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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, May 4, 1954
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Ornithologists Arise Early to Hear Birds
By GRETCHEN GUINN
We've always heard and joked about "early morning bird call classes" but never thought to actually find one. There is such a class on the campus.
It is listed under the title Ornithology. This long term simply means the study of birds. About 16 students are enrolled in the beginning course which is under the instruction of H. B. Tordoff, assistant professor of zoology.
This ornithology class, which is in the zoology department, is designed to teach the student the basic facts of the biology of birds. These include the anatomy, nesting habits, and migration.
About half of the course is composed of lectures. The rest is devoted to field trips which give the student a working knowledge of the species of birds. The student learns to recognize the birds by call and by sight.
Because of the birds' habits, who are notoriously early risers, it is necessary to get out in the field early in the morning to observe them. So the field trips, which are taken about every Saturday morning require the "bird watchers" to be out by 8 and sometimes 6 am.
Dr. Tordoff is also an assistant curator of the Museum of Natural History. He assists in museum displays which require the use of birds.
The ornithology department is located on the top floor of Dyche museum. The purpose of the department is to study fossil birds and the behavior of different species, as well as their geographic distribution. These studies are a process in unraveling evolution.
Part of the ornithology department's activities involve expeditionary trips to collect research material. The birds of Kansas are studied but some trips are taken as far away as Mexico.
The summer field course this year will be in western Colorado during part of June and July. Its purpose is to acquaint the students with field technique and field study.
A 60-page book "Industrial Levy in Kansas" written by Ralph Hite bureau of business research assistant, has been published by the Bureau of Business Research.
Hite's Levy Study Published by KU
The book brings a study made in 1950, on the number of cities which use a special levy for industrial development purposes up to date.
Industrial levy tax collections of $108,000 and expenditures of $111,000 have been made since 1950.
The levy to carry such a tax must be approved by the voters, and since 1950 25 elections have been held with 20 approving such a tax. This brings the total number of cities that have or are using such a levy to 34.
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North Korean Pilot in U.S.
San Francisco (U.P.)—No Kum Sok, former North Korean pilot who sold a Russian-built MIG fighter to the United States for $100,000; said today he plans to use the money for South Korean rehabilitation.
The 22-year-old former Communist arrived at San Francisco airport last night and was greeted by a barrage of flash bulbs and newsmen's questions, which he described as "almost worse than U.S. Sabrejets that I used to face."
No, looking like an American Joe College in sports clothes and pork-pie hat, smiled broadly and spoke to newsmen in fairly good English which he had learned in the past seven months.
"I long for years to be in free country," he said. "I feel very free. I know I can sing Russian songs. South Korean songs, any song I please because I'm free."
No said he would spend part of his reward to study political science at the University of Delaware, part to support his mother who escaped to South Korea in 1950, and the remainder to help rebuild South Korea.
He said he would have a lawyer advise him on how to make the best use of the reward money to help in South Korea's rehabilitation.
Backus Receives Ford Study Grant
Dr. Oswald P. Backus III, assistant professor of history, has received a faculty fellowship from the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education. He will spend the 1954-55 school year in specia study at the Harvard Law school.
Dr. Backus believes that to bring research in 15th and 16th century Russian history into present day perspective, the historian must have an understanding of both American and Russian law. Besides adding law as a research tool in his special field, he hopes to gather materials for a possible course in history of Russian law. No such course is offered in this country.
Kansas Retail Sales Increase For New High
Dr. Backus, currently president of the Conference on Asian Affairs, has accepted an invitation to teach in the summer session at Michigan State college.
Retail sales in Kansas set a new high in 1953 with an estimated total of $2,337,474,000, the University Bureau of Business Research reports in its current Business Review.
With an increase of 0.9 per cent over 1952 sales, 1953 marked the fourth consecutive year Kansas retail sales have topped $2 billion. However the rate of increase fell short of the national average of 4.2 per cent, although Kansas did maintain its 1.4 per cent share of the nation's total retail trade.
Sedgwick, Wyandotte and Shawnee counties increased their portion of the state's total from 31.5 per cent in 1952 to 33.0 per cent last year. The Bureau cited further evidence of concentration of trade in that the top 10 counties had more than half of all the sales.
The high 10 in order of rank were Sedgwick, Wyandotte, Shawnee, Reno, Barton, Johnson, Saline, Montgomery, Butler and Cowley. The same 10 were high in 1952 but Johnson and Saline changed places as did Wyandotte and Shawnee.
