August 15, 1945.

Memorandum to Chancellor Malott:

_ J @m answering your query regarding the scum gutter for
the swimming pools | :

When Mr. W. 5. Shatto of the Slater Tile and Mantel Company
of Kansas City called on us in early June I asked him for an estinate
on replacement of broken tile. It was his opinion that we would make a
mistake to try to replace twelve or thirteen hundred broken tile, that
it would be better for us to save that money and put it in entire re-
placement of all tile. Mr. Shatto stated that the tile that is in the
pool is antiquated and they are not using that type of tile at all and
when we got into replacement we would find there would be more then
the number we estimated because in taking them out there would be many
broken ones. The cost would be prohibitive, in his opinion. .

Mr. Shatte recommended that when we replace the job the
thing to do is to extend the pool to 60 feet in length, by adding 3 ft.
on the cast end and 7 ft. on the west end. All those tile would of
necessity come out and it wuld be necessary to build a water-proof
reinforced concrete basin back of the tile to hold the water in the .
pool. Then when we went into that we would perhaps find leaks in the
wall around the sides, and we would just spend more money than if we
would start out to build an entirely new enlarged pool.

Then I asked him about building a soum gutter. He said,
"You have the same proposition. You have got to go back into this
water-proof conerete wall because you would have to inset the scum
gutter and that would cause all sorts of difficulty.”

Therefore, Chancellor, I think we have done everything we
can do toward making this pool as nearly modern as possible. What I
mean is wo have improved the sanitary conlitions without trying to
change any of the walls or the size wtil we are ready to build a new
pool.

Very sincerely yours,

Director of Physical Education,
Varsity Basketball Coach.