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Official Summer Session Publication of the University of Kansas
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1943
VOLUME XXXI
One of the most important treatments of diseases to develop in the medical field recently is the Sister Kenny treatment of poliomyelitis, more commonly known as infantile paralysis. It has saved hundred of lives and has saved thousands more from being permanently crippled.
Nurses Know Kenny Method For Polio
"The Sister Kenny treatment is really quite simple," stated Mrs. Elma Stauffer, head nurse at Watkins hospital. "The response of the patients to this treatment is truly remarkable."
The size and shapes of the packs vary according to the size of the patient and the part of the body to which they are applied. Waterproof material such as rubber sheeting, oiled rayon, or poliofilm is used to cover the pack and a piece of dry material is then placed around the waterproofing.
The fundamental principle of the Kenny method is the application of wet heat to the affected areas. This is accomplished by placing steaming hot packs directly in contact with the skin. The packs must be made from at least 60 per cent material in order that the extreme heat will not burn the body. Treatment should begin immediately after the diagnosis of the disease has been made.
While the patient is critically ill, the packs may be changed as often as every fifteen minutes. When the pain lessens the packs are applied only during the day, permitting the
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Director Cables Praise For Nursery
The cable was sent by John Voris, executive director of the "Save the Children Federation." He said he was delighted by the roomy provisions and spacious playgrounds and gardens. There are 35 children, between the ages of 2 to 5, evacuated from dangerous areas to the nursery's safety where they are cared for by a trained teaching staff.
The Jayhawk Nursery committee chairman, Prof. A. J. Mix, recently received a cablegram from England praising local "Jayhawkers" for the good will support to the Jayhawk Nursery at Rugby, England.
Mr. Voris urged the continued support of Lawrence citizens and of the students of the University both as a matter of sound social service and as a substantial gesture of good will to Britain.
$3500 was the goal for the first year of the Jayhawk Nursery drive,
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Two Games Added To Grid Schedule
Two games have been added to the University football schedule for this fall, Karl Klooz, bursar and acting director of athletics, has announced.
Central State Teachers College of Warrensburg, Mo., will meet the Jayhawkers here on November 13, and the University team will play the Ft. Riley Centaurs at Fort Riley on November 27.
Add Instructor For Therapy
Miss Barbara Jewett, assistant director of the Neurological Institute, New York City, has been engaged as an instructor and as director of the Occupational Therapy program at the University for the next school year, Chancellor Deane W. Malott has announced.
Miss Jewett, who took her undergraduate degree from Indiana State Teachers' College at Terre Haute, has done graduate work at Wisconsin and at Iowa Universities. She was graduated from the Boston School of Occupational Therapy in 1942, and since then served as a therapist in the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital, Indianapolis, Ind., and as assistant director at the Neurological Institute in New York.
She will assume her new duties in September.
The Kansas City Naval Aviation Cadet Selection board has been authorized to resume enlistment of young men who have reached their seventh birth but not their eighteenth birthday anniversaries. Enlistment of such men was halted temporarily on July 1. Applicants must be either high school graduates or have a reasonable expectation of being graduated from high school by February 15, 1944.
None of those enlisting will be called for any sort of training until after they are graduated from high school, and none will receive flight training until they reach their eighteenth birthday, according to an announcement by the Board. All will be trained for commissions as naval or marine corps aviators, and it is expected that the majority will receive two semesters of college education before beginning their regular naval aviation training which requires from sixteen to eighteen months.
The Kansas City board's quota will be 30 men each month as compared with a former quota of 200 men a月.
Re-Open Enlistment Of Aviation Cadets
John Conard, University graduate this spring, and Glen Sankey, senior in electrical engineering, were ordered last Friday to report at the naval pre-flight school at Mount Vernon, Iowa, for training as naval aviation cadets. Both men were to report there today.
Conard, Sankey Called
A-12 Marches In Formation At Attention
To take advantage of all opportunities to instill military habits, ASTP and ASTRP (A-12) students are marching to and from classes. This practice has been instituted in accordance with general order number 3 which pertains to the operation and regulation of the Army Specialized Training Unit at the University, Col. W. L. McMorris, commandant of the army units stated yesterday.
In some cases classes are broken up into small groups. If there are three or more students in the group, they will march in formation.
According to the order cadets will normally be marched in formation and at attention when on the campus. When the group is 30 men or fewer, the men march in columns of two's. In larger groups the formation is in columns of three's with platoon or section guides. One student is placed in charge of each formation and is responsible for the cadence and for moderating the rate of march after passing through doorways, etc.
Talent selected from the student body, Machinist Mates, and V-12 members will present a Happy Hour program at 7:45 o'clock Thursday night in Hoch auditorium. Herbie Price and his band will also play.
