SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Tuesday, July 25, 1961
49th Year, No.12
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
LOOKING FOR RADICALS—Peter Ludwig, research associate professor of chemistry, checks the magnet of a $30,000 machine designed to aid in research in organic free radical chemistry. The control board of the machine can be seen in the background.
Radicals' to Be Studied By $30,000 Machine
Research in organic free radical chemistry soon will be stimulated through use of a $30,000 electron paramagnetic resonance spectrometer just delivered to the department of chemistry.
A "free radical" is a molecule that has one or more unpaired electrons. The life of these radicals is usually very short, because their structure permits them to react with other molecules very readily, producing different molecules.
This short life span and high reactivity requires the use of elaborate and complex instruments.
Prof. Adams is one of the early workers in the field of electrochemical generation of free radicals, a field only about two years old. Lack
A KU group, directed by Ralph N. Adams, associate professor of chemistry, will study the electrochemical generation of free radicals and organic electrode reactions to determine whether or not such reactions have free radical intermediates.
Draft Calls No Threat
The recent increase in draft calls and speculation that some National Guard and reserve units might be activated hasn't produced much of a reaction on the KU campus.
Registrar James Hitt said he has seen no evidence yet of "panic" or any notable increase in requests for Form 109's. This is a form KU sends to local draft boards which indicates the student's academic achievement for the past year.
Hitt added that no student has been pulled out of school and doubted that the selective service system or the Guard and reserve units could swing into action fast enough to affect fall enrollment.
Any calls to military service would have to take place between now and September, he said, because a student who enrolls for the fall term is normally allowed to continue through the year.
He also stated that any student who plans to be here this fall and who wants to get his registration officially confirmed should stop by the registrar's office.
of proper instrumentation has been a serious handicap but the new spectrometer will relieve the problem.
"We are working at this for the sheer fun of it," Prof. Adams said. "We will pursue whatever lines become most interesting as we go along."
He said that there are several electron paramagnetic resonance research teams presently working in KU's physics department. "But they are working on entirely different areas than ours on their own home built machines," Prof. Adams said.
Further, implications of free radical research in the space-age are many, with solutions to numerous problems of rocket fuels and their combustion processes perhaps being subject to this approach.
An Atomic Energy Commission contract provided $20,000 toward purchase of the unusual instrument while the University financed the remaining one-third.
And since free radicals are formed by the action of an ionizing radiation on aqueous solutions, the Atomic Energy Commission is interested in this research.
Another instrument, a $7.790 liquid scintillation counter, will be delivered soon. The Petroleum Research Foundation is providing $4.000 toward this purchase and the University the balance
This is the third large instrument obtained by the KU chemistry department in recent months for which the major expense was borne by non-state sources. The Atomic Energy Commission provided $79,000 to Prof. Paul W. Gilles for the purchase of a high temperature mass spectrometer and the Petroleum Research Foundation of the American Chemical Society gave $8,000 toward an $18,350 recording ultraviolet and visible spectrophotometer, to be used in studies supervised by Prof. C. A. Reynolds.
Prof. Adams recently spent four months at the Varian Associates Laboratories in Palo Alto, Calif. pursuing research on electron paramagnetic resonance apparatus. With him part of the time was Dr. Peter Ludwig of the University of Bonn, a member of Dr. Adams' KU research team.
Kennedy Returns to Capital Prepares Message on Berlin
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — President Kennedy returned to the White House Monday and plunged into the task of finishing his message to the nation on how he plans to meet Communist threats in Berlin and around the globe.
Kennedy still has "quite a way to go" on the radio-TV address scheduled for delivery today from his office, a spokesman said.
"I would say it's got to go through several more drafts," said Pierre Salinger, the President's press secretary. He estimated the speech would run 4,000 words and take 30 minutes to deliver.
After his talk, Kennedy will send legislative proposals to Congress Wednesday to carry out the defense build-up he has decided to order.
Kennedy will not hold a news conference this week. Salinger said.
The President arrived at Otis Air Force Base by marine helicopter after the 22-mile ride from his Hy-annis Port summer home. He was greeted by the base commander, Col. Ernest J. White.
Kennedy shook hands with some of the 200 to 300 spectators who gathered to watch his departure.
As Kennedy was returning to the capital, his Defense secretary, Robert S. McNamara, was off to Paris to explain to the NATO allies Kennedy's measures to toughen American military might in the face of Soviet demands on Berlin.
McNamara, accompanied by Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, also planned to urge other members of the Atlantic alliance to speed their build-up of conventional forces to parallel the U.S. program.
The goal is a stronger, better balanced and more efficient Western defense shield in Europe in case Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
Petitions Out For City Pool
A committee of 10 Lawrence citizens is circulating a petition to see if there is enough interest to warrant a special bond election for a municipal swimming pool.
Lawrence does not have a public pool. In a special bond election in 1956 a proposal to build a municipal pool was defeated 2 to 1.
Spokesmen for the committee told the City Commission early last week that they believe that public sentiment now strongly favors a public swimming pool.
Commissioners requested that the petition be circulated to prove that there is enough support to warrant the special election.
Socony Mobil Oil Company, Inc. has donated the results of an extensive research study on electrical well logging to 11 universities and colleges in the United States offering petroleum courses, including KU.
The Rev. Paul Davis said the committee hopes to have the way cleared for a bond election by mid-September.
