Tuesday, July 14, 1964 Summer Session Kansan Pay
Family Finance Workshop Ends Friday on Campus
The second annual Education in Family Finance Workshop, dealing with ways in which educators can help prepare young people to adequately manage their financial resources in adult life, will end Friday. It started June 22.
Participants have developed an understanding of facts and concepts of family finance, have produced materials and teaching plans suitable for use in local school situations and
HOUSTON —(UPI)— American space hero John Glenn, steadily winning a four-month fight to get his feet back on the ground, is thinking about going to work—at least on a part-time basis.
"A part-time job at MSC—that probably would be the first step," said the freckle-faced astronaut who, slightly more than two years ago, rode a bell-shaped Mercury capsule three times around the world and into the history books as the nation's first orbiting space man.
John Glenn Job-Hunting
The question is, when, where,
and with whom.
Glenn is still recuperating at his Seabrook, Tex., home from the bathroom fall that damaged his sense of balance and coordination and ended his bid for a U.S. Senate seat from his native Ohio last February.
The 43-year-old space veteran can again walk straight and steady and is now "getting around pretty good." He is still awaiting the all-clear sign from his doctors, but that could come before the end of the year.
Meanwhile, he told United Press International, he is looking into a number of job possibilities. Returning to the Space Agency, probably in the capacity as an adviser or consultant, is one that seems to interest him considerably.
have gained leadership skills needed to improve and to expand present programs of family-finance education.
Students completing the workshop are able to earn four semester hours of credit. Scholarships were awarded so that the only cost to the participants were for food and for personal expense.
Each morning was devoted to lectures and audio-visual presentations In the afternoons, participants worked on individual and group work on curriculum projects. The workshop, which is being held in Joseph R. Pearson Hall, has had numerous specialists in education and business as discussion leaders and consultants in their areas of competence.
Newcomers to the consumer credit industry are offered an opportunity to become "professionals," and veterans in the business are challenged to improve their management skills at the 15th Annual Credit Bureau and Collection Service Management Institute which will end Friday.
Credit Bureau Session Is Held
The institute provides economical instruction designed especially for the credit bureau or collection service manager, thereby enabling him to give more effective service and to raise his professional status. Participants receive specialized training in courses of study taught by University faculty members and experienced industry instructors.
This year a post-graduate course was added to the regular four-year program of past years. Although a certificate of graduation is given after the completion of the fourth year with a minimum of 100 hours of class work, this is not an accredited college course.
The commencement banquet will be held Friday.
Microbiology Professor Learns Caffeine Is Dangerous-Especially for Bacteria
Coffee drinking a dangerous habit? Indeed, for certain bacteria.
When some of these microscopic organisms are exposed to small doses of radiation and then consume caffeine, they do so only at a risk, Delbert M. Shankel, KU associate professor of microbiology, has discovered.
SUCH CHANGES, called mutations, may be either good or bad for the bacteria. They may either prolong or cut short the life of the cell.
Caffeine, the coffee ingredient that perks up humans and even keeps them awake, does stranger things to bacteria that have been exposed to nonlethal amounts of ultraviolet rays. With the stimulant, the bacteria are induced to change their basic genetic make-up at a rate 10 times faster than without the stimulant.
Shankel, however, is not interested primarily in the kinds of changes that result. What he is seeking is an understanding of the way genetic changes occur. He is conducting his experiments on bacterial cells, since they behave similarly to other cells.
In human beings and other organisms, genetic changes take place in the primary matter in the cell that controls heredity. Shankel explained. This material is known by its abbreviated name, DNA, which stands for deoxyribonucleic acid.
SHANKEL SAID he is giving caffeine to radiation-exposed bacterial cells, because the chemical make-up of the molecule of caffeine resembles that of parts of the DNA molecule. He also is studying similar molecules found in high concentrations in tea and cocoa.
The study was begun in hopes of finding some chemical that might inhibit genetic changes. This is important for human beings, since many diseases in man appear to be genetically caused or hereditary in nature, he said.
But so far, the chemicals Shankel has been feeding the bacteria do just the opposite of inhibiting mutations.
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