MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Secretary's Radishes Startle Department Of Agriculture
Washington—(U.P.)—This is one about a radish. A secretary to a big wheel here decided she wanted to start a garden. She had read in the papers that all you had to do was write to the department of agriculture and get instructions.
She dropped a line to Charlie Brannan, the secretary of agriculture. He had an underling write her back what kind of soil, fertilizer, etc., she should have for a fine crop of radishes.
The secretary was a little careless. She neglected to say that she lived in a one-room apartment and her garden was a window box—size 30 by 6 inches.
She went to the store and put up 15 cents for a packet of early scarlet globe radish seed. She read and followed the directions. Where to plant—in fairly rich moist soil. Soil preparation—spade and rake smooth. When to plant—first planting as soon as ground can be worked in spring. How to plant—sow thinly $ \frac{1}{2} $ inch deep in rows 1 to 2 feet apart. Care—keep well watered.
She yanked up the tall things that were blocking the sun from her window. There was nothing underground but roots.
The young lady sowed thinly, planted in fairly rich soil, spaded, and raked her window box. Soon foliage rose as high as two feet. She figured a combination salad was upcoming.
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She sat right down and wrote to Charlie Brannan again.
New York (U.P.)—Southern beach resorts will see the most elaborately-dressed women sun bathers in history this winter.
The past sunning season high fashion swimmers wore jewelry with their suits. This year it's tacked right on the suit.
Harold Schnurer, husband and business partner of bathing suit designer Carolyn Schnurer, credits the renewed interest in the Far East for the jeweled suits.
"Fashion reflects these things, and anything that's beaded or jeweled looks oriental," he said.
He added that the jet, coral and turquoise beads used on suits are attached, so they can be worn in the water without damage.
One two-piece pique bathing suit is decorated with black embroidery and coral beads around the cuff of features all-over, gold embroidery.
The suits are cut along approximately the same lines as before, with one-piece suits holding a slight edge over separate bra and shorts.
"There is a tendency away from extreme skimpiness," Schnurner said, "except for the French girls. They are built with shorter legs and flatter busts, so they like those tiny braps and very high cut shorts."
One Fifth avenue department store has a gold nylon lasterex suit with delicate black lace appliqued from the strapless top to the hip-hugging trunks. Asked why it was kept under glass, away from the rest of the suits, a sales girl commented, "It costs $75."
For moonlight swimming, apparently, there's a black rayon velvet suit with a gold metallic stripe designed by Frances Sider, which is part of her "moondlight" group of suits. The velvet is water resistant, though it looks fragile. As an oriental touch, there is a matching velvet beach coat with a mandarin collar and huge gold hooks and eyes.
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"I wonder whether you may be able to tell me what went wrong with my farm experiment," she wrote. "I used what I was told was a fine Maryland top soil. I followed your instructions. Nothing happened."
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Eventually the secretary got a learned letter from Victor R. Boswell, horticulturist for the United States department of agriculture.
Mr. Boswell said he had received a sample of the seed and specimen of the radish plant. He wrote that perhaps she had doused the plants with too much water, or had not provided enough sun.
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"Another possibility," the letter said, "is that maybe you let the plants stand so close together in the row that they didn't have room to develop properly."
Anyhow, our gardener didn't have any radishes during the radish season. She has yet to answer Mr. Boswell's question as to her future gardening plans.
Miller Hall Lists Guests At Recent Fall Formal
Miller hall held its fall formal Nov. 17. Guests were: Dean Dillsaver, Richard Tatum, Donald Stuart, Joe Sousley, Paul Erhart, Ross Purcell, Bob Schauls, Henry Reed, Nehemihk Kittri, David Moore, Eldon Clark, Roger Price, William Rader, Donald Spalding, Charles Bether, Gus Burton, Wallace Holderman, Emmett Child, Jack Jevons, Harry Rogers, Bill Delap, Edward House, Bradley Keith, Arthur Boyle, Bob Van Meter, Charles Stubblefield, Donald Coyne, Robert Payney, Robert Dunwell, Sydney Anderson, Edward Kaufman, Carroll Sprague, Gerald Collins, Jim Fullinwider, and Paul Nelson.
Zooming To 25,000 Feet Is Daily Occurrence For Blonde WAF
New York—(U.P.)—Lots of girls walk around with their heads in the clouds, but slim blonde W.A.F. Cpl. Viola McLarnan is the first girl in the air force to make high altitude a career.
Zooming to heights of 25,000 feet, with her feet still planted firmly on the ground, is a daily occurrence for the 31-year-old corporal, the first woman to complete the altitude chamber technician's school.
"I did it mostly because they told me I couldn't," she said.
Now a crew member at the altitude chamber at Mitchell Air Force base, where she took her training, Viola can't understand why the air force made such a fuss over letting a girl take the course.
Chaperons were: Mrs. H. J. Overholser, Mrs. E. R. Hooper, Mrs. John Skie, and Mrs. R. G. Roche.
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"You have to be in pretty good physical shape, but after that I can't see why it makes any difference whether you're a man or a woman," she said. "They take everybody up to 25,000 feet without oxygen once just to let you see how you react. The average man stays conscious from three to five minutes. It was five minutes and 27 seconds before I went out."
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Capt. William T. Larkin, chief instructor at the technician's school, warned her to expect all kinds of reactions from men.
All jet pilots must have training in the altitude chamber, a rectangular iron tank which can simulate conditions at altitudes as high as 100,000 feet.
Now that she's a technician, Cpl. McLarnan takes her turn along with the male crew members in various sections of the chamber, sometimes staying inside the chamber with the men who are testing their altitude reactions, sometimes working the pump outside the chamber, and sometimes acting as observer, to note the reactions of the men.
"Sometimes they go right off to sleep, occasionally they get aggrieve and infrequently you'll find a man who gets happy, as if he were under the influence of alcohol," Capt. Larkin explained.
Viola, who describes herself as "the athletic type," says that after four days on her new job she hasn't run across any altitude victims who are either aggressive or happy. They've been perfect gentlemen.
There are 140 different dates that are said to be the time of the Creation. The five most important are: 4004 B.C., set by Catholic and Protestant divines; 5508 B.C., set by Russia; 5502 B.C., called the Era of Antioch; 5492 B.C., called the Abyssinian Era; and 3760 B.C., the Jewish Era.
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