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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER, 18, 1940
NEW BUILDING WOULD HELP---- Surveys Need More Room
This is the fifth in a series of news stories presenting the advantages that the proposed new mineral industry building would bring to the campus and the state.
By MARYNELL DYATT
Sandwiched into the annex of old Haworth hall and running over into both Hoch auditorium and the mechanical laboratory of the engineering building, is the Kansas State Geological Survey and the Federal Survey.
In the basement of Hoch auditorium are more offices and laboratories and a library of well cuttings that are used by the sub-surface division. Last of these scattered offices are found in the mechanical laboratories of the engineering building.
Included in the annex of Haworth hall are offices of the staff, clay laboratories, sub - surface laboratories, and the drafting department.
Equipment and Offices Scattered
Equipment and Offices Scattered Present conditions are a disadvantage—first, in that equipment and offices are so scattered. The second disadvantage is that there is much equipment that can not be used because there is no room in which to set it up. This is not only a lack of efficient use of equipment but limits greatly the research that can be carried on by the department.
The greatest advantage of the proposed Mineral Industry building to the Kansas and Federal Geological Surveys will be room-sufficient room to set up equipment so as to do efficient work, and more room for offices and for laboratories. Would Banish Fire Hazard
In the new building every division of the department would be better coordinated so that materials would not be scattered. One advantage heretofore unmentioned is the doing away with the fire risk which, with all experiments, is very high under the present conditions.
The Surveys function as research divisions through which, working together, they develop the mineral industries of the state.
Studies of the geology of Kansas by the Geological Surveys have resulted in the finding of new mineral deposits and the discovery of facts that have aided in the further development of previously known deposits.
News From Page One
MALOTT TELLS---lor Deane W. Malott said this morning. "The University of Kansas has an important stake in the proposed mill-tax levy to provide a long term building program for the state institutions of higher learning.
"Under the mill tax levy, the University would receive, as its portion, sufficient funds to provide a replacement or a new building or a substantial addition every three or four years.
"Although it would take years to build back the physical plant of the University, on this basis, it would at least provide constant modest improvements and prevent such a building moratorium as we have just
experienced, wherein we have been 17 years without additional class and laboratory space.
Mineral Building Wanted Now
"While this proposal would bring us eventual relief, we are asking the legislature for a Mineral Industries building at this session because funds from the mill tax, if enacted by the coming legislature, would not be available to use in sufficient amount to provide a building for several years. The people of Kansas can ill afford to wait for the proposed Mineral Industries building because of its importance in providing facilities for research in the significant program of industrialization now going forward in Kansas."
SOIL BLOCKS--to six cents per cubic foot for stabilized earth blocks as compared to 15 to 25 cents per cubic foot for standard concrete blocks.
Since soil, which is the principle ingredient of the blocks, may come from the premises of the owner or nearby, the material cost is extremely low, consisting of labor, securing the soil, and a few cents per cubic foot for the stabilizer.
There is the possibility that this new development may more or less revolutionize the cost of small building industry. As regards the new laboratory, the cost of the building will undoubtedly be the lowest of any structure of comparable size on the University campus.
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Penchard of Brick's won this month's Life Saver joke contest with a joke he usually tells to only his more intimate customers. The manuscripts for the Owl contest have not been judged yet but will appear in the January issue Buxton said.
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