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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1944
From the Sidelines By Bob Bock, Kansan Sports Editor
Charles Moffett, Kansas' high scoring cager, may miss the Iowa State game at Ames Saturday night. Moffett entered the hospital Monday suffering from sinus trouble and Monday night developed a high temperature. Moffett is resting well today, according to Dr. Ralph I. Canuthes, and will probably be released tomorrow depending on his condition. Dr. Allen states that although he will take the Poebody star along on the Ames trip, it is doubtful that he can use him against the Cyclones, conference favorites.
"Half a week in the infirmary," states Allen, "saps the strength of any man and hardly leaves him in shape to compete in a hard game of basketball." To replace Moffett, Allen has been working with several combinations. Besides Barrington, McSpadden, and Lindquist, either Joehring, Sherwood, Diehl, or Corley will probably start.
Baker Was Here
Corp. Hoyt Baker, quarterback on Gwinn Henry's 1942 Kansas football team and a member of Dr. F. C. Allen's championship basketball team last year, was here for the Oklahoma-Kansas game last Friday night. Baker, who is stationed at Ft. Bliss, Texas, like Moffett, hails from Peabody. (What teams the University could have if all of Kansas' small towns could produce such athletes as this one.) Baker was last year noted as the second most popular follow on the campus behind Ray Evans. The tow-headed corporal looks heavier and more powerful an ever; consequently the army life must not be hurting him.
Skyjackets Best?
The Norman Naval Air Technical Training Center Skyjackets and the Norman Naval Air Station Zoomers have been beating everyone this season, but experts were having a hard time deciding which was the better of the two. The Zoomers had lost two of three games to the Oklahoma Sooners, yet had handed Iba's Aggies two sound lickings. Oklahoma A and M broke the Stillwater field house scoring record by trouncing Drake's Sooners, 59 to 40. Last night the Zoomers and the Skyjackets got together, with the Skyjackets coming out on tap after a fierce battle, 35 to 22.
Basketball Tops!
The United States Navy recognizes basketball as its top conditioner and last year had a record of 30,000 games, 70,000 participants, on 200 courts. Lt. Cmdr. Frank Wickhorst, head of the physical training program, states that basketball in the naval aviation setup is a warlike name. He states that there is little whistle-blowing, thus making for a fast, rough, aggressive team play as was exemplified by Hutchinson NAS, but not, however, by Olathe NAS, a smooth-working outfit). States Wickhorst, "Navy coaches are endeavoring to develop desirable characteristics in the flyers of tomorrow, the naval aviation cadets of today. Exciting plays, shooting and passing under strain, are similar to situations which may be encountered behind the controls of a navy plane."
Maybe Not So Good!
Dr. F. C. Allen will probably be greatly pleased to hear how his pet has become the greatest of the conditioning sports in the navy, but is probably not so all "het up" over doing away with the finer points of basketball which has made it the game that it is. Wickhorst states that the coaches are no longer concerned with developing star players or mapping fancy point-getting plays. This is similar to what Allen predicted early in the season when he stated that the service type of ball on the whole would be of the rough, helter-skelter, jam-bang variety. Maybe a game with more rough play and bodily contact does make for a better
Irish Rascals, V-12's Will Clash Tonight
The leaders of the Lawrence Community Basketball League will be determined tonight when the two remaining undefeated teams, V-12 and the Irish Rascals, clash in the opening game of tonight's double-header.
Comparing past scores, the V-12's appear as top-heavy favorites in the battle, for they swamped both the S.O.W. Ads, and the S.O.W. Techs, by large scores, while the Rascals won from the Ads, by four points and from the Techs, with a one point margin.
In the second game of the evening, the two S.O.W. teams, the Ads and the Techs., will have their own little private duel with even odds on both.
John Laffer Is Promoted To Sergeant in Air Force
John H. Laffer, 26, of Detroit, Mieh, and graduate of the University of Kansas in 1939, has been promoted to sergeant, the headquarters of the army air forces, Eastern Technical Training Command, Greensboro, N.C., announced recently.
Sgt. Laffer is a supervisor master of the Organization section of the Statistical Central Unit at headquarters.
Major C. K. Shore, Publisher Promoted to Lt. Colonel
Major Chester K. Shore, a graduate in 1925, who is owner of the Augusta Gazette, was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel recently.
Colonel Shore, stationed in Washington, D. C., is head of the intelligence section of the army air forces.
While at the University, he was a member of Sachem, honorary fraternity for senior men; a member of Sigma Delta Chi, men's journalism fraternity; and Acadia fraternity.
conditioner of flyers. But we don't believe so. A good flyer should have precision, timing, and be most accurate along with being able to handle his plane with agility. Why shouldn't these qualifications fit up more with the game of basketball as it should be played—free from contact with good footwork and control, control being the man essentials. Thus, when a difficult situation is encountered behind the controls of a plane, one can act coolly with precision rather than madly trying to jam his way out as is taught in a game of basketball when the rule book is thrown away.
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Phi Psi's Threaten, Win Over Sigma Chi's
The Phi Psi's have served notice to other A League teams that they will bear watching as they trampled the Sigma Chi's into the ground Monday night, 45 to 28, with two navy boys, Luring and Pyle, scoring all but 10 of their points.
