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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, October 17, 1968
Spiders on rampage
By DONNA SHRADER
The spiders have come—to the KU indoors.
While to Peter D. Ashlock and George W. Byers, both professors of entomology, the spiders are part of the annual "bug" invasion, to these persons it is something different:
Jane Finnell, Leawood sophmore; Huda Duhaiby, senior from Saudi Arabia, and Stuart Levine, chairman of the American studies department—all have been bitten, by spiders they say.
Just how many persons have been bitten is impossible to determine. Dr. Raymond Schwegler, director of Watkins hospital, said only two persons have been treated for spider bites this fall.
Mrs. Larry Routh, resident director of Lewis Hall, said no spider bites have been reported to her. And Byers and Ashlock add that the spider population
has actually decreased.
Yet Daisy Hill residents, especially those living in Lewis Hall, complain of a spider invasion. Screaming coeds scrambling for the safety of beds and chains is not an uncommon sight.
For those young women and for the spider bite victims, the entomologists can offer only this consolation:
Johnson's phone call refutes bombing halt
Part of the Bug Invasion
bombing of North Vietnam was imminent.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Johnson informed the three major presidential candidates today there has been no "breakthrough" that basically changes his present Vietnam War policy.
"Spiders actually loathe people. In fact, they try to get away from people."
Johnson read to them a special White House statement issued earlier which declared there had been "no basic change in the situation; no breakthrough."
The President took the unusual step of talking with the three men siumitaneously by telephone as a result of widespread speculation that announcement of a total halt in
The telephone conference call was placed at 11:41 a.m. EDT to Humphrey in St. Louis, Nixon in Kansas City and Wallace in Los Angeles.
Contrary to the belief of many Daisy Hill residents, Ashlock and Byers said, spiders will only rarely bite or attack humans. If they do bite, Byers said, it is usually because they have been sat upon, rolled over on in bed or otherwise surprised by a human.
The spiders most likely found in the resident halls, they continued, are crab spiders, jumping spiders and domestic spiders—all of which are venomous but not poisonous, said Byers.
Poisonous brown spiders and black widow spiders are usually found only in older residences, in attics or under lumber piles or rubbish.
While Byers contends "spiders are really very nice people," he suggested that persons wanting to get rid of them shut their screens and windows at night.
After all, he said, insects are drawn to the indoors by light—insects that spiders feed upon.
No insects, no spiders, said Bvers.
He added that spiders can be gotten rid of by sweeping them out or by spraying. But he added, "I'd rather live with the spiders than with the sprays."
Longhair, miniskirts outlawed in Iraq
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