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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1951
SDX To Attend Press Banquet
Members of the Kansas chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity, have been invited to the annual professional meeting and banquet on Thursday, Feb. 22, given by the Kansas City Press club.
Members of the Kansas chapter, who wift act as official delegates to the meeting are: Dewayne Oglesbee, president; John Corporon, vice-president; Harold Benjamin, secretary; Richard Tatum, treasurer; and John Rannigan, a member selected to be a delegate.
Fred Sparks of the Chicago Daily News will speak at the meeting which will be attended by delegates and members from the University of Kansas, the University of Missouri and Kansas State College.
Members of the chapter and members of the journalism faculty will attend the banquet which is to be held in the La Fonda room of the Advertising and Sales Executive club in Kansas City, Mo.
Mr. Sparks has recently returned from Korea and has spent some time in Indo-China and other areas of the Far East.
Sixteen new members were initiated by the University Players Sunday.
KU Players Initiate 16
The new members met membership requirements by acting and long stage work in University productions during the past semester.
The new members are: Natalie Jo Logan and Edith Rae Williamson, education seniors; Carol Donovan, Margaret Fisher, F. Eugene Ringer, shirley Stalzer, and Leola Stewart, education juniors.
William Almen, Marilyn Dubach,
and Gloria Lehmann, College sophonores;
and Joe Bill Gound, fine arts sophomore.
Jane Ausherman, Mark Gilman,
Marcia Gore, Jo Anna March, and
Vernie Theden, College freshmen.
The women's rifle team will start schedule that will bring at least match a week through March, Sgt. farold Swartwood, the coach, said aday.
Women's Rifle Team Will Begin Matches
During the period Feb. 12-17 iatches will be fired with Louisiana state university, Pennsylvania State college, the University of Cincinnati, Cornell university and New Mexico A. & M. college. These iatches will be "postal" with each am shooting on its home range if subsequent matching of scores, wartwood explained.
Last year's women's rifle team received nationwide publicity when defeated the K.U. men's team.
Gen. Collins Hits Peacetime Training
Washington (U.P.)-Gen. J. Lawn Collins, army chief of staff, toly said the United States "seemgly deliberately plans to send een men" into combat because e nation never has supported adeate training programs in peaceme.
In reply to questions, Gen. Cols also said that there is some valiity for statements that United states ground forces are too mechanized for the rough Korean terrain.
American units first sent to Korea it only were green, he said, but eyewere only from half to two-words of combat strength.
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Fine Arts Deadline On Course Changes
All students in the School of Fine Arts who wish to add courses must do so by noon Saturday. These changes require the written approval of the student's adviser, and must be arranged through the Fine Arts office.
Eight Teams To Enter Bridge Tournament Feb. 20
Eight University bridge teams will compete in an intramural bridge tournament at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 20, in the Union ballroom.
The teams were the undergraduate winners of an intramural bridge contest, held in December. There were 72 entrants in the December contest.
The two winning teams in the forthcoming tournament will represent the University at the Big Seven contest in April.
Sikkim, tiny buffer state in the eastern Himalayas, ranges in altitude from 400 feet above sea level to 28,146 feet.
Washington (U.P.)—President Truman has sent the Shah of Iran and his bride-to-be a rare early American glass vase as a wedding gift.
Wedding Gifts Are Source Of Rivalry Between President Truman And Stalin
Although it would be regarded as a priceless item by American collectors, it is not as spectacular as the wedding gifts sent by Premier Stalin.
White house officials said Mr. Truman's gift is a Steuben vase, of crystal, 10 inches high. It is decorated with panels showing scenes from American legends including the story of Rip Van Winkle and the story of the Pilgrim Fathers.
Tehran dispatches said the Soviet Premier had sent the bride-to-be—the daughter of a powerful Iranian tribal leader—a $150,000 mink coat, and the bridegroom a desk set studded with black diamonds.
The vase was taken to Iran by Ambassador Henry Grady on Dec. 20. The wedding is scheduled for today.
is a North American animal and suggested that if Stalin did send the coat it probably was sable.
Some quarters here questioned the accuracy of one point in the dispatch of Stalin's gifts. They said that mink
A Steuben vase also was Mr. Truman's wedding present to Princess Elizabeth of England and Prince Philip when they were married in 1947.
Stalin ignored that wedding.
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Etching By Parks Wins At Harvard
John D. Parks, instructor in design, today was notified that his etching, "The Basement" has received the purchase prize given by the Busch-Reisinger museum at Harvard university.
The etching temporarily will be included in a traveling art show and then placed in the permanent collection at Harvard. The selection of Parks' etching was made at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, which had accepted "The Basement" for exhibition.
Mr. Parks joined the university faculty last fall. He was graduated from the Chicago Art institute in 1949 and has done free lance art work in Wichita and Chicago.
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Bringing Up Alathon*
Du Pont scientists find great promise in this young member of the wax family
One of the most interesting and versatile of the new plastics is Du Pont "Alathon" polyethylene resin, chemical cousin of paraffin.
Because of its unusual combination of properties, it is now being used in everything from "squeeze-bottles" for toiletries to cable insulation and chemical-resistant linings.
"Alathon" was born when English scientists used high-pressure synthesis to create polythene, the solid and semi-solid polymers of ethylene.
Du Pont scientists and others added their background in high pressure work to the field of ethylene polymers. This concerted effort produced a greatly expanded range of uses.
Taking First Steps
The first step of Du Pont chemists and engineers was to produce polyethene in the laboratory to confirm earlier findings. Then the product was turned over to chemical engineers for pilot-plant work. Finally, a plant for full-scale commercial production was designed by chemical, mechanical and electrical engineers and metallurgists.
Blow-molded "Alathon" bottle, with molded
emission. It emits a fine spray when squeezed.
Many of the most promising uses
for "Alathon" could not be realized until technical difficulties were overcome. For example, the chemical inertness, which is one of the outstanding properties of the material in film form, also made the casting of film from solution impractical because it could not be dissolved in suitable solvents. In devising a special extrusion technique to solve this problem, Du Pont engineers opened up a whole new field of possibilities.
Multiwall bags for chemicals and foods are made of kraft paper coated with "Athlon."
Acid-Defying Paper
In film form, "Alathon" lends its strength, chemical inertness and resistance to grease and moisture to packages for chemicals, foods, metal parts and moisture-sensitive powders. In still another form in which these properties are employed, paper coated with "Alathon" is used as wrapping for bakery products and moistureproof containers for chemicals that would attack uncoated paper. (Experimentally, "Alathon" coated paper has been exposed to concentrated sulfuric acid for days without harm; the same paper, uncoated, was ruined within a few minutes.)
The protection of "Alathon" was extended to metal tanks and drums when Du Pont engineers developed a spray-flaming coating technique.
In the field of electricity, too,
"Alathon" is proving of great value.
Its outstanding electrical properties
All "Alathon" - ice-cube trays, refrigerator
Alls, tableware and protective coverings.
Pipe made of "Alathon" is used for handling corrosive chemicals, solutions and gases.
make it an ideal insulator for wire and cable, particularly in the high-frequency applications necessary in television and radar.
"Alathon" in powder form is used for molding a wide range of light, tough and flexible plastic articles. In addition to bottles, these include tumblers, dishes, jar caps and icecube trays. Extruded as a film, it serves for garment covers, tablecloths and rainwear.
The future looks bright for "Alathon." New applications such as extruded pipe for mines and separators for storage batteries seem about to be realized. Other uses yet undreamed of will no doubt emerge from the close, continuous teamwork of technical men that typifies Du Pont research. *REQ.U.S.PAT.OFF*
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