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University Daily Kansan
Monday. April 26, 1954
On Capitol Hill—
Wool Bill Amendment Urged by Sen. Young
Washington—(U.P.)—Sen. Milton R. Young (R.-N.D.) today urged the Senate to amend the pending wool bill to extend present high price supports for basic crops. $ \textcircled{*} $
price supports for base crops.
He made the plea in a prepared speech as the Senate resumed debate on the wool subsidy measure.
Sen. Young said the nation's economy could not stand "the shock" of lower farm prices under the administration's "flexible" support program.
Farm bloe senators have been hoping to amend the wool measure to extend rigid supports and thus defeat the administration's flexible support bill. But administration leaders think they have the power to block the move when the wool measure comes up for a vote tomorrow.
Sen. Young said "very drastic" price drops would result from the administration farm bill now being considered by the Senate Agriculture committee.
He said Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson's belief that lower price supports will curb production and reduce surpluses is "totally" disproved by the record of the past 30 years.
The present program's production controls will reduce surpluses, Sen. Young said.
The wool bill itself proposes a system of subsidies, paid from wool import duties, to support wool prices to meet foreign competition. Other Congressional developments:
Legislation — GOP congressional leaders said President Eisenhower soon may call for a full-scale review of his legislative program. They suggested the move might get underway at the President's meeting with GOP leaders today, Chairman Homer Ferguson (Mich.) of the Senate GOP policy committee said no major part of the Eisenhower legislative program has so far been ruled out for congressional action at this session.
Internal security — The Senate Internal Security subcommittee today published a 200-page pamphlet documenting the dispute sparked by Attorney General Herbert Brownell's charge that former President Truman knowingly promoted a Communist spy to high federal office. Subcommittee Chairman William E. Jenner (R-Ind.) said the published record shows the Truman administration had ignored repeated FBI exposures of subversive activity by Treasury department officials, none of whom were fired.
Economic — Chairman Jesse P. Wolcott (R-Mich.) of the Joint Congressional Economic committee believes the worst of the business decline is over. He said "everything indicates we are approaching stability" and that the nation is going through a transition from "war production to peace production." But Rep. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., (D-N.Y.) foresaw an increase in unemployment after high school and college graduations this spring.
Official Bulletin
Ph.D. French reading examination Saturday 9-11 in 102 Strong. Turn in books to Miss Craig, 109 Strong, by noon Thursday.
TODAY
Student Religious council, 4 p.m.
Myers hall. Election of officers.
Radio players and candidates, 4-5 and 7-9 p.m., Radio Players recording room, Green hall basement. Tryouts for "The Black Death," a staged radio play.
Kappa Beta, 5:30 p.m. Myers hall Plenic and installation of officers.
Upstream, 7 p.m., room 306A, Student Union. Important.
OAKLAND
businesstax 7:30 p.m. dining
room: McLennell's Clubbell Rob-
erson on pediatrics
Phi Mu Alpha, 9 p.m., 131 Strong Imperative that all members attend.
WEDNESDAY
Le Cerule Franceis: mercredi a 4 heures et demie, 113 Strong. "Un apresmedi a la Comedie-Franceise —scenes de la Comedie de Mollère." Tout le monde est invite.
The National Safety Council says the hours from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. are the deadliest on the highway. The Council says 38 per cent of all traffic accidents occur during those hours.
3 Attend Sessions On Social Work
Members of the social work department will attend several social work conferences.
Esther Twente, professor of social work, will participate in the public affairs conference of the University of Wichita, Monday through Thursday. The conference is designed to be a self study of Wichita, its children and its youth.
John Bradley, assistant professor of social work, will attend the regional office association in Lincoln, Neb. Monday through Wednesday. While there he will interview prospective KU students.
Engineer Paper Wins $200 Prize
An engineering senior won a second place of $200 in the second annual student competition in technical papers, sponsored by the Institute of Aeronautical Science in Dallas on Wednesday through Saturday.
He is Kenneth Wernick, and his paper was entitled "A Determination of the Boundary Layer, Temperature, and Recovery Factor on a Flat Plate in Supersonic Flow."
Papers were judged on originality, technical content, and presentation. Students also were judged on their ability to answer questions, and first, second, and third place prizes were awarded in each section.
Also competing was Arvid Spoesing, engineering senior. Edwin K. Parks, assistant professor of aeronautical engineering, faculty advisor, accompanied the two students on the trip to Dallas. All expenses were paid by the institute.
There were 17 university representatives, presenting papers in graduate and undergraduate sections.
New York (UP) The first thousands of approximately one million six-to-eight year old children were vaccinated against polio today to launch the biggest medical experiment in history.
Vaccination of 6-8 Year Olds For Polio Experiment Begins
Before June 15, the million will have been vaccinated three times with "shots" of the vaccine which holds the high promise of conquering the crippling and killing disease whose favorite victims are children.
A committee of seven medical scientists gave the go-ahead by unanimously approving the results of elaborate safety testing that proved none of the vaccine could possibly cause polio in a single child. The tests also demonstrated that it could not cause even minor side-effects.
The purpose of the huge experiment was to find out if the vaccine will produce enough anti-bodies to withstand the 'challenge' of the live viruses, and, if it will, to determine how long such a wealth of antibodies remain in the blood stream, making the persons immune to polio.
By June 15 approximately one million children in 44 states will be theoretically immune. June 15 is the
theoretic date when the "polio incidence curve" starts mounting into "polio season" which produces its highest number of cases either in late August or early September. If none or very few of the vaccinated children come down with polio while a sizeable number of unvaccinated children do, the vaccine will be proved and next year a start can be made in vaccinating all the nation's 46,000,000 children.
The mass vaccinations began today in Virginia, Alabama, Florida, Utah, Nevada, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Michigan, and upstate New York. Tomorrow New York City, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Ohio, New Mexico, Illinois, Indiana, and Oregon will begin vaccinating their allotted thousands of kids. The others of the 44 states will follow daily this week and next.
If you use aluminum foil during baking, use a section only slightly larger than the baking utensil. If you cover the entire bottom of the oven with foil, it will cut off the circulation of heat and prevent correct cooking.
Case of the dry "oil" well
Not at all unusual, you say? But this well was purposely drilled that way! In fact, precautions were taken to see that the well wouldn't contact oil-bearing sands. It was to be a vital part of an elaborate waste-disposal system built into one of Du Pont's new plants near Victoria, Texas. It is an example of the unusual engineering problems which Du Pont technical men encounter.
The "well" itself is almost a mile deep—4900 feet, to be exact. Waste fluids from the plant are forced down this well, to be absorbed by non-oil-bearing sands—far below the level of any surface water. Piping near ground level is in the form of concentric shells, and fresh water is delivered to the annular opening around the waste pipe. Furthermore, the water pressure is higher than that of the fluids in the
waste section. In this way, any leakage in the pipe system causes fresh water to enter the surrounding sands (or the inside waste system) and prevents objectionable materials from reaching the sands at surface levels.
Other interesting procedures are used throughout Du Pont's many plants to guard against river pollution. For example, scientists were asked to make a complete marine-life census on one river before a plant was built nearby. The company wanted to be certain that no waste would be discharged which would challenge the natural pattern of marine life
Throughout the DuPont Company, wherever there is a need for the services of technical men, there are varied and interesting problems that present a challenge to engineering skill and imagination.
Now available
Now available for student ASME chapters and other college groups, a 16-mm sound color movie—"Mechanical Engineering at Du Pont." For further information, send post card to E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (Inc.), 2521 Nemours Bldg., Wilmington 98, Delaware.
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