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University Daily Kansan
Monday, May 19, 1952
MUSEUM PRESENTED DIORAMA.A diorama depicting the pioneer days of western Kansas was unveiled at the Museum of Natural History Friday. The diorama was presented by W. C. Simons, founder of the Lawrence Daily Journal-World. Looking at the diorama are Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, Dolph Simons, son of the donor, and Dr. E. Raymond Hall, museum director.-Kansan photo by Jerry Renner.
Settlement of Oil Strike May Come in Next Few Days
Denver—(U.P.)—The 10,000 striking emplores of the Sinclair Oil company voted to go back to work today and it appeared that the nationwide oil strike was fast coming to an end.
At the same time it was announced that around 4,000 other workers also had either returned to work or would do so shortly.
But it was the Sinclair negotiation that were considered the crucial test which would determine the end or continuation of the strike.
Officials at the oil workers international union (CIO) headquarters here said the Sinclair employees voted 58 per cent in favor of accepting a 15-cent per hour raise and that the contract signing was now going on in New York. Officials said the men should be returning to work within a few hours.
Earlier it had been announced that about 2,500 other workers had signed contracts with oil companies, with 460 more tentatively agreeing to a new contract at another company.
Union officials said about one-
fourth of the striking oil workers have now agreed to go back to work. They have been on strike at most refineries, plants and pipelines since midnight April 30.
Other locals accepting the 15-cent increase were at the Socony-Vacuum refinery at Augusta, Kan., The Pure Oil company plant at Cabin Creek, W. Va., The Texas company terminal refineries at Lockport and Lawrenceville, Ill., and the Texas company terminal at Mt. Vernon, Ind.
Contribution Costs Thief
Lincoln. Neb.—(U.P.)A 14-year-old school boy's generosity led police to a solution of the theft of $60 from a dairy company's safe. The youth contributed $14 to a school fund campaign and the generous contribution led to his arrest.
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Diorama Given to University Depicts Plant, Animal Life
W. C. Simons, veteran Lawrence newspaperman who a year ago gave $1,000 for the exhibit, died Thursday at the age of 80. He made the gift as a memorial to his mother, Jennie B. Simons. She was a widow with five small children, and in 1877 homesteaded in Hodgeman county, 40 miles west of Larned. W. C. Simons was six and the oldest male on the farm.
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Several members of the family attended the unveiling. The event had been set earlier and the Simons family asked that it proceed as scheduled.
A diorama depicting the plant and animal life associated with the pioneer days of western Kansas was unveiled Friday at the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History just a day after the death of the donor.
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In accepting the gift for the University, Chancellor Franklin D.
Murphy praised the "hardy pioneer spirit and determination which the display memorializes, an aspect of Kansas life that today is too frequently forgotten.
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B. E. Raymond Hall, director of the museum, mentioned how such gifts as the Simons diorama are building a more useful institution.
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