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University Daily Kansan
Friday, March 7, 1958
He Sticks To His Guns
Darrall Salsbury, Lawrence freshman, isn't out to start a civil war among antique collectors. But he'll stick to his guns to prove that antiques are no good unless they're used.
He defends his theory with an 1862 muzzle-loading musket. He used the Enfield 57-caliber rifle to snare South Dakota prairie dogs, a 22-pound Kansas City turkey and a passing grade on a class speech.
"This isn't the kind of rifle you'd use to shoot game around here," Salsbury said. "Although I've shot a jack rabbit or two with the musket, I use it mostly for outdoor range target shooting." (He shot the "pesky prairie dogs" while he was working on a ranch in 1955.)
"It's not quite fair to say I shot the turkey. Actually, I shot a bulls eye and won the turkey," he explained.
The shooting match was at a Kansas City muzzle loading club where he was the guest of Carlyle S. Smith, professor of sociology and anthropology.
"I hope Mr. Smith wasn't embarrassed when the black smoke cleared and he saw his 'guest' with the prize," he said. "The turkey went into the deep freeze for Thanksgiving dinner."
Last week he used his musket to give a demonstration speech. He threw his powder horn over his shoulder, explained the accessories and showed the class how to load the antique.
Included in the equipment needed to 'get a shot away' is a cloth patch, lead ball, knife (to trim the patch), bullet starter and ramrod.
'Loads In A Minute'
"Despite all the paraphernalia, it takes only a minute or so to get ready to fire," he said. "Both sides
DARRALL SALSBURY
The KU Bureau of Guidance in 116 Bailey has grown since its founding in 1944.
Guidance Bureau Serves 900 Students A Year
"I started from scratch that year," said Austin H. Turney, professor of education and the first director of the bureau. "There was enough money in the budget for only one counselor, and that's what I got."
Today the bureau serves about 900 students a year and has a staff of six counselors.
"When the veterans started coming back to school, and KU got veteran contracts in 1945, we got another counselor," he said.
They are: William C. Cottle, professor of education; Richard M. Rundquist, and Harry J. LaPine, assistant professors of education; Gerald Green, and Miss Patricia Salver, instructors in education, and Cecil L. Williams, instructor in guidance and education.
School. Personal Problems The bureau is designed to aid the student in problems concerning both school and personal life, according to E. Gordon Collister, professor of education and present director of the bureau.
Further expansion of the bureau came when guidance curriculum was added to the School of Education that same year. The bureau then moved from Strong Annex B to Bailey Hall.
Prof. Turney, who is retiring this year after 31 years on the KU faculty, told how the bureau continued to grow, adding first a part-time, then a full-time secretary to the staff.
He started shooting "seven or eight years ago." He was discharged from the Army in November last year. He qualified twice as an Army expert rifle marksman.
School. Personal Problems
"My hobby really is target shooting and not antique collecting," Salsbury said.
Ft. Sill Shooting Champion
"The number of students using our services has increased 15 per cent since last year," he said.
"She sure puts out a dense, black smoke," he said. "It's harmless, but your face and hands get mighty dirty."
1. More high school students are acquainted with the Guidance Bureau service before they get to college, and continue to use the services at KU.
used muskets in the Civil War—it took the North as long to load as it did the South," he said jokingly.
Salsbury doesn't remember who sold him the musket. "I just heard that a man here in town had it knocking around in his attic" he said. "It was in good condition, so I didn't have to spend much money getting it ready to shoot. I got the powder horn from Mr. Smith who has a real gun collection."
Salsbury said civilians, not soldiers, used the powder horns. The bulk powder load is about the same as used in a 12-gauge shotgun.
The increase, he explained, has been caused by:
2. After using the services of the bureau, many students learn that there are other bureau services available to them.
He was also the 45-caliber group shooting champion at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma.
A State Geological Survey report issued this month showed that the mineral industry in Kansas in 1956 amounted to $514,870,177 for 22 different minerals produced in 103 of the 105 counties.
Biochemist Gets Research Grant
Harold W. Barrett, associate professor of biochemistry, will receive a special research fellowship for the 1958-59 academic year from the National Institutes of Health.
