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Page 2 University Daily Kansan Tuesday. April 9, 1957
Kansas Do-Nothings
Legislature Stops Circling, Goes Home
An inept Kansas Legislature has been adjourned. In just a few days it solved a budget problem with a pair of scissors that it was not capable of solving any other way. The budget was not cut because it needed cutting but because the Legislators could not agree on a way to dig up extra tax money.
The "lame duck" lawmakers rendered a severence tax proposal almost impotent. They took most of its tax collecting potential out.
They tried to fill the hole with a boost in the sales tax. Gov. George Docking had already told the Legislature that he would veto any such bill. The necessary $ \frac{3}{2} $ majority vote failed after the governor's veto.
The Legislature was still trying to get the bill back on the floor when a spokesman stated "that so many Republicans had gone home that it would be impossible to get the bill back."
After such an imposing stalemate the Legislators got out their scissors and went after the budget. They even wanted to cut eight million dollars off an already inadequate school fund. In the short time that remained they did manage to find enough places to cut that they were able to avert a special session.
If they could get no more done in a special session than they got done in the regular 3-month session it's just as well that they went home. —Jerry Thomas.
Tide Water Problem Arises
WASHINGTON — (UP) The government urged the Supreme Court yesterday to restrict Louisiana's ownership of submerged oil lands to the area extending three miles off the state's coastline.
Solicitor General J. Lee Rankin told the Court that the United States has fixed its maritime boundary at the three-mile limit since 1793. He argued that "no state could possibly have a boundary beyond" the federal government's.
But Louisiana Attorney General Jack P. F. Gremillion said that his state's boundary extends three leagues, or $10^{\frac{1}{2}}$ miles. He said this boundary was clearly established in the enabling act which led to
Louisiana's admission to statehood 145 years ago yesterday.
Rankin, however, contended that the moment Louisiana became a state, its boundaries became the same as the federal government's—no matter how far out they had extended previously.
Rankin, who presented his case first, asked the court for an early ruling based on the law alone. He charged that Louisiana's use of submerged lands beyond the three-mile mark has "interfered" with the federal government.
Louisiana contends that its boundary should be measured outward, not from its shoreline, but from a coast guard line farther out in the Gulf of Mexico.
New Labor Hearing Possible
SEATTLE, — (UP) — Roberts F. Kennedy, counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee, questioned potential witnesses yesterday about possible new hearings on labor racketeering.
Kennedy arrived here from Chicago where he said he had spent the weekend questioning persons about racketeering involving "management more than labor."
The youthful attorney said he would be in Seattle for "two or three days" to confer with six or
seven committee investigators who have been working in the Seattle area.
Chief among the gases used for anesthesia are oxygen, nitrous oxide, helium-oxygen mixtures, ethylene, cyclopropane, carbon dioxide and oxygen-carbon dioxide mixtures.
There are some 15 different synthetic fibers on the U.S. market today.
One of our partners in crime was rather unhappy because his book collection failed to win a prize in the Taylor contest. His collection includes "Peter Rabbit," "Mother West Wind Why Tales," "Chicago Confidential," and "How to Fill Out the SandA 127."
Perhaps you've noticed the small excavation near the front approach to the Student Union. Can this be our million-dollar addition?
By Dick Bibler
Our good friend Elrod has decided
to see the Rock Chalk Revue this year, "I have decided to see the Rock Chalk Revue this year," said Elrod, his mouth watering with anticipation. "Why did you not go in past years, our good friend Elrod?" we queried.
Dawson
We are encouraged by the five per cent raise the state Legislature recently granted University faculty members, but are disappointed that our 10 o'clock instructor's disposition hasn't improved similarly.
"Because," he quoth, "in the past the productions were good, but none so good as the production this year. Never have I seen such tremendous acting, such superb scenery, such magnificent lighting as at rehearsals for the spectacular this year. Besides, I have a complimentary ticket."
Ad booki. Jerry Dawson
25 Years Ago
Sunday, April 10. 1932
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
HOPEWELL, N. J., —(UP) —Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh revealed late tonight that he had been double-crossed by the kid-nappers of his 21-month-old son, after paying them $50,000, upon their agreement to notify him as to the child's exact whereabouts.
Kansas trackmen turned in several spectacular performances yesterday afternoon in the Kansas-Haskell track meet to win the meet 105 to 26. The most outstanding event of the afternoon was the half mile run in which Glenn Cunningham of Kansas set a new school record by running the distance in 1:54.5.
Movie ad: Skilled torture. Clever Cruelty. Bloody hands. Terror with every heartbeat. Jack Holt in "Behind The Mask" of a mad monster. With Boris Karloff and Constance Cummings.
"WHEN I SAID GET YOUR CARDS—I MEANT YOUR CLASS CARDS!"
In Dinosaur Park near Rapid City, S. D., stands a monstrous, man-made brontosaur that shows visitors what this giant reptile of some 135,000,000 years ago was like.
