MAY 10,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
A.V.C. Finds Students 25 to 1 For O.P.A.
Nearly 900 signatures were obtained to the American Veterans Committee petition asking for the continuance of a strong OPA, the committee announced today.
Duplicate copies of the petitions have been sent to Senator Arthur Capper and to Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York, chairman of the Senate Money and Banking Committee now considering the House-amended bill.
"It is gratifying to find that such a large majority, almost 25 to 1, of the students approached, were in favor of a strong OPA," Russell Barrest, AVC chairman, stated. "We could have had 5000 signers if we had taken the time but we wanted to get the petitions to Washington in time to do some good."
The local AVC chapter is sponsoring a public OPA meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Prof. Alfred Seeley of the economics department who was with O.P.A. headquarters, will speak.
The petition read "Whereas the Office of Price Administration has done a worthwhile job under difficult conditions in warding off inflation we the undersigned petition that the OPA be continued without crippling amendments."
Capper Differs With A.S.C. on O.P.A.
"I feel that bureaucratic controls should be relaxed, and the O.P.A discontinued after a possible limited extension," Sen. Arthur Carp wrote in a letter to Eugenia Hepworth, A.S.C. president, in answer to a telegram sent him by the A.S.C. urging that he "support the continuation of the O.P.A. with its present power for another year."
Sen. Clyde Reed, to whom the same request was sent, has not replied.
"Like you," Sen. Capper wrote, "I realize the dangers inherent in any wild inflationary developments, especially when demand exceeds Lapply. However, I feel that the O.P.A. should be discontinued, and bureaucratic controls relaxed. I believe the House has done a fairly good job in this direction."
The letter was read at the council's meeting Tuesday night. The merits of filling out an all-school petition on the question were discussed, and Marguerita Kerschen and Joan Anderson were asked to continue their work on the project.
The telegrams were sent in response to a request from the University of Texas, asking that the A.S.C. also contact their senators asking for the extension of the O.P.A., Miss Hepworth said.
Speech Class Hears Anders
Miss Quintilla Anders, director of the speech clinic at the University of Kansas hospital in Kansas City, Kan., discussed some phases in her clinical work, at a 3:30 meeting of the afternoon speech correction class Wednesday in the home of Miss Margaret Anderson, 1126 Louisiana.
100 Pelicans Soar Over Mt. Oread
Approximately 100 to 200 white pelicans soared over the University of Kansas campus Tuesday morning for about two hours, Donald S. Farner, assistant curator of birds at Ducke museum said.
It is rare in this part of the country to find them in such large numbers, he added.
"They were apparently following the course of the Kaw river westward toward Topeka."
Professor Farmer is finishing plans for the bird banding station soon to be set up here. Interested in banding young birds he wants to specialize on colonies of red-winged black-birds and purple martins.
Color Prints Display in Fraser
Some new color prints from Switzerland are on the bulletin board on the third floor of Fraser, Sam F. Anderson, German instructor, said today. The periodical prints show costumes, resorts, painting and art, he said.
The Campus Comes Out Of the Dark
It's tough but when the campus lights come on again—and they will tonight, according to W. C. Sanderson, maintenance engineer—the recent blackouts will be only a memory.
Mr. Sanderson said that all the lights on the campus have been turned out at 11 p.m. during the recent "damp" spell because of transformer trouble. He explained that light cable insulation has been found to be weak in certain places in the ground. The water soaked earth has caused a "ground" and the transformers, in turn, "heated."
Most of the weak spots have been found near a gas line, he said. When the gas line was laid some of the workmen probably "chopped" too close to the light cables.
Tonight the lights will remain on all night and transformers will be checked, he said. If they are still "heating", other weak spots will be sought and remedied.
"But," Mr. Sanderson said, "there will be no more lights out on the Hill unless there is an emergency of some sort."
Nash Speaks At Manhattan
Prof. Bert Nash, of the department of education, spoke to a forum of students enrolled in the child welfare and sociology departments at Kansas State college in Manhattan this week. His subject was "Behavior of Children in the Community."
Templin Spoke to Psychology Seminar
Leslie G. Templin, sociology instructor, spoke to a psychology seminar Monday night on "sociological and Psychological Problems in India," The seminar, for graduate students and staff members meets every two weeks.
Governor Visits Wetmore
Wetmore. (UP)-Gov. and Mrs. Andrew Schoeppel attended funeral services here Monday for Mrs. W. F. Turentine, Sr., mother of the governor's executive secretary.
A Make-Up Christmas
Garber, Okla. (UP)—Christmas is a long way off for most folks, but it's less than a week away for Garber's World War II veterans.
A Christmas tree, with colored lights and decorations was set up on the city hall lawn yesterday for Garber's formal homecoming celebration next Sunday and Monday for its more than 400 returned service men and women.
The theme of the two-day reunion will be "The Christmas that was missed."
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