TUESDAY, JANUARY 17. 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
Draftswoman Begins 3-Year Project
—Photo by Bob Blank
By Mona Millikan
Mrs. John A. White (left) watches Mrs. Grace Muilenberg, drafting supervisor of the state geological survey, put the finishing touches to a composite aerial survey map.
"You should be talking to my husband. He's the interesting one in the family," protested the slender brunette perched on the stool in front of a large map. With a friendly smile, Mrs. John A. White also introduced Mrs. Grace Muilenburg, her supervisor in the drafting department of the state geological survey.
The two women constitute the entire drafting department, except for occasional student help during rush periods. All maps, illustrations, and art sketches used in the various publications of the state survey come from them. The amount of work being carried out by these projects is completed in a day, while others extend over months and even years.
Mrs. White is now working on an experimental three year project. The survey is gathering information for series of three maps which will depict the geology, industries, and groundwater system of each Kansas county.
"I've been in the department since February, 1949," she said. "However, I worked here irregularly for a year and a summer while attending the University from 1941 to 1943." The former fine arts student was graduated from K.U. in 1943 with a degree for public school art education.
"My parents were worried about letting me go." Mrs. White recalled "But, although some tension was apparent in England, we saw no real panic until we reached France. There people were standing in line for gas masks. In Germany, however, there was no visible 'war atmosphere.'"
In the summer of 1939, after her freshman year at William Woods, a junior college for women, in Fulton, Mo., she and a friend went to Europe for a six weeks tour conducted by the Student International Travel association. It was the association's final pre-war trip through England, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, and France.
The group visited many famous cities and landmarks of Europe as well as seeing much of the country-side. "We saw so many museums and
cathedrals," laughed Mrs. White. "that I thought that's all Europe had. On the trip home they heard that Germany had declared war. "We got out just in time," commented Mrs. White.
The two girls reached home in time to return to school. When she finished at Fulton, she transferred to K.U. After graduation in 1943 she began work at Sunflower Ordnance plant. She started in the personnel department, but because of her experience at K.U. was asked to shift to drafting. Most of her work was on plans for buildings, plumbing, and wiring for the plant itself.
In the summer of 1946 she returned to K.U. to teach in the summer art school for public school children. At the end of the summer she went home to Horton, Kan., for her first vacation since graduation.
While at home she received word that research workers in the Museum of Natural History needed someone to make scientific maps, so she returned to the University, in 1947. It was while working on these maps that she met John White, who was working toward a Ph. D. in zoology.
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"We were married in June, 1948, amidst a pile of trunks and packing boxes." Mrs. White said. "Immediately after the wedding John and I left for Bahia, Brazil, for our honeymoon.
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"We wanted to visit his parents who are Baptist missionaries there. John was born in Brazil and lived there until he was 17. So we spent five weeks visiting his friends and collecting spiny rats as material for research for his thesis. We returned to the States in time for the fall semester."
Air Hostess Course Will Not Be Offered
You'll have to go to training school. If you pass a test, you may be one of 140,000 who will start nose-counting in the 1950 census on April 1.
The pay will be as little as 7 cents a person for an interview, but the average will be $8 or $9 a day during the two to six weeks of employment.
If you ever breathe a word confided in interviews—as for instance the answer to that controversial income question—the penalty could be two years in jail and a $2,000 fine.
The airline hostess training course planned for the spring semester by the University and the Trans-World airlines will not be offered this year, Miss Maude Elliott, assistant professor of spanish and interviewer, said today.
Not enough qualified women have applied to justify the T.W.A.'s bringing an instructor to the campus this spring. The continuation of the course next year depends upon the interest shown. Miss Elliott said.
You may be asked to baby-sit, or settle family arguments. You are almost sure to be chased by dogs. Doors will be slammed in your face. But you will have to ring the bell again, and explain patiently that the law requires all census questions be answered.
File an application with your district census bureau office. It's not on the application form, but the "right" politics, in this case being a Democrat, will be an important qualification.
If you're selected, you'll be in a classroom by the last week in March. In city areas, the classes will go on for four hours a day for four days. In small areas, 24 hours of instruction will be spread over six days. The pay is a flat $16 for the training period.
If the district supervisor thinks you a likely candidate, you will be given an intelligence test, dealing with simple arithmetic problems and map-reading among other things.
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It takes 10 inches of snow to equal an inch of rain.
There'll be lectures and movies on ow to dress, how to persuade suscious house-holders to answer
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Washington—(U.P.)Big shots are vain. Especially when they get a chance to tickle their own ego.
Several of them showed up at the Willard hotel to "audition" for the big broadcast which will kick off the drive for funds for the American Heart association. Representatives, senators, cabinet members, fellows from the supreme court, and the diplomatic corps are competing for a spot on the show. It's conceivable that a freshman congressman who can play an ocarina better than a cabinet member might have his own hour in the spotlight. The original Amateur Hour on the air is giving up its time on Feb. 2, for a show that will be known for the night as the "V.I.F. (very important person) amateur program."
There was Dewey Short of Missouri. He put an ash tray on his head, rolled up his sleeves, and did a comedy routine.
The big ones shed their dignity at the first of several auditions Tuesday.
Madame Bonnet, wife of the French ambassador, put on a hat routine, since part of the show will be televised, at least locally. She had only one hat with her, but she dolled it up with a photographer's slightly used flash bulbs.
Representative Frank Leslie
Chelf of Kentucky whipped a 50-cent
harmonica on his pocket and
gave "My Old Kentucky Home" the
best going-over it's had in a long
time.
Representative Louis Charles Rabaut of Michigan announced that he had been waiting since 1932 to sing a song he helped to write. Whereupon the congressman and father of nine, let go with a fine tenor on "Old Fashioned Girl."
Frank William Boykin of Alabama, the master of the filibuster, did what he knows how to do the best—a filibuster.
The critics were successful in doing what Speaker Sam Rayburn of house seldom can do. That is the case with Alabama before his recitation got out of hand,
The committee in charge of the show hasn't gotten around to hear all of the prospective amateurs yet, dayburn promises to be among them.
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Senahol Estes Reavenger nesseen, a freshman in the upper house, campaigned around his territory wearing a coonskin hat. He used to wind up a speech by twisting the tail of the hat and jerking it around over his eyes.
London, Ohio—(U.P.)-The London prison farm here has an Alcoholics Anonymous group.
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