Summer Session Kansan
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Friday, July 12, 1957
KU Professor Visiting ROTC Training Camp
Dr. George Bradshaw, chairman of the department of civil engineering, is one of the educators from 31 universities and colleges who are visiting Fort Riley today to observe Army ROTC cadets participating in a six-weeks field training course.
Seventy-six ROTC students from KU are among the approximately 1,800 cadets from a 13-state area who are participating in the course. Two officers and five enlisted men from KU are members of the field training staff. The students must complete the course before becoming commissioned officers in the U.S. Army Reserve.
Other Kansas educators who are observing the course are Dr. Herbert J. Wunderlich, dean of students, Kansas State College, and Dr. Walter A. Lucas, associate professor of education, University of Wichita.
Greeted by Commander
Greeted by Commander
Upon arrival this morning at Custer Hill, site of the encampment, the educators were greeted by ROTC Camp Commander, Major General David H. Buchanan, commanding general of Fort Riley and the 1st Infantry Division, and Deputy Camp Commander Colonel William W. Harvey, Jr., professor of military science and tactics at Kansas State College.
Escorted by senior officers from the various schools, the visitors saw cadets engaged in mine warfare training, scouting and patrolling, and 106mm Recoilless Rifle firing.
Following lunch in the field, the school officials will observe M1 rifle firing and an engineering demonstration, after which they will return to Custer Hill to meet with cadets from their schools. At 5:15 p.m. they will attend a regimental review of the ROTC cadets from 41 universities and colleges attending the camp.
cengages including the camp.
Friday morning, after spending
the night at Fort Riley the visitors will attend an artillery orientation and will see the cadets taking the leaders' reaction test, an important phase of leadership training.
Moving in from the field, the educators will participate in a general discussion of the training course.
A University of Kansas Science and Mathematics Camp alumna has been selected as a junior member of the petrography division of the State Geological Survey at KU for the month of July.
Geological Survey Selects Assistant
Ava Gager, 1956 Science camper and 1957 graduate of Joplin High School, Joplin. Mo., received honorable mention in this year's National Science Talent Search, sponsored by Westinghouse and the science clubs of America. Her winning project was "The Recovery of Low-Grade Uranium Through Leaching with an Organic Catalyst."
During July, Miss Gager will be engaged, primarily, in research projects in the Geological Survey's division of petrography, mineralogy, and X-ray, under the direction of Dr. Ada Swineford, geologist with the Geological Survey.
She will enter KU in the fall. She will hold a general scholarship at KU. She plans to enroll in the College, taking courses in geology.
From College To University
Oklahoma A &M College in Stillwater, recently admitted to the Big Seven, has changed its 67 year old name. The school will now be known as Oklahoma State University of Agriculture and Applied Science.
British United Press was organized in 1922 to serve newspapers in the British Empire.
Big-8 Luncheon Slated For August
The second annual Big Eight football-alumni luncheon will be held in Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 23.
The luncheon is held in connection with the annual press-radio conclave of the conference. All coaches and publicity men will be available to the press, radio and TV men of the conference area at that time.
The press meeting is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. on Aug. 23 with the lunch-eon at 12 noon at the Hotel Muhlebach. At that time the coaches of each of the conference schools will speak for five minutes.
In addition to the press, radio, coaching and publicity group, the presidents, faculty representatives, athletic directors and the governors of the six states in the Big Eight territory have all been invited to the luncheon. Last year about 400 alumni of the Big Seven schools attended the gathering.
Kiddyland Bandits Are Real
FARMINGDALE, N. J., — (UP)—State Police said that realism was carried a bit too far at nearby Cowboy City, a recreated old west town where bank holdups and train robberies are staged for tourists.
Detectives said thieves weren't acting when they broke into Kiddyland and looted a safe of $5,800.
Egyptian silversmiths, as early as 2000 B.C., used primitive forms of "wet" electric batteries in electroplating metals, according to recent archaeological discoveries.
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KU Professor Speaks At Missouri Meeting
Dr. Oscar M. Haugh, Professor of Education, is one of three out-of-state speakers at the University of Missouri Summer Conference on the Teaching of Reading being held Thursday and today. Professor Haugh delivered the banquet address Thursday evening. His topic was "Ideas New and Old about the Teaching of Reading."
Other out-of-state participants were Dr. Arthur Gates of Teachers College, Columbia University and Dr. Nancy Larrick, Children's Book Editor, Random House Publishing Co.
The first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate was Hattie W. Caraway (D-Ak-), widow of Sen. Thaddeus H. Coraway.
U.S. May Deliver Girard For Trial
WASHINGTON — (UP) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the U. S. has a right to deliver GI William S. Girard to Japan for trial.
The court said the narrow issue was whether the Constitution or legislation prevented carrying out the arrangement between the U.S. and Japan for trying soldiers who violated the laws of both.
"We find no constitutional or statutory barrier to the provision (of the agreement) as applied here," the opinion said.
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