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University Daily Kansan Thursday, November 12, 1959
KU Men Raise Fish Population
There may come a time when over-population will force Americans to use aquatic life as a main source of protein. This, said Frank Cross, associate professor of zoology and assistant curator of the Museum of Natural History, is the premise which the University of Kansas follows in the operation of its fisheries.
Prof. Cross is director of the
Secretaries Need Varied Talents
CHICACO — (UPI) — A good secretary must think like a man, act like a lady and work like a horse.
So say 189 secretaries employed by a Chicago insurance company who participated in a five-day "planation" conference while too many officials were attending a convention in Hawaii.
During their week of self-analysis under the direction of Mrs. Jane Costner, executive secretary to the company president, the women also concluded a secretary who would be valuable to her employer should:
-Recognize her boss' moods and learn how best to cope with them. At the same time, she may have to a bit of acting to disguise HER moods and remain on an even keel.
—Anticipate her boss' instructions, but never try to second-guess him.
—Act as a public relations representative. A secretary can often win or lose friends for her boss.
Serve as a researcher and statistician for her boss, keeping an eye and car out for pertinent information.
—Treat business matters which have been confided to her as a trust, never repeating them as office gossip.
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fisheries. He is assisted by six graduate students.
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"We search for the best combinations and numbers of fish for Kansas farm ponds," Prof. Cross said. "The right combinations and numbers of fish make the ponds serve better as recreational and food centers."
Lab Is in West Lawrence
The fisheries laboratory is located at the western outskirts of Lawrence. It was constructed in 1954 and is part of the State Biological Survey.
To the unfamiliar visitor, the fisheries laboratory appears rather lifeless. The narrow, winding approach passes an old, storage barn and a two-acre pond flanked by soft, green slopes.
At the end of the road are some earthen dikes and a low, flat-roofed building encircled by a fence.
Once within the fence, however, the picture changes. Dikes surround eight three and one-half feet deep ponds, 120 feet long and 40 feet wide.
Each pond teems with catfish, large-mouth bass, and blue-gill. The waterlevel and turbulence of the ponds can be regulated with the twist of a valve.
These ponds are linked by pipelines to a larger, 20-acre feet capacity pond.
Behind the door of the lone building are temperature-controlled aquariums, offices, and living quarters.
"However," Prof. Cross said, "These diet-controlled fish are expressively fat. Perhaps, the fish could be fed less, or more fish could be added with equal poundage results."
Prof. Cross said that the fisheries have discovered how to increase Kansas annual pond yields of catfish from 150 pounds an acre to 1250 pounds an acre by feeding. The cost of feeding is estimated to be $25.
Operation of the fisheries was crippled until 1956 by extensive droughts. During these dry years
the fisheries assisted the Kansas Fish and Game Commission in testing the success of re-location of catfish from overstocked to understocked lakes.
The men at the fisheries began their studies of fish in the 1500 ponds in Douglas County. Now, their research encompasses all Kansas.
Several studies have demonstrated that bass and bluegill cannot survive in small, muddy ponds. Consequently, experimentation the past three years has centered upon finding a fish which can survive in muddy water.
Studies Encompass Kansas
"The next experiments planned will test the reactions of catfish when integrated with bass, bluegill and other kinds of fish. We figure these experiments may take 30 years."
Prof. Cross said:
The rising importance of the fisheries and the biological survey was recognized by the 1959 Kansas legislature when it officially proclaimed the survey a state agency.
Avoid Hangovers?
Try 'Pure' Liquor
NEW YORK —(UPI)— What causes a hangover? "Congenerics," says Jack Poust, who has waged a long campaign against these "residual impurities" in liquor.
Poust, a dealer in Italian brandy and vermouth, says one reason the Russians can apparently drink so much vodka without any ill effects is the fact that "good vodka, which goes through more refining...processes than any other distilled spirits, has been almost completely purified of congenerics in the process."
Man Dies in Car
TULSA, Okla.—(UPI)—The body of Darrell E. "Pat" Patterson, 40-year-old truck driver from Cape Girardeau, Mo., was found yesterday in a parked car in West Tulsa.
Police have attributed the death to monoxide fumes. They indicated that the death was accidental.
Wishing Coins Not Wasted
UPWEY, England —(UPI)— The coins people tossed into an old wishing well here used to go to waste, but T. S. Mortimer has installed a special wire basket to catch them, and now they'll go to help blind people.
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