Page 6 University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 28, 1954
Avalanche Might Block Panama Canal Traffic
Balboa, Canal Zone—(U.P.)—Men and machines worked feverishly today in steaming jungle against an ever-increasing threat of an avalanche that could block the vital Panama Canal.
The danger stemmed from a 600-foot deep crack in Contractor's hill overlooking the Canal in the famed Gaillard cut. Officials said the hill could slide into the waterway at any time and that the start of the rainy season intensified the danger.
Maintenance crews, working around the clock, were cutting off the top of the hill on the landslide in an attempt to "relieve the pressure." Canal engineers apparently hoped that by doing so, the slide, if it came would fall harmlessly into the jungle.
Blocking of the canal would force shipping between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to detour through the Straits of Magellan at the southern-most tip of South America.
KU French Club To Present Play
A French comedy, "Le Medecin Malgré Lui," (The Doctor in Spite of Himself) will be presented today at 7:30 p.m. in 113 Strong at the meeting of Le Cercle Francais, University French club.
The play, written by Moliere and first presented in 1666 with the author and his wife playing the principal roles, will be directed by John Griggsby and David Dimeen, graduate students and assistant instructors in the department of Romance langagues.
Grisby will play the part of a woodcutter who is persuaded to act as a doctor. Helen Dowell, college senior, will play his wife.
Others in the cast are David Dinneneen, college graduate; Howard Adams, assistant instructor of Romance languages; Virginia Hill, college freshman; Paul Danneberg, college freshman; Hubert Dye, business senior, and Gary Sick, college freshman.
A dredge was put on double-shift duty in the canal and two huge cranes have been placed on both sides of the hill on stand-by basis.
The crack was first spotted several years ago, but was so narrow it was possible to step across it. Recently however, it began widening at an alarming rate.
Canal Zone authorities summoned a top U.S. Army geologist last week and he was reported to have expressed grave concern.
Swelltering students may get cool relief in time for finals if the installation of air conditioning units in the Watson library is completed by that date.
Heat Relief Due For Crammers
Scheduled to be finished by the opening of the summer session, the project conceivably could be completed by final week, according to Keith Lawton, director of physical plant operations.
The ceiling hung units will cool the entire first floor of the library building, including the undergraduate library, the smoking room, and the photographic bureau.
Installed by Air Engineering, Inc., of Topeka, the air conditioning should relieve some of the final week congestion from the only other air-conditioned study location on the campus—the Union.
Robert Vosper, director of libraries, said he felt the new system would be of considerable value to students for future. summer sessions, spring final weeks, and the first two or three weeks of every fall semester.
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Review Scheduled For Western Civ
Review sessions for Western Civilization students will be sponsored by the department May 10, 11, 12, and 13, Harrison Madden director, said today.
The meetings will be held from 7-9:30 p.m. each day in 426 Lindley, and are open to everyone.
ISA Picnic to Be Saturday
All readings will be covered, with the main emphasis on pulling together the different periods of study, Mr. Madden said. Jack Hines, graduate student, will be in charge.
The first event in a stepped-up program of the Independent Student association will be Saturday, according to the recently elected president of the group, Donald Widdows, college freshman.
It will be a picnic and patio dance beginning at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the Potter lake picnic grounds.
A picnic menu will be dished up at 6 p.m. By a committee headed by Carolyn Stayton, college freshman. The meal will be followed with a program by entertainers from Jolliffe and Miller hills. A
record dance will wind up activities.
Jean Diehl, college freshman and
ISA activities chairman, heads the
program committee. The Jollife
quartet, composed of Thomas
Downs, college freshman; Merwin
Hayes, fine arts freshman; Edward
Jones, engineering freshman, and
Edward Kindley, education junior;
and a group of Miller hall residents led by Emily Wolventon, education junior, will be on the program.
Shelia Haller, college sophomore and the organization's social chairman, has supervised preparations for the event. Widdows is conducting the dance portion of the event.
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