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Humane Societies Observing Be Kind to Animals Week
University Daily Kansan
Don't kick that dog! This is National Be Kind to Animals Week. observed by the Douglas County Humane society and similar agencies over the nation.
The local humane society has five well-behaved dogs for adoption. However the number of dogs looking for new homes changes daily, according to Mrs. James Moore, a member of the society.
So far as possible, unclaimed dogs that are healthy and attractive are not destroyed after the three-day detention period in the city dog pound, she said.
During a nine-month period, the so-
called handled 334 dogs, Mrs. Ray-
mon Armstrong, vice president, re-
ported. Of this number 145 were
found by their owners or were
given new homes. Only 167 were
destroyed.
The society assumes responsibility for the dogs, paying for their care by a veterinarian until their owners are located or new homes are found.
If suitable homes cannot be found for the dogs after two or three weeks, the animals are exterminated. The society also pays for the humane destruction of animals who are hopelessly sick or injured.
"It is much more difficult to induce people to give cats a home but 8 out of 50 handled were placed in homes," Mrs. Armstrong said.
All dogs, licensed or not, are prohibited by a city ordinance from roaming at large from April 1 to August 1.
During that period the dogcatcher is authorized to pick up any dog not on family property or on a leash and dog owners must call for their dogs at the city pound within three days or the dogs may be destroyed.
The society often advertises for owners or would-be owners because
many people do not know how to go about reclaiming their dogs.
Officers of the Douglas County Humane are Mr. Robert Charlton, president; Prof. John Ise, first vice president; Mrs. Armstrong, second vice president; Mrs. Florence Meyers, secretary; and Mr. George Dunkley, treasurer;
Dean to Examine Schools of Music
D. M. Swarthout, dean emeritus of the School of Fine Arts, will visit three western schools May 13 to 23, as an examiner for the National Association of Schools of Music.
Dr. Swarthout is a past president of the association and a current member of the association's curricular commission. The association includes 200 schools of music in the country.
Dr. Swarthout will give the commencement address at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore on Saturday, May 31.
The three schools he will visit now have associate memberships. They are the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and the Conservatory of Music and George Pepperdine college in Los Angeles.
Dr. Swarhout attended a biannual meeting of Pi Kappa Lambda, national honorary musical society during Spring vacation. He is a past president of the organization and a member of the board of regents.
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Seek 25 Men For Air Force
If the men are obtained, Capt. Paul D. Allen, recruiting officer, said that he will ask the Pentagon for permission to have the men sent as a group either to Lackland Air Force base at San Antonio, Tex., or Parks Air Force base at Pleasanton, Calif., for basic training.
A drive to get at least 25 Air Force enlistments at the end of the current school term and have them take their basic training as a group is being staged by the Lawrence Army and Air Force Recruiting center.
The local recruiting station is limited to five enlistments a month at the present time.
Captain Allen also said that 1500 qualified men are needed each month as aviation and navigation trainees. Information may be obtained at the Lawrence Recruiting office, 609 Massachusetts st.
Captain Allen added that students who have not been graduated are encouraged to finish their formal education. "The more education a man has, the more valuable he is to the service," he said.
Thursday, May 8, 1952
Professor Invents Method Of Liquid Crime Detection
Berkeley, Calif.—(U,P)—A new density measuring device has been added to the law's expanding kit of crime-detection instruments.
The device is a tube containing several liquids of varying weight that do not mix readily. It was invented by Dr. Paul I. Kirk, professor of criminology at the University of California.
Particles of earth, hair, burned paper or other evidence can be matched and identified by dropping them into the tube and watching where they stop going down.
The object sinks through the liquid layers until it reaches a point where its density is the same as the liquid's. There it stops.
Kirk said the device was tested in a recent burglary case. A man had been caught in the act of breaking down a door with a rock. There had been another burglary carried out in similar fashion but the man denied it.
By matching chips of rock found at the first scene with those at the second, it was proved they came from the same rock.
The chips from both places ston-
ped at the same place in the liquid density tube, Kirk said.
By measuring the density of ashes from burned paper, a criminologist can tell what kind of paper it was. Rag paper, bond and newsprint all make different patterns in the density indicator in ash form, Kirk said.
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