Miami Hurricane, July 29, 1955

              Miami
Hurricane
Volume XXX
I niversity ov Miwii, Corai. (Jabi.es, Fi.*.. Ji iv 2*>. I«r>.r>
No. SQ
Top Radar Authorities To Teach
New Meteorology Course At UM
'Ihey are simple, yet so nice to
see."
Photo by Schulk*
EXAMINING POTATOES processed al South Campus tropical food
laboratory is N. V. R. Iyengar, left, food scientist from Mysore, India,
who is spending two weeks here studying tropical foods. Dr. Arthur
Stahl. laboratory director, shows thc visitor some of the latest products.
Indian Scientist Visits Campus
For 2-Week Research Program
A scientist from the other side of the world has found a
great similarity between Miami and his homeland, India.
N. V. R. Iyengar is touring the U.S. on a fellowship of the
Food  and   Agriculture  organization-f
of the United Nations. He has been
at   the   University's   South   Campus
for  two  weeks  studying  tropical      Iyengar   reports   he   has   learned
foods with Dr. Arthur Stahl, director  quite   a   bit   about   packaging   from
of the tropical  food research  labo-  the South Campus laboratories,
ratory. "Wc do not have frozen foods in
"When I see the coconut palm, the lndiH yet," he said. "The refrigera-
inango and guava trees, I am re- tion industry is still in its infancy,
minded of India," Iyengar said. "Al- Electricity is available in almost all
so the sapote, lychee and avocado the towns, but is used at the present
are  very   popular  and  the  papaya only for lighting and fans."
For cooking, the Indians use fuel
such as charcoal and coke. Bombay
is the only city in India with a gas
generating  plant, and  therefore  the
j only city using gas to cook.
At the Central  Institute, Iyengar
said, there has been much work done
on canning of tropical fruits. They
have also made mango into a pow-
Hc is the Scientific officer in the der which is use°" f°r making mango
Central Food Technological Research  Juice'
Institute in Mysore, India. This lab-      Iyengar looks toward food research
oratory is set up by the government as an aid in India's great drive to-
of India and is responsible for re-  ward  progress,  increased  health
search in food processing and pro-  standards and self-sufficiency,
duction of new foods. "India is a huge country," Iyengar
The institute is setting up a pack- "-aid. "Not all of our great abundance
aging division and Iyengar has been of fruit has been used to good ad-
proposed as head of the new branch, vantage. We must use wisely our
He is spending about a year study- natural resources of food and then
ing  packaging  in   the   U.S.,   Great we shall progress."
Britian and Europe. 	
Iyengar objects to the idea that
India is becoming "westernized."
"India has made a great progress
toward self-sufficiency and modern
ways of living. It is not an imitation
is practically our national fruit."
Iyengar pointed out other similarities of thc two countries, and
how pleasant it was for him to
find it so. "The customs and manners are yours and mine. There
is not much of formality. Thc
Indians like thc Americans, are
very free."
of the West.
"And when people say that 'millions are starving in India,' they
have the wrong idea. If there have
heen people starving, it is not from
lark of food, but from lack of nutrition.
"India is striving mightily—and
with success—to increase the nutritional standards."
Deadlines Set
For Veterans
World War II veterans have one
year from July 25 to complete GI
training and two years to apply for
GI loans, according to V. S. Parker,
manager of the Miami VA office.
July 25, 1956, marks the end of
the education program for most
World War II veterans now in training under the original GI bill.
Training payments to schools and
veterans will stop on that date even
Williams Returns
From Middle East
Dr.  H.  Franklin  Williams, vice
president of UM, will  be welcomed
home next Thursday at a reception
at San Sehastian Residence Hall. Dr.
Williams  recently  returned  from  a
tour of the Middle East.
"There   was   no   hostility   towards
us,   but   in   the   Arabian   countries
there seemed to be a feeling of resentment   toward   the   U.S.   because
they   feel   that   we   have   sponsored
Israel and given them aid." said Dr
Williams.
The   vice   president  and   his  wife
toured Egypt. Lebanon, Syria, Jordan,   Israel,   Turkey,   Greece   and
Italy with I group
of   24   Americans
to study economic
conditions.
The tour, spon-
j^    Tge   ■ • sored   by   the  A-
^A*^v%*__f' merican Christian-
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^■"^■™      ^r^m*m*lvc,   lasted   from
Dr. Williams     june n to Aug. 1.
Ministers, journalists, university
officials, club women and a public
relations man made up thc group
of 24.
Purpose of the five-week study
tour was to bring up-to-date information from the Middle East to this
country.
Aside from discussions and interviews with officials of the various
countries, Dr. and Mrs. Williams
visited a UM student living in Bethlehem, attended a Greek play in
the ancient theater of Herodes At-
ticus, and made several sightseeing
tours.