The object of these regulations, as stated in a memorandum from the War department, is to give potential officers an opportunity to exercise command and responsibility and to increase their leadership experience. The military administration and training of the Army Specialized Training unit is organized and operated under the "eadet system."
In addition to marching to academic classes, other army customs such as reporting results of roll calls are being carried out. These customs are compatible with the usages of the institution and the unusual conditions under which the instruction is being given. Responsibility for discipline and supervision of the barracks and study halls is placed on the trainee personnel.
The Happy Hour presentations which have been featured monthly during the past year for the entertainment of the Machinist Mates are under the direction of Chief Petty Officer George O. Starkey. The show Thursday will be the second to be given since the V-12 members arrived. Both groups of Navy men will attend.
"We have an excellent show plann for the men," stated Chief Starkey. "They will enjoy every minute of it, I am sure."
Happy Hour To Be In Hoch Thursday
Weeds Give Trouble For Noses
"Kachoo! To exdoo be. Hit's dy haw fever adain."
Yes, the hay fever noses are "on the go" again. That creepy feeling high in the nose, followed at varying intervals with symptoms of a "bad coad" is more than imagination now for the unfortunate hay fever sufferers.
The pollen count goes upward and upward, and the disposition of victims of hay fever gets worse and worse. The sensitive noses find little comfort in the fact that the first frost will bring them relief. The poor tingling noses seem to regard the announcement this is going to be a good year for hay fever as little better than a death sentence. But if it helps matters any, the rains we've been having will make the weeds grow and with heavy winds the pollen should fill the air.
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Kellogg Awards Have Been Made
One Kellogg loan and two Kellogg fund scholarships were tentatively granted and a curriculum for medical technology established at a meeting Thursday of the Kellogg fund committee. Dr. N. P. Sherwood, professor of bacteriology, is the chairman of the committee. Dr. C. J. Weber of Kansas City, Kansas, medical school, Dr. E. L. Treece, of the bacteriology department, and Dr C. F. Nelson, professor of biochemistry, are the other members.
The curriculum as set up will lead to a Bachelor of Arts degree and a certificate of medical technologist. Four school years at the University and one calendar year at the K.U. hospital at Rosedale are required. The students will major in bacteriology and have almost a major in chemistry, according to Dr. Sherwood.
"The curriculum has been in existence for a great many years and has been sent out by the department to bacteriology majors. At Dean Lawson's suggestion it was modified and tentatively approved by the committee to be put in the catalog of the University," said Dr. Sherwood.
About 15 students graduate each year from the bacteriological department. There are usually 45 to 55 majors in the school. The hospital in Kansas City can take 15 students now. If the need arises accommodations for more will be provided.
Ehlers Visiting at Home
Miss Dorothy Ehlers, aeronautical technician, left Saturday for Cawker City, Kansas, to spend a week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Ehlers, before beginning work for the Boeing Aircraft Company of Wichita.
3 Changes In Office Of Registrar
The Chancellor has announced the following changes in the registrar's offices effective September 1:
Miss Emma Wagner, now secretary to the dean of the School of Business, will become secretary of the advanced standing committee and recorder for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, succeeding Miss Edna Teeter, who has resigned, effective August 31.
Mae Rublee, chief clerk in the registrar's office, will become assistant registrar.
Laurence C. Wooruff, registrar, has been appointed chairman of the committee on advanced standing, succeeding Dean Paul B. Lawson of the College, who resigned that position. The appointment was made by Chancellor Malott for the period intervening until the annual committee appointments made by the University Senate.
Miss Teeter's resignation terminates 18 years of service in the registrar's office. Her successor, Miss Wagner, has been in the office of the School of Business since the organization of the School in 1924.
Non-graduate students who wish to enter college before finishing high school must first be selected by the high school principal of the school he is attending. Only students who are seniors and in the highest ten per cent to their class in achievement are to be nominated. The principal of the high school fills out the nomination form which shows the classification, age, and rank in class of the students and the college he expects to attend and sends the form to the Board of Examiners Central Office in Fraser hall.
Board Favors Wider Admission Of H.S. Seniors
All institutions in the State of Kansas of collegiate rank are invited to join with the five state institutions in the practice of admitting non-graduates of high schools to freshman classes in college, according to a statement by Dr. A. H. Turney, professor of education and chairman of the State Board of Examiners. The Board met Saturday in the central office in room 121 Fraser hall.
This action was taken by the Central Board on recommendations of the Chancellor's Special Committee on irregular admissions.
Upon receipt of the nomination cards, the Central Office of the Board will send a test or tests to the principal of the high school with directions for administration. The Central Office scores the tests and
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