Page 4 University Daily Kansan Thursday, Feb. 21, 1952
Fierce Winter Storms In Atlantic Bring Many Hardships To Residents Of Irish Islands
Dublin — (U.P.) - Fierce Atlantic storms which pounded the Irish coast this winter brought renewed fears for the future of people living on islands fringing the country's western shores.
The Aran and Blasket islands were cut off from the mainland for weeks and there was much uneasiness as the islands' stocks of food, lighting equipment, fuel and other materials dwindled dangerously low.
On Blasket island, 27 adults and one child were openly pessimistic about future life on the island after they were rescued.
They repeated the old complaints that once the Atlantic whips often vary very locally the fisherman often wait days before attempting to cross the waves.
Courageous and skilled as the fisherman are, it requires more than skill and brute strength to carry a heavy cargo of food and household equipment in the face of fierce storms. Many locals have attempted such crossings in past years. The next that was heard of them was when their bodies were found wedged in the rocks miles away.
Life on these islands is a grim business, and most of it is spent combating the Atlantic. During the warm summer months, life is meant enough but conditions fall into the primitive class in the winter.
Food, heat and strong clothes and boots become of paramount importance. There are no cinemas, theaters, shops, clubs; only a few cottages and blazing fires with excellent home-made meals.
There was no panic on the islands, simply eloom
On Blasket island, a young boy, only one on the island, got no present from Santa Claus because of the storms and his plaintive questions only made the big feast day gloomier still.
Now that the storms have abated and the islanders have obtained new stocks of food and other materials, life goes on as usual.
There is increased speculation
on the possibility of bringing many of the islanders to live on the mainland, where they could fish as profitably as ever, with no risk of being cut off from stocks of food and fuel.
Despite the rigors of their life, some of the islanders have become attached to the homes where they were born, and the older men and women are particularly reluctant to leave their heartstones.
However, should the authorities decide to take firm action, it is more than likely that sentiment will have to yield to safety first and that the islands may have only seagulls as their inhabitants.
IFC To Support Blood Campaign
Inter-Fraternity council has voted its support to a campus blood donor campaign which will be conducted later in the semester.
Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of health service of Watkins hospital, is head of the drive, and Loy Kirkpatrick, college junior. Tom Oliver, education senior, and Woody Davis, college senior, are student members of the campaign committee.
New executive appointees on the
Gerhard Herm, special student in the college, was honor initiate at the University Players meeting Tuesday in the Pine room of the Union.
9 Campus Police Are Deputies
University Players Name Honor Initiate
All nine officers of the campus police force have been made sheriff's deputies.
The commissions appointing the officers as deputies went into effect Monday giving the campus police jurisdiction outside of the city limits.
The campus police previously had no way of exercising any jurisdiction over University property outside the city limits. The deputized officers now may operate in both the city and county.
Herm was given membership credit for a play he wrote that is now being produced in Germany.
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Phil Kassebaum, college junior, chairman of Inter-Fraternity Pledge council; Marvin Rausch, college senior, rushing chairman; Bill Wilson, education junior, social chairman, and Tom White, business senior, chairman of community buying.
Council are David Hills, college junior, scholarship chairman; Kon Merrill, business senior, publicity; Frank Norris, business junior, chairman of Greek week.
Other initiates were Dee Price, fine arts freshman; Shirley Strain, college junior; William Soliner, graduate student; William Thompson, college freshman; Gerald Scott, college freshman; Eugene Walling, college junior; Gary Lehmian, college sophomore; and Joan Ketterman, education junior.
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