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Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, Oct. 23, 1952
50th Year, No.27
Mulford to Start On Polio Research
Research work to be conducted by Dr. Dwight Mulford, associate professor of biochemistry, is directly related to the production of gamma globulin—the plasma substance that has been shown to give children marked protection against polio.
The results of tests involving some 55,000 youngsters in three infantile paralysis areas were released Wednesday before the 83th annual meeting o fthe American Public Health association.
"The results of the tests are encouraging, but by no means complete." Dr. Mulford 'said. "I am convinced that for the moment gamma globulin will be used only to stop epidemics because of the lack of the substance," he added.
One pint of human blood is needed to furnish enough gamma globulin for one polio dose. Dr. Mulford said, "This means that if we're ever going to accomplish appreciable results in preventing polio, everyone in the country is going to have to make a practice of giving blood," he said.
he said.
Dr. Mulford's $43,000 two-year grant from the U. S. Public Health service made this fall was for research in the preparation of a stable modified plasma. "However, I knew at the time that this would involve experiments on production methods of gamma globulin," he said.
The project is to find means for adapting small scale experiments to production levels, to increase the yield of gamma globulin per pint of blood, if possible, and to salvage the substance from older blood.
Blood cannot be used for transfusion after 21 days, Dr. Mulford pointed out, so that 10 to 15 per cent of plasma stores are discarded. But ways to salvage the gamma globulin can be worked out, he added
The University is supplying the funds for the construction of a one-story annex to Haworth hall which will house Dr. Mulford's work.
Dr. Mulford attended a meeting called by the National Research council in Boston the weekend of Oct. 6-7. Because of the results of the test areas of Provo, Utah; Houston, and Sioux City, Iowa, the Council made plans to this meeting for expediting the production of gamma globulin, Dr. Mulford said.
Weather
A wet and noisy Kansas thunderstorm would have been far more welcome today than the "perfect" Indian Summer. Forecast says it will be fair tonight and Friday, little changes in temperatures. Lows tonight 30s northwest to middle 40s southeast. Highs Friday in the 70s.
British A-Bomb Test Explosion 'Vaporizes' Ship
London—(U.P.)-Winston Churchill announced today Britain's first atom bomb was set off inside a warship to test its effect on a harbor and caused a tidal wave and heat of nearly 1,000,000 degrees.
The Prime Minister told the House of Commons the bomb was exploded inside the HMS Plym, a 1,450-ton frigate which was almost completely "vaporized"
vaporized It was the first full official announcement about the explosion on the morning of Oct 3 at the Monte Bello islands, 50 miles off the northwest coast of Australia.
Mr. Churchill said he felt it would result in greater cooperation on the part of the United States in exchanging atomic information with Britain. The U.S. has withheld top atomic secrets from Britain since 1946.
"The thousands of tons of water and of mud and rock from the sea bottom were thrown many thousands of feet into the air and a high tidal wave was caused." Mr. Churchill told the packed and silent House.
"The effects of the blast and radioactive contamination extended over a wide area and HMS Plym was vaporized except for some red hot fragments which were scattered over one of the islands and started fires in the dry vegetation."
Mr. Churchill said the bomb "behaved as expected and forecast in many precise details."
Mr. Churchill said the explosion caused no casualties to personnel. He revealed that no animals were used as guinea pigs in the test.
"Her Majesty's government wish to express their indebtedness for all help received from Australia," he said.
"All those concerned in the production of the first British atomic bomb are to be warmly congratulated on the success of the outcome of this historic episode."
Homecoming Queen Nominees Named
Student Directories Available for Week
register's may pick up their Students on the book store upon directories at the book store upon presentation of identification cards. Faculty members' directories are in the register's office, and that
Student directories are now available at the book store and registrar's office.
Co-editor Shirley Piatt said that the directories include a more complete list of activities and student officers. They will be distributed for about a week.
Calendar Queen Contest Opens
A contest is now open for the selection of a calendar queen for the KU Calendar to be published by the class of '33, Dick Hughes, business senior in charge of the contest, said today.
Each organized house may choose an entrant from its members, or any senior woman that is backed by 25 other seniors may enter.
Deadline for entries will be Wednesday. They are to be submitted to Hughes at the University Dally Kansan newsroom.
other skill. all of the entrants will be introduced at the senior convocation at 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 3. The winner will be decided by a vote of the entire class. Booths will be present and voting will begin at the convocation.
All the pictures submitted will be posted on various bulletin boards on the campus. The winner will be announced during the halftime ceremonies of the Oklahoma A&M football game Nov. 18.
Charles Burch, journalism senior,
is the editor of this year's calendar.
Students, alumni, and Kansas fans who will be in Dallas Saturday for the KU-SMU football game will have an opportunity to attend what is expected to be the largest gathering of KU supporters at a luncheon outside the Cotton bowl before game time.
KU Fans May Attend Luncheon In Dallas
Thirty University women have been nominated for queen of homecoming Nov. 8. The queen will be selected by a panel of judges selected by the homecoming queen committee. Names of the judges will be withheld.
Acheson to Give Vital Disclosures
United Nations, N.Y. - (U.P.) Secretary of State Dean Acheson will "open the whole book" on the Korean war before the United Nations today and make some disclosures that will be news to the world.
Mr. Acheson planned to speak "for several hours" in the General Assembly's main political committee, which was scheduled to open the Korean debate.
Korean defense.
Mr. Acheson will review the entire history of the Korean war and the efforts to negotiate a truce in the war-torn peninsula, in order to help the entire UN membership see the situation as the unified command sees it.
