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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1949
Hard Work, Good Planning Goes Into Union Meals
The task of serving over a million meals a year occupies the energy of 250 employees of the Union.
Led are five full-time dietitians, one cafeteria manager for the a manager for the Palm room.
na Zipple, who is in charge of the entire He
Next to Miss Hermina Zipple, management, Miss Lola Hill, cafeteria manager, has the most responsible job on the staff. Not only does she plan the menus, but she has charge of the two cafeterias and the rooms on the top floor used for small dinners.
Miss Hill took a Daily Kansan reporter from the sub-basement, where food is stored and the vegetables prepared, to the third floor where special dinners are served. At every point she was careful to explain how the "back shop" of the Union works.
In surveying the over-all picture of the Union, Miss Hill explained that the most expensive item is meat. Canned goods are next and the fresh fruits and vegetables are third highest in cost.
Supplies are obtained from various sources; meat from four companies, canned goods in wholesale lots from several firms and other items from many companies.
"Because we do have to meet high food costs and low selling prices, we make every effort to reduce costs where we can. Thus we can offer students good food at reasonable prices. We also make every effort to give adequate servings for the lowest possible cost." Miss Hill said.
Some of the methods used to cut costs include careful purchasing, which considers the relation of price, quality and other factors, such as drained weight, in canned goods. Careful inspection of merchandise when delivered, scientific methods of preparation, control of amount of food prepared and waste in preparation, care of equipment and proper refrigeration are other ways of reducing cost.
However, one of the most important ways of cutting cost is eliminating waste and giving students the most for the least money.
Although at the first of the year, the amount prepared is done mostly by guesswork, experience and a count of the number eating soon reduces over-preparation and helps to cut costs. Time and labor-saving devices such as potato peelers, mixers, dishwashers, juicers, meat slicers, steam-jacketed kettles and rollwarmers also help reduce expenses.
Virtually all of the cooking is done in the main kitchen on the basement floor. Preparation of vegetables and fowl is done on the sub-basement level and some laying out of salads and desserts is done in the ballroom cafeteria. When prepared, all food is allocated to the floors and transported by one elevator. It is then put in steam tables and served.
Menus are planned a week in advance so that meat, fresh fruits and vegetables may be ordered. The work of each unit of the cooking staff, such as the bake shop, is planned daily.
In addition to the regular dining service, Miss Hill has charge of the special services offered by the Union. Often she must prepare for as many as 10 special dinners during one day. Each of the dinners requires special attention.
The task of keeping students fed and the Union operating is a long job. Both Miss Zipple and Miss Hill get to work as early as 7.30 a.m. and go home around 8:30 p.m.
All of this you get with one meal at the Union.
Here's A New Way To Get Credits
Hiram, Ohio—(UP)—Hiram college students will have their cake and eat it too next spring and summer when the dramatic department will operate the showboat "Majestic" on the Ohio and Kanawha rivers.
A permanent company of players will be on the kerosene-burning paddleboat when it goes from town to town. Hiram college will give six hours of college credit to high school and college students who are used as additional actors, instrumentalists and dancers for the term.
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Official Bulletin
January 3.1949
Inter-Dorm meeting at 5 today Locksley hall.
United World Federalists at 4 p.m today. Pine room of Union.
S.A.M. smoker, 7:30 p.m. tomorrow.
Kansas room of Union. Movies and refreshments.
University Women's club group meetings, Thursday.
Nebraska's 1947 apple crop is estimated at 86,000 bushels, about one bird the 1936-45 average of 233,000 bushels.
Denver—(UP)—A former Indian reservation superintendent charged recently that there is only a "slight" difference between United States reservations and Russian concentration camps.
'Indian Reservations A Russian Method'
Robert Yellowtail, a Montana Crow Indian, told the National Congress of American Indians that residents of both are imprisoned and strictly controlled.
"We are forgotten in a land of plenty," he said. "We are prisoners in the land of our birth."
Mr. Yellowtail said that the government's Indian bureau supposedly was created to "free the red man," but has spent more than a billion dollars since 1903 to keep Indians on reservations.
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Mail subscription: $3 a semester, $4.50 a year, (in Lawrence add $1.00 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence, at all universities after graduation, university year except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays and examination periods. Entered as second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office, Seattle, Kans., under act of March 3, 1879.
One of the first text books to be accompanied by a motion picture supplement is planned by Dr. Robert G. Foster, professor of sociology and home economics. The book is a revision of Dr. Foster's "Marriage and the Family in Human Relations."
Motion Picture, Bibler Drawings Will Enliven Dr. Foster's New Text
The supplementary film, if present plans materialize, will be a 1.500-2,000 foot 16 millimeter reel of a $ \textcircled{a} $
The supplementary military of 2,000 series of human relations situations. It will be available to all schools using the book as a text.
The film will present problems in personality, dating, engagement and other situations in short action sequences, each illustrating a chapter of the book. They will not be complete episodes, Dr. Foster said, but will bring the situation up to the point of conflict, and will be used as a basis for class discussion on the subject.
"The new book." Dr. Foster sait, "will be less like a text and will have a practical emphasis, not academic." Dick Bibler, Daily Kansan cartoonist, will illustrate the revised edition.
The original version of the book, published during the war, was written at the request of the publisher who had been asked to produce a book on the subject by the American Home Economics association.
The new book should be in the hands of the publisher by June 1, Dr. Foster said, and will differ from the present edition in the sections on personality development and understanding, human behavior, human relations and the section on the college student. All will be expanded and revised. Most of the material in the book about situations arising from the war will be eliminated.
If the publisher does not make the supplementary film available with the book Dr. Foster hopes to produce it locally for use in his own classes.
Dr. Foster has had 15 years experi-
ience in family counseling besides
his teaching experience. He now has
two sections in his course.