Desert Army Awaits Heat To Test Military Equipment
Yuma, Ariz.—(U.P.)—A group of Army engineers living on the "Sahara" of the United States near here are awaiting anxiously the days when the temperature will start climbing over 100 degrees and stay there most of the summer. $ \textcircled{4} $
The men of the Yuma test station are preparing to put military equipment through its paces under the severest conditions available.
Not far from Yuma is found a vast stretch of desert which is devoid of any life. Nothing but rolling dunes of white and red sand are seen for miles.
There, all types of equipment,
including trucks, jeeps, tanks, guns
and ammunition are to be tested in
the United States and to be
found elsewhere in the world.
Maj. Ralph W, Petring, who heads the ordinance climatic test detachment, takes equipment from the Army ordinance proving ground at Aberdeen, Md., and with the corps of engineers, subjects every piece of equipment to the toughest tests.
"If the item breaks down, we bring
Telfel to Lead News Workshop
Emil L. Telelf, associate professor of journalism, will supervise the newspaper section of the interscholastic press workshop for high school students during the fourth annual Headliner Week of the Journalism school of Lincoln university in Jefferson City, Mo., from today through Saturday.
The photography workshop will be under the direction of Lee S. Cole, instructor in the William Allen White School of Journalism from 1945 to 1950, and now an associate professor of journalism at Lincoln.
About 100 students from all parts of the United States will attend the press workshop, Mr. Telfel said. The workshop is divided into sections on the newspaper, the yearbook, and photography.
Dean Armistead S. Pride of the Lincoln university School of Journalism said that other speakers at the workshop include Charles L. Allen, assistant dean of the Medill School of Journalism of Northwestern university; George A. Moore, producer-director of TV station WEWS, Cleveland, Ohio; Joseph B. LaCour, general manager of Associated Publishers, Inc., New York City; Cecil E. Newman, publisher of the Minneapolis Recorder, and Charles Steers, editor of the Missouri Legionnaire.
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it into the shop, dismantle it, and find out exactly what part or piece failed, and we can recommend what can be done to prevent such failures again." Mai. Petring said.
Milwaukee — (U.P.)— Maybe those letter writers need eyeglasses—the 34 who recently mailed their letters in a trash box outside the Milwaukee postoffice.
The major described their job as testing all the "hardware" used by the Army. It includes the little jeeps and giant tank transporters, which can carry a disabled tank back behind battle lines for repairs.
Also tested are sample portions of ammunition, guns of various sizes and anti-aicraft weapons. Fuel and equipment for mobile units also are checked in vehicles which wade the hot sands of the Sahara," where the Hollywood studios take many of their desert pictures.
Tires and tubes on the vehicle also get a rugged test on the sands, where the temperature all summer long is 110 degrees, and frequently a lot higher.
In addition to the routine equipment checks, Major Petring said the engineers test new weapons.
"We have tanks which can be started, stopped and put through their maneuvers by operating a single control lever," the major added. "That includes tanks which can outmaneuver, outgun, and outrun any other tank in existence today."
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Five to Attend Unions Convention
Five persons will represent the University at the annual convention of College Unions which will be held this week at Oklahoma A&M college at Stillwater.
The group will return to Lawrence Saturday night.
Phil Kassebaum, college junior; Shirley Piatt, college sophomore; and Paul Arrowwood, business junior, left for the convention this morning with James Burgoyne, director of Student Union Activities. They will be joined later by L. C. Woodruff, dean of men.
Wednesday, April 23, 1952
Miss Cassandra Ritter, bacteriologist for the State Water laboratory at the University, has been appointed a special consultant to the U. S. Public Health service for a series of cooperative studies with the molecular filter.
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Ritter Appointed Special Consultant
Miss Ritter is in Cincinnati this week for conferences on the use of the special filter, which can be used to determine the purity of water.
The State Water laboratory at KU
Zoology Instructor to Attend Ornithological Meeting
*Lasting Spring*
Tender evasion of earth's lovely blossom
Dr. H. B. Tordoff, instructor of zoology and assistant curator of natural history, left this morning for Gatlinburg, Tenn. to attend a meeting of the Wilson Ornithological club to be held Saturday and Sunday.
He will read a paper on a study made of the relationships between the family of sparrow-like birds.
and Miss Ritter have been chosen to make the midwestern studies with the filter. The other consultants will work in the other parts of the nation.
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