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University Daily Kansan
Physical Therapy Aids In Posture Correction
Bv ELIZABETH WOHLGEMUTH
How funny animals would look if they walked like humans and how nice humans would look if they walked like animals," reads a poster in the physical therapy department of Watkins hospital. The sign refers to the straight and good posture of animals and the poor posture of many humans.
In the physical therapy department people who have muscle defects are helped so that they might have the opportunity to walk straight and tall. Muscles are reeducated by the proper use of heat, light, exercises, water, and electrical stimulation.
The KU, department is the only one between Kansas City and Topka so besides students they also work with out-patients.
"Most students helped are fracture patients." Mrs. Anna Showalter, head therapist said. "In helping a fracture patient regain the use of his muscles, she has to strengthen and strengthen exercises are used. In the whirpool tank the underwater
cvents hit against the muscles and
as an underwater massage."
"Electrical stimulation of muscles is used for nerve injuries," she said. "Stimulation causes the muscles to relax and hencewise they wouldn't be able to move."
Diathermy and infra-red lamps are used to produce deep heating of the muscles.
Polio patients are taught muscle re-education, how to walk again, how to use braces, and how to recover the use of muscles. One year or more is required to help a severe polio patient recover the use of his legs so that he will be able to walk." Mrs. Showalter said.
Polio patients first learn to exercise in a large tank of water called a Hubbard tank. The water helps the patient move muscles when the muscles will not move under their own power.
After water treatment, the patient then works on floor mats, where he learns to sit up and by kneeling learns to stand.
Parallel bars placed in front of a large mirror are used to teach the patient how to walk. The bars were made several years ago by a group of engineering students.
Before a therapist can work with a patient, a doctor must give her a prescription just as he would give one to a pharmacist.
"What the patient does is more important than what the therapist does." Ms. Showaler said. "We are very interested in helping the other thing to aid in their recovery."
Mrs. Showalter is also an instructor of physical therapy and is an adviser to physical therapy majors She is assisted by Miss E. A. Wickersham, therapist. Both are graduates of K.U.
Alpha Phi Omegas Hear Kaw Executive
Donald Baldwin, Kaw council Boy Scout executive, told a group of Alpha Phi Omegas recently that "more than 3 million men in World War II eradicated the thought that scouts were sickies."
He said he didn't know of one "hero" that wasn't a former Boy Scout. He said older men like himself receive a "great satisfaction out of this thing we call scouting. Men have no need to retort."
Boy Scout enamment, the toy campaign, and a steak fry were discussed preceding the talk.
WAA Banquet's Date Set
Plans for the Women's Athletic association's "Hockey and Volley Ball Feed" were discussed at a meeting of the group Tuesday. The banquet will be held Thursday, Dec. 3 in the Student Union. Participation to the state WAA convention was also discussed.
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Interviews
Applications and brochures are available in 111 Marvin for next week's interviews with engineering graduates. Interested persons may sign the interview schedule in the clean office.
MONDAY
North American Aviation, Inc. will interview aeronautical, architectural, civil, electrical, and mechanical engineers.
The Ethyl corporation will interview chemical engineers.
The Carter Oil company will interview chemical, electrical, mechanical, civil, and petroleum process chemicals, physicists, and geologists.
TUESDAY
The Automatic Electric company will interview mechanical and electrical engineers.
The Diamond Chain company will interview engineers and metallurcists.
The Owens-Corning Fiberglass corporation will interview mechanical, electrical, industrial, civil, architectural and chemical engineers.
The Humble Oil and Refining company will interview chemical, electrical, mechanical, petroleum, and geological engineers, geologists, advanced degree chemists, and physicists.
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
The Humble Oil and Refining company will be here for interviews Thursday also.
The Dow-Corning corporation will institute electrical, electrical, and mechanical training.
FRIDAY
Proctor and Gamble company will interview chemical, petroleum, mechanical, industrial, electrical, and civil engineers and chemists
The California company will interview petroleum and civil engineering
The Ford Motor company will interview mechanical and industrial engineers.
