AGE EIGHT
冷藏
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1951
Japanese Bill Collector Sits Through The Atomic Blast
Hiroshima, Japan (U.P.)—Goichi Oshima, a bill collector for the local chamber of commerce and industry, was sitting in a concrete-walled electric transformer station on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, when an iron window frame came over and hit him in the back.
He saw no light. He felt no heat. He got no air blast, but he did hear huge bang.
The atom bomb had gone off almost directly over him.
He was sitting to the side of the window, with his head turned away from it. The station walls were three thick. Oshima was not burned. The frame broke his shoulder and mocked him out.
When he came to, the whole area around him was on fire. He jumped into one of the seven rivers which cut through Hiroshima. He had a mental clouding for about three hours, but he remembers he stayed in the river until he got too cold. He started home, collapsed once along the way, and again when he got there.
His home, also was collapsed, as were the other homes around it. Oshima got very sick. He had been only a little more than 200 yards
World Traveler Says 'Stay Home'
Chicago (U.P.)—Americans who are led up with the workaday world and banker to get away to some palm-ringed tropic isle got a word of advice today from a world traveler.
"Stay home," was Dr. Earl P. Hanson's emphatic counsel.
Hanson, a professor of geography at the University of Delaware, is an expert on such far-flung places in Iceland, the Amazon basin, Líberia, and the tropics.
"And Americans are the lousiest pioneers in the world.
"It all seems so glamorous when you're here at home," Hanson said, but it isn't at all.
"They're used to too many conveniences. Unless they can go to movies every night or watch television whenever they want to, or unless there are a lot of other polish Americans around to talk to, before you know it they want to do home."
Hanson was attending the annual meeting of the association of American Geographers, sponsored by northwestern University. He spoke in a phase of "the problems of the white man in the tropics."
He conceded that today's spiraling prices, high taxes and threats of war might make a lot of people think they would like to "go native" and get back to the "simple life." "But it takes a lot more than just hunting to get away from it all," he said. "At least it does if you're going to make a success of it.
"It takes adaptability. You have to be ready to put up with all kinds
we're ready to put up with inconveniences—and like them. and there are very few Americans who can do it and like it.
why, take an American, put him under a palm tree and he thinks it's happy. But the first cockroach hat drops into his soup and he's all it to pack up and grab the next cat for home."
Omicron Nu Elects Selig As President
Mary Selig, education junior, was elected president Tuesday of theota chapter of Omicron Nu. national home economics honor society.
Other officers are: Rita Roney,
College junior, vice - president;
velyn Millison, education junior;
secretary; Jo Anne Putney, College
union, treasurer; Sarah O'Bryan,
College junior, publicity; Clara Mas
Carl. College junior, editor.
The group also held initiation services at the home of Miss Viola Anderson, associate professor of home economics.
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from the "hypocenter"—the point on the ground directly under the explosion.
There had been 28 persons in the room with him. Twenty were killed outright. Seven died in five days from heavy radiation. They had no burns or injuries.
Oshima survived. But he had radiation sickness, for gamma rays could go through the three-foot concrete walls. He had a fever for 15 days, diarrhea 20 days, severe nausea and severe thirst. Tiny spots appeared under his skin, where the small blood vessels were seeping blood.
Within 10 days, all his hair came out. It fell out at the slightest touch
and by the handful. His eyebrows
eyelids, and mustache disappeared
Twenty days later his hair began to grow again, and by November it was all back again. In February, it fell out again—all of it. But two weeks later it began to grow and in two months he had his normal quota of hair back (he was 63 years old, and had had a bald spot on top of his head for a long time).
Since then, he has been well, except that he doesn't feel as strong as he did before the blast. He eats and sleeps well and has only lost eight pounds in these five years. He has experienced a mark decrease of sexual desire, but that may be because of his increasing age.
Chinese Reds Hold Ace In Tense Korea Card Game
Two years ago, he noticed a dimness of eyesight. He went recently to the clinic of the atomic bomb casualty commission, where U.S. doc-
By United Press Foreign News Editor
At the moment the Chinese Communists are losing the Korean war, but they still are in complete control of the over-all situation.
If they want a negotiated peace on any realistic basis, they can get it. If they want all-out war and the devil-take-the-hindmost they can have that, too.
The Allies have adopted a wait and see attitude about the war, and the next move is up to the enemy. He will have to make that move before too long. Because under present conditions the Chinese Reds are losing sizable portions of their best troops without getting anything in return.
