SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Wait A While--ment, it would be possible to establish a blood collection center there.
Need Blood for Defense Later, But Not Now
"The students should not become excited and rush to Watkins hospital to offer blood for the Red Cross blood plasma store, about which there has been so much publicity," Dr. R. I. Canuteson, director of the University health service, said yesterday. At present, the hospital is not equipped to participate in this program; neither is there any need of such participation right now.
The students will have plenty of chance to aid their country in this way when such a need does arise. The University hospitals at Kansas City, however, are being inspected by the Red Cross to determine whether, with the installation of the necessary equipment, it would be possible to es- $ ^{ \circled{4}} $
The American Red Cross is cooperating with the National Research council in collecting 200,000 units of blood to be processed into dried plasma and used by the army and navy. At present, this program is limited to four large cities: Detroit, Milwaukee, Chicago, and St. Louis, and a few communities in the areas around these cities.
The blood is collected in these areas either at fixed stations or by mobile units. The most effective personnel for a unit has been found to be: one physician, a secretary, four nurses, and one or two clerks.
A unit of this size can easily handle 75 or 80 donors a day, according to an article in the Journal of the American Medical association. The equipment needed by a unit consists of an adequate number of beds, chairs, and tables; a supply of bleeding sets; and a refrigerator. The mobile unit uses collapsible furniture and requires a portable refrigerator, also a truck (the standard one-ton panel delivery truck has been used successfully).
After the blood has been taken from the donor, its cooling should begin as soon as possible. At a fixed station, it is placed in a constant temperature ice box and kept at between two and four degrees Centigrade. The mobile unit carries a small, insulated, portable box having a bunker for solidified carbon dioxide (dry ice). However, the blood is taken where it can be placed in a controlled temperature box as soon as possible.
The blood is taken to centers in the four cities mentioned above, where it is processed to separate the cells from the plasma. Then the blood plasma goes through a rapid drying process, by which all moisture is quickly evaporated away. The resultant powder can be easily stored, without the need of cooling it or watching its temperature, for
JUNIOR PROM---a period as long as two years, without suffering from deterioration. It can easily and quickly be put into solution by dissolving it in carefully sterilized water.
(continued from page two) harmonized on "Cheatin' on Me" and "Ain't She Sweet."
Individual artists in the band were plentiful. Ben Webster, hitting the high notes and playing his trumpet with one hand, probably provoked more comment and chuckles from the crowd than did any other. Joe Thomas, tenor sax man; Willie Smith, alto sax man; and Jimmy Young, trombonist and vocalist, also gained favor with the promoters by their individual performances.
Jimmy Brown, ace Hill trumpeter, commented, "Boy, when they don't turn out for a solid band like Lumeceford's there something radically wrong; the men are either losing their zest. for dancing, swing is going out, or the last of the month is too hard a time to dig up $2.24."
Dr. Canuteson said that possibly the Red Cross would establish a center at Kansas City, since it is in an important defense production area. If so, then it would be time for the students to think of offering their blood for Uncle Sam. However, since existing facilities are adequate for present needs, this probably will not be done until a much greater need arises for blood transfusions, such as another Pearl Harbor.
Faculty Member on Regional Committee
Lawrence, Feb. 27 — Miss Anna McCracken, of the University department of philosophy, has been appointed to membership on the Permanent Survey Committee of the Southwestern Philosophical Conference, it was learned here today. The committee is composed of five members from the philosophy faculties of the University of Texas, Rice Institute, Louisiana State University, Southern Methodist, and the University of Kansas.
The Conference includes colleges and universities in the states of Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and New Mexico.
Publicist
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Mason Joins
U.S. Navy
Horace Mason, for the last five years in charge of University athletic publicity, expects to leave within a few days for the Great Lakes Naval Training station at Evanston, Ill., where he will undergo a three-week period of indoctrination prior to entering U.S. Naval service.
Mason, a graduate of the University department of journalism in 1937, has been connected with the K.U. News Bureau since that time. He handled all sports publicity from the University, and at the death of Prof. W.A. Dill in 1939, took charge of the News Bureau until K. W. Davidson became its head in 1940.
