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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
OCTOBER 2,1946
University DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Member of the Kansas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and the Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by the National Advertising Service, 420 Madison Ave., New York City.
NEWS STAFF
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor          Bill Hage
Asst. Managing Editor     Charles Roos
Makeup Editor           Jane Anderson
City Editor              Marcela Stewart
Mast. City Editor        Maria Martin
Sports Editor            Bill Sims
Men's Intramurals       John Finch
Women's Intramurals     Jane Finch
Telegraph Editor         Billie Marie Hamilton
Society Editor          Alverta Niedens
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief ... James Gunn
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager Melvin Adams
Battery Manager Amabile Saylor
Circulation Manager Bob Bonnan
Mail subscription: $3 a semester, $4.50 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 Sundays, University holidays, and examination periods. Entered as second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
Slow and Easy
With nearly nine thousand students on the campus and a continual stream of cars passing back and forth along Jayhawk drive, the traffic problem has become increasingly serious.
The problem here must be met as it has been met elsewhere: by cooperation on the parts of pedestrians, motorists, and the authorities in charge.
Pedestrian students regard the University, the walks, the streets, and the paths as peculiarly theirs. This attitude is a carryover from the days when an automobile on Jayhawk drive was a rarity. Now the pedestrian, at risk of life and limb, must learn to walk where indicated and look before walking.
The motoring students, here as everywhere else, regard the streets as theirs by right of conquest. They have driven off the horse and by all their purrring cylinders they will drive off the pedestrian as well. The motorist must learn that Jayhawk drive is not a highway.
The authorities have shown a realization of the situation by placing a policeman at the
congested intersection of Jayhawk drive and Mississippi street. But at noon, we have noticed, the policeman is gone—to lunch perhaps —leaving the intersection to take care of itself at the most congested part of the day.
Mankind has a habit of taking nothing seriously until something disastrous results. It shouldn't take an accident to make the students, supposedly thoughtful people, realize that care is necessary.
Travel Safe, Fast On Alcan Highway
By GRACE MUILENBURG
(Daili Kanaan Staal Writer)
Driving from downtown Lawrence to the University is a greater risk than traveling along the steepest and most curved portion of the Alcan highway.
So Dr. L. R. Laudon, chairman of the geology department, believes. He and three advanced geology students, John Chronic, Alfred Reed, and Thomas Bailey, recently returned from a 16,000-mile trip through Canada and Alaska, where they spent the summer doing geological research.
Aside from their research, they became interested in the Alcan highway which, according to Dr. Laudon, is in excellent condition, except for a 600-mile lightly graveled, gumbo mud stretch between Edmonton and Dawson Creek. (This stretch may be traveled in 18 hours or in three weeks, depending on the weather.) From Dawson Creek to Fairbanks, the highway is permanent—wide, graveled, devoid of steep grades, and safe for driving. It is jointly maintained by the United States and Canada.
The highway is not open to tourists, Dr. Laudon reported, and permission to travel it must be obtained from the highway board in Edmonton. Prospectors, persons seeking work in Alaska, scientists, and geologists, are the main travelers, he said.
"Though accommodations along the highway are lacking," Dr. Laudon explained, "food-meals and staple groceries—is abundant and can be bought at prices lower than in the United States, except in Alaska, where prices are absurdly high. Gas is available but high. Tires are more plentiful than in the United States."
Abandoned army camps, now turned over to the Canadian government, may some day be built into tourist camps, garages and summer resorts, if the official Canadian red tape is cut, he speculated.
'What, Again?'
—From the St. Louis Star-Times
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