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64 Army ROTC Cadets Receive Promotions
54th Year, No.31
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Sixty-four Army ROTC cadet promotions were announced yesterday by Capt. William F. Pence, commandant of the Cadet Corps.
The promotions:
Second lieutenants — *Frank N. Beck, Leavenworth; Patrick H. Canary, Wichita; Gary T. Fenity, Topeka; Basil E.. Frank, Pittsburgh; Robert T. Frohlich, St. Joseph, Mo.; Gary C. Grose, Dodge City; Lawrence W. Stroup, Topeka, and Hans H. Traver, Erding, Germany. All are seniors.
Sergeant first class—John L. Baker, Olathe; Reed D. Beardsey, Liberal; Eugene A. Brown, Coffeyville; Larry G. Coker, Osawatomi; Ralph L. Croyle, Lincolnville; William H. Davenport, Blue Rapids; Thomas E. Davis, Pittsburg, and John N. Drowatzky, Wichita.
Master sergeant—Charles E. Beall,
Leavenworth; Arlyn C. Hill, Calver;
Thomas T. Hoyne, Salina; Dwayne
Hull, Fredonia; Vernon L. Johnson,
Ft. Sheridan, Ill.; Edwin L. Petrik,
Caldwell; Theron G. Sills, Newton;
Karl E. Steegmann, Overland Park;
Harry D. Zerfas, Ellis, and Marvin
Wolf home town not available. All are seniors.
Ray G. Gross, Levasy, Mo.; David L. Hays, Larned; Merrill A. Jones, Milford; Ned Joslin, Cupertino, Calif.; James C. Loomis, Topeka; Loren D. Martin, home town not available; Eugene J. O'Neill, Lawrence; John E. Parker, Mission; John W. Sayler, Kansas City, Kan.; David L. Schwartz, Russell; Harold E. Treaster, Lawrence; Donald E. Ulrich, Wichita; Gary R. Welch, Hutchinson, Harvey S. Bodker, home town not available. All are seniors.
Justin C. Cash, Kansas City, Mo.
Jerry A. Henderson, Kansas City,
Kan, Return J. Meigs, Mission, juniors.
Sergeants—David A. Brace, Moline; Thomas B. Cormode, Atchison; Ronald D. Davis, Kansas City, Mo.; Forrest D. Fletcher, Pratt; John L. Hysom, Ottawa; James W. Powell, Leavenworth; Robert W. Shies, home town not available; Vernon Shull, Colby; Samuel E. Stayton, Lawrence; David Stein, home town not available; Robert D. Wilber, Kansas City, Kan.; Jack C. Williams, Hutchinson, and John C. Wilson, Madison. All are seniors.
David L. Babin, Paul G. Kent,
Kansas City, Kan., Edward L. Odell,
Kansas City, Mo., John E. Rodgers,
home town not available, juniors;
Albert G. Cobb, Bartlesville, Okla.,
sophomore.
Turnpike Useful To KU Students
Many KU students traveling home this weekend will enjoy an unprecedented smooth and time saving ride on the new state superhighway—the Kansas Turnpike—which officially will be opened to the public at 10 a.m. Thursday.
The official opening ceremonies at Lawrence will be held at the Jayhawk (West Lawrence) interchange with Tom Griffith, Kansas Turnpike Authority member, of Manhattan as the speaker.
Weekend travelers from KU headed south toward Wichita will find uninterrupted travel on the toll-road a welcome relief to the congested highways and city traffic that have marked the homeward journey in the past.
Even students who live in Kansas City will find the new 169 million dollar highway a big help in beating the crowded roads to the "City."
For students who live off the turnpike it will be convenient to travel down the turnpike, get off at one of the interchanges, and speed across the state to home.
The divided superhighway offers the motorist the latest advancement in safety driving. With 12-foot medium strip between the two traffic lanes, it will be impossible for cars from ore lane to cross over into oncoming traffic.
