NEWS NOTES.

This article presents various developments in the field of sociology. The next annual meeting of the American Public Health Association for selection of papers for the Medical Care Section program will be held during October 26-30, 1970, at Houston, Texas may submit their papers. The "Indian Journal of Sociology" is now being published twice a year by the Academic Journals of India, a nonprofit organization. Researcher Harold Capener and Jerry Stockdale are principal investigators for the "Paths Out of Poverty," a rural poverty project at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Two new research projects have been initiated in South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota. The first of these is a project dealing with recreation for the state of South Dakota, and the second is a project dealing with low-income families of the poverty program with special emphasis on the surplus commodities aspect of the program. A team in the Department of Rural Sociology, South Dakota State University are developing a team teaching approach to the introductory sociology course of the department.