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Fridav. Nov. 20, 1953
-Kansan photo by Wilson Ayars
SCIENCE BUILDING—The science departments of the University will soon move into their new home. This building, with a natural stone face, will house several departments of the University and permit expansion.
New Science Building Now Nears Completion
By LARRY BOSTON
Rapidly nearing completion is the new science building, located directly south of Robinson gym and Haworth hall.
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The giant building, when finished, will house the departments of physics and chemistry and the School of Pharmacy. These departments and the School of Pharmacy are now located in Bailey Chemistry laboratory and Blake hall.
It was first expected that the new building could be occupied this fall, but early construction met with disaster in spring 1952 when a 75 mile an hour wind blew down the steel girder framework of the building. Damage at that time was estimated at between $30,000 to $40,000. The B. A. Green Construction company, constructors of the building, managed to salvage much of the steel and damage was held to $18,000.
The dimensions of the structure are 259 by 167 feet. It rises 90 feet above the slope on which it is situated. About 9,900 yards of concrete have been used, along with 550 tons of reinforcing steel and 100 tons of structural steel.
The building is faced with native Kansas limestone which comes from a quarry near Junction City. A total of 1,200 tons of this stone has been used.
The chemistry department will be located in the six-story east wing and the lower half of the center section, both of which will contain laboratories for graduate and undergraduate courses in organic, inorganic, analytic, and physical chemistry.
Ample space for apparatus, supply, and record rooms have been provided in the chemistry sections.
The School of Pharmacy will have much laboratory and lecture space in the upper half of the center section.
Large auditorium lecture rooms are on the first and second floors of the center section.
The department of physics will occupy the five-story wing wing which will have 25 research rooms for atomic physics, optics, electronics, and other fields.
An extensive machine shop and a three-million volt electro-static generator which will furnish power for the wing will be housed in the basement. A main switchboard, containing about 1,000 outlets and circuit breakers, will distribute the electric power.
covered by a three-foot layer of concrete.
A nuclear physics laboratory will be completely underground at the front of the building and will be
A huge science library on the sixth floor of the center section will be used by all three departments. There will be two large reading rooms, in addition to the space for stacks.
Chicago — (U.P.)— Six cities have abandoned old - style fire alarm boxes in favor of telephone systems, according to the International City Managers' Association.
Fire Alarm Phones May Replace Boxes
The six cities that have installed telephone systems are Rockford, Il., and five towns in the Canadian province of Ontario - Sarnia, North Bay, East York, York Township and Etobicoke.
The association said one result has been a sharp decline in the number of false alarm fires.
Rockford's dispatching system incorporates local telephone company equipment and two-way FM radio on all fire-fighting vehicles.
Los Angeles —(U.P).— A zoologist has discovered that Guadalupe island off the lower California coast, once a lush paradise, has been turned into an almost barren waste by a herd of wild goats.
The disclosure was made by Dr. Thomas Howell, University of California at Los Angeles zoologist and member of a recent expedition to the island 200 miles south of San Diego.
Dr. Howell said naturalists who explored the island in the late 1800's reported a luxuriant vegetation. Now the island has only two sparse groves of cypress trees and palms, he said.
Seven types of birds peculiar to the island now are extinct, and others will gradually disappear as the vegetation continues to be destroyed, according to Dr. Howell.
Dr. Howell said the voracious animals may eventually eat themselves into destruction. They are destroying the vegetation which traps water from island ferns, he said, thus eliminating their own water supply.
The university zoologist believes the goats were introduced to the island in the early 1800's by whalers as a fresh meat supply for future cruises.
Goats Wreck Coast Island
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Big Ben Now Chiming For World Oppressed
London—(U.P.) The majestic chimes of Big Ben that carried messages of hope to oppressed peoples in the darkest hours of World War II are tolling the sound of freedom now to peoples behind the Iron Curtain.
"It is, indeed becoming a round-the-world observance," he said. "It is impossible to synchronize the keeping of the minute at the same moment everywhere, and it is the habit of those beyond the reach of Big Ben's voice to remain silent and receptive when their own clocks strike nine each evening."
"During the war you had a secret weapon for which we could find no counter measure and which we did not understand but it was very powerful," he replied. "It was associated with the striking of Big Ben each evening."
The world remembers the measured strokes of the great clock in its tower over the House of Commons during the evacuation from Dunkirk. The idea of a daily moment of united prayer and silence was born then.
The council has received letters from America, all over Europe, Australia, Africa, India, China and Russia," expressing loyalty to the common cause of freedom."
It became known as "the silent minute," signalled by the chiming and the striking of Big Ben at 9 p.m. each day, Americans listening to the war broadcasts of the BBC heard its great bronze beat.
The council recalls the comment of a high Nazi official when asked by British Intelligence why he thought Germany lost the war.
A member of the council said the movement has continued ever since and that Big Ben's symbolic message is reaching now far behind the Iron Curtain into Russia and China.
The council includes former ranking officers of the three British fighting services. It has been endorsed by Queen Elizabeth and Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Nightly, there is the powerful striking at 9 o'clock, and then a pause in the broadcasts of the BBC. Those beyond reach of the BBC still observe it.
And among the resistance movements in Europe and among peoples of the Commonwealth the movement grew during the war until millions were united in keeping this evening drytogether. There emerged from his time of trial a Big Ben council to perpetuate the idea in the cause of freedom.
"We, men and women of good will in Britain and elsewhere, wish you, your family and all your friends, freedom and happiness."
During the past year, a council member said, letters have been received 'from almost every country in the world indicating that 'the silent minute' continues to spread.'
Council members said the world now faces a graver crisis than was even the case in the days of Dunkirk.
A message broadcast in Russian said:
"The piling up of arms, atomic and otherwise can but lead to war," they
Psychiatrists Say Gls Need Ready Aid
Washington — (U.P.) Three Army psychiatrists recently returned from Korea urge immediate treatment for battle-frightened men as the quickest way to "re-acquire their confidence and control."
The three doctors are stationed at the Army's Walter Reed hospital here. One of them, Maj. Thomas T. Glasscock, feels that field doctors should be trained to recognize and treat the mentally sick soldier as soon as possible.
"In this way," he said, "the number of men lost because of combat exhaustion can be cut down."
He added that if battle surgeons could deal "kindly but firmly with fear reaction and combat anxiety cases, most of the men could be brought to re-acquire their confidence and control."
When such rough-and-ready treatment is not effective and examination shows no physical disability the soldier is sent to the rear for psychiatric consultation.
Mai, Richard L. Conde described the reasons for such treatment:
"A man has more time to consider the case from a strictly individual standpoint, the farther he is from combat. Get him back where the discomforts and perils of combat seem more remote."
Maj. Dermott A. P. Smith, who held frequent conferences with medical corpsmen both before and after battle, mentioned the importance of morale in preventing combat exhaustion and neurosis.
"Dry socks, regular mail, hot food when possible are important," he said. "And you can always do a lot for a soldier by being nice to him and making him feel that he belongs in the outfit."
One inch of rain falling on an acre of land expends enough energy to plow 10 acres, a University of Illinois soil conservationist says.
The University of South Carolina is the third oldest state university in the United States. It was chartered in 1801.
said. "On the other hand, we believe the power of a constructive idea will triumph over evil, and the cold war and create the foundation for peace. That is why the Big Ben minute is considered to be of such vital importance in the interest of human welfare."
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