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FRIDAY. DECEMBER 15, 1950
From Hypo In Dead Battery To Baby Sitter-AAA's Job
Washington—(U.P.)—The American Automobile Association apparently got itself into something it didn't bargain for.
It's main job is to change tires, tug cars out of mud holes and put a hypo into a dead battery—according to contract. But the poor old A.A.A. finds itself going beyond the call of duty these days.
The things people ask for! Baby sitters, Getting people out of jail. Where is the nearest bar on highway 40? Transients asking where they can rent a crib or where does Uncle Charlie live?
Mrs. Frances Beninginger of the Jefferson-Clarion, Pa., club, reported this one the other day:
Miss Mary Ann Ault, a member of the Wilkinsburg Pa, club called Mrs. Benninger and said she had a "member in distress." The member had a daughter named Helen who was about to come of age at the Clarion State Teachers College. A birthday cake was in order.
Mrs. Benninger, thinking she had an easy assignment, called the baker in Clarion. He had already shut up shop. Mrs. Benninger recalled that a lady in her town, which was Jefferson, was a baker of fancy cakes. She told her her problem. She contracted to bake a two-tier cake with "happy birthday, Helen" on ton.
Then Mrs. B. checked the bus schedules. The last bus for Clarion had left. What to do?
Mrs. B. and her husband got in their road-machine and personally
took the cake to the Clarion State Teacher's college. Part of the service.
Fact that Helen by that time had gone off on a bike with friends is beside the point. The AAA delivered.
Dick Tupper, public relations for the A.A.A. says that the most frequent telephone calls are those which start out:
"Are the roads open to Detroit?" she asked. "The funeral can't go on until I get there—and I'm not the corse, either."
Not long ago in Flint, Mich., a woman called her nearest office and said that she was up in a snow drift and had to get to a funeral.
"Where am I?"
The A.A.A. does its best to answer.
The A.A.A. re-routed the lady on a detour.
Tupper said that the trouble with a lot of motorists is they don't know where they are going. "Nobody," he says, "ever wants to go to Davenport or DesMoines. Just Iowa. Nobody wants to go to Los Angeles or San Francisco. Just California."
May Avert War Marshall Says
Washington (U.P.)—Defense Secretary George C. Marshall believes there still is "a hope" of averting an all-out war and for this reason opposes an immediate full-scale mobilization program.
Marshall's testimony was made public today by a house appropriations subcommittee. Marshall appeared before the subcommittee at a secret session Dec. 1 to urge quick resolution of the incident. Dent Truman's request for an additional $16,844,000,000 for the armed forces.
Glacial Deposits Supply Kansas Ground-Water
In answer to questions from Chairman George H. Mahon, (D.-Texas), about the possibilities of the early start of another World War. Marshall said;
"We are trying to avoid, in every way that is conceivable within reason, being projected into an all-out war; and at the same time we realize that an all-out war can be infiltrated by a single word from the other side."
The glacial deposits of northeastern Kansas are a chief source of ground-water supply for the residents of that area, a recent report by the State Geological Survey at the University, reports.
The deposits made by the ice or derived from the glacial meltwaters attain a maximum thickness of 400 feet and form a discontinuous mantle over much of the area lying north of the Kansas river and east of the Big Blue river.
The survey, "Subsurface Reconnaissance of Glacial Deposits in Northeastern Kansas," made by John C. Frye and K.L. Walters, is based on an investigation made in 1948 and 1949 for the purpose of furnishing information for the completion of detailed ground-water studies in that area.
Records of 64 test holes in Marshall, Nemaha, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Atchison, and Jefferson counties are described and presented on cross sections in the report.
"Is is your belief that there is hope that an all-out war can be averted?" Mahon asked.
Copies of the report, issued as bulletin 86, part 6, may be obtained free at the State Geological Survey of-
The problems of well-water supply in the part of Kansas invaded by the ice sheets are different from those in all other parts of the state. Quality, quantity, and recoverability of ground-water resources vary with the geology of the area.
Conclusions drawn in this preliminary report are that the deposits made directly or indirectly by continental glaciation and the alluvial fills of valleys are the most important sources of ground-water supply in northeastern Kansas.
