THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE NINE
Wanted-Pyromaniac To Set Training Fires-Materials Provided
By DOROTHY OGLESBEE
Wanted: experienced or aspiring pyromaniac, must know fine points of setting gasoline fires. Salary small, but boundless satisfaction guaranteed.
If you fill these qualifications apply to Keith Royer, chief firemanship training instructor at the University. Mr. Royer is definitely not a pyromaniac, but he planned and staged what was probably the largest demonstration fire Kansas firemen have seen.
Any full fledged firebug would have been wild with joy watching the 2,800 gallon gasoline fire consume six old automobile bodies. However, he might have been a trifle disappointed when firemen smothered the blaze with a chemical foam blanket.
The demonstration fire was part of the activities of the 21st annual Kansas Fire school, which firemen from all over the state attended to hear lectures on fire prevention and fire fighting.
The school was held at Hutchinson
with the demonstration planned to illustrate what might happen in any Kansas town if a gasoline transport should collide with a parked vehicle
Staged at the state fair grounds, the fire was constructed by placing six old automobile bodies in a rectangle of earth 100 feet long by 35 feet wide with a 12 inch bank. Eighteen hundred gallons of mixed kerosene, gasoline, and oil were poured over and around the cars. Before the fire was lighted an extra 1,000 gallons of gasoline were added to insure a healthy blaze.
But the annual fire school is only a small part of the Kansas firemanship training program.
As early as 1929 the Kansas State Firemen's association, Kansas Inspection bureau, Kansas State Board for Vocational Educational Education, and University Extension became interested in firemanship training.
The state legislature appropriated $500 to the University for the purpose of holding the fire school course each year. The first Kansas Fire school was held in Newton.
They proposed a bill to the legislature which called for the establishment of a permanent firemanship training program. The bill was passed and the program began to operate in July 1949.
Twenty years later these same agencies decided that an annual short course did not completely fill the need for training in modern fire fighting methods.
Keith Royer, a member of the Wichita fire department, was the first instructor selected. Mr. Royer had served as a member of the Wichita fire department for more than four years, and had been closely associated with fire departments since his high school days
Under the program an instructor will be sent to any town which requests a training course. The instructor spends one night a week for five weeks teaching three hour sessions in the chemistry of fire, first aid, use of equipment, and inspection work.
Mr. Russell resigned Feb. 17 to go on active duty with the navy. He is stationed at the Olathe naval air base.
in Newton when he dated and eventually married the fire chief's daughter.
In 1950 a second instructor was employed, Ronald R. Russell of the Hutchinson fire department. Mr. Russell had been a member of a navy fire fighting unit for six years during World War II.
During the first year of the firemanship training program these two men worked with 80 volunteer fire departments and conducted several officer training schools.
When interviewed about the condition and efficiency of Kansas volunteer fire departments Mr. Royer said, "The need is not so much for better fire equipment, but more intensive training."
Kansas State Board for Vocational Education.
"In the departments that have carried on a training program the efficiency is excellent. We're here to help increase efficiency."
"There has been a noticeable lack of any training at all in fire departments due to lack of facilities or agencies to help in training programs.
The firemanship program is being expanded to meet civilian defense needs. University firemanship instructors will conduct several training schools for local instructors this spring. Firemen completing these courses in instruction methods will take over the job of training auxiliary firemen for local departments.
GI Handouts Can Be A Delightful Shock
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Washington (U.P.)-It's a delightful shock to get a government handout that is written clearly and simply.
Like the one that came from the treasury department the other day. That dignified office usually is so tangled in weighty things like unbalanced budgets and matters of high finance that it can't see the facts for the figures.
The fellow who wrote the piece is a modest cuss who prefers to remain unidentified. Anyway, the day that a Chicago underworld character came to grips with the tax people, our man wrote:
“Another Capone was brought to book today by the bureau of internal revenue. He is Ralph Capone, Chicago racketeer, brother of the late Al of unsavory fame.”
There was a dispatch that anyone
This service, free to the town, is paid for by a state appropriation to the University and money from the
could understand at a glance. The meat of the subject was quite clear.
