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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1850
Australia's Salt Pan Overflowing With Water
Washington, D.C.—Lake Eyre, considered Australia's biggest lake, is today brimful of water for the first time in recorded history. Two successive winters of unprecedented rainfall have done the job.
Look at a map of the far-off Commonwealth. In South Australia you will find the patch of blue marked Lake Eyre, half again larger than our Great Salt lake in Utah. For years it has been a dry salt pan 39 feet and more below sea level. It is mapped as a big lake in deference to scientists who say it "has all the characteristics of a lake except water."
Five inches or less is the average annual rainfall for Lake Eyre, Australal's driest region. An inch or two more normally falls on the vast inland plain whose thirsty watercourses converge on Lake Eyre from the northeast.
Only in the years—1890, 1918, 1949 and 1950—have the rains been so far above average that the waters have irrigated the channeled plain of southwest Queensland and flowed on to settle in Lake Eyre's white salt pan. Two years from now, if rainfall drops back to normal, evaporation will have returned the lake to its accustomed desolation.
To Hon. Richard G. Casey, Australia's Minister for National Development, the so-called "channel country” is one of the wonders of the world. Where else does a vast semiarid area about twice the size of New Jersey have a productive irrigation system created by nature, not by man? It was Mr. Casey, popular Minister to the United States from 1940 to 1942, who spread the exciting word that Lake Eyre was brimful of water following a recent flight over its 3,700-square-mile expanse.
Mr. Casey observed in a signed Melbourne Herald article that Queensland's self-irrigating channel country is a great asset little used. Far more cattle could be brought there for final fattening, even in years of average rain, if transportation from northern breeding areas and to the packing centers were improved.
it is in northern land near the Gulf of Carpentaria that many of Australia's 15 million cattle are bred. If they are destined for export trade, chances are they have 13,000 ocean miles to move in their processed form, since the United Kingdom takes most of Australia's spare beef.
Lutherans To Hold Conference Here
The 28th annual midwest Lutheran student association conference will be held at the Trinity Lutheran church,12th and New Hampshire streets, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Lutheran students from 11 Kansas and Nebraska colleges will attend.
Bob Larsen, president of the Lutheran student association of America, will address the group Friday and Saturday evenings at the church. Mr. Larsen has just returned from Germany, where he worked on the Lutheran World Federation relief program.
Wildlife Association
Holds First Meeting Here
The Kansas Association of Wildlife, Inc., held its first regional meeting recently at the Museum of Natural History.
Plans were made for a sportsmen's clinic to be held in December at Lake Shawnee near Topeka.
Other faculty members at the meeting were A. B. Leonard, professor of zoology; Harrison B. Tordoff, assistant curator of ornithology, and Maurice Eaker, graduate in zoology.
Weather Bureau Plans 135 Stations In Middle West
Kansas City, Mo.—(U.P.)The U.S. weather bureau recently announced plans to combat tornadoes and severe line-squall thunderstorms through a 135-station research project in the Middle West.
The plans were announced jointly by C. F. Van Thullenar, regional director of the Kansas City office covering the north central states, and J. R. Lloyd, chief forecaster of the Kansas City district.
Lloyd indicated a "large amount of money" will go into the research project, which will be established within the next two months in East and South-central Kansas and Northeast and North-central Oklahoma; "the heart of the greatest tornado activity in the United States."
Each station in the network of special surface recording units will be equipped with instruments for recording in detail the small but sharp pressure changes, called "pressure jumps," which are thought
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Forty of the stations will be equipped with instruments for recording air pressure, wind direction and velocity, temperature, relative humidity and rainfall. In addition to the surface network, special upper air soundings will be made by six stations of the weather bureau and the air weather service at Omaha and North Platte, Neb.; Dodge City, Oklahoma City; Column-
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Line weather bureau will be assisted by the air weather service of the army and the aerological branch of the navy, Lloyd said.
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