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University Daily Kansan Monday, Sept. 29, 1959
Doctor Gets $24,000 To Study Bio-Warfare
A $24,000 two-year grant from the U.S. Public Health service as part of its program of regional defense against biological warfare has been received by Dr. Cora Downs, professor of bacteriology.
The grant will sponsor research on certain aspects of tularemia and reckettical diseases, particularly typhus, Dr.Downs said.
The Public Health service divided the country into districts for regional defense purposes last year. Dr. Downs explained, "in an effort to organize the country so that if a disaster comes, we will be ready for it."
The districts are formulating defenses against biological warfare such as rapid diagnoses of diseases, detection of the agents, and screening antibiotics for these diseases, Dr. Downs said.
Every laboratory within each district was invited to choose a field in which it is competent to do research. Dr. Downs chose tularemia research, since she is now in her second year's work on tularemia under a $20,000-a-year Navy grant, which has been approved for a third year.
The Public Health service grant is a direct result of Dr. Downs' early participation in its regional defense program.
Dr. Downs did research at Camp Detrick, Md., the Army's biological warfare installations, under the Chemical Warfare division, during the war and is still a consultant for the camp.
"Specifically, we are working on the mechanisms of immunity—just make people immune after they make them on remia or typhus." Dr. Dowls said.
She pointed out that epidemic typhus is a problem only in countries ravaged by war, but that endemic typhus, transmitted by the body lice of rats and other rodents, could become serious in this country.
The work, being conducted in the virus laboratories of the department of bacteriology, requires 100 to 200 mice a week and great numbers of rabbits and guinea pigs.
Typhus rickettsia has to be cultivated in embryonic eggs since it will not grow in a culture medium, Dr. Downs said.
The rickettsiae are injected in the
fertile eggs after they've been incubated for five to eight days, she said. The eggs provide an excellent "sterile test-tube," Dr. Downs added, although there are problems in obtaining them since eggs from hens which had been fed antibiotic feeds cannot be used.
Insure Dirty Wash, Postoffice Advices
Placing an extra identification card on the inside of a laundry card is cheap insurance against losing the dirty clothes sent home to mother, Bruce McKee, superintendent of the University postoffice said today.
Mr. McKee explained that laundry bags are sometimes lost when name cards are damaged or lost. A card bearing the student's name and address placed on the inside of the bag would insure the student against permanent loss of his clothes.
Two laundry bags were lost last year, but both were found in the dead parcel post section of the post office in St. Louis. Claims were registered and sent along with a list of the contents to St. Louis, lost laundry bags and one student
It took a long time to find the complained that he had to wear a dirty shirt for several days.
Art Education Club Elects New Officers
Officers were elected by the Art Education club at a meeting Thursday.
They are Rosalie Thorne, education senior, president; Diana Cruse, fine arts sophomore, vice president; Bonnie Roots, fine arts junior, secretary-treasurer; Margaret Waddell, fine arts sophomore, publicity director, and Patty Clem, fine arts junior, chairman of committees.
KANU Radio Schedule
The new KU radio station, KANU, heard at 91.5 megacycles on the FM dial, will broadcast the following programs this week:
| | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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| 1:45-2:00 | Previews | Previews | Previews | Previews | Previews |
| 2:00-2:15 | Uncle Dan | Let's Find Out | Distant Lands | Tales from the Four Winds | Growing Up |
| 2:15-2:30 | News | Childrens News Reporter | News | News | News |
| 2:30-3:00 | Art by Radio | | Playtime | Adventures in Music Land | Time for a Story |
| 2:45-3:00 | | This is KU | | | |
| 3:00-4:00 | Time to Visit | Time to Visit | Time to Visit | Time to Visit | Time to Visit |
| 4:00-4:30 | Smorgasbord | Smorgasbord | Smorgasbord | Smorgasbord | Smorgasbord |
| 4:30-4:45 | | | | | Southland Serenade |
| 4:45-5:00 | | Bard of Avon | | Waltz Time | |
| 4:30-5:30 | Cooper Union Forum | | Canterbury Tales | | |
| 5:00-5:30 | | Master-works from France | | This is Music | |
| 5:30-5:45 | Jazz Concert | Jazz Concert | Jazz Concert | Jazz Concert | Jazz Concert |
| 5:45-6:00 | Sports | Sports | Sports | Sports | Sports |
| 6:00-7:00 | Candle-light Concert | Candle-light Concert | Candle-light Concret | Candle-light Concret | Candle-light Concret |
| 7:00-7:30 | The People Act | Symphony Hall | Jeffersonian Heritage | Concert Hall | Music from Mt. Oread |
| 7:30-7:45 | Ballet Music | | | Jayhawk Locker Room Club | Football Forecast |
| 7:45-8:00 | Invitation to Read | | | Broadway Rhapsody | Instrumental Interlude |
| 7:30-8:00 | | Jazz Story | Organ Concert | | |
| 8:00-9:00 | Starlight Symphony | FM Concert | British Concert Hall | Chamber Music | Opera Is My Hobby |
| 9:00-9:15 | News Signoff | News Signoff | News Signoff | News Signoff | News Signoff |
| 9:15 | | | | | |
Paris —(U.P.)— Gen. Matthew B Ridgway disclosed a serious shortage of Allied airfields in Europe today and said the "rock-bottom minimum" needed for defense would not be reached even-by next summer.
