MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
Australian Tribes Use Boomerangs For Hunting
Boomerang throwing, suggested as a worthy Olympic Games contest by Australians anticipating the 1956 Olympiad in Melbourne, is both pastime and livelihood to its greatest exponents, the aborigines of Australia.
Primitive "abo" tribes are scattered widely over the island continent, according to the National Geographic society. In general, they know nothing of plowing and planting, but live from day to day on what nature offers ready-made. Tribes on fringes of the vast desert areas sustain life on the barest minimum of moisture and food.
The spear and boomerang are weapons of the eternal food hunt.
There are native tribes that have never seen a boomerang. Others are very skillful with it and make models of varying weight sizes, use of rifles, warfare, for hunting game birds and animals, and for plain amusement.
The heaviest boomerangs are used in fighting. Curved only slightly, they are thrown at fairly close range and are the non-returning type. Some measure nearly four feet long. With somewhat smaller ones, skilled abos can deal their quarry a knock-out blow at 100 acres.
Boomerangs designed to return to the thrower are more sharply bent. Used to some extent to knock down birds in flight, they now serve principally as a form of recreation. Whirling in helicopter style, they may describe three of four circles before completing their flight. They come back to injure the thrower often enough to give the word boomerang its popular meaning of damage by back-fire.
Boomerangs are fashioned from various hardwoods in the green state. Some tribesmen bend the green wood over a bed of hot coals. More often, however, they carefully choose the bend of a root or branch so that the weapon can be carved along the curving wood grain without need of additional bending.
Specimens hewn with the primitive stone ax have become rare and are much sought by museums. Carved, fluted, and painted designs interest collectors. Many have one end shaped as a throwing handle.
Tau Beta Pi To Initiate 36
Warren E. Arnspiger, Leonard A Beck, David F. Carpenter, Lyle J Chapman, James D. Crothers, Dwane M. Crowl, Finis C. Easter, Duane E. Edge, Thomas M. Fisher, James D. Griffith, John L. Halstead, Paul R. Hanaway.
Thirty-six students have been elected to Tatu Beta Pi, national honorary engineering fraternity. Formal initiation will be held Monday, April 17, followed by a banquet in honor of the new members. The engineers to be initiated are:
Clifford F. Newberry, Elton B. Noble, Frank A. Renisseen, Louis B. Richardson, Raymond E. Rose, Author H. Roth, Richard F. Sanders, Keith C. Smith, Richard E. Spradlin, Robert V. Strobel, Richard G. Stutz, Robert G. Thrutchelse.
Lane W. Harold, William B. Hayward, Charles A. Henggeler, Joyce D. Holmberg, Don B. Jones, Robert A. Kleist, Thomas E. Kobett, Wayne E. Kohman, Hebert D. Lewis, William R. Marker, William E. Miller, Richard A. Moore.
Dangling Legs Cause Highway Excitement
Salt Lake City—(U,P)—When Ted O'Day drove from Provo back to his Salt Lake City shop, passing motorists honked, hooted, or just stared.
Protruding from the rear baggage compartment of O'Day's car were a pair of shapely feminine legs and a portion of a torso.
But O'Day just drove on nonchallantly. He's a store display mannequin manufacturer.
Chicago Slips Are Costly
Chicago—(U.P.) The city of Chicago paid $500,000 in 1949 to persons who fell on faulty sidewalks and won damage suits.
Colleges Train 2 Million Under Two GI Laws
Four and one-half years after the end of World War II, veterans administration records show that federal training for veterans still is moving ahead at close to top speed.
The total of 2,474,000 veterans in training under the G. L bill and public law 16 at the end of 1949 was only 2 per cent below the number enrolled a year ago. The figure is only 12 per cent under the all-time peak at the end of 1947.
One million veterans started training for the first time under the two laws during 1949—a 20 per cent drop from the 1,250,000 who entered initial training during the year 1948. A total represented only a slight deviously had had training re-entered the two programs during 1949. This total represented only a slight decline from the 1948 figure of 2,485,-000.
Re-entered, V. A. explained, include veterans who in the past had dropped out of training for any number of reasons-vacations, to find jobs, because they completed courses and so on.
One of the chief reasons that 1949 enrollments have remained at high levels is that a record number of veterans-students are taking G. I. courses in schools below the college level-mainly trade and industrial schools.
Enrollments in below-collegelevel schools under the G. I. bill reached an all-time high of 878,000 on Dec. 31, 1949. This is 32 per cent above the 667,000 total reached a year earlier, and 34 per cent over the 1947 figure of 654,000.
Papa Shows Family How To Use Needle
The trend of enrollments in colleges and universities and in on-the-job training courses under the two laws also has been downward, while institutional on-farm training enrollments under the G. I. bill and public law 16 have been going up. Two of every three veterans have filed application for training of some kind.
Memphis, Tenn.—(U.P.)—W. R. Akers, railway mail clerk, saved the day at his house.
His daughter, Marie, 10, received some yarn and knitting needles as a gift and a problem arose. She didn't know how to knit. Neither did her mother. So Papa Akers moved in and showed her.
"I knew how when I was a kid," he explained. "Hadn't touched needles in 30 years, though. Was afraid I had forgotten."
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Churches Separate Sheep From Goats
Wilmington, Del.—(U.P.)-The Wilmington Council of Churches will conduct its own census this spring.
About 3,400 census takers will canvass the city and suburbs to make a door-to-door check on church or non-church affiliations.
The information will be used by individual Protestant churches, enabling them to place every family and individual in metropolitan Wilmington on the "responsibility list" of some church or denomination.
The Rev. John Oldman, Jr. chairman of the census committee, said individual churches will be asked to recruit the census takers. Plans call for 1,700 assignments, with two persons to handle each assignment. Each canvasser's work will amount to about three hours, he said.
The height of the Memorial campanile will be 120 feet, with a base diameter of 22 feet 9 inches.
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9:30-10:00 Special Pre-Easter pro-
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Greenfield, Mo.-(U.P.)-The fire siren sounded shortly after midnight. It kept on sounding during a severe thunderstorm. Citizens turned out to fight a major conflagration. They found that the lightening had short-circuited the fire siren.
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