JANUARY 22,1947
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
Atomic Heating Would Solve K.U. Power Plant Fuel Shortages
University power plant workers got a brief scare during the Christmas holidays. Using up reserve fuel oil at the rate of one barrel every even minutes, they were down to mere three days' supply by the time school took up again and they shifted back to burning gas.
switched back to carrying If anything happens to that gas supply, the power plant men know the going will be tough, what with threatened 1947 transportation strikes possibly lying up oil stores.
What's more, they realize that if the heat ever stops pouring into University pipes, even for only a few hours (just enough to let water pipes freeze), the cost will run well nigh a million dollars.
The government, working through the laboratories of the Monsanto Chemical Co., in Oak Ridge, Tenn. has put out tentative blueprints for an atomic heating plant.
So they must have looked with great relief on a recent U.S. government news release, hinting that in the not-too-distant future, fuel worries will be as outdated as spats.
In such a plant, a one-inch cube of U-235 would generate enough power to run the ocean liner Queen Mary all the way from New York to England.
England. He also run the K.U. power plant from Nov. 1 to April 1, on a cold year, providing both heat and electric power at the same time.
The furnace, as designed by Monsanto, is big, but not too complicated. The warmer are simmering uranium rods. Over the rods passes cool gas, which is heated and forced into a conventional boiler.
Water, passing through pipes in the boiler, is converted to steam, which drives a power generator, and goes on to heat the buildings. The steam is condensed to water again and sent back through the boiler.
There is no danger because of the radiation of gamma rays in the setup described by the Monsanto blue-prints. The furnace itself is surrounded by a thick wall of barrier material, and even the uranium-heated gas never touches the water in the boiler pipes.
The gamma rays are stopped by the barrier material, and all other fission products are carried away by a kind of exhaust outlet.
Although the cost of such a unit would be too great for most heating plants, the cost of supplying the furnace with U-235 would be comparatively low, the report said.
In fact, it was pointed out, the substance left after the U-235 has been used is more valuable than the uranium. What's left is plutonium, the material used in atomic bombs.
Clavicle Is Spare Part, Doctors Say
San Francisco. (UP) -You really don't need your collar bone, and you may even be better off without it in some cases of disease or dislocation of the shoulder.
That is the conclusion of Drs. Vearne T. Inman and J.B.Saunders of the University of California.
The scientists say the function of the clavicle has been generally misunderstood. It has been assumed, they state, that the collar bone "acts as a sort of flexible outrigger which serves as a prop for the shoulder, thus establishing the conditions necessary for free action of the arm."
Doctors Inman and Saunders say their research shows the loss of the collar bone results in no drooping of the shoulder and no loss of motion of the arm. The only consequence of its removal is a slight instability when a weight is carried over the head.
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Madison, Wis. (UP)—The University of Wisconsin has bought the scientific library of the late Chester H. Thordarson, electrical genius and inventor, for $300,000. The collection comprises 11,000 volumes and was purchased with a fund donated by alumni and friends as living memorial gifts.
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Government Is Liable For Union Pay Claims
Washington. (UP) - Undersecretary of War Kenneth C. Royall estimated today that union claims for portal-to-portal pay may cost the government more than 400 million dollars.
He told a senate judiciary subcommittee the government would have to stand the cost for most of the portal pay liabilities of cost-plus-fixed-fee war contractors. No legal liability exists in cases involving lump sum payment contractors, he said, but the government might have an "equitable and moral" obligation.
New Arctic Frontiers Open, Explorer Says
He explained that the cost-plus contracts totaled more than 40 billion dollars between 1941 and 1946. Although most of those contracts have been terminated, he said, the termination agreements made the government liable for any still undetermined costs.
Pawhuska, Okla. (UP) — Those who harbor hopes of finding new frontiers to conquer may find encouragement in the views of Sir Hubert Wilkins, noted explorer.
Speaking before Pawhuska's Town hall meeting, Sir Hubert told his audience that "if the world population continues to increase at the present rate, the countries will in time become so over-populated that it will be necessary to pioneer new fields to provide food for them."
He declared that in the Arctic and Antarctic regions the potentialities for such pioneering are offered. The people of the world, as a whole, he said, have many misconceptions about these areas and their possible benefits to the world.
Wilkins pointed out that in those regions, commonly believed to be only vast masses of ice and snow, lie great opportunities.
ine grease regions. The polar regions contain one of the greatest, if not the greatest, oil basins in the world. They are rich in minerals, with coal out-croppings and semi-precious metals such as uranium," he explained.
In 1945, New York State collected $334,891.65 in unceashed pari-mutuel tickets, which represent a "donation" by bettors who either lost or never cashed their winning tickets.
Under the law, bettors are entitled to payment on winning tickets up to the next April 1 following the date of purchase. If the unclaimed winnings are not collected by that date, the money is turned over to the state.
They Bet, Don't Collect
Albany, N.Y. (UP)—A surprising number of persons go to racetracks, pick the winning horse and never collect their winnings.
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