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VOLUME 12

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1934
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NUMBER 116

Washington, Friday, June 13, 1947
TITLE 5 ADMINISTRATIVE
PERSONNEL

natural occurrence of the raw materials used in many of the other sciences and in a variety of industrial processes. New deposits of coal, oil, gas, the metallic ores, Chapter ICivil Service the,rare earths, radioactive substances, Commission and. the other minerals of economic im P art 24F ormal E ducation R equire portance are all located, studied, mapped, ments F or A ppointment to Certain and evaluated by geologists. No longer S cientific, T echnical, and P rofes can we expect many valuable deposits to sional P ositions be stumbled upon by scientifically un trained prospectors. It is to the trained GEOLOGIST POSITIONS
geologist, well versed in the principles, Section 24.47 is hereby added to the not only of geology, but also of the allied regulations in this part.
sciences, and using the latest knowledge, 24.47 Geologist positions involving techniques and instruments, that we highly complicated or fundamental sci must turn for help in wresting from the entific research or similar difficult scien earth the materials which lie hidden be tific duties a Educational require neath her surface/
Geology is concerned with much more ment. For geologist positions involving highly complicated or fundamental sci than the discovery and extraction of entific research or similar difficult sci mineral wealth. A knowledge of its entific duties certification may be re principles is vital to the successful build stricted to those eligibles who show the ing of dams, bridges, and other struc successful completion of a four-year tures, and also to the protecting and course leading to a bachelors degree in conserving of our agricultural soil and a college or university of recognizedour water supplies.
In addition, geology has the philo standing, including or supplemented by 30 semester hours of geology.
sophical objective o f adding to the sum b Duties. These positions requiring of human knowledge by producing as the successful completion of four years of complete a history of the earth as pos college or university training in geology sible. This knowledge, contained in the geologic fields or stratigraphy, paleon are characterized as follows:
Critical investigative work, requiring a tology, petrology, structural geology, sound knowledge of th e. fundamental sedimentation, geomorphology, glaciol laws, theories, principles, terminology ogy, and vulcanology, has been derived and literature of geology and related sci largely, and will continue to be derived ences and having for its objective the largely, by geologists in government discovery of new facts, thé development service, both state and Federal. The of new theories or principles, or new quality and quantity of results obtained interpretation of known facts, leading to through geologic research is commen a revision of accepted theories and laws. surate with the knowledge and training The application in new ways of known of the men engaged. With the store of complex scientific laws and facts in the information accumulated not only in the various fields of geology but also in solution of difficult geologic problems.
The. coordination, as a project leader, the related sciences growing steadily of a broad research program requiring larger, it becomes more and more im the combined efforts of several special perative that the professional geologist ists in different scientific fields. The have the broad background of knowledge leader of such a program must have an that can be acquired only through the understanding of the scientific principles, successful completion of a large num procedures and potentialities of the sci ber of formal courses in geology.
Private industry engaged in geological entific fields involved and the ability to coordinate the activities of the various work has long recognized the necessity specialists.
for broadly trained men well rounded in c Knowledge and training requisite the fundamentals of the science for fill for performance of duties. In the steady ing professional positions. .They are re advance of scientific knowledge, geology quired to have education represented has played a prominent role, and of ne by at least the attainment of a bachelors cessity it must keep pace with the other degree in geology. The Federal Govemsciences for it is concerned with the Continued on p. 3857

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Agriculture Department
Notices:
Denver Union Stock Yard Co., petition for modification____
Proposed rule making:
Milk handling in Cincinnati, Ohio, area-------------------------Peas, fresh, and cauliflower in Colorado--------------------------Tobacco, Burley and flue-cured;
establishment of farm acreage allotments and normal yields for 1948-49 marketing year__
Rules and regulations:
Milk handling in New York met ropolitan area__________ l__
Plums in California; grades and sizes _----------

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Alien Property, Office of
Notices:
Vesting orders, etc.:
Dambach, Mary____________
Dambach, Mary Arpten_____
Fuess, R---------------Heurtann, L., &Co., Inc_____
Nakamura, Sunaye_________
Pacific Soda Works, Ltd., et al_
Rieck, August____ _________
Rist, Adolf-----------------------Rummel, Dr. Hans__________
Toyoda, Heisaku______ _
Toyoda, Tsuruye, et al_____ _
Umemoto, Akira, et al____ _

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Civil Aeronautics Board
Notices:
Hearings, etc.:
Accident near. Bainbridge, M d-------------------------- ----- 3868
-Cohu, La Motte T________ _
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Civil Service Commission
Rules and regulations:
Formal education requirements for appointment to certain scientific, technical, and pro fessional positions; geologist. 3855
Civilian Production Administra tion
Rules and regulations;
Housing. See Housing Expe diter, Office of.
Federal Power Commission
Notices:
Hearings, etc.:
Citiés Service Gas Co______ 3874
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