeV. New experiments are in progress to relate the production mechanisms of selected products to fundamental particle interactions and the production of exotic particles. Extensive preparations were made for another experiment to be performed soon at higher intensity on the search for polyneutron aggregates at the LAMPF Accelerator. Work is continuing on the use of stable isotope tracers (methane-20 and 21) for the study of long-range transport and diffusion phenomena in the atmosphere. A collaborative effort on the study of extraterrestrial objects (meteorites and lunar samples) is continuing. The work has involved correlations among trace and minor elements, the evolution of the lunar regolith, differentiation of lunar magmas, and a study of lunar agglutinates. …

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