Back in '47
Sunnyside Invaded By Joyful Faculty
By Thomas Hough
(This is the second of three articles on Sunnyside Housing Project.)
Overjoyed faculty members rushed out of their patched-up garages, garrets, or whatever, in 1946 to plunk down $36 a month for four-room apartments in Sunnyside.
Tool-toting workmen fled from the furniture-laden faculty members who were scrambling into the 186 apartments. Some nails were still warm from the hammer. The lingering odor of fresh paint lent a housewarming atmosphere.
A few lines taken from a parody captures the essence of feeling when the faculty first moved into the converted army barracks:
"How we love thee, Sunnyside.
We love thy floors' unvarnished light...love thy doors, that fit so tight. We may scoff, complaints are free, (but) without thy roof, where would we be? Eudora, Baldwin, or K.C."—Helen C. Telfel, College junior, Dec., 1947.
Thankful Faculty
Thankful for their new homes, a smiling faculty waded through Sunnyside mud to teach classes.
Irvin Youngberg, housing director, summed up the situation in the spring of 1947:
"We will have to wait for dry weather before we can work our way out of the mud, finish laying sidewalks, and complete other outside work."
In spite of these inconveniences, one resident's wife expressed the common sentiment of the faculty members in Sunnysvide:
"After the place where we've been living, it's only a little this side of heaven."
But the Sunnyside version of heaven left some things to be desider:
An Imperfect Heaven
In March, 1947, the safety valves on 15 hot water tanks flew in as
One Man: 80 Rooms
STONE HARBOR, N.J. —(UPI)—Robert Rice, a marine engineer from Miami, is spending two months all by himself in an 80-room hotel here.
The owners of the Shelter Haven Hotel were set to close the place at the end of the summer season when they remembered the 50-year-old Rice had a reservation through November. So they let him stay on, leaving the key and two maids to take care of general dusting and the guest's room.
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many directions. Apartments were flooded. Workmen had been testing to see if the water pressure would reach the 150 pounds required for fire protection. It is easy to imagine a downstairs apartment dweller who emerged shod in rubber boots and carry an umbrella.
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"What happened?" he asked.
"It's just one of those things," the housing bureau explained the next dav.
Then in April, 1947, every apartment in Sunnyside was plunged into darkness when the master meter burned out. Four shivering maintenance men worked three hours in the rain and snow while Sunnyside tennants groped for candles and flashlights.
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"...—that could have been a child," claimed an indignant letter to The Kansan.
But Sunnyside residents proved they weren't passive in 1949, when a car ran over a dog.
Community spirit emerged. Parents of 225 small children united in protest of traffic around Sunnyside.
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The Lawrence police chief issued a statement:
"Police patrol cars are being instructed to keep a careful watch on traffic violations in the Sunnyside area."
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FOOTBALL: ITS CAUSE AND CURE
Alaric Sigafoos (1868-1934) started life humbly on a farm near Thud, Kansas. His mother and father, both named Ralph, were bean-gleaners, and Alaric became a bean-ganer too. Later he moved to Oregon and found work with a logging firm as a stump-thumper. Then he went to North Dakota where he tended the furnace in a granary (wheat-heater). Then he drifted to Texas where he tidied up oil fields (pipe-wiper). Then to Arizona where he strung dried fruit (fig-rigger). Then to Kentucky where he fed horses at a breeding farm (oat-toter). Then to Long Island where he dressed poultry (duck-plucker). Then to Alaska where he drove a delivery van for a bakery (bread-sledder). Then to Minnesota where he cut up frozen lakes (ice-slicer). Then to Nevada where he computed odds in a gambling house (dice-prieur). Then to Milwaukee where he pasted camera lenses together (Zeiss-splicer).
Next Saturday at the football game while you are sitting in your choice student's seat behind the end zone, won't you give a thought to Alarie Sigafoos?
Finally he went to Omaha where he got a job in a tannery beating pig hides until they were soft and supple (hog-flogger.) Here he found happiness at last.
Mr. Doubleday had invented baseball the day before...
Why, you ask, did he find happiness at last? Light a firm and fragrant Marlboro, taste those better makin' s, enjoy that filter that filters like no other filter filters, possess your souls in sweet content, cross your little fat legs, and read on.
Next door to Alarie's hog-floggery was an almond grove owned by a girl named Chimera Emriek. Chimera was pink and white and marvelously hinged, and Alaria was instantly in love. Each day he came to the almond grove to woo Chimera, but she, alas, staved cool.
Then one day Alaric got a brilliant idea. It was the day before the annual Omaha Almond Festival. On this day, as everyone knows, all the almond growers in Omaha enter floats in the big parade. These floats always consist of large cardboard almonds hanging from large cardboard almond trees.
Alaric's inspiration was to stitch pieces of pigskin together and inflate them until they looked like big, plump almonds. "These sure beat skinny old cardboard almonds," said Alaric to himself. "Tomorrow they will surely take first prize for Chimera and she will be mine!"
Early the next morning Alarie carried his lovely inflated pigskin almonds over to Chimera, but she, alas, had run off during the night with Walter T. Severidge, her broker. Alarie flew into such a rage that he started kicking his pigskin almonds all over the place. And who should be walking by that very instant but Abner Doubleday!
Mr. Doubleday had invented baseball the day before, and he was now trying to invent football, but he was stymied because he couldn't figure out what kind of ball to use. Now, seeing Alaric kick the pigskin spheroids, his problem was suddenly solved. "Eureka!" he cried and ran to his drawing board and invented football, which was such a big success that he was inspired to go on and invent lacrosse. Monopoly, run sheep run, and nylon. © 1900 Max Shulman
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