But when 1953 sales were figured on a per capita basis, only Barton Sedgwick and Saline among the high volume counties remained in he top 10.
The average county total was $22,262,000—about that of Geary.
'Bombs Could Ruin U.S.'
Washington — (U.P.) *^*Adm. Ben Morell believe Russia could knock out three-fourths of America's steel capacity with just 10 H-bombs.
Many other vital U.S. industries—rubber, copper, aluminum, autos, electrical products — are similarly vulnerable to sneak attack by a "ruthless adversary," Adm. Moreell says.
The retired admiral, chairman of the Jones and Laughlin Steel corporation, gave his estimate of Soviet H-bombing capability in a study for the American Iron and Steel institute.
His report is presented currently in a copyrighted article in U.S. News and World Report, an independent weekly magazine published in Washington.
Adm Morell concludes in his report that American continental and civil defenses must be improved and that there must be "progressive dispersion of vital industrial facilities, including operating personnel."
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KU Band,Soloists Give Stirring Performances
By KEN BRONSON
The University Concert band held its annual spring concert last night in Hoch auditorium but two soloists—Leo Horacek and Virginia Vogel—stole the show from the 101 participants.
FPC Hearings To Be Resumed
Washington — (U.P.)—Mrs. Evelyn N. Cooper said today Michael W. Straus and Leland Olds will testify in favor of a high government Hells Canyon dam at a Federal Power commission hearing which resumes next Monday.
The high dam advocates oppose the application of the Idaho Power company, a private utility, for an FPC license to build three low dams at the Hells Canyon, Brownlee, and Oxbowl sites on the Hells Canyon reach of the Snake. If a low dam is built at Hells Canyon, construction of a high dam necessarily will be precluded forever.
Mr. Straus was commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation for eight years and also served as assistant secretary of interior. Mr. Olds was a member of the FPC for 10 years and was its chairman or vice chairman for more than six years.
Mrs. Cooper, attorney for the National Hells Canyon association, said she will present 10 witnesses to back up claims of the association and its supporters that a high, federal dam at the Hells Canyon site is necessary for development of the Snake river basin.
Mrs. Cooper said she expected to present her affirmative case in two to three weeks.
Betty Gard Named To Education Post
Better Lu Gard, education junior, has been appointed a member of the Student Personnel commission of the American Council on Education.
Miss Gard will be the first woman student member of the commission, which includes various college presidents, deans, and other high officials. The only other student member is Jim Edwards, president of the National Student association.
Miss Gard was chosen for the commission in view of her presidency of the Intercollegiate Associated Women Students, as well as the KU chapter of the AWS. She will serve for a one-year term.
As per usual, only a small audience listened to the stirring performance but those who attended heard another excellent program under the direction of Russell L. Wiley, director of the band and orchestra.
Horaceek, an instructor in music education, and a frequent trumpet soloist with the band, played two numbers, "Scherzo" and "Songs My Mother Taught Me, both accompanied by the band, an excellent scale production and the second was a portrayal in sound.
Miss Vogel, fine arts freshman, provided the soloist role in the number, "On the Trail" from "Grand Canyon Suite." Playing the celesta with its bell-ringing tones, drew the audience away from the deepness of the band.
The band began by playing "Isle of Man," a Manx tone poem. In this number, the lower brass excelled with their sharp, clearcut tones. The whole number put the audience in a mood which was to carry over for the entire program.
The second number. "Bravada, Paso Doble." Mary McMahon, fine arts sophomore, excelled on the cornet in the airy, intricate production. Although overworked, the clarinets and the lower brass again provided the necessary background.
The next two numbers—March from the opera "Love for Three Oranges" and Choral March and Fugue—were short and appealing.
After Horacek's two solo productions, the band engaged in the night's most difficult works, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." The band showed its willingness by attacking the number in all its force. The reed section was again superb, making the transition in moods with all the realism possible.
Following intermission, the band again started off with the soothing Finale from Algerian. The loosening provided the feature for this production.
In "Suite No. 1 for Military Band," the woodwinds and baritones took over for the light and airy melody.
The band concluded with "Bercuse and Finale from The Firebird," and played "Colonel Bogey March" as an encore.
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Henry P. Smith, professor of education, is the author of "Psychology in Teaching," a text in educational psychology published this week by Prentice-Hall, Inc., of New York.
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