Foreign Irrigation Project Criticized
Robert W. Harrison, economic consultant and student of water development problems, yesterday severely criticized a huge irrigation project on the Ganges River delta basin in Pakistan that is partially financed by the United States.
Mr. Harrison has studied most major rivers in the world outside of the U.S.S.R.
He spoke to a group of engineers, economists, and geographers at Summerfield Hall.
Project Is Impossible
"The project is absolutely so out of concept that is it impossible. From a bureaucratic point of view it's a flop." Mr. Harrison said.
He explained that the U.S. has furnished huge pumps for the project. They are considered the largest in the world. The pumps cost approximately four million dollars.
May Scrap Pumps
He said the location for the pumps, near Docca, Pakistan, is on shifting delta land which will require a seven million dollar housing for support.
"The Pakistani government is now considering whether to scrap the pumps for salvage. They will probably get 10 per cent of their original value," he said.
Some of the problems the project has run into is lack of fuel for the pumping station, a river which shifts its bed as much as 400 miles in 40 years, and lack of organization.
Mr. Harrison, in discussing the Mississippi river control project, said that is no practical solution to that river's tremendous levee problem.
"It took one million cubic feet of dirt a mile to build the levees on the Mississippi. Now there is the problem of containing the river within the levees," he said.
He explained that the levees can do the job they were designed for only during high water because the river compresses the dirt.
"But during low water the levees
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are undercut by erosion. It is extremely hard to keep in daily contact with all the miles of levee in order to repair damage. While huge expenditures have forestalled some of the damage, there is no absolute solution to the problem." Mr. Harrison said.
Mr. Harrison pointed out the challenge offered engineers in this type of problem. He said there is a tremendous shortage of men in the field of "river dynamics."
Harold Schafer, professor of inorganic and analytical chemistry at Munster University in Germany, will speak on "Reaction Equilibria at High Temperature" at a public lecture at 4 p.m. today in Malott Hall.
German Professor Will Lecture Today
Dr. Schafer is visiting universities and research laboratories on a one-month tour of the United States.
His special fields of research include the chemistry and separation of certain rare metals, and studies on metal-oxide systems at high temperatures.
Vox Candidates Remain Unopposed
Vox Populi, the only active political party at the University of Kansas, will not participate in the freshman primary elections.
Vox has nominated two girls for All Student Council representatives, but without the competition of another party it is unnecessary for Vox to participate in the primary.
The girls, Nancy Borel, Washington, D.C., Corbin-North College, and Anne Miner, Mission, Gertrude Sellards Pearson, will run in the general election.
The primary elections are Oct. 27 and 28. The general elections are Nov. 3 and 4.
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RALEIGH, Miss. — (UPI) — George Craft evidently has no Mississippi peer in distance tobacco propulsion.
Farmer Craft Wins With 21-Foot Blast
Farmer Craft, who has said he'll never be outdistanced, won the Mississippi long-range tobacco spitting contest yesterday for the sixth straight year.
The contest is an annual event of The Smith County Forestry Field Day held near this central Mississippi town.
Rapp Moulder, was a distant runner-up with a distance of 14 feet, two inches.
"Everybody knew he was gonna win," said another farmer contestant, "we were just competing for second place."
Craft, as is his practice, bit off a big piece of tobacco, chewed a bit, and then let go full blast. The feat won Craft the championship but it was four feet short of his record of 25 feet, two inches.
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow—Aeson.
Craft wasn't even in the running in the accuracy contest, however. Vance Hughes won that although he missed the spitton by half an inch at a range of 15 feet.
Firemen Are Early for Fire
MT. SHASTA, Calif. — (UPI) — Firemen checked an abandoned building last night as part of a campaign to find the cause of a recent wave of fires. Ten minutes later the building went up in flames.
"It was definitely the work of an arsonist," firemen said.
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