1 WNDESDlAy, &?fLfM 1948 PAGE RYI i'HE MICUICGAN' DA LY . .. . . . . . ............. .. .. . ............ . . . .... . ................................. . .. .. . ... . ............ ............. . . .. . ........ . . . ......................... . .... . ........ .. . ... ............ . . . ............ ... ... .. . - .- . . .. ......... I 'U' POSTAL SYSTEM: Campus Mail Headquarters Housed in U' Hall Basement The City Beat ENGINE TROUBLE: Geometric Problems Rack Brains of Harassed Pledges By KEN LOWE The focal point of the Univer- sity's bustling mail system is a small, decrepit office that is AP Business Editor To Talk Montgomery Speech Scheduled for Friday Harry T. Montgomery, general business editor of the Associated Press will speak on "The Press and Business" at 8 p.m., Friday in the in the Rackham Ampi- theatre. A former night editor with the International News Service and an assistant city editor for the Associated, Press since 1937, Montgomery was made editor in charge of Foreign Report for morning n e w s pa p e r s during World War II. From 1945 to 1947, he was Chief of the AP Bureau in Ottawa, Canada. Montgomery has studied at Hairvard University on a Nie- man Scholarship, specializing in economic history and economic theory, at King's College, Lon- don England, and Columbia Uni- versity. He also has studied one year at Michigan. In addition to his evening talk, Montgomery will address stud- ents of journalism on "The im- portance of Economics in, To- day's News" at 3 p. M., in Mm. E, Haven Hall. Both lectures are under the auspices of the Journalism de- partment and are part of a University Lecture series in the field of journalism. tucked away in the basement of University Hall. Manned by three full-time em- ployees and one part-time worker, the office is responsible for the collection and delivery of all of- ficial mail on campus. It handles all out-going and incoming ordi- nary, or "government," mail as well as all local interdepartment- al campus mail. Every Building Covered Two routes stem from the mail room to service every building on campus. One carrier is assigned tc each route and he makes two de- liveries a day. Lach department has its own pick-up and delivery box, which means that several stops are made in most buildings. Exact mileage of the routes. is not known, but Edward Vanda- warker, supervisor of the mail room, said that he was sure the total was quite a bit more than 14 miles. "Itmeasured it once with a ped- ometer and it was 14 miles," he said. "But that was 20 years ago and the campus has expanded a lot since then." Vanawarker has been a carrier and general over- seer of the campus mail system for 36 years. No records have been kept of the amount of mail handled from day to day but the quantity has increased sharply in the last few years. New Headquarters The mail room'staff is looking forward to the day when it ex- changes its cramped office for quarters in the new General Serv- ice Building. "We intend to reorganize the mail system then," Patten Rob- erts, mail room employee, said. ".For one thing, we intend to cen- tralize the distributionpointscand reduce the number of stops to one per building." A total maximum of 17 years in prison terms were handed down by Judge James R. Breakey, Jr., in the Washtenaw County Circuitt Court yesterday., Kenneth Callander, 19, 4111 , Detroit St., Flint, was given 1 '2 to 2 years in Southern Michigan1 Prison on a charge of passing a bad check.- Franklyn Coleman, 20, 223 N. River St., Ypsilanti, received a 3- 15 year sentence for armed rob- bery. In both cases, the minimum sentence was recommended. More than 20,000 Ann Arbor area natural gas users will re- ceive an average of $9.44 in re- bates sometime in June or July. A check for $165,347 to cover the refunds was sent to the Ann Arbor Bank yesterday. The re- bates resulted from a FPC direc- tive ordering the supplier of Mich- igan Consolidated Gas to adjust its rate for the period to October 1942 to September 1945. Hoover Ball & Bearing Com- pany's "final offer" will be voted upon by the 400 members of the CIO-UAW local 38 today in a special meeting. The conditions of the offer were not revealed. * * * Sheriff's officers are holding Bernice Loken, 44, 12%/ S. Wash- ington St., Ypsilanti, in connec- tion with the stabbing of her hus- band Selmer, 47, in a Michigan Ave., tavern yesterday. IRA Meeting Advanced The Inter-Racial Meeting, originally scheduled for Thursday, has been changed to 7:30 p.m. to- day in the Union. The proposed constitution will be discussed and voted upon. i By LEON JAROFF1 "Those crazy engineers," mut- tered an early morning stroller last Sunday, as he came upon a neat, geometric pattern laid out with stakes and canvas on the lawn just inside the Engine Arch. But little did he know that the apparently meaningless pattern Campus Calendar Young Democrats - Meeting 7:30 p.m., Rm. 302 Union. Student Recital - Jacqueline Kagen Rosenblatt, pianist, 8:30 p.m, Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Radio-"Hopwood Room," 2:30 p.m., WKAR. Expectant Mothers Classes - Meeting 7:30 p.m., Child Health Building. Physiology Lecture--Dr. August Krogh, "The Work of Frisch on the Language of Bees, 8 p.m. Rackham Amphitheatre. State - "Killer McCoy," 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 p.m. Michigan - "Tycoon," 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 p.m. Union Opera--7:15 p.m. Jour- nalism Newsroom, Haven Hall, meeting for all interested in writ- ing songs, lyrics or