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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1950
Good Futures In Chemistry
Job opportunities for persons with graduate training in chemistry are expected to be good, Arthur W. Davidson, professor of chemistry, said in a recent interview.
Dr. Davidson stated that the new graduate with only a bachelor's degree will face stiff competition for jobs in the next few years, but that the department of chemistry has been able to provide any student who wants to do graduate work with a subsidy or aid.
Since the war there has been a shortage of chemists, particularly those with advanced degrees. This shortage has been due chiefly to increased demand brought about by the backlog of research projects postponed during the war. In industrial laboratories, where chemists represent nearly 40 per cent of the total number of scientists and research engineers employed, opportunities have been good for those with advanced degrees or specialized experience, he said.
Chemists with graduate training particularly those with doctorates should continue to have good prospects in the next few years. However, the number of advanced degrees granted has been increasing rapidly. Dr. Davidson said.
In the long run, there will be expanding opportunities in the profession. Many industrial concerns have plans for further expansion of research facilities. Total expenditures for research and development by private industry and government increased tremendously during the war and are expected to remain high indefinitely. Dr. Davidson said.
Total employment in the chemical manufacturing industries is also expected to remain well above prewar levels. There will continue to be a considerable number of openings in teaching, particularly for those qualified to teach at the graduate level. In all fields there will be roughly 1,000 openings each year owing to deaths and retirements.
In the lull between two class periods, the members of his Editing I class were trying to explain the mystic rite of "pinning" to Emil L. Telfel, assistant professor of journalism.
"But how many times does a girl get pinned during her college career?" asked the naive instructor.
Two-Year-Old Has A Pinning Record
"Only once, of course," replied Pat Jansen, journalism junior and an idealist.
"Well, that all depends on the girl," hedged Elaine Elvig, also a journalism junior. "Some girls don't find the right man the first time. Then they have to get unpinned again."
Frank A. Russell, professor of engineering drawing, will receive the George Warren Fuller award for 1950 at a meeting of the American Waterworks association in Philadelphia tonight. The award is for outstanding work in waterworks administration and practical application.
Russell To Get Fuller Award
"Oh poo," said Francis Kelley. "These sorority girls have nothing of my two-year-old daughter. She's been planned dozens of times."
Professor Metzler said last week that Professor Russell, who has been a member of the Lawrence City council for 15 years, is one of about 25 persons selected from all over the United States to receive the annual honorary awards.
Professor Russell received a free trip to the week-long convention which began Monday. Dwight F. Metzler, chief engineer of the san- cation division of the state board of health, is also attending the convention.
He was selected by a committee from the state board of health from Kansas and the final selection was made by a committee from the National Waterworks association.
Army Takes Legal Steps To Abolish Old Cavalry
Washington—(U.P.)—The army is abolishing the cavalry—some 10 years after it took its horses out of combat.
Several other smaller World War II units were designated as cavalry but they actually were ground reconnaissance troops mounted in light tanks, scout cars and half-tracks.
From a peak of 470,000 horses at the end of World War I, the army now is down to 327 horses in this country and about 400 abroad.
A dozen matched grays are kept at nearby Ft. Myer, Va., for occasions of state and military funerals in adjoining Arlington National cemetery. Another eight are stabled at Ft. Myer for medical research.
The cavalry was abandoned as a combat branch when the army was mechanized in the late '30's, but the name stuck with units converted to infantry or tank outfits.
The only large cavalry unit to see service in World War II was the First Cavalry division which fought "dismounted." It fought in the Philippines, occupied Tokyo after the Japanese surrender and is one of the 10 regular army divisions now active. Its present designation is First Cavalry (infantry).
These 20 are all that are left of the
1500 crack mounts the colorful Third
The Pentagon now has asked congress for authority to substitute an "armored" branch. That would end the cavalry legally and officially.
Replacement of horses by Jeepes armored cars, self-propelled guns, tanks and other motor vehicles started several years before World War II. No cavalry fought on horses in World War II, but some units used pack horses for transport in the mountains of eastern France, Italy, and Burma.
The house armed services committee, in the first long step, has approved unanimously an army reorganization bill that would accomplish it.
Some of the army's horses in this country are used by an artillery mountain battalion—the single combat unit retaining horses even for transport. Others are used as draft horses as mounts for guards patrolling isolated areas at some army posts.
Cavalry had when it was stationed there.
Both suitable mounts and erac riders became so scarce in its ranks that the army last fall stopped participating in public horse shows.
About 400 horses are used by the mounted constabulary in the U.S. occupation zone of Germany.
Home Ec Club Honors Seniors
The Home Economics club will honor 30 senior members at its annual "Senior Send off," a dessert party at 7:15 p.m. today on the Union terrace.
