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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
NOVEMBER 21, 1940
Fred Rustenbach, K.U.'s Blowhard Dreads Sneezes, Burps, Hiccoughs
Here's the biggest "blow-out" on the campus.
He's Mr. Fred Rustenbach, the full-time glass blower hired by the University this fall. Shown above in his office in the aeronautical engineering building, he has just removed a chemical laboratory flask fregas-oxygen flame, and is blowing the glass bubble to the proper size.
To manufacture such chemical equipment, most of which is done to conform with blueprints. Mr. Rustenbach takes a long glass tube, turns it in a flame for several minutes to soften it, seals off the end, and blows his bubble.
The secret of becoming a master glass blower (he is one of the 150 in the United States today) lies in having perfectly-coordinated hands, Mr. Rustenbach says.
The glass tube must be turned in the flame at an absolutely uniform rate. The hands of an untrained person would move at different speeds, softening the glass more in some spots than others and resulting in an irregular bubble when the glass is blown.
The blowing itself is easy, he claims. What's more, the popular belief that glass-blowing is hard on the lungs is baseless. Mr. Rustenbach says. He's been at it for 25 years.
Besides making the flexible glass expand into any shape he desires, Mr. Rustenbach can do tricks in with gas-oxygen flame—he models glass trinkets.
He once designed a glass goblet for a magician. Attached to the hollow stem was a small glass tube which went out at right angles to a rubber bulb. The magician could then hold the glass with two hands and fill it with wine instantly by squeezing the bulb.
It's a complicated process. If he's making a swan, he makes a bubble-like body by blowing, and then twists the hot glass like long strips of taffy to make the neck, legs, and wings.
Mr. Rustenbach works at great speed (he estimates he could set up a complete moonshine still in an hour and a half) but he maintains that a glass blower is "one man who can never be rushed."
Because of that characteristic, he said, glass blowers seldom "make a killing" commercially. He doesn't advise young men to look to that field for a future.
"It's hard to learn, takes years of practice, and is extremely wearing on the nerves," he pointed out.
"In what other profession," he asked, "can you ruin a whole day's work with a sneeze, burp, or hic-cough?"
I.S.A. Council Will Elect
The Independent Student association council will meet today in the office of Dean Henry Werner to elect a vice-president, social chairman, and junior and senior representatives to the council.
Ku Ku To Initiate 23 Members Tonight
Traditional initiation ceremonies of the Ku Ku club will be conducted at 7:30 tonight and will originate at Fraser hall. The men to be initiated, who have been wearing their clothing backward and carrying signs inscribed with "Beat Missouri," will be subjected to varied ritualistic acts including the "duck-walk" up 14th street hill.
The initiates are:
Mead R. Almond, Robert S. Bell,
Robert C. Cato, Richard W. Cory,
James S. Crawford, Walter E. Curtis,
Bernard E. Domann, Jack D.
Dunne, Paul N. Erieson, Wilbur E.
Friesen, Robert N. Glover, Richard
C. Harris, Walter L. Hoffman, Elbert
Cugene Innis, Findley Law, Lewis E.
Mitchell, George M. Polk, Jack W.
Rardin, John H. Stauffer, Earl W.
Strong, Robert E. Stroud, Charles
B. Wheeler, William R. Worwag.
The eight high teams tonight and the eight winners on the first night of the tourney are scheduled for the play-off at 7:30 Tuesday in the Kansas room.
48 Couples Play Second Bridge Round
Forty-eight couples will vie for high honors in the second division of the all-school bridge tournament at 7:30 tonight in the Kansas room of the Union.
Couples that did not play Tuesday and who entered the tournament are to play tonight, according to Carl Henrichson, chairman.
Second high north and south—Lloyd Kerford, James Hopkins and F. J. Osterberg, John Waugh.
High north and south—Don Ferguson, John Humphreys and Ted Reid, Harley Colburn.
High east and west-Bill Gwin, Byron DeHaan and Carl Wiseman, Carl Van Wooden.
