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University Daily Kansas Tuesday, Sept. 19, 1961
Rockin' Corn?
Music in Agriculture
Smith, an agronomist for a St. Louis seed company, is playing music to a field of corn near Normal. Ill.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — (UPI) — For the farmer who has everything, George E. Smith has come up with something extra — music to grow corn by.
Enrollment-
He says the corn that "listens" to
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He also noted a third, and perhaps more obvious factor.
"Many girls may have noticed the ratio of men to women on the campus and have come here to find a husband."
KU MALES can take heart in this year's enrollment figures, however. Mr. Hitt commented that for the first time in KU's history, except for the World War II years, the ratio of men to women has fallen below two to one. There are 6,396 men and 3,359 women on the Lawrence campus this year, making the current ratio 1.9 to 1.
"The thing to notice about this year's enrollment figures," said Mr. Hitt, "is that there is a steadily increasing number of girls on the campus. A larger percentage of girls are going to college every year."
However, Mr. Hitt expects men to outnumber women on the campus for some years to come.
"THIS WILL BE true," he said,
"if for no other reason except that a lot of college students get married and when they do, it's the men who usually stay in college."
Despite the problems created by the increased enrollment, Mr. Hitt maintains an optimistic view.
"Nobody likes to sit still or go backward," he said, "even with all the problems this makes for all of us in this business."
Foreign Service Agent Here Friday
Gilbert F. Austin, a representative of the United States Information Agency, will visit the University Friday to talk with students interested in careers with the Foreign Service.
He will speak with students about the Foreign Service Career Reserve Training Program of the USIA at 1:30 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. He also will answer questions about the Foreign Service examination which is usually conducted each December.
For further information, students should see either Rov D. Laird, assistant professor of political science, or Mrs. Ann Davis, college office.
Lutheran Mission
MINNEAPOLIS — (UPI) — A Lutheran mission church will be established in a world center of Lutherism—Scandinavia.
But the church will not serve Scandanavians. Its assignment is to provide spiritual guidance for Americans overseas.
The Rev. William J. Hanson, 38, now pastor of Christ the King Lutheran Church in Denver, has been assigned by the Division of American Missions of the American Lutheran Church to establish the new congregation in Copenhagen, Denmark. The project is similar to one launched successfully three years ago in Oslo, Norway.
Era Ends
SAWYER. Kan. — (UPI) — The last totally handset newspaper in Kansas has ended an era. The Sawyer News has bought a linecasting machine (Linotye).
In this Kansas Centennial year it closes another chapter in the history of the state.
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strains of classics, marches and love songs has grown faster than an adjacent plot deprived of melody.
"A great deal faster." Smith says.
"A great deal faster," Smith says. Smith has two plots of corn planted under identical controlled conditions. On one field he has poles along the side from which hang loud speakers.
"The soil which had the music was two degrees warmer than the soil which did not have the music," he said.
The plot with its cars tuned to the music could yield as much as 22 per cent more corn than the other plot. Smith estimated.
Smith said his experiment has also shown that the corn exposed to music came up 12 hours before the other corn, had better stands and was ahead in silking by three days.
Smith also placed thermometers in the ground to see if the music had any effect on the soil.
When Smith planted the corn in May he started playing "Rhapsody in Blue." As the corn started shooting out of the soil he played circus music and Sousa marches.
"The corn directly under the speaker also shows a more uniform growth, thicker stalk and more suckering," he said.
"During the pollination season I played love songs and the process was boosted a great deal," he said.
The National Student Association met yesterday in an organizational meeting to plan activities for this year.
NSA Committee Meets to Organize
Carol McMillen, Coldwater senior and chairman of the committee, called upon the members to be an active but mature organization, working together for a common goal.
A short report of the NSA national convention held in Madison, Wis. during August, was given by Charles Menghini, Pittsburg senior.
Projects suggested for NSA to sponsor were forums, debates and educational movies.
STANFORD, Calif. — (UPI) — A "study now, pay later" plan was initiated last year at the Stanford University School of Business.
NSA meeting time was changed to 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Kansas Union and will remain at this time until further notice.
Students may now borrow up to $4,000 during the two-year school course. The program provides that students will not begin paying interest on the principal until six months after graduation. Dean Ernest C. Arbuckle said it was hoped the program would keep the school from losing good students because of their limited finances.
The people knocking the Peace Corps want to forget the United States is around the corner from the rest of the world.—Arnold Beetoyn
Helping Hand
- News Briefs -
BONN — Chancellor Konrad Adenauer accepted his party's request today to stay in office despite opposition from a minority party that holds the balance of power in West German politics.
The Social Democratic Party (SPD) already has refused to join a coalition with the CDU, which lost its parliamentary majority in Sunday's elections.
But the FDP said that Adenauer must quit office unless he is content to lead a minority government. The FDP repeatedly has demanded that Adenauer be succeeded by his Economic Minister Ludwig Erhard.
MOSCOW — The government newspaper Izvestia hinted today that Russia will press for re-organization of the United Nations and support transfer of its headquarters to West Berlin.
Without reference to the death o UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, Izvestia said:
Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) said the 85-year-old statesman has been asked to head up negotiations for a coalition with the Free Democratic Party (FDP).
"Life compellingly demands the changes and distribution of power in the international arena be fully reflected in the activities of the United Nations. That is why the Soviet proposal of the reorganization of the
executive machinery of the United Nations is appreciated by various strata of international public opinion."
The front page editorial said "certain prominent social and political leaders advocate the transfer of UN headquarters to West Berlin . . . again testifying what advantageous possibilities may be presented by making West Berlin a demilitarized free city."
JACKSON, Miss. — A bi-racial group of 13 Episcopal ministers who were arrested for attempting to dine together in a segregated restaurant were released under bond today and prayed in front of the jail for courts of justice.
The ministers, including a son-in-law of New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, issued two brief statements upon their release and prayed before catching a flight for Atlanta on their way to the National Episcopal Convention in Detroit.
They announced they would appeal their breach of the peace convictions to the UN Supreme Court, if necessary.
The newspaper also said both East and West Germany should be admitted to the United Nations.
The Rev. Robert L. Pierson of Evanston, Ill., whose wife is Rockefeller's daughter, read a statement saying that as priests "we cannot submit to immoral laws which demand that we separate racially."
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