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Labor Trouble Halts Sunflower
Kansas City, Mo. — (U.P.)— Construction operations at the Sunflower Ordnance works near here were suspended today pending resolution of labor difficulties.
Col. L. J. Lincoln, Kansas City district engineer, said the U.S. Corps of Engineers decided to halt operations after a meeting with contractors. He said they could "not justify the cost to the taxpayers of continuing construction in light of the limited progress caused by the absence of some of the trades."
Officials said the agreement at Sunflower was a cost-plus type contract and any loss fell directly on the government. They said it cost the government about $10,000 a day for the small group of men who had been working.
Col. Lincoln added that the suspension of construction operations at Lake City arsenal and Grandview air base, covered by lump sum contracts, would be up to contractors.
In Springfield, O. L. Ring, head of the Kansas City Teamsters union, had no immediate comment on Col. Lincoln's statement, except to say "we do not have a contract and the men have voted to stay off work until we get one." He was attending an AFL meeting in Springfield.
Professor to Speak At Chemistry Meeting
Dr. Norman Hackerman, professor in metal corrosion research at Texas university, will speak to a meeting of the American Chemistry society at 7:30 p.m. today in 205 Bailey.
Dr. Hackerman's topic will be "Mechanisms of Corrosion Inhibition." The talk is open to the public.
A dinner will be held in the Faculty club at 6 p.m. today honoring Dr. Hackerman.
K. C. commuters: for easier organization of car pool next semester leave.you name and address in Engineering Library 1st floor, Marvin.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
County Correspondents meeting:
p.m. Pine room, Union.
Math club picnic: 5:30 p.m., Potter lake, election of officers.
Scabbard and Blade; pledge quiz, 1
n.m. MS lounge. No uniforms.
American Chemical Society: 7:30 p.m.
909 Oakland Avenue, Mechanisms of Corrosion Inhibition.
Student Religious Council picnic; old and new members, 6-7 p.m., home of Reinhold Schmidt, take West Hills bus to north end of W. Campus rd.
Physical Therapy club: 7 p.m. Fraser
protection room, 520 W. 6th St.
Your home is invited!
Alpha Phi Omega: 7:30 p.m., Union.
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
WEEKDAY
Amateur Radio club: 201 EE lab. 7:30 p.m.
Episcopal communion, 7 a.m. Danforth Chapel in Danforth. Danielson Student Association
Future Business Leaders of America
piano; a p.m. Potter take. Election and
games.
Phi Mu Alpha: 7 p.m. 32 Strong. Last meeting before initiation. Attendance
FACTS meeting; 7:30 p.m. 306 Union
constitution and by-laws of revised
constitution and by-laws.
THEMATICS
Scabbard and
initiation and
election, 7 p.m., MS drill hall. Wear
protective clothing.
Learn to Dance club: 7:30 p.m. final lesson, Jayhawk room
FRIDAY
ASTE: field trip to Sunflower Ordnance works, leave Fowler 1 p.m.
Professor Writes Chapter for Book
Prof. Hilden Gibson, chairman of the human relations department, is one of the 19 contributors to a forthcoming book, "The Teacher in General Education."
Prof. Gibson wrote a chapter on human relations and the case method of teaching.
This book brings together an up-to-date account of theory and practice by writers representing institutions with outstanding general education programs. The volume is being sponsored by the Association for Higher Education, the collegiate department of the National Education association.
Seoul — (U,P) — South Korean infantrymen today turned back two Communist attacks on Allied positions, killing an estimated 241 Chinese as fighting erupted anew on the 155-mile Korean battlefront.
ROK's Beat Off New Red Attack
Waves of Chinese attacked South Korean positions on Sniper's ridge and near Heartbreak ridge, originally wrested from the Communists with heavy Allied casualties.
Sabre jets went aloft but met no resistance after knocking 12 Russian-made MIG-15's, and probably a 13th from the skies yesterday.
Communists got into trenches on the 9th ROK division at Sniper's ridge and after two hours of "intense hand to hand fighting," retreated under pressure from South Koreans.
A reinforced Chinese battalion hit at main Allied positions southeast of Christmas hill, near Heartbreak ridge, but the 20th ROK division drove them back after an eight-hour battle.
ROK officers reported 54 Chinese killed at Sniper ridge and estimated at least 17 more died. Enemy casualties in the Heartbreak ridge fight were 95 counted dead and 75 more estimated killed.
In the air, double-duty Sabre jet bombers waged a daylight assault on a Communist troop concentration and frontline artillery positions.
The daylight attacks followed an early morning raid by 18 Superforts on a three-area supply and building complex 10 miles south of Sinhui ju.
Grad Simplifies Ceremony
Clayton, Kan. —(U.P.)- Graduation exercises were greatly simplified in the Clayton Consolidated High school yesterday. Kathy Harris was the only graduating senior. Full commencement exercises were staged for the "class."
Tuesday, May 19.1953
Ninth Atomic Blast Most Brilliant of All
Las Vegas, Nev.—(U.P.)—The Atomic Energy commission finally set off the "jinxed" ninth shot of its current test program this morning just before dawn, and it turned out to be one of the most brilliant of the series. $ \textcircled{4} $
The explosion-postponed four times because of excessive radiation and unfavorable weather-burst with a brilliant glow shortly after 7 a.m. CST.
It lit up the sky over Yucca Flat
Opera Program Set for Thursday
The program will include scenes from Gluck's "Orfeo." Verdi's "Otello," "Madam Butterfly" by Puccini, "The Magic Flute" by Mozart, and Rossini's "Barber of Seville."
The Opera workshop will present a program of opera scenes at 3 p.m. Thursday in Fraser theatre.
The workshop is under the supervision of Prof. Joseph Wilkins as director and Associate Prof. John Newfield as stage director.
Singer participating will be Linda Stormont and Harriet King, fine arts juniors; Nathalie Sherwood, Mary Lee Haury, Jean Scott, Suzanne Armentrout, Erma Smith, and Robert Parke; Robert Parke, fine arts sophomore, and Jerry Hart, fine arts freshman.
The program will be open to the public without admission charge.
Arn Sets Secretarv Week
Jeanne Aldridge is assistant stage director and Jerald Stone, fine arts sophomore, is accompanist.
Topcka — (U,P)— Gov. Edward F.
Arn has designated May 24-30 as
National Secretaries week in Kansas.
In 1952, 2,090,000 Americans were iniured in traffic accidents.
65 miles northwest of here, at 7:041 am, with the most brilliant flash seen for any tower explosion in the current test series. The sky remained light with an ever-changing color pattern for several seconds.
The AEC announcement said "A nuclear device was detonated on a 300-foot tower."
"More than 60 experiments were conducted for weapons development and for military and civil effects purposes," the AEC said. "Included was the exposure to radiation of antibiotics for the food and drug administration."
The commission also disclosed 12 B-50 bombers were flying over the atomic proving grounds at the time of the explosion, as part of the Air Force crew-indoctrination program. A total of 47 aircraft took part in various phases of the test.
It was not announced immediately whether the second attempt to fly a pilotless plane through the thermal envelope was successful. The said "A Navy AD-2 skyrader used in a thermal and blast-wave test."
The Skyraider flight was planned as one of the features of today's test.
The thermal envelope is the churning mass of heat and flame which surrounds the core of an atomic fireball.
A similar plane sent through the fury of the explosion three weeks ago was torn apart by the violence of the fiery mass and hurled to the ground.
No military maneuver was conducted in conjunction with today's test, but the AEC said approximately 1,000 Armed Forces observers were stationed in trenches a little more than two miles from the blast.
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