FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Malott's Portrait Added To Strong Hall Gallery
"Across the hall" neighbors are the portraits of Gen. John Fraser, James Marvin, Francis Snow, Frank Strong and E. H. Lindley, all chancellors of K.U.
There's a bit of mystery about the painting. The artist was Mrs. Berenice Ackerman Lopes of Lawrence. But the question of "Who paid for it?" is answered by the two or three who know, "A donor who desires to remain anonymous."
A portrait in oil of Deane W. Malott, ninth chancellor of the University, was hung yesterday without fanfare in the east corridor of Strong hall.
Chancellor Malott, who in 1939
became the first alumnus and native Kansan to head K.U., will become president of Cornell university July 1. He has directed the University through its greatest period of growth and development.
Although faculty and friends of the University have customarily in the past contributed for portraits of retiring chancellors, it is known that Chancellor Malott asked that there be no such effort in his behalf.
Secret City Of Atoms To Be On Mile-High Mountain Shelf
Washington, D.C. (U.P.)—On a mile-high mountain shelf this spring, a new name will be added to the nation's atomic map: Rocky Flats, Colorado.
Midway between the college towns of Golden and Boulder, hard against the first foothills of the Colorado Rockies, is a plateau pocket 6,000 feet above the sea which has earned its name—it is both flat and rocky. In front is the dry Denver plain; behind march the sentinel peaks of the mid-continent mountain wall, the Continental Divide,
Construction of a $45,000,000 "secret operations" production plant for the Atomic Energy Commission on this site some 17 miles northwest of Denver will bring the three-wedged red warning sign of atomic science into a spectacular region where distances begin to be measured vertically and the echoes tell of gold.
Gold in the hills and canyons around Rocky Flats opened Colorado. The Pikes-Peak-or-Bust gold rushers of 1859 surged north pell-mell along the Front Range after discovery of a rich lode vein on a Clear Creek branch west of Denver. The town of Golden, Colorado's early capital, saw boom times as a supply center for mining camps which dotted the mountain slopes with tunnels and placer diggings.
Narrow-gauge railways puffing up dizzy grades and teetering "on the brim of a sombrero" reached many
of the old mining fields. But the massive ridge of the Rockies was a barrier which diverted transcontinental travel around Colorado. It was not until the 1520's that Moffat Tunnel was bored through six miles of mountain high above Rocky Flats, and the "high iron" struck straight across the Divide from Denver.
Colorado still mines gold, as well as silver, lead, zinc, copper, molybdenum, tungsten, vanadium, coal and oil-rich shale. Its mining modern "rush," however, has been for uranium. On the desolate Colorado Plateau west of the Rockies, prospectors with Geiger counters roam sandstone draws and mesas searching for canary-yellow carnotite ore that is "gold" to the atomic energy program.
Boulder, home of the University of Colorado a dozen miles north of Rocky Flats, boasts that it is the only city in America with exclusive rights to a glacier. Tourists from many parts of the world join the townspeople once a year in climbing to the Arapaho ice sheet that serves Boulder as a frozen reservoir.
An abundance of mineral materials is found in the rocks of the Paleozoic era (ancient life). Gypsum, salt, shale for natural ceramic glazes, wool rock, brick, tile and agricultural aggregate; cut stone, oil and gas are the outstanding com-
More than a million dollars worth of minerals—ceramic and refractory clays, bloating shales, bentonite, chalk, cut stone, lightweight aggregate, water, Fencepost limestone, silica sand and quartzite—come from the Cretaceous rocks of the Mesozoic (middle life).
This is Colorado's High Country, the gigantic wall against which the newest of America's "secret cities of the atom" will be built.
Starting from the surface down, the mineral resources produced from the Quaternary and Tertiary rocks of the Cenozoic era (recent life) include soils, sand and gravel, ground water, clays for ceramic uses, volcanic ash and bentonite. These resources contribute about 3 million dollars (exclusive of the value of ground water) annually to the Kansas economy.
Variety In Kansas Rocks
Were it possible to leaf through the rock layers of Kansas as though they were pages of a book, one would in a glance see a great variety of mineral resources. These would vary from surface soils, sands, gravels and other substances down several thousand feet to the deepest known deposits of oil, gas and water.
More than 10,000 feet of rock strata in Kansas have been identified and variously studied for their mineral content by geologists. The State Geological Survey at the University, especially has contributed to the knowledge of what's in the Kansas earth.
The Pennsylvaniaian rocks contain oil, gas and materials for wool rock, lightweight aggregate, cement, brick, and structural and roofing tile. Lead, zinc, water, chat, oil and gas are found in Mississippi rocks; oil and gas in Silurian rocks; and oil, gas and water in Ordovician rocks.
merical minerals of the unit known as Permian rocks.
Total annual value of minerals produced in the Paleozoic rocks of Kansas is more than 300 million dollars.
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Upstream Panel Discussion To Be Broadcast Sunday
Half-an-hour of the panel discussion on "Prejudice and the Writer" at the Upstream dinner Thursday night was tape recorded and will be broadcast over KLWN at 4:30 p.m. Sunday.
The discussion of the topic is moderated by William Righter, graduate student. The panel members are Hilden Gibson, professor of political science; Mrs. Dorothy Overly and Sydney Schiffer, instructors in English; and Wesley Elliott, graduate student.
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