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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 12, 1951
Union Gets New Food Director
The Memorial Union has a new acting food service director.
Miss Ruth Hopkins, director of the Union fountain and the Hawk's Nest for the past two years, has been appointed to the position by L. E. Woolley, new director of the Union. Mr. Woolley is the successor to Miss Hermina Zipple, who resigned recently.
All changes in the Union will be gradual. Mr. Woolley said. Mentions as coming changes were longer hours in some areas of the building, a new reservation system, pay raises for working personnel, and new personnel.
Miss Zipple, who had been director of the Union for 12 years, worked her last day on June 15. When she resigned she said that she was "leaving to accept a new challenge."
Miss Hopkins said that her appointment would last until a permanent food director could be obtained. She was a dietician for the Oklahoma Baptist University at Shawnee, Okla., before she came to the University. She is a graduate of Oklahoma A. and M. and is a member of the American Association of Dieticians.
Donnelly Grants Awarded To 22
Twenty-two students will receive Donnelly scholarships at the University this year, it was announced recently.
The scholarships were established in 1938 under the will of Jennie M. Donnelly of Kansas City, Kas., in memory of her brothers, James and Neill Donnelly, and herself. The income from a fund of approximately $160,000 is available for these scholarships.
Each of these grants will be a cash award sufficient to cover all University fees for the school year.
The scholarship winners: Ronald Akers, Dighton; Marlene Anderson, Topeka; Barbara Beers, Topeka; Martha Bennett, Garnett; Grace Bogart, Kirwin; Mary Elizabeth Cole, Beggs, Okla.; Shirley Dodd, Kansas City, Kas.; Marjorie Englund, Salina, Mary Lou Fisk, Cottonwood Falls, Marlene Fortune, Penokee; Kay Gustafson, Turner; Carolate Hzeltein, Sharon Springs; Alberta Heier, Gove; John Hengen, Wichita; Helen Libhart, Offerle; Theresa Ann Macher, Lincoln.
Wanda Murray, Winfield; Mary Jane Noble, Holliday; Patricia Powers. Kansas City, Kas.; Carmen Schoen, Dellvale; Wanda Shellinbarger, Garnett; Jo Ann Van Petten, Dalhart, Texas.
Professor's Widow Restores Valuable College Books
Ithaca, N.Y. (U.P.) - Valuable books at the Cornell University library are being restored without compensation by the widow of a Cornell professor.
Early experience as a librarian and a life-long love of rare books led Mrs. Fleeda Straight Myers to take up the full-time task in 1949.
She went to Europe for 14 months to study and returned with book restoration skills learned under masters of the craft.
These Popcorn Stands Seem To Be Real Moneymakers
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Press Staff Correspondent
Washington—(U.P.) You'd think there was quite a spread between a high-salaried movie star and a lowly kernel of corn. But, actually, they depend on one another and are closer than first cousins.
No flicker-house owner would be dumb enough to admit it, but a great number of the theaters likely would have to lock up were it not for the popcorn stand, from which they get much of their revenue.
I got to nosing around on this subject. I got a lot of information from Walt Glesner, a top-flight salesman for Manley, Inc., which sells popcorn machines. Most of them to movie houses.
A book in the Library of Congress
tells that popcorn isn't exactly a
new good.
He said that a lot of the movie houses, hurting for business on account of television, have devised all sorts of popcorn stunts to get people into their establishments.
One operator in Nebraska offers a dime bag to every 10th customer and the rolls of admission tickets are marked with a star for each winner.
There are 22,000 motion picture places in the country. Almost all of them sell popcorn. The corn is delivered fresh each day in sealed containers and popped on the spot.
An Indian named Quadeguna is said to have brought a bushel of pre-popped corn to the pilgrims in 1630 for their Thanksgiving dinner.
You'd be surprised at the people who stand in line, watch a winner cash in, count back 10 and then hudge into the right place for free popcorn." Glesner said.
A well-known comic once ad-libbed on a radio show that "if you sold the popcorn on the outside, half the people would not go inside."
An operator out west has a house rule which says there must be a 20-minute intermission between shows. He has his ushers standing by to guard coats and parcels while the patrons troop to the lobby to dime-up the popoorn machine.
Glesner had the answer. About 70 to 80 per cent of the take from the sale of a bag of corn is profit. A hundred pounds is worth about $10. And a hundred pounds pops up to 1,000 dime bags—and that adds up to $100.
Geological Survey Gets New Man
What'll You Have?
The appointment of Edwin D. Goebel to duties in the oil and gas division of the State Geological Survey at the University has been announced by Dr. John C. Frye, executive director of the survey.
American ServICE Company 616 Vermont
R. Kenneth Smith, formerly in charge of the oil and gas division has accepted a position with the Tropical Oil Company in Bogota, Colombia.
- Ice Crushed, Cube, Cake?
Goebel did his undergraduate study at Augustana college, Rock Island, Ill., and earned the master of science degree from Iowa State. He has been employed by the Missouri Geological Survey as oil and gas geologist. He is a member of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, professional geology fraternity.
Patronize Kansan Advertisers
- Picnic Supplies-Cups, Plates, Etc.?
- Beverages of All Kinds?
then see
One theater owner in the west admitted on his tax from that he netted $100,000 on popcorn in a single year. He also admitted that this was considerably more than he took in at the gate for Westerns and love movies.
And if you think business hasn't been good in the last few years, look at the record, as they say on Capitol hill.
In 1948 about 2,400 million bags of popcorn were sold at a dime a bag. The farmer gets his, too. He grows about 300,000,000 pounds a year. The salt and grease people don't lose, either.
Judge Gets His Man
Nichols has been losing long enough. I think I'll get me a popcorn machine and build a theater to go around it.
Green Bay, Wis. (U.P.)—Municipa judge Donald Gleason did just about everything but act as judge in a teenage traffic case. Gleason spotted a car racing past his home, gave chase and jitted down the license number. When Eugene Vanden Elven, 17, appeared in court, Gleason was a witness and Judge Ray Rahr sat on the bench.
According to one authoritative worker ("Rockets," by Willy Ley), rocket trip to the moon would take about 94 hours.
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