JANUARY 16, 1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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BARS and STRIPES Chemical Engineer
To Civilian Flying
Lt. William J. Acker, Junction City, former student, recently was awarded a commercial pilots' license by the civil aeronautics authority. He entered the air corps in November, 1942, and has many flying hours on his credit, having flown over the angles of Panama and Pacific ocean approaches to the Panama canal.
Awarded Bronze Star
Muj. Schiller F, Shore, Lawrence, former member of the University journalism department, was awarded honorate star at Camp Robinson, Ark., last week for meritorious service in the China-Burma-India theater of operations. He also holds a personal commendation from the Chinese National government for his service in battle against the Japanese.
Barbara Owen Discharged
Lt. (jg) Barbara Jane Owen, '40,
has been discharged from the
WAVES. Lt. Owen has been in the
navy since 1943. Her home is in
Lawrence.
Wilcox at Ft. Leavenworth
Pvt. Hal Dean Wilcox is now stationed at Ft. Leavenworth with the supply corps. Pvt. Wilcox, a student in 1944-45, left for the army in November. He is a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Alvin Leonard Joins Survey
Alvin R. Leonard, '42, who has been released from the army air corps, is joining the staff of the United States Geological survey, with headquarters in Lawrence.
Russel Louis Sehon, C Sp, a former University student, has been released from the navy at Norman, Okla. Mr. Sehon has been in the service for four years, and served three months of this time in the Caribbean area.
For his participation in the joint army-navy maneuvers in September, 1843, at Key West, Fla., he received a letter of commendation.
Noland At Navy Center
Lt. George Noland of the navy, a graduate of the University, is now stationed at the Great Lakes separation center. He has been made the head of the insurance department for all of the separation center units.
This is Dr. Roy H. Beaton, who began his duties as associate professor of chemical engineering at the University, Jan. 1. Dr. Beaton worked the past two years on atomic bomb developments, serving as a leader in the chemistry section at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Richland, Wash.
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New Power Plant Delivered July 1
As miniature steam-electric power plant, the first of its kind to be ordered by any school in the country, is scheduled for delivery to the department of mechanical engineering July 1, Prof. E. S. Gray, head of the department announced today.
The educational power plant unit is an outgrowth of the Navy Destroyer Escort school in Syracuse, N. Y. It is one of the most expensive pieces of equipment owned by the University and will make possible the simulating of almost every operating situation occurring in actual steam-electric power plants used to furnish power for factories, cities, and towns.
Tokyo. (UP) —The Japanese launched 9,000 bomb-carrying balloons against the United States during the war until the supply run out in March, 1945, six months before she surrendered, it was revealed officially today.
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Graduate Record Test Friday and Saturday
Forty-five persons have registered for the graduate record examination, a guide to determine entrance into medical school, Prof. C, B. Althaus, vocational guidance bureau, announced today.
The test, which is administrated by the vocational guidance bureau for the School of Medicine, will be given at 1:30 p.m. m. January 18, and at 8:30 a. m., January 19, in Room 423, Lindley hall, professor Althaus
The examination will have four parts. The first, physics, chemistry, literature, and fine arts; the second, biological and social sciences; the third, verbal factors and mathematics; and the fourth, the major subject of each individual student.
said.
Anderson in Emporia
Miss Mangaret Anderson, professor of speech, attended a meeting of speech correctionists from state schools at Emporia Thursday.
Australia and New Zealand supplied United States troops in the Orient with three billion pounds of food in 1944.
L. R. Lind's Research Paper To Be Published Next Year
A paper, "Eleven Latin and Greek Inscriptions in Kansas and Indiana," by Prof. L. R. Lind of the department of Latin and Greek, will appear in next year's volume of transactions of the American Philological association.
Ten of the 11 inscriptions are unpublished, in the department of Latin and Greek. The association is composed of a group of philologists and students of classical languages and literatures.
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