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age 4 University Daily Kansan Tuesday, April 1. 1958 24 Hours A Day-
NUMBER PLEASE—Mrs. Edward Neustifter (foreground) and Miss Capitola Fletcher are two of the six telephone operators who keep KU phone service operating 24 hours a day. Because calls are increasing, the switchboard and telephone office are due
for some expansion and remodeling. (Daily Kansan photo)
Hazardous Corners In City Being Surveyed
A project to survey 150 hazardous street corners in Lawrence has been undertaken by six members of the KU Circle K Club, a college men's service club sponsored by the Lawrence Kiwanis Club.
The traffic survey is the club's annual university - community service program and is in cooperation with the Lawrence traffic commission and police dept.
It is one of a series of studies aimed at traffic safety, accident prevention, and solution of parking problems, and is designed to give practical experience in problems of city planning and civil engineering
Edward Reilly, Leavenworth sophiore and past president of the club, said that the corner of University Drive and West Campus Road at KU is considered one of the most hazardous corners." Bushes about four or five feet high block the driver's vision.
Menbers who are working on the project in addition to Reilly are; Gilbert Curtbertson, Leavenworth junior; Thomas Coen, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore; Larry Middaugh, Meriden sophomore; Roger Douglass, Mullinville sophomore, and Fred Morrison, Colby freshman.
They are working under the supervision of D. D. Haines, associate professor of civil engineering and chairman of the Lawrence Traffic Commission; Kenneth C. Deemer, professor of applied mechanics, and Kenneth H. Lenzen, associate professor of applied mechanics.
NEW YORK —(UP) - The New York Telephone Co. set up its annual watch today on the telephone at the Bronx Zoo.
Zoo Phone Busy Just For Animals
Caters asking for Mr. Bear, Mr. Fox, Mr. Lion, Miss Wolf or Miss Katz will be politely informed that someone must be trying to make them an April Fool.
The phone company said it passed the word to 2,642 callers last April 1
U. S. exports of wheat and flour equivalent in fiscal 1957 were valued at 958 million dollars.
Apply Now For Jayhawker Jobs
Applications for the positions of editor and business manager of the 1958-59 Jayhawker are now being sought by the Jayhawker Advisory Board, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University and board chairman, said today.
Applications should be submitted to Mr. Nichols in the office of the chancellor no later than 5 p.m., April 21. The applicant should submit a letter of application and provide three letters of recommendation, of which one should be from an employer. Potential applicants can get additional information from Tom Yoe, adviser, in 222A Strong.
Any student who is eligible for participation in activities may apply. Mr. Nichols said. Each position carries a salary of $65 a month. The Jayhawker Advisory Board, a student-faculty group, will interview each applicant before making selections.
Raymond E. Davis, Neodesha sophomore, has been appointed a summer research assistant in chemistry at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, N. Y.
Brookhaven National Laboratory is the research center for work related to the Atomic Energy Commission. It appoints a small number of outstanding undergraduate university students on summer stipends for research training. The selection of a sophomore is considered exceptional.
Student Named To Laboratory Job
Callers Keep KU Operators Busy
Davis is in the gifted student program of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and is a Summerfield scholar.
Six telephone operators keep busy at the KU switchboard on the second floor of the Buildings and Grounds building, handling the calls of 700 KU telephones, including 400 stations and their extensions.
"When I started working on the switchboard in February of 1929, there were only 169 telephones on the campus," Mrs. Edward C. Neustifter, chief operator, said in a daily Kansan interview.
"A new switchboard position is being added which will add 180 lines to places on the campus," she said.
The dial phones went into use on campus at 9:50 p.m., Nov. 22, 1947. The downtown area didn't have them until 1955," she said.
The telephone office is also being redecorated and will include a kitchenette and lounge for the operators when it is finished, Mrs. Neustifter said.
Mrs. Neustifter explained that it was difficult to say which numbers were called most on the switchboards.
KU had dial telephones before the city of Lawrence.
"Different numbers are popular at different times of the year," she said. "Business to extension 461 (the Field House) picks up when football or basketball tickets are being sold. When students come back to school in the fall, the housing office gets a lot of calls. Many calls go to the fine arts office when concerts plays, or other programs are going to be given."
She said that the chancellor's registrar's and business offices
buildings and grounds, and the office of Keith Lawton, director of physical plant operations, are also popular numbers.
The operators are specifically forbidden to listen in on telephone conversations.
"If we were to tell something we heard accidentally on the switchboard and it causes grief, we can be sent to the penitentiary up to 10 years." Mrs. Neusiftier said.
One complaint the operators have concerns persons who use the KU phones to dial direct long distance from office telephones.
"Sometimes one of the calls slips through, and the state has to pay the phone bill," Mrs. Neustifter said.
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