UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
OCTOBER 2,1946
Largest Turnout For Basketball In K.U. History
One hundred and thirty-five men reported for the first basketball meeting of the year in Robinson gymnasium last night, Dr. F. C. Allen, basketball coach, said today. This figure, the largest turnout in basketball history at Kansas, did not include football men who will report after the gridiron season.
The squad will be split into two sections so that practice sessions will run more smoothly. All lettermen will comprise the first squad, and it will work out Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 3 to 6. The rest of the squad will practice at the same time on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Each man on the second squad will be given a thorough tryout, and he will be moved up to the first squad if he shows the ability, Dr. Allen said.
"We have the toughest schedule this year we ever have faced." Dr Allen told the men last night. "In our own conference Oklahoma has 23 lettermen back this year, including Gerald Tucker."
Pictures of the Kansas-Oklahoma Aggie playoff game last year and a feature on basketball fundamentals made by the 1936 Jayhawker team which was undefeated in conference play, were shown.
R.O.T.C. Students May Take To Air
Reserve Officers Training corps students are taking to the air now.
The military science curriculum has been enlarged to include air R.O.T.C. training for advanced students, in their junior and senior years. The program will include the basic R.O.T.C. training plus 96 hours of specialized air force instruction during both junior and senior years. Icel. Kenneth E. Rosebush is in charge.
"This is primarily a course for air corps administration officers," Colonel Rosebush said today.
Preference will be given reserve officers in flight training after graduation. Between 10 and 15 hours of flying will be offered during the senior year. Reserve officers who take the additional flight training will go through the training as officers in grade.
The air training will include air corps classes concerning air tactics and science. Classes will be held Tuesday through Thursday at 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Colonel Rosebush was graduated from the University in 1941 with a bachelor of science degree in petroleum engineering. He began air training as a cadet in 1942.
He flew 140 missions in B-25 and A-20 squadrons in the Pacific and participated in all the campaigns from New Guinea to Japan, serving in the 417th and third attack groups.
But You Can Bet It Won't Work Here
Cambridge, Mass. (UP)—During her college days at Radcliffe here, the late Gertrude Stein was a favorite student of the famed philosopher William James. But when she sat down to write her final examination for him, she was tired, having been to the opera the night before.
Others in the air training instruction force are Sgt. Richard V. Cloke, Sgt. Robert L. Williams, and Sgt. Joseph J. Hubka.
"Dear Professor James," she scribled on her paper, "I am so sorry but I do not feel a bit like an exam in philosophy today."
Replied the professor by postcard:
"Sear Miss Stein, I understand perfectly how you feel. I often feel like that, myself."
He gave her the highest mark in the class.
"If this weren't a coeducational school I'd give up and go home," announced another "line man."
Viennese Girls Turn Up Noses At 'Horrible' Nylon Stockings
Vienna. (UP)—America's fuss about nylon stockings has left Viennese womanhood nonplused. They simply can't understand it.
Young Viennese women, always suntan-conscious even in the more lush days before the war, prefer bare legs in summer.
"If we must wear stockings at all, we want something better in appearance than those horrible, flesh-colored hose," one Viennese girl said. "Better no stockings at all than those vulgar appearing things that are supposed to be a stimulus to the masculine sex."
The girl was a good-looking brunette, and her opinion was typical of several questioned.
"My stockingless, sun-tanned legs
are better bait for any man than those dead stockings with no lively color. That is, if I'm interested in impressing men," she added coyly.
Her sentiments were echoed by a blonde and a red-head.
"Well, in the first place, I don't have any nylons," said the blonde. "In the second place, I wouldn't want to, anyway. I want to wear only decent stockings."
"Me, too," the red-head said. "I want my suntan."
The investigation —purely scientific—showed that Viennese women preferred black and brown stockings from Italian and French manufacturers, with a relatively rough surface and a pitch-black seam running from top to toe.
Atomic War Possible, Says Frank Hoecker Who Saw The Bomb Tests At Bikini Atoll
Frank Hoeker, K.U. physics professor, is no war monger. But he does think there a's "very good possibility" that an atomic war could come.
mushroom column of smoke," he related.
The physicist said he didn't expect any peace time developments with the atomic bomb for many years to come, although atomic energy factories are being constructed now. Forbodingly, he predicts the only way Americans will come in direct contact with the bomb, will be through warfare.
"If we have war, the atomic bomb will be used. There is no doubt that Russia wants it and is now working on it herself. Unless our law makers can compromise with scientists, there will be war. We started using the bomb, and there's no reason why we should consider it unfair for other nations to use it," Professor Hoeker maintained.
Professor Heecker, the suavelooking, motion picture type of scientist, who saw the ocean disemboweled by an under water atomic bomb and who helped develop the lethal weapon, described his experience as "awe-inspiring" and admits frankly he didn't like to be around the fireworks.
This Dog Likes Corn, And With Butter
"When the bomb exploded, it felt like a faint puff of wind—as if one were waving a book in your face. We felt no concussion. There was a big column of water that shot two miles high, obliterating everything. One minute I could see 80 ships in the harbor, and in the next instant, everything vanished behind the
Columbus, Ohio. (UP)—Sweet corn time in the fall has a special appeal to "Tihy," 14-year-old Llewellyn bird dog owned by James S. Clutter.
"Tiny" like the taste of corn almost as much as she likes the scout of a pheasant in the field. And she demands butter and proper seasoning.
Stationed aboard the U.S.S. Haven, his job was setting up recording instruments on target ships. Bikini weather was more than muggy at the time—humidity was 90 percent, and north of the equator. The U.S.S. Haven was nearest of all the ships to Bikini. Perhaps it would have been closer than 10 miles, but water outside the lagoon was too deep for anchor. Everyone lined the rails of the deck, waiting; doctors, physists, chemists, biologists, meteorologists, scientists by the hundreds. Then it came.
She eats just like a human—two rows at a time—with the assistance of a human "holder."
New Cars Distributed In Population Ratio
Detroit. (UP) — In case you've been wondering where all those new cars are going, here's the answer — or at least part of it.
They are being distributed just about according to population, and approximately in the same ratio as they were in 1941 before civilian auto production was halted by the war.
A compilation by automotive statisticians reveals that during the first six months of this year 493,309 new cars were registered in the United States, compared with 2,463,603 during the same period in 1941, or about one-fifth as great.
As might be expected, New York led the list in new passenger cars. Where it registered 217,573 during the first six months of 1941, the state is credited with 49,022 registrations this year.
Similarly, Pennsylvania ranked second behind New York in 1941, with 190,574, and retains that position currently with 38,294. Michigan, fourth highest in number of registrations in 1941 with 179,073, moved into third place with 38,102 this year, supplanting California, which had 186,994 in the first half of 1941, but registered only 36,714 this year.
Nevada had the smallest number of registrations in 1941—2,580—although its 1946 total of 528 represents a substantially greater gain than those for New Hampshire and New Mexico, its closest competitors for low registration honors. New Hampshire recorded 8,930 new cars in the first half of 1941 and New Mexico 5,740 but between January and July of this year each registered only 962.
Heaven Won't Protect Drunken Pedestrians
Columbus, Ohio. (UP)—The drunken pedestrian, who supposedly weaves through traffic and never gets hit, actually leads no more charmed life than the drunken driver, a state highway department analysis of 1945 accidents showed today.
One-third of the pedestrians killed in 101 fatal pedestrian accidents on Ohio's rural highways last year had been drinking just before their deaths. One-fourth of the pedestrians hurt in the 216 non-fatal pedestrian accidents had been drinking.
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