FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Fitch Studies Daily Habits Of Animals On KU Reserve
Dr. Henry S. Fitch, assistant professor of zoology, is one member of the University faculty who doesn't have to spend all his time in a stuffy classroom. Instead, he spends the major part of his day walking over 590 acres of brush and timber-covered land.
Dr. Fitch's work consists of trap- tping, tagging, and clipping all the native animal life that inhabits the section of land which comprises the reserve, located approximately five miles northeast of Lawrence.
"It will take years and years to get complete information on even the more common kinds of animals," Dr. Fitch said, "but I enjoy the work and think it is fascinating."
The theme of the project is to "let things be as nearly as possible, and let the animals move around as they will," Dr. Fitch pointed out.
The main hazard to the project is that the habits of the animals will be influenced by human interference. "We sometimes find the same mice in traps in the morning and the evening." Dr. Fitch said. "They come into the traps for the food and cover they provide." For this reason, the traps cannot be left open at all times, and traps must be moved around. "If they were left in the same position and open all the time, mice would constantly be in the traps." Dr. Fitch laughed.
A complex set of notes and graphs are kept on all the animals that have been tagged. By this method, the movement of the animals can be charted, food habits can be studied and population trends noted.
An average of 50 mice are caught in 100 traps each day, Dr. Fitch said. These traps are placed in meadows on the reserve.
Another 100 traps are distributed over a line approximately a mile long. By this method, population trends and food habits can be studied in connection with the different habitats found along the line.
In the course of his work, Dr. Fitch said he "has caught nearly every kind of animal found in this region—even skunks." He said skunks were hard to handle. "They wn't bother me too much, but I notice my students sit well to the back of the classroom."
The modern automobile has deprived New Mexico's road-runner bird of its favorite diversion—racing horses and horse-drawn vehicles down the straight, flat roads of the western state.
—Kansan Photo by Bob Blank
BAITING A POSSUM trap is Henry Fitch, animal trapper at the University farm.
Uranium Ore Worth $10,000
A $10,000 bonus! That's what Uncle Sam will give if you can find a deposit of uranium minerals that will yield at least 20 tons of high grade ore. Estimates of the world's supply of uranium run from 30,000 to 500,000 tons, but many persons have expressed pessimistic views concerning our vanishing uranium supplies.
David Lilienthal, ex-chairman of the United States Atomic Energy commission, says such views are not true and the people of the United States are entitled to know that they are not correct. The search for uranium has just begun.
Discoveries of major importance have been made in Canada at Common lake, Beaverlodge and Hardesty lakes, Cameron bay, Great Bear lake, and in 1948 a deposit of 59 per cent uranium ore was found on the northeast shore of Lake Superior. Lower grade ores can be used as technological knowledge increases
Uranium is widely distributed in the crust of the earth, but generally in very small quantities. The element is estimated to constitute 0.08 per cent of the earth's crust. It ranks 25th in abundance falling just below copper but exceeding tungsten. It is twice as abundant as zinc, four times as abundant as lead, and many times more common than tin, silver, or gold.
Until 1939 the Shinkolobwe mine in the African Congo was a major source along with the Union Miniere du Haut Katanga mine in the Belgian Congo. Together they supplied about 60 per cent of the world's requirements. The remaining 40 per cent was mined by Eldorado Gold Mines, Ltd. in Canada, and the Joachimstal deposits in the Ore mountains of Czechoslovakia.
An important low-grade source has recently been reported in the
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Union of South Africa. Here the gold ores of Witwatersand contain low concentrations of uranium, and by-product uranium will probably come from the huge gold-mining industry of that country. Sweden has already announced that she plans to recover uranium from oil shales. Other types of marine sediments which contain small amounts of uranium are under study in this country and other parts of the world.
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The known recoverable sources of uranium are so far limited to relatively few countries. The countries which have accounted for commercial production are: Belgian Congo, Canada, United States, Bohemia, Portugal, Australia, Norway, and Sweden. Countries which have had production or are said to be potential producers are: Madagascar, Brazil, India, England, Russia, Germany, Bulgaria, and perhaps others.
At present the U.S. Atomic Energy commission is sponsoring the most extensive and intensive searches that has ever been conducted for a mineral. The incentives offered by the commission are primarily for the discovery and production of pitchblende-type ores, the major source of the world's uranium supply.
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As in the United States, virtually all countries that possess radioactive minerals have established controls over movements of such materials or have nationalized the deposits. In the United States, including Alaska, all public lands that contain deposits of radioactive minerals were withdrawn by executive order on Sept. 13, 1945.
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