Their present choice lies in or perhaps between these two extremes: (1) Make an all-out attempt to drive the United Nations army into the sea, and, failing that, pull out of the war quietly and pretend nothing ever happened. (2) Stop fighting now and accept overtures for a negotiated peace which a United Nations committee is prepared to make.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur has made it clear that crossing or not crossing the 38th parallel is an academic question. He is going to continue his present campaign, which means he will send his forces anywhere he considers necessary to keep the U.N. army intact and punish the enemy.
In fact, he crosses the parallel every day. Some of the heaviest damage done to the Chinese Reds is inflicted by the U.S. Air force which operates all the way up to the Manchurian border.
The only thing that could change that strategy would be word from Washington or Lake Success that Peiping was ready to talk terms. Then there would be a lull in the fighting while the diplomats had a
Darlene Schindler, education sophomore, and Joyce Herschell, education junior, have been elected as delegates to the Women's Athletic association national convention. The convention will be held at Ann Arbor, Michigan from April 10 to 13.
The delegates to the convention were elected by the W.A.A. members. Only schools with a current membership in the National Athletic Federation of College Women are eligible to send delegates. The number of official delegates to the convention depends upon the size of the school.
Miss Schindler has been a member of the W.A.A. for a year and a half. Miss Herschell has been in the organization for three years and is now Treasurer. Both have received letters for participation in intran-urals.
According to a pre-registration poll, an estimated 602 have indicated their intention of attending the convention. Schools throughout the state of Kansas have chartered a special bus to take the delegates o Ann Arbor.
Delegates Chosen For Convention
chance to try to work something out.
To date, however, the U.N. has received nothing but the cold shoulder from the Chinese communists. The enemy acts like a man who is confident he still packs a knock-out punch and thinks he only needs a little time to wind up and throw it.
Lt. Gen. Matthew Ridgway thinks otherwise. He has brought the U.S.eighth army up to its present position in a solid front that doesn't leave any gaps for infiltration or a break-through. He commands an earth-rattling artillery set-up and has absolute command of the skies and seas.
The major handicap he faces at the moment is the Korean mud, but if he is forced into a defensive action he will be standing still anyway while the enemy tries to move forward.
The U.N. army has made its move carefully and with great skill.
Now it's Red China's move on both the diplomatic and military fronts.
The Kansas council for social studies will hold its annual meeting here Saturday, April 14, under the direction of the University Extension. The event is for social studies teachers in Kansas elementary and high schools.
Sociologists Meeting Set
The first of the three session will be opened Saturday morning by Frank T. Stockton, dean of the University Extension.
Featured speakers include: Ethan P. Allen, professor of political science and director of the bureau of government research, who will discuss, "Materials For Teaching Kansas State and Local Government."
Professor Roy Durham of Kansas State Teachers college at Emporia, will review the "Kansas Citizenship Program."
tors are studying the effects of the bomb on human beings.
The second session will be luncheon in the English room of the Union where a business meeting will be held. Miss Lulu McCanies teacher at Wyandotte high school, Kansas City, Kan., will preside.
After a complete physical checkup,
a letter was sent to Mr. Goichi
Oshima, 480 Funaira Kawaguchi Cho,
Hiroshima City:
Leland J. Pritchard, professor of business, will sneak on "Inflation."
Saturday afternoon talks by two KU. foreign students will be featured. They are: Liza Maria Peussa, graduate student from Helsinki, Finland, and Hirohiko Otsuka, graduate student, Tokyo, Japan.
"Examination of your eyes showed there is some clouding of the lens. This is due to exposure to the atomic bomb. This lesion is so small that it is necessary to look through a microscope to see it, and I do not think you have to worry about losing your vision. The remainder of
Miss Ruth Lichen, instructor in education, is in charge of local arrangements.
A dynamite blast or a screaming siren have in past years signaled opening of the Engineering exposition.
Engineers' Holiday Started In 1909
The idea of a holiday for students in the School of Engineering and Architecture was first conceived in 1909. Originally the program included a series of talks by outside engineers, a dinner for the engineers, a parade, a dance, a baseball game and field activities such as a tug of war.
The first exposition was added to the program in 1922. The Engineers exposition proved to be the most worthwhile of these events and has continued through the years until it is the climax of the year's activities in the school. No exposition was held in 1933 due to a lack of funds but funds were again available in 1934 and the exposition was held again.
the physical examination revealed nothing unusual. . .
Goichi Oshima, looking old and tired at 68, thanked the clinic for a "good" examination and went off down the hill—probably the closest man in history to the center of the atomic bomb who lived to tell how it felt.
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