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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1950
Library Workers Are Busy In Basement Of Watson
By GEORGE HESS
Few people who use the University library know that deep in the sub-basement Chester E. Bullinger and two assistants work full time to keep the library's books useful and attractive.
Mr. Bullinger, who is head of the book-binding department, estimates that 2,000 volumes each year pass through his hands for binding, recovering, or general repair. Many of these are sets of magazines and newspapers which are bound for the library's permanent files.
All the work, however, is not so commonplace. Quite a number of rare and valuable books, which must be kept under lock and key until their restoration is completed, are also sent to Mr. Bullinger. At the time he was interviewed for this article he exhibited two such books, one a copy of John Gay's "Proposal for Supplying London with Bread," dated 1789, and the other a treatise on economics by John Jackson, dated 1805.
No attempt will be made to put new permanent covers on these books, Mr. Bullinger explained. Rather, a protective slip-on type cover will be installed. This preserves the appearance of age but prevents damage if the rare book is dropped or otherwise mishandled.
When asked how he happened to enter the book-binding profession Mr. Bullinger said, "Well, I was 18 years old and I wanted to enter a trade. My brother was already in the book-binding business, at Wichita. He helped me get a job. That was 28 years ago and I've been at it ever since." He came to the University three years ago to take over the department here.
Assisting in the department are Mrs. Wilma Ewert and Mrs. George Schanzer, wife of George Schanzer, an instructor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.
Frenchmen were the first white farmers in Kansas. They settled in what is now Doniphan county, and their principal crop was corn.
French Fall Back From Chinese Reds
Saigon, Indo-China, Oct. 12—(U.P.)
-French troops, reeling from Communist blows near the Indo-China-Chinese Communist border, have withdrawn from the Red fortress of Thai raveng and then back to a defended line and 27 miles far south, French military headquarters announced today.
The Thai Nguyen fortress, a strong point on the roads north to Communist China and south into the rice-rich Red River Delta, was captured by the French Oct. 1 after a 36-hour amphibious operation by thousands of infantrymen and marines supported by planes.
A French spokesman said it was given up "according to a pre-arranged plan" without any fighting. He said the French assault on it was designed to smash arms depots and other red installations.
It was pointed out that the French have been steadily pulling back from the northern frontier in the face of overwhelming numbers of Communist Rebels, apparently armed and trained in Communist China.
Within recent days, about 3,000 French troops—half of them evacuated from the fortress of Caobang—have been lost in a Communist ambush near Thatkac, north of Thai Nguyen.
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Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary, and Mrs. Ellsworth, and Marvin Small, assistant secretary, were also invited by Kenneth L. Ford, Kansas State alumni secretary.
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