THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19. 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE NINE
Korean Winter Promises Better Operational Weather
Washington, D.C.—Korea's summer monsoon period, with its frequent torrential downpours, is on the wane, ushering in a season of good operational weather over the worm-torn peninsula. In Seoul.
In September Korean weather begins its shift to the winter monsoon, notes the National Geographic Society. Winter is the dry season when skies generally are clear and visibility excellent. By November the change should be complete, but meanwhile the weather can be expected to improve somewhat from week to week, gradually freeing roads and fields from the summer mire.
The winter monsoon season promises to be of more benefit to the United Nations forces than to the Communist aggressors. The defenders have had overwhelming air superiority, but operations frequently have been hampered by bad weather. In the new season, this handicap should disappear, facilitating the fullest employment of UN air might.
Flight operations were reported curtailed for two or three days at a time on several occasions during July, the month of heaviest rainfall. In periods of adverse weather the number of sorties flown sometimes was reduced 15 to 20 per cent. One particularly bad spell of weather early in September virtually deprived the ground forces of critically needed air support for 48 hours.
Korea's seasonal weather change results from a shift in the prevailing winds. In the summer the air flow is from the Pacific, and heavily laden with moisture. In winter the winds come from the Asiatic contingent, bringing cold, dry air masses
Most of Korea experiences some snow during the winter. However, percipitation is relatively light in these months. Many sections receive ten times as much moisture in July as in January, which is the driest month of the year. The dry season lasts until March or April when the
other again begins changing to summer monsoon.
Fruit Peddler Wins Banana Reprieve
Omaha (U.J.P)-Police C a p t i n
Peter McGuire received a complaint that a fruit pedler had parked his truck in a residential district.
A cruiser went to investigate but soon the same person called to repeat the complaint.
"But I sent a cruiser to move him along," protested Capt. McGuire.
"Well, he's still here," said the voice. "All the officers did was buy some bananas from him."
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It is the duty of American citizens to report any information concerning subversive activities to the F.B.I., said William Simon at a meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Management recently. Mr. Simon is the assistant to the agent in charge of the F.B.I. office in Kansas City, Mo.
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The S.A.M. has planned a field trip Thursday to the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company of Topeka. The next meeting will be held Tuesday, Oct. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kansas room of the Union. Interested students are invited to attend.
Doctor Shortage Not So Likely Now
Chicago—(U.P.)-The outlook f o r more doctors is better than it ever has been, the American Medical association has announced.
All records for enrollment in approved medical schools were broken in the past year. The total in the 72 medical and seven basic science schools for the academic year of 1949-50 was 25,103.
It represents an increase of 1,433 students, or 6 per cent, over the preceding year. It is double the enrollment in 1910, and even larger than during World War II, when extra classes were instituted at all medical schools.
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$75,000 Fire Burns Mule Barn Next To Royal
Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 19—(U.P.) Careless handling of a cigarette was blamed today for a spectacular fire which raged for more than two hours Wednesday night in a half-block long mule barn only two blocks from the American Royal building.
Of 800 mules in the barn, Fire Chief Baldwin estimated about 200 perished in the flames.
Fifteen companies answered the three-alarm blaze and there were repeated calls for additional equipment before the fire was brought under control.
Two persons were injured, neither seriously. There was no panic among the 8,000 persons gathered in the Royal building to witness the horse show featuring "Oklahoma Night" at the great week-long livestock and horse show of the Midlands. In fact, only a few were aware of the fire nearby.
The flames shot several hundred feet into the air and at one time were visible throughout the city. Shortly after the fire broke out, part of the roof of the two-story wood and brick barn collapsed, pinning many animals in the blazing structure.
Volunteers who braved the fire and smoke succeeded in driving about 600 of the mules into pens of the Kansas City Stockyards company across the street.
The mules, worth about $150 each, had been purchased recently for shipment to Spain and Greece.
Baldwin estimated the loss, both to the contents and the barn, at $75.000.
Baldwin said it appeared a lighted cigarette had been dropped into hay in one of the pens.
Geology Professor To Give Talk On Mexico Thursday
Dr. C, H. Behre, Jr., professor of geology at Columbia University, will speak on "Geologic Lineaments of Mexico" at 8 p.m. Thursday in 426 Lindley hall. All interested persons are invited.
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