Luring counted 18 points and Pyle only one less, with 17. High for the losers was Schroll, who scored eight points all in the last half.
It is now possible for Kansas raw materials to compete commercially with other sources of aluminum. Details of the process for the extraction of aluminum from Kansas clays developed by the Kansas State Geological survey at the University, were announced this week in a publication by the survey.
The Phi Gams, who with the Blanks and Phi Psi's are A League favorites, continued their winning ways by swamping the Teke's last night, 29 to 15. Whittenberger, hefty Phi Gam post man, scored 17 points to take top honors.
The process is in response to an appeal by the Federal Government for new sources of this critical war material. Dr. John C. Frye, assistant state geologist, is director of the survey.
Aluminum From Clay Revealed as Process
The process for extracting aluminum from Kansas raw materials is essentially the old soda-sinter process with a new method, devised in the laboratories of the State Geological survey, for controlling the impurities in the solution from which the aluminum hydroxide is precipitated, the report states. This method consists of the fractional precipitation of impurities by carbon dioxide gas and their removal by filtering. University officials believe that this development of this method may make it possible for this Kansas source of aluminum to compete commercially with other aluminum sources.
Developed By E. D. Kinney
The process was developed through research by E.D. Kinney, associate professor of mining and metallurgical engineering, in collaboration with the State Geological Survey whose headquarters are located here at the University.
"Kansas has immense deposits of easily mined clay with an almost inexhaustible supply containing at least 25 per cent aluminum oxide," said Prof. Kinney. "Some other states have richer clays than are now known to exist in Kansas, but in general, the deposits are of lesser extent. Because of the abundance of cheap gas, limestone, and water—all needed in processing—together with a usable method of extraction . . . it is believed that high-grade aluminum can be produced in Kansas at a cost that will compare favorably with production costs elsewhere."
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The Kappa Kappa Gamma's were back in the groove Monday night when they played Miller hall and beat them 23-18. At the half they were in the lead, and maintained the lead throughout the entire game.
Margaret Lillard was high point woman for the Kappa's, but Maxine Detwiler tied with her, making 10 points for the Miller hall team. Virginia Gunsolly, Kappa, made 6 points.
Distribution of 4-F's Mapped by Geologist North Rates Best
Albuquerque, New Mex. (ACP)—It's a simple matter to make a geologist happy. Just give him a set of statistics and he is quite likely to make a map out of them.
That's what Dr. Stuart A. Northrop, head of the University of New Mexico geology department, did with the statistics from General Hershey's annual Selective Service report published recently. Dr. Northrop's map shows the distribution of 4-F's throughout the nation.
General Hershey reported that 2,206,115 registrants out of a total of 26,332,900 have been placed in class 4-F, which is composed of men classified as "mentally, morally, or physically unacceptable to the armed forces." The percentages for the individual states ranges from 5.2 for Wyoming and 5.3 for Utah to 11.6 for Louisiana and 12.8 for the District of Columbia.
Dr. Northrop used five different colors on the map to distinguish percentage ranges. All of the healthy states are in the north; all of the unhealthy states are in the south and southeast. This indicates some correlation between climate and 4-F's.
To Play French, Spanish Recordings French and -Spanish recordings will be played at the following times and places this week:
Today, French room 113, Frank Strong at 2:30, and Spanish room 109, at 3:30. Thursday, French records will be played in room 111 at 3:30.
Rights to the process, which has been patented, have been granted to the University of Kansas Research Foundation.
Tau Sigma Practices For Dance Recital
Tau Sigma, dancing sorority, began work last night on their annual recital which will be presented in 13. Mrs. Dorothy Hunt, sponsor, announced today. The club has been divided into four sections, which will originate their own numbers.
One group will present a modern ballet to "Holiday for Strings," a second group will do a percussion number, accompanied by drum beat, which will feature rhythm and movement; another group will work on a tap dancing number; and the fourth group will present apache and adagio dances, which are preformatively acrobatic.
The club is also continuing its work with the service men's dancing class, which meets at 7:30 Saturday nights, at the Community building.
Eberhardt Conducts Handicraft School
Margaret Eberhardt, of the art department and the School of Education, conducted a handcraft school at Olathe on Monday and Tuesday in cooperation with Miss Bernicee Sloan, home demonstration agent of Johnson county. Fifty farm women volunteered for each class, one of which met from 10 to 12 in the morning, the other from 1 to 3:30 in the afternoon.
Through demonstration - pictures, and guidance of actual experience and practice, Miss Eberhardt taught the women in her two classes to weave place mats from slough grass, wheat straw, and cattails, to make costume pins from pine cones, to make Kansas bouquet pictures out of seeds, to make stencils which can be painted on cloth, and to model pottery from native Kansas clay. The cornhusk crafts of weaving, branding, designing husk dolls, and creating costume flowers were also included on the program.
Plans are being made for Miss Eberhardt to conduct a similar demonstration in Manhattan on Feb. 11.
Paul Moon Becomes Lieutenant
Paul E. Moon, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Moon of Lawrence, who was a student for a year at the University, was graduated from the army air school at Douglas, Ariz., recently and commissioned a lieutenant. He has been in service a little over a year.
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