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Naval Tank Solves Problems
In Deveopig oe oats
Unique 1404ot False Bottom Adjusts
To Many Depths and Shoal Water Conditions
HEALTH PROGRAMS HAVE APPEAL:
University Broadcasting Service Medical
Series Receives Hundreds of Fan Letters
FEATURE PAGE
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Mr. Fritz, Parking Imt Attendant,
Tells Professors Where To Go
By DORIS WEST
Designing a high-speed, triple
screw motor vessel to deliver new au-
tomobiles up and down the Ohio, Mis-
ississippi and Tennessee Rivers is a
current problem now being worked
on by members of the Department of
Naval Architecture and Marine En-
gineering at the University of Michi-
gan.
The University of Michigan's naval
tank, located in the West Engineering
'Mountains' of
Forms Printed
At U' Press
A stack of registration material ten
feet high is printed each semester by
the University Printing Department,
according to Edward E. Lofberg, su-
perintendent.
The University Printing Depart-I
ment which is located at 311 Maynard
Street takes care of one half of the
University's printing requirements.
Small iters such as office forms,
pamphlets, hospital forms, and let-
terheads are among the items printed.
The University Press has charge of
printing larger material such as an-
nouncements and books. These items
are printed by private printing estab-
lishments.
The University Printing Depart-
ment began as part of the book bind-
ing department in the library. In
1931 it moved to the present building
which was donated by a University
alumnus.
Examination questions which are
printed or mimeographed for various
departments of the University are
carefully guarded and imperfect cop-
ies are destroyed. Pasting pictures on
identification cards is one of the
many other jobs done by the Univer-
sity Printing Department.
Surprised Couple Find
'Kitty' Perched in Tree
SPOKANE, Wash, Dec. 1-(/P)-
Mr. and Mrs. Earl C. Peterson didn't
pay any attention to the cat that
sat most of the morning in a tree
in their front yard. About noon
they took a good look at the feline
and called the police.
Motorcycle Patrolman Elmo Sprin-
ger brought the animal down with
four pistol shots. It was a 35-pound
bobcat. ,I.1
Building, is in great demand for the
development of barges and towboats
operating on the Mississippi and Ohio
Rivers. Submarines, racing yachts,
V-bottomed and round-bottomed
high-speed boats, fire boats and many
other types of boats have been tested
with models in fthe Michigan tank.
A unique feature of this tank is its
140-foot false-bottom, making it the
only tank in the United States which
can be adjusted in depth to simulate
shoal water conditions.
Since the end of the war, the
large amount of work done for the
Army, the Navy, the Coastguard,
the Maritime Commission and
other war agencies by the Depart-
ment of Naval Architecture and
Marine Engineering has been
gradually discontinued and the
members of this department are
now concerned with postwar de-
velopments in the commercial field.
Under the direction of Dean M. E.
Cooley of the College of Engineering,
and with the enthusiastic cooperation
of Regent Frank W. Pletcher, con-
struction of the 350-foot Michigan
naval tank began in 1902, when the
erection of the West Engineering
Building was started. As the devel-
cpment of shipping on the Great
Lakes afforded a field for the Uni-
versity to make direct contributions
to design, Dean Cooley saw great
possibilities for such a tank.
Finished in 1904 and 1905, the
Michigan tank extended 100 feet out-
side of the West Engineering Build-
ing. In a few years however, the
building was extended over and be-
yond the tank, permitting it to be
lengthened 50 feet.
The Michigan naval tank is 22
feet wide, 9 feet 6 inches deep, and
has a wetted area of approximately
185 square feet. The bottom of
the tank is semi-elliptical in cross
section, and a three-by-four foot,
wood-covered flume extends tank
length below the normal bottom.
All of the tank equipment was de-
signed by Dr. H. C. Sadler, then
chairman of the Department of Naval
Architecture and Marine Engineering,
later dean of the College of Engi-
neering. Except for the towing car,
all of the apparatus was built in the
University shops.
The models which are tested in this
tank were, prior to 1936, practically
all made of paraffin wax. After 1936,
however, as the tank work gradually
changed to projects involving single
models and minor changes in form,
models have been made from white
pine lifts cut to shape on a band saw
and hand finished.
The radio-listening public is ap-'
parently fascinated by health prob-
lems.
The University Broadcasting Serv-
ice receives more mail concerning the
program "Medical Series" broadcast
regularly over WPAG than it does for
any other program.
2,500 Letters
"Emotional Factors in Illness,"
given by Dr. Raymond W. Waggoner,
director of the Neuropsychiatric In-
stitute, was the subject of last week's
"Medical Series" program. Over 2,500
letters poured in requesting copies of
the talk and additional information
on the subject in the following days.
The letters received originated from
22 states, 21 cities in Michigan, and
Canada.
A woman living in Ontario, Canada
asked, "Would you please send me
a copy of the mental hygiene lecture?
My contact with the medical world is
negligible, yet I realize that psyciatry
has opened an entirely new field of
thought for prevention and cure of
organicand mentaldiseases. Could
you present a lecture on habitual
drinking of alcoholic beverages? Is it
an escape from a monotonous envir-
onment, fear, or a personality defect?
How can one tell if a person may be-
come, or is, a chronic alcoholic? I 1
would be eternally grateful for some
knowledge on this subject."
Aids Understanding
The Broadcasting Service received
a card from a woman in Detroit
which read, "I would appreciate a
copy of Dr. Waggoner's talk on "Emo-
tional Hygiene" as given on your
Thanksgiving night program in the
University of Michigan Medical Ser-
ies. We have an emotional hygiene
problem at home now and the sooner
I get this pamph ei,, the ;etter I'll
understand the situation."
A woman in St. Petersburg, Fla.,
with a sense of humor wrote, "I have
listened to your radio program of
Nov.n22 and would like to getra copy
of the psychiatrist who spoke from
11:15 to 11:30 p.m."
J. L. Hudson's Leads
Retail Stores in Bond Sales
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1-(P)-The
Treasury announced today that the
J. L. Hudson Co. of Detroit, is the first
retail department store to sell 500,-
000 series E Government bonds.
The 500,000th bond was sold by the
Hudson store today to Mrs. Margaret
Palmer of Ferndale, Mich., as a
Christmas gift for her four-month-
old daughter, Judith Margaret.
Who is the only man in the Uni-
versity who can tell a professor where
to go?
It is Elmer Fritz, who for four
years, from 7:30 to 4:30 every day
except Sunday, has been braving Ann
Arbor weather to regulate traffic and
supervise parking in the lot behind
Mason Hall.
Enforces Rules
Mr. Fritz, a member of the Univer-
sity police force, must enforce the
rules governing the use of the park-
ing lot, seeing that only faculty mem-
bers, having special tags on their
license plates, use the lot, and that
there is no double parking.
He is also an ever-willing source of
information to bewildered students
searching for such obscure places as
the Philosophy Reading Room or the
Simpson Memorial Institute.
Likes Everybody
While admitting that his job is
often a cold one, Mr. Fritz says that
the winter storms, summer heat and
everpresent rains do not really bother
him. He likes his job, the professors,
the students, veterans and servicemen
on campus, and rarely has any
trouble.
The parking lot accommodates only
56 cars. When it is filled, the profes-
sors coming in must leave again to
seek parking space elsewhere. Mr.
Fritz is responsible for the vehicles
left in his care.
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