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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1943
'Point' Rationing To Change Menus
If present plans of the Office of Price Administration are carried out, every civilian in the United States will get "war ration book two" sometime during the last week of this month. University students, in the majority, will not be directly concerned in the use of their books, but menus and meals may suffer drastic changes as a result $ ^{®}$
of "point" rationing.
The new books will have coupons numbered and printed in two colors. The color will be used to determine for what kind of product the stamp may be used, and the number, or point value,will determine the amount of the article the purchaser may get.
Point rationing, according to the OPA, is needed to ration groups of related commodities, when some items in the groups are likely to become scarcer than others. "Related" commodities mean those that can be substituted for one another in actual use.
In cereals, for example, a family can eat branflakes, cornflakes, oatmeal, or a dozen other products. (Cereals are plentiful now, however, and it is not expected that they will be rationed.) These could constitute a related commodities group.
An item that is plentiful will be given a low point value, and one that is scarce will be assigned a high value. Thus a purchaser will look for point bargains, tending to create a demand for plentiful goods with low values. If an article sells faster than expected, the coupon value can be raised whatever amount is necessary to adjust supply to demand.
In the book will be 48 points for the first group of commodities to be rationed, which probably will be meat and meat substitutes. Value of stamps will run eight, five, two, and one points, comparable to denominations of money.
But don't expect a grocery to hand over groceries in return for coupons. It will still take money.
Retailers will use the coupons they receive from consumers in ordering from wholesalers.
Annual ISA Election Varsity Is Tomorrow
The Independent Student Association will have a joint election and dance tomorrow night from 9 to 12 in main lounge of the Memorial Union building. Bachmann and Pope's band will play for the varsity.
Mary Gene Hull, retiring president announced that non-members who are with ISA dates will be admitted for 50c. ISA members must present membership cards.
Nominees for the presidency are Lila May Reetz, College freshman; and Ty Schuerman, sophomore in education.
Those nominated for representatives-at-large are Elizabeth Baker, College freshman; Gerald Dick, College sophomore; Ruth Krehbiel, College sophomore; Bertha Cummins. College sophomore, Esther DeBord. College junior; Harry Johnson, freshman engineer; Donald Germann, College sophomore; Pat Foster, College sophomore; Harlan Cope, College junior; Virginia Markley, College sophomore; and Scott Tidswell, College sophomore.
Willkie, Bricker GOP Favorites For President
Washington. Feb. 11, (INS)
Washington, Feb. 14, (NIH) Wendell Willkie, GOP standard bearer of 1940, and Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio, today were regarded as "favorites" for the Republican presidential nomination next year, although former president Herbert Hoover looms in the background as a remote possibility.
This is the consensus among Republican legislators on Capitol Hill. Most Republicans say Willkie and Bricker must be eliminated before any other possibility — including Hoover—can be given serious consideration.
Further in the background are Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, of New York, Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, Gov. Dwight H. Green of Illinois, and Gov. Earl Warren of California. Still further, in the rear are Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota, Gov. Leverett Salfonnitt of Massachusetts, and Sen. Charles L. McNary of Oregon.
Republican interest in their 1944 nominee was heightened when Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, Montana Democrat, announced he would bolt his party if its nominee in 1944 is "un-satisfactory." And Wheeler named former president Hoover as the "strongest candidate" the GOP can nominate.
Republicans generally feel Willkie is an out-and-out candidate for the 1944 nomination. They expect him to enter primaries. He is rather unpopular on Capitol Hill, however, and will have his opponents in all sections of the country.
Pennock Confined to Home
Guy M. Pennock, mechanical superintendent of the University Press, is confined to his home in Eudora by a serious attack of flu, verging on pneumonia.
Denver, Feb. 12 (INS)—The week of March 14-20 will see convened in Denver some 30 aggregations of Topflight basketball stars intent upon coping honors of the annual national AUU basketball tournament.
