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University Daily Kansan Friday. December 1, 1961
1959 Fallout Level May Not Be Equaled Despite Tests
An expert on radioactive fallout last night said that fallout from recent tests by the Soviet Union of super-megaton nuclear weapons will not appreciably increase immediate fallout.
Edward A. Martell of the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories made that observation at the end of a lecture at Summerfield Hall sponsored by Sigma Xi.
MR. MARTELL, WHO HAS been active in radioactive fallout research for more than 10 years, went through an elaborate and technical description of what happens to radioactive
particles in various levels of the stratosphere as a preliminary to his concluding remark.
He noted that it was the belief of many persons that the Russian tests in the upper atmosphere, involving at least two explosions in the supermegaton range, would produce an immediate or short-range increase of radioactive particles showering the earth.
"MY OWN BELIEF is that we will experience a level of fallout about equal to or less than 1959," the government scientist said.
He predicated his statement on
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asked. Karen Wright, Salina senior, president of Chi Omega, had placed the call at 11:20.
At 11:21, Chi Omega decided to change phones. When Bennington hung up, several queries of "Are they going to do it?" were tossed at him.
"They're going to do it," Bennington said.
At 11:26, the official call starting the telethon came into Carruth-O'Leary.
"Hello. Yeah, we're ready," Bennington said. "This ought to be real interesting."
At the Chi-Omega house, about 15 girls were packed into a small third floor room. They huddled around the telephone, carefully avoiding falling over the hair drier and the piles of books.
The money turned over to the Campus Chest will come from a 25 cent fee charged for talking over the Carruth-O'Leary line There is no limit to the length of time a person talks.
Chi Omega will pay the phone bill. They are talking in shifts of 15 minutes.
No matter how the telethon is run, the problem of what to say is a pressing one.
Bennington seemed to have several ideas judging from his conversation with Miss Wright.
"If things get real tough." he told her, "we might read the 'Tropic of Cancer' to each other."
He remarked that the worst shift will be from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. But he quickly provided a solution to the problem after a glance into the Carruth-O'Leary lounge where one of the dormitory residents was hypnotizing willing subjects.
"We might use one of these guys who is hypnotized," he said iokingly to Miss Wright.
Since telethon talkers are human, the conversation was bound to turn to that eternal base of conversation.
As the night wore on, and brilliant conversation became harder, talk turned to studies.
Procedure became establishing a common ground with the person on the other end of the line through college courses and going on from there.
If the college courses and interesting friends hold as conversational topics and no one accidentally disconnects the line, at 11:27 Tuesday night, two telephone receivers will settle in their hooks, and KU will be the holder of a new record for telethons.
Templin-
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"In view of Templin's performance last year (8 cents per man) the residents have decided to make amends for that deficiency and contribute a more substantial sum of money to the campus chest drive than any other organized house on campus," Johnny Johnson. Ft. Leavenworth senior, said.
hour spent on the telephone with Lewis, 15 cents is guaranteed the Campus Chest.
Enthusiasm ran high for the first four or five hours. There was at least five or six eager men ready to strike up a conversation at any time during the night.
The Rev. Brendan Downey will talk on "The Meaning of Sex in Marriage," at a meeting of the Newman Club Sunday.
Newman Club to Meet Sunday
The Oolemphytus raritan, an African bird, lays eggs daily in a nest constructed of elderdown. Its young is fed on a species of animal life found on hippopotamus hides.
The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in the Kansas Union. The public is invited.
Anarchy is the only answer.—Vladmir Kbrucheysky
earlier remarks concerning what has been learned of fallout in the upper reaches of the stratosphere, to which heights the Soviet explosions are believed to have reached.
Mr. Martell said gravity has its greatest effect on radioactive particles above 80 kilometers in the ionosphere. Explosions which reach these heights completely vaporize the particles.
AFTER THE RADIOACTIVE pararticles, about the size of molecules, reach the upper stratosphere, complex wind and temperature forces effect their sedimentation.
All Soviet debris from past tests has come down in the Northern hemisphere. Mr. Martell said. Other data, he said, indicates a rise in fallout in the spring, correlating with rains.
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The scientist said there would be an increase of radioactive particles in the higher stratosphere from the tests but fallout in the next few months is unlikely.
Auto Stolen, Police Report
PETE'S ALIGNING SHOP
A 1961 4-door Chevrolet Impala has been reported stolen to Campus security police.
Jane Boyington, Goodland sophomore, told police the auto was taken from the Lewis Hall parking lot either Tuesday night or early Wednesday. She delayed reporting the theft in the belief the car would be returned, police said.
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The Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship will hold a seminar at 9 am. tomorrow in the Pan American Room of the Kansas Union. The Rev. Don McClurkin from Topeka will lecture on "Personal Evangelism."
College students should not be allowed to drink anything but milk, water and hot chocolate.-Mrs. Maude Lester Perkins
Watkins' Officials Attend Conference
Two members of the Watkins Memorial Hospital staff represented KU yesterday at a student health conference at Kansas State University in Manhattan.
Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, hospital administrator, and Mrs. Jeanne Fox, health service accountant, participated in the conference, which dealt with insurance programs to supplement student health protection.
Dr. Canuteson spoke on student health needs in small colleges. Seventeen Kansas colleges and universities were represented at the conference.
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