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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, February 19, 1968
'Personal' tags take monotony out of driving
By Pat Crawford Kansan Staff Reporter
"To be or not to be; that is the question" of many KU students who are rebelling against the impersonality of numbers.
Some, in their attempts to find themselves, have met with notable results.
Joyce Johnson, Houston, Tex. senior, has funny things happen to her when she drives her car.
Sometimes strangers follow her, pull up next to her and yell, "Hi, Joyce."
Once a highway patrolman followed her several miles on the
turnpike, making notations on his report sheet.
Miss Johnson wasn't speeding. The patrolman was checking the legality of her license plates. They read JOYCE J. For an extra $10, Texas residents can order special issue personalized license plates
with any combination of six letters or numbers.
"Gas station attendants are puzzled by the plates," Miss Johnson said. "They almost always ask me if the plates are correct before they write the letters down."
IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE (?)
Since Kansas only requires rear license plates, drivers have the opportunity to express their personalities on the fronts of their cars. Front license plates may indicate a loyalty to Old KU, a penchant for a certain form of refreshment, or an opinion on the capabilities of their automobile.
Dr. Carl W, Rettemeyer, head of the entomology department at Kansas State University, will address the KU chapter of Sigma Xi, honorary fraternity of research scientists, at 7:30 Wednesday in the Kansas Union.
Rittenmeyer is the annual exchange speaker from K-State and will speak about the "Behavior of Uninvited Guests of Army Ants."
Army ants will be Sigma Xi topic
He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1953 and earned his Ph.D. at KU in 1962.
Time bomb kills man in ambassador's home
Police said they found a clock-work and metal scraps in the ruins of the building, leading them to suspect the blast was triggered by a time mechanism.
PARIS — (UPI) — A time bomb went off in the basement of the Yugoslav ambassador to France's residence Sunday night, killing one man and injuring 19 other persons.
Police said 14 of the injured were hospitalized, seven with serious injuries. Neither police nor Yugoslav Embassy spokesmen could offer any possible motive for the bombing.
The dead man was identified as Lazlo Mitrev, 21, a worker at the Embassy who had been in France only three months. He and the other victims were watching television in the basement room at the time of the blast.
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts partly cloudy and warmer today through Tuesday. The high today should be in the middle to upper 40's with the low tonight in the upper 20's.
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Miss Johnson said she has seen other unusual plates around Houston, such as WAVE and TOAD.
The Laboratory has a continuing need for physicists, chemists, metallurgists, mathematicians, oceanographers, and engineers (electronic, electrical, mechanical, chemical and civil). Appointees, who must be U.S. citizens, receive the full benefits of the career Civil Service.
Candidates for bachelor's, master's and doctor's degrees in any of the above fields are invited to schedule interviews with the NRL representative who will be in the
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS placement office on FEBRUARY 26,1968
Those who for any reason are unable to schedule interviews may write to The Director (Code 1818), Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D. C. 20390.
student's car shows the driver's preference for someone—SUE 377.
Richard House, Arlington Heights, Ill., junior, has license plates that read KU 1968. He special ordered plates that read KU 1969, which is the year he graduates. When he was refused those plates, he took KU 1968, which is the year his wife graduates.
"They're really unique," Mrs. House said, "and an easy way to remember our license number."
One KU student, possibly too optimistic, ordered his plates which read KU 1964.
Funny combinations of letters and numbers often occur accidentally. A friendly driver has plates that read 48 HI 48. An Illinois license plate on another KU
What is it that the driver of a New Jersey car, whose plates read LAC 425, is in need of? Maybe that driver should meet another New Jersey driver, whose license plates read MEN 717.
Front license plates often represent the tastes of the driver. 1889 shows the driver's taste for bourbon. Other students have less expensive tastes as reflected by their brand-name beer license plates.
A popular license plate with KU students is the Playboy plate. Jack Casper, Kansas City junior, bought a Playboy plate, and with a touch or originality, personalized it by adding his initials in white plastic.
The economical disadvantages of some KU students' cars are shown by a front plate that reads GAS EATER.
The owner of one red car has a lot of faith in it; the front plate reads THE BEAST.
One KU student "preaches" to other students with his front license plate—Support Your Local Fuzz.
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