THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1943
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor:
The Daily Kansan staff should be congratulated for the diligence and enterprise it showed in publishing the extra edition last night. Entirely on their own initiative, the students covered the fire, dug up historical background material, got a good photograph, had a halftone engraving made on special order, arranged for the printing, and distributed the paper on the campus and downtown.
Despite the loss of many executives and editorial assistants who were called to military service, the Daily Kansan staff continues to give its readers the best service possible—and such extraordinary service as this fire edition and the extra edition on Dec. 21, which gave details of the University Senate's action extending the Christmas vacation.
The University of Kansas Press also should be praised for its willing co-operation in the task of printing the extra editions during overtime hours.
The Daily Kansan today is one of the best college newspapers in the country and one of the very few which have not yet curtailed service because of war condition. Even some of the largest college papers, like the Princetonian, have been forced to suspend publication for the duration.
ELMER F. BETH,
Acting Chairman of the
Journalism Department
Putting Out An Extra Keeps Shack Open Late
By BILL HAAGE
Last night we journalism students got our first chance to operate the Kansan as a metropolitan paper by putting out, without any faculty supervision, an extra edition about the anatomy building fire.
I came up the Hill to the Midweek and of course noticed the fire. While wandering around in the crowd, trying to find all I could about the cause $ ^{\textcircled{2}} $
and damages of the fire, I met nearly all the members of the News Photography class who were taking pictures from every angle.
Using these as a nucleus, we gathered reporting students around us and talk of an extra edition began to float around. Several persons asked us jokingly if we were going to get out an extra, and we replied, also jokingly, that we already had an extra on the streets.
Go To Darkroom
About 8 oclock when the flames began to die down, we ran to the darkroom to begin developing our films, and the talk of an extra began to be spoken of more seriously.
We got a story of the fire from K. W. Davidson, head of the K U news bureau, who supplemented his information with facts picked up mostly by Paul Brownlee. Joy Miller, Sunday editor, acted as editor and began making the layout and assigning stories. I wrote the heads and edited the copy.
Look Through Files
On the reporting staff were Florence Brown, Charles Taylor, Paul Brownlee, Jimmy Gunn, and George Robb, who dug through the files for stories about past fires and phoned around for the notices and other short stories on the page. Pierre Kimball got a good picture with a Speed Graphic and it was sent down to Duke D'Ambra to have a cut made from it.
Meanwhile, Taylor and Betty Lou Perkins called the fraternities and some of the sororites and told them to come and get the papers. Virginia Tieman, managing editor, also helped in distribution.
Press Workers Help
Cliff Parson and Gerald Tewell, who were working in the University Press shop, dropped their work, and cut paper from the one-page issue, set the type, made up the page, and were ready to go by 11:30 when the cut arrived. The paper was printed on one side of a page the size of the Kansan on one of the platen presses
used in the job shop because the type of the last issue had been distributed and not enough type was available for more pages.
By 12:30, the run was complete, and the job of circulating the issue began. Several of the organized houses sent runners to the journalism building for their papers and any journalism student who came into the Shack was given an extra handful for the organized houses on his way home. Papers were delivered on foot along Fraternity Row and to most of the houses in that part of the city.
Deliver Kansans
Charles Taylor and I jumped in his car and delivered several of the extras to nearly every organized house on the Hill and in West Hills. We took an armload down town and stuck them in merchants' doors, scooping the Kansas City Times on a story that broke on a week night.
We finally finished at a restaurant about 2 o'clock this morning and ate breakfast. We were sorry that we couldn't deliver papers to all the regular subscribers, but it would have been impossible to get our carrier boys up in the middle of the night to deliver papers.
POINT SYSTEM--the basement of Lindley hall. Workmen are cleaning the wreckage that is covering the tanks in which approximately fifty cadavers are supposedly in excellent condition. These cadavers have not been used by medical students and were being stored in these underground tanks. As soon as the wreckage is removed the bodies will be moved to the basement of Lindley hall.
I've seen with one square inch of meat, sweet potatoes, a turnip, and something that looks suspiciously like the pealings from my breakfast grapefruit. Surprisingly how good it is."
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Women will now exchange ideas for making one can of peas, one pound six ounces, sixteen points, last for three meals. The food purchaser will take pride in the variety of food he can purchase on 48 points. The salad lover who habitually tossed together a salad for a midnight lunch will have to be content dreaming of new fresh vegetable combinations for the next week. The point system does have its points.