Well Logging Study Donated to KU
The study, which fills 17 volumes, was conducted by Hubert Guyod, Houston logging consultant, and is the product of a research effort sponsored by Socony Mobil and several other companies.
Well logging is a technique that involves sending electrical impulses from an instrument lowered into a well to determine types of earth formations at different depths. Geologists and engineers use this information during oil well drilling to help them determine the probability of finding oil in commercial quantities.
forces a military showdown on Ber- * lin.
There were some hints in Communist propaganda broadcasts that the Russians, startled by the stiffening U.S. attitude, were beginning to put out feelers for negotiations.
But Undersecretary of State Chester Bowles said he thought the crisis would get worse before it was over. He said in a radio interview that the Russians "appear to be in a belligerent mood. We're going to be living through a gradually accelerating crisis, I'm afraid, during these coming months."
Bowles said Khrushchev may have "miscalculated U.S. reaction to his new Berlin demands." He said the United States must show Khrushchev it will not be "jarred out, frightened or pushed out" of the former German capital.
The Soviet leader has demanded that the Allies pull out of Red-encircled West Berlin by the end of the year and permit it to become a demilitarized "free city."
Otherwise, he has warned, he will make a separate peace treaty with Communist East Germany, whose territory surrounds West Berlin. This, in Khrushchev's view, would force the Allies to deal with the local Reds for access, which they flatly refuse to do.
The United States meanwhile was moving slowly but steadily forward on three fronts—military, diplomatic, and economic—to prepare for any eventuality in Western Europe.
Heeb Receives Post On State Board
Larry Heeb, professor of physical education and state recreation consultant, has been named chairman of the committee on recreation of the Kansas Council for Children and Youth.
Mr. Heeb will also serve on the Council's board of directors. The recreation committee will make long-range recommendations on development of public recreational facilities in Kansas and will encourage community action in operating recreational programs.
Richard Sundbye
Gunshot Wound Fatal to Student
Richard Sundbye, Olathe graduate student, died of a gunshot wound in the head at his parents' home in Olathe Thursday afternoon.
Officials there said he apparently committed suicide. He was found lying on a bed holding a pistol.
Sundbye, 26, was a 1956 graduate and a lieutenant junior grade in the Navy from 1956 to 1960. He returned to KU last year. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and Alpha Kappa Psi fraternities.
Born Nov. 3, 1934, he was a graduate of Olathe High School. He had maintained a room at 1308 Vermont St. in Lawrence this summer. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford E. Sundbye, a sister, Mrs Jean Marie Hines of Lawrence, and a brother, the Rev. Ronald Sundbye of Topeka.
Funeral services were held yesterday at the First Methodist Church in Olathe.
'Idiot's Delight' Scheduled For Two Night Performance
An Italian resort hotel provides the setting for "Idiot's Delight," the third University of Kansas Theatre production of the summer season.
The play will be presented at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday at the K.U. theater in Murphy Hall. Tickets may be obtained at the University Theatre box office from 1:30 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday or by calling VIking 3,2700, extension 591.
"Idiot's Delight" takes place during World War II and shows a number of guests at a hotel attempting to escape the war by crossing the border into Switzerland. The story revolves around an American who is touring Europe with an act involving six dancing girls, and a woman who is posing as a Russian countess.
Dr. Jack Brooking, assistant professor of speech and assistant director of the University Theatre, is directing the play. Assistant director is Roxanne Behl, graduate student from St. Paul, Minn.
The cast:
Harry Van; Sidney Berger, graduate student, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Dumptys; Steve Booser, senior, Kansas City, Mo.; Captain Locicero; Robert Strack, graduate student, Lawrence; Mr. Cherry; Roger Brown, graduate student, Topeka; Mrs. Cherry; Janice Gibson, freshman, Independence; Dr. Waldersee:
Darryl Patten, graduate student,
Winner, S.D.; Irene; Karin Gold,
sophomore, Overland Park; Achille
Weber; Millard Denny, graduate
student, Lawrence; Quillery; Ted E.
Lawson, junior, Medford, Ore.; Donald
Navadel; Bruce E. Thompson,
sophomore, Leavenworth, and Pitt-
luga; John R. Dickson, graduate
student, Atchison
Shirley; Kay Carroll, junior, El Dorado; Beulah; Sharon Scoville, junior, Kansas City; Bebe: Sylvia Anderson, sophomore, Wilmette, Ill.; Edna: Jerilyn McGee, graduate student, Butte, Mont.; Elaine: Lois Criss, freshman, Eudora; Francine: Katherine Barker, freshman, Oswego; Signora Rossi: Judy Mayhan, junior, Emporia; Signor Rossi: Robert L. Kazmayer, graduate student, Rochester, N.Y.; The Major: Charles Nicol, senior, Blue Springs, Mo.; Officers: Carl Bentz, sophomore, Peabody; Russell McNaughton, sophomore, Tula, Okla.; Cliff Hamill, junior, Lawrence; John Randall, senior, Aberdeen, S.D., and The maid: Jacqueline Volkland, sophomore, Bushton.
The show will also include a live dance band consisting of Kent Riley, freshman, Columbus; Bob Johnson, senior, Kansas City; John Taddikin, sophomore, Independence; and Ron Thatcher, graduate student, West Orange, N.J.