Not only that, but he gave the newsmen a complete background on the Capone mob, mentioning such characters by name as Frank Nitti, Jack Guzik, Hymie as "Loudmouth"
Our man was a shooter-from-the shoulder with all of the important things visible to the naked eye. He went ahead and spoke his piece in simple language.
Home Design In Modern Upswing Says Architect In Lecture Here
The modern trend in residential architecture "is definitely catching on," believes L. Morgan Yost, outstanding Illinois architect.
Mr. Yost, here on a three day visit, conducted lectures on modern architecture and helping students with architectural problems. He has illustrated several lectures with color slides, which he has compiled.
Summer Law Students May Take Bar Exams This Fall
the Kansas board of law examples will give a bar examination early this fall for law students completing their work this summer.
Passage Of Peace Officers Bill Praised
The appropriation will be used to expand the scope of the weeklong fifth annual peace officers training school in July. The four previous schools were financed by fees and by use of regular university personnel.
Action of the Kansas legislature in appropriating $5,000 for each of the next two fiscal years to implement the peace officers training program at the University was described as "a great step forward," by Dr. Ethan Allen, director of the Bureau of Government Research.
"On behalf of the Kansas Peace Officers association and the University we wish our gratitude for this recognition," Dr. Allen said.
All of this saved the re-write men in our office and others a trip to the library.
Mr. Yost has been concerned with the development of modern architecture in the past 50 years. Modern art is not as new as some people think, he says.
Some agencies often give out reports which slow up the works in a newspaper office. Like one which arrived the other day.
Levin, Murray "The Camel" Humphreys, and Rocco De Crazia—some of the many who fell before the government's income tax prosecutions.
The examinations will be given on September 4 in the State capitol building in Topeka. The order for the examination was given by the Kansas supreme court.
The appropriation, approved Tuesday by Gov. Edward F. Arn, is the first direct support the state has given the formal training of law enforcement officers.
The first paragraph said;
"The use of designs based on needs of families, climate, economics, available materials, and labor is nothing new." Mr. Yost emphasized. "Colonial or traditional work is not fitting to today's living. Our needs call for new designs."
Speaking of houses in Lawrence, Mr. Yost said the only one that he had seen which could be considered modern is the home, now under construction, of George M. Beal, professor of architecture.
Mr. Yost is presently employed as a residential architect for Household magazine, a Capper publication. He has contributed articles to almost every major magazine on architecture. Included have been Better Homes and Gardens, Parents, McCall, House Beautiful, House and Garden, and American Home.
A graduate of Ohio State university, Mr. Yost is a member of the Advisory Committee to the President on the Reorganization of the Department of Architecture at Ohio State university.
L. Morgan Yost is president of the Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architecture. Although he has traveled all over the country, he has concentrated in northern Illinois. All of his work has been modern.
"The wire communications manufacturing industry advisory committee at a meeting today with the national production authority, U.S. department of commerce, asked that action be taken to enable the industry to obtain adequate supplies for production of telephone and telegraph equipment for defense and essential civilian needs until a controlled materials plan becomes effective."
Mr. Yost spoke to the faculty of the School of Engineering and Architecture at a dinner held in the English room of the Union.
A man had to read down a considerable distance to discover that the crux of the trouble could be laid to a shortage of copper.
Maybe it would have helped to put that in the first sentence.
Natural Gas Course Set For March 26
The course has been arranged to give maximum benefit to persons concerned with production and transportation of natural gas in the mid-continent area.
A two day course in natural gas engineering will be taught on Monday, March 26, and Tuesday, March 27, at K.U. by Dr. Donald L. Katz of the University of Michigan.
The course is sponsored by the department of petroleum engineering, the state board of health, Kansas State Geological survey, the Kansas section of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, and the University Extension.
All of the ideas and methods to be discussed will be directly applicable to the Hugoton field.
James Shay, extension representative, estimated that 150 engineers would attend the conference. Enrollments have been received from as far away as Alberta, Canada.
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