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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, NOV. 21, 1949
Geiger Counters Are Used To Find Ore In Northwest
Spokane, Wash.—(U.P.)One of the post-war world's most fascinating products, the Geiger counter, has been selling faster than a Boston-banned novel in the Northwest this year.
Dick E. Shanks, 26, is one of the half-dozen dealers handling Geiger counters in the Northwest. He reports that anyone, from an old prospector to the city's wealthiest physician, is ant to buy the device.
They are simple in appearance, consisting outwardly of a plain metal box, a pair of earphones and an aluminum cylinder, about the size of a flashlight connected to the box by a two-foot cord. A Geiger-Mueller tube, sensitive to radiation, is contained in the cylinder.
A product of the atom age, the counter is used to detect the presence of radioactive material, especially uranium. Portable units such as Shanks sells weigh about four pounds.
Shanks, a Navy veteran who learned instrument work at the Hanford atomic plant near Richland. Wash., has sold about 85 counters in the year he hes handled them. Only recently has he been able to get enough to keep up with demand.
Portable units range in price from $55 to $375, but Shanks said a trustworthy instrument is not likely to be sold for less than $100.
Others who have bought the device include engineers, mining companies, land owners, real estate men and old-time prospectors.
"Doctors and dentists seem to have a particular liking for the counters," Shank said. "They take them along on vacations and get in a little uranium prospecting as well as hunting and fishing."
"More than once an old duffer has shuffled into the shop looking as though he expected a handout," Shanks said. "But invariably it'll be a weather-beaten prospector, and he'll slap down a hundred dollar bill for a counter."
Shanks who is nearly as proud of his two-year-old business as he is of his two-weeks-old son, also runs an impromptu assay office.
He said eight or ten persons stop in each day carrying samples of ore. They want to know whether it's radioactive.
Fire Drill Fails To Budge
Children Watching Movies
Nevada, Mo.-U.(P.)-Carl McGowan, an fire chief, ran into trouble when he called a surprise "fire drill" at a local school.
Mr. McGowan rang the fire gong. Nothing happened. He rang it again. Miss Opal Campbell, principal, opened the door and told him:
"Go away. The children are watching a movie. We'll be through in five minutes."
Mr. McGowan, not to be denied, declared there was a fire. He rang the gong again. Finally the peeved pupils marched out, in the slow time of 2 minutes and 57 seconds.
Possibly It's Because
There's Nothing Else To Do
Boston—(U.P.)-The will to learn is stronger in youngsters confined to sick beds than in most healthy children.
That opinion is shared by two former Boston school teachers, Mrs. Helen Hannan and Mrs. Margaret Kamp, after tutoring some 750 Children's hospital patients during the past 15 years.
Seven-year-old David Spinney, of Milton, Mass., is a typical hospital student. Confined to an iron lung for $22\frac{1}{2}$ hours out of every 24, he must do all his learning orally.
Proposed 55-Cent 'Burger'
Might Be Baraqu At That
Atlanta—(U.P.)—What this country needs, says George Wensel, restaurant consultant, is a good 55-cent hamburger.
Mr. Wensel told restaurant men here to "glorify the hamburger," make a 20-cent hamburger and sell it at 15 cents in each of a 9-cent one selling for 20 cents.
Mr. Wensel advocated the use of 14 cents worth of meat, 2 cents worth of bun, and 4 cents worth of relish.
"Then give it a special name," he urged.
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Shanks' shop originally dealt in air pressure gauges, thermometers and a myriad of other industrial meters. Shanks is glad he added the Geiger counter to his list.
"I don't charge them anything to test it," Shanks said. "After all, there's only one chance in a million that any particular sample wil be 'hot.'"
He's looking forward to the day when the counter will take its place beside the thermos bottle and portable radio as standard equipment for vacationers and picnickers.
A get acquainted smoker for unorganized independent men living in Ward P will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Kansas room of the Union it was decided at a meeting Tuesday night.
Ward Smokers Create Interest
Donald W. Giffin, Independent Student Association vice-president who is in charge of the wards, said that the wards are proving very successful. Members have voted to finance their social events by individual assessments.
A Small World For Olson
Hiles, Wis.—(U.P.)—Alvin Olson came here to work on a road construction job and his wife Lola arrived with him. Then another new man and his wife arrived. The new comer also is named Alvin Olson and his wife's name is Lola too.
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James L. Allison sneezes three times every time he goes into the sunlight. His father was affected in the same way and his grandfather before him. Mr. Allison's two brothers also sneeze three times when they step into the sunlight.
Carrying on the family quirk is Mr. Allison's 4-year-old son, Jamie, who has started sneezing when the sun's rays shine on him.
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