Collegian - 1964 July 17

              W B WESTERN WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE
Vol. LVI, No. 31 Bellingham, Washington Friday, July 17, 1964
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Westernife To
AlZabel, a graduate of West­ern,
will give an organ recital
as part of the Summer Arts Fes­tival
at 8:30 p. m., Sunday in
the College Auditorium.
Zabel's program will consist
of. the "Introduction and Toc-cota"
by Walond, "Prelude and
Fugue in A Minor" and "Sch-mucke
Dich, O Liebe Seele" both
by Bach, "Sinfonia; "Wir Danken
Dir, Gott"—Cantata. 29 by Bach
and six other pieces.
Zabel received his. BA in Edu­cation
here in 1957 and received
his Masters of Music from West­minster
College, Princeton, New
Jersey in 1962.
He holds the position of Min­ister
of Music at the Old Dutch
Reformed Church, Kingston, New
York.
At New York he directs a pro­gram
consisting of six choral
groups, three handbell choirs and
a brass ensemble.
Zable will also conduct two
seminars: the first at 9:50 a. m.
On Friday in Am-101 entitled
"Problems of Church Choir Or­ganization
and Planning."
The second seminar will be
held at 8:40 p. m. Monday in
AM-15 and will be entitled "The
Development of Church Music in
America."
The program is complimentary
and open to the public.
Candidates
To Speak Here
Three candidates aspiring for
political offices will be on cam­pus
next week. They are: Rich­ard
C. Christensen, Lloyd An­drews,
and Lloyd Meeds.
CHRISTENSEN, a Republican
gubernatorial candidate, will
speak at 2:30 p. m. Monday at
an informal faculty reception in
room 209 of the Viking Union.
ANDREWS will speak at 3:30
p. m. Tuesday, in the VU Lounge.
A. short question and answer
period will follow, Andrews is
a Republican candidate for the
U. S. Senate.
MEEDS will speak at 3:30 p.
m, Thursday, and will answer
questions following his talk.
Meeds is a Democratic candidate
for the U. S. Congress.
Society Stabbed
By M y Uncle
"My Uncle" will be shown at
8:30 p. m. tonight in the Audi­torium.
The art film is a Jacques T'ati
comedy stabbing at the mechaniz­ed
society and the appointment
book.
It is also a comical clash be­tween
the organized and dishevel­led
lives of a man and his broth­er-
in-law.
Admission is 65 cents for stu­dents
and $1 for non-students.
EVERYONE AT WESTERN has now felt an earthquake, but now
you're looking at one. The recording needle of the seismograph in
Haggard Hall jumped over four inches during the quake.
It Was 5.5 On
By Sue Weir and Dave Curls
Tuesday morning began like all r a i n y mornings at
Western .;. . s l o w and tired. At 8:50 a. m"., however,
Western and the. e n t i r e Whatcom County area was
shaken to life by an e a r t h q u a k e t h a t acted like a shot
of adrenalin.
Students all over the campus
scampered for shelter, the camp­us
switchboard was jammed with
calls and classes were disrupted
as chairs, tables.and desks shook
across the classroom.
AT HAGGARD HALL of Sci­ence,
red lights in the hallways
came on announcing the ap­proaching
quake which sent sci­ence
students running for the
seismograph on display in the
foyer.
Almost before the quake was
over, Dr. Robert Christman, head
of the Geology Department, was
tied to his phone comparing data
on the quake with Norman Ras-musson,
seismologist at the Uni-
Copies of the seismograph's
recording, of Tuesday's, earth­quake
may be' purchased for
10c in rooms H140 or H134
of Haggard Hall.
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THE SEISMOGRAPH on display in the foyer of Haggard Hall was a center of attraction Tuesday
after the earthquake. Pictured from left are Ron Peters, junior industrial arts major, Ed Wright,
attending the NSF Math Institute, Derrell Simpson, senior industrial arts major, and Bill Caster,
junior ..education major. •• ' -
Pretty Holy Place
$250 Granted T© Repair Cabin
Kulshan Cabin was first on the
agenda again at Monday's Sum­mer
Board of Control meeting
and the $250 request for its ren­ovation
was granted.
Orest Khrulak, chairman, and
Mr. Richard Reynolds, director
of student activities, went up to
the cabin last weekend to ascer­tain
the amount of work that
needed to be done. They were
both very satisfied with what
they found.
"I personally felt that the orgi-inal
reports were gloomy," Rey­nolds
said, "and after seeing the
cabin myself, I feel that it is
worth saying and preserving—not
only for Western students, but
as a service to other groups
around the state."
The main prerequisites are to
make the cabin safe and com­fortable.
It needs two fire escape
ladders and also a new stove.
At present, there are large
holes and gaps in the roof, walls
and'floor.
"We will have to put caulking
in the walls and floor and
either add a new roof, or thor­oughly
patch the present { one.
Also,' a skirt should be built
around. the building. to prevent
the wind from blowing through,"
he said. He added that the ad­dition
of shutters to the windows
would preserve the glass.
Tarps will also have to be re?
placed on the cots and bunks, as
the present ones are rotted
through.
The board stipulated, however,
that the Mount Baker Hiking Club
should either put funds into the
cabin, or else drop from the main­tenance
agreement that it present­ly
holds with the college.
versity of 'Washington and notify­ing
the results of their seismo
graphs to the press, radio, tele­vision
and police of the area.
Christman said Rasmusson had
placed the intensity of the quake
at 5.5 on the Richter scale. The.
logrithmic scale measures the
amount of energy released witti
its maximum intensity at ten.
"After the data are re-examin­ed,
the earthquake may be placed
lower on the scale at about 4 or
4.5," Christman said.
"In general, 1.5 is the smallest
felt earthquake, 4.5 causes slight
damage near the epicenter, 6 is
destructive over a restricted area,
and 7.5 represents the lower limit
of major earthquakes," Christ-man
explained.
The Alaskan earthquake was 8.5
on the Richter scale.
"Our record shows one sharp
shock beginning at about 8:50 and
continued movement lasting less
than five minutes," Christman
said. "Movements following the
Alaskan earthquake lasted sever­al
hours."
. "The quake was only a mild
one," Christman assured. "It
wasn't felt at Seattle or Van­couver,
B. C, and only slightly
felt at Everett and Victoria, B. C.
According to statistics compiled
at the U of W, the epicenter
was located somewhere between
Bellingham, and the Canadian
border—possibly close to Blaine.
Western was still so close to
the quake, however, that Dr.
Christman was unable to distin­guish
between the quake's pri­mary
and secondary shocks that
were recorded on the. three rer
cording graphs.
One of" the seismograms is
posted in the glass case near
H 140 and H 143.
The quake brought many dif­ferent
responses from students on
campus. Many did not immedi­ately
recognize that the shaking
going on was an earthquake.
SANDY STROM, senior English
major, was lying in bed sleeping
when the quake struck.
"I thought it was the old lady
downstairs banging on the ceiling
with a broom," she said. "Then
I thought 'Anchorage' and jumped
out of the bed to make sure I
wasn't being swallowed up by a
big crevass.
DENNIS DONOVAN, junior
physical education major, was in
Carver Gymnasium at the time of
the quake.
"At first I thought it was some­thing
upstairs, but that was illog­ical
because there is no upstairs/'
he reflected. "That's the first
quake I can ever remember—it
kind of shook me up." ,