UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1942
PAGE SEVEN
Jewett Seeks Defense Plant Water Supply
To determine possibilities of a temporary ground-water supply for the Sunflower ordnance plant during the construction period, J. M. Jewett of the state geological survey started a brief investigation Saturday of the thickness of the Tonganoxie sandstone and the sandstone in the Stanton formation.
Working with engineers of the plant construction company and the war department, Jewett has been testing on matters of ground-water supplies and geological problems involved in actual construction activities to determine the exact area and water requirements of the ordnance plant.
State and federal geological surveys have been actively engaged in supplying information and making investigations for several national defense plants and proposed plant sites in Kansas.
Owens To Discuss Folklore Tomorrow
Folkore and folk songs of the American southwest will be discussed tomorrow afternoon by W. A. Owens, professor of English at Texas A. and M., in Fraser theater at 4:30. Professor Owen's lecture will be illustrated with recordings made by him on field trips through Texas and Louisiana.
Professor Owens is an authority on white and Negro folk songs of the Southwest, and has a library of over 600 recordings made by hill persons, cotton workers, the "Cajuns" of Louisiana, and other cultural groups. Last year he was head of the bureau of folklore at Texas A. and M., and he is coming to Lawrence from a meeting of the American Folksong congress at Murrayville, Ky.
The lecture is under the auspices of the University department of English. The public is invited.
Quill Club Magazine Goes On Sale Monday
"Feoh," the Quill Club's yearly magazine, went to press this morning, and will probably be on sale Monday. Selling booths will be located in Fraser hall, the rotunda of Frank Strong hall, the Memorial Union building, and copies may be purchased from club members.
The 40-page magazine, which will sell for 25 cents, contains original fiction and poetry by students and a few faculty contributions. The cover design, a red circle on gray ripple finish stock, is the work of Dorothy May Wiggins.
Ball Game Results In Injury
Don Keplinger, business junior and a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity, injured his left elbow and the cartilage on his left knee while playing intramural baseball Tuesday afternoon.
He was released from Watkins Memorial hospital yesterday, but will have to resort to crutches for several weeks.
Needle Hunt Profitable To Professor
Norman, Okla. (UP) — Prof. William Schriever of the University of Oklahoma physics department, is a proved needle-in-the-haystack finder.
He guarantees his work, with one provision—the needle must be platinum, containing radium. Doctors use such needles in their profession, and they are worth upwards of $500.
The professor will tell you about the time he found two such needles in the vast Oklahoma City trash dump. The procedure is simple- if you are a professor of physics.
You see, radium is a radioactive element which disintegrates spontaneously giving off alpha, beta, and gamma rays. The gamma rays ionize the air, and there lies the secret of the success of Prof. Schriever's needle hunting.
The professor took an electroscope to the dump and began a tour, watching the instrument for traces of electricity. Soon he had the locality of the needles narrowed down to a 5-foot area.
Then the professor began to dig, putting the trash into baskets. With the electroscope he examined each basket and found the one containing the radium. The contents of the basket were then divided into smaller and smaller amounts until finally Prof. Schriever held a handful of dirt. There were the needles.
Prof. Schriever will also tell you of 12 other hunts in which he recovered $11,000 worth of radium needles.
Honorary Fraternity Initiates Tuesday
Psi Chi, honorary psychology fraternity, held its annual initiation banquet Tuesday evening. A banquet was held in the University Club room in the Memorial Union building, at 6 o'clock, followed by the initiation in Frank Strong hall at 7:30.
Those who were initiated are Suzanne Lawderman, Robert Chapman, Dorilyn Montgomery, Adale Short, Virginia Roach, Marjorie Cook, Gussie Helmig, Geraldine Powell, Nancy Jane Prather, Doris Turner, Dorothy Hathway, Diana Irvine, Verlyn Norris, Colleen Poorman, Barbara Reber, Elizabeth Stevens, Martha Jane Green, Eva Magill, Patricia Riggs, Lucille York, Georgia Ferrel, Vivian Catts, Florence Clement, and Julia Meninger.
