APRIL 9,1947
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
American Holidays Should Include Grandmother's Day, Says Othman
By FREDERICK C, OTHMAN
United Press Staff Correspondent
Washington—(UP) — What this country needs is 19 more holidays, including American Indian day, national heart week, Bible study month and—in particular — grandmother's day.
The congressmen who wrote the bills for all the new celebrations—and let us not forget the Revere's ride, nor the day the slaves were freed—appeared with their constitutions before the house judiciary committee to urge more days of rest for Americans.
I cheered 'em every one (being a little tired, myself), while Rep. John M. Robison of Kentucky, the chairman, received them all politely. He was particularly cordial to the ladies, who wore service stripes to indicate how many times they had been grandmothers.
Wear Grandmother Stripes
A bill would turn the second Sunday of October into grandmother's day.
Mrs. Grace Gray, a one-striper identified herself as national secretary of the National Grandmother's clubs. Six thousand grandmothers pay dues.
Few Hate To Admit It
"Are there," asked Representative Robison in his best judicial manner,
Mrs. Gray said that there were a few, unfortunately. Quickly she changed the subject.
"any ladies who don't like to admit they are grandmothers?"
"Now we have mother's day and father's day," she said, "but grandmother is more important. She is the mother of the father and the mother. I know it is a great day when a person becomes a father, or a mother, but I can tell you, Mr. Congressman, that the great thrill of a lifetime is when a mother becomes a grandmother."
Need Grandfather's Club
"Well now is there a grandfather club, too?" inquired Representative Robson, who is a grandfather. Mrs. Gray had learned that fact before-hand and she replied:
"I believe you would make a very good instigator of the grandfather's club, for which I understand there already is a demand."
Ohio College Opens Course In 'Dating'
The congressman thanked all those who would declare more' holidays. And I thank them again, now. It is a long wait until July 4.
Bowling Green, Ohio—(UP)—The learn-as-you-go technique in "dating," according to Dr. Samuel Harman Lowrie, is all wrong. He says this activity demands an intelligent approach.
Dr. Lovrie, chairman of the sociology department of Bowling Green State university is doing just that. The gray-haired father of two children introduced a sociology course at Bowling Green this semester devoted entirely to "dating."
The co-educational class is limited to 30 first-year students, giving college credit, which makes it the first of its kind in the country, the instructor believes.
"During the 25 years I have conducted marriage and family classes," Dr. Lowrie said, "the need for fundamental education in 'dating' before young people date, rather than after, has become apparent."
Help In Choosing Mates
"In discussing marriage before adult groups, I have become aware of an almost unanimous desire for an intelligent approach to helping young people in dating," he said.
Dr. Lowrie further believes the course will aid students in picking a husband or wife.
"Social mingling permits young people to judge and choose among themselves," he explained. "They should realize that love is not the only thing involved in the selection of a life-time partner.
"Marriage for most people is the most important decision of their lives, yet they know little about it. Not much effort has been made to teach young people to choose a bride or bridegroom intelligently."
Dr. Lowrie is writing a textbook on dating problems which he hopes will encourage other universities to establish similar courses.
Chicago—(UP) Relief rolls are lengthening throughout the nation, the current issue of Public Welfare, monthly journal of the American Public Welfare Association, reports.
Magazine Reports Relief Roll Increase
The article, attributes the increase to inflation, which has raised the cost of living index from 127 in 1945 to more than 150.
Families with "marginal incomes" also are exhausting their savings for current living expenses, according to the magazine.
Doctors Attend Course On Surgery Problems
A three-day general surgery refresher course began Monday at the School of Medicine in Kansas City, The Kansas Medical society and the State board of health are co-sponsors of the program, which emphasizes problems confronting the general practitioner and the surgeon.
Dr. Warren H. Cole, professor of surgery at the University of Illinois School of Medicine, and Dr. James Barrett Brown, associate professor of Washington university School of Medicine, are the visiting instructors.
New Fire Truck Has Long Ladder To Rescue You
Dr. Cole is a specialist in chest and abdominal surgery, and Dr. Brown specializes in plastic surgery.
When fire breaks out in Fraser hall, and you're stranded in one of the fifth floor towers, you may live anyway. The Lawrence fire department has a new $20,000 truck with 40MPA driven, 100-foot telescoping ladder.
