NOVEMBER 20,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
K.U. Can Place 'Ship Cowboys; Stable Character Is Needed
Strange offers of jobs sometimes come into the office of Willis Tompkins, K.U.'s assistant dean of student affairs.
Latest request is for 'ship cowboys' and if you think you’re headin' for the last roundup, podnuh, you're right.
All you need for the job, according to the letter from an employment agency of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation administration, is "willingness to work and a stable character." (To say nothing of a strong stomach and an inrepressible yearning to be around livestock.)
UNRRA is offering $150 a round trip for animal caretakers, who will water, feed, and care for the animals, on the long voyage to war-torn Europe. Heifers, horses, and cows will make up the ship's 'complement,' and each 'cowboy' will be responsible for the care of 25 animals, the letter says.
Sole qualification for the job i 'ability to handle animals."
"Caring for the animals might con-
civably include milking the cows," Mr. Tompkins said, "but qualifications do not call for any milking ability." He agreed with a suggestion that it might help not to know how to milk the animals."
The agency's letter points out that "if a man is willing to work, lack of experience can be overcome" and you'll have to admit that it sounds better that way.
"Men of stable character are needed (no swearing and carrying on—it might corrupt the morals of the animals) because congestion of living space on shipboard taxes temperament." (What about appetite, sense of smell, and peace of mind?)
If you're interested, the job offers three to five days shore leave in foreign ports. But don't get excited, you have to "clean up the stalls" on the way back.
The agency's letter adds that the job offers an excellent opportunity for travel. (That is, if you don't care with whom you travel.) Other opportunities the job might offer are: a chance to find out if cows get as
seasick in extra stomachs as humans get in their one, if animals act like seagoing humans when they're sick, and if four sealegs are better than two.
In foreign ports 'cowboys' must "conduct themselves properly" so as not to give the United States a bad reputation abroad. (Might help to shine your boots when you go ashore, podnuh, th' critters is sometimes mighty troublesome on long trips.)
Also promised in the letter are "two weeks of free time, so bring along plenty of reading and recreational material." (You might pick up a few western stories for atmosphere.)
You won't get paid until you get back, so take along a little cash to tide you over. If you don't care for steaks when you get back, try mutton, they're not sending any sheep this trip.
It may be better than ridin' the range, but don't complain to the cap'n if 'Bossy' turns up unannounced some morning in your stateroom.
There's No Telling When Two-Pants Suits Will Replace Shiny Britches, Othman Says
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
(United Press Staff Correspondent
Washington. (UP) The news, fellow wearers of shiny britches, is bad; no telling when the two-pants suit will return to remove the glisten from the rear of the male, or down-trodden, sex.
Females wear their clothes any way they want. They can and do put on two skirts at once (the top one being known as a peplum). Males are lucky to have any pants at all.
What brings this up is an announcement by the style committee of the national association of retail clothiers and furnishers. Says the government is about to make the two-pants suit legal again. And
Only the pants makers are so busy making special pants for Bing Crosby and friends to go with their funny-looking shirts that there hardly are enough pants now to match singly with coats.
also the vest with the double-breasted suit.
As for vests with double-breasted suits, there isn't much chance soon of those, either, no matter what the good old civilian production administration decides. It takes twice as much rayon to make the back of a vest as it does to line a coat. So no vests. Some manufacturers even are talking about not even making vests to go with single-breasted coats.
This information comes from no mere handout. I have gone to the
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chairman of the style committee, Gerald D. Grosner, who also runs one of Washington's leading haberdasheries. The clothing merchants, he says, are beginning to see light, but they still aren't out of the woods.
Seattle (UP)—A romance which started in Jamestown, N.Y., 60 years ago culminated here in a marriage of Mrs. Halcon Gray, 78, and Charles F. Moore, 79, Brandon, Vt.
They're worried about pants.
They're worried about vests. But what they're really worried about is bigger price tags.
"All retailers dread rising prices," Chairman Grosner said. "You can lose in 30 days in inventories the profits you've made in two years. I know. I did just that in 1920. In 30 days the prices of men's clothing dropped 30 per cent.
"So now whenever there is another boost in prices, the retailer shivers."