Not only will the turnip provide KU students with a safer and speedier trip home, but it also will give KU sport fans a better and quicker way to athletic events on the campus.
The 24-foot traffic lanes have a 10-foot emergency shoulder on the outside and a 4-foot emergency lane on the inside. The pavement of the 236-mile turnpike is concrete between Kansas City and Topeka.
Maj. Lloyd Vincent, head of the special turnipke highway patrol detachment, said that while there has been no maximum speed limit set, motorists going over 80 miles an hour may receive speeding tickets.
John Masefield Honors Turnpike
John Masefield, poet laureate of England, has written the following poem, commemorating the completion of the Kansas Turnpike. It will be read at dedicatory ceremonies along the route of the pike Thursday.
"May this Road's Angels blessedly fulfill
The inmost Hope of travelers of good will.
May those who seek Love,
find; those, Knowledge, learn.
To all, gay going-forth and glad return."
AWS Approves Time Change
A revision of the Associated Women Students' social regulations was passed Tuesday at an AWS Senate meeting. The change was made to make the AWS rule coincide with All Student Council social regulations.
The AWS Senate voted to extend the previous 9 p. m. time limit on Wednesday night social events to 10:30.
Any social function which lasts past 8 p. m. on Sunday through Thursday must be approved by the ASC social committee.
The committee voted Monday night to approve Wednesday night social functoins after 8 p. m. only if students wishing to study are excused and if the function can be held in the house without disturbing those studying.
Weather
The weather forecast for Kansas is partly warm and strong to gale southerly winds this afternoon. Considerable blowing dust west and central with winds reaching 40-50 miles per hour at times. Shifting winds, widely scattered showers and turning cooler tonight with chance of mixed rain and snow extreme northwest. Thursday clearing and much cooler with diminishing winds. Low tonight 35 to 40 extreme northwest to 60 extreme southeast. High Thursday in 60s.
Math-Science Day Set For Saturday
Two of the nation's top scientists, including Dr. J. Allen Hynek, head of the satellite tracking program, will take part in the University's fifth annual mathematics and Science Day Saturday in Hoch Auditorium.
Dr. Hynek, associate director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, will speak at both the Science and Mathematics Day, which is designed to stimulate the interest of high school students in mathematics and science, and at a lecture for University faculty members and students in Bailey Auditorium 4 p. m. Friday. His Friday lecture will be on "The International Geophysical Year Satellite Program."
DR. J. ALLEN HYNEK
Saturday Dr. Hynek will speak on "The Satellite Aloft"
Also on Saturday's program will be Dr. Carlyle S. Smith, associate professor of anthropology who recently returned from a year-long trip to the South Pacific with an expedition led by Thor Heyer-dahl, author of "Kon-Tiki."
Dr. Smith's topic will be, "An Achaeological Expedition to the South Pacific." He will show films of the expedition and will narrate them.
1.000 Expected
About 1,000 students and teachers are expected for the event, said Daniel S. Ling, associate professor
of physics and chairman of the Mathematics-Science Day.
Twelve mathematics and science departments will set up displays for the event, Prof. Ling said, and the University's most interesting equipment in these fields will also be on display. The Van de Graaf generator or atom smasher, for example, will be demonstrated along with the helium cyostat, a machine which produces liquid helium at 450 degrees Fahrenheit below zero.
In his lecture Friday, Dr. Hynek will talk about the general philosophy and the reason for sending up the artificial satellite. Although a number of satellites are being planned, the first will probably be launched in about a year. It will be 20 inches in diameter and in that space will be packed as much scientific equipment, including radio, as can be contained.
"Scientific estimates of air density suggest the satellite may stay up for about a year," Prof. Ling said. "However, it may come down a few months after it is launched or may stay up for a number of years."
To Track Satellite
Dr. Hynek will track the satellite after it is launched. He will set up telescopic cameras at strategic locations and will photograph the satellite as it passes overhead. Prof. Ling said the man-made moon will cross the U.S. in about 10 minutes.
