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Keeping plants healthy challenges students
By JANE FORMAN CIGARD Staff Reporter
Has the healthy philodendron you bought last August to decorate your residence hall room turned yellow and limn?
You say your Boston fern just curled up and died one day?
Has the shefflera you just got for your birthday turned into a soggy pot of mush because your roommate poured a bucket of water on it?
If these plant problems are familiar to you, don't marry. Durilyn Wiggins, greenhouse manager of the Garden Center, 15th and New York streets, has advice for the student whose gardening thumb is more brown than green.
If you lack experience in growing plants or haven't been successful in the past, Wiggins suggests trying to care for some of the easier-to-grow varieties. These include the dactyline, and deftenbachia varieties.
She also recommends a tough,
leathery plant known as either the snake plant, mother-in-law's tongue or sanservicii. Neither the Norfolk island snake plant nor the dwarf plant need only much care.
ALL OF THESE plants will do well in bright indirect light and require minimum attention. Sansevieria plants can exist in a dimentor box but will thrive
For hanging baskets, try Swedish yiff,
airplane plants or asparagus ferns,
Wiggins said. Asparagus ferns are not
true ferns, but actually are members of
the asparagus family. Two varieties
commonly are grown as house plants,
the asparagus sprengeri and the
asparagus plumosus.
Slightly more difficult to grow are the true ferns, begonias and various aquatic plants, including the weeping fig tree, aaspergillus plants all require high humidity levels.
Cactuses and succulents are excellent for forgetful people because even small plants of these varieties can exist when washed only once or twice a
month, she said. If you tend to be heavy-handed with the watering can, it's probably best to stay away from these plants.
One of the main problems students have with growing plants is not knowing how to water them correctly, Wiggins said. It is important to probe the soil with your finger to determine if it needs water. Just looking at the plant is not enough.
"People do tend to over-water," she said.
Misting plants with water is beneficial for all varieties except the cactuses and succulents, Wiggins said. This helps to raise the indoor humidity level.
Fertilizing house plants is essential to their growth, and Wiggins recommends a light application of fertilizer during the winter months when plant growth is particularly slow. During the spring and summer fertilizer should be applied according to the manufacturer's directions.
CHAD LAWTON, owner of University Floral, 2301. W8, berrtonth., advised students to be sure that the plants they bought had been acclimated to the indoors. For example, many house plants are grown outdoors in Florida in strong sunlight and have difficulty adjusting to lower indoor light levels.
Both Wiggins and Lawton stressed the importance of using reference books to answer questions about the requirements of individual plant varieties. Because all plants are different, it is important to learn the specific light, water and fertilizer requirements for each type of plant.
Deb Von Eschen, Shelby, Iowa, sophomore, tends a small collection of plants in her apartment. Many of her plants are from friends' taken from friend's plants, she said.
Growing plants from cuttings is an inexpensive way to increase a plant collection and to eliminate the problem of acclimating a plant to the indoors.
Exotic cuisine, music, dancing and an exhibition of art native will inaugurate the International Club's 29th annual International Banquet and Festival of Nations from 3 to 10 p.m. Saturday at the Kansas Union
International festival offers exotic cuisine
The festival will feature a variety of cultural shows, a banquet in the cafeteria and an exhibition of foreign artifacts in the Ballroom. The traditional blydancing show also is scheduled.
Highlights of the festival will include a Chinese film, "The Thunder of the Spring," at 3 p.m. in the Forum Room, an international fashion parade and a piano concert by two young Mexican girls.
"This is for the international students just as much as the Lawrence and KU community." Krupanadam Billa, International
Club president, said. "We want to share our native cultures."
Billa said the banquet would include native dishes from Africa, Arabian countries, China, Germany, India, Japan, Latin American countries, Malaysia, Thailand and Turkey.
"We have increased the number of dishes from previous years, and spices that were not available in this restaurant are expensive we donated," Billa said.
