Tuesday, July 28, 1959 Summer Session Kansan
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History,Babies,Safety Patrol Task Busy One
From answering questions about Kansas history to pursuing criminals to delivering babies in cars at busy intersections—the highway patrolman has a unique job $ ^{ \textcircled{1}} $
When the current group of highway patrol recruits are graduated from a two-month school at the University of Kansas, they will be able to do these tasks plus a multitude of others which require skill, knowledge, bravery, physical agility and perhaps, above all, the ability to handle all types of people.
"The school is held once or twice a year but rarely more often than that," said Capt. Allen Rush, director of training. "We usually have about 500 applicants from which to select 20 or so recruits."
The State Legislature determines the expansion of the highway patrol.
Basic requirements for the recruits are at least a high school education, age 22 to 34, minimum height 5 feet 10 inches, weight 165. They must pass a rigid driver's test, vision test and physical examination which includes reflex and agility tests. This is the second school which has required the applicants to pass a battery of psychological tests also.
The recruits attend their first class of the day at 7:30 a.m., six days a week. They have Saturday afternoon and Sunday off, but the other five days their last class ends at 8:30 p.m., and then they must type their notes for the 10 hours of class that day.
The school, which began July 13 and will end Sept. 20, is patterned after the FBI National Academy in Washington. D.C.
More than 25 courses will be taught by the end of the school. They include a wide variety such as physical training, first aid (elementary and advanced), public speaking, Kansas history and geography (they must know every Kansas highway by heart as well as all historical spots and every milestone in Kansas history), auto theft investigation, chemical tests, courts and their jurisdiction, plaster casting and fingerprinting, photography, disaster operations, communications and radio procedure, driver's license examining and fire arms training, as well as other subjects.
A new course initiated this year at KU for the first time in the Midwest is pursuit driving. Emphasis in the course will be placed on safety.
In addition to learning to expertly maneuver their cars in both normal and unusual situations, the recruits will be taught how far to pursue a felon without endangering their own lives or lives of the public.
"We are very enthused about this course," Capt. Rush said. "Pursuit driving is a skill that needs to be taught. It is necessary at times but
not at the risk of lives of the public. The course has been taught in California and in the East but never in this part of the country. We will stress when to pursue and how far to go."
Practicality and reality are the theme of the training school.
A fake accident will be staged and the recruits will handle every step of the investigation through a mock court trial in the KU Law School court room in which they will participate. Paul E. Wilson, associate professor of law will be judge.
Instructors for the school are experts in their fields. They include special agents of the FBI, department heads of the highway patrol, policemen, university professors, judges and other specialists. Atty. Gen. John Anderson will be a guest speaker on "Courts and Their Jurisdiction."
"For the most part highway patrolmen are the citizens' representatives of Kansas to tourists," Capt. Rush said. "This is why the troopers have an extensive course in Kansas history and geography." Their history teacher is Nyle Miller, Topeka, executive secretary of the Kansas Historical Society.
The importance of good human relations is stressed throughout the school.
They are taught to be firm with offenders of the law but not arrogant. This often requires a maximum amount of patience and understanding.
A true test of the recruit's patience will come during the two weeks of field service after completion of the school. They all will be put on duty directing traffic at the State Fair at Hutchinson.
Missourian Receives Engineering Honor
The appointment of Gael Noble Florea of Hopkins, Mo., as the first P. F. Walker Memorial scholar in engineering at the University of Kansas has been announced by Spencer E. Martin, director of aids and awards. He will receive $450.
The late Mrs. Charlotte Walker left $10,000 to the University of Kansas to endow the award memorializing her husband. Perley F. Walker came to the University as professor of industrial engineering. He became acting dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture in 1913, filling that position until his death in 1927, except for World War I service in the Army Engineers, where he rose from major to full colonel.
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Soil Programs Are Broad
Methods now in use to encourage wise use of the soil involve technical assistance, research and education, financial aids and incentives, regulatory programs, and direct action programs undertaken by particular governmental agencies.
The methods which national, state, and local governmental agencies have adopted in programs of soil conservation in Kansas are on a broad scale, reports the Governmental Research Center at the University of Kansas.
While government became concerned with soil conservation many years ago, the depression of the 1930's provided the impetus for greatly expanding and shaping the role of government in fostering conservation.
The "dust bowl" dramatized the cumulative effect of years of neglecting the soil. Farmers became more receptive to new ideas, especially the idea of protecting and rehabilitating their land through conservation farming. In their distressed circumstances, the financial assistance and incentive payments available for application of soil conserving practices were doubly attractive to farmers.
the remaining soil would be a menace. When the need was recognized much research and experimentation were required before mass application of conservation measures could be undertaken.
Another impediment was that changing established cropping and production patterns involved considerable cost in the form of temporarily reduced income. Long established farming habits which were rooted in traditional attitudes toward land use and ownership presented an obstacle to development of the social responsibility which was necessary in order to prevent the depletion of the nation's soil resources.
Prior to the depression years, there was little awareness that some day the unused supply of land would be exhausted and the depletion of
Isern Scholarship Winner Is Named
To break through these barriers required education, demonstration, direct assistance of various kinds, and in some cases, compulsion. On a broad scale, these things could be provided only through organized public action, in other words through governmental agencies, including the land-grant institutions of higher learning.
The Isern scholarship is given annually to a graduate of Ellinwood Rural High who plans to attend the University of Kansas. The award comes from an annual gift to the KU Endowment Assn. by Mrs. Elwyn S. Shonyo of Ellinwood.
The $500 Edward H. Isern scholarship at the University of Kansas for 1959-60 will be held by Leon Joseph Boor, a 1959 graduate of Ellinwood Rural High School.
The selection of Boor, whose parents are Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Boor, Great Bend, was made by a University committee after screening nominations by Sam Stitt, principal at Ellinwood. The selection criteria are scholastic achievement, need, character, promise of future growth as a KU student, and active church membership.
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