arrange- ments. IRA-Constitutional meeting :30 p.m. Union. Lecture - R. C. Sollenberger, Executive Secretary of Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers; 7:30 p.m., Natural Science Auditorium. Delta Sigma Phi - Russell Stilwell, traveling secretary - at the Union until this afternoon to see members or interested stu- dents. ' before him represented 13 hours of gruelling work by the pledge group of Tau Beta Pi, national en- gineering honor society. It all started when the pledge group met at 1 p.m. Saturday in the East Engineering building to begin the "problem session," the last and most nerve-wracking as- signment in their initiation activ- ities. Grinning sadistically, active members handed out sheets on which were printed problems that would have very easily stopped Albert Einstein in his tracks. Pledges Dismayed Dismay was obvious on the face of every pledge as the session started and soon a blanket of sil- ence had fallen over the East En- gineering Building. Now and then, a group of pledges would sally forth and pro- ceed to the top of the IM build- ing, a local bar, or other far- away places to gather data neces- sary for the solution of the prob- lems. Finally, near the magic hour of midnight, one of the pledges per- formed the mystic work that was necessary to complete the last problem. Headlights Point Way Hope began to gleam 6om the pledges' eyes. Armed with sur- veying instruments, they invaded the vicinity of the Engine Arch. By the glare of headlights, the surveyors soon located the point they were looking for, and the construction of the symbol began. At 2 p.m. the last stakes were driven and the still of the night was shattered by a tremendous cry of victory as the slide rule- brandishing pledges realized that their monumental task was done. "I RELIEF OPERATIONS-Prof. William Haber (right) looks on while his brother Sam explains the relief operations of the American Joint Distribution Committee in the American Zone of Germany. Prof. Haber is on a leave of absence from the University to serve as adviser on Displaced Persons to Lt. Gen. Lucius Clay. The relief activities of the Joint Distribution Committee are carried on with funds subscriped through Preference. . (Continued from Page 1) marked in comedians such as Bob Hope and Jimmy Durante, campus celebrities like "Buck Dawson, and "Bump" Elliott. "Joe" Stalin even managed to be scrawled in by one student, while others stuck to presidential hope- fuls of former elections such as Paul V. McNutt and Sen. Harry F. Byrd. One funster evidently de- cided to make up a Gerhart Eisler by indicating his name for a presi- dential choice. Ballots invalidated for improper marking or those lacking any pref- erence totalled 59. An additional 71 ballots were marked in the "most likely to succeed" column, which omitted indicating a presi- dential choice. Elections (Continued from Page 1) Charges of fraud, which have always been levelled after previ- ous campus elections; were con- spicuously absent so far, according to election officials. IFC executive members who checked polling booths after each change of per- sonnel yesterday may have been partially responsible for this "clean" record. While volunteer ballot counters distributed and redistributed the ballots under the direction of Leg- islature election officials, candi- dates strained to watch the totals from behind a ,rope barrier. The complicated Hare system of pro- portional representation, used in all Legislature elections, was fol- lowed. Candidates eliminated at the time The Daily went to press in- clude: Aidinoff, Parmenter, M. A. Harris, Krasnick, Miller, Elkins, Johnson, Allen, Geib, Van Volken- burgh, Holmquist, Taylor, Kling- beil, Olsen, Steere, Waldorf, Da- vidson, and Wright. Others are: Benedict, Maisel, Hansen, Evans, Sands, White, Williams, Hooker, Neef, May, Rink, Richardson, Shaefer, Ewing, Berg, and Freed. Natural education suffered a setback last week when a small gray swallow sat in on a German 31 class. Reversing the usual procedure of learning about nature outdoors, Church Group Plans Meeting Students interested in register- ing for the Michigan Student Christian Convocation in East Lansing Saturday have been re- quested to contact Lane Hall as soon as possible. Approximately 1,200 students from campuses throughout the state will gather to investigate the theme "The Christian Con- cept of the University," at the all- day conference. Basic problems confronting the, Christian student will be studied by the inter - denominational group. Christian responsibility' will be related to occupational choices in discussion groups de- voted to law, education] -politics and engineering, among others. the bird decided to test the merits of formal education first-hand. So he flew breezily through the wide open window of the U Hall classroom, and preched comfort- ably on one of the empty desks. The swallow soon found that a knowledge of German was not quite what he wanted from col- lege, but when he decided to leave, couldn't find the way out again. Helpful class members opened all the windows in an attempt to relieve the sufferings of the mig- guided swallow, but their move- ments only frightened him all the more and he sought safety near the high ceiling. They closed all the windows but one and drew the shades, hoping he would be less confused. But their reasoning was lost on the swallow. He promptly flew to a closed window and fluttered mis- erably between the shade and the window pane. 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