Tuesday, Jan. 15, 1957 University Daily Kansan
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—(Daily Kansan photo)
BEAUTIFUL MUSIC TOGETHER—The piano team of Appleton and Field no doubt convinced some of the audience Monday night that two can play better than one. The performance included works of the great classical composers.
Congress has failed to provide funds to build 19 flood control dams in Kansas, reports the Governmental Research Center at the University
Congress has authorized 19 dams since 1938. Army Engineers have built only two—the Kanopolis in Ellsworth County and Fall River in Greenwood County. They are operating. Under construction are the Tuttle Creek on the Blue River and the Toronto on the Verdigris River.
19 Kansas Dams Authorized Since 1938; Only Two Built
The 1941 Flood Control Act authorized the Neodesha and Elk City Dams in the Verdigris River Basin. In 1944 Congress authorized the Wilson Dam on the Saline River and the Pioneer Dam in northwestern Kansas.
Estimated cost of the 19 dams is slightly over $395 million dollars. Project costs range from $5,-
460,000 for Cedar Point to $92,300,
-000 for Tuttle Creek.
The 1950 Flood Control Act authorized four reservoirs in the Neosho River Basin. They are Council Grove, Strawn, Marion, and Cedar Point. In 1954 Congress authorized seven more dams at Garnett, Hillsdale, Pomona, Fort Scott, Melvern, Milford, and Perry.
"dry dam" to provide flood control space, but can be changed to a multiple-purpose dam at any time.
Excepting Tuttle Creek, all 19 reservoirs are multiple - purpose. They will store water for cities, industry, and irrigation, and check floodwater. Tuttle creek will be a
Storage capacity of the reservoirs range from 55,000 acre-feet in the Cedar Point reservoir to 2,820,000 acre-feet in Tuttle Creek. An acre-foot is water a foot deep spread over an acre.
Watson To Offer History Course
Watson Library will offer a new 2-hour course, History of Books next semester.
It will include a brief history of writing materials and of hand-written books, a history of printed books from the 15th century as part of cultural history, technical progress and esthetic change, and a study of book collecting.
This course, to be given by Assistant Prof. Joseph Rubinstein, curator of the library's rare books, will be open to graduate and undergraduate students.
Kansas towns have been policed by some of the most famous lawmen of the Old West. Wyatt Earp was marshal of Wichita and Dodge City, and Wild Bill Hickok of Abilene.
One of the titles of the Pope is "Servant of the Servants of God."
Unique Contest Open To Students
A unique contest for University students was announced today by Robert Vosner, director of libraries.
FINAL WEEK SPECIAL
The Taylor Student Book Collection contest will be held in the spring semester. Prizes totaling $100, provided by Mr. and Mrs. James W. Taylor of Kansas City, Mo., will be awarded for the best student book collections. All regularly enrolled KU undergraduate and graduate students may compete.
Chancellor Murphy, in accepting the Taylor gift, said that a "conor reference collection in a field, or a collection of one author's works.
10% Discount
Vosper said the contest judges would put little emphasis on the age, rarity or monetary value of student collections. Rather books will be judged on the quality of the collection, on the acumen with which the books have been gathered for the owner's stated purposes.
test of this kind helps mark the difference between a genuine university and a trade school."
Contest details will be announced early in the spring semester.
The winning collection might be a group of paper bound books in cheap editions, he said, or a work-
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