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Frogmen to Invade Robinson
A NEW USE FOR ROBINSON POOL—Richard H. Benson, assistant professor of geology, checks the frogman equipment which will be used by him and two graduate students. They will practice in the swimming pool in preparation for a research trip.
There will be frogmen in the Robinson gymnasium swimming pool in February.
Three KU geologists will start training in the use of frogman equipment — face masks, aqua lungs, flippers, etc. — in preparation for a research trip to the Cape Hattatas-Cape Lookout waters off North Carolina next June.
Richard H. Benson, assistant professor of geology, and two unnamed graduate students have received a $9,900 National Science Foundation grant to study recent deposits of the Ostracode. The Ostracode is a kind of "mussel shrimp" about the size of a pin head.
"A new item of equipment for the North Carolina study will be rubber suits, for this is the first study of this kind which has been made in cold waters," Prof. Benson said.
Prof. Benson, who will train the University graduates, was trained by a Navy frogman at the University of California.
The study will help them to map ancient shore lines. These ancient shore lines can be used as sign posts for drilling oil.
"We take every possible precaution to have as much experience as possible in the use of equipment," he said. "The first days in North Carolina will be used to train further through actual diving into the sea."
Prof. Benson explained the usefulness of the microscopic animals to the University study this way.
"The Ostracode is unique in that millions of the animals live in fresh water as well as salt water all over the world.
"It is especially sensitive to its various aquatic environments and evolves into many different forms. An animal which lives in quiet, rough, fresh, salty, or brackish water, for instance, will each differ.
"We will study the nature of the environment off North Carolina and the Ostracode forms deposited in recent sediments as well as live Ostracodes.
"These studies will be tied in with similar studies made in North America and in Europe and compared with Ostracode forms found in ancient deposits.
"Through such a comparison we will have some idea of the ancient environments in which the Ostracodes we find in ancient sediments lived.
"In finding whether ancient Ostracodes lived in brackish, salty, fresh, rough, or quiet waters, we can determine ancient shorelines.
"This is important to oil exploration, for oil forms in marine sediments and not in land deposits."
The animal which looks like a shrimp living in a tiny shell is particularly useful for the shell is found as a fossil as far back as the earliest traces of life.
The geologist will dive under water and the sediment will be collected by forcing a plastic tube into the sediment and corking the tube.
"We will have a better idea of what the water conditions are like by diving than if we just scooped the sediment off the bottoms," Prof. Benson said.
Prof. Benson, who has made similar studies off Mexico and Key West, Fla., said that though the same types of animals which
live off Florida will be found off North Carolina, there will be some new types.
"Some of the types will be like those in Scandinavian waters because the Gulf Stream flows to the North Sea," he said.
"The enjoyment of the work we can do during summers is carried over into the work we can do in the laboratories during the winter," he said.
"It is an exciting way to spend the summer, but it is just as exciting to study a kind of animal which has lived so long.
"There are over 2,000 species of the Ostracode in the sea," he said, "and the intricacy and variation of all of these species provide quite a challenge.
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"The excitement and challenge of studying the animal are increased through the knowledge that the data we uncover will be used to make the finding of oil easier," he concluded.
Thursday, Jan. 8, 1959
Fire in Oklahoma Takes 14 Lives
BOSWELL, OKLA.—(UPI)—Fire swept a four-room frame house here early today, killing 14—a mother, her 10 children, and five nieces and nephews.
City Marshal Stanley Shoemake said most of the children died as they huddled about the mother, Mrs. Aire Gardner.
The father, Booker Gardner, 45, was away on a coon hunting trip, and was not located until after all the bodies had been recovered.
Boswell Constable J B. Richberg, who arrived first on the scene with the town's only fire truck, said the roof had already covered in when he
Archaeologists To Hear Wiencke
Matthew I. Wieneke, visiting professor of classical languages and archaeology at the University of Missouri, will speak and show colored slides to the Kansas Society of the Archaeological Institute of America Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Trophy Room of the Kansas Union.
There is no admission charge to the event.
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The title of Prof. Wiencke's talk will be "The Parthenon, Past and Present."
Prof. Wiencke, who recently returned from Greece, participated in the excavations at Isthmia. He also devoted considerable time to a detailed study of the great frieze of the Parthenon in Athens.
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got there, and that the "sides were just burning slowly."
Helped along by 20-mile per hour winds, the flames leaped to the roof of a neighbor's home, that of Charles Ware, and firemen were forced to play their hoses on it rather than the Gardner home.
The house was located about three blocks from the last water main in this little farming village of perhaps 1,000, and when the water in the trunk's tank was used up, the volunteers had to leave the holocaust to return to town for a refill.
Authorities waited until daybreak before entering the ruins. Gene Nosbit, a reporter for the Hugo Daily News, said the house had been "completely levelled, except for an old refrigerator standing at the back of the house."
The first basic change in the shoe since Julius Caesar invented the hard heel is the "ripple sole" which consists of an extra sole of corrugated rubber.
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Ph.D. reading examination, French.
Saturday, Jan. 10. 9-11 a.m. In Fraser,
Room 11. Turn books in to Miss Craig,
Fraser, room 120, by noon Jan. 8th.
Ph.D. reading examination in German,
Sat, Jan. 17, 9-11 am. 314 Fraser. Books
used for the prepared part of the ex-
amination must be turned in to 306
Fraser by noon Wednesday, Jan. 14.
At noon books can be accepted after
this date. Candidates approved by
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TODAY
Poetry Hour, 4 p.m.
Music room
Kayla Campbell
Alien Crafton reading,
Western poetry
Germann Club, Vier. Uhr Donnerstag
laden ein Film, an einem film
abend ein. Es und Films zu
Leben Schillers und das Frankenland
Leben Aboi aufeln elnen never
Vorstellt sein.
Student branch AIEE and IRE. 7:30 p.m., 101 Snow Hall, Elmer Broder from ATT, speaker: "D.C. to Microwaves and the Broom Handle."
American Society of Tool Engineers,
1320 S. Michigan St. Technical movie
Alex Dryer recording
KuKu, 7 p.m. Pine room, Kansas University section.
Kappa Phi. Methodist Women's organization, 7 p.m. Methodist Student organization, 7 p.m. Methodist Officers. Attendance required.
in undergraduate psychology Club, 7:30 pm.
p.m. in college Campus Organizata-
Christian Science Campus Organiza-
tion
Humanities Lecture. 8 p.m. Fraser
Museum of History. 8 p.m.
French Politics'. Father Gaulgaume
de Bertier de Sauvigny, Catholic Univer-
sity. Reception at Faculty Club follows.
University Women's Club. 8 p.m. Kansai
from From John party with
Newcomers. British and American
Epicopalor Morning Prayer. 6:45 am
ammunition hall breakfast.
Following Carverbury House.
Church Club, 6:20 a.m. at St.
John's Church, 11:30 a.m.
International Club, 5-10 p.m. Kansas
room of Union, Election, dinner, and Arab Student Program.
Mariners Meeting, 6 p.m., 1221 Oread,
United Presbyterian Student Center.
Garry in supper and speaker. Dr. Henry
Warnry in psychiatrist at Watkins Memorial Hospital, Central Heard and Your Family." Married couples invited. Babysitters provided.
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship,
7:30 p.m., 829 Mississippi St. Bible study,
discussion, refreshments.
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The annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Cincinnati from Dec. 28-30 was attended by James Seaver, associate professor of history, L. R Lind, professor of Latin and Greek, and Arnold H. Weiss, assistant professor of Spanish.
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Open to the public without charge in the interest of furthering the cause of liberal religion.
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