UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1949
City Manager Project Tested
Edwin O. Stene, professor of political science, reporting on the recently completed research project in Holton, indicates that the city manager form of local government can work efficiently in a small city. Holton has a population of 2,645.
The Bureau of Government Research has published a research project by Professor Stene in pamphlet form.
A significant factor in the city manager form of local government is that it brings more technically qualified ability into the city administration. Also, responsibility is greater and more definite.
When Holton instituted the city manager form of government, Professor Stene organized a research team to study and report the development of the system. The team consisted of H. H. Holt, James W. Bibb, Jr., Donald R. Bailey and Harold E. Horn, graduate research assistants and all holders of Carnegie fellowships in city management.
As a result of Holton's city manager government, the electric power company is city-owned and operated. An artificial lake provides water. More efficient operation of public utilities has increased the revenue spent on the increased cost of the city manager. The budget is more strictly followed. Traffic rules are enforced. A swimming pool was built.
Virgil Knowles, formerly of Atchison, was appointed city manager more than a year ago. According to the research team, civic pride has increased on all levels.
The National Municipalities league has asked for copies of the research pamphlets for nationwide distribution.
Gifts To Be Earmarked
Students contributing to the Campus Chest drive will have a chance to designate where they want their money to go.
Plans for distribution of funds to the agencies participating in the drive were changed, pending approval of the All Student Council, at a meeting of the steering committee Tuesday. When a student contributes to the Campus Chest, he will be given a card bearing the names of all the participating agencies. He will indicate on this card which one he wants to receive his contribution. If he has no preference his money will be distributed evenly among the agencies.
The original plan was to distribute contributions on the basis of what agencies conducting drives in the past two years had received.
The steering committee will meet gain Tuesday, Nov. 1.
Faculty Members To Abilene Meet
Edwin O. Stene, associate professor of political science, will attend the meeting of Kansas city managers on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
E. J. Allison, city manager of Salina, will be chairman of the meeting. The group will discuss the city manager training program.
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Dr. Ireland uses the microphones in his classroom lectures and the electrical engineering department tests the effects. He has used three types of portable microphones but none have proved satisfactory.
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Dr. Ireland Tests 'Mikes' In Classroom Lectures
A search for a portable microphone suitable for use in classroom work is being conducted by the electrical engineering department in conjunction with Dr. H. A. Ireland, professor of geology.
"My voice isn't heavy enough to carry to the back of the room over normal classroom noises," Dr. Ireland said. "A microphone is an absolute necessity for me.
"I used a throat microphone for a short time, but my voice didn't carry to the back of the room with it."
Dr. Ireland lectures in Lindley auditorium before a large number of students. The microphone, he explained, prevents much vocal fatigue and hoarseness when lecturing in a large place. The "mike" with its 40 foot cord enables him to walk around, use the blackboard, and still talk without straining his voice.
Dr. Ireland next tested a lapel microphone but it also proved unsatisfactory. It was open only on the side away from the speaker.
Now Dr. Ireland is using another lapel microphone. It is open on all sides and is somewhat better than previous types tested. But it, too, is far from perfect, he said.
"I'll have to arrange a speaker device like the telephone operators wear to keep it from shifting as I move," he said.
Dr. Ireland emphasized the importance of the teaching aid in lecturing before large crowds. He pointed out that speakers who move about as well as those with weak-toned voices benefit from such a device.
"Some speakers are blessed with voices that carry exceptionally well and they have no need for an amplifying aid," he said. "But it's an absolute necessity for me."
Students also benefit from the use of the microphone in lecturing. One student, who attends lectures in Lindley auditorium, said, "I sit so far back in the room that they have to pump oxygen to me. Now at least I can hear."
Intelligence Corps Vacancies Exist
Vacancies exist in the military intelligence reserve for officers who have recently graduated from army or air force R.O.T.C. units.
Men who are fluent in foreign languages other than the romance languages and German, and those studying for an advanced degree in geographic subjects, social sciences, journalism and law are particularly desired. They must have aptitude for military intelligence work.
Officers who are accepted will be given inactive and active duty reserve training in an appropriate intelligence specialization. These include interrogation of prisoners of war, translator, counter-intelligence officer, photo interpreter or research analyst in strategic intelligence.
Military intelligence occupational specialties which selected applicants may be assigned are economic analyst, language instructor, photo interpreter, counter-intelligence officer, foreign laison intelligence officer, investigations officer, record searching officer and translations officer.
Interested reserve officers should contact their local senior army instructor of the organized reserve for details as to place and grade of the vacancies.
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Sigma Chi's Add Painting To Collection
Sigma Chi, social fraternity, has received a portrait painting of Mrs. C. H. Sautter, who was their housemother the past year.
Sigma Chi has a collection of paintings that includes portraits of all their former housemothers. Among the collection is a portrait of their first housemother, Mrs. Virginia C. Petty, who was also the first fraternity housemother in the United States. Mrs. Petty was housemother at the Sigma Chi fraternity from 1904 to 1925.
Mrs. Sautter was at the fraternity house for nine semesters, coming there in January, 1945.
The present Sigma Chi housemother is Mrs. Kenneth Whyte. Mrs. Petty was housemother when Mrs. Whyte was a student at the University.
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Funeral Services Held For Oscar Dahlene Monday
Funeral services for Oscar Dahlene, '09, were held Monday in Tuscaloosa, Ala. He died Oct. 22 at the Alabama-Mississippi State football game and was 62 years old.
He is survived by his wife, the former Mildred McCurdy, '09; two sons, Donald and Oscar, Jr., both of Tuscaloaosa; a sister, Mrs. Herbert Cowan, Hutchinson; three brothers, Amil, San Jose, Calif; Andrew, San Diego, Calif; and Edward, Chicago.
Mr. Dahlene was buried in Tuscaloosa.
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