THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Wesley Foundation Cabinet Will Be Installed Sunday
The Wesley foundation cabinet will be installed at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, March 5 in the First Methodist church. Committee members will assume duties the same date.
Robert S. Bell, College junior, is the new president. Other officers are: Clifford Newberry, engineering junior, vice-president, and Joy Hutcherson, College freshman, secretary.
Program committee chairman is Elton B. Noble, engineering junior, Committee members are Cindy Hull, College junior; Dwight Adams, College freshman; and Glenna Davis, fine arts freshman.
Personnel committee chairman is Marilyn Thomas, College sophomore. Committee members are Janice Broadword, educational junior; Briar Rogers, engineering junior; and Gorge Shielden, pharmacy junior.
Barbara Rand, education junior,
heads the worship committee.
Working on the committee are
Donovan Hull and Jane Semple,
College sophomores; and Max Valentine.
College freshman
Recreation committee leader is Newberry. Committee members are Leah Ross, College freshman; Dorothy Pearson, College sophomore; and Gloria Simpson, fine arts freshman.
Head of the food and kitchen committee is Robert Strobel, engineering junior. Margaret Christiansen. College sophomore, is the committee member.
Atlanta—(U.P.)—Smoking at North Fulton High school was legalized and it cut smoking "drastically."
When Not In Secret Smoking Loses Appeal
Warren Jackson, principal, thought enforcing bans on smoking by students would just make the situation worse.
Students who smoked in the rest rooms would find secret places which would be more of a fire hazard, Jackson said.
So he told the students that it would be all right to smoke, but only in the concrete athletic stadium. It would mean real trouble to be found smoking in the building or elsewhere on the grounds, he warned. Jackson followed that up with a word to the teachers, "I am very sympathetic that the students would feel he was more than fair if the faculty had the same restrictions."
As a result, Jackson said, fewer students are smoking and the building is not littered with ashes and butts.
He believes that smoking lost a lot of its glamour when it was moved out into the open.
New Drug Discovered May Help Alcoholics
Philadelphin,—(U,P)-A new drug which may help alcoholics refrain from intoxicants was under study at Lankenau hospital.
The drug, tetraethylluram dis-
The drug, tetraethyluritham disulfide, makes liquor physically reactive to some alcoholics, Dr. Nicholas Padis said. Emphasizing that the new drug is "by no means a cure for alcoholism." Dr. Padis said that clinical tests show "it can set up a violent reaction in alcoholics who drink whisky after daily dosages of the medicine."
The drug must be taken daily to be effective and it must be administered under the close supervision of a physician, he added. Some researchers have reported, however, that it caused liver or bone-marrow damage, he said.
Oxford, Neb.—(U.P.)-Chamber of commerce officials found that Nebraska anti-gambling laws prevented their usual custom of giving away money by lottery during the Christmas season.
Santa Throws Money Away Both Cheerfully and Legally
So they said a Santa Claus will just throw it away instead.
They decided there was no law against anybody, even Santa, stand-in on a street corner tossing bills in the wind.
Intramurals chairman is Halbert Sturgeon, business junior.
Co-chairman of the deputation committee are Ronald Sundbye, College freshman and Mona Cofman, College soophomore.
Student Religious council representatives are Raymond Sauder, College senior; and Walter Brown, Jr., College junior.
Paul Nelson, pharmacy junior, is publicity chairman.
No Work, No Books Students Just Sit
Cleveland—(U.P.) —Cleveland college has an odd "novel-of-the-month" course in which the professor does all the work.
Russell F. W. Smith, English instructor at the college, struggles through some books a month as his students aren't required to turn a single page.
Smith reads all the books, takes notes on them and presents a report on each to his class.
Students "may" ask questions, Smith said, "but they don't have to answer any."
The teacher said he reads "about 200 pages an hour on good nights," and is confident this method serves to impart minds to contemporary writers."
Alabaman Carries Dime In His Mouth For 38 Years, But He Likes It Fine
Georgiana, Ala.—(U.P.)—Charlie Boggan, a section hand on the Louisville and Nashville railroad, has carried a dime in his mouth for 38 years.
Mr. Boogan carries the dime as a good luck piece in his right jaw, or night and night, when he is sleeping or eating, working or just loafing around
Mr. Boggan said his grandfather, Sip Faggan, a successful farmer, carried a dime around in his mouth 20 years before his death and passed the odd custom on to him.
It was in 1917, Mr. Boggan said, that his grandfather gave him the dime and told him to carry it in his mouth for good luck.
Mr. Boggan is 45 years old now and seems to have had good luck He has been working for the railroad and he has been called in to help with claims he never has been sick
Old-timers say his grandfather Sip seemed to prosper as a farmer while others were having a hard time of it.
ble, but Mr. Boggan will produce it on request. He said for the first month or two it worried him so that he could hardly sleep, but now the only time he thinks about it is when someone asks to look at the good luck charm.
The dime is blackened with age now, and the data no longer is legi-
Comic Book Kills Monkey Who Didn't Read But Ate It
Wheeling, W. Va.—(U.P.)—A comic book caused the death of Tojo, Wheeling zoo monkey.
It wasn't the funny pages that killed him with laughter but part of the metal binding. Some wire staples were found in the simian after zoo officials were told the animal had been munching at a comic book a boy tossed into his cage.
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Illinois Unveils Largest Betatron To Explore Secrets Of Atomic World
Champaign, Ill. — (U.P.) The University of Illinois has unveiled the world's largest betatron, a 300-million volt machine that will help scientists explore still farther into the nuclear world. Scientists hope the machine will help them learn what holds an atom together and perhaps find a successful treatment for cancer.
The betatron is 23-feet long and 13-feet high. It weighs more than 400 tons. Technically described as "a machine to accelerate electrons by use of a magnetic field," it not only can produce great energy but, equally important, it can control them. The energy imparted to each electron will be greater than that resulting from the splitting of a uranium atom. No one knows exactly what the big machine may be able to do. But the university's older 22-million伏 betatron, many times less powerful, can spin the electrons so fast that they travel a distance of 250 miles in 1/720th of a second.
in the older machine, the electrons reach a velocity of 186,000 miles a second—the speed of light—gaining nearly 70 volts of energy at each revolution. When deflected from their orbit to strike a pin-point target, and concentrated in a beam, they are equal to an estimated 5,000 grams of radium.
A betatron's x-rays can make a picture through 20-inches of steel.
Boys Play With Dynamite
Minneapolis—(U.P.)—Most places, children haxe to be told not to play with mathes. After an explosion that ripped out a section of curbing, police said they were trying to find two boys believed to have been playing with dynamite.
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