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Mobile Crane Slips Beams Into Place in Union Addition
The ponderous gyrations of a large mobile crane at the Kansas Union last week helped to establish another "first" in construction at KU.
Moving like an over-grown crane (bird) fishing in a barrel of fish, the crane (mechanical) was deftly placing pre-stressed concrete beams in a 71.1 by 46.5 foot opening inside the new million dollar Kansas Union addition.
The opening presented a problem which was solved by the use of the beans. The ground floor of the Union will house a new bowling alley. The roof is designed to be self-supporting in order to do away with supporting columns in the alleys.
This is the first time this type of beam has been used in construction at KU.
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Official Bulletin
TODAY
Mr. R. J. Samson of Arthur Young
accounting position. In 202, Summerheld.
Mr. W. J. Collier of Roche Laboratories
of Pharmaceuticals Sales job in, 202 Summerfield
Mr. Frank Sherman of National Carbon
292 Summerfield, for a sales position in
292 Summerfield.
2020 Poetry Hotel. 4:00 p.m., Music & Browsing Room. Dr. Worth reading
book.
Vox Populi, 7.30 p.m., Pine Room in the Union.
Thomas G. Green
German Club, 5:00 p.m., Room 402
Fraser. Karl Garrett and other music
students will present a musical program.
Birde, Bine, Room in
the Union Christian Science Organization Meeting. 7.30 p.m., Danforth Chapel, Students, faculty and friends are invited to attend.
Foreign Students: All foreign students who are I.I.E.-related are to attend a special meeting at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Kansas Union. English Room.
Episcopal Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
TOMORROW
Newman Club Daily Mass, 6:30 a.m.
St. John's Church.
Episcopal Morning Prayer. 6:45 a.m.
and Holy Communion. 7:00 a.m., with
breakfast following, Canterbury House.
Newman Club, 12:35 p.m., Room 305.
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, 7:30 p.m., 829 Miss Bible study and refresh.
Newman Club, 12:35 p.m. Room 305.
Kansas Union. Daily Rosary.
in
Mr. O. Easterly of Texaco Co. will in-
terpret or a sales position in 202 Sumner-
field.
SUNDAY
Newman Club, 7:30 p.m., Javahawk Room in the Kansas Union. Initiation Ceremony. Refreshments will be served.
They Saw a Real Problem on TV
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. —(UPI)— The "Problems of Democracy" class at the high school here installed a television set so students could watch Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev while he was visiting the U.S.
Speeder Has Accomplice
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. —(UPI)— A highway patrol car chasing a speeder swerved to avoid a deer and crashed into a tree here recently. The two officers suffered minor injuries. The speeder—and the deer escaped.
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According to Keith Lawton, director of physical plant operations, the usual method of constructing a self-supporting ceiling is to build forms supported by jacks. Reinforcing steel is then wired to the forms over which concrete is poured. By using the 3 by 45.5 foot pre-stressed beams, it was not necessary to use the clumsy "form and pour" method.
Under the comparatively new construction method the beams are prefabricated and shipped to the building site where they are put into place by the crane. The beams are laid side-by-side and then welded together to form a sub-floor on which the concrete "main" floor can be poured.
Mr. Lawton said the opening required 23 beams to close. Each floor will be constructed in the same manner over the bowling area area.
Mr. Lawton added that 69 beams have been placed on three floors with 46 left to be put into place.
Clayton M. Crosier, associate professor of civil engineering, said the use of pre-stressed beams in this country is relatively new.
"Although pre-stressed concrete beams have only gained popularity in this country during the last ten years, they have been used in Europe quite extensively for some time.
Thursday, Oct. 22, 1959
The process was originally worked out by an American approximately 60 years ago' he explained.
Prof. Crosier said that pre-stressed concrete beams utilize a special type of steel reinforcing which is stretched and anchored or bonded to the cement.
"The concrete prevents the steel from shortening. This puts the steel in compression which makes all the concrete work.
"In an ordinary concrete beam about 40 per cent of the beam resists flexural stress. In a pre-stressed beam 100 per cent resists the stress," he explained.
This resistance to flexural stress allows the beam to support a greater amount of weight without added support.
"I think this is the first time they've ever been used on this campus. I know they have never been used since I've been here," Mr. Lawton said.
He said the steel strike has not affected any projects under construction now, but that it has delayed the starting of some new ones.
"We had some weather problems the last few weeks but are getting along now on the Union. We hope to have the project completed by the spring of 1960," he said.
"Because of some doubts on the availability of steel we are waiting to start construction of the Snow Hall addition," he said.
The thermometer, which is guarded by a system of thermostats more than 100 times more sensitive than the human body, registers the temperature of a room which is not allowed to vary more than two degrees from 74 degrees Fahrenheit.
RYE, N.Y. — (UPI) — The fight against cancer is being aided by what is probably the world's most constant thermometer at the new Walker Laboratory of the Sloan-Kettering Institute here.
New Thermometer Aids Cancer Fight
The thermostats, which are equipped with alarms and are controlled by a "data center" developed for the laboratory by the Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co., safeguard the institute's priceless colony of research animals.
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OGDEN, N.Y. — (UPI) — Mr. and Mrs. James Ryan, owners of Sham- rock Farm, assured the passing motorist he wasn't seeing things—there really are buffalo grazing on their land.
The bison, one male and one female, were purchased along with a herd of Holstein cattle by Jerome Miller of Spencerport, who rents part of the Ryan pasture.
Miller said the man who sold them to him said they were three years old and had been given to him by a zoo when the animals were still calves.
Farmer Ryan reported that the other cows on his farm were startled when the bison were first sent into the pasture, but "they get along fine now."
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Miller said he bought the bison because "they're something different." They were tame, he said, since they had been raised with cows.
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News Briefs Bison and Cattle Two-Year-Old Boy Get Along Fine Inspires Invention
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Extra pounds on the figure mean extra dollars on life insurance policy premiums. So reports the Institute of Life Insurance, which explained that obese persons are below-average risks and tend to have shorter lives.
To insure plump persons at standard rates would be unfair to other policyholders, the Institute said.
Corporations Aid Colleges
CLEVELAND, Ohio — (UPI) — Two-year-old Keith Christian, like most children his age, likes to unscrew bottle caps.
Kenneth Christian, a barber by profession, is an inventor on the side. The patent on the safety cap is pending in Washington and he has a plastic manufacturer lined up to make it.
But Keith can't get anywhere with the pill bottles in the medicine chest at his home. He can't bite, flop or unscrew the covers because they are protected with a foolproof cap designed by his father.
NEW YORK — (UPI)— Although corporations contributed $136,500,-000 to college education in the U.S. last year, their total grants amounted to less than 0.2 per cent of their earnings, according to figures released by the Council for Financial Aid to Education.
Astronauts May Lose Sense of Taste
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Trying to anticipate conditions which may confront astronauts, nutrition scientists at the Air Force Aero Medical Laboratory put volunteers in a blacked-out room and fed them. The subjects could not detect any difference in the taste of white and whole wheat bread. They found all kinds of meat tasted the same.
NEW YORK — (UPI)— Per capita income in the United States rose to $2,057 last year from $1,491 in 1950, the National Industrial Conference Board reported.
American Income Increases
Connecticut led the nation with a per capita income of $2,817. New Mexico showed the sharpest jump between 1950 and 1958 — about 58 per cent to $1,838.
Uranium Production Up
WASHINGTON — (UFI) — Free world production of uranium in the past 10 years has jumped from 2,000 to 40,000 tons a year, according to the Atomic Energy Commission.
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