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A GLOOMY CAST—Douglas C. Reed, Cassiday junior (second from left), is continuing ROTC Summer Camp training at Fort Riley
in spite of having a cast on his foot for the sixweek camp for cadets in the Fifth Army area. (U.S. Army photo.)
KU Virus Research Program Receives Health Service Grant
Virus research and the production of antisera—agents used to detect and identify viruses—will be stepped up at the University of Kansas Medical Center by a $400,000 contract awarded to the KU Endowment Association by the U. S. Public Health Service.
Part of the research program covered by the grant involves a long-term project to detect and identify viruses that may cause cancer in human beings.
Researchers now believe that some types of cancer, such as leukemia, may be caused by viruses, said Dr. Herbert A. Wenner, in charge of the project under the one-year contract.
The KU Medical Center is the only antisera production center in the United States. This dried blood
HAMBURG. Germany — (UPI) — Nazi Germany's most deadly gas, which Adolph Hitler never dared to use, was dumped into the Atlantic Ocean yesterday.
Nazi Gas Supply Dumped Into Sea
The West German government salvaged lethal nerve gas encased in 150 millimeter artillery ammunition from the bottom of the Baltic Sea where it was sunk on British orders right after the war.
A 97-ton steamer, the August Peters, took the salvaged gas ammunition to an undisclosed spot for sinking into the vast depths of the Atlantic Ocean.
The strange mission of the tiny steamer, which made one journey in March and is scheduled to make a second and final run late this month, has been dubbed "top secret" by the West German government.
serum with antibodies for 40 of the known 61 human viruses is used to identify virus diseases — including the three kinds of polio—which may break out in epidemics anywhere in the United States.
A 10-foot-square refrigerator, in one of the School of Medicine's old buildings about one mile north of the KU Medical Center at 39th and Rainbow, contains about 26 gallons of antisera for identifying polio and the 37 other viruses. The five-year stockpile represents an investment of $1,000,000 and years of research.
Shipments of the antisera also have gone out to Canada, South America, South Africa, Western Europe, Japan and India.
Under the U.S. Public Health grant, the KU Endowment Association is able to renovate and remodel the old buildings. The Kansas Board of Regents recently approved a request to lease the buildings to the KU Endowment Association for $1 a year for this purpose.
Dr. Paul Kanitsuka is assistant project director. The project staff occupies all three floors of the Eleanor Taylor hospital building on the original "Goat" hill campus.
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MIAMI—(UPI)—Three American newsmen recuperated in Miami yesterday after arriving from Cuba where the government had jailed them.
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William Moeser of the Miami News, Judson Gooding of Time and Life magazines, and National Broadcasting Company photographer John Hlavacek arrived from Havana aboard a Cubana airliner.
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They were clean shaven and in good health. They said it appeared their cell, a "clean and neat one," was one reserved for top political prisoners.
Moeser and Gooding were detained twice within 24 hours on suspicion of "presenting the (Cuban) revolution in a bad light." Hilavacek was arrested when he took pictures of them following their first release.
One out of every 10 automobiles in the United States is in California.
New Pharmacy Prof. Selected
The appointment of Edward E. Smissman as professor and head of the department of pharmaceutical chemistry of the School of Pharmacy at the University has been announced by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
Prof. Smissman has been an active research worker and has prepared 19 scientific publications in the fields of biogenesis and metabolic pathways, biological activity and chemical structure relationship, isolation and structure determination of natural products and synthesis of natural products.
Prof. Smissman succeeds Prof. Burchklatter who, after 13 years, has left KU to become professor and chairman of the department of pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Michigan.
The National Science Foundation sponsors annual surveys of industrial research and development.
He is chairman of the Division of Medicinal Chemistry of the American Chemical Society and has held numerous offices in national associations.
He was assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois College of Pharmacy, assistant professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy and since 1957, has been associate professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Wisconsin.
Prof. Smissman, 34, received the degree bachelor of science from the University of Illinois in 1948 and the degree doctor of philosophy from the University of Wisconsin in 1953.
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SAN ANTONIO, Tex. — (UPI)—Franke Davila prosecuted a liquor violation in which Frank Davila paid a $100 fine. Davila number one is an assistant district attorney, and Davila number two is a bartender—no relation.
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