Washington. (UP)—Spare stamp no. 11 became good for 10 pounds of sugar when the sugar rationing program got a new seven month lease on life from congress.
New Sugar Stamp Valid
The department made a test run on Fraser Saturday. Five minutes after arrival, the top of the ladder had reached the fifth floor tower windows. It is driven by a hydraulic pump that operates off the engine.
No. 11 was the first regularly issued stamp since sugar rationing began to carry an allotment of 10 pounds. Heretofore sugar stamps have been good for five pounds. The extension guarantees housewives at least 20 pounds of sugar between now and Oct. 31.
It also carries 1,000 feet of $ \frac{2}{3} $ inch hose and weighs 12 tons.
Just to be safe, the truck carries
an additional 200 feet of wooden
ladder.
But if all this fails to rescue any stranded victims, Lawrence firemen have one more device—the truck carries a life net.
'Hotel Mine' Is Key To Portal Pay Problem
St. Clairsville, Ohio. (UP)--Miners are clamoring to go to work at the soft coal pits of the Willow Grove mine near here.
Portal-to-portal has taken on a new meaning for the 600 men regularly employed. No Standing In Cold Air
No Standing In Cold Air
No longer must the miners stand in the cold winter air outside the entrance before going to work. No longer must they ride in uncomfortable mine coal cars through old workings to get to their jobs.
The Hanna Coal Company has solved the portal-to-portal problem with a "hotel mine."
Now the men ride 175 feet in a passenger elevator. The trip takes 22 seconds. Then they walk through a concrete, electric-lighted corridor, a revolving door and are within a few paces of the face of the coal.
One of the unusual features of the new portal is a revolving door at the bottom of the elevator shaft through which the men must pass to get to and from their jobs.
The new portal at Willow Grove, according to officials, is believed the only one of its type in the nation.
The portal building has, besides the passenger elevator service, a 25-shower dressing room that will accommodate 600 men, modern toilet facilities, a lounging room, drinking fountains, and just across the way is a modern restaurant with hot meals available for each of the three shifts, night and day.
The door was built to keep the ventilating blast of the mine from the elevator shaft. The door keeps the portal building and its various rooms from having a draft.
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Sinatra Fells Writer With One Punch
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Hollywood—(UF)—Crooner Frank Sinatra felled new York columnist Lee Mortimer with one punch in the foyer of Ciro's, plush film-colony nightclub, because, he said today, the writer insulted him.
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"He called me a Dago ___ " the
singer said, "so I let him
have it."
The 135-pound, five-foot seven-inch New York Daily Mirror column said he was leaving the club when he ran across the crooner.
"Before I knew what happened, Frank hit me on the left side of the head and knocked me down." Mortimer said in a sheriff's report.
Mortimer said Sinatra's companions held him down while the singer pummed him "two or three more times."
Mortimer denied that he made any remarks about Sinatra, but said that he has frequently mentioned in his newspaper column that "Sinatra can't sing."
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Social Notes Take Up Most Of Air Mail
New York-(UP) - Nearly two-thirds of all air mail is made up of social correspondence, United Air Lines officials reported after a spot check at 11 cities across the nation.
The survey revealed that at only one time during any 24-hour period—at night—does business correspondence take the lead. Social letters constitute 76 per cent before noon, 69 per cent in the afternoon and 45 per cent at night. The overall total gave social air mail 65 per cent and business correspondence 35 per cent.
Vancouver, B. C. — (UP) — The "three R's" may be riding, rotating and repartee when truck and taxi drivers get together at the University of North Carolina, driving and traffic safety. Enrollment will be limited to 50 students at $10 a head and it is hoped to make the course an annual event.
Truck Drivers To Learn 3R's
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additional words 1c 2c 2c
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LADIES Onyx ring. Call 2905-J. Re-
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ONYx Ring. Call 2959-J.
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LIGHT Horseshide zipper jacket.
white paint on elbow of sleeve. Reward.
Please notify Kansan office.
BLACK Brief case containing class notes
"Meadowry" by the Boys'
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BLACK Billfold on campus. Contains
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Reger. Wearl, 100 Tennessee, phone
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ELGIN Wristwatch with flexible silver
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SHEAFFER Lifetime fountain pen.
pen. Engraved in engraver. E.Cater. Call 1218-R. Reward.
WILL MAN who found a Rollex wrist-
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MAN'S Rose gold Elgin wristwatch
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Reward.
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