Basketball Players Aid in Research
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Varsity basketball players may be doing more during practice sessions than learning how to shoot and pass effectively. They may be aiding in scientific research.
Tiny transistorized FM radio transmitters have recently been strapped to players to measure heart reactions.
This is one of three projects on which graduate students are working, under the supervision of Edwin Elbel, professor of physical education. The other two projects deal with the amount of oxygen a person uses and the effects of fat.
JERRY ALBRIGHT, Lawrence graduate student and a laboratory assistant working on the projects said the transmitters make it possible to record pertinent data.
"We were handicapped because we had to run our tests on subjects who were at ease," Albright said. "Data on people who are exercising can be easily recorded with these transmitters."
Albright said several track squad members were used in tests measuring oxygen intake and the release of carbon dioxide.
"The squad members ran on a tread mill that was moving at $8 \frac{1}{2}$ miles an hour." Albright said.
"We used a device that had a mouthpiece and two hoses. The subject received oxygen from one hose and gave off carbon dioxide through the other. Once each minute, we measured the oxygen and carbon dioxide.
"We haven't analyzed all the data yet." he added, "but information indicates the person who is in better physical shape will use less oxygen and give off less carbon dioxide."
THE THIRD project deals with the study of fat. Several men from Delta Tau Delta fraternity volunteered to help us with this project." Albright said. "We checked their hearts and lungs as they walked on the tread mill running at $3 \frac{1}{2}$ miles an hour. We made similar checks as they stepped up and down from a bench."
"We're trying to prove that too
They Danced Without Pipes
Piper or no piper, the show must go on.
A crowd of about 300 gathered at International Club Friday night to hear bagpipes and to see Scottish dances. They heard an American student sing ballads and saw two women perform Scottish dances — sans bagpipes.
The piper, who was to provide live music, failed to make the scene. Instead, Leslie Nesmith, Lawrence senior, played his guitar and sang some American ballads to keep things rolling.
Then, a phonograph record was provided and Margaret Cameron Stilling, Scotland graduate, did a sword dance, and June Royston, assistant instructor in English, carried on with a highland fling.
Following the program, it was announced that plans are being made for the International Club banquet which will be held April 15. Tickets will be $1.75 for International Club members, and $2.50 for non-members.
It was also announced that 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, dancing lessons from Fox Trot to the Cha Cha will begin. The lessons will be free to International Club members. For further information about either the banquet or the dancing lessons, contact Brian Cleave, vice president of the International Club.
Wind, Percussion Instructor Will Give Recital Today
John Meacham, instructor of wind and percussion, and Marian Jersild, associate professor of piano, will present a sonata recital at 8 p.m. today in Swarthout Recital Hall as part of the Faculty Recital Series.
The program will include the Locatelli Sonata in F. Sonata No. 5 in E minor by Bach, the Sonate by Dutilleaux and the Sonata by Poulenc. Miss Jersild will accompany Mr. Meacham on both piano and harpschool.
much fat on a person isn't healthy," he said. "The heart must supply blood to any excess fat."
Mrs. K. Pleads For Arms Halt
Mrs. Nikita S. Khrushchev appealed to the women of the United States last night for "friendly understanding" and support for her husband's proposal for a summit conference on disarmament.
In a nine-minute, short-wave broadcast beamed to North America, the wife of the Soviet Premier said the Soviet Union "will never be the first to start a war." The appeal was broadcast four times over Moscow radio.
"Let us sink atom bombs along with the other weapons in the deepest part of the ocean and live without weapons, as good neighbors, going about our peaceful affairs," she said in accented but fluent English.
MRS. KIRUSHCHIEV, whose first name is Nina, said she was responding to letters and cables from American women who are greatly concerned about "the main problem of the day, which is how to prevent war and build up world peace, how to prevent a nuclear age slaughter."
She said peace is the most ardent desire of every Soviet man, woman and child. She said the Soviet Union would like to return to the "friendly understanding" it had with the United States when Franklin D. Roosevelt was president.
"Unfortunately, the danger of war has today again become a reality," she said. "We may have different views on the source of the danger, but it is clear that more and more people, and among them thousands of American women, are coming to realize that the danger does exist."
Parliament Orders State Mourning
HAMBURG, Germany — (UPI) — The Hamburg City State Parliament today ordered state mourning for more than 100 known flood victims while thousands of U.S., British and West German rescue workers searched for more bodies drifting in littered floodwaters across northern Europe.
City officials placed the official toll in Hamburg alone at 108 dead, with hundreds more injured and more than 100,000 persons homeless. This brought the official toll for Germany's worst winter storm in history to 145 dead, two less than earlier, unofficial counts.
In an emergency session, the Hamburg Parliament ordered a mass funeral Wednesday for all recovered bodies. Police officials said they expected the toll to rise with the discovery of more victims floating in receding backwaters, drowned in their homes or crushed to death by wave-tossed debris.
The 30,000 to 40,000 residents of Hamburg's Wilhelmsburg suburb still were cut off today, and 90 additional British and American helicopters were on their way to the devastated port city to shuttle food, clothing and medical supplies to them.
The emergency staff of the German armed forces reported food plundering in Wilhelmsburg and Kirchdorf, Hamburg's two worst-hit area, during the night.
British 'Girls' Cause Problems For Vice Squad
LONDON — (UPI) British girls who advertise their charms for sale in store windows posed new problems today for Scotland Yard's vice squad.
Ever since the Street Offenses Act of 1959 drove prostitutes off the streets, postcard size ads have appeared in candy store or newspaper dealer windows advertising the services of "models" and "typists."