There was a possibility Mr. Acheson's presentation might be considerably delayed by Russian maneuvers. The Soviet bloc planned to demand that Communist China and North Korea be invited to the debate. It also was expected to present a resolution rehashing the Korean section of the propaganda-laden "peace package" Poland presented to the assembly last week.
sented to the issue.
Mr. Acheson will present a "moderate" resolution embodying the U.S. views on the stalemated Korean truce situation. It was not yet known whether any other country would co-sponsor the measure.
Deadline Is at 5 p.m. In AWS Senate Race
Petitions to run for the two freshman posts on the Associated Women Students senate are due at 5 p.m. today in the dean of women's office.
From the candidates who file, six will be chosen by process of elimination. The candidates will meet tonight in room 205, journalism building, where the constitution and functions of AWS will be reviewed.
Candidates are: Ruth Cowie, Alpha Chi Omega, college sophomore; Denni Wade, Alpha Delta Pi, college senior; Barbara Spalding, Alpha Omicron Pi, college senior; Donna McCall, Alpha Phi, fine arts junior; Beth Lowell, Chi Omega, college sophomore.
Kay Magers, Delta Delta Delta, fine arts sophomore; Janice Skaer, Delta Gamma, college sophomore; Alberta Johnson, Gamma Phi Beta, college sophomore; Patsy Wiley, Kappa Alpha Theta, college sophomore.
Virginia Mackey, Kappa Kappa Gamma, journalism senior; Stephane Drake, Pi Beta Phi, college sophomore; Frances Hoyt, Sigma Kappa, college senior; Eloise Dlabal, Theta Phi Alpha, fine arts junior; Darlene Clark, Carruth hall, college senior; Shirley Samuelson, Hopkins hall, college sophomore.
HOKIES
Linda Stormont, Locksley hall,
fine arts junior; Emily Wolverton,
Miller hall, fine arts sophomore;
Lou Ann Smee, Monchonsia hall,
college junior; Sue Wilson, Sellards
hall, education junior; Joanne Hart-
tell, Templin hall, nursing junior.
Pat Powers, Watkins hall, college sophomore; Crysta Coxon and Norma Eshelman, college freshmen, and Janet Lewis, fine arts freshman, all of Corbin hall; Pat Tucker, Foster hall, college freshman; Mary Louise Lavy, Hodder hall, fine arts freshman.
resident.
Jane Henry and Faydean Orth, college freshmen, and Donna Tawwater, fine arts freshmen, all of North College hall, and Jane McCoy, Kruw hall, college junior.
en's since All candidates will attend a coffee to meet the judges at the Union cafeteria from 7:45 to 9:15 p.m., Nov. 3. Seven to ten finalists for queen will be selected at this time.
Pictures of the candidates are being taken at the Photographic bureau this week. Each woman will select the pose she wishes to use from four taken at the bureau. The picture must be in the dean of women's office by noon. Nov. 3.
The finalists will have dinner with the judges and queen committee at the faculty club Nov. 5. Three finalists will be selected at this time.
The name of the queen will not be announced until the game Saturday, Nov. 8.
Time' Says Murphy May Be Ike's Health Secretary
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy may become the nation's first Secretary of Health and Welfare if Gen. Dwight Eisenhower is elected President, Time magazine speculated this week.
later.
Dr. Murphy, who is out of town,
could not be reached for comment.
could not be Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the chancellor said the magazine's prediction was "a wild guess." He said he was sure the chancellor would never accept such a position.
Last week, according to the magazine, a couple of hundred educators from 17 Midwestian states gathered in Kansas City, Kan. to hear Chancellor Murphy call fororous action to keep education under local control and save it from the tentacles of big government.
many in the audience were more interested in the speaker than in the speech. They had heard that Dr. Murphy had been consulted by Gen. Eisenhower on U. S. health
Kansas got to know the doctor while he was dean of the School of Medicine in 1948. This was the time of the inauguration of the Kansas plan. The plan put more doctors in service in prairie townships. The communities would raise money to provide quarters and equipment for a doctor who would rent them or buy them on time.
policies. They thought that if the general were elected in November, Dr. Murphy would become an important figure in national planning for health.
Dwight Eisenhower, as president of Columbia university, learned of Dr. Murphy from his brother Milton Eisenhower, then president of Kansas State college. The general liked the Kansas plan and a meeting was arranged for Dr. Murphy to meet the general. Dr. Murphy put his ideas on paper for him later.
Gen. Eisenhower in his Abilene press conference last June said he
FRANKLIN D. MURPHY
believed every American has a right to decent medical care and the best plan he ever heard about to issue this came right from Kansas, from Dr. Murphy.
Dr. Murphy makes a careful distinction between areas in which he thinks the federal government can help to boost the nation's health and the area it should shun.
In answering the question on how to pay for this, Dr. Murphy said that those who can afford private health-insurance plans should pay for them. He said that more people must be brought into these plans. Those who cannot afford to pay their own premiums must be helped
Dr. Murphy has said, "The government has an important place in the picture, but England has proven to us that doctors and the application of medicine cannot be put on an assembly-line basis . . . but must be an individual and personal thing between the doctor and the patient."
by either state or federal governments.
Dr. Murphy asserted that the American people are going to have modern medical care at the price they can afford, and they want government and private medicine to get together.
The first step, he says, would be to get government and medical authorities around a table without distrust.
Top French Comedy To Be Shown Friday
"Carnival in Flanders," a French comedy, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Hoch auditorium.
The film won the gold medal of Venice internal exposition of cinemotography and was rated by the New York Daily News as one of the best foreign pictures ever released in this country.