TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
4. 27
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Here's Your Chance, Gals Be A WAF Mechanic
New York—(U)P—Better lock up the tool chest, men. The mechanics of the Machine age are being revealed to the weaker sex.
What's more, the women seem to have a talent for mechanica things, despite tradition.
Cpl. Alice Patton set aside her monkey wrench, crossed a khaki-trousered leg, and leaned against an Air Force link trainer to mull over the mechanical abilities of women.
She and another 20-year-old Waf, Pfc. Mary Gibson, are the first women link trainer mechanics at Mitchel field Air Force base, and two out of the seven women mechanics in the entire Continental Air command.
Eight hours a day, six days a week, they're on duty in a noisy room housing four link trainers, which are complex devices used to teach pilots instrument flying by simulating actual flight conditions. If something goes wrong with the delicate machinery of a trainer, the male instructors and pilots have to step aside while Alice or Mary takes over.
"We were a little nervous at first." Alice said, swinging a foot shot in a size 5½ "Little Abner" boot. She wears the regulation army marching boots and olive green fatigue uniform in the shop.
"But now the men trust us—and we're convinced women can be just as good mechanics as men," she said. The male sergeant in charge of the shop grudgingly admitted it was true.
Alice learned about link trainer mechanisms in a four-month course at Chanute field, Ill. It was the only women's class ever graduated from the course.
Drama Club To Meet
Candidates for membership and members of the University Players, K.U. dramatics club, will meet at 7.15 today and at 5 p.m. Wednesday in the Little theater of Green hall. A new system of membership without tryouts will be explained, and the Little theater program and tryouts for the first three-act play will be discussed.
Members who wish to remain active must attend one of the meetings this week or notify Phyllis Clegg, secretary, by calling 740. Tryouts for the first play will be at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Little theater.
All students interested in any phase of play production are invited to attend one of the meetings.
Harris-Hart
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Harris, Yates Center, announce the marriage of their daughter, Martha Jane, to Mr. Dewitt Lew Hart of Iola. The marriage took place Aug. 25 at the First Christian church, Fayetteville, Ark. A reception was held for the couple at the Iola Country club Sunday.
Mrs. Hart was a pledge of Alpha Chi Omega sorority and Mr. Hart of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
Summer Editor Gets Job
Summer Editor Gets Job Miss Frankie Waits, '50, who was editor of the Summer Session Kansan the past summer, has joined the staff of the Terrell, Tex., Tribune as a reporter-photographer covering society and features. Terrell is 35 miles east of Dallas.
Fox Thinks Foxily—$80
Hinton, W. Va. —(U.P.)—Geneva Fox collected on her insurance fast. At 9 a. m. the high school students paid $1 for accident insurance under a blanket policy for all county school children. At 10:30 she fell down the school steps and broke her ankle. Miss Fox collected $80.
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"The seven of us," Alice commented, "are sort of pioneers."
She casually refers to things like aileron valves and thyretron tubes, even though the most complicated mechanism she'd ever taken apart as recently as two years ago was her bicycle.
"One day I came to work and discovered we had no vertical speed indications in one trainer," she recalled. "I took the vertical speed follow-up motor apart, found the rotor needed cleaning, and fixed it."
Talk like this thoroughly confused her family when Alice went home to Dunsmuir, Calif., last month on furlough. "They always knew I wasn't the secretary type," she said, "but they're really confused about what I do now."
New AWS Office Lounge In Strong
A newly decorated room, 222 Strong hall, has been set aside as a lounge for all women students and a main office for the A.W.S. The room is a large one with cocoa walls and an oyster-white linoleum floor.
Furniture for the lounge is scheduled to arrive in November or before. It will be in color combinations of flame red, grey, charturee, and forest green. The furnishings will include divans, chairs, lamps, tables and a new type of desk in blond wood.
Members of the office committee of the Associated Women Students will work in the new room rather than in the housing office. Student-faculty coffees may be held in the lounge also.
KU Dames Will Meet
The K.U. Dames will meet at 8 p.m. Wednesday in 37 Strong hall for installation of new officers. Phyllis McFarland, fine arts junior, will sing.
BEAT T. C. U.
WELCOME BACK STUDENTS
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Open 6 a.m.-2 a.m. 200 E. 7th
A NEW SERVICE IN LAWRENCE
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Bad News For Brush Burners
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Lansing, Mich., —(U.R)— Careless brush burners may be rebuked by a voice from the heavens next year. The Michigan conservation department is equipping a forest fire patrol plane with a loudspeaker you can hear a mile away.
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