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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1951
Atomic Display Shown By Navy Was Costly
It took 13 months of planning and assembling, the borrowing of some $2,000 worth of equipment, and the work of several commercial artists to complete the atomic display that was shown in the Union Thursday.
Capt. Carroll Hungate, senior medical officer at Olathe Naval Air station and director of the display, said he started studying atomic fission as in connection with his interest with radioactive isotopes in medicine.
Captain Hungate first presented the display as part of a civilian defense campaign in Kansas City. He has since shown it in such campaigns in other cities in this vicinity.
When assembling the display, the Captain said he was particularly impressed with the co-operation given by equipment companies, magazines, and government agencies. Not one request for help was refused, he said.
Valued at $6,000, the display showed three types of Geiger counters and various other instruments for detecting radioactivity, graphic explanations of atomic fission and the effects of atomic bombs, and illustrated instructions for civilian defense against atomic attack.
An outstanding feature of the display was the original drawings, "Dagwood Splits the Atom," loaned by the Hall of Science in New York City and the King Features syndicate.
Speaking of the need for public instruction for the coming atomic age, Captain Hungate said, "In a few years more I think we will all know what protons, neutrons, and electrons are, just as all of us know what spark plugs and pistons are today."
SDX Initiates 8 Students
Eight journalism students were initiated into Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity, in a dinner in the Big Seven room in the
Ira B. McCarty, of the Kansas City Star, told how the Star investigated the vote fraud in Kansas City in 1946.
The new members of the fraternity are: William White, Marvin Arth, Charles Price, journalism seniors; Alan G. Marshall, Ellsworth Zahm, Robert Nelson, and Richard Marshall, journalism juniors; Robert K. Sanford, special student.
100 Attend First Sewage Meeting
Approximately 100 persons attended the first annual conference on sewage disposal Thursday in Fraser theater. Engineers from Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska participated in the discussion.
The program was set up in the nature of a refresher course to bring on the practicing engineers up to date on the new techniques of sewage treatment.
"We believe that this is a step forward in co-operation between the Board of Health, the University and practicing engineers in a better understanding of the latest principles of sewage works design. This better understanding should result in economies to cities in Kansas, which will help create jobs," said Dwight Metzler, chief engineer for the State Board of Health of Kansas and presiding officer at the conference.
Quill Club To Plan For 50th Anniversary
Plans will be completed at the meeting for the 50th anniversary dinner to be held Feb.9.
The Quill club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan.15, in the Pine room of the Union.
A short initiation will be held for new members who did not attend the last meeting.
Photo by William Delay
BEVERLY JENNINGS, College junior, and Glenna Louse Delay, College sophomore, testing a coin for radioactivity at the atomic display in the Union Thursday. Miss Delay is wearing the earphones of the Geiger counter, one of three in the display.
Juniors May Get Credit For College Study Abroad
Students in the College may study abroad and receive University credit during their junior year in 1951-52 if they can meet the requirements of the Junior Year program.
Dr. J. A. Burzle, chairman of the Junior Year committee, said that information about the 1951-52 Junior Year program has been received and that details about the programs in Germany, Italy, Mexico, and Switzerland are expected in the near future.
To be eligible for any of these programs a student must have a grade point average of 1.5 and adequate preparation in the foreign language of the country for which he applies. Each student's program is approved by his major department and the dean of the College.
Dr. Burzle said applicants must be of excellent character, show seriousness of purpose, be physically fit, and be generally qualified to represent the American College student abroad.
The student must have consent of his parents or guardians and their approval of the financial arrangements unless the candidate has an independent income. The student must also accept the supervision and authority of the "professor - in-
The students will live with families if possible so that they may have the maximum opportunity to hear and speak the foreign language and to gain more knowledge of the life and customs of the countries in which they are studying.
charge," an American professor who is resident with the students throughout the year and who superintends all the work.
Several scholarships, of varying amounts, are available on the basis of high academic achievement and the student's financial need.
In the French program, students will be enrolled at the University of Paris after a preliminary language session of six weeks. The total expenses for one year in France will be between $1700 and $2000. This covers University fees, travel expenses, board, room, and a reasonable amount of pocket money.
Kansas-Light rain and light snow beginning northwest and north-central tonight. Warmer tonight. Low 25 northwest to 40's southeast. Saturday snow in northwest and north-central and light rain southeast and extreme east. Cooler central and west.
THE WEATHER
A lecture on "Pituitary Hormones and Growth" will be presented at 8 p.m. today in 426 Lindley, by Dr. C. Willett Asling, professor of anatomy at the University of California.
