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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, June 27, 1961
Twist of Fate Marked Life of Major Gilstrap
Major Jack T. Gillstrap, assistant professor of Air Science, said that he is here today because of a quirk in his orders just after the end of the Second World War.
Major Gilstrap commented, "I was supposed to receive orders to join an Army unit in Massachusetts, but I didn't get them before I left Europe. So I was assigned to courier duty at the Pentagon when I arrived in the States. I happened to be on an Army Air Force base when the Air Force became a separate service, and I stayed with the Air Force. I found out later that the Army unit I was supposed to join went to Korea in 1949."
THE MAJOR'S entire career has been full of such events. He was refused by the Army for physical reasons when he tried to enlist in 1941, but he was drafted in 1942. He went to Officer Candidate School and soon received his commission. "I've done all right in the service for somebody whom they wouldn't let enlist when he wanted to," he said.
Major Gilstap said, "I hadn't finished college when I was drafted, but I got my degree through the Army when I was overseas." Ever since then, he has been engaged in a "never-ending self-training program," which has resulted in a second degree, completion of the Armed Forces Industrial College course, and graduation from the Air Force Command and Staff School.
HIS ASSIGNMENT with the AFROTC detachment here at KU is that of freshman instructor and Detachment Education Officer. In the second capacity, he is in charge of the AFROTC curriculum and also has the job of keeping the cadets up to par in their school work.
He said, "I feel that in this assignment I can make my best contribution to the mission of the Air Forces. It's a very satisfying job to be able to take part in the training of future officers."
MAJOR GILSTRAP has been fortunate in having several other "choice" assignments throughout his military career, including two tours in Germany, security courier, and recruiting duty. "Of all of them, I think the best assignment before my
present AFROTC duty was the command of an Air Force Postal Squadron in Germany," he said, glancing at an engraved punchbowl sitting on top of the family's television set.
The punchbowl and twelve engraved cups were a gift from the squadron, which had twelve detachments "strung out from Amsterdam to Venice."
"I got to see a lot of Europe during that assignment," he said.
At his last station, he and his wife were very active in Scouting work, but they haven't had time to get back into it since coming to Kansas last fall. "We're also members of the local P.T.A., but it's hard for us to become really active in it. It's hard enough to keep track of our five children right here at home," said Major Glastrap.
THE MAJOR'S favorite reading matter includes anything that leads to a better understanding between the military and civilian life. He feels that an understanding of this type is vital to Americans with the world situation the way it is today.
"I'm militantly anti-Communist as far as I'm allowed to be in my present assignment as an instructor," he said. "But I'm definitely not a John Bircher. It just makes my blood boil to see American citizens go over to the Communist way of thinking, and some of the things that go on right here at KU make me furious.
"ONE OF THESE things is the indifference toward real patriotism that exists at KU. This attitude is dangerous to the survival of our country. If you don't think so, read the book, 'No Wonder We're Losing.' It was written by a congressman who was on the House Un-American Committee for 16 years, and it would wake a lot of people up."
Tickets on Sale For July 4 Show
Ticket sales for the Lawrence Junior Chamber of Commerce's Fourth of July fireworks celebration, to be held in KU's Memorial Stadium, are now on sale.
Major Gilstrap is looking forward to his retirement from the service so he and his family can settle down in a permanent home and take things easy; but he has no regrets about his career. He said, "At times it's hectic, especially the moving every three years, but I wouldn't have traded a military life for anything else. It's been an exotic life, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to any young man who has the opportunity."
Jaycee members are covering the city on a house-to-house basis. Advance tickets sell for 25 cents, gate tickets 50 cents. The show starts at 8 p.m. and will last for about an hour. A crowd of about 10,000 is expected.
In addition to the house-to-house canvass, advance tickets can be purchased at the Round Corner Drug, Bob Harrell Texaco, First National Bank, Jim Clark Motors, The Surplus Store, Kief's Record Shop, Lawrence National Bank, and Rankin Drug.
The Jaycees have spent $1,500 for fireworks. They've also added some extra aerial bombs to highlight the show. The finale act will feature 72 cannon shots, fired six at a time.
In case of rain, the show will be postponed until July 5.
Dr. Mertes Receives Cancer Studv Grant
Dr. Mathias P. Mertes, assistant professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, has received a $2,400 Institutional Cancer Grant from the American Cancer Society.
The grant will support research of James M. Zielinski of Madison, Wis., graduate student in pharmaceutical chemistry, who has been appointed Institutional Cancer Grant Fellow. His research will deal with the synthesis of agents in the field of cancer chemotherapy.
Lutheran Group To Meet Tonight
The Lutheran-Methodist student group will meet at 6:15 tonight at the Wesley Foundation.
The books "Courage to be Wise" by Paul Tillich and "Christ and Culture" by Richard Nieburo will be discussed.
The discussion will be followed by community worship at 7:30.
NEW YORK — (UPI) The beer business is so flat that half the breweries in the country have closed in the past 15 years, the Annual Brewing Industry Survey said today.
Horrors! Beer Supply Down
And the revolutionary threat of a beer concentrate process, like the fruit juice concentrating process, is causing most of the remaining small brewing companies to fear for their existence.
The Brewer's Association of America, representing the small breweries, is unanimously opposed to the concentrates and will try to get the Alcohol Tax Unit of the Internal Revenue Service to tax them so high
Sterrett Named Justice of Court
F. J. Moreau, acting dean of the University of Kansas School of Law, has appointed Joel A. Sterrett chief justice of the Student Court.
Sterrett, a second-year law student from Topeka, will preside over a five-member court which hears cases concerning parking offenses, election procedures and other student matters.
Members of the court who are appointed through the All-Student Council are:
Howard T. Sturdevant, third-year student from Eureka, and Dick R. Jones, third-year student from McPhrerson, justices; Daniel D. Dreiling, second-year student from Junction City, prosecuting attorney, and David N. Mills, second-year student from Arkansas City, defense counsel.
Court will be held for the first time this summer at 7 p.m. today in the Court Room of Green Hall.
Maine Sea Worms Valuable
AUGUSTA, Maine —(UPI)— The lowly seaworm placed second in value to the Maine lobster in sales of the Maine Shellfish Industry last year.
The sale of bloodworms and sandworms to sports fishermen amounted to $706,117 as compared with a whopping $11,252,685 return on lobster. Next in value among the sea animals were sea scallops ($575,479) and clams ($547,789).
as to virtually bar their use when hearings are resumed on the subject Sept. 6.
The small local breweries say they can't afford to invest in the concentrating process and simply will be put out of business by it.
An actual decline in beer drinking has been taking place in the United States. The brewers blame this partly on high taxes and partly on the view that in the population explosion after World War II most of the increase was in people too young to drink beer. The fact that the hard liquor industry experienced about the same rate of decline would appear to bear this out.
In spite of the population explosion, total consumption of beer has risen only 7 per cent since 1945 —to 88.9 million barrels.
The number of breweries fell from 461 to 229 and the average output per brewery rose from 172,648 barrels to 388,362 barrels.
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