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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SEPTEMBER 30,1946
Much Housing Will Be Finished
Bulks of the emergency housing being constructed on the campus will be completed in November, according to Irvin Youngberg, housing director, who added that all construction would be finished by Feb. 1.
First of the units to be completed will be one half of McCook hall, under the stadium, which will be ready Oct 15 and will hold 32 men. The other unit and the housemother's quarters of McCook hall will be finished by Nov. 1, Mr. Youngberg stated.
The dormitory west of the stadium will have rooms for 160 persons and be ready Nov. 23 he revealed.
"Do not call this a barracks," he insisted, "it is my pet.
"This building has never been lived in, and was one of 16 built for the Parsons Ordnance plant that weren't needed. It has its own heating plant, plywood walls and new maple floors."
Mr. Youngberg stated that six units of the Sumyside housing project being built on the south slope of the campus will be completed Nov. l, and all of the 31 buildings by Feb. l. When finished there will be 186 four-room apartments, six units in a building.
This H-shaped building was moved to the campus with K.U. funds.
Emergency housing quarters were set up in Robinson gymnasium where 50 men could sleep at the beginning of the year. Only the Phi Chi medical fraternity members are there now, waiting for completion of repairs in their house, he commented.
Each four-room unit will be used either for one family, or as a dormitory for six or eight men without cooking privileges.
Smith Hall, 1201 Vermont, has been leased from the Church of the Latter Day Saints, and provides rooms for 52 men.
Spooner-Thayer museum was converted into dormitory space for men last semester and will be used again by 70 men. Sam Elliot is manager
Teen faculty members have not been housed. About 50 instructors, including assistants, are living in Snailower village.
Nearly 650, K.U. students are living at Sunflower village. Before school started Youngberg received 1,300 applications for the Village, but many of these persons found quarters in Lawrence.
Chemists At Work On Navy Research
Work is now underway at the University on a $5,000 research contract for the United States navy. Prof. R. Q. Brewster, chairman of the department of chemistry, said today.
The project, which is renewable after a year, deals with the utilization of higher oxides of alkali metals for submarine operations. Certain metal oxides when combined with water will liberate oxygen and form an alkaline solution that will absorb carbon dioxide.
The problem, according to Professor Ebrewier, is to determine which oxides will furnish the most oxygen, which is necessary for life, and provide the greatest absorption of carbon dioxide, a product of breathing, and at the same time be suitable for efficient use in underwater craft.
The research is being directed by W. J. Argersinger and Jacob Kleinberg, assistant professors of chemistry. William Schechter, of Jetmore, a graduate student in the department, has been awarded a fellowship to work on the project.
Airmail Rate Down
The U.S. postage rate for airmail drops to a nickel an ounce tonight.
Overseas airmail letters go at the same cate. Previous charges were six cents for overseas letters, eight cents for domestic mail.
During the eight months ban, about 3600 conventions were cancelled in 1945.
Meeting Wednesday For Speech Activities
A meeting of students interested in extra-curricular speech activities will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Little Theater of Green hall, E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, announced today.
These activities will include membership in speech club and participation in intercollegiate and local speaking contests.
Qualified freshmen will be admitted to the regular University debate teams for the first time. Professor Buehler said.
Even Faculty Can't Cut
Faculty members having 4 p.m. classes Wednesday, will attend classes, and miss the College faculty meeting to be held in Frank Strong hall at the same time, Dean Paul B. Lawson of the College, announced today.
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