Friday, June 27, 1958 Summer Session Kansam
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DOING RESEARCH—Dr. William Balfour is freezing rat brains in liquid oxygen. (Summer Kansan photo)
Firefly Market Booming In Area
Need money after paying fees? Get a net and catch fireflies.
There is a big market for the lightning bugs. In fact William Balfour, U.S. Public Health Post Doctorate Fellow, is paying a half cent per bug for all that are brought to his research laboratory in the basement of Haworth Hall.
One enterprising Brownie Scout in Topeka has set herself up as a "middlewoman" and has sold almost 8,000 of the nocturnal, winged, light-producing insects to Dr. Balfour.
Lawrence children either have more money than the capital city children or they have not heard that "thar is gold in them thar lightning bugs." Local catchers have supplied only 2,000 fireflies.
Dr. Balfour uses the firefly tail material, the part that lights up, in
a research project for the U.S. Public Health Services.
For the firefly to make her tail light up she needs a material called adenosine triphosphate, which is the source of energy for the function of all plant and animal cells.
Dr. Balfour makes an extraction from the firefly tails which they use in connection with the brain cells of rats. This extraction makes the brain cells of the rat "light up" and the researchers are able to determine the amount of adenosine triphosphate material in the rat brain under variegating conditions.
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Murphy Now In Russia
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy is now enroute to Russia as one of eight leaders in American higher education who will survey Russian education at the University level.
Although the group was selected on a national basis, it will have a strong Kansas flavor and provide the opportunity for a KU alumni meeting.
The group will enter Russia today and leave the Soviet Union on July 11. Although its activities are being conducted under an agreement made with Russia by the U.S. Department of State, all expenses are being paid from private sources.
Four of the 13 members of the party have KU connections.
Deane W. Malott, president of
61 KU Cadets At Ft. Riley
Sixty-one ROTC cadets from KU are included in the more than 1,600 cadets from 41 colleges and universities who began six weeks of intensive summer camp training at St. Riley Tuesday.
"It will be the busiest six-week schedule they will have in their life," said Sgt. Major Harold Armstrong of the Army ROTC detachment.
The cadet training will include training on tanks, map reading problems, classroom study of all light weapons and actual firing of the rifle, carbine and machine gun on the range for record.
Travel Film To Be Shown
Cornell University, a native of Abilene and chancellor of KU 1939-51, is one of the eight presidents and Mrs. Malott is accompanying him. Mrs. Edward H. Litchfield, wife of the chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh who heads the group, also is making the trip. She is the former Mary Murrill of
Hinawatha, who earned the A. B. degree from KU in 1945.
The group will give special attention to the academic organization of Russian universities, to curricula, relationships between liberal arts and graduate and professional studies, and physical facilities.
Chile's mining communities, exclusive of the nitrate communities of the Atacama, are chiefly engaged in the exploitation of copper, iron, and coal resources.
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