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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
NOVEMBER 30,1945
Langford Adds That 'Touch of Texas' To Student Council
Cecil M. Langford, tall, 19-year-old V-12 trainee, is a School of Engineering representative to the All-
Student Council
Langford
"Tex" is a senior.
He has been a member of the University's navy unit since March, 1944 His home is in Kilgore, Texas, and he attended Texas A. & M. university before joining the navy.
majoring in civil engineering. He is president of the K.U. chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers, center on the football team, member of K Club, and of Kappa Sigma fraternity.
He is on the parking and socia committees of the Council.
Lindy Got a 'Zero As a Civilian Pilot In Pacific Area
New York. (UP)—Charles A. Lindbergh sent a Japanese Zero fighter plane down in flames with one short burst from the guns in his Army Lightning during a raid on oil installations at Balikpapan, Borneo, Oct. 10, 1944.
The high military authority who gave out this story more than 13 months ago has just released it for publication.
Reason for secrecy — at least until the end of the Japanese war — was obvious: Lindbergh was a civilian, and as such was supposedly a non-combatant. And after his one combat flight to Balikpapan, he was ordered by Gen. George C. Kenney, Far East Air Force commander, to make no more fighting missions.
Lindbergh, then 42 years old, had come to the Southwest Pacific area some weeks before, as a civilian attached to the army air forces, to train American fighter pilots, most of them little more than half his age, in long-range fiving.
He was flying with America's finisher pilots, Maj. Richard Ira Bong, whose score of 40 enemy planes destroyed made him this country's top-ranking ace of all time was in the formation.
Maj. Thomas B. McGuire, second-ranking ace, was there. There wasn't a green pilot among the more than 33 fighters on the mission.
McGuire was to die later strafting a Jap destroyer in the Philippines, and Bong in a test flight of a jet plane in California. Both declared, in interviews before their deaths;
"Lindbergh was as hot a pilot as any of us. He would have been out there knocking off Jacks every day if Kenney had let him."
Lone Bandit Robs Hepler, Stark Banks
Kansas City, Mo. (UP) — A lone bandit, armed with a revolver, robbed two Kansas banks during the noon hour yesterday the FBI announced today.
According to the FBI the bandit entered a bank at Hepler, at 11:10 a.m. and escaped with between 700 and 800 dollars.
Forty minutes later the same man held up a bank at Stark, 12 miles west of Hepler, and escaped with about 500 dollars.
Officers said the bandit was driving a 1941 blue-green motorcar, either an Oldsmobile or a Chevrolet.
The Kansas bird is the meadowlark, elected by school children in 1925.
After a 35-Year Student Dream Book Store Becomes a Reality
A campus book store—result of three decades of crusading.
Thirty-five years ago, an attempt to start a campus book store at the University of Kansas failed. Today, the work of thousands of students since 1910 has been realized and a student book store will open as soon as a location and manager can be found, for Monday the board of regents
lent bookstores in the five state schools.
The student book exchange idea was brought from Yale university in 1910 by Miss Elsie Neuenschwander, professor of French. The Men's Student council captured the idea and immediately started selling $10 shares of stock. Local merchants prevented the plan from running smoothly, and the discouraged council soon gave up.
Steps were taken in 1916 to raise a capital stock of $300 for the store which was to be situated in Fraser hall. The shares at par for $5 were harder to sell than was anticipated for the idea died in the early part of the year.
For a decade following this attempt to raise money for the bookstore, no action was taken by the students.
In 1927, however, the book store idea arose again when the president of the Cooperative League of America was invited to discuss experiences with other groups of students in establishing student cooperative enterprises, with special emphasis on the University book store.
Rebukes by University professors who pointed out failures of other schools in attempting such a plan as well as comments such as "Alumni and other friends of the University would criticize such an extra-curricular activity." were ignored.
At several times during the struggle for recognition, the W.S.G.A. offered the profits built up by the Book Exchange to develop a student bookstore, owned and operated by the students.
