FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15.1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Public Administration Interns Attend Seminar
Intern students and graduates of the public administration course offered at the University are attending the regular seminar here today and Saturday, under the direction of Dr. E. O. Stene, professor of political science.
The seminar is part of the requirement for interns, in the program and many recent interns have returned to take part in the discussions. The group treats recent problems and trends in city management.
The course, supported by a $50,000 grant from the Carnegie foundation, leads to a master public administration degree. Six students are chosen from applications and may receive $1,000 fellowships during their internship. The Carnegie grant is spent at the rate of $10,000 a year. Two semesters are spent on the campus under the direction of Dr. Stene, after which they spend another nine months in on-the-job training in some nearby town or city.
During this internship they return to the University for the seminar which is also attended by current class members.
Those who have returned for the three-day meeting are; Herbert Holt, administrative analyst in the finance department in Kansas City, Mo.; Robert Booth, assistant to the city manager of Wichita; Robert Rush, assistant director of civil defense in Wichita; Donald Dailey, assistant to the city manager of Hutchinson; James Bibb, city manager of Holton, and Frank Lawler, city manager of Abilene, and Harold Horn, assistant to the city manager of El Dorado.
Meteorites More Powerful Than H-Bomb, Says Scientist
Starkville, Miss.—(U.P.)—Meteorites powerful enough to destroy half the people of the United States fell on North and South Carolina centuries ago, according to John M. DeMarche, astronomer.
Mr. DeMarche, professor at Mississippi State College, said the meteorites were far more destructive than a hydrogen bomb.
"It one struck the eastern United States today, the explosive force might destroy all life east of the Mississippi River," he said.
He said, however, that most meteorites are small and that the danger of being hit by one is negligible, since man occupies only a fraction of the earth's surface and meteorites are rather infrequent.
Professor DeMarche said the largest meteorite ever watched in flight and then recovered weighed 800 pounds and fell near Paragould, Ark. He added that the largest modern meteorite shower occurred in Siberia in 1908, and killed an entire herd of 1500 reindeer.
"Trees were felled over an area of several hundred miles and the impact was so great that seismographs in Germany recorded it as an earthquake," he said. "The resulting air blast and sound waves were recorded on instruments in England."
He said the only record on human deaths caused by meteorites is found in some old and unreliable Chinese writings.
"Several near misses have been recorded," he continued, "one occurring near Baldwyn, Miss., on February 2, 1922. The meteorite missed a tenant farmer by only 10 feet, and was recovered while still warm."
Professor DeMarche explained that meteorites are merely fragments of matter from outer space. If the friction of the earth's atmosphere burns them up before they strike, they the called meteors; if not, meteorites.
"Meteorites supply scientists with their only possible samples of interstellar material," he said. "No new chemical elements have been found in meteorites, but particles of gold, silver and small black diamonds have often been found."
Want To Open Hubby's Eyes? Start On Bumps And Grinds
Americans bought a billion pounds of prepared dog food in 1949.
Hollywood—(U.P.)You housewives can be just as exciting as movie queens, Virginia Mayo said recently, if you'd liven up your homelife with a few bumps and grinds.
Nothing like 'em, the dimpled blond beauty said, to open the old man's eyes and keep him interested.
"They're easy to learn." Miss Mayo added. "And they sure would then things up around the house."
"Bumps and grinds are actually a sort of dance," Miss - Mayo added. "That makes them good exercise. A woman could keep in shape by doing them around the house."
Maybe. But it sure would slow down the dusting. And think how many cups and saucers could get broken between the bump and the grind.
Miss Mayo says she is serious about this. She said she didn't even know she had any talents along these lines until she danced in a recent picture.
"And even then I didn't start out to do the bumps and grinds on purpose," she explained. "I just did a sort of sex jitterbug . . . you know?
"But when it came out on film . . well, there it was."
Sexy. Very. And one of the few times in movie history a top-notch olamour queen's even given out with a runway routine.
Word about things like this gets around and it got around to the Warner Brothers brass. They came down to have a peek for themselves. They were impressed. Now they're
gonna give her some more sexy dancing to do. ...
And if a little hip-swinging will open up a whole new career for La Mayo, think, ladies, what it could do for you.
They were impressed. Now they're
That's Miss Mayo's argument, anyhow.
Too Little Sport In West Europe
London. Dec 12—(U.P).—It's back to bloomers for Western Europe's girl athletes, who have been showing too much girl and too little sport.
Girls being girls, the female athletes have done everything they could to take some of the ogles away from tennis-playing Gussie Moran's much-publicized lace-trimmed panties.
German female wrestlers started wearing less than chorus girls. French girl basketball players put on brief shorts that flapped in the breeze. British women swimmers got down to suits so tiny they couldn't be weighed.
The customers flocked to sporting events, to be sure, and business at the box-office was booming. But complaints started pouring in that sport no longer was the thing. The customers weren't keeping their eye on the ball.
Well, sir, judging from what the officials have decreed, Gussie is getting the field all to hersif again.
The French Federation of Women Basketball Players has ordered the girls to put elastic in their flapping shorts, converting them into sexless bloomers again.
"Shorts are blowing in the wind," the Federation said. "We don't want you to wear 1910 cycling bloomers, but shorts should stay put around the legs."
This, mind you, in the country that gave birth to the Bikini bathing suit which on a cloudy day can be confused with nothingness.
In Britain, the Western Counties Amateur swimming association said bathing suits were so brief that spectators were seeing too much of the girls and not enough of their swimming.
The association banned "two-piece costumes with strapless tops supported by bosoms."
ported by the police. German police took a dim view of the scanty costumes worn by women wrestlers. They said the girls were violating morality laws and told them to bundle up pronto or they might be spending a cold winter in jail.
Modern 'Wonders' Antiquate Classics
New York. (U.P.)—The modern wonders of television, radio and movies make it "morally wrong" to bother to spend evenings at home reading the classics, according to an English professor at Cooper Union college, New York city.
college, New York City.
Dr. Weller Emberd said that the days of sitting down in an easy chair before the fireplace for an evening of reading are gone forever.
Read what you want to read and not what you think you should read, Ember told the annual meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
"For most of us," he said, "we may mourn the passing of the contemplative life, but, except by stepping aside through the course of the modern world, we cannot recapture it; and our lament is idle."
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