594 School Science and Mathematics

SEATTLE PACIFIC COLLEGE, Seattle 98119. Dr. Ross Shaw, Department ofZoology. Biological Science. (Classes to be held in Seattle at the Pacific ScienceCenter.) (E 35)

Wisconsin

WISCONSIN STATE UNIVERSITY, Superior 54881. Dr. Phillip R. Brieske,Department of Physics. Physics. (E 30)

PRELIMINARY NOTICE OF THE 1967 ELECTION OFOFFICERS AND DIRECTORS OF CASMT

In accordance with the Constitution and By-Laws, an opportunity is providedthe members of CASMT to have a voice in suggesting names to the NOMINAT-ING COMMITTEE for potential officers and for members for the Board ofDirectors. The election will be held March 15-April 15, 1967. Your participationnow is invited.

Qualifications for President and Yice-President: Nominees for the offices ofPresident and Vice-President must have been officers and/or members of theBoard of Directors. Preference shall be given to those persons who have servedwithin the past five years (Art. Ill, Sec. 2, CASMT By-Laws).

Qualifications/or Member of the Board of Directors: A nominee for the Board ofDirectors shall have a minimum of three years continuous membership im-mediately prior to nomination. (Bd. Action, April 1963).

In sending the names of your nominees, specify the office and give a very briefevaluation of the person(s) named. Mail to any member of the NominatingCommittee shown below.Brother Norbert, Holy Trinity High School, 1443 W. Division St., Chicago,

Illinois 60622Joseph J. Urbancek, 1112 Grant Street, Evanston, IllinoisMilton 0. Pella, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WisconsinH. Vernon Price, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IowaLouis Panush, Chairman, Western High School, 1500 Scotten, Detroit, Michigan

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NEW DISEASE COMPOUNDS WOE OF SOFT COAL MINERSAs though soft coal miners did not have enough to worry about with pneu-

monoconiosis and unemployment, an Appalachian pathologist and a PublicHealth Service (PHS) researcher have uncovered a "previously unrecognized,pernicious vascular disease that appears to be present in the lungs of a largenumber."

Researchers at the Appalachian Regional Hospital, Beckley, W. Va., ingathering data on 500 living and 300 dead soft coal miners found evidence indi-cating early involvement of the pulmonary blood vessels, causing high bloodpressure in the lungs.

Dr. Werner A. Laqueur, chief of pathology at the hospital, and Dr. Haway A.Wells, chief of the Beckley research unit of the division of occupational health,PHS, gave these findings in their first official cooperative report on a study ofcoal workers’ chest diseases being made at the hospital.

Their findings necessitated studies on the heart in dead miners. Forty per centof 150 unselected soft coal miners dying from all causes were shown to havedefinite enlargement of the right side of the heart, which circulates blood throughthe lungs. In 33% of the miners, the hearts were required to do more work thanthey were able to perform, leading to heart failure and death.The common occurrence of high blood pressure in the lungs early in the disease,

and the extremely high incidence of heart strain and failure at the end of theprocess suggests that a primary vascular lesion is the first symptom of a seriousand progressive disease among soft coal miners.