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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, May 13. 1953
Solution for Spring Fever Found in Visual Education
By MARY ANNE OGLEVIE and TOM SHANNON
By MARY ANNE OGLEVIE and TOM SHANNON In the visual education department the University has found an aid to solving the problem of combating spring fever.
It has discovered that the use of audio-visual aids increases interest on the part of the students, thus helping class attendance. This dis- tention can expand its facilities rapidly. About 50 per cent of KU instructors are now making use of films in present- ing class materials.
Forty-one states receive educational films from the department, according to Fred S. Montgomery, director of visual instruction. Every day Mr. Montgomery receives many letters requesting films on specific aspects of various academic fields.
The functions of the bureau are to supply films and teaching material to schools and to teach the instructors the best methods of using them. On the campus, films and projects are made for educational education in University classes.
Tools needed to make educational films include blackboards, maps, charts, graphs, pictures, globes, and scale models. Devices used in the films make it possible for students to see things that otherwise would be difficult to visualize. Thus, courses from athletics to zoology are clarified and explained.
Items that cannot be seen at all are brought to life by animation. Miniature photography is used to bring to the screen such things as the relation of the earth to other planets. Things too far away or too dangerous to be observed by students are brought to them by means of the film.
The results of visual education, which have been proved by tests, are that more is learned, the knowledge is retained longer, and more library work is done.
The recorder is an important part of the audio-instruction program. Recently the department received $15,000 worth of instruments which can record three transcriptions at the same time. The department soon will have recorders which will tape nine transcriptions at once.
Radford Choice Incites Wrangle
Washington —(U.P.)— Adm. Arthur W. Radford's nomination as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff set the stage in Congress today for an epic new unification fight and a bitter wrangle over the GOP administration's military plans.
The Pacific fleet commander, who led the "admiral's revolt" against unification policies in 1949, was expected to win Senate confirmation. But powerful Democrats on the Senate Armed Services committee said he will first be "thoroughly examined" on his views on the Air Force's strategic air command, keystone up to now of American retaliatory striking power.
Informed sources said C. E. Wilson will be the main target of Democratic fire. The argument will be made on Capitol Hill that Adm. Radford was his personal choice to head the Joint Chiefs, and that the selection was not cleared in advance with other Pentagon officials, including Secretary of the Navy Robert B. Anderson.
Raft to Give Up Guns For Dancing Shoes
Hollywood —(U.P.)— Film actor George Raft appeared disillusioned today over the current slump in motion picture production caused by television competition and switching to third-dimensional films.
"I'm going back to being a dancer," Raft said. "As far as films are concerned, I'm dead. Nobody has been breaking their necks trying to hire me."
Mr. Raft originally broke into movies on his dancing ability.
Radar's Power Worries Doctors
Los Angeles—(U.P.)—Modern military aircraft radar sets give off rays powerful enough to kill animals and injure humans, a medical liaison officer of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics said today.
Cmdr. Sidney I. Brody told the Aero Medical association yesterday that 3,000-watt radar microwaves from the Navy's new radar sets killed rabbits in 75 seconds.
He said the present worry is not that pilots will be injured, but that maintenance crews working the radar's 10 cm. beam may, over a period of time, suffer ill effects.
Cmdr. Brody pointed out that the latest type radar used on aircraft generated up to 1,000,000 watts.
"A most serious aspect of the hazard to humans," Cmdr. Brody said in reference to maintenance crews, "is that the eye appears especially sensitive to radar microwaves. We are worried about possible production of cataracts."
The naval officer told physician delegates to the association's 24th annual meeting that in experiments conducted by Lockheed aircraft corporation a 6-year-old radar set ignited steel wool 100 feet away.
He also described how photoflash bulbs were flashed at 223 feet and at 70 feet an explosion was produced by aluminum chips in a gasoline vapor-air mixture.
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Highlighting the final hearing was an exchange of opinions on the lawfulness of handling play-by-play accounts of baseball games. The
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Mr. Carroll said Mr. McLendon is obtaining information on major league games "in an authorized manner" and is presenting "distorted" play-by-play broadcasts to his listeners.
French Call Big Meeting
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