KU's whistle variable
Blows its stack
By JOHN HILL
A 9 p.m. curfew, part of the celebration of V-E Day and tornado warnings have been a few of the uses of KU's steam whistle throughout its 54-year history.
First installed June 5,1912, the steam whistle now blasts out over the campus at 20 minutes after the hour using 175 pounds of steam pressure.
"It's tuned to the tone we want so it will be heard over the biggest area," said Harry M. Buchholz, superintendent of buildings and grounds.
THE WHISTLE CAN be heard about nine miles away.
IN OCTOBER of 1912, KU had a curfew at 9 p.m. and the whistle bleat at that time, also.
hour since a ruling to that effect gn. Jan. 10, 1917.
Presently, the only alternate use that the class whistle has is that of a civil defense warning.
"The Civil Defense people call us for tornado warnings," Bucholz said, "and the whistle is used as the signals in the city."
"its got an electric times that is set about three times a day by radio." Buchholz said. "We set it with the National Bureau of Standards time so it's within seconds every time of being accurate."
was using a Nazi steam whistle.
The blast on V-E day celebrating the victory over Germany was ironic since at that time KU
Robert A. Haggard, former student of KU, donated the German whistle in May, 1946, after he had salvaged it from a Nazi transport ship that had been scuttled in Leghorn, Italy.
Buchholz explained i trans automatically on a pre-set clock and blows on a regular, programmed schedule.
THE GERMAN whistle was not loud enough, though, and it was replaced.
"Old Faithful," as the whistle was known then, was in use until March 26, 1954, when a cracked seam caused it to be replaced by the one presently in use.
The steam whistle has been blowing at 20 minutes after the
P-Corps will visit KU soon
Former Peace Corps volunteers from the regional office in San Francisco will be on campus starting March 7, to interview interested students and to answer questions about the Corps.
questions. The representatives will set up a table in the Kansas Union where information and application forms will be available. There will also be a Peace Corps office in room 21 of Strong Hall, to serve students.
dents.
MARCH 1 marks the seventh year of the Peace Corps, a program in which men and women 18 years old and up volunteer to serve two years in a foreign country, teaching and aiding in the improvement of that country's production and public health.
There will be a Peace Corps entrance examination at 1:30 p.m. March 18 in the Civil Service Room of the Lawrence post office.
According to Barbara Richards, Hays graduate student who served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica from 1962 to 1964, the exam lasts about three hours and covers nearly everything: American history; civics; ability to learn foreign languages; science; and many other areas.
"EVEN IF you flunk parts of the test it doesn't mean you're not Peace Corps material," she said. "It's kind of like a placement exam. The test isn't all that counts because they take into consideration all your experience and education, too."
Expand Your Understanding of The Christian Science Approach To Peace
Hear A Christian Science Lecture by Roy J. Linning "Peace Is Individual"
Thursday, March 2 7:30 p.m.
In Jayhawk Room-Kansas Union
Sponsored by The Christian Science Organization of KU
Yugoslav to speak
Milos Samarzija, professor of political economy at the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, will give the University lecture tonight at 8 p.m. in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
Samarzija's topic will be "The Yugoslav路 to Socialism."
He is the author of numerous professional articles, published in Yugoslav journals, and of a two-volume textbook on the economic system of Yugoslavia.
THIS YEAR, he is a visiting
professor of economics at Western Michigan University.
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The lecture is sponsored by the Slavic and Soviet Area Studies Program and the economics department.
Daily Kansan
Wednesday, March 1, 1967
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Saving $200 isn't the only reason you should fly to Europe this summer with SUA!
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