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Pronghorn Antelope's Future Safe
The nimble pronghorn antelope; fastest animal in North America, has won its race against extinction.
Called the prairie phantom because it is so elusive, the thin-legged creature has returned in such force it is commonly seen from highways in the West.
Its future now seems assured, thanks to careful game management and strict hunting laws, says the National Geographic Society.
Estimates of antelope between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean before the advent of Europeans range up to 100 million head. But hurting had depleted their ranks until they neared oblivion in 1908 when only 20,000 were left in the United States. In Wyoming, heart of antelope land, only 5,000 remained.
Wednesday, Oct. 26. 1955. University Daily Kansan
Wyoming Took Action
Wyoming took action. It outlawed hunting for several years. Antelope numbers bounced back until it was safe to allow a limited hunting season. In 1948, about 65,000 head were counted on Wyoming prairies and there were approximately 350,000 in the United States as a whole.
Pronghorns can run at 20 to 30 miles an hour with ease, faster if necessary. Arthur S. Einarsen, a pronghorn expert, relates that a buck, running as "lean and low as a greyhound," raced his car across the dried bed of Spanish Lake, Oregon. Pulling ahead, the buck bounded over the road in front of the car. The speedometer read 61 miles an hour.
The pronghorn antelope is more closely related to oxen and sheep than to Old World antelopes. It is the only mammal with hollow pronged horns, and the only cud chewer to shed its horns each year. New horns, made of hair fibers, grow from a bony core attached to the skull.
Nervous, Curious Temperament
Nervous, Curious Temperament
The three-foot-high pronghorn,
flaunting its russet, white and
black hues, sports a temperament
almost as nervous as a monkey's
and as curious as a cat's. Its eyes
are nearly as large as an elephant's.
It can spot a moving coyote at three to four miles. It alarmed, it turns tail and speeds across the prairie, the white hairs of its bounding hindquarters bristling into a giant powderpuff and signaling toward distant herds.
In a relaxed mood, the animal will investigate almost any nearby moving object. Concealed hunters once lured antelopes within gunshot by waving red flags from ramrods.
Now wayward pronghorns are pampered. Low-flying planes round up herds that have overgrazed their ranges for redistribution where the grass is greener.
Wilson Scholars' Deadline Nov.14
The Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program offers to seniors a year of graduate training in any of the liberal arts or social sciences.
the selection of fellowship candidates for this year is now under way, and all nominations must be submitted by Nov. 14. Walter E. Sandelius, professor of political science is the Wilson adviser at KU.
A student receiving the fellowship is permitted to study at any graduate school in the United States or Canada
Two Wilson Fellowship winners last year at KU were William R. Arnold of Salina and Barbara K. Becker of Coffeyville. Both are studying at the University of Illinois.
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1st. Lt. Kenneth R. Coy, former editor of the Daily Kansan in 1952, was promoted to his present rank recently at Fort Jackson, S. C.
He is now serving in the 501st Airborne Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, at Fort Jackson, S. C.
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PHILADELPHIA -- (U.P) -- A Philadelphia woman scientist will lead an expedition to the Amazon River this year for the purpose of studying the biological pattern of the stream.
She is Ruth Patrick, curator of limnology in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. For eight years she and her staff of biologists have been studying North American rivers. To advance knowledge of what constitutes a healthy stream, it is necessary to examine a tropical river for comparison, she said.
Chancellor Speaks At Alumni Meeting
The expedition is sponsored by the Catherwood Fuodation, of which Cummins Catherwood, of Bryn Mawr, is president. This foundation has been backing the academy's research. One important phase is the development of the Catherwood Diatometer, an instrument originated by the academy.
It is used in collection of diatoms, one-celled microscopical members of the plant kingdom, the populations and species of which in any stream is an index to its condition.
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Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy Saturday addressed the third annual meeting of city and county officers of the Alumni Association. About 27 presidents and secretaries attended the meeting.
Other speakers were Fred Elsavorth, Association executive secretary; Dick Winternote, field secretary; Maurice Barker, Greater University Fund secretary; Harpert A. Meyer, alumni president, and Clyde M. Reed, vice president.
From the knowledge thus gained the department can furnish its sponsors valuable information affecting treatment and disposal of industrial and municipal wastes.
Deans George R. Waggoner and Gilbert Ulner of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will attend an annual meeting of the state's academic deans, registrars and deans of students tomorrow at Bethel College in Newton.
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