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KU Aids Army Health Study Eight to Mexico for Research
By Dolores Orman
Six KU graduate students and two professors of zoology and entomology will travel to Mexico this summer in the second phase of an investigative study project of the vertebrates and ectoparasites of Central America.
Jones described it as more or less a military preparedness campaign. At the time of the hemorrhagic fever outbreak he was an officer in the Army. He was called in to assist in the hospitals. Jones said the disease was not only hard to control but the recovery period lasted 120 days.
The project began last year when the U.S. Army Research and Development Command contacted J. Knox Jones, assistant curator in charge of mammals in the Museum of Natural History.
AS PART OF its project to gather information about the various nature of the disease-bearing parasites of the world, the Army Research and Development Command asked for a KU group to make a study of Middle America.
Jones explained that after the outbreak of hemorrhagic fever among American military personnel during the Korean War, the Army launched a project to determine what kind of disease-bearing animals there are in other parts of the world.
The KU researchers received $12,-768 for their study in Yucatan last summer. They collected more than 4,000 specimens of vertebrates (mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians) and thousands of ecto-parasites, especially ticks, mites and chiggers.
JONES EXPLAINED the Army lacked a sufficient number of qualified personnel to conduct such a huge scientific investigation. Therefore it called upon private researchers.
The contract with the University researchers was renewed this year for $12,483 for study on the western Pacific Coast of Mexico. Jones explained the allotments are based on the distance and the amount of travel involved.
THE UNIVERSITY of Kansas is one of four groups in the Army research project. Others and their area of studies include: the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, South America; Bishop Museum of Honolulu, Hawaii, southeast Asia; and the United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., North Africa.
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Duellman described the Central American region as an area of interchange and overlapping, an area where the temperate zone meets the tropic zone. He said the largest assemblages of animals are found in that region.
William E. Duellman, assistant curator in charge of reptiles and amphibians in the museum. Joseph H. Camin, professor of entomology, will not make the trip but will be in charge of cataloging the ectoparasite specimens which are collected
THE SIX GRADUATE students selected for the field trip are Calvin L. Wong, Jamaica, N.Y.; Richard C. Fox, Syracuse, N.Y.; Laurence M. Hardy, Lawrence; Erwin E. Klaas, Elsberry, Mo, James Dale Smith, Oneida, Ill., and Jerome B. Tulecke, Detroit, Mich.
Jones said the field team would leave for Mexico about the middle of June and would be gone the entire summer.
He said they would make the trip by carry-all, a panel truck-like vehicle. But after they reached Mexico it would be burro, boat, or anything else which would be convenient.
THE TEAM WILL travel light, Jones said. The equipment will include tents, stoves, guns, medicines, and trapping and collecting materials.
Jones said they would more or less live off the land, though they would have basic food supplies with them. Recalling an experience last summer, he said, "You'd be surprised how good monkey is."
Duellman, who has studied reptiles and amphibians in Mexico, said
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the animals are collected with their parasites and returned to the museum where they are catalogued individually. They also are cross-referenced as to host-parasite relationship.
JONES SAID the project is building up the museum collections and as a result will aid research studies in the future.
He said the contract with the Army is for three years. The tentative plans for the next field trip will be a journey to Nicaragua or Honduras.
KU to Host Area Library Meeting
The association is following a new pattern for its spring gathering this year with three sessions in three regions.
KU will host the college and university session of the Kansas Library Association spring meetings on April 12-13.
After the KU conference, there will be meetings for children and school librarians at Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia May 3-4, and for public librarians, trustees and Friends of the Library at Fort Hays Kansas State College in Hays, May 9-10.
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A caravan of three buses, two cars and a moving van will depart from Murphy Hall at 8:15 a.m. Monday, March 25.
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The departure will mark the beginning of the annual spring tour of the KU Concert Band and Symphony Orchestra.
About 140 members of the combined groups will be performing for high school students of a two-state area.
The schedule for the tour calls for stops at Parsons and Bartlesville, Okla., on the first day. The second day includes performances at Arkansas City and Ponca City, Okla. The third day will find the group performing at Wichita West High School. Wichita Campus High School, and Wichita Heights High School.
Russell L. Wiley is the director of the KU Concert Band, and Robert Baustian is the conductor of the KU Symphony Orchestra.
The caravan will return to KU Thursday morning, March 28.
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