Winning teams in the first division were:
Second hih east and west-H. T. Jones, Lawrence Lackey and Eugene Sallee, Bill Docglas.
Modern Choir Tonight
Haworth White, Modern Choir director, said today the Choir would meet at 7:30 tonight in Frank Strong auditorium instead of Lindley hall as previously announced.
Russia Presses UN For Troop Count
Lake Success, N.Y. (UP)—The Soviet Union was expected today to win its campaign for a United Nations inventory of the Allies' overseas forces, and thus strengthen its position as leader in the revived talk of worldwide disarmament.
The troops issue was up for a second round of discussion today in the UN political and security committee.
The United States planned to press its demand that the Soviet proposal for a survey of Allied occupation forces and bases be extended to include those at home. There were indications, however, that the American delegation would abandon this stand if Russia strongly opposed it.
23 Nazis Charged With Camp Atrocities
Nuerberg. (UP)Twenty-three Nazi doctors and scientists pleaded innocent today to United States charges that they committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.
They were charged with responsibility for the torture deaths of hundreds of thousands of concentration camp inmates during the Hitler regime. Sixteen were charged with responsibility for atrocities at the Dachau concentration camp.
Cars In 16 Counties To Get Only One Tag
Topeka (UP)—Approximately half of Kansas' automobiles will carry two license tags—one in front and one behind—in 1947. The rest of the cars and trucks will have only a single license.
American officials said the trial would begin Dec. 9 in the same courtroom where Hermann Goering and 11 other top Nazis were sentenced to death.
Gov. Andrew Schoeppel explained that the state would be unable to buy an additional 75 to 90 tons of steel necessary to manufacture two tags for the state's estimated 700,000 vehicles.
As a result automobile owners in the 16 largest counties will receive only one tag.
British Take Control Of Palestine Railways
The new tags will have black letters and numerals on a white background.
Jerusalem. (UP)—British military authorities took over the Palestine railways today and announced that a 24-hour guard would patrol all lines to protect them from attacks by militant Jewish underground forces.
Lt. Gen. Sir Evelyn Barker, British commander in Palestine, said that only trains passing through Arab areas would be exempt from the general order.
Armored trolleys will precede each train. Checkposts for the British patrols will be established at half-mile intervals.
Barker announced the seizure yesterday after the Irgun Zvai Leumi underground organization threatened to use a "secret weapon" to paralyze the railways.
Phi Alpha Theta Holds Informal Meeting Today
Prospective members of Phi Alpha Theta, national history fraternity, will have an opportunity to meet faculty and student members of the club a 4 p.m. today in the Kansas room of the Union.
After the informal meeting and refreshments, there will be a business session. Vernie Clinch, graduate student and fraternity vice-president, will be the principal speaker.
Beginning this semester, students will not be forced to take final examinations, which exceed two hours, Raymond Nichols. University executive secretary, announced today.
Two Hours Are Still Too Long
The ruling passed at a meeting of the University senate Wednesday. The calendar committee was instructed to prepare a schedule which will accommodate this limitation.
Increased class hours and night classes are responsible for the change, Mr. Nichols said.
Y.M.C.A. Chooses Five National Assembly Delegates
Robert Thayer, Jose Portuguez, Roswell Well, Ernest Eakelin, and Milton Webster will be members of the local delegation to the national assembly of the Student Christian association at the University of Illinois, from Dec. 27 to Jan. 3, it was announced Mondav night at the Y. M. C. A. advisory board meeting. Three more students, one faculty member, and one or two foreign students will be appointed later to the delegation.
George Docking, chairman, presided at the meeting. Reports on programs were made by the student officers, Dean Smith, president; Wesley Elliott, vice-president; and Wilbur Noble, secretary.
Plans decided on by the board include a contribution of $35 to the budget of the Student Religious council; and sending of two representatives of the local Y. M. C. A. to the west central area Young Adult council at Topeka.
Dr. Calvin VanderWerf was appointed as the chairman of the Adult "Y" council, a membership group within the Y. M. C. A. for faculty and townspeople.
