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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
OCTOBER 24,1946
The University Daily Kansan
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Member of the Kansas Press Association National Editorial Association, and the Associated Collegiate Athletic Association Represented by Madison Avenue 201 Madison Avenue Ave. New York City.
Mail subscription: $3 a semester, $45 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence add $1 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence Kan., every afternoon during the school year except Saturdays and weekends. Entered as second class matter periods. Entered as second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor ... Bill Haage
Ast. Managing Editor ... Charles Roos
Makeup Editor ... Jane Anderson
Telegraph Editor, Billie Harlem Hamilton
City Editor ... Marcia Newcomb
City Editor ... Marian Minor
Sports Editor ... John Finch
Women's Sports ... Nancy Jack
Ast. Telegraph Editors, Edward Swain.
Societu Editor ... Alverta Niedens
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-chief ... James Gunn
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager Melvin Adams
Circulation Manager Bob Bonehake
First returns from the Alaskan vote on statehood show that its citizens want it to become the 49th state by a two-to-one majority.
Alaska,49?
Probably less is known about Alaska by U.S. citizens than any other area in western hemisphere.
Alaska is big. If it and its island chain were superimposed upon the U.S., it would reach from Los Angeles to Charleston, S.C., from the Mexican border to Duluth, Minn. For $7,200,000 paid Russia in 1867 the U.S. gained territory equal in area to the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri, and Kansas.
Most of it is wild country. Parts of southwest Alaska are still unmapped. During the war, Army pilots flew over peaks 16,000 feet high and, turning to their maps, found the area marked "Unexplored".
Until less than 25 years ago, Alaska was sold short in the agricultural field. It was charged that its climate (temperature range from 54 degrees below zero to 95 degrees above) would not support farming. But now the Manatuska valley produces king-size vegetables and grain crops during its relatively short growing season.
Travel is mostly by air. In Alaska everyone flies or walks. Only two railroads have been built because of the rugged countryside. The track from Anchorage to Seward averages one tunnel for every five miles of its 90-mile stretch. The trip (in coaches which still have coal oil lights) takes eight hours.
It is an immensely wealthy land in minerals, timber, furs, and fish. It is rough, brutal, and yet beautiful. It is a land which spawns billions of mosquitoes in the summer (the can kill a man) and where winds blasting 100 miles an hour can turn a man to ice in minutes.
It is America's last frontier and its people are the last pioneers. They love their big sprawling country and want it to be the 49th state.
The slowly moving lines at the cafeteria might be speeded up by listing the menu closer to the doors, so that the student might make up their minds before they get to the serving line.
We want it, too. And we need them.-R.M.
How many people know that the speed limit on Jayhawk drive is 20 miles per hour. Very few, it seems.
Dove Finds Peaceful End To Dispute, Editor Writes
Letter to Editor
To the Daily Kausan: In his letter to the editor in the Daily Kausan for Oct. 16 Mr. Michner asks "by what right does Deane Postlethawe who was never connected with 'The Gadfly' ask the Council, which was never connected with 'The Gadfly' for authority to revive it?"
First, I would like to make it clear, as did the Daily Kansan when it reported the incident that I asked not for a revival of "The Gadfly" but for a liberal publication in the tradition of "The Dove" or "The Gadfly."
At that time a, definite name for the proposed publication had not been decided upon but later "The Dove" was chosen, for "The Dove", during its 16 years of publication at the University before the war, played an important role on the campus, while "The Gadfly," on the other hand, was published only twice and used for a portion of its financial backing "Dove" funds which were at that time in the All-Student Council treasury.
I went before the Council simply because we found, upon investigation, that there can be no campus publication without A.S.C. approval.
Our aims for a liberal, thoughtful publication as a medium for student expression are, we know, shared by many other students, and it is their help we ask in the preparation of "The Dove." I am happy to announce that "The Gadfly" will remain in retirement and that Mr. Michner and the others who were planning it are going to join forces with the editorial board of "The Dove" to accomplish our mutual end—an alive, uncensored journal of student opinion.
Dean Postlethwaite College senior
Patrolmen Will Cover Road To Sunflower
Answering the University's question as to what could be done to patrol more adequately the highway between Lawrence and Sunflower, the highway commission this week appointed a third patrolman.
Ray Simecka reported to the Lawrence highway commission Monday night from Scott City and will take over his duties sometime this week.
Col. Lathrop Read, Jr., superintendent of the Kansas patrol, reported that about 600 cars are driven by students between Sunflower and the University. The highway commission plans also to retain the "no passing" signs that were in effect when the Sunflower powder plant was in production.
University authorities also have been informed that the highway patrol is asking the county commissions to place another member of the sheriff's staff to cooperate with the highway patrolmen, in reducing the accident rate.
International Relations Club Discusses Future Of UN
The future of the United Nations was discussed at the first dinner meeting of the International Relations club Tuesday night in the Union.
Club sponsor Prof. H. B. Chubb started the discussion with a brief background of the U.N. and its accomplishments so far.
Russian policy will be the subject of the meeting Nov. 19.
Flying's Hokay With Him
NOW HEAR THIS
Seminole, Okla. (UP) — Miller Lewis, 62-year-old full-blood Seminole Indian, has become the first member of his tribe to take an airplane ride. Following a recent hop at the municipal airport here, Miller said, "it's hokay."
For An Evening's Entertainment It's
Community Building OCTOBER 26
8 p.m. to 12 p.m. $1.50 per Tickets at CARL'S — ROCK CHALK — BELL'S
And, Miss Moran,
please remind me this afternoon to take my.
car to FRITZ CO. for a check-up.
It Will Be
Too Bad
If She
Forgets
To Remind Him
To Take His Car
To
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