The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, February 1, 1978-Page 3 " (AN Yi I ' irYM SEE NEWS HOM CALL WDA LY Chatter champ Rule number one of the sports promoter's Bible states that there is no event which can't have a national championship. And so now we hear of the national Citizens Band Radio championship, held yesterday in New York. A. Robert Merrill, a welfare administrator for the Mormon Church; outchatted five finalists to win a trip to London and $5,000 for personal appearances. Merrill was judged best at desribing a vegetable oil slick and ensuing traffic jam, and King Kong attacking the Empire State Building. Another finalist, Murrell Fassett is a radar technician at White Sands Missile Range, which brings to mind some interesting fantasies about F-111 convoys and good buddies in ICBM silos. " Papal Cadillac First they were worried about how to break the news to Pope Paul VI that his 1960 Cadillac might have a defective steering mechanism. Now there are other problems - no one knows where the vehicle is. The Pope's car, purchased by a group of Notre Dame alumni, has never been seen in Vatican City according to papal spokepersons. One official suggested the Pope may have given the car to a mission or had it scrapped. General Motors, however says, it will repair the car no matter where it shows up. The Pope now travels in a German-made Mercedes. Happenings ... . will keep you on the move today. WCBN (88.3 FM) continues its "New Wave Marathon" until 10 p.m. ... at noon take your choice of a brown bag lunch with the Ann Arbor Committee for Human Rights in Latin America in Suite D, third floor of the Michigan League or maybe a brown bag lunch at the International Center, featuring a talk on "Cheap Transportation Across the Atlantic," part of the European Travel Series ... or if you're not hungary, join in a demonstration against Project Seafarer at the Federal Building on Liberty St. ... take a break until 5 p.m. when the Society of Professional Journalists/SDX meets in the University Club .. at 7:30 The Spartacus Youth League will hold a workshop entitled "Why University Divestment Would Not Attack Apar- theid - The Revolutionary Strategy to Fight Apartheid" at 220 Tyler House, East Quad :.. at 8 Jean Fialka, director of Wayne County's Safe Teen Program will speak on sexuality at Common Ground, 1090 S. Adams, Birmingham ... also at 8, the Max Kade German House, Oxford Housing, presents the free film "Matias Kniessl" (with English subtitles) to end the day, "Destroy All Monsters" presents a free concert in the Union Ballroom at 9. Also, Child and Family Service of Washtenaw Coun- ty plans a "Marital Separation Group," beginning February 6. For in- formation contact Diane Farber, 971-6520. In his image Dennis Wise is a fan of the late Elvis Presley. Wise is so much of a fan, in fact, that yesterday he underwent plastic surgery in order to look just like the performer who died last August. Wise, 24, received dental work on his mouth last weekend to make his mouth resemble Presley's prior to the six hours of plastic surgery in Orlando, Fla., yesterday. Den- nis O'Day, his manager, said when Wise recovers he plans to form an Elvis imitation act, using his profits to build an Elvis Presley museum. On the Outside.. .. They may' as well leave the same tape on at Dial-the-Weather. Our fearless forecaster says once again it will be cold and partly cloudy with intermittan't snow flurries, little accumulation. Today's high will be 18*, low tonight 5°. Thursday is more of the same. This is a recording ... a recording ... a recording . AP Photo Flames, fed by continuously leaking gas, shoot through the snow around the wreckage of a house in Stoughton, Massachusetts, leveled by an explosion. Six persons were injured in the fire. DISCOVERY INSPIRES OUTER SPACE RESEARCH: Lie ound in Antarct ic rocks WASHINGTON (AP)-An abundance of life has been discovered inside rocks from a barren region of Antarctica-a surprising finding that could change the way scientists search for life on Mars. Discovery of microbes, algaes and fungi underneath the surface of certain rocks in Antarctica, one of earth's har- shest environments, significantly ex- tends the known limits of life on this planet and offers new hope that some form of life may exist on desolate neighboring worlds, scientists say. THE