Page 10 University Daily Kansan Thursday, Sept. 13, 1956
KU Granted $9,570 To Study Transport Of Polio Virus
Watching a monkey shine usually isn't considered too academic a pastime but the U.S. Public Health Service has made a grant to KU for just that purpose.
Amounting to $9,570, the grant is for the study of the transport of the polio virus from the intestinal tract to the central nervous system. Researchers will use a fluorescent dye to try to track the virus inside the body of a monkey.
Intestines To Nervous System The scientists will feed the virus to monkeys and follow it from the intestines to the nervous system.
When the tissue is examined with ultra-violet light, the tissue cells containing the virus fluoresce on shine.
Their research may shed some light on the problem of why some persons have paralytic polio and others do not.
The request to the Public Health Service was initiated by Dr. Paul G. Roofe, chairman of the department of anatomy, and Dr. Theodore G. Metcalf, associate professor of bacteriology. Dr. Metcalf has since resigned and his portion of the project has been taken over by Dr. Cora Downs, professor of bacteriology.
Six Monkeys
The new dye technique was perfected by Dr. Albert Coons of the Harvard Medical School. Previously, the virus could be seen only outside the body.
The project, which will use about a half a dozen monkeys this year, will probably be conducted in the virus laboratory.
Dr. Roofe and Dr. Downs will work in close cooperation with Dr Herbert Wenner, director of polio research at the University Medical Center. Graduate students working on the project will be John Riggs of Concord, Calif., and Eugene Gold of Chicago.
The Chaplina Corps of the U. S. Army was founded on July 29, 1775.
Anatomy Study Grant Received
Dr. Byron Wenger, assistant professor of anatomy, has received an $8,379 grant from the U.S. Public Health Service to continue research on the chemistry of the developing nervous system.
This is the fourth year that the Public Health Service has supported the project. Dr. Wenger said. Assistants on the project are Dr. Marjorie Newmark, research associate; Mrs. Eileen Keller and Miss Mary Rucha, research assistants, and McCormick Templeton, graduate student.
Another project for which Dr. Wenger recently received a Public Health Service grant for $2,500 is the perfection of a method for prefrom the lupine plant. The project paring the enzyme acid phosphatase is an outgrowth of a study of the enzyme in the chick embryo. Dr. Newmark also will assist Dr. Wenger in this work.
Dean Axe Attends Turin, Italy Meeting
Dr. Leonard H. Axe, dean of the School of Business, attended an international conference on business management in Turin, Italy, Sept. 6-9, as representative of the International Cooperation Administration and the European Productivity agency of the U.S. government.
Debate Squad Meets Tonight
Dean Axe left Lawrence August 30 and spent one day in Washington, D.C., for briefing. He was in Paris consulting with the European Productivity Agency both before and after the Turin conference. His return to KU will be about September 17.
Anyone interested in trying out for the University debate squad should attend an orientation meeting at 7:30 p.m. today in 105 Green.
Services Held For Dr. Mix, 67
Memorial services for Dr. A. J. Mix, 67 professor of botany who died early Sunday morning, were held at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Trinity Episcopal Church. The Rev. Robert Swift conducted the service.
Dr. Mix died at the Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, where he had undergone surgery about three weeks before. He was taken to Houston for a special operation after being treated at the KU Medical Center several weeks ago for an aneurism, a permanent dilation of a blood vessel.
Dr. Mix joined the KU faculty in 1916 as an instructor and became a full professor in 1924. From 1931 to 1953 he was chairman of the botany department.
In addition to his work at KU, Dr. Mix had been an assistant botanist for the New York Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, N. Y., and had taught at Cornell University and Pennsylvania State College. He also wrote the Manual of Medical Mycology (1953), and was botanist for the Kansas Board of Agriculture. He also was a consultant on plant disease for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Born September 30, 1888, in Bolivar, N.Y., Dr. Mix is survived by his widow, Mrs. Katherine Mix, and two sisters, Mrs. J. R. Benton, Clinton, N.Y., and Mrs. O. C. Lockhart, Exeter, N.H.
Cremation followed the service.
TV Station Strike Settled
HOLLYWOOD—(UP)—The National Broadcasting Company's Hollywood television station was back in operation today after two nationwide shows were forced off the air when technicians staged a four-hour strike. The technicians, members of the National Association of Broadcasting Employees and Technicians, set up a picket line yesterday around KRCA-TV, the local NBC outlet, in a jurisdictional dispute over two clerks hired by NBC.
A. University graduate student has been awarded a U. S. Public Health Service grant of $3,010 to aid his research in physiology.
U. S. piano sales grew from 145,000 in 1947 to 178,000 in 1955.
Student Gets $9,010 Grant
The federal agency's grant to J. E. Kendrick of Scott City is believed to be one of the few made to student research workers. Kendrick also holds a pre-doctoral research fellowship from the Public Health Service.
Using a mechanical "heart" which he designed himself, Kendrick is studying the effects of various drugs
or the blood vessel system. The machine replaces the function of the heart in a test animal making the heart action constant so that the reaction of the vascular system alone may be observed.
Deer Wants In Act, Too
A graduate of KU in 1952, Kendrick has been working on his project since the fall of that year, but this is the first time he has had a grant for that purpose. Last spring he presented a paper on the subject at the annual meeting of the American Physiological Association in Atlantic City, N. J.
BRENTWOOD, Calif. —(UP)—Postman Leonard Rich, who has evaded napping dogs and clawing cats on his mail route the past 12 years, faced a new menace today. He was forced to seek shelter when chased by a deer.
Where's The Fire?
NAPLES, Fla.—(UP)—Manager Bill Ryan of radio station WNOG rushed out of his studio yesterday with a tape recorder for a first-hand account of a fire on Gordon Street. He found his own home ablaze.
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