SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
45th Year, No. 8
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, July 9.1957
Steelworkers Hold Annual Meeting At KU
The 11th annual Steelworkers Institute at KU began Monday with a hundred persons divided in the three divisions of the weeklong program.
Most of the enrollees, who all are members of the United Steel-workers of America. are from the Greater Kansas City area.
There are divisions for first year enrollees, second-year men, and a graduate seminar for those who have completed the first two courses. The seminar provides intensive study of one or more industry-union problems. All groups follow an 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. academic schedule.
Bernard Grosdidier of Eudora will be the speaker for the now traditional Farm-Labor meeting tonight at 6 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Student Union.
The faculty includes Prof. John McCollum, University of Chicago; Irwin Klass, Federation News, Chicago; V. Iden Reese, Kansas City, Kan., Junior College; William Lavelle and Paul Fasser, United Steelworkers representatives, Pittsburgh, Pa.; and E. C. Buehler, Professor of Speech at KU.
First and second-year students study speech,union history,credit unions and consumer finance,contracts,public and community relations,organization and procedure.
KU Scientists Will Report
Three research reports by members of the KU faculty will be given at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Biological Sciences August 25-29 at Stanford University, Palo Alto. Calif. Approximately 3,000 scientists will attend.
Dr. Charles D. Michener, professor and chairman of the entomology department, will report on "Evolution of Social Behavior Among Halictine Bees." Much of the material for this was obtained by Dr. Michener during a year spent at the University of Parana in Brazil. The work is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Showers in the east and south-central today and in the southeast in the evening, otherwise fair through tonight. Warmer in the northwest today. High today 90's in the southeast, ranging to 80's elsewhere. Low tonight in the 50's northwest and 60's elsewhere.
A paper bearing the names of four staff members and reporting on portions of a large project supported for several years by the U.S. Public Health Service deals with "Inheritance of Reproductive Behavior Patterns in Male and Female Guinea Pigs." The researchers are Dr. W. C. Young, professor of anatomy; Dr. J. A. Weir, associate professor of zoology; Dr. Robert W. Goy, instructor in anatomy, and Mrs. Jacqueline Jakway, research assistant.
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Dr. George R. Dubes, assistant professor of pediatrics at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., will report on "Polio Virus Mutants with Altered Responses to Cystine." This paper results from a large project supported by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
ARTISTIC RECORDERS—Students in the art division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp gather in the shade near Haworth Hall to record
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campus scenery in sketches and paintings. Some of the campers' work is already on display in the South Lounge of the Student Union.
Visiting Professor Is Prominent Authority
Ralph W. Powell, internationally known authority on applied mechanics and hydraulics, will be visiting professor at KU during the 1957-58 academic year.
Accidents claimed a heavy toll of lives in Kansas during the long fourth of July weekend with traffic, as usual, death's principal agent.
Professor Powell, 67, has just retired from a 30-year teaching career at Ohio State University. $ \textcircled{*} $
He received the B.S. degree from Michigan State University in 1911, the Civil Engineering degree from Cornell University in 1914. He also earned the Ph.D. degree from Yale in 1916. For 11 years, 1916-27, he was associate professor of applied mechanics at Yale-in-China University. In the latter year he joined the Ohio State faculty. During the 1955-56 year he was visiting professor at the University of Iowa.
Powell is the author of many articles for professional journals, 12 having been published within the past five years. One of them, "Use and Misuse of Hydraulic Models," was translated and published by the
The American Society of Civil Engineers recently appointed Professor Powell to a 5-man task force to study resistance coefficients for flow in open channels. He is secretary of the Rocky Mountain Hydraulic Laboratory at Allenspark, Colo., and is former chairman of the American Society for Engineering Education's committee on applied hydraulics .
At least six persons died in mishaps on Kansas streets and highways between 6 p.m. Wednesday and midnight Sunday. One death was recorded in an accident classified in the miscellaneous category, to bring the overall total to seven. Only one fatality was reported in the final 36 hours of the period.
Holiday Accidents Claim 7 Kansans
Fred A. Bangerter, 22, of Lenora,
was killed Saturday night in a two-
car accident on a county road near
Lenora.
Hydraulic Laboratory in Hanover, Germany.
His memberships include Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi, honorary engineering and scientific research societies; American Society of Civil Engineers; American Society for Engineering Education, and American Geophysical Union and International Association for Hydraulic Research.
Baker Economics Professor Dies
LAWRENCE — (UP) — Dr Harold W. Guest, 62, author and economics professor, died at a hospital here early Monday. Guest had been ill since Tuesday when stricken by a cerebral hemorrhage.
Since 1956, Guest had taught economics and business administration at Baker University, Baldwin.
He was author of a textbook, "Public Expenditure." He also had taught for the government in Blairitz. France and worked in the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Born in Otsego, Mich., Guest was graduated from Albion College in Michigan. He received his A.M. degree from the University of Illinois and his Ph.D. from Stanford.
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KEEPING COOL—Students in a class conducted by Lawrence S. Bee, professor of home economics and sociology, take refuge from the summer indoor heat. Many classes have been held out-of-doors during the past two weeks in an attempt to escape rising summer temperatures.
KU Gets Grant For Continuing Polio Research
Studies of what happens when different strains of poliovirus invade will be continued at KU under a grant of $104,170 from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
The grant, effective July 1, was announced jointly by Dr. W. Clarke Wescoe, dean of the School of Medicine and Basil O'Connor, president of the March of Dimes organization. The work will be directed by Dr. Herbert A. Wenner, research professor of pediatrics at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
Dr. Wenner and his associates are working with a large number of different types of strains of poliovirus. One of the questions they seek to answer is whether immunization with one type of virus will protect completely or partly against subsequent exposure to another type. Some of the viruses which are being used have been weakened by being grown in special environments in the laboratory.
Part of the work to be conducted under the grant will be directed toward investigating sites of virus multiplication in the body and the moving of virus during an infection.
Under a separate grant from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis Dr. Wenner and his associates are preparing antisera to Coxsackie and Echo viruses. These are two large groups of relatively newly discovered viruses about which much remains unknown. The antisera prepared at KU are in a sense a kind of standard yardstick used in the study of these viruses. The antisera are shipped to laboratories in the United States and in many foreign countries, and are used by research teams in studying these new viruses.
Associated with Dr. Wenner are Dr. George R. Dubes, assistant professor of pediatrics, and Dr. Italo Archetti, associate professor in virus research.
William Inge Play To Open Thursday
Directed by Dr. Lewin Goff, associate professor of speech and drama, and director of the University Theatre, the play recently returned from a highly successful stand at the Park Playhouse in Joplin, Mo.
Tickets are now available for the University Theatre's summer production, "Come Back, Little Sheba." The drama will be presented Thursday and Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom.
A prize-winning drama by William Inge about the matrimonial disharmony of a middle-aged couple which drives the husband to alcoholism, the play features Bill Kuhike, Denver, Colo. graduate student; Lee MacMorris, Hutchinson graduate student; Kay Ewert, Abline senior, and John Husar, Chicago, Ill. junior.
Others in the cast are Bernice Schear, Norton graduate student; Frank Moon, Pratt graduate student; John Schick, Kansas City senior; Ned Norris, Salina junior; Lloyd Karnes, Sabeth junior; and Brad Lashbrook, Kansas City senior.
Chief technical assistants to Dr. Goff are, Kay Brown, Larned senior, assistant director! John Branigan, Kansas City, Mo. senior, lighting designer; Mary Jo Lowman, Lawrence senior, costumes; and Mr. Virgil Godfrey, assistant professor of speech and drama, set designer.