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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 25, 1958
TRADES TOOLS OF TRADE — Stanton M. Ball, Lawrence graduate student, has given up a big-league baseball career to study geology at KU. He's seen here with the old "tool" of his trade, a baseball, and a geologist's hammer. (Daily Kansan photo)
Ball Gives Up Ball To Study Geology
A geologist's hammer has replaced a catcher's mitt as the 'tool of the trade' for Stanton M. Ball, who sees more future in a Ph.D. degree than in a name in the big leagues of baseball.
Ball, a Lawrence graduate student and geologist with the State Geological Survey, was in spring training and played one season under contract to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1952. He left KU at the end of his first semester for the district training camp in Albany, Ga. During the season he played at Goldsboro, N. C. in an 8-team farm system league.
He played with city baseball teams during junior high school and was graduated to American Legion ball in high school. A Cardinal scout contacted him during the summer of 1951.
Started As Catcher
"I was really a catcher, but ended the season in center field. Fortunately I had played all positions for the Legion team." he said.
"Going through spring training is sure different from listening to a game broadcast over a portable radio on a sunny afternoon. The training was vigorous. Not only were we expected to eat and sleep by the clock, but we were also expected to think and dream of nothing but baseball."
He said players were fined if they "sneaked off" to go swimming or to play golf.
"The Cards weren't paying for vacations!" he said.
Squad Cuts Made
"We played inter-squad games during the training period. At the start of the season there were 700 boys left out of 1,500 who entered training. We were sent to farm clubs for league play. The 8-team league played both National and American league farm teams."
Ball had a class A contract. The Albany camp trains players in classes A to D.
"After seeing some good players starting with small salaries in class D. I would advise a boy to finish college before signing up if he is serious about making the majors. If he finishes school first he can start with more pay and move up faster because of his training," he said.
"Those who come from 'no where' beat around the bush (leagues) for years," he said.
Stan Musial and Red Schoendienst, who were training at the major Cardinal camp at St. Petersburg, Fla., visited the Albany boys several times.
Still A Fan
"They came into the dugout or the dressing room and gave us advice and encouragement. They agreed that boys from college teams had the best chance for a ticket to St. Louis."
Ball (who says his name didn't help him get the contract) is still a baseball fan. He watches the Kansas City Athletics "every chance I get."
He said geology is just as exciting as a tied game in the bottom of the ninth.
“There's a certain similarity between the 'subjects,'” he said. "Baseball and geology are both outdoor subjects."
Ball said that he's through with baseball, but that the one season seems to have left its mark on him. The first nice day last week he took about five minutes out from his full-time job and studies to stoop at the KU diamond to watch the team work out.
Spring training gave him both experience and adventure. Ball said But now he's satisfied to substitute field boots for spike shoes. He's also learned to adjust his batting stance and catcher's crouch to a comfortable position at a mapping board in his office at 227 Lindley.
This Mite Doesn't Bite, But You Can't Wash Him Off
You, and that fellow walking down the street, have approximately 500 tiny animals called mites, living and subsisting in the skin follicles of your face right now.
Dr. Beer says these arachnids are harmless to humans. Their job is to clean out hair follicles on your face. They live on the grease-like film that is secreted through your pores.
That is, if you washed your face this morning you can count on having that many mates on you. If you didn't, there are probably more, according to Dr. Robert Beer, associate professor of entomology.
These mites are very tiny, Dr. Beer said. It would take a number of them lying end to end before
Some follicle mites can cause mange disorders on other animals. Dr. Beer said, but they are different from the human parasites.
even the smallest dot could be seen by the naked eye.
Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of the Student Health Service, left today for the annual meeting of the American College Health Assn, in Los Angeles. The meeting will be Wednesday through Saturday.
Canuteson To Attend Health Assn. Meeting
Public Relations Institute Will Convene Friday
The 7th annual KU Public Relations Institute is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, in the Kansas Union. Registration is at 9 a.m. the first day.