NATIONAL Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, co-sponsors of the Antartic research, announced the findings yesterday. Drs. E.Imre Friedmann and Roseli Ocampo-Friedmann, a husband-wife team of biologists from Florida State University at Tallahassee, found life in light-colored rocks from Antarctica's Dry Valleys region, a frigid, arid area mostly devoid of ice and snow. Similar, but more extreme, con- ditions were found on Mars by two American Viking spacecraft, which in 1976 searched unsuccessfully for con- clusive signs of microbial life. But the unmanned craft were not designed to crack open rocks and peek inside. DR. RICHARD Young, NASA's chief of planetary biology, said that if Mar- tian life exists only in the interior of rocks, "the design of the spacecraft would be influenced accordingly." "For example, we would search out specific rock types and design a sam- pler which can open such rocks and provide subsurface samples which can be examined for life forms and organic molecules," Young said. The Friedmann's have looked for life inside rocks for more than 15 years and earlier succeeded in finding living cells inside rocks from the desert areas of America, Asia and Africa. But we didn't know if this was widespread and common, or if it was a freak case," Friedmann said. In two subsequent expeditions to An- tarctica, the Friedmanns brought back 600 pounds of rocks and found that a dark, greenish layer of life existed in- side semi-transparent rocks where sunlight penetrates several millimeters deep. THE THIN, surface layer of rock not only traps heat and minute amounts of moisture but it also protects the organisms from the harsh outside en- vironment and filters out excessive solar radiation. Friedmann said he examined one life- bearing rock when the air temperature was about 14 degrees Fahrenheit and the rock surface about 82 degrees. At the layer of.life a quarter inch below the surface, it was 50 degrees, cozy for these types of organisms. During the winter, when tem- peratures drop to 60 below zero "and the wind-chill factor is incredible," he said, the life forms become dormant and wait for warmer periods to begin functioning again. FRIEDMANN SAID there is eviden- ce the Dry Valleys area once was more hospitable to life forms and probably suported surface life. But as condition- s worsened, organisms began to with- draw and seek places where they could live. "The only possibility of getting into the rocks was through accidental cracks," Friedmann said. "Once they got in, they could spread horizontally. "If Mars once had more water than now, and there is evidence it did, life could have formed. Mars is now a cold desert, but life could have withdrawn inside rocks," Friedmann said. Free Pocket Billiard&hibition Thursday, Feb. 2 at 4 and 8 pm. In Person JIM R EMPY Winner of 28 tournaments in the UNION BALL ROOM AO~' ~Aa5 PAS SA$" BAS~S 8E1ss 145 B!MAAS~8~ 0V '/) S The one... The only... The original - .- .R . .+! a. ( "44 ',D10090S The innovative and now famous casuals, created by Bass with tough leather uppers and bouncy sole of natural gum rubber that wears the Bass name proudly and leaves a fashion footprint wherever you go. Comfort, durability and great good looks . . . combined with shoe- making know-how and traditional craftsmanship. For MEN and WOMEN Daily Official Bulletin Wednesday, February 1, 1978 DAILY CALENDAR Educational Media: Open House, media exhibits, demrnstrations, SEB, 10a.m. Macromolecular Research Ctr.: New Develop- ments in the Understanding of Frakture Processes, 3203 Chem., 4 p.m. Industrial/Operations Eng.: Dr. Arnie Rosenthal, "Generalized Algorithms for Central Distribution Point Problems on Trees," 229.W.E., 4 p.m. Music School: Jelinek-Gurt Duo, Rackham Aud., 8 P.m. SUMMER PLACEMENT 3200 SAB - Phone 763-4117 Peoples Gas Light/Coke Co., Chicago, Ill. An- nounces summer intern program for students major- ing in engr., acct., computer science. Further details available. Camp Ohiyesa, Metro. YMCA. Will interview Mon., Feb. 6 from 1 to 5. Openings - cabin counse- lors, waterfront (WSI), tripping, unit director. Register in person or by phone. Camp Sea Gull, MI. Coed. Will interview Mon., Feb. 6 from 9 to 12 and 1-3:30. Openings include ten- nis, arts/crafts, nurse, gymnastics, guitar. 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