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TV Sets Are Fire Hazards
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Look out for that television set.
out for that television set. Firemen attending the 26th annual Kansas Fire School at the University this week have learned that even the safest and newest television sets can be fire hazards. After they complete the four-day course today they will know how to handle a burning television receiver.
It is best to carry the set out of a fire with the face covered and the back side down.
Advice to laymen will be "pull the plug, call the fire department, cover the set with a blanket, and leave it alone."
Emmet Cox of the Kansas Fire School faculty stresses that most of the 40 to 50,000 sets in use today are safe enough that a child cannot get hurt on them.
"It's the adultis," Mr. Cox said, "who get hurt when they don't know what they're doing."
Three television hazards which can cause injuries and fatalities are the "voltage hazard,' ' shattering of the picture tube, and the antenna.
The average set still retains a high-voltage charge in its condensers after the wall plug is disconnected, and due to manufacturing difference only a trained service-man knows how to "bleed" the set. Mr. Cox said.
The picture tube operates under high vacuum, and a slight jar can shatter the tube and send fragments flying as far as 50 feet through the back of the seat. Chemicals on the fragments can cause serious illness and even death to persons cut by them if medical aid is not obtained immediately.
An antenna placed where it can fall on power lines can cause them to burn in two, and the circuit-breaker devices sometimes do not stop the current. Anyone who touches both down wires could be killed.
Antennas should be grounded and should not be tied to a chimney. Chimneys cracked by wind on a television antenna have hiked the number of chimney fires in some towns as much as 200 per cent, Mr. Cox pointed out.
Heat won't ordinarily cause trouble unless the set is closer than six inches to a wall. A set in an alcove or recess may heat up unless the alcove is well-ventilated. Doilies or other covers which block heat vents on the set also cause trouble.
SDX, GAX To Hear Advertising Man
A. R. Lockheart JB., creative director for Bruce B. Jr. Advertising Agency, Kansas City, will speak to a joint meeting of Alpha Delta Sigma and Gamma Alpha Chi, professional advertising fraternities, at 8 p.m. today in the Jayawhawk Room of the Student Union.
Mr. Lockheart has been with the Brewer agency five years. Last year he was promoted to his present position. Before joining the agency, Mr.Lockheart was promotion manager for outboard motors and fishing equipment at Western Auto.
Tenight's program is the second in a series of talks given by members of the Brewer Agency, one of the largest advertising agencies in this area.
Music Sorority Hears Two Soloists
Sigma Alpha Iota, honorary organization for music majors, met last night in Strong Hall.
Virginia Wallace, Topeka junior and Beverly Phillips, Kansas City, Mo., senior, played piano solos. Mary Jo Huyck, Bethel senior, president, conducted the business meeting.
Post Game Dance Planned
A Student Union dance will feature the music of the Ed Fording Trio at 8:30 p.m. following the Kansas-Southern Methodist football game Saturday. The dance will be in the Trail Room of the Hawk's Nest.
Indians Get Unfair Chances
Indians are not given an even chance according to research done under the direction of the Indian Bureau's education specialist, L. Madison Coombs, Dean Kenneth E. Anderson of the School of Education, and Gurdon Collister, guidance director and associate professor of education.
The information was published in the November issue of "The Reader's Digest." Fourteen thousand young Indians in seven states were given achievement tests. Identical tests were given to 10,000 non-Indian pupils in nearby communities
Results of Test
The results of the tests indicated that from the fourth grade to early teens, Indian children prove about equal to non-Indians, but at that age the curve of ability starts lagging for Indians.
world around him is not favorable he may lose interest in his schoolwork," Mr. Cocombs explained.
"Specifically, he needs to feel that he will be socially accepted by the non-Indian community and have equal employment opportunity. Otherwise, education looses significance for him. This is possibly a partial explanation, at least, for the lag of achievement of Indian children at higher grade levels." Mr. Coombs said.
"If, as the Indian child approaches maturity, he feels that his position in the social and economic
Condition of Inferiority
Condition of Interiority The article said that the reservation Indian is born into a condition of inferiority. He grew up in an environment of the government." Although Indians are free to move away from the reservations, fear of racial discrimination and a feeling of incompetence prevent this.
Charles Curtis, a Kansan of Kaw Indian parentage, served as United States senator from Kansas for a quarter of a century and was vice president under Herbert Hoover.
Mary Sue Flora, Pi Beta Phi —Bob Stinson, Phi Gamma Delta
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Tau Sigma Chooses Recital Committee
Charlene May, Baldwin junior, has been appointed chairman of the committee for the spring recital of Tau Sigma, modern dance fraternity.
Other committee members are Francile Aronhalt, Topela senior, Alaine Casebier, Oskaloosa junior, and Bobbie Hines, Arkansasa City sophomore.
The Sudan comprises nearly 1,000,000 square miles, an area one-third that of the United States, yet its population is only 8,820,000, or about the same as Ohio's.
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