He also has a three-bladed bayonet to fit the musket.
3. Students today are more reasonable than they were 20 years ago. They are willing to admit that they need help.
A large number of the services are based on the problems the average student faces at college, he explained.
Dr. Barrett, who has applied for a sabbatical leave, will do research in protein chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Barrett now has a U.S. Public Health Service grant for synthesis and testing of antimetabolites of pyrimidines.
Prof. Collier said the bureau still faces a problem with those students who have no understanding as to what the bureau does.
This figure is a 5.5 per cent increase over 1955. Mineral fuels and associated products accounted for 83.9 per cent of the total.
More Understanding
The reason for this is simply that there are more of them than there are of the other classes, and when they come to college for the first time they are more likely to have problems of adjustment, he explained.
Kansas Mineral Output Increases
"Freshmen use the bureau more than any other class," he said.
Some classify the bureau in the same category as the psychiatrist, feeling that one must be a little odd before he can use the services available, he said.
Dr. Barrett also has done extensive research with anti-thyroid compounds. He has been a member of the KU faculty since 1950.
Foreign Study Grant Awarded
An $800 grant from the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia for a summer research project in France, Germany and Switzerland, has been granted to Dr. George Ivask, assistant professor of German.
In 1953 Dr. Ivask edited an anthology of Russia emigre poetry, and became editor-in-chief in 1954 of Experiments, a literary review of Russian emigre writings. His work also has been published in the Harvard Literary Archives.
Dr. Ivask, a native of Russia, will continue his studies of works of Russian emigre writers who fled the Bolshevik revolutions, and younger Russian writers who earned their reputations after leaving Russia.
The law school admission test, now an admission requirement to the KU School of Law, as well as others, will be given April 19 at KU, Washburn University in Topeka and Wichita University, and on Aug. 2 at KU and Washburn.
Admission Tests Set For Law Schools
Applications to take the nationally-administered test on April 19 must be filed with the Educational Testing Service, P. O. Box 592, Princeton, N. J., by April 5. You may get application blanks from the Educational Testing Service or the Guidance Bureau. The closing date for the August examination is July 19.
The California woodpecker carefully stores acorns in holes that it drills in trees and telephone poles, the National Geographic Magazine says. One pole was studded with 1,500 acorns. A large sycamore held 20,000.
The test usually is given in November, February, April and August at centers throughout Kansas, said Dan Hopson Jr., assistant dean of the Law School.
Students To Survey County Political Leaders
How and why do Kansans become county political leaders? A survey by students and faculty members of the political science department will try to help answer this question.
The survey, a project of the Kansas Citizenship Clearing House, will cover Republican and Democratic chairmen and vice-chairmen in the 105 counties of the state. The Citizenship Clearing House is a national organization whose aim is to encourage men and women to take a more active interest in politics.
KU students will cover Douglas, Wyandotte, Johnson and Jefferson counties and some of their home areas.
Political science students in Kansas colleges will conduct the survey. They will interview the county party officials through a questionnaire prepared by Rhoten A. Smith, associate professor of political science. The questionnaire, with 152 questions divided into five sections, seeks to determine how the official first got into politics, his activities as county chairman or vice-chairman, and party organization methods. One section asks for personal data about the individual.
Prof. Smith said another purpose of the survey is to give political science students a chance to "talk politics" with a representative of one of the two major political parties. He said the planners of the survey hope to gain "a great deal of valuable data hitherto unavailable about political organization in Kansas."
The project has been approved by the state chairman of both the Republican and Democratic state committees.
ROTC Senior Honored Today
Donald E. Terpening, Washington senior, has been designated a Distinguished Air Force ROTC Cadet by Col McHenry Hamilton Jr., professor of air science.
The designation, made today during an AFROTC drill, is given each year to students who rank in the top 25 per cent of their class and in the top 10 per cent of the AFROTC cadets. It allows the cadet to compete nationally for a regular commission in the Air Force.
Terpening, a cadet captain, holds a flight leader position in the cadet corps.
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