Kathleen Graff, College junior, assisted by the club social committee and cabinet, is in charge of the program which will have a nautical theme. Rita Roney, Mary Selig, and Jane Hanna, College sophomores, will present a skit, "Tying Knots and Spinning Yarns."
the senior women who will be honored by the club are: Barbara Ackerman, Barbara Altis, Martha Craig, Elaine England, Mardell Dewald, Charlene Farrell, Joan Happy, Shirley Hicks, Denelda King, Lorraine Larson, Anne Long, Jeanette Luhnow, Irene Melas, Mathea Mother, Kathleen McKinney, Jean Moorhouse, Mary Hickcox, Gwendolyn Petersson, Mary Wilderson, Janetelle Pollom, Marianne Rogers, Peggy Salmon, Elinor Scott, Betty Tice, Betty Slagle, Betty Hatche, Alita Cooper, Janice Herwig, Patricia Conroy, and Martha Lovell.
Staff Members To TeachThisSummer
Dr. R. Barker, chairman of the psychology department, will teach at Stanford university, Calif.
Four professors and two graduate students of psychology will teach away from the University campus his summer.
Douglas, Wyo.—(U.P.) A Wyoming cowpunch thought he had latched onto a real flying saucer but learned the object was merely a balloon for measuring cosmic rays.
Dr. H. F. Wright, professor of psychology, will teach at Duke university, N. C. Dr. M. Scheerer, professor of psychology, will go to Harvard, and Dr. A. Smith, assistant professor of psychology, assisted by graduate students Jack Jaffe and Donald Livingston, will attend the National Training Laboratory in group dynamics at Bethel, Maine.
Cowboy Sees More Than Just Cows
Ranch - hand Everett Fletcher sighted the object in the skies 32 miles north of here and followed it to the ground.
Stamped on a nameplate was "this scientific apparatus is the joint property of the U.S. navy and the University of Minnesota."
"It scared me," he said. "I thought it was an honest-iniun saucer."
"Don't open it," a navy officer warned. "Don't fool with the thing Ship it here immediately."
A telephone call to Minneapolis identified the ball as a navy instrument apparently used for measuring cosmic rays.
The air force and other defense agencies have said repeatedly their investigations have found no evidence on the existence of so-called "flying saucers."
Tides reach up the Hudson river to the very head of navigation at Troy, a distance of more than 150 miles.
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Joe Frosh Is Restless After Western Civ Final
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"Say, I hear the Western Civ test grades will be out in a few days," remarked Joe Frosh, with more anxiety than anticipation.
"That so?" said his companion, Sidney Soph.
"Yeah, and I'm afraid to look"
confessed Frosh. "My proctor and I were total strangers, and my mind went blank when I took the exam."
"That's nothing," bragged Soph. "Until a week before the final, I didn't know the units went past ten."
"You mean there were as many as ten units?" gasped Frosh, his chin dropping.
"Yes," revealed Sidney. "But I didn't get past three, myself."
"You mean you actually read the material?" fumed Frosh. In disbelief, his receding chin fell still farther.
"Certainly," asserted Soph, as he blew on his fingernails and rubbed them to a high polish. "What's more, comminate read all fourteen units."
"You're--you're joking," frosted Frost, utterly confounded. His chin was no longer visible.
"How do you think I passed the final?" sneered Sid, with conceit.
"What do I care how you passed
"Ah, it seems like only yesterday," reminisced Soph, "that Eldon Fields, the chairman of the Reading Selection committee, was giving us that lecture in Hoch auditorium."
it?" raved the freshman, "I'm still wondering what even possessed me to take the blasted final!" he seemed at or near the breaking point.
"That's true," observed Frosh, brightening. A weak smile passed over his pale features.
"There, there," soothed Sidney,
"Just think what a long, tough grind
it was, and be thankful it's over."
"Yeah," agreed Frosh, a fond tear trickling down his nose. "What was it he said?"
He Just Can't Get Away From Lamar Avenue
"Wait a minute!" he cried, with a horrible look on his face. "How do I know I passed?"
"He was telling us about the wise guys who thought they could pass the course without doing the reading," chuckled Soph. "He was warning them that the jokers who thought they could get through on somebody else's notes."
He laughed hysterically at the thought, convulsed with the humor of it all, then stopped as suddenly as if someone had clapped a hand over his mouth.
Memphis, Tenn.—(U,P)—J. H. K. Lomav, a druggist, is in a rut. He's been on the same street for more than 30 years.
He got his first job as a delivery boy at 14 in a store on Lamar avenue. Later he became a soda jerker and clerk on the same street.
He retired for two months but then went back to work, also on the same street.
When he came back from World War I, he opened his own store and remained in business for 27 years and 12 days on the same street.
Finally, he decided to open another store of his own, on the same street!
Peace Officers To Train At KU
The techniques of law enforcement and traffic safety constitute the main portion of the program for the fourth annual Peace Officers Training school June 26-30 at the University of Kansas.
Cooperating with the bureau of government research and University Extension in presenting the school will be the Federal and Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the Kansas Highway patrol, Kansas Peace Officers association, Kansas Safety department, Kansas state fire marshal and the attorney general.
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