K. Wayne Davidson, director of the K U News Bureau, was unable to meet his classes Friday on account of illness.
Davidson Is Ill
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Los Angeles, Feb. 11 (INS) — Police officers at central jail bugged their eyes and scratched their heads cynically today when they read this notation on the central jail police blotter:
"Jesse James, 24, arrested on suspicion of stealing a horse." It was no gag. Jesse James himself, from Muskogee, Okla., actually was in custody.
Resplendent in typical cowboy regalia, high-heel boots, sombrero, checked shirt and chaps—young James had been sought for several days on charges of an Upland, Cal., riding academy that he had rented a horse and failed to return it.
"Don't know what happened to the hoss." James told police. "Took a few drinks and when I woke up the hoss was gone."
Waste Of Newsprint Causes Congressmen To Protest in House
Washington (INS) — Congressmen who are now waging a fight against newsprint cuts, today told the House that the treasury yesterday mailed out heavy paper containers weighing three-fourths of a pound "with tin caps on each end" containing two graphs on sale of war bonds weighing less than an ounce.
Rep. Satterfield (D) Va., and Shafer (R) Mich., both took the floor to weigh the containers before the members, several of whom rose to say they also had received a similar carton in their morning mail.
"This extravagant waste of paper and tin by the bureaucrats could well be termed criminal," Shafer shouted. "God knows how many thousands were mailed out to the country."
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Hollywood, Feb. 11 (INS) — Taking the navy oath, actor Robert Taylor today became Lieut. (JG) Spangler Arlington Brugh (his legal name) in the Aviation Volunteer Transport Service.
Actor Robert Taylor Sworn into the Navy
The actor will shortly go to the naval flying school at Corpus Christi, Tex., for four months advanced training before he starts wearing the navy gold wings.
Taylor, at 31, is too old for combat flying, but with 110 solo hours in his log book, he probably will be assigned to instructing or naval ferrying work.
Mrs. Houdini Dies On Eastbound Train
Mrs. Beatrice Houdini, 77-pound widow of Harry Houdini, famous magician, died today on a New York bound train, within 24 hours of the death of Mrs. Howard Thurston, widow of Houdini's successor in reputation.
Mrs. Houdini had insisted on returning to New York although she had been critically ill several weeks in a rest home. Too weak to walk, Mrs. Houdini had been carried to the train where she was placed in a berth and an oxygen mask applied.
After failure of attempts by Mrs. Houdini to contact her husband in the spirit-world, as they had agreed upon, she had come to the conclusion that there is no "hereafter."
Soviet Command Announces
Recapture of Lozoraya
Moscow, (INS) — The Soviet high command last night announced recapture of Lozovaya, railway link only 60 miles south of Kharkov.
A "determined attack" preceded the capture. The town and railway station were taken and considerable booty captured.
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Editor Carl Brown Dies At Atchison
Carl J. G. "Snort" Brown, 57, editor of the Atchison Globe since 1927 and writer of the daily column of comments called the "Snort Column," died last night in an Atchison hospital after an illness of more than a month.
In gathering information for the Atchison Globe, Mr. Brown would walk along the street every day, and followed many of the practices of the late Ed Howe, former publisher of the Globe. He was a large man of six feet, two inches in height and weighed 230 pounds.
Mr. Brown had been on the University campus several times in recent years attending newspaper conferences, and his critical and snappy comments from the "Snort Column" have often been topics of class discussion, especially in the journalism department.
Mr. Brown was born in Beloit, Kans., Sept. 3, 1886, attended school in Atchison, and had a part-time job on an Atchison paper which has since been suspended. His first job on the Globe began in 1907 at which time he went to work as a type-setter, make-up man, and reporter.
He had worked on the Globe since that time except in 1926 and 1927 when he published the Ida Grove, Iowa, Record, a semi-weekly, and established the Amarillo, Texas, Globe.
Betty Coulson, College graduate in '41 was on the campus today gathering material for a story on the effect of the war on the University. She is now on the reporting staff of the Kansas City Star.
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