NATO Defense Needs Airfields
The Allied Supreme Commander said there were two main reasons why the North Atlantic Treaty organization lacked the facilities they need to hold off any Russian attack:
Programs from 2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. can be picked up over the KFKU-AM until
6 p.m. or 6 programs from 2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
can be picked up on AM.
1. Ridgway himself lacks effective control of the transport and supply situation.
2. The difficulties of operating in foreign countries including complicated inter-governmental negotiations.
Speaking at a press conference Ridgway singled out for special mention "French laws and the attitudes of French labor unions with respect to working hours, overtime, and so forth, which has also presented problems to us."
Asked to sum up his troubles with the air base situation Ridgway said:
"We don't have the rock-bottom minimum number of airfields now and we won't have them by next summer.
"I think it will work out all right. But my job is obviously to keep pressing all the time until we get things straightened out."
Eastwood Named Museum Director
Raymond Eastwood, professor of drawing and painting, has been named temporarily as director of the Museum of Art and acting chairman of the department of art history.
Prof. Eastwood, who came to the University in 1922, has studied with Du Mond and Sergeant Kendall. He started his career as a murals painter and decorator. His paintings of sand dunes have become well-known throughout the United States.
A permanent director will be announced in three weeks.
During the morning the group were guests of Dwight Metzler, chief engineer of the sanitation division of the State Board of Health. Metzler told the group the benefits of consolidating the water testing facilities at the laboratories at KU and of steps being taken to provide adequate water supplies and sewage treatment in areas where housing facilities are rapidly being expanded.
State Board Reviews KU Health Facilities
Members of the State Board of Health inspected and reviewed the facilities of the health offices at the University Saturday.
The board members and their wives were guests of Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy at luncheon in the lounge on the west side of Memorial stadium, after which they attended the KU-Santa Clara game
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News Briefs
New York--Robert Selikowitz was just one of the city's thousands of newsboys. He operated his newsstand on Broadway for many years and his steady customers called him "Sully."
By UNITED PRESS
Sully died almost two years ago. It was learned yesterday he had left an estate of $128,840, most of it in stocks and bonds.
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Detroit—Police said today they might end a beautiful friendship when they broke up a dice game and arrested John Hill, 34, and Howard Marshall, 19.
A search of Marshall's pockets turned up 14 dice, all loaded. Hill glared at Marshall. Then 53 dice were taken from Hill's pockets. They were loaded, too.
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Yuba City, Calif.-Sutter County District Attorney Noel C. Stevenson has organized a "Stevenson for Eisenhower" club.
"There must be 300,000 Stevensons in the United States in addition to Adlai," he said. "Plus wives and relatives, it adds up to a lot of votes."
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Denver—A pretty young housewife believed today her good looks saved her from getting a traffic ticket.
The housewife got off with a reprimand after police officer William Coopersmith had handed out tickets to five other motorists for making illegal left turns at a busy intersection. The embarrassing truth of the matter is that Coopersmith ran out of tickets by the time he had stopped the pretty housewife.
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With 1st Marine Air Wing, Korea—A new Marine second lieutenant was on his first mission over North Korea when the enemy's anti-
Debate Clinic To Be Oct. 3-4
High school debate teams from all over Kansas will attend the annual University debate clinic Oct. 3-4.
Main speaker at the clinic will be Bower Aly, chairman of the department of speech and drama at the University of Missouri. He will discuss the high school debate question for this year: Resolved, that the Atlantic Pact nations should form a federal union. He is national director of the debate material for the high school question and also is a past president of the Speech Association of America.