"Democracy in War Time" was the topic of a student discussion held at Henley House at 4:30 Tuesday afternoon. This was the third in the series of discussions sponsored by the Estes Commission of the Y.M.C.A. and the Y.W.C.A.
War-Time Democracy Is Topic At Henley In Third of Series
"How Relevant is the Pacifist's Position" will be the topic of the discussion led by Royal Humbert, instructor of religion, and W. T. Paullin, instructor of history, next Tuesday at 4:30 at Henley House.
Butte, Montana's battle cry is "Save Your Scrap to Beat the Jaws."
The annual home concert of the University A Capella Choir under the direction of D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, is scheduled for 8 o'clock Monday night in Hoch auditorium.
A Capella Concert To Be Monday Night
The program will include selections from earlier classical, Russian twentieth century and contemporary music, and Negro and folk song arrangements. Appearing as soloists with the choir will be Minerva Davis, mezzo-soprano, and Clayton Krehbiel, tenor, both seniors in the School of Fine Arts.
The choir has been rehearsing from three to four times each week since last September, working out the finer details for Monday night's concert.
Dr. Claude W. Hibbard, curator of vertebrate paleontology in Dyche museum, returned Monday from New York City where he identified and compared specimens of Pleistocene mammals from Kansas with those in the American museum of natural history.
Dyche Paleontologist Has Returned From Tour of Museums
Dr. Hibbard also studied material at the National museum in Washington, the Cleveland museum of natural history, and the Field museum in Chicago.
He attended the annual meeting of the American Society of Mammologists which was held in New York City and was elected a member of the board of directors of that organization for the coming year.
Geologists Assemble To Hear Speeches On Crinoid Fossils
A joint supper meeting of members of the geological survey and of the geology department was held late this afternoon in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building. It was the regular monthly meeting of geologists.
Dr. R. C. Moore, professor of geology, and Dr. Lowell R. Laudon, associate professor of geology, spoke to the group on the subject—"Crinoids." Doctors Moore and Laudon are having two papers printed on their study of crinoids.
Bert A. Nash, professor of education, spoke last night before the North Topeka Kiwanis club on a report prepared by the governor's committee on state children's institutions, a committee of which he is a member.
Nash Delivers Addresses On Children's Institutions
Tonight and tomorrow Professor Nash will discuss the report before Hutchinson service clubs and Thursday morning he will appear before a general session of the state parnet-teachers' association convention in Hutchinson. Thursday noon Professor Nash will be chairman at a luncheon meeting of the convention's mental hygiene committee.
Mendenhall Works For Chrysler
Wendell Mendenhall, a graduate student in chemistry, has received an appointment to the research laboratory of the Chrysler corporation, Detroit, Mich. He will begin work June 1.
Play Off Ping Pong Finals
Finals of the ping pong tournament were played Monday right in the men's gym. First place went to John Ise, jr., graduate student, and second place went to Perry Petterson, college senior and freshman in medicine.
Those playing in the tournament Monday night were Joe Davison, engineering junior; Orville Kretzmeier, business senior; Les Staebler, college senior; Lloyd Jaquier, engineering junior; T. J. Magrath, college junior; and Bob Groom, college freshman.
Others playing were Alta Bingham, education senior, and Sue Corson, college sophomore.
Finals of the women's ping pong tournament were played Tuesday night in the girl's gym. Althea Shuss, college sophomore, won first place and Shirley Irwin, a special student in fine arts, won second place.
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The Classical Association is composed of high school and college language teachers who meet once a year somewhere in Kansas or Missouri. The association is now 36 years old.
L. R. Lind, assistant professor of Latin and Greek, was elected secretary-treasurer of the Classical Association of Kansas and western Missouri at a meeting of that association April 11 at William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo.
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