Musical Program Given For Sailors
BUY U.S. WAR BONDS
The second in a series of regular Wednesday night musical programs for men enrolled in the naval training school was presented to an audience of sailors who filled the auditorium of Frank Strong hall to capacity last night.
The program was worked out by K. O. Kuersteiner, professor in the School of Fine Arts, in cooperation with the naval recreational director, Frank P. Butorac. Last nights program consisted of two songs by Ruth Russell, "In the Middle of the Sea" and "Will You Remember Me?" a piano solo, "Rhapsody in Blue," by Martha Dooley; two marimba solos, "Yanke Doodle Dandy" and "Mary" by Robert Jenkins; and several vocal tri numbers by Norma Lutz, Joyce Shook, and Grace McCandles.
Knox Speaks Of Jap Fleet
The navy men took part in the program by participating in the group singing led by Professor Kuersteiner.
Washington, (INS)—Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox declared this week, "We will destroy the Japanese fleet before the war is over."
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Thursday. March 4, 1943
Notices due at News Bureau, *5* Journalism,
at 10 a.m. on day of publication during the
week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday
issue.
TO FACULTY MEMBERS:
A meeting of all members of the teaching staff at 4:30 is called for Friday afternoon, March 5, in Fraser Theater.
Dean Nels A. Bengtson of the Junior Division of the University of Nebraska is to speak to the faculty and tell us of the very interesting program which the University of Nebraska has instituted to give its freshmen better guidance and counsel.
Dean Bengtson is coming here at the University's request and it is urged that all members of the faculty be present to hear him.
Deane W. Malott, Chancellor
Graduate Record Examination will be held March 26-27 in room 10, Fraser Hall. Applications and information available at room 121. Fraser.
A. H. Turney.
SIGMA XI: Monday, March 8; 8:00 p.m., Fraser Theater, Dr. G. D, Birkhoff, Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University, as national Lecturer of Sigma Xi, will deliver an address on "The Mathematical Nature of Physical Theories." The public is invited.
Students who would be interested in appearing on the K.U. Bull Session, a weekly KFKU broadcast, are invited to attend a meeting of the Forums Board Panel to be held in the English room Friday, Feb. 5, at 4:30. John Waggoner.
Beulah M. Morrison, Secretary.
A Standard Red Cross first aid class will be started on Friday, March 5th at 1:30 p.m. in Watkins Hospital on the hill. Both students and townspeople may attend if interested. Parke Woodard, chairman first aid committee.
The reserve, education, and periodical rooms will be closed from 6 to 7 each day owing to the difficulty of staffing during the supper hour. The library will endeavor to keep the main reading room and circulation desk open.
Library Cranges Hours
C. M. Baker, director of libraries
R. I. Canuteson, Director Health Service.
Students who wish to contribute blood for the Blood Bank of the University of Kansas hospitals for civilian disaster; use, are asked to report to Watkins hospital from 2 to 5 p.m. through Friday.
FIRE LOSS---on the hose would not match with the threads on the hydrant. The sailors believe they could have stopped the fire in the southwest corner of the building, the spot where the blaze was first noticed, if the hose could have been connected.
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Turns In Alarm
The officer of the day at the Naval Training school turned in the fire alarm. The fire was reported to him by Tom Lydon, yeoman third class, who was in charge of the gangway desk. The alarm was turned in at 7:05 and according to Lydon the first fire truck arrived at 7:15 and the second at 7:20.
Sailors in classes in Fowler removed the hose from the hydrant inside Fowler shops and tried to attach it to the hydrant near the anatomy building but the threads
Sam Elliot, custodian, running toward Fowler shops, shouting "fire," attracted the attention of sailor guards, John V. Solussi, John Ciano, and Lloyd Chaney. Ciano rushed to the burning building and prevented three or four medical students from entering the building, while Chaney and Solussi ran to Fowler shops and turned in the alarm.
Hose Does Not Fit
By the time the fire trucks had arrived the fire was out of control, Dr. H. B. Latimer's office in the southeast corner of the building was not burned nearly as bad as the rest of the building. Firemen attributed this to the southwest wind and the fact that water was thrown on this part first.
Tearing Down Wall
The Buildings and Grounds department are tearing down the remaining portions of the east wall and members of the medical school are trying to salvage as much of the equipment as possible.
WANT ADS
The Chancellor and heads of the various schools and departments have been surveying the wreckage and checking available room space in the other buildings where medical classes may meet until arrangements are made for another anatomy building.
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