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Vaccine to Fight Polio Revealed by Doctor
Berkeley, Cal.—(U.P.)—Mass production of a vaccine to fight polio and "ultimate feeding of the vaccine by mouth" was announced at the opening of the new University of California $2,000,000 Biochemistry building.
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Dr. Herald R. Cox, chief of virus research for Lederle laboratories at Pearl River, N.Y., told assembled scientists that the discovery might be "the greatest single technical advance in whipping polio."
the present Dr. Karl F. Meyer, chief of the University of California's Hooper foundation, told the group that 61 young patients at the Sonoma (Calif.) State home, had received shots of vaccine produced by brain tissue viruses.
The method involves use of chick embryos in production of polio viruses. Until now, the only new polio viruses grown were in brain tissues derived from humans, monkeys and rodents, a cumbersome and costly routine.
Another stride in the fight against polio had been described prior to the presentation of Dr. Cox's paper.
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He emphasized that the vaccine is not immediately available. He added that no prediction can be made at the present time as to whether the vaccine will produce complete immunity.
Dr. Cox said the "most logical way" to immunize infants and children against the dread polio disease was to induce feeding by mouth.
issued in about 30 days after taking the shots, said Dr. Meyer, "demonstrate strains" amounts of *polio-fighting antibodies* were found in all of the patients. Despite the appearance of the antibodies, Dr. Meyer said, there was only one sure way to prove the patients were immune to
Arizona U. Takes KU Botany Grad
Ivan J. Shields, who recently earned the Ph.D. degree in botany from the University, has been appointed an extension specialist in plant pathology at the University of Arizona.
Dr. Shields was the first to discover the spread of oak wilt disease into Kansas. He has been making a survey of this fatal tree disease for the state. During the summer he was engaged by the city of Lawrence to survey the presence of phloem necrosis, a disease fatal to American elms.
The dissertation that won for Dr. Shields the doctorate degree was "Some Studies of Oak Leaf Blister"
Dr. Shields is the second KU student to win an appointment at the University of Arizona this fall. Dr. Lendell Cockrum is now assistant professor of zoology there.
Prof. Lind Writes Book Introduction
Prof. L. R. Lind, chairman of the department of Latin and Greek, has written an introduction for a book containing a complete translation by Rolfe Humbries of Federico García Lorca's "Gypsy Ballads." The book is being published this month at the University of Indiana press. Prof. Lind was one of the intense backers of the book, urging Mr. Humphries to collect and complete his versions of these poems, generally conceded to be among the finest in modern Spanish poetry.
Prof. Lind also will have nearly a dozen verse translations from seven languages in a forthcoming anthology, "The Little Treasury of World Poetry," expected to be published in November.
Oct. 20 Deadline Set For Scholarship Bid
polio. This would be to expose them—and this, said Dr. Meyer, was not done.
Juniors, seniors, and graduate students interested in applying for nomination for Rhodes scholarships to Oxford university, England for 1953-54 should consult John H. Nelson, dean of the graduate school, chairman of the University of Kansas committee on nominations, by Monday, Oct. 20. Nominees must be between 19 and 24 years of age and have excellent academic records.
Professor David M. S. Watson of the University of London will spend about four days at the Museum of Natural History this week studying certain fossil vertebrates.
British Professor To Study In Dyche
Dr. Watson, who arrived last week, is an internationally known authority on the structure and evolution of vertebrate animals, Frank Peabody, assistant professor of zoology, said.
Dr. Watson is currently holding an Alexander Agassiz research professorship in zoology at Harvard university.
During World War II he served as chairman of the Agricultural Research Council of Great Britain
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"Dr. Watson is coming here because the museum has some unique specimens of reptiles," Prof. Peabody said. "He is interested in seeing first hand the fossil reptiles and toothed birds of the Kansas chalk beds," Prof. Peabody added.
Math colloquim; 5 p.m., 203 Strong,
Dove magazine: organizational
meeting, 7:30 p.m., 9 Strong. All
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Official Bulletin
International club: 7:30 p.m., 200 Strong, Prof. Edolf Fields, "Fall Election and Political Parties in United States."
Monday, Oct. 13, 1952
Statewide Activities meeting: 7:30 p.m. in 206 Strong.
AWS: picnic, 5:30 p.m. Potter lake.
Alpha Phi Omega: 7 p.m., 112 Strong.
TUESDAY
Student Council meeting: 7:30 p.m.
103 Green.
HAJAS: all basic AFROTC students, 7:30 p.m. Drill hall, M.S. bldg.
Meet instructors on informal basis.
WEDNESDAY
AIA: smoker, 7:30 p.m. Community bldg. Faculty night, entire architectural dept. invited.
Chess club: 7:30 p.m., 20 Strong.
Second round of tournament.
The Hacker Art bookmobile, a combination art gallery and book store from New York city, stopped at the Museum of Art last week.
Mobile Unit Visits Museum of Art
The artmobile contains art pieces and books in all languages valued at $60,000. The artmobile visits schools, colleges, libraries, and museums all over the country to display and sell rare art books usually available only on the East coast. The visit to the museum was the second in three years.
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