Billa said the $4 banquet tickets were 50 cents less than last year.
Banquet tickets are available at the SUA office in the Union or at the International Club Office, B1115. Tickets are still available and a limited number will be sold at the door.
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Researcher says U.S. losing import battle
"American workers must work harder and better to compete against foreign producers." Bill G. Barr,机械工程师,机械工程 engineering,said yesterday.
BOB MOEN Staff Reporter
ROBMOEN
Almost 80 percent of all stainless steel spoons, forks and knives on the U.S. market come from the Far East—that's many chucks—a KU research project has found.
Applications are being accepted for the 1981-1982 Commission Board and Officers
The project started in 1978 with a $300,000 grant from the Department of Commerce. Barr, who also is director of Space Technology Center, traveled to Korea and Japan in December to examine their production methods.
Applications are due April 15 and can be picked up at B114 Kansas Union 864-3954
Funded by Student Senate
Barr is director of a three-year KU research project studying the stainless steel flatware business and the effects imports have on the American market.
He said it was a technical, social and political problem facing the United States.
"I think we have a bellva battle coming up," he said of the competition from foreign producers.
Barr pointed out that the Japanese companies had better equipment, cheaper resources and labor and were more efficient than the American companies contrast. United States companies are
behind technologically, must pay higher prices for raw materials and labor and are restricted by government.
This has led, he said, to lower prices for Japanese products, making it difficult for American companies to sell and driving some out of business.
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Jim Ward, M.B.A. graduate of the KU School of Business and full-time researcher on the project, said the study on U.S. stainless steel flatware companies—producers of spoons, forks and knives—could be used and extended companies that manufactured other products as well.
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The flatware study conducted operations and resource analyses, marketing survey studies and reviewed U.S. economic policy. Comprehensive marketing and raw material studies have yet to be completed.
This year, he said, imports are expected to be about 78 percent of the U.S. flatware market.
Barr said the project should be finished in three or four months.
And ironically, he said, "the importers and Japan are trying to find out about our study more than the Americans."
The question of whether to impose import quotas to help American businesses or to continue the free trade agreement, being debated in the White House.
Barr said he did not know the answer.
but whichever way was chosen, the problem would still take a long time to resolve.
He said Japan's government was supporting its industry. For example, the government will not let IBM into its computers, and some companies an import duty to other U.S. products.
When he was in Japan, he买了 $45,
white Japanese limo cost only $25.
Another advantage the Japanese have is cheaper labor costs.
Barr said that retired people in Japan could work for 46 cents an hour as opposed to the U.S. Social Security system.
Even the attitude of the Japanese people gives that country an advantage over America, he said.
And from what he saw at Japanese flatware industries, they were using "roots to eliminate labor."
"They aren't worried about being laid off," he said, "but they worry about how much more profit Sony can make."
However, Garr added, Japan is being challenged by the even lower wages in South Korea, and now China is planning to take fourth of the Fiatware market, too.
"We're competing with people who get gold stars, and they're competing with people who don't even get gold stars," he said.
But it's not just the low priority goods Japan is producing to sell in the U.S. market, he said. The country also is making high priority merchandise, such as computers, and is just now developing a new airplane.
INTERNATIONAL CLUB The University of Kansas Proudly Presents
29th Annual International Banquet and Festival of Nations
SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1981
Exhibitions Artifacts depicting the culture of African, Arab, Chinese, Formosa,
Indian, Japanese, Latin American, Nigerian, Nigerian Polish,
Indian, Sudanese.
Cultural Show
Fashion Parade, AFRICAN Dance, ARAB Folk Songs, CHINESE Lite
Folk Songs, and Folk Dance, JAPANESE Ondari Bodat, LATIN AMERICAN
Bombac, Piano, Saxia, and Cumbia, MALAYSIAN Zapin and Iang
Two young girls, and two young girls, and
MANY OTHER ITEMS — Ulnit Ballroom, 700 P.M.
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