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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1951
Research Laboratory Opens Doors To Supersonic Warfare
Princeton university has just opened wider the door that may lead men to achieve the Jules Verne dream of interplanetary travel or bring them to the nightmare of devastating, supersonic warfare.
With the establishment of the James Forrestal Research center, the historic New Jersey institution is now in the position to direct one of the world's largest organizations devoted to research in the basic science concerned with jet and rocket propulsion.
This science got its start with the work of Sir Isaac Newton, who late in the 17th century, first formulated his Third Law of Motion. This law was to prove a shocker: action and reaction are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction. Therein lies the explanation for the backward kick of a gun when a shot is fired; the downward swoosh of fire that accompanies the upward swoosh of the Fourth of July fireworks rocket when a match is applied to the fuse.
Newton's law spelled out a principle which mankind had stumbled upon centuries before and utilized, without troubling about its scientific definition. Near the beginning of the Christian Era the Greek scientist, Hero, devised a curious apparatus, called an aeolipus, which featured a sphere revolving by jet propulsion. The Chinese invented and used war rockets at about 1200 A.D.
The invention of workable reaction motors for both jet and rocket propulsion awaited the 20th century. Though based on the same law, the two methods of movement differ importantly. In jet propulsion air is taken frontally into the motor, compressed, mixed and burned with gas, then ejected with great force at the rear.
Mrs. Turk To Give Piano Recital
Janet Turk, instructor in piano, will present a public recital at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Strong auditorium.
Mrs. Turk graduated from KU. with three degrees: bachelor of music, bachelor of music education, and master of music. She is a member of Pt Kappa Lambda, honorary music society.
The program for the recital is:
"Four Sonatas," by Padre Antonio Soler (a contemporary of Scartatti);
"Sonata in A large flat, opus 110," by Beethoven;
"Caprilio, opus 76,
No. 1, "Intermezzo, opus 118,
No. 6," and "Rhapsody, opus 119, No. 4,"
by all Brahms; "Sonatina in C sharp minor," by Beryl Rubinstein; and
Passacaglia, by Aaron Copland.
Mrs. Turk has done advance piano study with Ernest Hutcheson, Austin Conradi and Rudolph Ganz She has taught and appeared in recitals in schools in Virginia, Texas and Missouri.
Fire Chiefs Attend School Feb. 20-23
A training school for fire chiefs and other fire department officers will be held today through Thursday at Atchison. The school is sponsored by Firemanship Training in cooperation with the Kansas Firemen's Association.
Representatives from northeast Kansas towns will be given instruction in how to train firemen Emmet Cox of the Western Actuarial Bureau in Chicago will be the principal instructor.
Keith Royer, University firemanship instructor, will speak at the school. Clyde Babb, Extension representative, will also attend the school.
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The power plant of the modern rocket, on the other hand, carries its own oxygen—in turn mixed and burned with gas, then thrust out as with the jet. Theoretically such a mechanism should be able, at some future stage of development, to operate beyond the earth's atmosphere. By 1919 scientific reasoning on the subject tended to support the conclusions of Robert H. Goddard, whose modestly titled paper, "Method of Reaching Extreme Altisibility of space-travel in man-contudes," sought to establish the postrolled rockets.
Little more than two decades later, the Nazis' giant V-2 rockets turned Goddard's stairway to the stars into an arch of hell for the beleaguered people of Britain. Meanwhile, the first successful jet plane was perfected by the young British inventor, Frank Whittle, and flown in May, 1941. Jet aircraft have since been breaking speed and flight records with monotonous regularity
Dove Editor Is Selected
John Bannigan, graduate student,
was chosen editor of The Dove,
campus publication, at a reorganization
meeting Monday. Darlene
Greer, College junior, was chosen
circulation manager and Clinton
Foulk. College senior, business
manager.
The next issue of the Dove will come out Monday, March 12. The contents of this issue were discussed at the meeting, and it was decided that discussion of problems in state and national affairs as well as campus problems will be included. The issue will feature discussion on the state legislature now in session.
