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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1951
Harry Now Pounding Personal Piano
Washington (U.P.)—America's No. 1 musician is celebrating National and Inter-American Music week by pounding away on a brand new piano.
Harry Truman won't have to borrow daughter Margaret's piano any more to play his favorite classics when company drops in at Blair House for a spot of tea.
A "composite" spinet piano was presented to Mr. Truman by the country's leading piano manufacturers.
The President appeared proud as punch as he thumped out what he said was the first number he ever played, "The Little Fairy Waltz". Then he swung into Mozart's "Sonata in A Minor" and for a finalie played Paderewski's "Minuet in G."
The spinet is made of raw materials from many parts of the world. There is South American mahogany, Australian wool on the hammers, steel strings and castings from steel made in this country, and nickel from Canada.
I have heard the President play on a number of occasions. Once was at Caruthersville, Mo., county fair shortly after he became chief executive. He was a guest in the little hotel there of the women of the Baptist church.
On another occasion, at a father and daughter banquet at the national press club, he appeared at the speaker's platform.
After supper, he played a little ditty by Beethoven. Somebody yelled "Missouri Waltz, please," but the new president just bowed and sat down between Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan and press secretary Charles G. Ross.
He didn't feel like talking, but he felt the urge to play the piano. So he asked Margaret to go with him to the stage. Everybody thought it would be father playing, daughter singing.
40 Cent Oxygen Mask Developed
Denver (U.P.)—A disposable oxygen mask that can be made for 40 cents was demonstrated here to the Aero Medical association.
The mask, which is adjustable to fit babies as well as adults, will be used by air lines as standby equipment for high altitude pressurized cabin flights.
It consists of a double envelope of clear plastic, a light aluminum strip that is bent over the bridge of the nose and cheeks and an elastic band that holds the mask snug against the face. At the bottom of the plastic bag is an inlet for an oxygen hose.
The Air Force has tested the mask, the aerial doctors were told, and found that an inexperienced person could slip on the mask and adjust it in less than one minute. The Air Force tests showed that the mask was effective at altitudes up to 25,000 feet.
The chief surprised us all.
The chief surprised us all.
He thrilled father and daughter alike at the party by doing a piano duet with Margaret.
The daughter thumped the bass and Daddy played the lead in "The Jenny Lind Polka."
It brought the house down. But again there was no response for requests for a few quick bars of "The Missouri Waltz."
I checked a source at the White House, and learned why.
It seems that Mr. Truman can hum the waltz which goes as the tune for his home state, but can't play it on the piano.
Student Sentenced For Draft Evasion
Wichita (U.P.) — An 18-year-old Bethel college student is under a federal sentence of a year and a day for violation of the national selective service law.
The youth, Dwight Platt, pleaded guilty to the charge in the January term of court and sentence twice was deferred.
The youth, on the eve of his 18th birthday, had written a letter to President Truman stating that he felt war was immoral and impractical and thus could not register for the draft.
Asked if he had anything to say, Platt stepped to the bench and said: "I want to thank this court for the human way in which my case has been handled. I am sorry that I had to break a law because I want to be a good American citizen. I have given my action a lot of thought and prayer and am doing what my conscience says is right."
Will Hold Music Education Picnic
The music education department will hold its annual picnic for students and faculty at 5 p.m. Friday.
Tickets are 50c for adults and 25c for children. They may be purchased in the music education office. 35 Strong hall.
The picnic will be held at the ranch of James F. Nickerson, associate professor of music education, which is southwest of Lawrence across the road from the Pioneer cemetery. Anyone wanting transportation is asked to meet in front of Hoch auditorium between 4 and 5 p.m. Friday.
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Jobs Open To Students This Summer Include Gold Mining In Alaska
There isn't a gold rush in Alaska, but some students may be rushing there this summer.
An opportunity to work in gold mining in Fairbanks, Alaska, is open to University students. The United States Smelting Refining and Mining company of Fairbanks is offering summer employment at its gold dredging operations.
Many of the salaries are higher than those in the United States even after transportation expenses are deducted.
Sixteen kinds of jobs are available. The jobs and their hourly salaries are: carpenters, machinists, welders, electricians, lineman, and garage mechanics, $1.82; helpers, $1.40; dredge winchmen, $1.75; dredge oilers, $1.50; dredge deck-hands, $1.28; dozer operators, $1.60 thaw point drivers, $1.50; hydraulic nozlemen, cooks, and bakers, $1.36 laborers, $1.21; and waiters, $1.16.
Weekly hours of work range from 48 to 63. Time and one-half is paid for all work over 40 hours a week.
The company operates five to eight placer gold dredges, and maintains long ditches for water supply, shops, garage, and warehouses. It operates a steam power plant.
The company provides housing and board at the rate of $67 a month, in camps and boarding houses. The larger camps are steam heated.
Students must pay the cost of transportation to Fairbanks. Airplane transportation from Seattle costs from $97 to $120.
Summer employment for University students is being offered by the Ford Motor company in Kansas City, Mo.
Further information on employment can be obtained at Dean Carr's office in Marvin hall. Information on other summer employment opportunities for all University students is also available there.
Under the summer employment plan students would be employed in regular production and clerical jobs. The jobs would last during successive summers and the company would attempt to place the employees permanently after graduation.
Ford Offers Summer Jobs
Students must be at least 18 years old to apply and must pass a physical examination given in Fairbanks.
Interested persons may sign up at the Business placement office, 214 Strong hall, or at the office of the dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture in Marvin hall. Students may contact the company directly by writing to Mr. C. F. Ade, 1025 Winchester avenue, Kansas City 3. Mo.
Applications for the Alaska jobs can be made by mail to The United States Smelting and Mining Company, 1102 Newhouse building, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Qualifications for the jobs will be based on scholarship, leadership enterprise, personality, and health. Applicants must be at least 18 years old.
Kansas Wheat Condition Good
Topcka (U.P)-A label of "good to excellent development" was tagged to maturing Kansas wheat this week.
The federal and state agriculture departments reported:
"Many fields of early maturing varieties of wheat are headed in southern counties, almost half of the crop in the southern third of the state is in the boot stage, and wheat in the remainder of the state is mostly jointed as the crop made good to excellent development.
"Moisture received during the week was of material benefit, particularly in western counties where moisture supplies were short."
"Ladybird 'beetles' continued to increase in numbers and greenbugs have mostly disappeared from wheat fields; however, the population of greenbugs is still high in many spring planted grain fields.
State And Federal Peace Officers To Meet Here
The fifth annual Peace Officers Training school at the University of Kansas will be from July 23 to 28.
The program and planning committee for the school will meet Tuesday afternoon at the Union. About 20 state and federal law enforcement officials and sheriffs and chiefs of police will attend the meeting.
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