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Three New Books To Be Printed Here
The first is "The History and Philosophy of Medicine," by Dr. John F. Fulton, professor of physiology at Yale university. It contains the first two of a series of lectures being given in honor of the late Dr. Logan Clendening of the K.U. School of Medicine.
Three new books, described as "important" by Dean John H. Nelson of the Graduate school, are being published by the University of Kansas press.
"Steel Trails to Santa Fe" was written by L. L. Waters, former professor in the School of Business in New York is his history at Aaronson, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad.
The third book is "Natural Selection of Political Forces," by Adolph A. Berle, Jr., professor of law at Columbia university.
Prof. Clubb To Speak At Geology Club Meeting Monday
"I think, along with the saying; 'While there's life there's hope, there is a hope,' Marshall said.
M. D. Clubb, professor of English, will speak on "Trials and Temples of the Grand Canyon," at a meeting of the Geology club at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 18, in 426 Lindley hall.
New officers for the spring semester will be elected at the meeting.
Professor Clubb has many excelled slides on the Canyon which he will use.
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"Suppose the weight of opinion in estimating this uncertain but critical future was that we should go into full war mobilization now," he said. "Then, suppose that there is a quieting down of these actions which seemingly are trying to stir us into a situation where we become heavily involved, practically in an all-out war."
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"Psychologically, there is the reaction of the American people. Financially it is serious, and in other ways. Therefore, I would feel very much concerned if we plunge into an all-out wartime mobilization until we clearly have to do it."
Sample Senior Rings On Display In Strong
Sample rings for the class of 1951 are on display at the business office in Strong hall. Men's rings may be purchased now, but women's will take approximately three weeks to obtain. Fraternity crests may be placed upon the class rings for the first time in history of the University.
"Students may not realize how pretty the rings are, and we hope they will feel free to stop at the business office and look at them," said Dixon Vance, chairman of the ring committee. "The rings would make nice Christmas presents."
Broadway Stars Give Blood For Americans In Korea
New York-(U.P.)-American troops fighting in Korea are about to receive a shipment of blood from a star-studded list of Broadway donors.
For the first time, actors, writers, stagehands, and producers have answered a special call for a Red Cross blood donor unit set up on the stage of the Majestic theater, where "South Pacific" is playing.
Katharine Cornell was one of the first donors, Mary Martin had to send her regrets. She doesn't weigh in on the issue. By the Red Cross for donating blood.
"Actors are very willing to help on things like this if they're strong enough," said Mrs. Richard Rodgers, wife of the composer and co-producer of "South Pacific."
She is in charge of organizing the entertainment industry for the Red Cross blood program.
"Both Helen Hayes and Lili Palmer wanted to give blood, but they couldn't." Mrs Rodgers said. Lili Palmer and Lili she just got a transfusion herself."
One of the tables where donors lay while giving the blood was placed next to the famous shower bath Mary Martin uses when she sings "Tm Gonna Wash that Man Right Out of My Hair." Dr. Alexander Bellwin, Red Cross physician who checked the volunteers when they arrived, looked over the shower carefully in a free moment.
Anne Jeffreys, singing star of "Kiss Me Kate," was first in line when that show's cast went to the rival theater to give its contribution.
"It looks a little dusty," he said. "But I wouldn't mind staying here till tonight and seeing the show."
The blood mobile unit departs well before curtain time.
Richard Rodgers, along with co-
president Oscar Hammerstein and
producer Josh Logan, each donated
one of the 100 musicians a day of
the star-recruiting program.
"Our main trouble is getting our own people not to come," confessed Mrs. J. F. Purcell, director of recruiting for the Red Cross. "This is such a glamorous assignment all of our blood donor workers want to help."
Typist Hits Wrong Key
Council Bluffs, Iowa—(U.P.)-The principal of a junior high school here penned a note to his teachers which read in part: "It's the same old story. Some students are still doing poor work because of the failure to get needed hell after 3:30 p.m." However, alongside the statement he wrote in appropriate red ink: "My stenographer hit the wrong key. The word should be help."
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