Art Fraternity Has Scholarship Coffee
John G. Armstrong, fine arts instructor, was made an honorary member of Delta Phi Delta, honorary art organization, Tuesday night at the club's scholarship coffee. Mr. Armstrong also is a sponsor of the club.
The coffee was held in the English room of the Union.
Columbus, Ind.—U(P).Albert G, Ziegler, a fisherman, used a "sneak attack" to land a 30-pound carp in a 45-minute battle in a gravel pit. He hooked the fish by the tail.
The first course in geology in the United States was given at Yale University by Professor Benjamin Silliman in 1809. Silliman is known as the father of scientific education in American colleges.
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Ellermeier Gets 1st RCA Award
Although the RCA scholarship was set up only for this year, Forrest H. Kirkpatrick, education counselor for the corporation, indicated it might be made an annual award.
Robert D. Ellermeier, senior in electrical engineering, has been awarded the first Radio Corporation of America $800 scholarship at the University for an outstanding undergraduate student in the physical sciences and the various branches of electrical engineering or mathematics, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, announced yesterday.
"I think we have good products to sell and as time goes on we will be able to sell those products to the people. When I speak of a product, I mean the Eisenhower program," he said.
GOP Leader Still Has Hope
Mr. Hall said there were "many cross currents in the New Jersey election and I don't think it affects the President's situation one bit."
Washington —(UP)— Republican national chairman Leonard W. Hall says that the GOP will win more voter support when the administration has put its new programs into effect.
"If we are going to have a dip or decline (in GOP popularity) let's have it now and not next year."
He said Democratic victories in Tuesday's off-year elections means "we must work harder." But he was not pessimistic about the party's future.
Mr. Hall conceded the Republicans are "in trouble" in California where a recent election will be held next week to elect a new 24th district congressman.
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Washington—(U.P.)The United States is believed to be getting set to test fire a new super bomb.
It will be a thermonuclear or fusion weapon, as was the sized hydrogen device exploded at Eniwetok
Informed sources here have indicated that the new tests will be conducted at Bikini in the spring by Atomic Task Force Seven, headed by Mai. Gen, Percy W. Clarkson.
Neither the AEC nor the military would confirm the time and place of the next tests or disclose the nature of the weapons to be tested.
But it has been obvious since last fall's H-bomb experiments that new ones were in the works. A test device set off at Eniwetok last year, estimated unofficially as equal in power to nearly 5 million tons of TNT, was far too big for delivery by air.
In the year since this device "sank" the little island on which it was exploded, the AFC's weaponese have been striving to perfect a less ponderous version which could be launched against a target.
That this version is ready for testing seems likely. Another possibility has been hinted by both Soviet and American sources. Last month Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson said at a news conference that so-called thermonuclear weapons include "a series of bombs" whose violence comes from the fusion of light atomic nuclei. He said "there is certainly more than hydrogen in them."
One authority here conceded that "considerable flexibility" is involved in fusion bomb development. He said Russia's experimental H-bomb tested Aug. 12 represented "a different approach" than that which was climaxed by the American explosion last year.
Mavor Moves Minutelv
New York — (U.P.) Mayor-elect Robert F. Wagner Jr. will have little difficulty when he moves into the mayor's official residence. He now lives two blocks away.
Electric mowers should be run back and forth in straight lines, a farm electric specialist at the University of Illinois says, always working away from the electric outlet so the cord won't be run over and cut.
Education Group's Coffee Scheduled
Phi Delta Kappa, honorary education fraternity, will hold its annual fall "coffee hour" Tuesday. Nov. 20. Room of the Memorial Union.
William Butler, assistant dean of men and KU chapter secretary, said the informal get-together is open to all undergraduate and graduate men and faculty interested in the field of education. Foreign students also are invited.
The next professional meeting will be Nov. 19. Several teachers from the field are to be initiated at that time.
70 Korean Veterans Attend First Meeting
About 70 Korean veterans—including one ex-WAC—met recently for the first time to organize a national amurcal sports, and other activities.
John S. Mace, associate professor of military science, is faculty advisor of the group, and William Cook, business junior, is temporary chairman. The group will meet Wednesday day.
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