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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 28, 1959
Fleas Show Industry Of Courageous Danes
Special to The Summer Session Kansan
By Jerry Knudson
(Editor's note: Jerry Knudson, former instructor of journalism, is touring Europe this summer. The following is the sixth of a series of letters.)
COPENHAGEN, Denmark—In a curious way, the flea circus in the Tivoli Gardens here is a microcosm of Denmark itself.
The industrious fleas pulled chariots many times their weight and size, played football, walked tightropes, and juggled balls.
As I left the tent, I asked the young Danish barker, "Are these fleas unionized?"
To which he responded, "No, but they sure stick together."
And so do the Danes.
These brave and courageous people harassed the Germans umerrically during the grim occupation days of World War II. By their stoic reticence, the Danes infuriated their conquerors.
Winston Churchill speculated as to who had conquered whom. A spontaneous public strike erupted in Copenhagen during the summer of 1944.
The Danish Council was formed in September 1940, after the small country capitulated on April 9, 1940. Young Danes were trained to parachute into Denmark.
At that time the underground Danish Resistance Movement had few arms.
Arms-dropping by parachute was first attempted in 1942. By the end of the war, there were 289 drop sites in Jutland, alone.
Railroad sabotage was particularly effective, while the underground press successfully spit out a steady stream of resistance literature.
The press organizations became recruiting centers from which the
Resistance drew many of its best people, the English-language Scandinavian Times reported in a recent article.
In Copenhagen today one may see mementoes of this valiant struggle in the Museum of the Danish Resistance Movement, opened in 1957.
Elsewhere in Europe there are grim reminders of the world conflict touched off by a ruthless, little man in Germany.
In Hamburg, immense bomb bunkers stand stark against the sky. Children fly kites near these massive concrete structures which have now been converted into apartment houses. One supports a television broadcasting antennae.
Everywhere one runs across men missing arms or legs or eyes—the most pathetic reminders of world war.
Crossing into Switzerland, one sees the concrete tank traps which formed Switzerland's "Maginot Line" and saved the tiny mountain country from German occupation.
One of the world's unique breweries, the Carlsberg complex, is located in Copenhagen. All of the profits from this gigantic industry go into a philanthropic trust fund.
The most photographed site in Copenhagen is the statue of "The Little Mermaid" basking on her rock in the harbor sunlight.
Another sell-out tourist attraction is the changing of the guard at Amalienborg Palace. The brilliant blue-uniformed Royal Guards with immense fur-covered drum major's hats and rattling sabers click around the cobble-stoned square—a splendid show for young and old alike.
The Danes are a serene people. Little old women sitting on benches in the Town Hall Square pull out huge cigars and puff them placially.
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The development and follow-up on a program of speech improvement for kindergarten and first grade children will be carried on at KU under a 3-year contract for $41,466 with the U.S. Office of Education.
Miss Margaret Byrne, director of the speech and hearing clinic at KU and assistant professor of speech, is the project director.
This will be the first large scale research on speech improvement programs in these two school levels. Previous studies have provided less than three pages of professional literature and have lacked continuity.
Miss Byrne and Dr. Richard L. Schiefelbusch, director of the Bureau of Child Research, began work in this area two years ago with the Greater University Fund providing the "seed" money. Two pilot studies have been underway in the Lawrence public schools and were completed in May.
Miss Byrne and the summer staff for the project are now preparing the syllabus for the initial program. During the first year of the study she will be assisted by two graduate assistants.
Consultants on the project are Dr. Robert Ridgway, head of the elementary education program at KU; Dr. Seymour Rosenberg, experimental psychologist in the Bureau of Child Research; William McClelland, speech correctionist for the Lawrence school system, and Miss Jo Anne Simmons, speech correctionist in the Wichita public schools.
This is the second research program at KU that the U.S. Office of Education has assumed sponsorship for this summer.
Speech Program Receives $41,466
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He is Ralph Coldren, 38, a newspaperman with 14 years' experience. He succeeds Fred Wufekuhler, who has purchased controlling interest in the Paragould (Ark.) Daily Press.
A former University of Kansas student and World War II veteran has been named night managing editor of the Hutchinson News.
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— Senate Housing Chairman John Sparkman (D-Ala) says congressional leaders are determined to pass housing legislation this year, either by overturning President Eisenhower's veto or by drafting a new bill. Sparkman made the statement as his Senate housing subcommittee called Gov. David L. Lawrence of Pennsylvania and Mayors Richard J. Daley of Chicago and Frank A. Sedita of Buffalo to testify on Eisenhower's veto of the big Democratic housing measure.
The production of pure, inbred strains of mice for cancer research will be continued at KU with support by a U.S. Public Health Service grant of $52,239.
Mouse Production Gets Boost from $52,239 Grant
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Production of the mice, used in cancer chemotherapy research, is under the supervision of Dr. John Weir, associate professor of zoology and director of the Mammalian Genetics Center at the University. The laboratory produces about 70,000 mice a year. Part of these mice are used for research done at the University, part are used for research conducted elsewhere by the National Cancer Institute.
By September the research portion of the mammalian genetics program will be moved to the new Mammalian Genetics Center behind Snow Hall. Production of the mice will continue in the remodeled laboratory quarters under Memorial Stadium.
Chemotherapy research requires an enormous supply of inbred mice. This demand is added to the already large demand for inbred mice from other fields of research.
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The objectives of cancer chemotherapy are to test a wide variety of chemical compounds on pedigreed tumors which have been transplanted to the pure strains of mice. With both factors uniform the efficacy of the chemical compound in stopping or slowing down the tumor can be tested.
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