1949
FRIDAY, MARCH 25.1949
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Atomic City Grows Quickly Creates Local Problems
Oak Ridge, Tenn., March 24—(U.P.)-Folks here can give those in Blackfoot, Idaho, a pretty good idea of what it's like to have a modern atomic city suddenly sprout from empty lands.
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Seven years ago—Oak Ridge, now a city of 35,000, was a quiet rural valley bordered by wooded hills. It wasn't even on pre-war maps as a town. Maps that did show the area $ ^{a} $
nsan.
town. Maps that did show the areas
of blocks called "bills" of bills called
"Black Oak, Ridge."
One phase of the growth of Oak Ridge will be lacking in the building of the new Idaho facility. At least the people in Idaho will know what's going on.
Those who live at Oak Ridge didn't, because then the atomic bomb was just an idea on paper marked with the utmost secrecy.
Howard W. Phillips, 25, who was born on Oak Ridge farm land and now works in a plant there, said, "We just saw a bunch of surveyors traveling around one day, driving posts here and there. They didn't say what their business was. Next year we learned the government is going to buy the land. They sold us what they would give for it. A lot of old-timers hated to give up their homes and leave."
Shortly after that the 90-square mile area was cleared of some 1,000 families. In 1943 the government housebuilding started.
D. K. Shields, a member of the first work crew, recalls "At first here was just chimneys. The whole ridge was stuck full of them. Next thing houses were there and people moving in."
From that time until March 19, Oak Ridge grew and flourished under a blanket of secrecy. People in Clinton, a scant 15 miles away, and in metropolitan Knoxville, 25 miles away, could only speculate on the big project. They knew only that it was pouring thousands of extra trade dollars into their tills and at the same time taxing telephone and power facilities.
Now Oak Ridge, though still owned and operated by the government is a free city and its neighbors are seeing it for the first time. There are miles of modern roadways, business sections scientifically laid out, and 9,000 wartime housing units fast being converted into permanent structures.
All of it has meant a shot in the arm for industry and commerce. It has also brought problems. There have been law suits over how much taxes the operating companies owe the counties and state.
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TRANSPORTATION
TWO ARCHITECTURAL students would
the ride to Los Angeles Easter vacation.
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NSTRUCTOR WILL share expenses for
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FOR CHEMISTRY students. We now have A.D. Mackay's "Periodic Chart of the Elements." For only five cents at the Student Union Bookstore. 31
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THOR AUTOMATIC washing machine with dishwasher. Phone evenings 28533M.
BIBLE: Leather-bound, complete pocket size. "Floyd H. Thunston" in gold letters on outside. Left in men's restroom in library Monday. Finder please contact 1898 603-2547.
I. S.A. Chairmanship applications due by Saturday noon. Blanks at 228 Frank Strong hall.
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Party and Non-Partisan certifications of nomination for the spring election must be submitted to A.S.C. secretary on or before Thursday, March 31.
March 25,1949
Alpha Kappa Psi informal initiation, 7 tonight, Union.
with
Kappa Beta girls coke party. 3:30 p.m. tomorrow, Myers hall residence.
Unitarian Liberal club and General Semantics club, 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Pine room, Union. Prof. Lewis Dexter, Park college, speaker.
Direct from its K.C.
World Premiere
Canterbury club supper and meeting, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, parish house. Special Lenten study.
Student seminar, Saturday and Sunday, Reorganized Church of Christ 12th and Vermont streets.
Independent Women's Political senate, 5 p.m. Monday, 107 Frank Strong hall.
SUNDAY
11:15 SATURDAY OWL &
Mathematical colloquium of the department of mathematics, 5 p.m. Monday, 203 Frank Strong hall. "A Remark on Riemann's Integral," Arthur H. Kruse.
Filarious Days
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Suggest you come early for choice seats and avoid standing in line.
Travel bureau will be open starting Monday, March 28 at Union activities office. Check for rides and train, bus, and plane schedules from Kansas City, Lawrence, Topeka, and Manhattan.
Student Union activities bridge tournament 7 to 10:15 p.m. Monday, March 28, Union ballroom. Preliminaries for Big Seven bridge tournament. All undergraduates invited to participate.
Men's Independent Political party, 7:30 p.m. Monday, 210 Frank Strong hall. All members urged to attend.
Phi Sigma, Monday noon, 301 Snow. Wayne Reeve, "Collecting and Preserving Amphibians and Reptiles."
Patches Become Riches
Boston—(U.P) — Money grows on aprons for Boston university coeds at the Sargent school of physical education. Aprons "patched" with dollar bills to the tune of more than $100 have been received by the coeds, who had sent them to their parents for "patching" in connection with the school's drive for a $1,000,-000 building fund.
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Hollywood, March 25—(U.P.)—Jane Wyman, a Missouri song-and-dance girl, and Laurence Olivier, a knighted Britlisher, were the new "King and Queen of the movies" to-day.
'Oscars' Go As Expected
The experts had pegged for months as top favorites in the "Oscar" derby. Sir Laurence won the coveted award for his "Hamlet", which received five citations, including best picture of the year.
Their coronation Thursday night as the "best actress" and "best actor" of the year came as a surprise to practically nobody at the 21st annual academy award ceremonies.
Miss Wyman, who used to play beautiful but dumb chorines, switched to a deaf-and-dumb role in "Johnny Beilnda" and won hands down.
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"For once I get an award for keeping my mouth shut," she gasped. "So I'll keep it shut now, too."
Walter Huston was named the best supporting actor of the year for his toothless role as the be-whiskered prospector in "Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
Claire Trevor, the lady tippler in "Key Large", toted home an "Oscar" for that role.
Master - of - ceremonies Robert Montgomery herded the various winners through their pace with split-second timing and kept them hopping on and off the stage as fast as the "Oscars" could be handed out.
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