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The World of Sig
By Sig as told to Steve Clark
"I like to get up early in the morning, about six o'clock. It gives me that fresh start on a new day. You know that old saying 'early to bed, early to rise, makes a St. Bernard healthy, wealthy and wise,' Well, that's how I feel too."
"My buddy, that's the guy taking care of me this summer, doesn't like to get up early, so usually I have to kill some time until he gets up. I usually just explore around or maybe smell a few trees and shrubs. Ever since I A'd 'Trees and Shrubs' they have always fascinated me.
"FINALLY, my buddy wakes up. Sometimes I have to bark a little to arouse him, but usually he comes around. He finally comes out of the
ple have been sheltered all their life they've never heard of a St. Bernard newspaperman.
Summer Session Kansan
"AND SOME OF the questions they ask irritate me. One lady asked the other day if I was a lion. That really teed me off. Of course I guess I do look a little like one with that bob on the end of my tail, but I did not have anything to do with that. My veterinarian is a prankster.
"Of course wherever I go there is always a lot of talk. You'd think I was a celebrity or something. There's the usual round of questions. You know, how much do I eat, weigh, how old, home town, serial number, whether I read and write, drive a car, sing and all that stuff.
"I guess I am a little bit bigger than the average dog. I weigh 175
house and he lets me in the back seat of the car, and then he gets in, and we drive up to the Kansan, where he works.
"I'm working up there too this summer. I am the complaint editor, he says. I must be pretty good, because we haven't had any complaints. My job's an easy one; all I have to do is just lay on the floor all day and look big, which isn't too hard."
"We all work pretty hard, but there is always time for a little fun. Karl Koch usually gives me a rub-down which is simply ecstatic. He sure has the technique.
"LEON, OUR JANITOR, didn't like me at first. He said I was too big, but now we get along fine. Usually I have several other callers every day, Woody, Bonny, Betty and Mr. Adams. Occasionally the Dean drops by to comment about what a big dog I am.
"Later on in the morning us editors have to check the campus out for news. We usually go over to Tom Yoe's office, director of public relations, and pick up several releases. Usually there are several other calls around Strong Hall we have to make.
"Usually whenever we go out calling, there is always a lot of talk, mostly about me. I guess some peo-
pounds and eat a 25-pound sack of dog meal in a week, or four or five cans of dog food at one meal. I guess that's not bad for a five-year-old.
"WELL WE GET HOME from work about five in the evening. We both eat and then sit down to figure out what we're going to do that night. I try to convince S.C. that maybe he should go to bed so he can get up early the next morning with me, but he usually doesn't go for that idea.
"Our evenings usually boil down to one of two things, either going back to the newsroom and working, or going out with a girl. Sometimes we have a date, which decomplicates things, but other times we have to go by the Union or Corbin in search of a date. I, of course, always go along. S.C. says I'm a conversation piece. He'd never get a date if it wasn't for me.
"Sometimes we go in a larger group, with Max, Hen and Mo, the guys we live with. One night Monti took me to the Country Club. I made a big hit out there. We usually come in a little late, which means one thing, the boys will not get up early with me the next morning.
"People always wonder what I do each day. Well that's about it. I guess you could say I lead a dog's life."
More than 250 members of the American Driver Education Association will be on the University of Kansas campus for the sixth annual ADEA conference tomorrow through Saturday.
ADEA Holds Meeting Here
Attending the conference will be educators and traffic and safety experts from across the nation. Delegates will attend speeches and panel discussions on subjects ranging from traffic safety in the elementary school to civil defense. They also will take tours of the Ford Motor Company and the TWA Flight Simulator Training Center in Kansas City, Mo.
An address on "Quality in Driver and Safety Education" by ADEA president-elect John S. Urlaub of Berkeley, Calif., will be given Friday evening at the conference banquet.
A department of the National Education Association, the ADEA is dedicated to the prevention of accidents by improving and extending driver and safety education in schools and colleges.
vere storms project, in tracking airplanes for meteorological purposes, and possibly in testing of small drone airplanes for studying the interiors of thunderstorms and tornadoes.
Two-Week Workshop
The set will be available to the Lawrence civil defense storm watch group during severe storm alerts.
Following the conference, the ADEA and the National Commission on Safety Education of NEA will sponsor at KU, two two-week institutes on driver education and traffic safety, and driver attitudes and emotional adjustment. Teachers or supervisors of driver and safety education will attend on scholarships provided by the American Trucking Associations, Inc.
The radar is being assembled at the Lawrence airport by Prof. Bates' weather research team and volunteers from the Lawrence group. A field generator is en route and the set may be operating in two weeks.
A two-week workshop in jewelry and silversmithing for teacher, recreation supervisor or hobbyist will be offered August 6-17 at the University of Kansas. Enrollment for credit is optional.
The radar was originally intended for military use in the operation of 20 mm anti-aircraft weapons but missile systems have made the weapon obsolete.
Tuesday, June 26, 1962
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KU Receives Radar Set For Storm Research
A $374,000 radar set for research on Great Plains thunderstorms has been loaned to KU by the U.S. Army Corps through the Weather Bureau.
Robert Montgomery, a KU teacher for seven years with degrees from KU, Wichita University and the Kansas City Art Institute, will be the instructor. His work has been in several national shows and he is now represented in the traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.
THE RADAR will also be used in balloon tracking experiments to determine possible applications in operations of the Weather Bureau's se-
The set—two self-contained units with a computer—will be used by Fred Bates, associate professor of aeronautical engineering for local severe storm detection.
"The potential of the M-33 (model designation of the set) seems unlimited. I get a new idea about every other day," says Prof. Bates.
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