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Over $100,000 Given For Anatomy Research
Basic research with vast potential application in human and veterinary medicine will be conducted during the coming year in the department of anatomy under contracts totaling more than $100,000 from foundations and various National Institutes of Health of the U.S. Public Health Service
KU is one of five institutions where scientific teams are studying chemical, neuronal and genetic factors involved in the behavior of the developing and adult structures of the vertebrate brain.
A practical application, explained by Dr. Paul G. Roofe, chairman of the anatomy department, is the KU anatomists who are devising techniques for following the invasive routes of any disease for which the antibody can be tagged. Results of work at KU also are opening up avenues of study of where tissue spaces and fluids are and how the flow takes place. Such studies had not been practical before.
Supported by a health service grant of $12,618, work will go forward on neurotropic agents. These are viruses and toxins with a strong affinity for the nervous system. The research may increase understanding of diseases of many farm animals.
Toxin Study Extended
KU scientists already have demonstrated how tetanus toxin passes from the site of infection to the brain and spinal cord by way of continuous spaces in the nerves throughout the body. Upon reaching the central nervous system the toxin attacks and destroys the nerve cells. This year, the study is being extended to include the toxin of food poisoning, snake venom, polio virus and viruses that attack domestic animals. This work may help solve the problem of what communications exist between the central nervous system and the blood and other tissues of the body.
Dr. Howard A. Matzke, associate professor of anatomy, is the principal investigator. Graduate students assisting him include Alexander A. Feinec, Hamilton, Ontario; Canada; Mrs. Diana Schellenberg, Lawrence; Jean A. Foster, McMinnville, Ore., and John L. Riggs, Lawrence.
A closely related project is a study of the pathway of polio virus from the gastro-intestinal tract to the brain in the monkey. For this the U. S. Public Health Service contract is $9,750. Principal investigators are Dr. Herbert A. Wenner of the KU Medical Center, Dr. Cora Downs of the bacteriology department, and Dr. Roofe of the anatomy department. Drs. Joseph H. Burkhalter and Robert Siewald, pharmaceutical chemists, have participated by synthesizing several fluorescent dyes which are used in tracing viruses and toxin. Graduate student assistants are John Riggs, Lawrence; Gwendolyn Freeman, Kansas City, Mo., and Eugene Gold, Chicago, Ill.
To Purchase Rare Animals
A supplementary grant of $2,000 has been received for the purchase of rare and primitive animals for continued study of the function of the cerebellum. In such animals, like the Australian anteater, scientists can see in evolution a clear picture of the cerebellum's real role in brain function. Floyd M. Foltz, anatomy instructor, is carrying on this experimental neurological problem.
Completion of a modern neuroembryological laboratory is being made possible by supplementary grant of $4,200 from the USPHS. In this project laboratory microchemical analyses are being made on the developing nervous system.
A grant of $18,623 from the USPHS will support continued study of the tiger salamander's brain. Chemical
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patterns in brain development will be correlated with neuronal and behavior patterns. Dr. Elenor Wenger is directing this work. Dr. Roofe is also working in this area where bioelectrical studies are to be correlated with the chemical and nervous patterns.
Wenger Receives Grant
Dr. Byron S. Wenger, assistant professor of anatomy, has a new grant of $8,359 from the USPHS to do research on microchemistry of the developing nervous system. This should shed new light on the processes involved in normal growth as well as abnormal growth such as cancer. It also may increase knowledge of the chemical processes underlying the function of the nervous system.
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society is providing $5,971 for a study by Dr. Wenger on lipids in the developing nervous system. This will parallel the other project of Dr. Wenger, except that the chemicals studied will be lipids, a group of substances related to fats, found in the myelin sheaths covering most nerves. The results are expected to be significant in the understanding of demyelinating diseases such as multiple sclerosis.
The work of Dr. William C. Young, professor of anatomy, on the role of hormones acting on the central nervous system in guinea pigs will be supported by a continuing grant of $32,058 from the USPHS. Dr. Arnold Gerall, research associate, and Dr. Robert W. Goy, instructor, are working with Dr. Young.
Dr. Young also will edit a revised edition of the late Dr. Edgar Allen's book "Sex and Internal Secretions." The USPHS has made a special grant of $75,750 for the work.
During the coming year Dr. Roofe will conduct research on correlation of the nervous system with behavior. He holds a public health service special fellowship for this work which, he will do at the University of California at Los Angeles while on leave of absence.
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AMES. Iowa—Gary Thompson, Iowa State's All-American basketball and baseball star, has signed to become a part of the Phillips Petroleum organization.
Gary Thompson Joins Phillips 66
He has been assigned to the sales division of the company and will be with the Hibbs Phillips 66 station in Ames until he reports to Bartlesville, Okla. Thompson said he would report to Coach Gerald Tucker in September to begin basketball practice.
Thompson, a native of Roland, Iowa, where he gave prep fame as a three-time all-state in basketball, made all the major all-American basketball teams last winter and is generally recognized as one of the greatest players ever developed in the state. He was also named as the stoppage on the third team baseball all-American this summer.
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Franklin and northwestern Miami
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Douglas and Johnson Counties and of the Ottawa North quadrangle are now available at the State Geological Survey.
New Topographic Maps Are Available
Both maps are of the 7½-minute series and cover approximately 60 square miles each. The maps have been issued by the U.S. Geological Survey under the cooperative State-Federal topographic mapping program in Kansas.
Superior National Forest in northeastern Minnesota is the largest national forest in the United States. It covers more than three million acres and has more than 5,000 lake
The booklet is number seven in a series on fiscal information. It is the second report in the series covering first class cities with the exception of the "big three," Wichita, Topeka and Kansas City. Those cities will be considered in a later report.
A research booklet, "Municipal Finance in Kansas, 1953-55," by James T. McDonald of the Governmental Research Center, has been published. McDonald is senior analyst with the Center at KU.
THE SEVENTH SIN
Finance Report Is Published
The nine first class cities covered in the current report are Atchison, Coffeyville, Fort Scott, Hutchinson, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Parsons, Pittsburg and Salina. Research on the cities included finance, revenues, expenditures, bonded indebtedness and capital outlay. Tables, charts and graphs supplement the material.
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McDonald reports that a significant cause of the present financial problems of city government seem to stem from the continuing transition from a rural to an urban econo-omy.
"This situation is particularly true in municipalities which, because of newly discovered economic advantages, undergo a rapid period of new industrialization." McDonald says. "Also the effects of rising personnel and equipment costs have placed a significant strain on the fiscal resources of a majority of our municipalities."
Copies of the 50-page booklet can be obtained from the Governmental Research Center.
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MILWAUKEE — (UP) — Local tavern owners were told by Deputy Inspector Rudolph Miller to quit competing with department stores and get rid of their stocks of electrical appliances, costume jewelry and similar items. Their business is booze, he reminded them.
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