Asling To Discuss ACTH In Lecture
The material, based upon Dr. Asling's own research, will include information on ACTH. and is designed for a general audience with a biological background.
Dr. Asling received his M.D. degree from the University of Kansas School of Medicine in 1939 and taught anatomy at the University until 1944.
Hammer Jolts Union Chairs
A 1,500 pound ball hammer is causing chairs in the Union to suddenly jolt. The hammer is being used to knock out cement obstacles for the construction of the north addition to the Union.
A one-foot thick retaining wall has already fallen under the ball hammer and a root cellar and a heating pipe tunnel remain. The root cellar was built to store fresh produce for the navy during World War II. Heating pipes have been taken out of the tunnel and now go around the excavation.
The old heating tunnel can now be seen as a wide cement ridge cutting across the excavation from north to south. The root cellar is the square cement obstacle on the north side of the excavation.
B. A. Green, whose construction company is doing the work, said that the excavation must go 10 feet deeper to accommodate a sub-basement for the addition. The permanent foundations must be set on the shale levels of the ground strata, he said.
Dinner For Nurses To Be Held Today
A farewell dinner for pre-nursing students who will go to the University of Kansas Medical center in February to finish their training will be given at 6 p.m. today in the East room of the Union building.
The women will hear a description of the work they will be doing from Mary Ann Suderman, who is ready to graduate, and from Jeanne Hillier, who went to Kansas City the past September.
Miss E. Jean M. Hill, chairman of the department of nursing at the medical center, will be a guest at the dinner. She is on the campus today to interview women who will go to the center in June.
THE UNIVERSITY'S new 29-passenger (Flexible Visicoach bus made its maiden voyage yesterday when it transported 20 of the schools of education and fine arts faculty to Hutchinson where they will conduct a music and art clinic today and Saturday. The bus was purchased for the use of University departments, according to J. J. Wilson, business manager. The operating and rental policies for the vehicle, which has a 218 inch wheelbase and large baggage compartment in the rear, have not been established, he said.
UN Expected To Approve Cease-Fire Plan
Lake Success, N.Y.—(U.P.)-The "last chance" five-point peace program for Korea was slated for overwhelming approval today in the United Nations main political committee.
The committee was to request the General Assembly to put the plan before the Chinese Communist regime.
The program, presented yesterday by the U. N.'s three-man mediation team, provides for an immediate cease-fire in Korea, withdrawal of foreign troops, setting up of a unified Korea with free elections and a big power Far Eastern peace conference with Red China sitting at the table.
The United States and Britain promptly endorsed the plan as a "last chance" for Peking to agree to peace in the Far East.
But Russia, echoed by its Polish Cominform partner, indicated a rejection of the plan in expressing "preliminary views" on it.
There was some indication, however, that Soviet delegate Jacob A. Malik, seconded by Poland's Juliusz Katz-Suchy, had not finally scuttled hopes for peace when he told the 60-nation committee:
"The Soviet delegation cannot lend its support to these proposals. In reality, there is nothing new in them. In reality, we see in them the same thing as has been proposed before."
Malk made it clear that he intended to talk again, and at length, or the five-point program. This was apparently meant that the burly Russian had not received his instructions from the Kremlin and until they arrive, he will not be authorized either to flatly accept or reject the plan.
Journalism Facun To Press Meet
Three faculty members of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information are attending the annual convention of the Kansas Press association in Wichita.
They are: Dean Burton W. Marvin, Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism, and Emil L. Telelf, associate professor of journalism.
They will represent the school and the University Daily Kansan, which is a member of the association. After a banquet tonight in the Lassen hotel the convention will close tomorrow with a breakfast and election of new officers.
Dean Smith Will Report To Council
George B. Smith, dean of the School of Education, will report to the Kansas Advisory Council on Teacher Education at Topeka Saturday on the activities of the state committee for certification of teachers in special teaching areas.
The committee of which Dean Smith is chairman studies the teacher program for instructing the handicapped such as the deaf and blind.
About 150 persons from the state's five schools and superintendents from the first and second class cities will attend the meeting.
KuKu To Sponsor Rally Monday
The KuKu's will sponsor a in Fowler grove at 9:50 a.m. i- day, Jan. 15, for the K.U.-K. State game Monday night.
Jerry Waugh, who will be playing his last home game with the Jayhawk squad, will speak at the rally. Coach "Phog" Allen and Myron "Sonny" Enns will also speak.