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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 16, 1957
Avoid Danger Of Lightning; Storm Fatalities Run High
Lightning will kill approximately 230 persons in the United States this year. That is the annual average during the past decade. An additional 1,000 or so are injured every year.
What are your chances of being hit by lightning? Not very great if you take commonsense precautions whenever you hear the warning rumble of thunder. Here are some suggestions from the National Safety Council:
1. If there is any choice of shelter, choose—
(c) Large unprotected buildings.
(d) Small unprotected buildings.
(a) Large metal or metal-frame buildings.
(b) Dwellings or other buildings protected by lightning rods.
2. Avoid the immediate vicinity of electric light circuits, lightning conductors and downspouts, screened doors and windows, especially if open; stoves and fireplaces, telephones and any metal object projecting through wall or roof.
3. If unavoidably out of doors, keep away from isolated trees, wire fences, hill-tops and wide open spaces, small sheds and shelters in an exposed location.
Auto Safety
Persons struck by lightning are sometimes revived by artificial respiration. A person struck does not carry a charge of electricity. It is perfectly safe to touch him.
4. Try to reach thick timber, a cave, a depression in the ground, a deep valley or canyon, or the vicinity of a steep cliff.
The ordinary result of being struck is electric shock, or burns, or both. The usual first aid measures should be applied.
Though usually associated with the thunderstorms, lightning strokes have been observed on clear days, giving rise to the expression "a bolt from the blue."
There are many varieties of lightning—sheet, streak, beaded, ribbon, forked, heat and globular or ball lightning.
References to lightning are found in the earliest known writings. God's control over lightning is often mentioned in the Old Testament. In ancient Greece, thunder and lightning were considered omens of Zeus.
Records show that most lightning casualties in America occur in rural areas or small towns.
The National Safety Council pointed out that one of the safest places for you in a thunderstorm is your automobile. Though the machine may be struck, a person inside it does not provide an easy path for the bolt of lightning to pass to the ground.
Pharmacists Attend Meetina
Dean J. Allen Reese of the School of Pharmacy, and Raymond Hoppenen, associate professor of pharmacy, attended a meeting of the Midwest Conference of the State Pharmaceutical Association Saturday and Sunday in Kansas City, Mo.
Israeli Army Battles Syria
JERUSALEM-(UP)-The Israeli army used tanks last Tuesday to silence Syrian artillery and mortars in a 10-hour border battle, it was disclosed Monday.
The tanks were purchased from France several months before the Sinai campaign where they distinguished themselves in battles with Soviet-built T-34 tanks.
Government sources said Israel sent the tanks into action in the Gonen sector of the Israeli-Syrian frontier because Syria had refused United Nations cease fire orders.
The Israeli sources said this development may be the source of rumors broadcast by Jordan's radio Ramallah Sunday that U.N. investigators found "French troops" massing on the border.
To Show Film On The Twenties
The film, "The Golden Twenties," which reviews the historic events, personalities, sports, and fashions of the period 1920-1929, will be shown in Bailey Auditorium today at 2 and 3:30 p.m. The films to be shown Wednesday are "Art and Life in Italy," "The Geesebook," and "Two Borque Churches in Germany."
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NEW YORK—(UP) —Billy Graham told an overflow audience at Madison Square Garden Sunday that the greatest need in America is not jet planes and atomic weapons but "a revival that will shake the country from one end to the other."
Billy Graham Says Revival Is Needed
First National Bank Member F.D.I.C.
The 38-year-old evangelist addressed an audience of some 19,200 persons only hours after holding, a large street-corner rally in Brooklyn.
Earlier in the day the North Carolina preacher spoke to a crowd of approximately 8,000 from the steps of the Cornerstone Baptist Church in a Negro section of Brooklyn.
"Will God allow us to see our cities destroyed by push button warfare? I don't know," Graham said, "God spared not the angels . . . God spared not the old world except Noah."
Graham said there are a lot of people who think we are God's pets, but "the judgement of God is going to fall upon us unless we repent"
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"You know I came from the South myself," he told the jampacked neighborhood audience, 'but after I made my decision at the age of 17 I began to see my brothers differently."
ANAMOSA, Iowa — (UP) — Joe Klink left, a jacket here while traveling to the East Coast, so he mailed a letter to "First cafe, west of drug store, south side of the street, Anamosa. Iowa."
He got the jacket back—prepaid,
too.
MEMPHIS, Tenn — (UF — Casey Jones told his fireman, "Jump, Sim!" Simeon T. Webb, 83, died Saturday 57 years after he thus survived the balladed wreck of the Cannon Ball Express.
Casey Jones' Fireman Dies
Casey piloted his over-due "Cannon Ball Express" over the Illinois Central tracks into a stalled freight at Vaughn. Miss., in 1900.
Webb who retired from railroading in 1919, spent years touring the nation with Casey's widow who still lives at Jackson, Tenn., to tell the story of that fabled night.
Casey was found—dead, still hanging onto the whistle to warn those ahead, they said.
The ballad, "Cannon Ball Express," written by Wallace Saunders, a railroading friend of Casey, made the engineer immortal.
"Sim" recounted how Casey took over the 188-mile run from Memphis to Canton, Miss, because another engineer was sick. Casey
vowed he would make up the one hour and 35 minutes delay.
Casey saw the red marker lights on the freight as he rounded a bend, and, the ballad recounts:
"He said to the fireman, you'd better jump, cause the two locomotives are going to bump."
Sim jumped. Casey slowed the train and saved his passengers' lives. Webb and an express messenger were the only persons injured. Casey alone died.
Wenzel To Attend Seminar
"He took his troubles to the promised land," the ballad says.
Duane Wenzel, professor of pharmacy, will attend the 9th annual Teachers' Seminar July 14-19. This year's seminar will be on Pharmacology and is sponsored by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. Meetings will be held at the University of Washington in Seattle.
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