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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Local Chinchillas Have Many Strange Habits
Two-thousand four-hundred and fifty dollars is a big price for three little animals. But that is the value given by the owner of a trio of chin-chillas. The owner in this case is Mr. L. L. Van Gaasbeek, 920 Missouri street.
pelts of these creatures make luxurious fur coats most often seen
The pelts of me on movie stars. One long coat is made of 212 pelts and may be priced beyond $100,000, Mr. Van Gaasbeek said.
Housed in small wire cages in the basement of the house, these bluish-gray rodents are easy to raise. They are odorless and require feeding once a day. Their diet is vegetarian, and they can be fed on one cent a day.
Chinchillas are a cross between a rat and a rabbit and they have small bushy tails, from which paint brushes are made. Their fur is quite dense, related M. Van Gaasbeek, and in place of the rabbit's one hair chinchilla have 60. Water plays no part in the chinchilla's life except for drinking purposes and they bathe in sand and talcum powder.
The use of these mischievous creatures for making coats at the present time is still in the experimental stages so chinchilla raisers are using them for breeding purposes, continued Mr. Van Gaasbeek. The chinchilla population of the United States is 42,000 and since it takes so many pelts to make a coat, breeders are waiting until the half-million mark is reached before pelting them.
Mr. Van Gaasbeek became the first chinchilla breeder in Kansas one year ago. Today there are 39 of them with three breeders located in Lawrence. Churches are the biggest chinchilla investors, he said.
For the protection of the chinchilla breeder there is a national association which issues a monthly magazine, the Chinchilla Breeder, and guarantees sale of a chinchilla in case its mate might die. In this event it would be replaced by another from the original salesman.
Visiting hours at the Mr. Van Gaasbeek home are in the evenings and Sundays. The evenings are the best time to see the chinchillas since they have weak eyes and appear only when it is dark.
Island Sinks Gradually
Los Angeles — (U.P.)— Geologists at the University of California at Los Angeles report that the filled land of Terminal island, a large naval and shipping installation here, is sinking at the rate of 17 inches per year.
Deflation Hits Bowery
"Business is off," the proprietor explained.
New York—(U.P.)—Sam's Bar and Grill. just off the Bowery, cut the price of beer today from a dime to a nickel for a regular-size seven-ounce glass.
Improved Films Are Expected
More educational films dealing with English, music and social science are expected as a result of the conference between educators and film suppliers, according to Fred Montgomery, director of the bureau of visual education.
About 60 persons representing state superintendents of schools, directors of visual education and other educators from 11 midwestern states conferred with directors of the educational service of the Motion Pictures association and the Teaching Film Custodians at the conference held at the Eldridge hotel recently.
Other films which the educators indicated were needed included regional films such as those showing the way of life followed in China, Latin America, India and Africa.
Pittsburgh — (U,P)— Bill Bauman wishes he had let well enough alone.
Taxes Backfire On Complainant
He wrote a letter to the county treasurer to complain about a bill for $52.50 for 1946 taxes due on a piece of property. He asked additional information.
Mr. Bauman received the additional information—plus a bill for $16.08 in taxes due on the property from 1905. A clerk looking through the records found that Mr. Bauman had not paid up that year.
Police Chief Uses Muscles, Not Gun
Sidney, Ohio—(U.P.)-Police Chief William O'Leary might just as well not have a gun, for in his 56 years as head of the Sidney police department he never has been forced to use it to subdue a man.
The law enforcement official, who has never taken a vacation, believes "religion and education are the best remedies for crime."
But the 78-year-old chief has had to use physical force, often half-dragging intoxicated persons more than a mile to iail.
The grasshopper jumps a height of more than 100 times its own length.
Students Are Best Publicity Agents
Students are the most effective public relations agents the University has, Thomas Yoe, director of public relations, told members of Alpha Phi Omega Tuesday.
Students cannot paint conditions a "rosy pink" because they are taught to be critical, Mr. Yoe said. However they should avoid painting the University blacker than it is.
All agents of University public relations—the faculty, the students, the Sour Owl, the Bitter Bird, the Daily Kansas, the Jayhawker, the Dove, the Alumni office, the Extension division, and the administration, should be careful of what they sav. Mr. Yoe told the group.
Mr. Yoe said that if everyone who acts as a public relations agent for the University will carefully consider what he tells about K.U., much bad publicity can be avoided.
Three drops of wood alcohol, valued at $250, were purchased recently by the Research foundation for use in studying radioactive tracer techniques.
Research Men Study Radioactive Tracers
Dr. J. O. Maloney, director of the University Research foundation, is supervising the project. Henry E. Hughes, graduate student, is an assistant.
The wood alcohol, which contains radioactive carbon- atoms, is being used by the department of chemical engineering on a project sponsored by the Navy. Radioactive tracer techniques are being studied to see if they can be applied to distillation processes in the petroleum, and other industries.
The three drops weighed only .032 grams and have now been diluted in 120 grams of ordinary methyl alcohol to form a stock solution. The supply is expected to last about two months.
Kansans Can Use This Method Now
Reading. Pa. —(U.P.) The city council was startled by one reply to a query of how to rid the city hall of a pigeon nuisance.
The suggestion was to get the pigeons drunk.
Replies began pouring in when city hall custodians said the birds were a nuisance in the cornices and on window sills.
One taxpayer suggested soaking rye and wheat in whiskey and spreading the feed about the building. When the pigeons became tipsy, he pointed out, it would be easy to capture them.
There are eight great rivers in the United States: Hudson, Delaware, Potomac, Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, Columbia and Colorado.
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You Aren't The Only One
Chicago, Ill.—(U.P.) — Hogs have stomach ulcers, too. So do nearly all species of domestic animals, a current issue of the Prairie Farmer says.
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