Dr. Charles Leone, associate professor of zoology; Dr. Max Dresden, professor of physics, and Dr. Walter L. Youngquist, professor of geology, will also talk Saturday.
The echidna, an egg laying mammal, and parabiotic rats which are artificial Siamese twins will be displayed by the anatomy department while the mathematics department will show two movies, "Direct Line to Decision," and "Automation."
Revue To Go To Kansas City
The Rock Chalk Revue, for the first time in its history, will be given at the Victorian Theater in Kansas City, Mo., April 11. The Revue will be presented on the campus April 12 and 13.
Dr. Hoecker Blames Adlai For Radioactive Test Confusion
By JOHN BATTIN
(Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
(Of The Daily Kansan Staff) Historic experiments are being conducted in the red brick radioisotope laboratory on the south side of the campus just above Sunnyside apartments.
One such experiment is injecting
DR. EDWARD SHAW
Dr. Frank E. Hoecker, professor of physics and a consultant to the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, is in charge of the laboratory. A colleague, Dr. Edward I. Shaw, a radiation biologist, has worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratories.
rats and rabbits with strontium 90 and radium. Each substance is radioactive. The goal of the experimenters is to determine the effect of the substance on the animals.
Recent reports in the nation's press have linked strontium 90 with bone cancer. This has resulted in part from the campaign speeches of Adalai Stevenson, Democratic presidential nominee, who has made a political issue of the nuclear bomb tests.
The implication has been that the nuclear bomb tests have created a radioactive hazard to strontium 90 which is a by-product of nuclear explosions. This is a man made radioactive substance which is biologically similar to radium, a natural radioactive element, in that it is deposited in the bones of animals and human beings if it enters the body.
"Much" confusion
"Much" confusion
the danger of strontium 50 has been
"Much Confusion"
caused by taking a grain of truth and magnifying it out of all proportion to its scientific relationship," Dr. Hoecker said. "Mr. Stevenson, like many other politicians, is a layman whose knowledge of physics and radiobiology is extremely limited, and who is certainly unfamiliar with the interactions between radiation and matter," he added.
It is true that huge amounts of strontium 90 are produced in nuclear reactions. Dr. Hoecker said, but local concentrations due to fall out are infinitely small because the strontium which is produced is distributed over the entire surface of the earth, and the amounts which occur at any one place are far below the level which would be considered hazardous at the present time.
The danger from strontium 90 is due to the inability of the human body to distinguish between strontium 90 and calcium, Dr. Hoecker explained. When taken up by the body, it is deposited in the bones in the same way as calcium and radium where it remains throughout the life of the individual.
May Cause Cancer The radiation from strontium 90
Some confusion has been caused by references to the genetic effects of radioactive substances, he continued. It is true that low doses of radiation are of genetic importance, but such a statement should not be linked with strontium 90 because the radiation from strontium 90 deposited in the bones does not reach the reproductive organs of a human being, and can, therefore, have little or no effect. The radiation from strontium 90 is of far less danger than the radiation from an X-ray shoe-fitting machine or from a mobile X-ray unit.
when deposited in the bone may cause bone cancer, but this is purely supposition, he added, because there has been no case on record of bone cancer caused by strontium 90. "This supposition is based on observation on cases of bone cancer caused by radium, but we must constantly bear in mind that radium and strontium 90 do not emit the same type of radiation and that radium is much more dangerous because of the type of radiation it emits." Dr. Hoecker said.
"It is true that large amounts of strontium 90 are produced in all fission nuclear reactors, but to say that we should stop testing nuclear
bombs is to say also that nuclear reactors of all kinds should be prohibited, as well as the many uses of X-rays." Dr. Hoecker remarked. "Unquestionably, X-ray shoe-fitting machines can best serve the population by being submerged on the bottom of the Kaw river."
DR. FRANK E. HOECKER