Show I Manager Tells Rotary Ab Abut About ut Observatory Steve Alsup manager of Uintah Basin Dasin Seismological Observatory disclosed the activities of the installation at Vernal Rotary Club Thurs Thurs- Thursday day of last week Mr Alsup said that the Geneva convention in 1958 1956 m methods to monitor nuclear tests during a test ban treaty liE SAID that the develop ment was named Project VELA and experiments in underground testing such as asare asare are being carried out in the local observatory are named Project VELA Uniform The observatory ments keep a hour 24 a day record and the staff is on duty 12 hours per day Data is tel tel- telegraphed dally daily to a program center New types of instruments are arc being tested the manager explained MR ALSUP in response to toa toa a question said that earth movement waves can be pick td ed up even it if they travel all the way around the earth Sometimes a tremor is felt as asit asit it around the earth five times he said The observatory encounters a little difficulty due to blast ing at Copper in Salt Lake City Mr Alsup disclosed The Western US Was chos chosen en as the site for an observatory tory as it Is a seismic area orea or has many earthquakes DAILY LETTERS of mation are exchanged with 50 other observatories he said There were no or warning tremors prior to the Alaska earthquake as there usually is he said Small quakes are recorded daily on the Wasatch front A Rotary installation party will wUl be held Saturday June 20 which will take the place of the regular meeting President dent Dayl J Webb announced cd ed P PRESIDENT Webb announced ced that the club will clean cleanup cleanup up a section of town as soon as school is out Ray E Nash presented Ed Ed- Eddie die Oaks the Junior Rotarian I for the month of May with a framed Way 4 Test lIe He has been named the ou outstanding standing baseball player of the year at atI Uintah High School C O 0 Williams of State Col Col- College IC I lege Pennsylvania was a visiting Rotarian |