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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Oct. 27, 1955
In Air Force Academy Day Begins Too Soon
DENVER—(U.P.)—An ordinary day in the life of a cadet at the new Air Force Academy begins at 5:50 a.m.
An electronic-JBM clock sounds a buzzer that ushers in the new day for these 296 future airmen. In each of the academy's 13 barracks, an air training officer makes sure all of his men are up promptly.
The men have exactly 10 minutes after reveille to assemble outside in "breakfast formation."
After this hasty beginning, things slow down considerably at breakfast, for which an hour is allowed. But it isn't likely any cadet will doze off. Each man sits in a "brace" and maintains that position throughout the meal. The cadets can eat as much as they want, but all requests must go through the "head man"—the ATO officer who serves as an upper-classman and sits at the head of each table.
Air Force Lingo Used
Air Force Lingo Used
All requests have to be in Air Force lingo. For example, if a new dish of potatoes has been placed on the table, one of the cadets must advise the "head man" that "the potatoes have met their ETO and are on the ramp, sir."
Classes start at 8 a.m. and generally wind up at 3 p.m. The men have two free periods for studying between those hours. There's another study period between 7 and 9 p.m. All such periods are compulsory.
The cadets have 20 minutes to straighten up things back at their rooms before falling out for classes.
Freshmen carry seven subjects English, mathematics, history philosophy, geography, chemistry and graphics. They attend classes every day except Sunday.
The Air Force has no confused outlook on education. The cadets were told on opening day that they would make better Air Force men if they would "learn the material rather than just make good grades."
Learning Devices
Reveille on Sunday is at 7:30, breakfast at 8.
For the academy classes, a number of learning devices have been built to further the cadets' learning potential. For instance, there's a special analytical balance device.
All of the instructors are officers, and most of them hold master's degrees.
The cadets are addressed as "mister" everywhere, including the football field. Here, too, Air Force liaison has substituted for "civilian" phrases.
As an example, the head coach Bob Whitlow, told his squad that his men will no longer "tackle" an opponent. In Air Force talk, they "shoot him down." He told them to "always keep your wheels down," meaning "stay on your feet."
Lights-out comes at 9:30 p.m. earlier than at either West Point or Annapolis. It's the academy's belief that the men at the other military institutions "don't get enough rest."
Now He Can't Even Smile
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — (U.P.)—John Barrymess Jr., is recovering from a minor operation at Memphis Baptist Hospital but he isn't smiling about it. His wife said the surgery was performed on his lip and if the actor smiles he may delay his recovery.
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The honor roll meant a little extra last night to about 150 women. The women, by being on the* dean's honor roll last spring semester, were honored at the Mortar Board's annual "Smarty Party" at the Alpha Phi sorority house.
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A highlight of the party was the presentation of a skit by Marjorie Heard, Russell senior, Mary Ellen Lewis, Winfield senior, and Mary Dougherty, Dodge City senior, of a college girl's letter to her parents, based upon the Mortar Board principles of service, scholarship, and leadership.
In keeping with the Chinese theme of the party, souvenir fans were given to women who attained 3 point averages for the spring semester.
Atomic Hazards For Workers Seen
Kansas is one of 16 states having laws recognizing the safety and health hazards of atomic power and requiring employers to provide for the protection of public workers.
The Commerce Clearing House a national reporting authority on tax and business law, reports that state legislatures, spurred by moves to adapt atomic energy to peace-time industry, have entered that field of regulation and control.
Omicron Nu Initiates 4
The Kansas law places atomic workers under workmen's compensation. Eleven states have declared that damage to health as a result of radioactivity is an occupational disease and placed it under their workmen's compensation laws.
Omicron Nu, national home economics honor society, initiated four persons recently. They are Jane Hoerath, Susan Montgomery, and Jane Holtzclaw, Lawrence seniors, and Miss Helen Lohr, associate professor of home economics.
University Gifts Total $2 Million
More than $2 million was given to the University last year.
Maurice Barker, executive secretary of the Greater University Fund, said gifts totaled $2,174,542.48, of which $55,040.93 resulted from 2,056 gifts to the fund. The remaining money came from gifts to the University and the Endowment Association.
In the second annual report covering May 1, 1954, to April 30, 1955, the fund shows an increase of $13.-319.18 over the preceding year.
"Gifts to the Greater University Fund are used to meet needs for which state funds aren't available." Mr. Barker explained. "Since 1953, when the fund was established, money has been given for scholarships, student loans and housing."
More than 40 scholarships were made to students last year. In addition, four faculty research scholarships and four faculty research and travel grants were awarded. The student loan fund was increased to $10,000, M. Barker said.
Donations also were used to help meet construction costs of the Student Union-Continuation Study Center at the Medical Center, to purchase a painting for the Museum of Art, to aid in establishing the banned-books exhibit, purchase rare and unique collections of books and pamphlets for Watson Library, and to establish a fund to provide a bust of the late Chancelor Ernest H. Lindley.
Selective Service Test Deadline Nov.1
Students interested in taking the Selective Service college qualification test have until midnight, Tuesday, Nov. 1, to apply, Ralph E. Kron, test supervisor, said today.
The test center in this area is the Guidance Bureau.
To be eligible to apply for the nationwide test to be given Nov. 17, a student must intend to request deferment as a student, be satisfactorily pursuing a full-time course of instruction, and must not have previously taken the test. The purpose of the program is to provide evidence for the use of local boards in considering deferment of a registrant from military service as a student.
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If You See A Flying Saucer Don't Panic—It Isn't One
WASHINGTON—(U.P.) The Air Force will send up at any time radical new aircraft sure to be mistaken for flying saucers.
One day soon you may see a flame-spouting jet craft zoom straight up from the ground and dart away at supersonic speed. It may be shaped like a disc or a triangle.
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But it won't be a flying saucer—one of those weird objects that have been reported dancing across the skies for the past eight years.
The Air Force said in an exhaustive report that flying saucers are the bunk. The number that cannot be logically explained is approaching the vanishing point, the service said in making public a study of 5,000 saucer sightings since mid-1947.
At the same time the Air Force took some of the wraps from aircraft that "will be a new phenomenon in our skies and under certain conditions could give the illusion of the so-called flying saucer."
Apprehensive about public reaction, Air Secretary Donald A. Quarles said the new planes will not be "supra-natural or mysterious." They will be manned, if manned at all, by "normal" earthmen. They will obey natural laws. The public will be informed about them within security limits.
Two of the new planes are the Ryan vertical take-off and landing jet and the disc-shaped jet built by Avro of Canada. The Ryan plane, having delta or triangular wing, is due to fly at any time from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The Avro plane, long dubbed a flying saucer, is under development and no flight time is known. An artist's conception made public by the Air Force showed a plane resembling a saucer. Sec. Quarles emphasized that other countries also can develop such planes, distinguished chiefly by their ability to rise and land without runways.
As for mysterious saucers, the Air
Force said in a scientific study that "no evidence" of the existence of such things was found. Investigating methods are so good now, it said, that only three per cent of this year's sightings are unexplained.
Sec. Quarles said that no objects like those popularly called saucers have flown over this country. None of the so-called saucers "were in fact aircraft of foreign origin." He was sure the unknown three per cent were conventional phenomena or illusions.
Of this year's sightings the study showed 26 per cent proved to be balloons, 21 per cent aircraft, 23 per cent astronomical bodies, 20 per cent illusions, wind-blown objects, light reflections and the like, seven per cent incapable of study because of insufficient data, and three per cent unknown.
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