| Summary: | Glacier Priest Scores Easy Chair Scientist. GLACIER PRIEST SCORES EASY CHAIR SCIENTISTS CAMP AGFA, Alaska, Aug.3. (/P)—Signaling a possible end to the extreme activity of the last few years1, of hundreds of volcanoes along the 1800-mile stretch of the Alaska peninsula and the Aleutian island chain, Father Bernard Hubbard, famed "glacier priest," reports them relatively quiet this summer, and expcts them to remain so. At the same time the renowned explorer takes issue with "plush-bottom chair" scientists who uphold the so-called "cycles theory" of volcanic activity. Complete Hard Trip. Father Hubbard and his party of rugged young scientists have recovered now from the hazardous trip to the Aghileen pinnacles, and within a few days will start for Unimak island. On the pinnacles trip they discovered a huge new volcano crater, larger than famed Aniakchak, hitherto regarded as the world's largest. Here in the Alaskan wilds, Father Hubbard took time out today to report observations made during the summer to date. "I do not look for any major eruptions Alaska peninsula or Aleutian volcanic chain," he said. "All of them are now quiescent, or moderately steaming, and none of them are violently eruptive." Attacks Lazy Theorists. As late as a year ago, the volcanoes were unusually active, being reported by many ships and isolated traders in the region, as well as by Father Hubbard on his annual Alaskan exploration trip last year. Such activity has been reported for several years. But Father Hubbard today took a stand against the "cycles theory." "My personal opinion is that on a plush-bottom chair, or in a laboratory, or among a group of arguing scientists, these cycles are very plausible and interesting, bui> out in the field in research work we find that volcanoes in general utterly disregard any such periods," he said.
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