Dr. Canuteson is board chairman of the administration division of the College Health Service which will meet twice during the convention.
Burton W. Marvin, dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, will preside at the first general session. Dale O'Brien, "37, president of Mayer and O'Brien, Inc., a Chicago public relations firm, will deliver the keynote address, "The True Responsibility of Public Relations."
Edward D. Podmore, president of the Public Relations Society of Topeka, will preside at the Friday afternoon general session, at which G. Harold Lavey, superintendent of employee relations of the E.I.D Pont De Nemours Co., Topeka, will speak about "How to Build Good Employee Relations through Communications."
Presiding at the Saturday general session will be Jack Bernet, president of the Public Relations Society of Kansas City, Mo. Mark Robeson, vice president in charge of personnel and public relations at the Yellow Transit Freight Lines, Inc., of Kansas City, Mo., will speak about "Working through People."
At another meeting the same morning, Mr. Shirley D. Smith, executive secretary of the Public Relations Society of America in New York City will speak about "Progress in Public Relations."
The Public Relations Institute is sponsored by the William Allen White School of Jouranlism and Public Information, University Extension, and the public relations societies of Wichita, Topeka, and Kansas City, Mo.
Something New— Music For Falling
The stage was set. Standing on a platform above his students, Edward Robinson, associate professor of philosophy, was lecturing to his logic class.
"In order to get the mood," he said, walking backwards on the stage and gesturing with his hands, "the next thing to do is . . ."
At this moment he stepped off of the platform and banged into the piano behind him, causing a clash of discordant chords.
"Mood music," he said calmly.
2 Faculty Members To Give Talks
Two KU professors have parts in the national spring meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. in Philadelphia, Pa., March 27-29.
Dr. Albert R. Kitzhaber, associate professor in charge of freshman-phomore English courses at KU, will speak on "special treatment for superior students: procedures and problems." Dr. Kitzhaber also serves as associate chairman of the Conference for 1958.
Dr. Edward F. Grier, associate professor of English, will be a speaker on "The Relevance of American Studies to the Composition Course."
Sign For Veterans' Checks On Thursday
Monthly certification forms for G.I. benefits may be filled out beginning Thursday, instead of the usual first five days of each month, E. R. Elbel, director of the Veterans Training Service, said today.
Prof. Elbel said that due to spring vacation occurring over the days usually used for signing the forms, veterans signing for credit for March should do so before vacation.
Those who hunt with a bow may now have "shotgun arrows." The tip contains a number of steel darts that outrun the arrow and form a typical shotgun pattern.
Continents May Have Been Joined, Lecturer Says
While it is not yet a theory that the continents were once joined, then drifted apart, some evidence can be given to support the idea as a hypothesis, Dr. S. K. Runcorn, director of the department of physics of the University of Durham, England, said in a lecture in Lindley auditorium Monday.
Dr. Runcorn is one of eight scientists appearing on the 1957 distinguished lecture series of the
DR. S. K. RUNCORN
American Assn. of Petroleum Geologists and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
Speaking on "Paleomagnetism" (ancient magnetism), Dr. Runcorn presented observations he and others have made on that subject.
By using the data obtained in
studying the magnetism of rock layers, the paths of travel of the continents can be hypothetically plotted, he said.
"The direction of a magnetic field and the prevailing wind direction are indications of the shift of continents, he said. If the continents change latitudes, wind patterns on the surface of the earth must also change, he said.
Dr. Runcorn is scheduled to present 38 lectures between March 17 and April 25 as his part in the distinguished lecture series.
H. A, Ireland, professor of geology at KU, is also one of the lecturers.
To Give Talk On Artist-Chimpanzee
Dr. Janson will give a Humanities lecture on "The Ancestry of Modern Art" Tuesday.
Dr. H. W. Janson, chairman of the department of fine arts at New York University, will give an informal talk on the work of Betsy, an artist chimpanzee, at 4 p.m. Monday in the Kansas Union Music and Browsing Room.
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