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DAY, MARCH 11, 1949
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some Governors Are Asking How Old Can A Mansion Get?
So you'd like to be governor and live in a mansion?
Not if you had to live in the one Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York is home. The roof leaks.
Gov. Kerr Scott of North Carolina has to contend with falling plaster in a reception room. *
Gov. Forrest Smith of Missouriorted that his mansion is "oldfioned and drafty," and that the acre basement floor is crumb-bto pieces.
Many other governors queried in survey listed similar complaints. canitals report that most of
Even Dewey's domicile at Albany
't too bad.
the executive magnus are exactly fair shape. Several were fired or treated to major overalls since the war.
On several occasions, the former publican presidential candidate described it as "a nice place," the roof leaks." Constant rears are necessary, especially to modeled plumbing.
in 1947 a special state commission commended that a new mansion built. At that time Dewey said: It is completely obsolete in many spects and the expense of mainning it increases heavily each ar as it becomes older and more sensitive repairs become necessary." but there is plenty of room for wey's two teen-aged sons and Great Dane "Gerry."
me rambing, 30-room, three-
y structure has been occupied by
w York governors since 1874. It
is built by joining together two
Dutch homes.
All you have to do is look for itself," he said. "The plaster is ring loose in the reception room and the veneer on the furniture in room keeps flaking off.
Gov. Scott of North Carolina said mansion generally is in sad one.
The kitchen is out of date and it handle the receptions. The peting is wearing thin on the $^{48}$."
It is a new tenant. He has hed in the mansion only six weeks, Gov. Smith of Missouri said that o chairs in the gold room were such bad shape that "we had to be them upstairs because we were aid to let anybody sit in them." The mansion is right off Jeffer-
City's main thoroughfare, and there is little privacy. Capitol callers on in at all hours.
the 20-room house overlooks the souri river, but it also overlooks Missouri Pacific railroad, with chugging, whistle-blowing eng-
he said there are 67 steps from basement to the third floor, he plans to ask the legislature $15,000 to install an elevator.
I'd be in favor of moving out the mansion into a smaller and modern house a little removed in town." Smith said.
Gov. J. Bracken Lee of Utah said mansion is a "white elephant." Ice has two sons and two daugh-
one by a former marriage he in West Point. He said he doesn't need all the 34 rooms in the mansion.
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YWCA Selects 14 Candidates
Fourteen candidates for the Y.W.C.A. cabinet election Wednesday, March 16, were chosen by the election committee Wednesday. The election will be held in the rotunda of Frank Strong hall and Henley house.
All members in good standing are eligible to vote. Newly elected cabinet members will take office Sunday, May 1.
Candidates are: president, Shirley Rice. College sophomore and Nancy Smith, journalism junior; secretary, Marye Douglass, College freshman and Sally Pegues, College junior; treasurer, Jane Keith, and Ann Learned, College juniors.
A. S.C. representative, Margaret Dickinson, College sophomore, and Sheila Wilder, College junior; district representative, Delores Dean, College freshman, and Jerre Quinn, College junior; Student Religious council, Donna Hull, College sophomore; Sue Ihinger, College freshman; Joyce Rohrer, and Shirlego Sandker, fine arts juniors.
ADS Votes To Build Fraternity House
Alpha Delta Sigma, professional advertising fraternity, voted Wednesday to begin a fund to build a fraternity house.
William E. Beck, journalism senior and president of the fraternity, said no site or date for construction has been sat. The fraternity does not have a house now.
The fraternity also voted to hold a dinner-meeting at the Hotel Eldridge Thursday, March 31, for Donald Davis, national president of Alpha Delta Sigma.
Ralph Andrea Elected Chairman Of ASTE
Ralph E. Andrea, engineering junior, was elected chairman of the student chapter of the American Society of Tool Engineers at a meeting Wednesday. He replaces Charles R. Wilderson, engineering junior.
Plans for the organization's part in the annual School of Engineering and Architecture exposition to be held at the University Friday, April 22, and Saturday, April 23, were shown, and duties were assigned to members participating in the exposition.
HS Girls To Visit KU
About 100 high school students will visit the home economics department today.
The program was arranged by Omicron Nu, home economics honorary sorority, to acquaint high school girls with the University's home arts program.
Demonstrations and exhibits of student work in home decoration, clothing design, textile testings, experimental foods, and a film on child development will be given in the morning. Miss Viola Anderson, professor of home economics, said.
The group will also tour the Nursery school, home management house, and the Spooner-Thayer Museum of Art. At 3:30 p.m., Mrs. Doris Wilcox, instructor of home economies, will present "The Story Behind Your Dress," illustrated with costumes from the Museum of Art and costume plates made by clothing design students.
Foods classes under the direction of Mrs. Jessie Stene, instructor of home economics, will serve a tea.
High schools to be represented are: Eudora, Haskell, Lawrence, Lecompton, Olathe, Oskaloosa, Perry, Topeka, Vinland, and Washburn Rural of Topeka.
Graduate Student To Get Fellowship
A graduate student will be nominated soon for a new research fellowship in geology worth $1,250 for the 1949-50 school year, Cecil G. Lalicker, professor of geology, said today.
The University of Kansas was given the award by the California company, New Orleans. The midcontinent field oil-producing subsidiary of the Standard Oil company of California. This company awards about six such fellowships to eastern and middlewest universities each year.
H. N. Dickey, chief geologist for the California company, in offering the fellowship specified that Professor Lalicker assume direction of the graduate research project.
The fellowship will also pay the fees of the holder if such benefits have not been provided by the G.I. bill.
Ex-Teacher Gets Award
A former University teacher, Edwin Ward Tillotson, will receive the 1949 Bleininger Memorial award of the American Ceramic society Friday, March 11. This award is the highest given in the ceramic field.
Mr. Tillotson is also the cover subject of the February issue of Chemical and Engineering News magazine.
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