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Winter Is Moving Down On Korea Bringing Dry Season, Bitter Cold
Washington, D. C. — Down the windy stepses of Siberia, winter is moving south toward Korea again.
Korea's rainy season is nearly over. In September, pressure patterns that control the monsoon winds begin swinging like a giant weather-wheel. Dry, cold air from the Asiatic heartland begins moving southeast over the Gobi Desert and Manchurian plains. Winter is the dry season.
Cloud-covered skies will clear in the weeks ahead. Battlegrounds which have been muddy quagmires will dry. The best weather of the Korean year comes in the fall. But close behind looms the bitter cold of December, January and February.
Only the shallow Yellow Sea tempers winter's touch along Korea's western shores. A mountainous interior brings Alpine weather down across the central belt where the fighting front now rests. In this region January's mean temperature is about 20 degrees above zero. Farther north, toward the Yalu River, it sinks well below zero as a daily average.
Despite the cold, United Nations airmen welcome the end of summer monsoons. Winter skies are clear 10 to 15 days a month, whereas in summer only one to three days are completely clear. Winter air is usually calm and too dry to offer serious icing hazard; there is fog less than one day a month.
Although Korea lies within rough-
by the same latitudes as the U.S. eastern seaboard from Portsmouth, N.H., to Charleston, S.C., its winter averages six degrees colder. In the north-central mountains, temperatures often match those of Labrador and southern Alaska.
Special teams are touring the peninsula, training soldiers to keep warm and dry under the worst winter weather.
If Army quartermaster plans do not go astray, there will be no lack of warm clothing for the U.N. troops this winter. Distribution of the second of three winter field equipment issues has already begun. A third allotment will be made on Nov. 1.
When deep winter comes, the front line foot soldier will be the custodian and grateful user of a thick sleeping bag, pile-lined field jacket with hood as well as a fur cap, woolen underwear, socks, sweater, trousers and muffler, a flannel shirt, leather-wool gloves with inside liners, an over-coat, two extra blankets, and arctics or rubber-leather shoepacs.
Metropolitan Schedules 23 Operas, Plans New Aida, Carmen, Rigoletto
New York —(U.P.)— Rudolf Bing, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, announces that the company will present 23 operas during the season start Nov. 13. Twelve will be in Italian, five in German and four in English.
The works in English will be Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutue." Gluck's "Alcestis," Pucinci's "Gianni Schiofci" and Johann Strauss' "Fledermaus."
"Gianni Schiacci" is being done in English for the first time, in a translation by Townsend Brewster. After one year's absence such favorites as "Aida", "Rigoloetto" and "Carmen" will return in new interpretations. "Cosi Fan Tutte", although, as Bing remarks, it is by one of the greatest and most famous composers of all time, has been in the Metropolitar repertoire only intermittently.
In the prospectus for the season.
Quake Recorded On Seismograph
The first vibrations came at 3:38 p.m. (Lawrence time) and were followed in about 15 minutes by the secondary waves which contained the maximum amplitude of the quake.
Part of the records of this earthquake are on display in the show case near 108 Lindley hall.
The University seismological station reports that the earthquake in Formosa on Oct. 21, was the most severe and most distant that the local seismograph has recorded since being set up last year.
The second major shock started about 9:45 p.m. (Lawrence time) and lasted for about an hour and a half. This shock was less intense than the earlier one.
Bing announced regretfully that he cannot produce any new opera "because the financial condition of the Metropolitan makes it impossible for me to produce a contemporary work with all the attending box office risks that a modern opera has to face."
"At the beginning of my second year," Bing said, "the problems confronting the management of the Metropolitan Opera have not diminished. In some ways they have increased. . .
"A heartening sign of confidence is the fact that for the coming season we have several hundred subscribers more than the Metropolitan has ever had."
Bats have an interesting history that involves as much superstition as fact, said Philip H. Krutzsch, assistant instructor in the zoological department at a recent Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Men's club dinner.
Teacher Tells Bat History
Krutzsch told of an interesting field trip taken last summer, of the history of bats, of superstitions regarding bats and of their value to man. He said that the bats, which are the only mammals that can fly, are essentially beneficial to society. A discussion of the vampire bats of the Latin Americas, a species surrounded by much superstition, revealed it is this type of bat that has aroused the widespread fear of the bat.
Krutzsch ended his talk by displaying several live bats from his personal collection and several stuffed specimens borrowed from Dyche museum.
University Daily Kansan
Monday, October 29,1951
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L. T. Tupy, professor of law, attended a tax law institute at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. Oct. 25 through Oct. 27.
The entire program is devoted to procedural matters with both government attorneys and attorneys in private practice taking part in the discussion.
Professor Tupy has participated in many of the tax institutes held in Kansas and will be in charge of the one being planned by the School of Law for next spring.
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