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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, SEPT. 29, 1947
Taking A Powder On Tennessee
"Thru" Street -- To The Morgue
Powder plant on Tennessee street? Why, the very idea! The Lawrence city council "in the interests" of the public would never, never allow such a danger!
Friday a red truck plainly marked "Explosives" thundered down Tennessee street. This moving arsenal was caught in the University change of classes at 2 o'clock. Like other powder trucks which use Tennessee street for a thoroughfare, the red truck held up traffic and forced whole lines of cars to wait for it to pass.
Why not travel down Tennessee street? There is no ordance on the Lawrence law books saying powder trucks can't. The city council has never seen fit to do anything about the danger.
A check with the Sunflower Ordnance works at De Soto yielded the statement that Sunflower powder trucks do not travel down Tennessee street now that school is in session. The public relations officer emphasized, however, that the ordinance works has no control over the trucks
after they leave the plant.
The agreement not to travel down Tennessee street was made between the trucking companies and the Interstate Commerce Commission. The new route between the Sunflower plant and U. S. highway 24 is supposed to be along Massachusetts street.
Lawrence officials did not solve this difficulty. It had to be done by other agencies. And still powder trucks travel down Tennessee street, endangering lives and property on the way.
Add this danger to the rough surfacing on Tennessee. Multiply by all the rows of cars parked on each side. Subtract the narrowness of the street which is designated as an arterial cross-town route. Divide by the heavy traffic continuously running along this street. Then figure your chance of getting through without an accident.
About as small as the chance that the Lawrence city council will ever do anything about it, isn't it?
You Have Time
Ever catch yourself saying, "But I don't have time?"
College days and hours are crowded. But check just how many hours it takes to do everything you have to do against the number of hours in a week. Undoubtedly you'll find that you do have time. Let's do it on a five day basis.
Take the average 15 hours of classes a week a student attends. Add five hours for laboratory courses. Add 30 hours of study on the basis of two hours of study for every hour of class.
Then take the hours it takes you to go to and from school each day. Add eight hours for sleep and two hours for eating. Multiply these by five and you get 55 hours spent on the necessary functions of daily life. Figure in four hours for the club
Added all together you will have a sum total of 109 hours. Balance this against the 120 hours there are in five days. You have left over 11 hours a week for dating, extra study, or hitting the local "spots" with your friends.
or University organization you belong to.
This isn't even counting the 48 hours of Saturday and Sunday. You really do have the time.
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“wheels.” Please disregard.
Dear Editor---editor-In-Chief ... Clarke Thomas
Managing Editor ... William T. Smith
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Manager ... Alan Cromley
Sports Editors ... James Raglin
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Wire Editor ... Charles Hayes
In addition to University-approved rooms and University-approved landlords, I think it would be well to go one step farther and add a list of University-approved roomers.
I'm young and share with all students a youthful zest for living. But it is readily understandable to me why an older landlord might become vexed at finding his star boarder stone-cold in the second-floor bath-tub. Fully dressed, that is.
ROOMERS ARE FLYING
We appreciate your loyalty to University traditions in wearing your freshmen caps. But how about not wearing them in classrooms, convocations, and churches?
Dear Students,
My youthful zest for living received a severe jolt when a recent "paying guest" informed me that he had planted both feet firmly on a fragile hot-air duct "as a scientific test to ascertain whether or not it would hold a man's weight." He was abashed when the test proved it would not.
Freshmen Students.
Please disregar
Recently I had to journey upstairs myself to halt a basketball game which was in wild progress at a late hour. It was great, complete with referee's whistle and a most enthusiastic cheering section.
University Daily Kansan
ROOMERS ARE FLYING Dear Editor,
Yes, my roomers are active ones. They engage in sports ranging from horse-shoes and wrestling to Russian dance-steps, Hoy! They have such "different" friends. Visitors ignore the bell. (One even ignored the door. He crawled in through a second floor window.)
Sincerely yours.
Oh, well.
I was awakened one night by someone sounding like a chicken. It must have been a code, for shortly came the cry of a freightened hen from the second floor. Then the clomp, clomp of booted feet descending the stairs. (Where could they be going at three in the morning?)
Bill James, College sophomore.
P. S. There will probably be eight vacancies at 912 Alabama tomorrow. If interested, drop around. P. P. S. I have just been informed that it was not a chicken which the late caller imitated. It was the mating call of the Jayhawk!
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