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THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1943
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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W. P. Lambertson Urges Curbing Of Labor Unions
Topeka (INS) — Congressman W. P. Lambertson, Rep., addressing the House of Representatives, today opened the first move for enactment of stringent legislation for curbing labor unions.
Lambertson said that "Labor unions need to be saved from themselves. The greatest waste of the war is the high wages paid to labor. He urged Kansas to set an example for the rest of the nation in enacting a law to curtail the activities of labor unions.
Resigns For Army Service
in the state legislature when the resignation of Representative Herbert J. Barr, Leoti, was announced in the House today. The Democrats now number 10 out of a total of 125. Barr, the richest farmer-rancher of the legislature, said he had volunteered for service in the coast guard. The house gave him an ovation when the announcement was made.
The House, as a committee of the whole, approved a bill requiring that Spanish be taught in all Kansas high schools. Sponsors said that it would be an aid in promoting the government's good neighbor policy as well as Kansas culture.
Equal Service to Negroes
Representative W. H. Towers Kansas City, introduced a bill to compel all hotels, drink parlors, and places of amusement to give equal service to Negroos as well as whites Representatives Robert Anderson, Oswego, and I. E. Nieckell, Smith Center, joined in the introduction of a measure to require Wassermann tests before the issuing of marriage licenses.
Oil, Gas Industries Boom in Kansas in 1941
During 1941 the oil and gas industries of Kansas went forward to new record heights. Of 2,113 wells drilled, 1,446 were oil wells and 76 were new gas wells. In western Kansas alone 1,186 new oil wells and 34 new gas wells were completed. Of the 286 wildcat wells drilled in western Kansas 25 per cent were successful in finding new supplies of oil or gas. Of these, 147 were rank wildcats located at least 2 miles from the nearest producing well, and among them only 16 per cent were successful, showing a lack of success for this type of prospecting.
There were 21,838 oil wells in Kansas at the end of 1941, and these had accounted for a total of no less than 83 million barrels of oil. The monthly pipe line runs increased from slightly over 6 million barrels in January to about $7_{1/2}$ million barrels in December. During 1941 nearly 18 million more barrels of oil were produced than in 1940 and nearly 13 million more barrels than in the previous highest year, 1937.
The Trapp pool in western Kansas ranks highest with a production of
J. B. Smith Assigned To Board of Review
J. B. Smith, former faculty member of the School of Law, has recently been promoted to the rank of major in the United States Army, according to information received by the Chancellor's office.
The information states that Major Smith has been assigned to the board of review, the army supreme court having jurisdiction over all cases of court martial throughout the world. This job is considered one of the most difficult and important positions in the office of the Judge Advocate General of the Army.
$ 7 \frac{1}{2} $ million barrels during 1941. The Silica pool with 7 million barrels and the Bennis-Shutts pool with 4 million barrels follow. The Burnett pool and the Zenith pool also produced a large quantity of oil.
A Fossil Forest Found Near Ottawa
In the matter of gas production a new high record was attained in 1941 when over 93 million cubic feet were marketed. The bulk of this total came from the phenomenal gas pool in the southwestern part of the state.
Exploration for new pools resulted in the discovery of 32 new oil pools and 6 new gas pools. The most sensational new oil pool is the Patterson pool, which lies many miles west of the present oil pools of western Kansas, in Kearny county. The five new pools in western Reno county probably will prove to constitute the largest new oil reserve discovered during the year.
On U. S. highway 50 S. between Ottawa and Emporia, about two miles west of Ottawa is a large road cut showing the country rock. Most of the rock is sandstone. Immediately beneath the sandstone is a layer of coal at 12 to 18 inches thick. At a number of places in this road cut may be seen the trunks of ancient trees imbedded in the sandstone, still standing erect, and terminating in the underlying coal. These fossil trees are known as calamites.
Calamites are plants with numerous unbranched, hollow, jointed, and ribbed stems. They grew to a height of 100 feet and attained a diameter of as much as 3 feet. The upright trunks grew from a prostrate horizontal stem and it is evident that they thrived in wet or swampy sand soils. At the nodes along the stem were branchlets, of ten arranged in whorls, and these bore circles of leaves called annularia at their nodes. Probably there were many jungle-like areas of these calamites resembling on an enlarged scale the dense southern canebrakes and comparable to the bamboo thickets of today. The calamites today are represented by the horsetail rushes which, however, are mostly less than 3 feet tall. The calamites that may be seen in the Ottawa road cut have a diameter from one-half to 3 inches and a height of 5 to 6 feet. The fossil forest here described is especially noteworthy for several reasons. First, here is one of the few places where ancient vegetation is still in place and undisturbed, second, the relation between vegetation and coal is clearly demonstrated, namely, that coal is formed from vegetation, and third, a good idea of the type of vegetation that flourished near Ottawa in the past geologic age is to be had. The calamite forest is of Pennsylvaniaian age and is some 225 million years old.
Boylan Is President of Engineer Group; Vander Werf Speaks
Other officers elected were:
David Boylan, Jr., chemical engineering senior, was elected president of the university student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers last night.
Other officers elected were:
Vice-President, Richard Burge;
secretary, Dalton Eash; treasurer,
Leonard Hays; and publicity chairman,
John Michel.
Dr. Calvin Vander Werf, Professor of chemistry, spoke to the group about magnesium extraction from the sea and the importance of that metal in the war program.
School at 7th & Louisiana St.
A new method of rebuilding faces with elucidul, under living skin, has been developed at Tulane University school of medicine.
BUY WAR STAMPS
Faces Rebuilt With Celluloid
WANT ADS
Lost: Conklin fountain pen. Color—green, cap missing. Call or see Harmon at Jayhawk Co-op, 1614 Kentucky. Phone 1095. Reward.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
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Thursday, January 28.1943
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Lucile Paden, president.
Psychology Club—Meeting will be held 4:30 Mon., Feb.1, in room 21F5. Kenneth Moore will speak on his thesis concerning the effects of temperature on the behavior of rats. Everyone welcome.
NEW STUDENTS and Those Who Have Changed ADDRESSES
Y.M.-Y.W.; The Religious Inter-
pretation Discussion Group Meets
thursday night 7:00 to 8:00 P.M. at
Tenley House.
Kappa Phi-There will be a cover dish supper Friday evening at 5:30 o'clock at 1527 Mass. St. Election of officers will be held. All members please be present. Eleanor Patty, Publicity Manager.
May Have Their KANSANS Delivered by Turning Their Activity Book Slips in to the Kansan Business Office in Journalism Building.
English Proficiency Examination:
The third examination of the regular school year will be held on Saturday, February 6, at 8:30 a.m. Juniors in the college who have not already passed one of these examinations should arrange to take this one. Register at the College office, 229 Frank Strong Hall, February 1-3. Only students of junior or senior standing may register. J. B. Virtue.
There will be a make-up Psychological Examination Sat., Feb. 6 at 10:30 a.m. in Room 306 Fraser Hall for late registrants and those who missed the first test. A. H. Turney:
If you are living at the same address as last semester your KANSAN will continue to be delivered there.
NEWMAN CLUB MEMBERS:
The monthly Corporate Communion and Breakfast meeting will be held next Sunday at the 10 o'clock low Mass with the Rev. Paul C. Schulte, bishop of Leavenworth, the guest of honor.
There are some vacancies in the Women's Glee Club. Anyone interested see Miss Feabody in Room 134, Frank Strong Hall.
All changes MUST be in Kansan office by Friday, Jan. 29.
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