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Quints Reported Well; Crowds Invade Town
ABERDEEN, S.D. —(UPI)— The Fischer quintuplets, thrashing their tiny arms and legs in healthy fashion, neared the end of their first two full days of life today getting along fine.
The quints were getting meals to match their size every two hours around the clock-five cubic centimeters each of sugar water.
Their doctor said last night that the infants were getting along fine and their chances for becoming America's first surviving quints were very good.
Hotels were doing a brisk business and car rental agencies ran out of autos as a result of the corps of newsmen brought here to cover the birth of the Fischer quintuplets.
A desk clerk at the Radison Hotel, which operates Aberdeen's only Western Union office, said "we are about the busiest we have ever been"
St. Luke's Hospital set up a press room in the basement cafeteria and telephone lines to the hospital were often jammed with calls. Television and movie cameras cluttered the cafeteria and spilled over into lobbies and waiting rooms.
There were about 50 newsmen in Aberdeen from newspapers, radio and television stations in New York, Chicago, Kansas City, Detroit and Omaha. One London paper (Daily Express) sent its New York correspondent.
But the hospital staff was taking the invasion calmly and the administrator, Sister M. Stéphen, never lost her smile.
Newsmen borrowed hospital typewriters in offices and the admitting room to write their dispatches and preempted hospital phones to transmit them.
The Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce posted a sign on the road leading in from the airport, directing newsmen to its press room in a hotel.
Some correspondents had difficulty in reaching Aberdeen, which has only one passenger train and two north central airlines flights daily. Many chartered their own planes to fly here.
As for the father, Andy Fischer got up early, as usual, and milked his two cows, a Jersey and a Guernsey, in the big blue barn behind his farm house, two miles outside town,
which he rents for $55 a month. Sightseers are common now on the road in front of the five-bedroom stucco house, occupied by the Fischers and their five other children.
The three oldest Fischer children, Danny, 7; Charlotte, who will be 7 Wednesday; and Julie, who was 6 yesterday, start the fall term today at the Sacred Heart Parish School along with 715 other children.
The two youngest Fischer children, Evelyn, 4, and Denise, 3, are staying with their maternal grandparents in Hecla.
The feeding, by tube through the nose, began yesterday morning when the quins—born six to eight weeks prematurely — were entering their second day of life. The dosage was 2 cc, at first, increased to 4 cc, and now 5 cc.
St. Joseph's College awarded a full scholarship yesterday to James Andrew Fischer, only boy among quintuplets born in Aberdeen, S.D., to relieve his parents of one worry about the future.
The Rev. James W. Moore, assistant dean for admissions, said in a telegram to the father, Andrew Fischer, the scholarship also was given to participate in your joy. He said he hoped James Andrew would attend in September, 1981, or sooner.
Lecture Series Planned for Year
Six Humanities Series Lectures for the coming school year have been announced.
All lectures will be in Fraser Theater at 8 p.m., and are open to the public without charge.
The schedule:
Oct. 35—Dr. Emanuel Winteritz, eut-
tor. Museum of Art, New York City.
Museum of Art, New York City.
Nov. 5—Dr. Bruce Archer Morrisissette,
French literature scholar, University of Chicago
Jr. 1-2 - Dr. Frederick Norman, German literature scholar, King's College, Lon-
land
Feb. 18–Dr. Bruno Snell, classical scholar, University of Hamburg, Ger-
March 17—Dr Madeleine Doran,
gakespeare scholar, University of Wisc-
ton.
April 21—Dr. Albert Marekwardt, linguistics scholar, director of the English Language Institute, University of Michigan.
WELCOME STUDENTS
Ten acres will be used in connection with KU research contracts with the Atomic Energy Commission, Lawton said. Thirty acres will be used for meteorological research of thunderstorms. A radar set and other equipment now at the Lawrence municipal airport will be moved to the site.
Planned Flying Club To Offer Instruction
ANOTHER 73 acres will be used for entomological education and field research. About 20 of these acres will be left in its present natural state and the other 53 will be used to grow feed for experimental animals and for crop entomological studies.
Two members of the University of Kansas faculty and the Erhart Flying Service of Lawrence are preparing to offer a course which would enable KU students to get pilots' license.
Rock Chalk Deadline Set for Wednesday
The new course will be in connection with a University flying club named the Aerohawks. The club would offer classes in ground school under the supervision of KU Aeronautics Professor Costa Choliamenos. Participants will receive three hours credit at the end of the 12 weeks ground course.
Fees for the club would be reduced from the regular fees. Dale Erhart, director of the service, said an hourly rate of $7.00 per hour would be charged for lessons in the Cessna 150 according to present plans. Proposed payments would include a down payment and monthly payments to fit the student budget.
Actual flight training would be under supervision of flight instructors of Erhart's service, located about five miles from the campus.
KU Given 192 Acres For Research Work
KU has been given 192.72 acres of land for research use, Keith Lawton, vice cancellor for operations announced today.
A request for the land, declared surplus 18 months ago at the Sunflower Ordinance works between Lawrence and Kansas City, has resulted in title passing from the Surplus Property Division of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to the Kansas Board of Regents.
THE LAND was made available at no cost. The only stipulation was that it be used for the research and educational purposes, for which KU requested it. After 20 years, the land will belong to the Board of Regents without reservation.
The University will put the land into use within a few months. Lawton said, as soon as fencing and other preparations are completed.
Approximately 80 acres of the land will be used for pasture and care of animals used in medical research at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City.
Applications for positions on the 1964 Rock Chalk Revue staff must be turned in to the KU-Y office by 5 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 18. Applications should include a letter stating previous experience in Rock Chalk Revue or with similar stage productions and ideas for improving the show.
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