16, 1948
UNIVERSITY. DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1948
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Business Office Cashiers Do A Land Office Business
"We're out of money, no more checks cashed today," and the little window went down. The group of people gathered around the pay windows of the business office walked peevishly away.
"The vets have done it again," they mumbled, checks still in hand.
"The vets have done it again," they mumbled, checks still in hand. Though often crippled by these rush days when veterans cash their allotments, the check
Though often crippled by the subsistence allotments, the check cashing service of the business office has carried on since November, 1946, when the Student Union operating committee provided working capital for this much needed addition to the business office.
From 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. six days a week, the business office employees dole out cash to these fortunates and balance the books when the window goes down. Mrs. Charlotte Brannum, cashier, and her assistant, Mrs. Connie Stanley, are in charge of this window under which as high as $16,000 in checks are cashed in one day.
Since that time the "hill bank" has been averaging 2,500 checks a month over the counter from veteran's, freshman with that "dough from home," and hungry faculty members coming in with their monthly pay checks.
Since they ask for complete identification at the window, they have not been bothered by forgeries. This semester, however, one student tapped them for $73.25 in a manner
which still has them baffled.
Quite a few checks bounce be- cause of insufficient funds. These, however, are almost always made good, Karl Klooz, bursar, said.
"The few losses we sustain are absorbed by the earnings account derived from the fees charged for cashing checks," he said, adding that, "The 10 or 25 cents that you pay to have your check cashed also pays the salary of the assistant cashier."
When questioned concerning how much money was transacted in an average day, Mr. Klooz stated, "From the first until the tent during which time the veterans bring in their checks, between $8,000 and $15,000 pass through the windows in a day. From then until the first of the month we average about $4,000 a day. In an average month we handle between $150,000 and $200,000."
"This is a sizeable little business even though we don't have any depositors or brass spittoons," he said.
Foreign Language Made Easy In Texas; Just Throw The Text Book Away
Brownsville, Texas—(UP)—Put a group of Mexican students who can't speak English into a room with a teacher who can't speak Spanish—and they'll learn English faster than in ordinary language classes.
That's the verdict from Brownsville Junior college, which conducted a unique experimental English class. The college liked the idea so well it has put it in as a permanent classroom___ procedure.
Fourteen students, most of them from across the Rio Grande in Mexico, enrolled in the first class with Mrs. G. B. Winstead as instructor.
Except for a spelling book no textbooks were used.
None of the students spoke English; Mrs. Winstead knew not a word of Spanish.
The students and their instructor discussed everyday life, talked about the weather, and didn't bother too much about learning a set English
vocabulary—but they never uttered a word that wasn't in English.
There was in the class a Matamoras bartender, who'd like to serve drinks to his United States trade; and a telephone operator who wanted to handle international calls.
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"Every person in there had a specific reason for wanting to speak English." Mr. Winstead said. "That's why they'd sit in the room three hours a day, reading United States magazines and talking only in English."
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More than 200 Kansas high school seniors took the preliminary Summerfield scholarship examination at Colby, Concordia, Dodge City, Lawrence, Parsons, and Wichita Monday.
Thirty students will be selected to take the final exam April 9 and 10.
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Research Slides Shown
Prof. E. H. Herrick, zoologist, showed slides on research work done in endocrinology of fowls at Kansas State college to the zoology seminar Monday. He is from the department of zoology at Kansas State college.