Friday, July 31, 1964
Summer Session Kansan
Page 5
Boating Fatalities Climb, But So Does Boating Fun
A national magazine recently viewed with alarm U.S. Coast Guard figures for 1963 which showed an increase of 112 fatalities in boating accidents over 1962. But the magazine failed to point out there were 1,050,000 more persons and 210,000 more boats involved in the sport last year than in 1962.
Actually, as statisticians of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. point out, until last year there has been a noticeable downtrend in deaths from water transportation accidents.
They report that about 200 fewer persons were killed in this country in water transportation accidents in
Top Scientific Students Listed
The ninth annual science and mathematics camp, which had major support from the National Science Foundation, had 103 first-year campers from 28 states, the Panama Canal Zone and Guam.
The outstanding students in the nine major fields of concentration for the 6-week University of Kansas summer science training program for high-ability secondary school students have been announced by Delbert M. Shankel, director.
The outstanding campers were chosen by the KU faculty on the basis of test scores and class work in the respective major courses.
They are:
Anthropology-James P. Viney,
West Coyina, Calif.
Chemistry—G. Richard Russell Millard, Neb.
Combinatorial Topology (mathe-
matics))—Walter Rees Stromquist,
Pittsburg.
Pittsburg.
Elementary Number Theory
(mathematics) — Kenneth Keller
Hickin, New Orleans.
Microbiology Barbara Helen Hughes, Ottawa.
Physics — George Carey Fuller.
Knoxville. Teen.
Psychology-Barbara Anne Zishka. Indianapolis.
Radiation Biophysics — Kenneth Hickin, New Orleans.
Zoology—Eric Francis Wieschaus Birmingham, Ala.
How the American's increasing leisure time is creating "weekend neurosis" and other mental health problems will be explained by a KU professor to the World Federation for Mental Health, meeting Aug. 3-7 in Berne, Switzerland.
Grace F. Brody, assistant professor of psychology, will present a report on "The Problems of Leisure: Implications for Mental Health" to the technical section considering unemployment and leisure.
Professor to Present Paper in Switzerland
Dr. Brody, a member of the clinical psychology faculty, is a specialist in community mental health.
1962 than in 1958-1.445 deaths in
1962 and 1.653 in 1958.
THE METROPOLITAN statisticians said that four-fifths of the fatalities in water transportation mishaps were attributed to drownings involving small boats, most of them rowboats, canoes or open craft powered by outboard motors.
They reported that a substantial number of small boat accidents are caused by such factors as overloading, shifting positions, speeding, and sharp turning. Foul weather and dangerous currents also are frequent contributory factors, they found.
The groups mentioned above and a number of others for many years have done an excellent job of informing and educating boating enthusiasts, providing films, booklets and other educational tools and conducting classroom instruction programs.
They pointed out that a large number of boats in which fatal accidents occur do not carry life-saving equipment.
The Metropolitan group came to the same conclusion which always has been held by many groups associated with boating, such as the Coast Guard, the Coast Guard Auxiliary and the U.S. Power Squadrons-
"UNSAFE PRACTICES contributing to water transportation accidents can to a considerable extent be eliminated through safety education."
This year, a member of the industry itself-Outboard Marine Corp.-got into the education picture with an experimental program called Certified Boating Instruction.
Designed to provide recreational boatmen the opportunity to acquire practical competence in boat handling through direct experience with skilled instructors, the program is being conducted on a test basis this season in the Milwaukee and Madison. Wis. areas.
THE COURSE is offered in four sections—basic boat handling, advanced boat handling, launching and retrieving, and water ski tow boat operating. Students can take as many or as few lessons as they desire.
Howard F. Larson, OMC vice president, said that no money paid for instruction is given to the company.
In the test program in Wisconsin, the lessons are $5 per hour, paid directly to the instructor.
"The company's sole interest is in making certain that the most capable persons are available as instructors and instruction is uniform," Larson said. "We hope that the public will subscribe to boating lessons as they have comparable training by experts in golf, skiing, tennis, etc."
Larson said the program, with actual on-the-water instruction, was intended to complement the Coast Guard Auxiliary and Power Squadron instruction programs, which are designed solely for the classroom.
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Pakistan Becoming Door to China
Officials of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) said it is scheduled to begin "package tours" of Red China in mid-August. They said the first group will be made up of 70 Germans.
KARACHI, Pakistan — (UPI) — Communist China is lifting the bamboo curtain for foreign tourists in a bid to establish wider contacts with the Western world in view of the ideological dispute with Soviet Russia, observers believe.
Airline officials said all nationals, except those of the United States, Israel, Spain and Nationalist China, will be eligible to participate in the PIA package tours.
THE WESTERN observers were not surprised at Peking's action. Most had seen that the air agreement between Red China and Pakistan was a move by Peking to reach the outside world.
Cambodia is the only other non-Communist country to fly into Red China. However, there are reports that Air France is planning to establish flights between Paris and Peking. France recently granted diplomatic recognition to Peking.
A PIA official said passengers booked at Hong Kong may arrange to board airline flights at Canton without having Red Chinese endorsement on their passports.
PIA officials said the package tours will run from 4 to 15 days and will cost about $20 a day, including hotel expenses, local transport and interpreter services. The tours will go to Peking, Canton, Shanghai, Soochow, Wusih and Hangchow.
THE PAKISTANI government was reported seeking to establish automatic endorsement by Red China of all Pakistanis desiring to participate in the tours.
For other nationals, the official Red Chinese tourist agency will arrange to facilitate visas through PIA. A visa office already has been established at Lowu, bordering on Hong Kong, to enable visitors to the British crown colony to fly PIA via Canton.
According to a western businessman who recently visited Red China, Peking officials are acutely aware of the necessity to end the country's isolation in order to become completely independent of Soviet Russia.
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