1 ,AUGUST 5, 1964 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE' Scientists Attack Water Pollution River a few miles east of the University campus. It is on the grounds of the Ann Arbor waste- water treatment plant. With electric pumps feeding water from the Huron into the ar- tificial creek, researchers can pump up to 450 gallons of water a minute through the river's length. The long-range goal of the ex- periments is to find out precisely how rivers rid themselves of their organic wastes. The immediate target is to unlock the secrets of. Sphaerotilus natans, an unusual bacteria which creates damaging slime formations that float on and clog rivers throughout the world. The organism, though present in almosttall rivers, has in the past proved almost impervious to scien- tific efforts. If the researchers succeed in their attempts to find the nature of the organism and discover ways to control it in its slime-forming activities, their work could bear two important results, the scien- tists say. First, if the slime-forming or- ganism were controlled, many rivers now hostile to fish life would be open to it. This is be- cause the slime. covering on rivers often uses most of the water's oxygen, depriving the fish of the oxygen they need to survive. If it were to be removed, the fish would have much less competition for the oxygen. This would lead to a second ad- vantage. If slime on rivers carry- ing industrial waste could be con- trolled, the rivers could carry per- haps twice as much waste as they do now without harm to the life in the river. Communities trying to attract new industries would benefit from this, for interested industries would see ways of dis- posing of larger amounts of waste without harming local rivers. Despite their ambitious goal of discovering controls for a princi- pal cause of river slime, the health school experiments would be but a small part of any proposed over- all attack on the nation's pollu- tion problems, Prof. John Gannon, director of the project's field crew, explains. He notes that the health school experiments are studying organic pollution-widespread loss of water oxygen-which is but one of the three major types of pollution. And the organism which is the. subject of the experiment is but one of hundreds which have a part in causing organic pollution. The other two types of pollu- tion are bacterial pollution-that which makes water unfit to drink but leaves it safe for most fish- and radioactive pollution. The present experiment has roots going back over a year. The United States Department of Pub- lic Health gave the health school a five-year grant for the study in NEGRO YOUTH LACK MODEL Noar Sees Idenity Problem Lack of an adequate male modelsP l both at home and at school drives she explained. "But you have to known stability and they many lower class Negroes into look at the fact that in slavery know it here. The pattern of gang life, Gertrude Noar, director Negroes were not permitted to riage is serial monogamy. of the Anti-Defamation League, organize stable families. Very often man moves out for one or ar said at the Universito esterda the slave owner would not permit reason, and another man in iy ye y, them to marry. Families that were moves in. With schools being more rapidly formed, even with marriage, were integrated as a result of the pas- broken up at the will of the slave "The children of these cor sage of the civil rights bill, teach- owner who had no regard for the law marriages often do not ers will need more understanding sanctity of marriage. The father which man is their father. of the pattern of life of the very might be sold in one direction, the produces, especially in adolesi poor American Negro, Miss Noar wife in another, and the children confusion with regard to ide said. in another. The children will often tak "Since these children often come Stability name of the man who happe from broken homes, teachers have "The Negro families that are be living at home at the time the feeling that the Negro home coming up from the South to the police call this taking an has failed in moral responsibility," big northern cities have never But an alias is an attem __ escape identity; these childre -- trying to establish identity. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETI N "The women who support transient husbands and a The Daily Official Bulletin is an public health, ed., or rel. field, & official publication of the Univer- yrs. professional exp. comm. organ, sity of Michigan for which The dev. of related ed. materials, or related Michigan Daily assumes no editorial work. responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room Eaton Manufacturing Co., Cleveland, 3564 Administration Building before Ohio-Tech. Mkt. 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Odiorne of the business admin- istration school has been chosen as the selection of the month by the Business Leader's Book Club of New York. Originally published in 1961, the book, "How Managers Make Things Happen," is now in its fifth domestic printing. It has been published in several foreign languages. Cited by the book club board as "a new concept of management in action," the book draws a sharp distinction between administrators -"those who watch what goes on and react to others' behavior"- and mianagers, who provide a more compelling leadership function- "those who decide that something should happen, and cause it to occur." Odiorne proposes that there is an oversupply of the former and a serious shortage of the latter. THE ROAD TO STYLE LEADS TO TODD'S! EV ,Sr NEVER NDS "Take note college men! Here's the Wash fl~ ~//' nWear slack that never 98 needs ironing . just wash . . dry and wear. 6"l le t-r~s eas they sta pessd.They lock like they just came from the pres. sers. Point Two _, ..they're style slim and tapered with frontier' pockets and continental waist. Choice of Black, Olive or Tan. Also available in ivy styling with belt loops. -Daily-Kamalakar Rao A RESEARCHER checks the rate of flow, using a spinning-cup mechanism, in the 200 foot long artificial creek scientists at the public health school have built beside the Huron River near the campus. The purpose of the experiment is to find methods of controlling a slime-forming organism present in most of the nation's rivers and a cause of much water pollution. 1963. In March, the experimenters built a 15-foot long river inside a laboratory at the public health school. To learn what makes the slime organism thrive, they began feeding it controlled amounts of nutrients. After weeks of juggling minute amounts of phosphorus, nitrogen and carbohydrates, they found the right combination. Long, colorless' strands of the organism began forming in the artificial creek. Assembling the various nutrients which had finally caused the bac- teria to grow, the researchers made a startling discovery-the Across Campus The University Players and the music school will premier Daniel Auber's "Fra Diavolo" in Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre today at 8 p.m. Josef Blatt is music director and Ralph Herbert stage director. Stanley Quartet ... The Stanley Quartet will per- form in Rackham Lecture Hall to- day at 8:30 p.m. The group fea- tures Gilbert Ross, violin, Gustave Rosseels, violin, Robert Courte, viola, and Jerome Jelinek, cello. BOOK.Sale*. A book sale will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today on the fourth floor of the UGLI. The combination was just like molas- ses. So they bought a barrel of mo- lasses. They have been using the molas- ses since then to grow the slime organism. They moved their ex- periment to the field shortly after the discovery, after figuring out how to construct the new, much longer artificial creek. On? of the experimental de- vices is the fluorometer, which they use to measure the rate of flow in the artificial creek. Mi- nute amounts of fluorescent dye are put into the water at the in- flow point, and the fluorometer reacts when the dye passes it. During the coming weeks, the experimenters will keep adjusting their river until they achieve the correct flow-rate and channel configuration for their purposes. Then they will start feeding in very small amounts of the molas- ses, and begin accumulating in- formation on the growth and de- struction of the slime formations. They plan to continue their ac- tivities beside the Huron River for about a year, but will dismantle the apparatus when the tempera- MARK 0A M Zindell Oldsmobile Inc. 907 N. Main St. Ann Arbor-NO 3-0507 ture begins to fall below freezing in October. They have materials sufficient to lengthen the creek to over 600 feet, but have as yet made no plans to do so.. 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