Monday, Feb. 18, 1952 University Daily Kansan
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A BUS THAT FLIES The next best thing to flying in a big airliner across the mountains is a high trip on this "sky bus" up the steep slopes of Mt. Hood. This one is carrying a load of visitors from Government Camp, Ore., to Timberline Lodge to enjoy the pleasure of the skiing season, now in full swing. The spectacular trip by special tramway bus leads over beautiful forest areas, ravines and glacial terrain in the wilds of Oregon's mountains.
Iranian Standard Of Living Holds Despite Britian's Exit
Tehran, Iran—(U.P.)—Despite predictions of an early crackup of Iran's economy after the withdrawal of the British and their oil royalties, nine months of nationalization has brought almost no change in the standard of living of the average Iranian.
The man in the street has been affected little by the loss of Anglo-Iranian oil company revenues. Prices of such basic commodities as tea, sugar, bread and cotton goods either have remained stationary or have risen not more than 5 per cent over the last year.
With the upper and middle classes, however, it is a different matter. Prices of luxury goods have sky-rocketed because of heavy taxes and reduced imports.
Some 90 per cent of the population, however, has not been affected by the government's austerity policies. The government has made efforts to find other jobs for labor thrown out of work by curtailment of the oil industry's operations.
International trade on a cash basis is almost at a standstill because of the lack of foreign exchange, although foreign manufactured goods are still plentiful.
The government is making every effort to avoid economic collapse. The first step was to cut imports
Iran used to buy some 28 per cent of its imports in the sterling area for other transactions imposed by the British treasury, the amount was cut in half.
from 40,000,000 to 25,000,000 pounds annually. It has concluded barter deals to help close the gap.
Sugar deficits have been made up fairly successfully by barter with Russia and other countries.
So far, barter deals have been completed with Russia, Germany and France, among others. Negotiations are under way with Italy, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Japan.
To help out the government's program, a national per cent two-year loan has been floated. The total subscribed to date is 250,000,-000 rials.
Premier Mohammed Mossadegh's supporters say the government has written off the possibility of any income from oil, except for internal sales.
London — (U, P)—The "poisoner's best friend," a deadly, tasteless odorless liquid hitherto almost impossible to detect in the human body, has been trapped by science in a brilliant piece of international research extending from native Africa to Oxford.
British Scientists Discover 'Poisoner's Best Friend'
Peters said Sir Henry Dale, who investigated the plant 40 years ago, told him it was widely believed witch doctors in West Africa used it as a-secret poison and that it was responsible for a fatal paralytic disease among natives raging at that time.
No one will ever know how many "heart attacks" or how many fatal cases of "lockjaw" were really murder through its use. From now on poisoners no longer can administer the fluid with impunity. Science has caught up with them.
The story of fluoroacetic acid—the active component of the gibiflora plant of Africa—was told by Prof R. A. Peters of the biochemistry department of Oxford, where the clue to paralysis and death was found to be an innocent chemical, citric acid.
No one had suspected previously that citric acid, which is produced by the body itself in burning sugar, could be linked to murder.
The difficulty in detecting the poison has been due to incomplete knowledge of the process in the body by which energy is drawn from sugar. Peters and his team were doing a biochemical study of
The importance of this discovery to criminal investigation was noted immediately and Peters and his chemists, who came from Belgium, Italy, Britain, the United States and Australia, set about finding a method of determining when the poison has been administered.
That cannot be done before death but it may be some comfort to the victim to know his slayer probably will be punished. Highly technical, it involves detection of the amount of citric acid in the kidney (which has to be ground up for the purpose). An abnormal amount indicates poison.
fluoroacetic acid when they discovered it prevents the body from breaking down the citric acid created when sugar is burned into simpler compounds.
Retention of the waste citric acid they found finally acted as a violent poison on heart and nervous system.
Graduate Appointed To Engineering Position
Alden P. Edson, '37, has been appointed chief materials engineer at Hamilton Standard division of United Aircraft corporation, East Hartford, Conn.
Little Parallel Between Campus Interests In The 1952 Election And That Of 1948
Mr. Edson has been research metallurgist at the International Nickel company laboratories at Bayonne, N. J., and was chief metallurgist at Hamilton Standard prior to his new appointment.