They also made a short trip on
camel to the pyramids in Egypt, and
took part in many other special
sightseeing tours through the eight
nations.
♦ How to read the weather by radar will be taught Meteorologists, flight supervisors and pilots in a 12-week course offered
by the UM Evening Division starting in October.
The course will be on a regular
basis for the first lime in the United
States, according to UM officials.
Labeled  Oceanography — A-461 —
Radar  Meteorology, the course will
be taught jointly by two top author-
Iitiea in the field: Rear Admiral Wil-
1,'in   I.  Freseman,  U.S.N,   (retired).
I who   is  director  of  the  university's
radar  research  laboratory, and Homer  W.  Hiser,  radar  meteorologist,
I formerly of the  University  of Chicago, who has conducted weather re-
eardl in many parts of the world.
Freseman, an electrical engineer,
will   t<acli   thc  fundamental  prin-
t'ples   of   radar,   and   Hiser   will
I'ivc   practical   instruction   in   the
determination, use and timilations
of   radar   meteorology.
The   course   will   include  sessions
i in  the  UM  radar  laboratory  in  the
tower of the Merrick building. There
I hey   will   be   familiarized   with   the
powerful   radar  equipment—it!  operation. Interpretation of images on
| the  scope,  automatic  photographing
ol   radar  patterns.   Weather   data
picked up by this laboratory is daily
ommunicated  to  the  Weather Bu-
I reau   here  and  to  airline  operators
I of this area. During periods of hur-
| ricane "alert", this station is manned
124 hours a day by Admiral Freseman and his staff.
Prof. Hiser said that the prereq- ! graduate of Washington University
I uisite for students admitted to the iin,i u of Illinois, where he received
[ course is the University's Geography ,lis Ms-. hc was assistant in typhoon
211 course in meteorology or the research of the U. of Chicago on
I equivalent of meteorological instruc- Midway island, did radar weather
J tion in pilots' ground training. The "(search for the Illinois Water Sur-
iourse will carry three academic *— project and has been a weather
credits. It will be taught Tuesday forecaster for the Navy,
and Thursday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. 	
for 12 weeks jbq Committee Meets
It is anticipated there will be about The   Constitution   committee   met
■30 in the class. Prof Hiser said that Wednesday   night,   according   to
many   commercial   pilots  are   inter- Charles Liebman, chairman,
ested   in  the  course,  because  many Plans were made for revising the
airlines  arc   now   equipping  their SBG   constitution.   A   committee   is
planes   with   radar   for  scanning also   working   on   revisions   of   the
Weather or  land  obstacles  ahead. election  rules, said Liebman
Homer W. Hiser
The radar meteorology course
will he part of Embry-Riddlc's
liusiness pilot course, in which
I'M cooperates through its Aviation Administration curriculum of
the school of business administration.
Professor Hiser joined UM on
March 1, as assistant research
professor   with   the   Marine   lab.  A
Iyengar  speaks  excellent English  though a veteran may still have un-
and is a Fellow of the Royal Insti
tute of Chemistry in England.
He has a bachelor's and a master's degree in science from Central
college in Bangalore, and is an associate of the Indian Institute of
Science in the same city.
used training entitlement or be in
the middle of a course.
The loan program has two more
years to run, coming to nn end
for practically all World War II
veterans July 25, 1957.
The ex-Gl's exempted from these
He has been in England for four  two deadlines are those who enlist-
months before coming to this coun-  ed or re.eniisted under the Arraed
try for study. In September he will  Forces   voluntary   recruitment   act
return to England and  then  travel  between   Qct.   6,   1945,  and   Oct.  5,
1946. These veterans have nine years
from the end of their enlistment or
re-enlistment to finish training and
ten years to apply for GI loans.
More than 90 per cent of the loans
were   for   the   purchase   of   homes.
- I Business  loans totalled 220,000 and ,
'Seventeen' Next At Ring | farm loans numbered 67,000.
The  Ring  Theater  will  open   its'    More  than  half of all  men  who
fall season with the presentation of served   in   World   War  II   received
"Seventeen,"  a  musical   version  of some sort of education or training
the novel by Booth Tarkington. under the GI Bill since 1944.
Fred Koch, chairman of the Drama      Only about 138,000 World War II
department, is tentatively slated as  veterans are still  in training under I
director. the original bill.
"Thc University of Miami is a
grand, wonderful and palatial university," Iyengar said. He thumbed through his diary and read an
entry' about the campus buildings:
AT HOME in their new offices in the Ashe Memorial
Building arc Veteran's Business oHire personnel,
front tn rear, Lucile Faul. Alice Brower and Eleanor
Palmer. The new offices, on thc ground floor of thc
Photo by Glann
Ashe Building, provide modem facilities for thc
busy department. Formerly, the Veteran's Business
offices were located on the second floor of thc Administration building.