Roswell Wahl and Ned Linegar, executive secretary of the V M C. A., are members of the National Assembly Recreation committee.
Cowden Accusers Kansans
Of Trying To Oust Co-ops
Kansas City, Me. (UP)—An attempt is being made in "Kansas and some other states" to legislate cooperatives out of existence, according to Howard A. Cowden, president of the Consumers Cooperative association.
Mr. Cowden, speaking Wednesday night to association members, said, "the fight in Kansas and other states against cooperatives is not being made because ocr opponents honestly believe cooperatives and cooperative members are escaping their fair share of taxes. It is being made in the hope that some way may be found to end the competition of cooperatives by legislating them out of existence."
Pick 20 Women As Members Of New Council
Representatives from each organized independent and sorority house have been chosen to form the new non-political K.U. women's council which will meet for the first time Saturday.
Approved by the Inter-Dorm and Pan-Hellenic councils, the new group will consider scholarship, sports, and house management problems of all women on the campus. Kathryn O'Leary, College senior and president of Pan-Hellenic, and Bonnie Chestnut, College junior and Inter-Dorm council president, began work on the organization ten days ago.
Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women, and Miss Martha Peterson, secretary of Pan-Helenic, will be hostesses at the first luncheon meeting Saturday in the Union building. More specific plans of organization and future actions will be formulated.
Sorority representative are Rosemary Graves, Alpha Chi Omega; Marylyn Smith, Alpha Delta Pi; Marguerite Kerschen, Alpha Omicron Pi; Dorothea Thomas, Chi Omega; Marjorie Dinsmore, Delta Delta Delta; Carolyn Nigg, Delta Gamma; Elizabeth Evans, Gamma Phi Beta; Eleanor Churchill, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Margaret Eberhardt, Kappa Alpha Theta; Joann 'Ruees, Pi Beta Phi; and Caroline Morriss, Sigma Kpha
Independent house representatives include Virginia Shimer, Templin; Nell Brown, Carruth; Rose Ann Madden, Lolliffe; Hilda James, Foster; Dorothy Jones, Sleepy Hollow; Joan Strowig, Watkins; Kate Hanauer, Briar Manor; Joan Gray, Ricker; and Anita Bedell. Locksley.
Representatives from Miller, Corbin, and Hopkins have not yet been chosen.
First K Union Out Tomorrow
The first issue of the K Union, the official newspaper of the Student Union, will be distributed tomorrow.
Featured story will be on the Union-sponsored carnival to be held in the Military Science building Saturday. It also will contain news about the Sunflower Union annex, the midweek dances, intramural winners and a calendar of events which will take place in the Union in the next few weeks.
The newspaper is edited by Virginia Joseph, chairman of the Student Union publicity committee.
Laggards Pay Up
Los Angeles. (UP)—The Bureau of Internal Revenue's announcement last year that its staff of investigators would be greatly increased to ferret out income tax evasions caused 110,000 Americans to rush to Uncle Sam with an additional 170 million dollars.
Electron Microscope Seems Supernatural
Dewey Nemec looked into the lens of a 6-foot electromagnetic microscope and saw for the first time an element magnified 25,000 times.
Mr. Nemec, graduate of the School of Pharmacy in 1944, and instructor of biochemistry, recently explained the operation of the electron microscope at a meeting of Kappa Psi, national pharmacy fraternity, and Kappa Epsilon, national pharmacy sorority.
Can you see an electron if it is magnified 25,000 times?
"Although the idea for the microscope was conceived in 1900, the first one wasn't completed until 1930. There are only 45 electron microscopes in the United States today. The nearest microscope to the University is at Washington university in St. Louis," he explained.
The electron microscope is a device created to determine the crystalline structure of metals but is used in many other ways today most of which are still military secrets.
The electrons are encased by a vacuum tube. They are emitted from tungsten wire, pass through three electronic fields, through the element under study, and onto a photographic plate where they are photographed. By this process a complete picture enlarged 25,000 times can be produced.
"The possibilities of this device are unlimited," Mr. Nemec said. "I wish I could spend another summer working with this twentieth century marvel."
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