FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THREE A
Official Bulletin
Friday
The English Proficiency examination will be given from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 4. Register Monday, Oct. 30, to Wednesday, Nov. 1 in the offices of the College, Education, and Journalism. Juniors and seniors in these schools are eligible to take the examination and must pass it before graduation. See Mrs. Calderwood, 313 Fraser hall, from 9 to 1 a.m. Monday, Oct. 30, through Friday, Nov. 3, for any information.
Episcopal University students, Holy Communion, 7 a.m. Saturday, Trinity church. Breakfast at 7:30 a.m. and transportation to Hill for those having 8 o'clock classes.
Episcopal University students hay- rack ride and picnic, meet at 4 p.m. Sunday, Trinity church. Square dancing after picnic in Parish house. Lutheran Student Association, 6 p.m. Sunday, Trinity Lutheran church. Supper and program.
A.W.S. House of Representatives,
4 p.m. Tuesday, East room, Union.
The Trojan club, I.S.A. ward, 7:30
p.m. Monday, East room, union.
Mathematics colloquium 5 p.m. Monday, 203 strong hall. Mr. Russell N. Bradt, "Probabilities of Combinations of Events."
Graduate club, 7:30 p.m. Monday Kansas Room, Union.
Westminster Fellowship Hobo Halloween party, 8 to 11 tonight. Westminster house, 1221 Oread. Wear jeans and old clothes.
Red Peppers bring money for trip to K-State and pay to one of the Red Pepper officers at the half of KU-NU game Saturday.
Coffee Forum, sponsored by Business School Association, 7:45 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1, Hawk's Nest, Memorial Union, Bill Vaughn, K.C. Star columnist, speaker. Coffee will be served.
Far East Earthquakes Challenge Geographers
Washington, D.C.—The cataclysmic changes that have creased the world's face as a result of the earthquake upheavals in northeast India and neighboring lands will challenge the attention of geographers for years to come. Reports tell of vanished and enlarged mountains, of rivers dried up and forced off course, of gaping fissures, uuprooted forests, and new lakes.
The full effects of the jolls on the eastern Himalayan region, where India, Tibet, China, and Burma meet, can never be neatly catalogued according to the National Geographic society. The very fact that the shocks were centered in primitive, mountainous country means a curtailment
of knowledge of the striking physical and property
Even so, it is estimated that millions of people have been affected by the earthquake and flood aftermath, particularly along the relatively developed and settled Brahmaputra valley of India's Assam province.
It was from there, American fliers, engineers, and construction men well remember, that two of the most spectacular transport achievements of the past century are the airlift over the Hump, and the Still-well road across Burma into China.
At the eastern end of the Himalayas, the battered region of today's catastrophe suffered another mighty upheaval little more than 50 years ago. The Assam earthquake of 1897, still rated one of the most violent on record, completely devastated a central area larger than Massachusetts. It brought destruction over land more than twice the size of New England and was felt throughout a range half as large as the United States.
In the current disaster, most of the information on the damage at the earthquake's heart has come from Assam, where India's important tea industry, together with jute and po-
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two crops, this has been heard from the wild tribal areas of the frontier lands beyond, with which communications at best are poor and infrequent. Whole Chinese villages, Tibetan lamaseries,
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Civil Service Offers Exams
Positions are open to chemists, physicists, metallurgists, and engineers at $2,650 to $3,825 a year, and for electronic scientists and mathematicians at $3,100 a year.
An examination for scientific and engineering positions with the federal government has been announced by the United States Civil Service commission.
The jobs paying $2,650 and $2,875 are open only to college sophomores and juniors for special on-the-job training. They usually last through school vacations or during the time students are employed in cooperative courses.
Applicants must have completed either appropriate college work or a combination college work and technical experience in the field for which they apply.
The positions are in Washington, D.C.; throughout the United States, its territories and possessions; and in a few cases, in foreign countries. Further information and application forms can be obtained from the U.S. Civil Service commission, Washington 25, D.C. Applications must be received not later than Nov. 30, 1950.
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