There is little parallel between the interest in 1952 politics on the KU campus, and the interest in the national election of 1948.
Four years ago at this time students were experiencing a similar "boom for Ike" drive, but didn't know which direction the general would turn, Republican or Democrat. At that time nobody was certain that he would even attempt for the presidency.
The chances of Harry S. Truman being reelected president were dropping. Truman had alienated two segments from the Democrat party, and Progressives of Henry Wallace and the Dixiecrats segment of the South.
Senator Robert Taft, (D-Ohio), was in the running, too. In the early 1960s he was entering primaries to the senate he delegated to support his bid for the position.
Another familiar name seeking the job was that of Harold Stassen, former governor of Minnesota. Stassen, who was considered a youngster in political circles then, and a graduate of Michigan and delegates. He succeeded in gaining nine delegates in Ohio, political home of Senator Taft.
The most-touted candidate, however, was Gov. Thomas Dewey of New York. It was the second attempt for the governor. Political sentiment throughout the nation had been on hold since the 1980s. Dewey, Republicans felt that this was their chance to break a 16-year Democrat hold on the presidency.
University students thought so, too. Results of a Daily Kansan poll held in September, 1948, showed that students were almost two to one in favor of Dewey for president. Dewey garnered 63 per cent of student's votes in the poll, to 33
Advertising Class To Watch Popcorn
Students in the advertising campaign class, a senior course in the journalism advertising sequence, will tour the Barteldes Seed company plant in Lawrence Tuesday.
As a semester project, the students must plan an advertising campaign for a particular low priced, consumer product. TNT popcorn, a product of the Barteler Seed company, has been chosen for the project. The tour is designed to acquaint he students with the product.
Ben Barteledes, in charge of the TNT division, will conduct the tour through the processing plant at 826 Pennsylvania street. Popcorn from the start of the seeds through the processing and packaging in 10- ounce tins will be seen by the students.
per cent for Truman. The remaining 4 per cent was split between the Progressive and Dixiecra candidates.
Beside the Young Democrats and Young Republicans, there arose in 1948 the "Jayhawkers-for-Wallace" and "Students for Norman Thomas" clubs.
An exception to the general trend for Dewey was the School of Pharmacy. A Kansan article says that "The School of Pharmacy went four to one for Truman, for no apparent reason."
The College, said the Kansan, was "strongly Dewey," as was the School
Junior, Senior Win Bridge Tournament
Clay Roberts, business junior, and John McBride, college senior, won the Intramural Bridge tournament Feb. 14 at the Student Union.
Fourth place winners were John Buford, business senior and Roland Graham, education senior. They will receive medals.
The names of the winning team will be inscribed on a trophy, recently on display in the Union. Both will receive medals.
Second place went to William H. Edmunds, college senior and Dean Darling, education junior. James Riley and Manus Foster, graduate students, finished third. These men will also have their names inscribed on trophies and will receive medals.
Third place winners James Riley and Manus Foster are graduate students and are not eligible for intercollegiate bridge tournaments. As a result, KU will be represented at tournaments this year by first, second, and third place winners and Paul Pyeatee, business senior and Roland Graham, education senior, who will replace the graduate students.
of Fine Arts, which "showed the highest Dewey margin, 10 to 1." The article says the School of Business students and the journalists were split about 50-50 in opinion.
However, with Truman's amazing upset of Dewey in the November election of 1948, words printed in a March 16, 1948 editorial in the Kansan now seem somewhat prophetic in tone. The editorial, which dealt with personality quirks of possible candidates, said:
"The public's impression of the President is that he is no different from the head of the local Rotarians or an active member in the Kiwanis club. The President has fumbled important issues or made mistakes and then blandly admitted that they were too big for him or hinted that he wasn't the man for the job. The reaction of a large number of Americans to this apparent ineptness was that Harry Truman wasn't 'such a bad guy' because he is 'just like you and I.'"
Student Fellowship Topic
Student fellowship will be discussed by the Campus Affairs committee at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday in 222 Strong hall.
The discussion leader will be Gloria Anne Lehmann, college junior. Meetings of the Campus Affairs committee are informal discussions and open to all students.
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