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PAGE EIGHT UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS THURSDAY, NOV. 30. 1950
Dean Has Cold Journey In East
"There was a great deal of congestion so far railway travel was concerned. The railroad terminal was so jammed it seemed like wartime. Trains from the East were from 12 to 18 hours late. Before trains could get out of the station yard switches had to be thawed out with blowtorches." Dean Gorton said.
Dean Gorton grew up in the upper New York state country, "where they breed storms," but had never before traveled great distances in such conditions.
Dean Gorton was in Cincinnati attending a convention of the National Association of Schools of Music when the storm hit there Nov. 25. "The storm started before dawn that Saturday and grew increasingly worse through the day and Sunday. It was a real blizzard with snow and much wind," Dean Gorton said.
Traveling from the 80 degree temperature of Tallahassee, Fla., to zero weather in Cincinnati, Ohio, was the experience of Thomas Gordon, dean of the School of Fine Arts, during the recent storms in the East.
"It was so bad that there was almost no travel in the city. The storm didn't affect the out-of-town convention delegates because they were staying at the hotel where the convention was being held. However, it made it hard for townpeople to attend. I know one man had a paper to read at the convention Saturday, but he couldn't get to the hotel," he said.
The week-end before the Ohio convention Dean Gorton was in Florida at a convention of music executives of state universities. The Florida weather was very nice and when he arrived in Ohio on Tuesday, Nov. 21, he found the weather "beautiful and quite mild."
The only hint of the coming storm was the weatherman's prediction on Friday of colder weather and snow flurries. "He was very conservative," the dean said.
Dean Gorton left his hotel at 2 p.m. Sunday, but his train didn't leave until 7 p.m. because of various delays, he said. "For the first 50 miles out of Cincinnati the train had
to go very slow," he said, "then conditions eased a little.
"Of course, one of the big problems was that some coaches had no heat. In one coach the water pipes burst and they had to clean up a minor flood before we could get on," the dean said.
Another big problem was the food. Dining cars wouldn't be hooked on at the right time. People had to wait in the stations to eat. There were lines and groups of people waiting all along the way for various reasons. "It was just war-time conditions over again," he said.
Haworth Awards Set For Dec.11
The presentation of the Erasmus Haworth awards has been postponed until 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 11. The awards will be presented to the outstanding geology senior, graduate student, and alumnus at the meeting of the geology club.
Sanborn Partridge, instructor in geology, will speak on the geologic scenery west of the Rocky mountains.
World's Oil Supplies Should Last 500 Years
Los Angeles—U.P.)The world's known oil reserves will last 500 years at present rates of consumption and "it is safe to assume that that much greater quantities will be found," Gustav Egloff, research director of Universal Oil Products company, said recently.
But he said the key to the entire question of wartime petroleum supplies lies in the oil-rich Middle East.
"In any long conflict," he said, "Russia would have to get more oil, and the Middle East stands as the most obvious point to seize. Control would triple Russia's available resources and also cut off this source of oil from Western European countries."
Three-fourths of these supplies are in territory controlled by the democratic powers and the remainder under control of Russia and her satellites, Mr. Egloff said in a discussion of "strategic oil supplies" at the 30th annual American Petroleum institute.
In production, refinery capacity, and known reserves, the democracies hold the edge over Russia in the event of any conflit, Mr. Egloff said.
Emphasizing the value of the Middle East petroleum fields, Mr. Egloff said the average daily production for all oil wells everywhere in the world is about 20 barrels,
compared with an average of more than 5,000 barrels a day in the Middle East.
The U. S. average is about 12 barrels, although Mr. Egloff said "there are much higher producers in some fields."
He said refining capacity is almost more important than production, and pointed out that of the daily world capacity of 11,600,000 barrels, the U. S has 6,700,000 barrels. Russia can process about 1,000,000 barrels of crude and synthetic oils daily, he said—enough for normal use but not enough for a military emergency.
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