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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1949
Disabled Veterans Repair Toys For Forgotten Tots
Washington—(U.P.)—If you know how, it's easy to take a broom stick, add a home-made head fore, glue on a hank of yarn aft—and come up with a dandy hobby horse.
A doll minus a couple of toes can $ \textcircled{4} $
A doll minus a couple of toes can be made cuddly if you stitch a pair of felt shoes to cover the wound. Knitted caps do a lot to doll up a dolly whose head has a bashed in look.
A train minus a wheel is easy to fix if you have a wheel-size spool and paint to match the rest of the set. A man who can use his hands can do some fancy tricks with a stack of scrap lumber, a lemon crate or an empty cigar box.
A man can, if he knows how.
The forgotten men of the last couple of shooting wars—the disabled veterans—know how. And they are using their hands to help make it a merry one this Christmas for the forgotten kids of America—many of them orphaned by man-made conflicts they do not yet understand.
The veterans administration, under Gen. Carl Gray, is backing the programs going on in most of the 130 vet hospitals, where men are taught to use their hands to forget the past and keep their minds off the misery of the present.
Many agencies contribute aid in the projects. The Red Cross, among them, plus a lot of local groups around the country.
Miss Mariana Bing, assistant national director of the Red Cross service in veterans hospitals, has visited many of the centers.
"There isn't a vet hospital in the country which does not have a workshop in the basement, and the fellows and women veterans, too, do a wonderful job." Miss Bing said. "I have seen playthings that came in looking as though they were beyond help finally turned into very usable toys."
The private agencies, working quietly, do a recruiting job. They call on Sunday school teachers, unions, and individuals to contribute and collect old toys. The skilled supervisors are selected from the volunteers to direct the work, which gots on the year around.
Down in Murfreesboro, Tenn., which is not a great metropolis, the Red Cross has 17 small chapters. Volunteers are recruited and many of them commute as far as 60 or 70 miles a day to do their bit.
Truck drivers and hod carriers work side by side with society women and bank presidents. They direct and help the veterans to turn out playthings for needy tots in the area. (In all sections, the toys which are repaired and made in the hospitals go to children in the vicinity. A disabled veteran can designate what he turns out to his own kids or to friends if he wishes.)
In Murfreesboro, Miss Bing said,
the toys are turned out in lots of
50 or 100 of a kind.
The toys are distributed, after they are repaired and repainted, by various welfare agencies.
And who benefits from all this?
The youngsters first. The poor ones get toys they wouldn't otherwise find under the Christmas tree.
They're happy.
The veterans. They are finding
Linn County Club Plans
To Have Christmas Dance
At a meeting of the Linn county club Tuesday, it was decided to have a dance during the Christmas holidays in Pleasanton. The club also plans to show the film, "This Is Your University," at county high schools during Easter vacation; said Robert Banks, club chairman.
Medical Course Is Lengthened
The annual postgraduate course in therapeutics will be held Monday, Dec. 12 through Thursday, Dec. 15 at the University of Kansas Medical center, Kansas City.
The course has usually been only three days long, but this year an extra day has been added because of special subjects requested by practicing physicians. Instructional emphasis will be given to evaluations of newer drugs and therapeutic procedures.
Six guest instructors will teach the course. Twenty-five members of the University faculty will participate. The guest instructors are as follows: Garfield G. Duncan, Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia; Miss Mary Jane Gerkin, dietician, Kansas City, Mo.; Dr. Sara M. Jordan, Lahey clinic, Boston; Pro. Helen McLachlan, St. Louis university, St. Louis; Dr. Earl W. Neitherton, Cleveland Clinic Foundation hospital, Cleveland; and Dr. Theodore E. Woodward, University of Maryland school of medicine, Baltimore.
1800MenIdle In Oak Ridge
Oak Ridge, Tenn., Dec. 7—(U.P.) Contractors affected by a wildcat construction walkout at atomic installations here today were expected to open the way for a Taft-Hartley law injunction by filing secondary boycott charges against the striking workers.
The strike began abruptly late Monday when some 250 A.F.L steamfitters, truck drivers and operating engineers walked off the job. More union construction workers joined them Tuesday, and by that night the situation reached general strike proportions with more than 1,800 men idle.
Carpenters and common laborers were still on the job at various projects here Tuesday. They were expected to join the strike today, however, making the construction tie-up at this atomic city complete. No official reason for the strike was given. But it appeared that the use of non-union labor on a pipe-line job was at the root of the trouble.
Three phases of expansion at Oak Ridge were slowed up or halted by the work stoppage. They were the building of homes and a new school, a gas pipeline for atomic ovens and laboratories, and construction of a new gaseous diffusion plant for making uranium-235, a vital atombomb ingredient.
Government negotiators, Atomic Energy Commission labor experts and representatives of involved unions conferred Tuesday in an effort to resolve the trouble which led to the strike, but no progress was reported.
that to be minus a leg or an arm doesn't make one totally useless, after all.
The volunteers, who realize they are doing somebody some good.
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Jersey Cow Flies Home
Curb Service 11 a.m.-Midnite
620 N. Second
Chicago—(U.P.) It costs $321 to fly a cow from Chicago to Los Angeles. That was the bill for transporting a prize $25,000 Jersey, weighing 1,510 pounds aboard a plane. The cow was going home from the national dairy show at Waterloo, Iowa.
Topcka—(U.P.) — After five sons,
Charley Nichols and his wife hoped
for a daughter. They got their wish,
in duplicate. The blessed event
turned out to be twins, both girls.
It's All In A Day's Work
They Got What They Wanted
Firemen Eliminate Hot Seat
Boston—U(P) — Al Bowman, a brewmaster for a local beer concern, estimates that he's consumed over 62,000 glasses of beer during 13 years as a professional sampler. "I love the business," says he.
Prichard. Ala. — (U.P.)— Prichard fireman no longer get the hot seat, W.E. Dixon, fire chief, has invented a light asbestos screen which the fire fighters use to protect themselves when they have to turn their backs towards the fire.
Paving To Be Extended On Lindley Hall Road
Warren G. Harding is the only man who went direct from the Senate to the Presidency.
Paving on Lindley hall road will be extended to 16th street as soon as the contract has been let according to Ed Burge, state business manager.
Low bidder on the project is the Constant construction company, a Lawrence firm, that bid $18,836.
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