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University Daily Kansan Monday. February 28,1955
The Kansan Feature Page
Bayles Supervises School's Operation
By JOHN McMILLION
Trouble is his business could very well describe the job of C. G. Bayles, superintendent of building and grounds. The complete maintenance, repair, and operation of the physical property of the University is all part of Bayles' responsibility. His department annually does over $100,000 worth of work for other departments with variety, the keynote of its work.
For example, the task of getting all utilities, with the exception of telephones, to each building is a function of the building and grounds department. The department has just finished installing the electrical, heating, and water systems in the new Allen fieldhouse and the power plant has been providing heat to the building for several weeks.
Also in connection with the fieldhouse, Bayles' department has had to construct temporary wooden sidewalks to be used for the dedication tomorrow. A 20-foot length has been built from Michigan st. to the east front of the building and paneled sections have been constructed for the east and north sides. A rock sidewalk also has been put in by the department from 15th st. parking lot to the fieldhouse.
Mr. Bayles' acquaintance with KU is not a new one. He attended school here from 1911 to 1915, receiving a degree in electrical engineering. While at the University he was a charter member of the local chapter of Sigma Tau, national engineering honorary traternity.
After leaving school, Mr. Bayles was employed by Black and Veach, consulting engineers, of Kansas City, Mo. In 1927 he returned to KU
Either the armed services or war plants managed to take most of his help. The average age of his jantors was 67 and his entire night watchman force with the exception of one man quit all at once to go to Parsons to work. The protection of the entire University was thrown in the lap of the one man, Louis Wulfkhule, who is now foreman of the night watchmen.
to assume his present position. In the 28 years he has been superintendent, the war years were the toughest, according to Mr. Rayles.
Mr Bayles' staff is built around several key men from the early days. Oldest man in point of service is Tobe Gully, carpenter foreman, who came here in 1914. Oscar Ingle, now construction foreman, came soon after, in 1915. Henry Firner, electrical foreman, and Eldon Ulrich, chief operator of the power plant, came in 1925 along with Wulfkuleh, chief night watchman.
In 1926 John Riggs, foreman of the steamfitters, arrived and chief telephone operator, Mary Neustifter, was employed in 1929. Mr. Bayler describes her as a "living directory of the campus." "She can find anyone," he said.
Until 1946 when his present as-
TROUBLE IS HIS BUSINESS—C. G. Bayles, superintendent of buildings and grounds, is the man responsible for the maintenance and improvement of all the buildings and grounds that belong to the University. Mr. Bayles, who has been at the University since 1927, has built his department around a nucleus of old-time KU employees.
Painful 'Run Arounds' Ouch, Can Be Cured
By JOYCE NEALE
Have you ever been the victim of a run-around? If so, you'll agree that seldom does anyone suffer more extreme distress, both mental and physical.
The type of run-around alluded to here is also known, to the medical profession, as a paronychium—an infection around the fingernail.
If you have recently suffered a run-around on the middle finger of your writing hand, you might blame it on all the finals you had to take—a case of holding a pen too tightly against the last finger joint for too long. However, that would have nothing to do with it.
More likely, you have been biting your fingernails or snipping too deeply to remove a hangnail. What-ever the cause, if you feel a warning throbbing pain in the end of a finger and see a slight swelling, don't ignore it.
Soak the finger in hot water, the more the better, to localize the infection. It might be wise to lock up all knives, to forestall the desire to cut the finger off when the pain becomes unbearable.
Of course, you will take your run-around to a doctor as soon as possible( you won't waste time) for lancing. With proper care you can avoid having the fingernail removed, and safeguard against the infection spreading.
sistant, Mr. Richard Wagstaff, was hired, Mr. Bayles had sole responsibility for the upkeep of the University. And in the old days this was done without benefit of modern machinery. "We had no trucks at all," Mr. BayLES said. "All the hauling and delivering was done by one team and wagon."
Mr. Bayles points to the completion of the sodding, boulevards, and general landscaping of the campanile as the biggest single job in recent years. "The job had to be done by commencement time and the rainy season caught us right in the middle of it."
Arts Related In This Class
The job, however, with the usual efficiency of the department, was completed on time.
Illustrating how the arts borrow techniques from each other, Dr Merrel D. Clubb, professor of English, started his own course, Interrelation of the Arts, in 1929.
With two class periods and one laboratory each week for two semesters, Dr. Clubb places particular emphasis on the interrelation of music, drama, poetry, painting, sculpture, and architecture.
In the two morning classes he discusses the theoretical side of the arts, and follows by illustrating each art in the laboratory. As each new art is taken up, it is tied together with the previous art.
New officers of the Industrial Design Student association are Richard Chafian, fine arts junior, president; Barbara Hibbard, fine arts junior, corresponding secretary, and Weston George, fine arts sophomore, publicity chairman. Chafian also was elected chairman of the Engineering exposition exhibit.
Industrial Design Unit Elects
Dr. Clubb's class is small, so there is ample time for discussion and understanding of each individual art.
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