DAILY KANSAN WANT ADS
WILL: The person who found a Log Log Duplex vector slide rule in room 116 Marvin Saturday please call John L. Hayne. Phone4 354- W2-
Reward. -22-
TYPING: Veteran's wife wants general typing and secretarial work to do at home. Reasonable rates. 942 New Hampshire, phone 1673-W. -26-FOR SALE: Zenith remote-control record player. Extremely reasonable. Call 3142M after 12:00. -21-SALE: 5 men's suits, 1 tuxedo, 2 sportcoats, 1 smoking jacket, 2 overboots, 1 pr. high leather boots, 1 pr. high rubber boots, 1 double pneumatic sleeping bag, 1 hunting knapsack, 1 walnut amptable, 1 occasional chair, 1 metal double bed. Sunflower Staff Village. Phone 3323 ext. 49. -21-
FOR RENT: 2 nice rooms and adjoining bath. 3 boys preferable. 127 East 19th St. Phone 377W. -21- FOR SALE: 1946 RCA Victor table model Radio-Phoon with automatic record-changer. Also new Stewart-Warner Southwind auto heater. 1113 Rhode Island after 5. -21-
LOST: Black and gold Parker "51"
pen. Reward. Contact Kansan office.
-21-
JEEP for sale. $850. In excellent condition. New paint job. Call 2679J in evenings. Ask for Julian. -25-LOST: I.D. bracelet somewhere between 1140 Ohio and Marvin hall. Name Evan H. Hammett. Finder please return to Kansan office. Don't miss the Hop, December 7. -21-FOR RENT: $\frac{1}{2}$ room. Single bed. With photographic dark room facilities available. 608 La. Bob Burk. -21-LOST: Green 'Alaska Army jacket on intramural football field last week. Call Dryden at 1106 if found or return to Daily Kansan office. 21-.
DESIRE A RIDE for two to Liberal Garden City, or Dodge City, Kan. leaving here after noon Tuesday, Nov. 26th. Call 2187R between 5:30 and here at 6:30 p.m. -21-
LOST: Hart's College Algebra book in Hoch auditorium Monday morning. Phone 1783-W or leave at Kansan office. Glenn Slowen. -21-LOST: Billfold in Union building Monday morning, Valuable papers needed with the name Ted Hutscher. Please return to Kansan office. -21-SALE: 1 Charvos Drawing set. Three bow compasses. Barely used. $16. Phone 86, ask for Spencer. -20-FOR SALE: 1936 Chevrolet. Rebuilt motor, clutch, transmission, brakes. New tires. Price $650. See at 1520 Crescent Road. -21-
FOR SALE. Tuxedo, size 36-38,
$12.50; wardrobe trunk, $25. See to
appreciate. Call after 6 p.m. 306 Elm
PHOTO - EXACT COPIES: Discharge and valuable papers. Fast service. Low price. Round Corner Drug Co., 801 Mass., Lawrence Kansas, or Lane F., Apt. 18, Sunflower, Ks. -20-
street. Phone 197.
LOST: Bulova men's watch. Gold, rectangular with gold link band. If found, please notify Daily Kansan office. -20-
USED phonograph records: 25 cents each. 90% of these records of one side absolutely new. The Record Nook, 12th and Oread. Open until 8 p.m. -20-
GAS UP: Jensen and Wuthnow Conoco Service station, 900 Indiana st. Phone 3354. Tire repairing, battery charging, complete lubrication, car washing, spark plug cleaning, service calls. -26-
Don't be caught in the same predicament. Be sure your car is in A-1 condition. Let our expert mechanics check it.
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AND THERE WE WERE
with only five minutes to make an 8 o'clock class and the engine went dead.
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Nope, It Doesn't Pay
Dallas. (UP)—Burglars who staggered off with a 300-pound Eagle Printing company safe learned—the hard way—that crime doesn't pay. Owner J. D. Boykin reported the theft to police. He said the safe was empty.
Furthermore, it wasn't locked in the first place
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Second: $3 in Trade E. Linquist, 1541 Ky. 12 0 13
Third:$1 in Trade Ronald Todd, 1208 N.Y. St. 12 0 13
Fourth: $1 in Trade Delmar Green 1724 Miss. 12 0
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