KU ecoloaist enthusiastic about Brazil
By BEATRIZ CACERES
Kansan staff writer
The possibilities are unlimited
for making studies of the tropical
ecology of the lower Amazon, Philip Humphrey, director of the Museum of Natural History and professor of systematics and ecol-
'Hoods Who' booklet identifies KC names
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI)—A "Hoods Who" booklet identifying by name 54 persons and 17 businesses associated with organized crime in Kansas City was released Monday by the Kansas City Crime Commission.
The booklet explains that the organization of criminals to which it is devoted is known by various names, including "Mafia" or "Cosa Nostra."
Seven Kansas Citians were named as the "reputed upper echelon" with controlling force in the Kansas City syndicate. Forty-seven others were identified as being either members of the syndicate or "fellow travelers, cronies, associates . . . or dupes" of the organization.
A large percentage of those identified are of Sicilian or Italian descent, and the booklet contained the following observations:
"We feel it is very essential in all fairness to our law-abiding Sicilian-Italian citizens to point out and make quite clear that for each one associated with the syndicate there are thousands of
Schwegler requests crutches be returned
Dr. Raymond Schwegler Jr., director of Watkins Memorial Hospital, is asking students to return any crutches not now in use.
Schwegler said there has been a large number of small accidents requiring crutches lately. Many students who have had to use the crutches previously have forgotten to return them, he said.
It takes six to eight weeks to order crutches, he said, and the hospital is presently in need of them.
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good, honest working, devoted Sicilians and Italians."
The booklet also contained the names of 63 persons, many identified previously, who have been convicted of violating certain federal or state laws and who are, by implication, tied in with organized crime.
The crime commission booklet also criticized some Kansas City courts. It said that "while there have been many successful prosecutions, the sentences, unfortunately, have frequently not been commensurate with the crime and the criminal."
The commission had 2,500 copies of the booklet printed and said it intends to distribute them to its 400 members, persons associated with law enforcement and students of the organized crime problem.
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study all aspects of tropical forest ecology of forest reserve areas in the vicinity of Belem. Since that time, the program has grown and all data collected provide information on the ecology of the Lower Amazon forests.
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The goals of the studies are to learn how the tropical forest environment reacts and how it will react in the future when man will make more complete use of the Amazon.
"The Amazon rain forest environment is extraordinarily complex; as an example, in one little area of forest of 10 acres we found 300 different species of trees while in a Kansas woodlot there are a tenth that many," he said.
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Scientists of other countries are doing important ecological research in the Amazon. For ex-
Two factors have hindered continued development of the program: the unstable political situation in Brazil and the reduction of U.S. funds to support the program. At present most of the support for the program comes from Brazilian sources.
The ecology program was started in 1965, after having some problems with local peasants who were disturbing the forest environment. In 1966, with the cooperation of the Smithsonian Institute, the Instituto de Pesquisas e Experimentacao Agropequarias do Norte and the Belem Virus Laboratory, the Brazilian government established the program to
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