Mr. Bower will speak at 9 a.m. Saturday in the Green Little theater. Other speakers during the morning will include E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, who will speak on "Your Speech and Better Living," W. E. Sandelius, professor of political science, and Mark Karson, professor of political science at Washburn university of Topeka will discuss the debate question.
At 7.30 p.m. Friday the KU debate team will debate the high school question with a team from Emporia State Teachers college, Chairman will be Kent Shearer, instructor in speech at KU and former Kansas debater.
Sponsoring organizations of the clinic, which is planned as a training session for debate teams, are KU Extension, the speech and drama department, and the Kansas State High School Activities association.
aircraft fire burst about kim in black puffs.
"Hey, Skipper," he cried over the radio to Lt. Col. Darral D. Irwin of Duluth, Minn. "They're shooting at us."
"That's all right, son," Irwin said calmly. "They're allowed to."
Other members of the University faculty to receive honors at the convention included Dr. Herbert Wright, professor of psychology, who was named program chairman for the division of child psychologists
Dr. Alfred Baldwin, psychology department chairman, gave a full day's presentation on new theories he has been developing regarding child motivation. He has completed a book to be published soon containing these original ideas.
Dr. Alex Sweet, assistant professor of psychology, presented a paper at the symposium of the role of recognition in learning theory.
Dr. Erik Wright, director of clinical services, was the University representative on problems of training clinical psychologists, called by the Veterans' administration. He also served as an examiner for the American Board of Examiners in
Six Psychology Professors Honored By Organization
Dr. Roger C. Barker, professor of psychology, was elected president of the division of child psychologists of the American Psychological association at a recent meeting of the organization held in Washington, D.C. Dr. Barker is also co-director of the Midwest Child Study club.
Professional Psychology which examines clinical psychologists to determine whether they should be certified.
Another member of the University faculty honored at the conference was Dr. Lee Meyerson, assistant professor of psychology.
Dr. Meyerson, who has achieved national prominence for his studies on the problems of the deaf child, was elected to the executive board of the new Society for the Psychological Study of the Physically Handicapped. Dr. Meyerson is an instructor at the University and at the Medical Center in Kansas City.
Dr. Martin Scheerer, professor of psychology, who was to be the chairman of the symposium on the role of recognition in learning theory, was unable to attend because of illness.
Lecture to Feature Italian Carnival
The Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans and the elaborate Mummers parade in Philadelphia are much like the Renaissance carnivals in Italy which will be described Tuesday evening by Dr. Federico Ghisi, musicologist from the University of Florence, in the first of the 1952-53 Humanities lectures. Dr. Ghisi will speak in Fraser theater at 8 p.m.
The beginnings of theatrical musical comedy go back to the entertainments and shows in Florence, declared Prof. Milton Steinhardt, associate professor of music history at the University. He explained that the liberal Medici family encouraged the carnival, shows, and masquerades.
"Singing, dancing and parading through the streets—often by torchlight at night," said Professor Steinhardt, "featured most of the celebrations like the pre-Lenten carnival and the Calendinaggio, which
"The most popular songs of the masqueraders and players were seldom moral, and most were satirical. The words of many songs had double meanings and were intended to 'poke fun' at politicians, or at some old taboo, or old husbands who had married young wives," Prof. Steinhardt said.
began on May 1 and ended with the Feast of St. John on June 24. In the colorful parades were 'floats' elaborately decorated by the Florentine trade and craft guilds and representing legendary scenes or the triumphs of classical conquerors.
Much of the risque quality of modern musical comedy songs and dances flavored the Florentine carnivals and made them popular because they told "the sort of joke that raises a laugh in any crowd," Professor Steinhardt explained
"The participants were dressed according to the types by whom the
poetic text was supposed to be uttered, and each character represented the life of some popular artisan type—such as a rough countryman, a chimney sweep, a baker, a beggar, a tailor, or a miller. Of course, each character was depicted in burlesque dances and gestures."
Both slides and recordings will be used by Dr. Ghisi to illustrate his lecture on "The Festivities and Shows of Florence during the Renaissance."
During his visit to the campus, he is scheduled to speak to Prof. Ronald Barnes' class in Introduction to the Literature of Music, 9 a.m. Tuesday, and at noon he will be luncheon guest of Circolo Italiano.
After leaving Lawrence, he w lecture at North Carolina, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Michigan, and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y.