The editorial board of the Dove consists of John Cannon and Walter Brown, College seniors; Christopher Fried, John Eberhardt, and Charles Cory, graduate students.
Oil Firm Wants June,August Grads
Representatives of the Stanoiland Oil and Gas company will interview petroleum engineering students at 9 a.m. Wednesday in 420 Lindley. The company is interested in students who will receive degrees in June or August and will starting positions as roustabouts.
Juniors will be interviewed for summer employment as rodeabouts
summer employment as routabouts. Procter and Gamble soap company will hold interviews for mechanical, electrical, chemical and civil engineering students Thursday, March 1, and Friday, March 2. Interested students should pick up a blue information sheet in Dean T. DeWitt Carr's office and return it by Friday.
Public relations and reactions of schools to the public are subjects covered in the current Bulletin of Education, put out by the School of Education.
Bulletin Discusses Public Relations
Articles have been contributed by Carl A. James, superintendent of schools, Concordia; Oscar M. Haugh, assistant professor of Education; Kenneth E. Anderson, director of the bureau of education research and service; Fred S. Montgomery, director of the bureau of visual instructor; Henry P. Smith, director of the reading study laboratory, and William C. Cottle, of the guidance bureau.
Telephones To Telephone
Telephone, Tex. (U.P.)—Telephone is going to have telephones. Southwestern Bell announced that it will build a telephone line to Telephone.
New War Weapon Is More Effective Than Modern Rockets Or Missiles
Washington (U.P.)—The most effective airborne weapon in use today against enemy troops, guns, and armor is not some ultramodern rocket or missile but a fairly simple mixture called napalm.
In Korea, ground commanders consider it more effective than any other weapon carried by Air Force, Marine, and Navy fighter planes giving them close support.
Napalm is jellied gasoline, usually carried in the same kind of tanks used for extra fuel. It resembles summer weight motor oil. The addition of aluminum naphthenate, or aluminum soap, causes the gasoline to jell and gives the fluid part of its name. The "palm" part resulted from use of fatty substances from coconuts as thickeners in early versions.
Napalm is a horrible weapon. There is practically no escaping a napalm attack. What it does to its victims defies description.
The temperature is 1,500 to 2,000 degrees. In seconds, the flame burns everything within its reach and because it consumes all oxygen in the immediate area, suffocates as well as burns its victims.
There are no duds among napalm bombs. When a tank hits, fire starts.
Napalm, being jellied, clings to whatever it hits or splashes upon. Its victims usually are killed in the positions they were in when hit. Sometimes they are suffocated without being burned. Troops also have been seen fleeing a napalmed area, their clothing abfire. They may have been in foxholes when Napalm dropped nearby and splattered on them.
Some North Korean napalm victims who had escaped death, at least temporarily, were brought to
Taegu for operations. The sight was incredible.
One thing making napalm more effective than other bombs or rockets is that less accuracy is required. If it hits near a tank, it destroys the tank and the people in it.
Napalm will cover an area 275 feet long and 80 feet wide with searing flames.
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YOUR EYES
should be examined today. Call for appointment. Any lens or prescription duplicated.
Lawrence Optical Co.
Phone 425 1025 Mass.
Yes, youngster, a nice package but if you're going to represent Union Pacific you'll have to learn more than that. Your job will be to assist shippers in properly packaging commodities for rail shipment so they'll arrive in the best possible condition.
Our shipper friends know what fancy curves in the way of unusual shipments can be thrown at us. Lots of run-of-the-mill products need special packaging and handling, too — especially the ones
which are marked "fragile."
That's why we maintain a staff of "container engineers" to work with you in developing just the right methods of packaging and car loading.
So, Mister Shipper, here's just one more U. P. service that's yours for the asking. After all, we're as interested as you are in eliminating loss and damage. Have you a packaging headache? Ask us to prescribe a cure.