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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 23, 1957
Giants To Quit Polo Grounds; Eye San Francisco Next Year
Bv DOC QUIGG
United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK — (UP) — "Somewhere in this favored land the sun is shinging bright." Somewhere is probably not San Francisco, which is one of the country's foggiest—and loveliest—cities.
But since mighty Gotham has struck out as a home for the baseball Giants, the enchanting, hill-happy Metropolis on the West Coast is being touted as the town most likely to succeed in luring William Mays and friends to its midst.
All right, let 'em go. God bless 'em.
If they have to leave, it is a pleasure
to know they're leaving while they're
still ahead. Ahead of what? That's
a good question.
But there is at least one good answer. While they're winning, that's what. Since the turn of the century, they have won 4,784 games and lost only 3,837. They're ahead in games won over games lost while a New York club.
It will be interesting for us Giant fans to wait one year and then see if San Francisco can make the same boast. In the face of the present trend, we feel rather safe. Still... earth-shaking events have happened out there before.
May Play in Cow Palace
May Play in Cow Palace
There has been a suggestion that, until San Francisco can get a new stadium built, the Giants play their home games in the Cow Palace, the king size quonset hut in which the Republicans triumphed over Joe Smith last summer. This would provide long-ball hitters with outfield fences as close as they are in the Polo Grounds and almost as close as those in Ebbets Field.
The news that the Giants will leave Coogan's Bluff for Nob Hill was not so disquieting as the additional utterance by Horace Stoneham, president of the ball club.
"New York City is slipping," he said, adding that the potential baseball audience was moving to the suburbs and the city couldn't expect to support three baseball teams and maybe not even two. Slipping? Well, to tell you the truth, some of us around here have
felt a bit unsteady of late, although we were hesitant to come right out and use an ominous word like "slipping." The town seems to be doing all right, on the surface.
The Ground is Shifting
However, according to the city official in charge of water mains, the rash of broken mains which has moistened our traffic arteries recently is due to unrest beneath the surface. The ground is shifting, he says, causing the breaks.
And it is true that we've lost population, as shown by a recent quickie census. New York now must bow to both Tokyo and Greater London and take a third-biggest-city rating.
Could it be that we're on our way to becoming a ghost town? What a prospect that is. One vast and empty pile of mouldering, shuttered skyscrapers, completely surrounded by the world's largest suburbs.
Enemy Would Face Army
WITH THE U. S. 24TH DIVISION IN KOREA — (UP) — Any foreign power with aggressive intentions better not start with Pvt. James McNames of Derby, Colo.
McNames has six brothers and six sisters, all stationed with the Army in Europe. His father recently retired from the Army and only his mother has seen no military service.
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To Present Paper At Lisbon Meeting
Dr. John S. McNown, new dean of the KU School of Engineering and Architecture, will present a research paper at the seventh meeting of the International Association for Hydraulic Research in Lisbon, Portugual, July 25-29.
Before returning in early August, Dean McNown will visit lab oratories in Paris, France, and Cambridge, England, to discuss scientific problems. This is his fourth European trip on research matters.
Dean McNown, who is also professor of fluid mechanics, will speak on "Laboratory Tests of Flow Through a Liquid-Metal Reactor." He and Raymond A. Yagle of the University of Michigan are coauthors of the report, resulting from a study made at Michigan where the dean was a professor.
Dean McNown directed the investigation under a continuing contract with the Atomic Power Development Associates, whose headquarters are in Detroit. Their reactor, to be built near Monroe, Mich., will be one of the first liquid-metal reactors in the world.
The 1957 meeting of the International Association for Hydraulic Research is sponsored by the National Civil Engineering Laboratory of Portugal. Two members of the host organization assisted Dean McNown in conducting a research project at Grenoble, France, during 1951-52.
Utah Insect Is A Menace To Kansas Cedar Trees
Minneosta has 508 tree farms covering 439,799 acres.
Increased activity by certain destructive pests of cedar trees has been observed in several Kansas localities in recent surveys, according to Dr. Charles D. Michener, state entomologist for the Kansas Entomological Commission, southern division, and chairman of the entomology department at KU. L. A. Calkins, assistant state entomologist performed the field work.
Accompanying years of extreme drought during 1952-56, a gradual building up in numbers of the Utah cedar scale was noted, and damaged cedars again became noticeable.
During the drought years of the 1930's, a tiny scale insect, Utah cedar scale, damaged or killed many beautiful red cedars in eastern Kansas. All known control methods had little effect on stopping the destruction. Finally, parasites of the scale gained sufficient headway to put a temporary halt to the destructive pest. A period of ten years of comparative freedom from the cedar scale followed, although existing infestations continued to show resistance to the newer insecticides that have been developed.
The scale is a very small yellowish insect, covered by a protective scalelike armor, which is elongated oval in shape with a yellowish or reddish tip toward one end of the armor. While minute in size, the great number of scales on individual twigs can give the tree a greyish appearance. When occurring in damaging proportions the foliage of cedars soon turn brown and dead spots begin to appear.
PAT READ
445 Tennessee Street
Some experimental work on control has been accomplished with encouraging results. Apparently repeated spraying with some of the newer insecticides with a short time interval between applications may be the key to successful eradication.
"When one sees a fifteen-foot cedar which spreads over an area approximately twenty feet in diameter that has been severely damaged or killed by the Utah cedar scale, then some idea can be obtained of the seriousness such an insect can mean to the owners of ornamental foundation plantings around homes," Dr. Michener said.
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