IN THIS DEVIOUS WAY, London's vice has operated underground since the law did not specifically ban prostitution but only open solicitation.
Scotland Yard, nevertheless, has cracked down on storekeepers who accept these ads on the grounds that they constituted solicitation under the meaning of the act.
But a recent high court ruling that such ads do not constitute solicitation—unless the girl herself happens to be present—has caused a blossoming out of these ads by "models" and "typists." This has dealt a severe setback to vice clean-up operations.
In this ruling by Britain's highest court, Lord Chief Justice Parker quashed a conviction against two shop-keepers who permitted such an ad to appear in their windows.
"MODEL SUSAN—40-28-40 . . .
hours 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., the ad said
in part.
Lord Parker said in his ruling the ad clearly indicated the woman was available "as a prostitute" but he said her physical presence in the vicinity of the window was necessary to prosecute under the 1959 act
Scotland Yard vice squad officials now are considering other legal steps against shopkeepers who accept such ads.
One such method, already employed in a number of cases, is to take action against shopkeepers on the grounds that men congregating near the window to read the ads constituted obstruction of a public street.
Another legal weapon is to prosecute shopkeepers, charging that they are living off the immoral earnings of a woman. This statute, however, would apply only to male shopkeepers.
KU Coed Injured In Two-Car Crash
A Topeka sophomore sufferec facial cuts and an injured knee in a two-car accident Saturday afternoon at Sixth and Iowa Streets. The injured student, Mary K. Erickson, was treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
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Police said a car driven by George Erickson, Miss Erickson's father, and a car driven by Stephen Shoemaker, 20, Tonganoxie, were involved in the accident.
Highway patrolmen and Lawrence police had been pursuing Shoemaker before the accident occurred. Shoemaker was arrested and taken to the Douglas County Sheriff's office. Police said he will be charged with speeding, resisting arrest and reckless driving.
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Powers quoted NASA weatherman Ernest Amman as saying he was "a little bit more optimistic than yesterday."
Monday, Feb. 19, 1962
THE FIRST HALF of the two-day countdown began at 2:30 a.m. EST. Both the Atlas booster rocket and the Mercury space capsule were ready for the first U.S. attempt to put a man in orbit around the earth.
"He is usually pretty cautious," Powers added. "When Ernie is optimistic, I can't help but tilt the scales in our favor."
GLENN WAS SPENDING a quiet day on the Cape and checking on the countdown status of his spacecraft which is slated to take him on one, two, or three trips around the earth.
CAPE CANAVERAL — (UPI)
The weather odds tilted today in astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr.'s, favor today and the countdown proceeded for his planned orbital flight some time after 7:30 a.m. EST tomorrow.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) issued a weather forecast which it called cautiously optimistic. Lt. Col. John A. (Shorty) Powers, spokesman for NASA's Mercury Man-In-Orbit Project, said the odds appeared to be "60-40 in our favor."
60-40 Odds Glenn Orbits Tomorrow
Powers said the Marine space pilot probably will turn in tonight at about 7 or 8 and "be ready to go in the morning."
Project officials planned to monitor weather throughout the day, make a complete review of the weather situation tonight to include on-scene reports from U.S. Navy ships in the recovery areas and make a preliminary go, no-go decision at about midnight.
THE BIG QUESTION MARK was a new storm forming over the Virginia Capes. This threatened to create the same conditions that caused three consecutive postponements of the launch last week.
There also was a forecast of some cloudiness in the Cape Canaveral area Tuesday morning. This could affect the launching, currently scheduled between 7:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. EST.
The new Atlantic storm already was packing high winds, and weathermen said that by Tuesday these could be up to 25 miles an hour and producing waves 10 to 15 feet high. This would be well above recovery requirements.
There also was a weather disturbance in the area off the Canary Islands where Glenn might land if trouble developed in the pre-orbital portion of his flight.
GLENN IS SCHEDULED to make one, two or three orbits of the globe, depending on the launch time. His scheduled is arranged to provide at least three daylight hours of recovery operations.
"Just tell them to relax. They should stay relaxed. I've been at this thing for three years now. I feel fine. Sure, we regret the delays. But as M. Scott Carpenter (his back-up pilot) said, it gives us a chance to home our capabilities."
Glenn attended church yesterday, then through newsmen offered Americans this bit of advice:
KU Profs Cite Flight's Goal
Those who think astronomers will be watching with great expectation the proposed orbital flight of John H. Glenn Jr., tomorrow morning are wrong.
N. Wyman Storer and Henry Horak, associate professors of physics, and members of the astronomy department, consider the value of Glenn's flight questionable, insofar as astronomical information is concerned.
Prof. Storer said, "The flight might determine whether a human can survive without ill effects the conditions of acceleration and weightlessness the astronaut will experience on this particular trip, but this is of interest mainly to a physiologist."
The problem of putting a satellite into orbit already has been accomplished, he said, and Glenn's presence in the satellite "will make no immediate contribution to the total of astronomical knowledge."
Prof. Horak said, "It would be good if they could get a telescope into orbit," and agreed with Prof. Storer that tomorrow's flight interests them "no more than it would interest the normal, curious citizen."
Both professors said Glenn's flight is not geared to obtain astronomical data, but agreed that the information it may produce may help man get to the moon and back.
"If we could get a man on the moon with proper instruments for observation," Prof. Horak concluded, "then we would be getting something of real value."
Candy Is for Dogs, Too
NOTTINGHAM, England — (UPI)—A candymaker announced he is exporting chocolates with a special meat protein supplement for dogs.
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