1949
FRIDAY, NOV. 18, 1949
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Historical Osage Tom-Tom May Change Hands
An Osage tom-tom, symbol of victory of Kansas-Missouri football games, will be awarded the Omicron Delta Kappa chapter of the victorious school in keeping with annual traditions following Saturday's game. Omicron Delta Kappa, national honor society for senior men, is known more familiarly at the University as Sachem.
The tom-tom will be brought to
The tom-tom will be brought to the game by the Missouri cheerleaders possessor signed the 1948 Tigers 21 to Missouri cheerleaders will keep the drum through the first half of the game and Kansas cheerleaders during the second half, explained L. Edward Stollenwerk, Sachem member.
Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the University alumni association said that the tom-tom was first a victory token between Kansas City alumni clubs of the two universities.
"George 'Dumpy' Bowles, Kansas alumnus and writer of the song 'I'm a Jayhawk', and a Missouri alumnus whom I cannot name were the originators of the idea in Kansas City in the early 1930's," Mr. Ellsworth said. "They wanted a victory symbol like that of the Little Brown Jug of Minnesota and Michigan. The tomtom was made by Osage Indians whose tribes once inhabited sections of both 'Kansas and Missouri.'"
Crude Oil Refining Observed By SAM
Refining of crude oil into gasoline and other products was observed by members of the Society for the Advancement of Management who visited Phillips Oil Refinery in Kansas City, Kan. recently.
Harold E. Edmonson, engineering junior and leader of the field trip, said that the S.A.M. members were shown nine stills over 50 feet high in which the crude oil is heated. The heat separates the crude oil into its various products in a process called fractional distillation. These products are further broken down in the cracking vats from which the raw gasoline emerges.
In the testing laboratories, samples are tested to determine whether they conform to standards set by the Society of Automotive Engineers.
At the barrel processing plant old barrels are painted and have any dents taken out. Cans of motor oil are packaged at the canning plant This plant works the same as any other type of cannery.
CORE Hears Egri Speak on Hungary
Ted Egri, art instructor at the Kansas City Art institute, spoke on his trip to Budapest, Hungary, past September at a meeting of the Committee on Racial Equality Wednesday at Henley House. Mr. Egri attended the World Federation of Democratic Youth conference in Hungary.
Mr. Egri said that approximately 10,000 youths from youth organizations throughout the world represented some 16 millions of the world's young people were at the conference. "All racial differences disappeared in Hungary," he said.
C. O.R.E., which is engaged in a meal-ticket selling campaign against racial discrimination, is offering meal-tickets for sale at the Y.M.C.A. office in the Union and at the Y.W. C.A. office in Henley house.
50 Cents Buys Him A $17,500 House
Detroit — (U.P.)— Stanley Thomas approached a fellow factory worker, Murray Rowland, and demanded the 50 cents Mr. Rowland had owed him for two weeks.
"What 50 cents?" Mr. Rowland asked.
"For that house I bought you," Mr. Thomas said. "Remember that ticket on the house raffle I sold you and you didn't have any dough at the time?"
"Yes," said Mr. Rowland, and after kindly paying off, went out to suspect the six-rim房 $17,500 home he had just won.
Kansas had a small uranium "scare" five years ago, Earl K. Nixon, geologist of the state geological survey, recalled today.
Uranium Found In Marion Area
"In the fall of 1944 an oil well in Marion county showed so much radioactivity that instruments used as aids in correlating rock strata would not operate in the usual man-ner." Mr. Nixon said.
Other reported high intensity radioactive wells extended in a pattern across several Kansas counties. An investigation was started. Available data at offices of several oil companies and at the state geological survey at the University was reviewed.
net. Mr. Nixon said,
In explaining Kansas "scare" Mr.
Nixon pointed out that many wells
drilled in the search for oil and gas
are surveyed for radioactivity as an
aid in correlating the rocks.
"The past summer it was found that radioactive material is actually present on drill casings of some Kansas wells in thicknesses sufficient to be detected by standard methods" Mr. Nixon said. "A note in the 'Bulletin of the Kansas Geological Society' suggests that for millions of years radioactive materials deposited from natural brines have permeated these oil field rocks.
ated these on metal rods. "Within a few years, coatings of radioactive materials on well casings become thick enough for detection with modern instruments of extreme sensitivity."
Although the richest known ores of radium and uranium carry extremely small percentages of the desired substances, the amounts detected in Kansas oil wells are still far too small to have commercial value, Mr. Nixon said.
Scappoose, Ore. — (U.P.) — George Washington Smith, a Confederate army veteran, said today he has lived 100 years because he began chewing tobacco at the age of eight.
Chew Tobacco And Live
The Corbin hall volleyball team won the women's intramural title for the 1949 season.
Miss Shirley Michelson is seated in front. In the second row: Joan Young, Jo Pownall, Betty Ozenberger, Constance Hyre, Virginia Caldwell and Evelyn Maddox. In the top row: Constance Petterson, Frances Pence, Patricia Lander, Barbara Smith, Janet Lull, Elsiemarie Randell and Geneva Fleshman.
Few Veterans To Get Raises
Veterans with service-connected disabilities rated from 50 to 60 per cent, and with one or more dependents will receive additional allowances for their dependents because of a new law, the Veterans Administration announced today. Previously, only veterans rated 60 per cent and up were entitled to dependency allowances.
The veteran must submit proof of relationship, such as marriage and birth records, to qualify for dependency allowances. If his dependents are listed with V.A. by Dec. 1, 1949, and the proof of relationship and dependency is filed within five months from that date, the award will be effective Dec. 1. Otherwise, the effective date will be the date the evidence is received.
More than 6,000,000 Japanese have betn returned to Japan in an occupation - sponsored repatriation program.
The V.A. currently is reviewing the case files of veterans rated between 50 and 60 per cent disabled so as to advise them of their qualifications for dependency allowances.
Two Gate Crashers See Football Game
Columbus, Ohio —(U.P.) Here's private enterprise, junior size.
The day of the football game, two small boys stood outside the main gate of Ohio stadium, counting their money. They had just 20 cents between them.
Once inside the stadium, they quickly sold the papers and watched the game still with 20 cents in their pockets.
"Get your football lineup! Name of each and every player!" he shouted. The gateman, evidently thinking newsboys were to be admitted free, let him pass, with his friend right beside him.
With the 20 cents he bought four copies of the Columbus Citizen football special at 5 cents a copy. He gave two of them to his buddy. Then, holding one paper over his arm and waving the other in his hand, he strode up to the gate.
Having decided that crawling over the fence was beneath their dignity, the older of the two hit on a plan.
Australia is the only continent lying entirely south of the Equator.
Little Man On Campus
Tex—How'd you like to play in the backfield? You can't seem to stop any of those line plays."
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