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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1949
Door Represents Teacher's Dream
Pittsburgh —(U.P.) Thornburg school, with three rooms and an enrollment of 54, isn't large as schools go, but it'll stack its doors up against anybody's.
A pair of nine-foot-tall polished bronze and plate glass doors are the entrance to the otherwise unimpressive little building.
The doors represent a long-time hope of Karl W. Atwater, late president of the school board, and bear a plaque to his memory.
maritime commission, intervened. The commission ruled that doors were strictly non-military, non-national and not of wartime shipping space. The Brazilian company complained, but the doors remained in Pittsburgh.
Long before World War II, Atwater had hoped some day to replace a pair of rickety, dull doors on the Thornburg school. But unimspiring as they might have been, modern doors served their purpose and one but Athewyn ever mentioned turning them in on a new model.
Just a short time before the war, a South American company asked a Pittsburgh manufacturer to provide a fancy set of doors for a proposed factory. The doors were built and polished and packed for the long boat trin to Brazil.
Then the war, in the form of the Maritime commission, intervened.
Immediately after the war, the commerce department slapped export controls on American business and required the licensing of items to be shipped abroad. The resulting delay was just one too many for the South American company, which cancelled its order and left the Pittsburghs with a beautiful but useless set of doors.
In April, 1948. Atwater died.
The people of Thornburg, anxious to prepetuate his memory in the school he loved, planned a memorial. Someone recalled that Atwater didn't like the old wooden doors.
A chain reaction took place. Another member of the planning committee knew of the cancelled Brazilian order for beautiful doors. The gleaming, nine-foot portals were just right, almost as if they had been intended for the Thornburg school in the first place.
Atwater's school has the doors he wanted so much. Engraved on them is a small notice that they were donated to his memory "by his grateful neighbors."
Crowl Selected Exposition Head
Dwane C. Crowl, engineering junior from Bethel, has been selected chairman of the Engineering expo of the Engineering council committee.
It is the chairman's duty to handle publicity and routing for the exposition as well as the general organization of the program. Heads of the various departments are responsible to him.
Members of the committee making the selection were: Neil E. Welter and Robert V. Ford, engineering seniors, and Donald R. Woodson, engineering freshman.
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Hot' Atoms Are Nuisance, Atomic Commission Learns
Washington,—(U.P.)-The atomic energy commission has reported t is licking the tough problem of safely getting rid of the "hot" atoms t doesn't want.
Up to now the U.S. atomic project has managed to get rid of its deadly ray-splitting by-products without damaging people, plants, or animals
That is a good thing, the A.E.C. said, because "successful use of atomic energy will develop on a wide scale only if production plants, laboratories, and hospitals carry on their operations so that the environment receive waste does no harm to the surrounding community of plants, animals, and men."
In the whole history of the project only two persons have died of radiation injury, and they were hurt not by waste products, but by radiation accidentally encountered in the course of research work.
But as atomic industry develops, and new and "hotter" atomic engines and reactors come into operation, disposing of radioactivity contaminated materials will become more and more of a problem.
Recent improvements, the A.E.C. said, have cut by 20 per cent the volume of liquid wastes to be stored. It added that anticipated future improvements will reduce
These wastes are in three forms—gaseous, fluid, and solid. As of now, “hot” gases are diluted and blown into the atmosphere from high stacks, fluids are stored or discharged into flowing steams, and solids are buried or burned in “closed cycle” incinerators.
A big task is to concentrate the bulky wastes from a huge plant like the Hanford, Wash., Plutonium factory and get rid of them in small volumes that will not contaminate large areas.
Scientists have found kinds of bacteria that seem to like their food atoms hot and are using them to concentrate radioactivity in sludges that can then be disposed of.
the volume to 50 per cent with saving of "about one million dollars a year."
The radioactivity problem touches almost everything involved in the atomic project—clothing, tools, machines, and even buildings.
Some of the wastes from Hanford are buried until their most unstable atoms have "cooled" off and then are mixed with concrete in drums and dumped 30 miles out in the Pacific.
"In extreme cases," the A.E.C. said, "The buildings may be painted to hold the radiation in as a protection to workers. After painting the buildings are taken apart board by board and the boards buried."
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Exchange Is Solution In Wrong Dress Mixup
Memphis—(U.P.)-Mrs. J. W. McBryde, Sr., had a hunch when she saw two women with dress boxes waiting for a local department store to open. Learning that both had their feelings ruffled by receiving the wrong dresses, Mrs. McBryde suggested that perhaps each had the other's dress. A quick look proved her right.
You Say We Have To Pay? Oh! That's Different
Decatur, Ind., (U.P.) The Adams County board of commissioners for a brief time favored a $3,300 salary increase for Circuit Judge Myles F Parrish. Then they received an opioion from the state attorney general's office saying the county must pay the additional wage. They decided they favored the boost only if the state would pay it.
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