After his three-week training period, Mason will become an ensign in the public relations department of the U.S. Navy.
To Hold Sing On March 22
The date for the women's Inter-
Crganized House Sing, originally
scheduled for next Sunday, March
8, has been changed to Sunday,
March 22, Don Keplinger, chairman
of the special programs committee
of the Student Union Activities
board, announced yesterday. The
Sing will be held in Hoch auditorium.
The change has been made because of a request by eight of the entrants that the contest be delayed.
Women's houses entering the Sing are Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Delta Pi, Chi Omega, Corbin Hall, Delta Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi BetA Phi, and Sigma Kappa.
The vocal contest is sponsored by the Student Union. Similar Sings were sponsored by the Women's Self-Governing Association in the past, but have not been held for several years.
"THAT AIN'T NO CO-ED . . . "
To Submit Candidates For Hobnail Hop Queen
"That ain't no co-ed, that's my wife," is what Arthur Lake apparently is telling Larry Parks in this 'scene from Columbia's joyous 'Blondie Goes to College,' now at the Granada Theater for 3 days. And "Blondie," or Penny Singleton, looks as though she'd rather that "Dagwood" Lake forgot the fact. After all, the Burneds went to college to learn something, seems to be her attitude, and maybe Parks has something to teach her? Larry Simms is again seen as "Baby Dumpling," and others in the cost of the comedy include Janet Blair, Jonathan Hale and Danny Mummert. Co-feature, "North to the Klondike," starring Brad Crawford, Andy Devine and Lon Chaney.
Candidates for queen of the Hobnail Hop, which is to be held Saturday evening in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building, are being entered by sororities and the I.S.A.. Dick Lee president of Engineering Council, announced yesterday.
The Hop, exclusively for engineers, will be held from 9 to 12 with Dutch Holland's band from Kansas City furnishing the music. Before the dance, Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Tau, engineering fraternities, will hold a joint
bang fraternities, you join a banquet at the Eldridge Hotel.
Lee, in his capacity as head of the engineers, asked that the rivalry between engineers and lawyers be forgotten, and that "Uncle Jimmy" Green remain green in name only.
Last year enmity flared when the namesake in front of Green Hall was painted the color of fresh spring foliage by engineers. Members of that group's Council had to remove the paint before the Hop could proceed as scheduled.
Voting will be done by the engineers Wednesday in Marvin Hall. Pictures of the candidates for Hop queen will appear in Tessay's Kansan, but the name of the queen and attendants will not be known until the night of the Hop, Waugh said.
Jim Waugh of the Engineering Council, released the following names as the candidates to be submitted by Saturday evening: Alpha Chi Omega, Betty Leimert; Pi Phi, Martha Alice Horner; Kappa Kappa Gamma, Lois Anderson; Gamma Phi, Shirley Henry; Chi Omega, Martha Jean Nearing; Kappa Alpha Theta, Barbara Barber; Delta Gamma, Joan Basore; A. D. Pi, Jeanne Haycock; Sigma Kappa, Mary Frances Sullivan; and A. O. Pi, Alice Lemon. The deadline is Monday night.
Swarthout Sees Preview Of Musical Film "Fantasia"
Dean D. M. Swarthout of the School of Fine Arts went to Kansas City yesterday to a special preview of the Walt Disney musical film 'Fantasia.'
55th Artillery Repeats Its History
In 1918, Col. James S. Dusenbury,
now colonel of the R.O.T.C. unit
here, was a commanding officer of
the first battalion, Fifty-fifth Artillery,
C.A.C. of the A.E.F. In August,
1918, Battery B brought down a German plane with a 30-caliber machine gun mounted on a truck.
History repeated itself in the action of Battery B, Fifty-fifth Artillery, coast artillery corps, on Dec. 7, 1941, in the Hawaiian islands, when 41 Jap planes were brought down.
Both in 1918 and 1941 Battery E's major assignment upon these occasions was; 155 mm. G.P.E. rifles. Bringing down planes was not expected of them. It was merely a sideline.
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