TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25,1949
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE NINE
By Bibler
—Photo by Bob Blank.
Pleased over "College Daze" plans is the Rev. David Riggs, Y. M. C. A. executive secretary, second from left. He promised Edith Malott, left, producer of the variety show; Craig Hampton, president of Student Union activities; and Emalou Watkins, right, costume designer for the show, cokes if they finished the script before the deadline. They did. The Rev. Mr. Riggs furnished cokes for everyone in the Union office.
Phoney Immigrant Heckles LaGuardia Field Employees
New York—(U,P)—Nearly everyone is wise to him now, the practical joker at the overseas terminal at LaGuardia airport. Still, every new airline or U. S. customs employee is apt to fall victim to him.
Because he values his job, and officials frown on any tomfoolery where aliens are concerned, the prankster will be called George for the purpose of this story.
As such he manages to show up last in line of bona fide passengers and tax the patience and ingenuity of a new passenger agent.
It was a sad day recently for a new airline agent eager to handle all passenger problems with great efficiency.
One day, after a flight arrives from Basra, George will be an Arab named Abdullah Iship and try to pay the eight dollar head tax with eight laboriously counted out pennies. In desperation, the agent calls an interpreter but before one arrives, the mustache and limp disappear along with the gibberish that's supposed to be Arabic, and George laughs at his startled victim.
An accomplice led the disguised George into the customs room, reported him as a stowaway and placed him in the agent's custody. Bearing in mind the stiff fine for bringing a stowaway into the country, the agent kept close watch.
Another time in the same get-up,
but with his false teeth out, George
heckled one of those so-called
hungry taxicab drivers who wants
to clip foreigners for three or four
times the normal fare.
But the moment his attention was distracted, George removed his disguise and all the agent saw was George's familiar face and figure when he turned around. A frenzied search was made of the terminal, men's rooms, snack bars and all, before the hoax was revealed.
This time as Jose Gonzales from Latin America, George insisted on being driven to Jersey City and had an airline employee write a fictitious address on a slip of paper, and ask the cabbie what the
charge would be. The driver said $20, but Jose shook his head a violent "No" and offered three dollars by holding up three fingers. The driver scornfully refused and after a little more bickering, the driver agreed to take him for $6.50.
Jose refused to leave without the airline employee so they both climbed into the cab of the now fuming driver. At the top of the hill, George removed his disguise. The dialogue that followed cannot be repeated here.
Giant Cuttle Fish Actually Did Exist
Lincoln, Neb. —(U.P.)The existence of the prehistoric giant cuttle-fish has been determined by a University of Nebraska scientist.
Dr. Maxim K. Elias, paleontologist, made the discovery from a fossil found in Kansas about 20 years ago.
Magnifying the fossil up to 600 times its normal size, the Nebraska scientist proved the microstructure of the fossil is fundamentally the same as the modern cuticle-bone.
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The fossil was so large, it had been identified as part of a corallike reef, or as deposits of a new type of sea plant. Neither supposition satisfied Elias.
Elias said the giant cuttle-fish, distant cousin of the modern octopus and sepia, roamed the seas that covered Nebraska and Kansas about 80,000,000 years ago. Eight feet long and three to four feet wide, it subsisted on fish, he said.
F. J. Moreau, dean of the School on Law, underwent major surgery at Watkins hospital today. His condition is reported as good. The operation was performed at 7 a.m.
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Atomic Officials To Visit Here
Research facilities of the University will be inspected Saturday by two of the nation's leading scientists and administrators in the atomic energy research program.
They are Dr. Stephen Lawroske, director of the chemical engineering division of the Argonne National laboratory in Chicago; and Dr. Lyle B. Borst, chairman of the reactor science and engineering department, Brookhaven National laboratory, Long Island, N. Y. They will be guests of Dr. James O. Maloney, director of the University research foundation and head of the chemical engineering department here.
Drs. Lawroske and Borst will be on the program for the fall meetings of the Engineering College research and Administrative councils in Kansas City, Mo., Thursday and Friday. Dr. Maloney will be a member of a roundtable at that conference Friday, speaking on "Increasing Faculty Interest in Research."
Dr. Borst is familiar with K. U and Kansas, having been a member of the adult education panel that toured the state in 1946 under the direction of Prof. Hilden Gibson. The panel discussed the then very new problem of atomic energy.
Elyria, Ohio — (U.P.)—Mr. and Mrs. Hugh C. Amidon believe they may have uncovered a station used by the "underground railroad" to smuggle slaves to Canada during pre-Civil War days.
Shelter For Slaves Believed Uncovered
The couple have been unable to find any other logical explanation for the small, oval bricked-in room which was found under an old porch at their home.
At first they thought it was a cistern, but it showed no signs of ever having held water. One of the walls is directly against the foundation of the house, indicating there may have been an outlet from the room into the basement.
Eleven new members will be initiated into Philambda Upsilon, honorary society in chemistry, at 5 p.m. Wednesday in the Pine room, Luther Hall, president, announced today.
Chemistry Society To Initiate Eleven
A welcoming dinner for new and old members will follow at 6 p. m. in the Palm room. Dr. Joseph Bureckhalter, associate professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, will speak.
Those to be initiated are Richard Alsup, Laurence Breed, Philip Davis, Louis Mattison, Charles Shull, and Archer Wilcox, graduate students; Dean Collins, College senior; Richard Heiny engineering senior; Lane Harod, Richard Canders and George Walrafen, engineering juniors.
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Little Man On Campus
"Well, by George, if it isn't Professor Snarf—way, way out in Podunk Junction-320 miles from school—imagine seeing YOU in THIS place. By the way, Prof., ya have any idea what I get out of your course?"
100 Geologists Will Check Oil Strata
Oil discoveries in Wabaunsee county will be investigated by more than 100 geologists at a field conference Friday, Dr. J. M. Jewett, geologist of the state geological survey, announced today.
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The trip will begin at 8:00 a.m. Friday from west Topeka near the highway 40, city route bridge, Dr. Jewett said. The conference is sponsored by the Kansas Geological society, composed of professional geologists of the state and many of them oil geologists from Wichita.
A study of various rocks in Western Shawnee and eastern Wabauce县 county to the chief office trip. Dr. Jewett said. Recent oil discoveries in Wabauce县 county led to this investigation of rocks important to oil geologists.
Approximately 25 geologists from the state and federal geological surveys and the department of geology at the University will attend the conference.
Carr To Attend ECPD
T. DeWitt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture will attend the annual meeting of the Engineers' Council for Professional Development in Chicago Thursday.
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