TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1949
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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Souvenirs Show Splendor Of White House Society
Washington—(U.P.)A woman whose mother was a bridesmaid in a White House wedding in 1874 has closed a gap in White House film on social functions.
Because of a fire in the state department some years ago, there are almost no records of past White House social functions. Mrs. Arthur Doig, former head of the Institute of Washington, permitted the White House staff to copy some of her mother's souvenirs of several formal White House dinners.
Mrs. Edith Helm, White House social secretary, said one was significant because it shows the earliest recorded use of the President's seal on a formal dinner invitation.
Mrs. Doig's mother was Anna Barnes, daughter of the Army's surgeon general in the Grant administration. She was one of eight bridgesmaids attending Nellie Grant at her marriage in 1874 to Algernon Sartorius, an Englishman.
In connection with the wedding festivities Miss Barnes was invited to dinner at the White House. She sailed her invitations as well as her place cards,
Mrs. Helm observed that the place cards of 1874 were far more elaborate than those used in the White House now. Miss Barnes' card was four-by-five inches with an engraving of the White House, over the guest's name. Now, Mrs. Helm said, he paid the guest as President's.
Mrs. Doig's souvenirs revealed that the White House dining hour has been pushed up considerably. The usual formal dinner there is billed for eight o'clock. Miss Barres received one from the Grants for and one from President and Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes for six o'clock.
President and Mrs. Grant's invitation said they would be "pleased to have Miss Barnes dine socially with them while President and Mary Barnes merely requested "the pleasure of Miss Barnes' company at dinner."
A newspaper account of the Grant wedding, also saved by Mrs. Doig's mother, indicates that it may have been the most splendid of the few marriage ceremonies performed in White Rock, the book place in the East Room, decorated with flowers, including two wreaths which formed the couple's initials
Outside the White House, the account said, the main gates were "thronged with people of all classes anxious to get a glimpse of the guests as they passed through the gates in dasy equipages."
The couple received presents valued at $7,500. The bride wore a "white satin dress of the richest Material obtainable in the New York market" trimmed with lace made in Brussels at a cost of $5,000. President Grant gave his daughter two complete sets of lace, one in black and one in white.
Nelson Attends Chicago Meeting
A conference on the preparation of college teachers was attended recently. Nelson, dean of graduate school. The conference was held in Chicago.
About 170 representatives from universities, liberal arts colleges and professional schools participated.
"Teaching is an art and it can't all be learned in school," he said. "It's the duty of the universities to select and train those who are fitted to do the work."
One Shot Kills Two Deer
Juniper, New Brunswick— (U.P.) — Jarry Davis is a fitting candidate to kill two birds with one stone. He killed two deer with one bullet.
Engineering Group Hears Waddington
C. V. Waddington, K.U. electrical engineering graduate of 1912 and head of the engineering department of the Kansas Gas and Electric company at Wichita, spoke to 200 electrical engineering students recently on the "Possibilities of a Career in Public Utilities."
Mr. Waddington discussed the important factors for success in engineering jobs. He described the divisions of work students would meet in industry. He divided engineering work into general system engineering, general design, operating systems, and sales engineering.
Students See Real Thing
Kalamazoo, Mich., (U,P) - The Kalamazoo Humane society has opened a "pet lending library" to help pupils in the public schools learn more about animal life. When school teachers think their pupils should have a look at a real animal they check with the society. If it has such an animal, it is delivered to the school for a day.
Ex-GI Repays French Friend
Alfred, N.Y.—(U.P.)—A French girl is being repaid at Alfred university for the friendship her family extended to an American glider trooper in 1945.
Simone Vauthier, 24, of Joigny, France, is studying at Alfred under the sponsorship of Rotary clubs from Wellsville, Hornell and Canisteo. The university has provided a full scholarship for Simone, an honor graduate of the Sorbonne in Paris.
Simone's American studies had their beginnings in Joigny, 90 miles from Paris, one late summer day after the war.
George D. Smith, former member
of the Division, tells
aSPUT! it this way:
"Joigny is a pretty little village on the Yonne River. . . Monsieur Vautier recently had returned from nearly a year's imprisonment by the Nazis for his underground work and Mme. Vautier was attempting to remove the last trace of her Nazi 'boarders' from their home.
"We GI's were wanting to go home, but the Vauthiers entertained us like sons despite their own post-obiections. It eased my stay greatly."
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Want To Give A Big Christmas Present? An Oil Refinery Or Auto Plant Is Nice
Washington—(U.P.)—If you have a yen to give something big for Christmas, the War Assets administration can help you out.
For instance, it has a power line in New York, built during World War II for $3,670,000 to carry power to an aluminum plant at Massena, N. Y. The line is no longer needed. The plant has cut back to pre-war production levels and doesn't want the added power.
The agency must fold up by Saturday, Dec. 31. Its work will be taken over then by the general service administration. But before then the W.A.A. wants to clean up its business and some of it, is pretty big.
The only customer remotely interested, says the W. A. A., is the state of New York itself. And the state isn't really interested unless law enforcement or the St Lawrence seaway and power development will be carried out.
That's only one of the "white elephant" items still left on the list of surplus property. There's a coke plant in Tacoma, Wash., too far from a source of supply to make peatecetine operations economically viable. The Tacoma Dodge plant in Chicago that has converted to the W. A. A since Preston Tucker's postwar automobile difficulties became acute.
There is an oil refinery at Corpus Christi, Texas, a steel foundry in Illinois and several shipyards, including one at Chester, Pa., owned by the government but on land owned by a private individual.
Paul L. Mather, who now runs W. A. A., said there are 50 plants still on the list of surplus property he wants to get rid of by, or shortly after, Christmas, valued at $545 million dollars.
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