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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1942
The Editorial Page
Restaurants Patronized By Students Are Graded On Sanitary Conditions
In cooperation with the Douglas County Health unit, the Kansan has conducted an investigation into sanitation conditions under which the cafes and restaurants most frequented by students have been operating. The principal factor behind the paper's action is that if city and state sanitation ordinances are not being heeded by these food handlers, then the welfare of students who take some or all their meals at such restaurants is being jeopardized.
The following report is unbiased, unprejudiced, and written from actual observations by the writer. For clarification, the restaurants and cafes have been listed alphabetically, and notes on their observation of the rules of sanitation follow. They have been classified according to a grading scale of A, B, C, D, and F.
Bill's Cafe—This food-handling establishment, despite its diminutive size and obscure location, was exceedingly clean behind the counter, had clean shelves for storing dishes, and the walls and ceilings were cleanly painted and void of cobwebs. No evidence of cockroaches was found there. There were no cracks or fissures in the walls or ceilings. Glasses and dishes were clean. The equipment and processes used for washing dishes and glassware was, however, not quite up to the standard set by state regulations. Bill's Cafe rates a "B plus."
The Blue Mill—Two weeks ago this restaurant, according to sanitary officials, would have been graded a low "D", but due to the manager's conscientious efforts to correct his sanitary and public health conditions, the grading has gone up. The back kitchen was being cleaned, its walls and ceilings painted, and, in general, commendable improvements were being made. Meat storage facilities were still poor. The dish washing equipment was definitely not adequate. A cat was kept in the kitchen. The Blue Mill gets a "C minus."
Brick's—The front fountain of this restaurant was its chief offender, glasses being spotted and carelessly washed and dried. The pastry case was kept in excellent closed condition, thus keeping out foreign substances. The floors were noticeably clean. The fountain syrups were, at the time of inspection, exposed to the open air. The kitchen and its personnel, were clean. Rinsing water was only 110 degrees in temperature. The state requires a minimum of 170 degrees. Brick's gets a "B minus."
The Colonial Tea Room—The kitchen here was in extremely well-kept condition. The tables upon which food was prepared were spotlessly clean, and food handlers wore unsouled and neat uniforms. A new and well-kept automatic dish washer, of the type used by many large restaurants, was being used. The Colonial Tea Room gets a strong "A."
The De Luxe Cafe — This establishment was typical of those observed which deal with a greatly increased number of patrons due to the influx of SOW workers. This cafe's back kitchen floor was in places covered with a scum of grease and refuse. Little care was taken in preventing food exposure. Foreign articles (old shoes, soiler aprons, rags) were
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Just Wondering
If the final outcome of negotiations between the Chancellor and the MSC will not be a closer relationship between the administration and the student representatives than has existed for many years.
--strewn about the kitchen. The kitchen food handlers were not clean in dress. The De Luxe gets a "D plus."
Dusty Rhodes Cafe—The interior of the restaurant was cleanly swept. The dish washing facilities were very poor, since employees merely suds the dishes then quickly rinse them with hot water. Inspection sheets show that this establishment., though warned previously, made no attempt to comply with state dish washing regulations. The pastry was exposed behind the counter. The food was prepared in a clean manner. Dusty Rhodes' Cafe gets a "C."
Eldridge Hotel Coffee Shop - The back kitchen of this establishment contrasted greatly with the adjoining dining room and coffee shop. The kitchen, although steps have been taken to remedy the faulty conditions, was still far from being acceptable to health authorities. Several cockroaches were seen in the room and miscellaneous articles were seen strewn about the kitchen. The walls and ceilings were dirty, and the effectiveness of the dish washing equipment was doubtful. Because of steps being taken to remedy these conditions, the Eldridge Hotel Coffee Shop is graded "C minus." D.S.