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Cut Budget By-
Paying Legislators What They're Worth
Considering the serious business in hand, it was a sorry show the Legislature of Kansas put on Thursday night.
It wasn't funny.
During the evening some House lawmakers sailed paper planes at one another, flipped wads at "teacher" or went through the motions of asking the latter's permission to leave the room. Some ate sandwiches and others launched paper boats with rubber bands.
So many House members had already left, despite unfinished work, that hardly enough representatives were present to act on bills after the $2\frac{1}{2}$-hour "call."
It's hard enough for the professionals to be funny in public, let alone the amateurs.
It doesn't require a sense of humor to endure such pranking; it destroys the sense of humor. Nothing is more depressing than the spectacle of people making fools of themselves at the wrong time and place. One member said as much.
One disgusted Kansan said the affair reminded him of those sit-down strikes in Detroit that some of the same legislators have gotten so sore about.
We doubt if very many Kansans, anxious about the welfare of this state, were amused. —Topeka State Journal
Tetanus Toxin 'Spread' Being Studied At KU
By GEORGE ANTHAN
Of The Daily Kansan)
How does the toxin of tetanus reach the central nervous system from the wound and what part of the central nervous system is affected?
Scientists at KU think they have answered this question and in doing so may change the existing concepts concerning tetanus inoculations.
According to Howard A. Matzke, associate professor of anatomy, by injecting tetanus antitoxin in the epineural sheath, protective covering of the nerves, the material will reach the central nervous system much quicker and with far better results than if the antitoxin were injected directly into the blood as has beer the common practice.
Results May Be Far Reaching
The significance of the experiments at KU may be far reaching. This same method of inoculations could possibly be used to combat the neuro-tropic diseases such as polio.
The work on toxins at KU began on a large scale in the summer of 1953 when Dr. Matzke arrived here. He had already done research on parabiotic animals (those whose nerves have been regenerated from one to the other).
Two theories, according to Dr. Matszke, had been developed concerning the method by which the toxin reached the central nervous system. The blood theory, which was in general acceptance, was that both the toxin and antitoxin traveled by way of the blood.
"This is true but it takes a long period of time," said Dr. Matzke. If the tetanus toxin is injected into the blood of an animal the symptoms of the disease will eventually show up but the process will take much longer than if the toxin is injected into the sheath of the nerve, the sciatic nerve, for example.
When injected into the blood, the toxin does not enter the central nervous system directly but passes into
Tag Antitoxin With Dye
the spaces in muscles and from there into the nerve and finally into the central nervous system.
A graduate student has been successful in tagging molecules of antitoxin with a fluorescent dye and thus has been able to locate the toxin in the sciatic nerve. Sections of the nerve and spinal cord have been stained with the antitoxin-dye mixture. The antitoxin-dye combines with the toxin thus locating it. This method has enabled Dr. Matzke and his associates to determine what parts of the nerve or spinal cord were affected.
"Now," said Dr. Matzke, "in order to further prove that the toxin is carried into the central nervous system by way of the fluid in the nerve sheaths, we are trying to tag the toxin itself with the dye and then study the tissue."
The discovery of the nerve sheath as the transmitting agent came when the sciatic nerve was exposed and stripped of its epineural sheath by means of a very delicate, sharp needle. Although the nerve still functioned without its sheath it would not transmit the tetanus toxin. Another experiment showed that the sheath could be left intact, and the fibers removed and the toxin was transmitted.
The transporting agent, according to Dr. Matzke, is a lymph-like fluid which flows continually from the peripheri centrally. "The tissue spaces containing the fluid are continuous with the fluid in the spinal cord which would carry it all the way to the brain," he said.
Faster Than Previously Believed
Another new development which came as a result of research with the tetanus toxins was the fact that radio opaque material, after being injected into the sciatic nerve of the cat, could be picked up in the spinal column five minutes after being administered, much faster than previously believed possible.
"Final conclusive proof of this new development will come when fluorescent toxin itself is used," Dr. Matzke said.
Vaccine May Stop Ailments
If you have missed class this year because of a respiratory infection other than a common cold or flu, you may have something to look forward to if an experiment being conducted by the Health Service is successful.
Dr. Cora M. Downs, professor of bacteriology, is supervising an experiment with a new vaccine which it is hoped will prevent upper respiratory infections.
"Although these infections are not too serious," Dr. Downs said, "they cause a great deal of discomfort and a great loss of time."
"About 200 volunteers will receive the vaccine. We will observe the results for the remainder of the semester and ask them to report in again next fall."
"The Army and Navy have been experimenting with the vaccine for some time and have reported very good results," Dr. Downs said. "They have reported that respiratory infections have been prevented in 90 to 95 per cent of the cases tested."
The experiment is being financed by the U.S. Public Health Service. Although the vaccine is not available for public use at present, Dr. Downs said if the experiment proved successful it would probably be available in a short time.
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