English Fear Depression As Textile Industry Slumps
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London—(U.P.)—The shadow of depression hangs over England's "Black Country" again. *
The industrial midlands and north face the worst slump in the textile industry since the 30s.
Wednesday, May 21, 1952 University Daily Kansan Page 3
Government and business leaders are scanning statistics of dropping employment and production in Lancashire and Cheshire, Britain's great cotton processing counties.
Serious unemployment started about nine months ago when the post-war and Korean war buying sprees ended. Consumers, wholesalers and retailers had been buying and stocks stood at an all-time high.
Figures issued by trade sources show that about 60,000 people are wholly or partially unemployed in Lancashire, representing 17 per cent of the cotton industry's labor force. Production in both spinning and weaving has dropped from 13 to 22 per cent in recent weeks. In the last week of February, 43 of Lancashire's 450 mills were closed and in the following week 28 shut down,
As a result of world-wide overproduction of cotton goods, prices dropped and probably will have to drop more.
Following sterling area import restrictions to combat inflation—such as the drastic cuts imposed recently by Australia, one of Britain's best customers — export markets will continue to be sluggish. Domestic markets appear to have settled down to a lower level.
Spanish Professor Elected
Competition will be fierce in what export markets there are left. Japanese competition is increasing; India, once Lancashire's great market, is now a large exporter; Pakistan is building up her own export industry; and there are others.
Dr. George O. Schanzer, assistant professor of Spanish, has been elected chairman of the Spanish section for the 1953 meeting of the Central States Modern Language Teachers association.
Dr. Schanzer and Prof. Agnes M. Brady, assistant professor of romance languages, supplied portions of the program for the 1952 meeting in St. Louis.
Others Safe In Connecticut
Fathers Safe In Connecticut Hartford, Conn. (U.P.)-Connecticut was the safest state in the nation in which to have a body during 1951. Health experts disclosed that only one mother died for every 10,000 live births in Connecticut.
Dear Jayhawkers:
Only a few days of school left. We'd like to say good luck on your finals and a happy summer to you all. If you drive home, drive carefully.
For those of you who are staying in Lawrence for the Summer Session, we hope we can continue to serve you. Yours for a bigger and better year for the Jayhawkers next year.
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Junior Awarded Scholarship Key
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William J. Delap, engineering junior, has been awarded a gold scholarship key by the Sigma Pi social fraternity's grand chapter. It is the third consecutive year that a pledge of the fraternity's KU chapter has won the annual award.
The national office of the fraternity determines the province winners by figuring the pledge's actual grade average compared to the allmen averages on the respective campuses.
Delap won the award by having the highest scholarship record among all pledges in the five chapters of Zeta province.
Last year, the key winner was William L. Beydler, college senior. The key was won by Roger T. Beith, college senior, in 1950.
The Gila river, in southwestern United States, has a drainage area of about 13,000 square miles.
'Kentucky Street Boys' Began Co-ops
The "Kentucky Street boys" invested $400 in 1939 and it's grown into $50,000 today.
By BEN HOLMAN
The investment for furnishings in Jayhawk co-op has become today the property value of the University of Kansas Student Housing association.
By January of 1841 the movement had proved successful enough for the opening of a second house, the Rock Chalk co-op. There were 47 men in the movement by then and the monthly fee rose to $18.
The co-op movement had grown out of its knee britishes by the spring of 1911 and a newly-formed corporation came to its aid. This organization, the University of Kansas Student Housing association, was formed to purchase housing to be
Only 20 men were members of the co-operative movement in 1839, but today there are about 163 persons, men and women. Paying $20 each the men combined to rent a house at 1614 Kentucky street and called it the Jayhawk co-op. At that time $17 a month covered room, board, electricity, water and other utilities.
leased for co-operative living. Both the Jayhawk and the Rock Chalk had been purchased by the end of the semester.
Realizing the need for similar housing for women students, two co-ops for women were formed during the 1941 fall semester. They were the Kaw Koottes and the Jay Coed. Monthly living expenses were around $20.
By this time another co-op for men, the John Moore, had also been established.
World War II was well underway by then and the draft began to drain the movement. The addition of another women's house, the Harmon co-op, had brought the total houses to six by 1943.
The grand-daddy of them all, however, the Jayhawk, went out of existence in that year as its members moved into the John Moore and Rock Chalk. After the lean war years the co-ops were back in full swing-with the Rock Chalk, Jayhawk and Don Henry for men and the Harmon and Henley for women.
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Inflation hit hard, however, and the $17 monthly fee of 1939 had grown to $35.
Today the co-op movement is a lively organization with about 160 men and women in eight houses. The monthly fee at $40 is now more than double the $17 of 1939.
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