Student forums to discuss the pros and cons of the 27-year-old issue were common in 1937. In April of that year, the W.S.G.A. donated six thousand dollars toward the development of a cooperative book store and the entire responsibility of securing the store was left in the hands of the women.
During the past eight years, little action had taken place until the recent approval by the state board of regents, which made the 35-year-old dream a reality.
Governor Says State is Progress Conscious
Gov. Andrew Schooppel, in a radio address Wednesday night over KFKU, said that Kansas more than ever before today stood in a position to enhance her leadership in the mid-west and set an example for others to follow.
"Kansas people are progress conscious," Schoepel said. "Within a few years there should be much general advancement made in all lines of enterprise, with special emphasis upon that of industry."
The governor said it was small wonder that so many manufacturers, processors, industrialists, and businessmen of the midwest were looking to Kansas as a location for their activities during the development period upon which we now are embarked.
Must Be One-Way Steps
Cheyenne, Wyo. (UP) — Some fresh-looking, deep scars on the front steps of the state capitol here were the result of an unknown driver's attempt to steer his car up them early one morning. The custodian of the building reported next day that he heard an unearthly noise about 2 am., looked out and saw the car backing down the steps. It was about half-way up. The vehicle was steered on the erratic course down the street The janitor salvaged a bumper and the headlights.
'Sentiment Against Liquor Law Repeal,' Schoeppel Says
Topcka. (UP)—Gov. Andrew Schoepel said today that the sentiment in Kansas, judging by the deluge of mail he has been receiving, is against any consideration of repeal of the state liquor law.
"Any community can have the kind of liquor law enforcement its own citizens want to demand," Scoepel said.
"I have little patience with those who complain that state officials are not bearing down hard enough.
"There is adequate law on the statute books to give all officers in each community all the enforcement power they need.
"Of course, I'll admit that it takes a degree of courage and some sense of civic responsibility."
Sigma Kappa Entertains
Dinner guests at the Sigma Kappa house Wednesday were Dean and Mrs. Gilbert Ulmer, Mr. and Mrs. L.C. Woodruff, Mr. and Mrs. Hilden Gibson, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Wiley, Jane Wilcox, Tom Wilcox, Bill Quiring, and Jay Stewart.
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Anyone like to buy a practical antique, a remnant from the early days of flying Jayhawks?
Prof. E. D. Hay of the mechanical engineering department is offering for sale a glider that made its first flight in 1933. It was constructed by one of the many University flying clubs that have existed since Orville and Wilbur made the first hop at Kittyhawk.
Old as it is, the white-winged glider doesn't date back as far as flying activities on the campus. In fact, it's modern compared to the gliders flown by the University Glider club in 1924. This organization, composed almost entirely of men from the building and grounds department built its own gliders and soared off the south edge of the "hill."
Six years of silent, peaceful gliding were broken by only one crash when one of the students "got
a little excited" and dropped into a tree. Neither he nor the glider was seriously damaged.
The Jayhawks tried real airplanes for the first time in 1929 when the University Aero club started regular flying school with two planes. In 1935, after numerous ups and downs, the Aero club joined Omega, honorary aeronautical Traternity, and K.U.飞wing was really on the map.
By 1937 the club had changed its name to the University Flying club and owned two of its own planes. Instruction was given at $3 an hour. From then until the war it was smooth sailing. Prof. William Simpson of the aeronautical engineering department said that the University was credited with one of the best flying programs in the country, at that time.
By the way, that glider will fly, and Professor Hay's office is in room 211, Marvin hall.
On March 12, 1945, the Jayhawk Flying club initiated 15 members and the newest University Flying club was born. Since that time 15 students have earned pilot licenses
One hundred forty-four varieties of trees are native to Kansas.
NEW TELEPHONES Full speed ahead on our biggest peacetime job
TODAY, conveyors like this at Western Electric are carrying thousands of new telephones for the Bell System.
But it takes far more than just telephones to provide service. It takes cable, central office equipment and many other complex items that cannot be produced and fitted into the telephone system overnight. On these things, too, production is steadily increasing.
SOURCE OF SUPPLY FOR THE BELL SYSTEM