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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 1, 1958
Tornado Shelters Needed
With the Kansas tornado season well under way we are again witnessing the annual example of mass hysteria which is to be viewed in this section of the Midwest each spring.
Probably the most severely stricken of the fearful Jayhawkers are those students living in Sunnyside apartments and the others who are spending their collegiate careers in trailer houses and basement-less apartment buildings in Lawrence.
These people have no security from the storms. All the sirens and other warning signals in the state cannot provide safety for them.
It is a traumatic experience to have the news blared from all sides that a tornado is approaching the city and to have no place to go. It brings on a psychological condition which is, for most people, the worst kind of frustration.
The destruction and loss of life caused in Kansas by tornadoes over the past half-century is no longer new; each spring residents in Lawrence and over the state are in dread of what the season will bring.
It seems to us that it is high time the Kansas
legislature took cognizance of the potent dangers the weather poses here. The lawmakers can't, of course, make bad weather illegal.
They can and should, however, make it mandatory that the persons responsible for the erection of apartment buildings and for the management of trailer courts build storm shelters commodious enough to house all those residing on their property.
The landlords themselves cannot be expected to take this action without legal compulsion. The added expense and consequent higher rent would take business away from the shelter builder unless all landlords were required to build them.
It is true, this would be an added expense for the landlord. This expense would, in turn, be passed on to the residents.
The storm shelter need not, however, be solely a storm shelter. It could double as a laundry, a snack bar, or a lounge. In this way it would, in time, pay for itself.
Other solutions, no doubt, are available. As far as we know, the legislature hasn't even begun to look for them.
TV Notes
—John Waite Bowers
After a lot of trade rumors to the effect that the George Gobel-Eddie Fisher Tuesday night NBC combo would not be around next season, it now appears certain that the comedian and the singer will be back in business from 8 to 9 p.m. on alternate weeks just about as usual. The difference probably will be that, save for trading an occasional guest appearance, each will be on his own. In their first season it was mandatory for Gobel to appear on each Fisher stanza and vice versa. The series ended May 27 with Fisher's show.
Bob Banner, whose work as producer-director did so much for Dinah Shore's NBC shows, has moved over to the CBS camp with a contract to create a number of special programs for the network next season and to develop new program series.
A new Screen Gems series that may show up on NBC next fall is called "The Men From Tallahassee," dealing with the crime detection work of the Florida Sheriffs' Bureau.
"The Loretta Young Show" on NBC gets a summer replacement series beginning July 6, lasting through Sept. 28. "Decision" is the title of the film, and it will embrace seven new pilot films and reruns of six telecasts.
From The Hart
In-the-nick-of-time Dept.: A watchful eye in the newsroom caught a headline before it was printed in last week's rag. The corrected headline read, "Wilder's Play To Be Given Next Week." The original headline read "Wilder Play . . ." and before it was caught we spent 10 minutes looking for Brigate Bardot's name in the cast.
The county attorney in Askigin County said he hasn't received any Vicuna coats in the mail lately, but someone keeps sending him time bombs.
We sure hope that while Chancellor Murphy's in Russia he'll try to find a market for some of our senior gifts.
The Adams-Vieuna-Goldfell trio hasn't really bothered the janitor. He says this is the era of feeling that if a guy gets into public life and isn't tinged with corruption he is not a hero, he's rather an odd chap.
We note where the library has or is going to move the rare books where we can get our hands on them. Now if someone will just move some of our professors in an equally accessible position.
That construction job that Wayne Hightower has this summer is building up the hopes of saddened alumni.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
They name the coastal winds from "Amy" to "Zelda" and we have thought of a way to ease the strain of tornado warnings. We'd name the tornados after the candidates campaigning for public office.
"I M AFRAID WE'll HAVE TO MOVE WILLOY BACK TO TEACHING THE ADVANCED GROUP."
While wheat fields were empty during the days of rain last week Counsin Shagnasty (Finias) played it plenty cool. He borrowed all the barrels he could and stored up the rain so he can sell it to the same farmers when the next drought comes. He'll make a million.
There has been agitating for drum majorettees for the KU band. One suggested putting them on a scholarship. But with budget matters so tight someone thought that two or three women faculty members could do just as well . . . then you'd have to have hart . . .
Bob Hartley
Chuckles In The News
FORT WORTH, Tex. — Mrs.
Myrtle Kirbie told police yesterday she got so mad thinking about her former husband that she set his haystack on fire.
Grant is a 19-year-old fullblooded Apache Indian, whose great-great grandfather scouted for General Grant during the early days of the general's career.
RACINE, Wis.—The "Wisconsin Agriculturist" has revealed that American brick cheese was strictly an accident.
SAN DIEGO, Calif.—Ulysses S. Grant was in the Marine Corps today.
The publication reported that a Wisconsin cheesemaker somehow made a mistake in 1876 and came up with brick.
CHICAGO—A large billboard heralded a whiskey "known by the company it keeps."
"Oh. my. "Der Limburger schmell iss lost," was his only comment, according to the publication.
The billboard was atop a skid row flophouse.
Manhattan borough president Hulan E. Jack said yesterday the city has begun a year's experiment with a square, "noiseless" manhole cover.
NEW YORK—Square manhole covers may be the next innovation on the changing New York scene.
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
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CROSSWORD PUZZLE
(Answer on Page 6)
ACROSS
ACROSS
1. Herring's relative.
2. Capt. Standish.
3. And others: Abbr.
4. Gate receipts.
5. Hacienda material.
6. Nobel prize physicist.
7. Modern household accessory: 2 words.
8. Children's game.
9. Armadas.
10. Handle.
11. Hit show: Slang.
12. Cachalot.
13. Boring person: Slang: 2 words.
14. Growing-up years.
15. Playground treat.
16. Weight.
17. Severe.
18. Suppose.
19. Buttonlike device.
20. Salutation.
21. Brief flash.
22. Game of skill.
23. Warning sign: 2 words.
24. County.
41 Fruit.
42 Exchange: Colloq.
43 Jungle journey.
44 Undaunted.
45 Payroll-saving plan:
46 4 words.
51 enough.
52 Nautical action.
53 King of the Huns.
54 Editorial instruction.
55 Jewish feast.
56 Judgment.
DOWN
1 Pace.
2 Robust.
3 African tree.
4 Roustabout.
5 Decorative stone.
6 Simple Simon.
7 Poisonous weed.
8 Decline.
9 Successful by one's own efforts.
10 Wilde hero.
11 Non-swinging batter: 2 words.
12 Sanction.
13 Wagons — French sleeping cars.
18 One side of a coin.
19 Having wings.
20 Move like a panther.
24 Cloth pattern.
25 Formerly.
26 Hard stone.
27 Agitate.
28 Football linemen.
29 Sign of spring.
30 Thorn.
33 Actor Laurence and family.
34 Cargo.
36 TV puppet-man.
37 Trinket.
39 Earth, for instance.
40 One who influences.
42 Tennis action.
43 Port talk.
44 Border on.
45 Eat.
46 Inner: Comb, form.
47 French town.
48 Wedge-shaped piece for leveling in masonry.
50 Letter.
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