Summer Session Kansan
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Tuesday. July 25.1961
Peace Officers Holding School
From 125 to 150 Kansas law enforcement officers are attending the 15th annual Kansas Peace Officers Training School which opened Monday and will run through July 29.
Designed to enhance the proficiency of Kansas peace officers, the school was provided with a $5,250 appropriation by the 1961 Kansas Legislature. Five courses will be offered: a basic course, a course in police science, a basic course in traffic, a special course for correctional officers, and a special course for sheriffs.
The basic course for peace officers will include instruction in the law of evidence and arrest, investigation of crimes, firearms, the criminal mind, problem inmates, accident investigation, self defense, and interrogation of suspects.
Scientific aids for criminal investigation, such as fingerprinting, photography, and medical examinations and autopsies, will be discussed in the police science course. Also included will be instruction in the collection and preservation of evidence, firearms, document and handwriting identification, and the preparation of criminal cases for trial.
The traffic course will be primarily concerned with the investigation of accidents. Firearms, traffic control, legal proof for traffic violations, teaching traffic safety, and accident report writing will also be discussed.
The courses for correctional officers and for sheriffs will run only for half of the week. The special course for correctional officers will provide instruction in the Kansas penal system, parole, security, the problem inmate, and the criminal mind. The sheriffs' course will include material on the handling and care of prisoners and on general problems of the sheriff department.
Zeller Gets $11,239 Grant
Dr. Edward J. Zeller, associate professor of geology, has received a National Science Foundation continuation grant of $11,239 to aid in his research on thermoluminescence.
The grant will support research related to his three Antarctic expeditions, each financed by the NSF. The trips were made to collect rock specimens for his pioneering research in the use of thermoluminescence to determine the age of rocks and paleotemperatures.
Dr. Zeller left earlier this month for the Physikalisches Institute at Bern, Switzerland, where he will use the thermoluminescence phenomenon in calculating the geologic age of limestone taken from strata of various altitudes in the Alps. The limestone studies are supported for the most part by an Atomic Energy Commission contract.
In early September, Luciano B. Ronca, graduate student and research assistant from Trieste, Italy, will join Dr. Zeller in Switzerland.
During Dr. Zeller's absence, his research here will be directed by Dr. Ernest Angino, research associate who received the doctorate degree from K.U. in June.
Dr. Angino will be assisted by Dr. Frederie Siegel, research associate who also received his Ph.D. degree from K.U. in June, and by William C. Pearn, research assistant.
Army ROTC Major To Leave KU
Maj. B. J. Pinkerton, assistant professor of military science, will leave KU Thursday to attend the Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth.
Maj. Pinkerton, who was promoted last week, has been here three years. Replacing him in the Army ROTC unit is Capt. Paul Reed, who has been attending the Infantry Officer Career Course at Ft. Benning, Ga.
Capt. Rolla Lush, who is completing a three-year tour of duty in Germany, will join the staff in August.
KU Group Busy in Germany
Twenty-five KU students enrolled in the German Summer Institute have been having a ball, according to two reports sent by Dr. J. A. Burzle, chairman of the German department and director of the Institute
The students are part of a total contingent of 67 which left New York by plane last month for the University's first summer language institute. Others are studying French in Paris and Spanish in Barcelona, Spain.
According to Dr. Burzle, the total group met in the Pan-American Building at New York's Idlewild Airport June 7 and left aboard the "Jayhawk Clipper" that afternoon. After landing at Paris-Orly airport
the next morning, the students split up. The German group took a chartered bus to Frankfurt/Main, where it's currently "working hard."
The transplanted Jayhawkers have done a lot and seen a lot so far. Among other things, they have visited the 9th century cathedral at Aachen, a castle in Heidelberg, the ancient towns of Dinkelsbuhl and Nordlingen, several light operas and ballets in Munich, castles in Bavaria, the city of Vienna, Austria, and other cities and towns in Germany.
In addition, the group has been entertained by government and university officials in Bonn and they've taken an all day trip down the
Space Agency Believes U.S. May Beat Russians to Mars
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Congressional space experts say that despite delays there still is a chance the United States may learn the truth about those canals on Mars before Russia.
They said the National Space Agency has launched a study which could advance by two years an exploratory flight near Mars now scheduled for 1964. The trip would take 232 days.
Scientists hope the shot will provide an electronic close-up look at the Planet's unexplained canals, polar white caps, and possible vegetation. It originally had been planned for 1962, along with two similar space probes of Venus.
The Mars target date later was delayed for 25 months—the next feasible period for such a shot-on grounds that space exploration techniques were not far enough along to accomplish the project on schedule.
Rhine River on the Steamer, "M. S. Deutschland."
The House Space Committee has been advised that the shot actually was postponed because budget restrictions then in effect would not allow all three shots in one year. Those budget curbs now have been lifted and Space Agency experts are determining now whether it is too late to reschedule the Mars probe for late 1962.
The committee, headed by Rep. Overton Brooks, D-La., considers this a chance to reclaim from Russia some of the prestige lost when the Soviets put the first man into orbit.
If it proves impossible to put the Mars shot back on the original timetable, committee sources said, there is every prospect that Russia will chalk up another first in firing her own rocket to Mars.
Dr. Burzle added that he and his students have had several KU visitors, among them Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Nichols, and son Raymond. Jr.
Russia already is ahead in the race to Venus, having fired a "piggy back" probe toward that planet early this year.
As far as the academic life is concerned, Dr. Burzle said that "the work is demanding; we require the high standards maintained by our department at KU, and I am happy to say that the students are very willing to work hard. But despite our intensive academic program of 4-5 classes a day, we are seeing and experiencing a great many things. The students have agreed that they want to work hard for 5 days a week so that the weekends and some evenings can be used for cultural and extra-curricular activities."
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