The Kansan report on sanitary conditions in Lawrence eating establishments will be continued on Tuesday's editorial page.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
EDITORIAL STAFF
Publisher ... John Conard
NEWS STAFF
Editor-in-chief ... J. Donald Keown
Associate Editors ... Bob Coleman, Bill Feeney,
                Ralph Coldren, Dean Sims,
                Matt Heuertz
Feature Editor ... Joy Miller
Managing Editor ... Glee Smith
Campus Editors ... Dale Robinson, Scott
Hookins, Eleanor Fry
Sports Editor ... Milo Farneti
Society Editor ... Ruth Tippin
News Editor ... Dean Sims
Sunday Editor ... Virginia Tieman
Picture Editor ... Miriam Abele
Business Manager ... Oliver Hughes
Advertising Manager ... John Pope
Advertising Assistant ... Charles Taylor, Jr.
BUSINESS STAFF
Rock Chalk Talk
BETTY LOU PERKINS
By JIMMY GUNN, Sunday Columnist
Such is the force of habit: Gerry Gentry, A O Pi, has been on phone duty so much that it is becoming second nature to her. She fell into a doze in her history class the other day. The phone rang in an office nearby and she was halfway to the door of the classroom before she woke up.
At the Engineering Banquet (what no haircuts?): John Jakosky, son of Dean J. J. Jakosky, had his hair well splattered with gravy. Immediately a waiter dashed out to give him a shampoo with a dish rag.
Christmas is the time for cheer. The kind that comes in glasses With flowing wine and foaming beer And no more classes.
Christmas Cheer
But Christmas will be short this year
With little time for play,
So lift the glass and shed a tear,
And look out New Year's Day!
Also at the Engineering Banquet—censorship: Prof. Allen Crafton, guest artist, sang several songs of the other war. And each time he got up to sing he would be reminded of the story about the soldier boy and the farmer's daughter who was working as a waitress in a cafe. The first time he began the story Dean Jakosky interrupted to say that he wanted to keep the banquet on a little higher plane. The second time he began the story Dean Jakosky interrupted department of speech and drama and toastmaster for the evening, stopped him with the admonition not to give the wrong impression of the department. The third time Chancellor Malott censored the story because he hadn't had time to confer with the MSC. The fourth and last time Crafton said he could be found in the corner of the main lounge after the banquet, if anyone wanted to hear the story.
NEW STAR SHINES Successor to Valentino Bugs Bunny
Few people realize the crisis through which the motion picture industry has recently passed. When the armed forces began calling the services of the screen's reading male actors, hasty conferences among stockholders, producers, and directors were arranged, but for a long time the situation seemed hopeless. The movie theater was doomed to?
New Star Is Nonchalant
movie theater was doomed to go the same way as the sugar bowl and the garage.
This new character is as refreshing to a movie audience worn to the verge of despair by a bombardment of double "features" as rain water running down the back of one's collar, or blouse (underline choice, or are you sensible and stay inside when it rains?) He faces life with confidence and nonchalance, sneering at the adversity that is continually heaped upon him by relentless script writers, matching trickery and cunning with cunning and trickery (just to throw the other fellow off guard.) Actor Lightens Sorrow
He may indeed be symbolic of the little fellow, the trampled and the fallen, the gouged and the reamed, the weary and the oppressed, those
Then, with little publicity or fanfare, there flashed across the screens of America's movie houses one of the most virile personalities since Rudolph Valentino. An unusual character he is, too—not the great lover type, hardly suave or sophisticated; one might say he represents the elemental in human beings, and then again one might not say that at all. No particular reason for it.
who walk life's secret paths of sorrow alone and unaided but moving ever onward to inevitable triumph over seemingly insurmountable obstacles (or are you taking trigonometry too?) People leave the theater after his performances with a new light in their careworn faces, chins up, thumbs up, back erect, chest out, tummy in, feet together, hands at sides, (all right, dismissed!)
Little else can be said for this person. He has made our lives brighter, made us forget, just for a while, the cares of the world. Enshrined forever in the hearts and minds of all of us is carrot-chomp ing, stubby-tailed Bugs Bunny.
Pinball Games Legal Not Gambling, Says State Supreme Court
Topeka—(INS)-Pinball games are not gambling devices in Kansas, according to a supreme court decision today in a case appealed from Atchinson County.
The state's highest tribunal ruled however that the question of gambling on the side of the outcome of such games might be another matter, but the justices, added that the issue was not before the court.