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Bacteria Abandon Co-Existence Policy
University Daily Kansan
By Delos Smith UPI Science Editor
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Signs of revolt are being detected in tribes of bacteria which have been living peacefully inside people from times immemorable, and this may spell a lot of trouble for human hosts.
They have a comfortable living, these bacteria; the detecting scientists couldn't explain their sudden unrest. Nor could they suggest means of quieting it. But they were sure unrest exists and is increasing.
Take the bacterial tribe called Herellea, as an example, the scientists said. Since there's been a science of bacteriology its members have been found in the human respiratory, gastrointestinal and genital tracts minding their own business, bothering no one, causing no trouble.
BUT NOW IN Boston City Hospital they're detected 30 to 40 times a week in body tissues and fluids where by the rules of peaceful coexistence they have no right to be. In consequence they're making people sick of bacterial infections and are even killing some.
The three bacteriological scientists took Boston City Hospital to be typical of big city hospitals although it may have better bacteria detection than some since it is a teaching hospital of the Harvard Medical School.
Up until the last few years the common bacterial infections in human beings were caused by bacteria which got into them from the outside, they said. These are the infections which are passed from one person to another — which are "communicable."
IN THE LAST decades of the 19th century and the first decades of this one, these infections were declining even before antibiotics and sulfa
P-T-P Happy Hour Held at Sorority
Foreign and American students traded understanding and entertainment at the People-to-People Christmas Happy Hour at the Alpha Phi House yesterday.
Students sat in groups in the Alpha Phi living room. They talked about education here and in Germany, the theatre here and in Switzerland, fashion here and in France.
A seven-foot-high Christmas tree stood centered in front of the south wall. Three women cuddling baritone ukeleles sat by the tree and sang folk songs.
Later, women took turns playing Christmas carols on the piano. Then a foreign student slipped onto the bench and romped through modern jazz.
The foreign students left the party thinking of happy people, hot spiced cider and Christmas carols.
drugs. "The scientists said these drugs "perhaps accelerated" this decline.
Accompanying it, they continued in reporting to the American Medical Association, there "has been an increase in infections due to bacteria that are indigenous to the host." Perhaps the antibacterial drugs have stepped up the increase by making these bacteria resistant while killing off invading bacteria seeking a foothold, they suggested.
Or it could be other modern drugs depress natural human resistance to infections by native bacteria or maybe improved surgical-medical procedures depress it.
Getting back to the former harmless tribe, Herellea, its members now "tend to infect males more than females, the elderly more than the youthful, and to find entry into the body especially often through venous catheters, surgical wounds and other breaks" in the skin and other protective coverings.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else.—Will Rogers
"WHATEVER THE precise explanation," they added, "there can be little doubt that bacterial infections in the immediate future will center around bacteria that cause infection in hosts that have harbored these bacteria for years."
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Eurich Report Clouded Says College President
HAYS, Kan. — (UPI) — Fort Hays State College President M. C. Cunningham told 300 state legislators and college alumni here last night that many of the important points of the Eurich Report were being ignored as a result of the Wichita University issue.
Tuesday, Dec. 18, 1962
The Western negotiators have made it clear that their countries
There was no immediate reaction from U.S. Ambassador Arthur H. Dean or Britain's Sir Michael Wright to the Russians' call.
The powers should agree to respect this resolution, he said, despite the fact that the test ban talks here are deadlocked over the question of inspection of suspected underground blasts.
He spoke to a meeting of central and western Kansas senators and representatives and alumni of the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Fort Hays State.
Russia Calls For A-Test Halt
GENEVA-(UPI)—Russia told the West today that nuclear testing everywhere should stop Jan. 1, regardless of the lack of progress on a test ban agreement here.
Soviet negotiator Semyon K. Tsarapkin told the test-ban subcommittee of the disarmment conference no formal agreement can be reached "While the West persists in its old and unacceptable positions."
Tsarapkin said all nuclear powers should respect the U.N. General Assembly's call for a halt in all testing as of Jan. 1, 1963.
will stop testing only when a foolproof ban has been agreed on. They are not interested in an uncontrolled moratorium of the type proposed by the Soviets.
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The trainees said they are not too worried about "cultural shock" they might encounter in Costa Rica.
ROSENBLUM SAID, "I believe there is much unnecessary worry about it. We have been well-prepared here—maybe over-prepared. We anticipate difficulties, but not pessimistically."
Miss Moore said that "We will experience cultural shock in Costa Rica. But since life in Costa Rica is not too different from life in the U.S., it shouldn't be too serious."
The trainees can be dismissed from the program at any time until they reach Costa Rica.
Cunningham, referring to the points in the Eurich Report, said, "I hope these subjects will not be overlooked as we have overlooked nine previous reports made in our state. It's time for us to re-evaluate our values and put first things first—our young people."
Dr. James McCain, president of Kansas State University, joined Cunningham in outlining the goals and needs of higher education in the state. Dr. W. Clarke Wescoe, chancellor of the University of Kansas, was also scheduled to speak but was unable to attend because of illness.
Cunningham gave strong support to the Eurich recommendation for improving faculty salaries.
"Among 42 colleges of our approximate size, the three state colleges in Kansas rank no higher than 26th and as low as 40th in salary scales," Cunningham said. "This means we have a hard time finding people to replace those we lose to the big universities."
Negro Footballer Receives Rhodes
FASADENA, Calif. —(UPI)— A political science major at Whittier College is the second Negro in history to be named for a Rhodes Scholarship.
Joseph Stanley Sanders was one of four Western states, senior students named Saturday for two years of graduate study at the University of Oxford in England.
The only other Negro ever to receive a Rhodes Scholarship was Alain Locke, a 1960 graduate of Harvard University.
ALLEN'S
Presents GAMMA PHI BETA winners of ALLEN'S CRAM-A-RAMA with Trophy of Achievement and $50.
Sandy Bornholt, Connie Clendenin and Susie Runnells received trophy from Leo Lunar Allen's manager, at Saturday's basketball game.