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THE, MICHIGAN DAILY
TUSD3AY, D1!CFBER 8, 1949
Chloe Owen I UCommittee
Fills Phoenix
Project Posts
Alumni Joseph M. Dodge and
George W. Mason have been
named to high positions in the
Michigan Memorial-Phoenix Pro-
ject, the executive committee of
University of Michigan alumni,
which is directing the drive for
funds, announced yesterday.
Dodge will serve as national
treasurer of the project. He is
president and director of the De-
troit Bank, and is now United
States Minister and Financial Ad-
visor to the Supreme Command-
er of the Allied Powers in Tokyo.
* * *
MASON WILL fill the position
of national chairman for corpora-
tions and foundations and nation-
al chairman for special gifts in
the project. He is the president
and board chairman of the Nash-
Kelvinator Corporation.
The Phoenix Project has the
two fold purpose of erecting a
living, functional memorial to
the men and women of the Uni-
versity who died in World War
II and to promote peacetime
nuclear research.
I
-Daily-Barney Laschever
POST OFFICE DILEMMA-Ann Arbor branch Post Office workers Robert Wayne, left, and Stanley
Tschiltz dejectedly prepare to rewrap carelessly wi'apped packages mailed in the Christmas rush. Post
Office officials warn senders that their parcels may be lost or damaged unless carefully wrapped and
addressed.
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Holiday Rust
Terror for P
By VERNON EMERSON
In spite of the deluge of letters
and packages that will soon begin
to pour into the Ann Arbor branch
of the Post Office, Postmaster Os-
wald J. Koch has little fear of the
Christmas rush.
"Although our work will be
heavy for about a week beginning
Dec. 15, we will have 60 or 80
extra men who will keep things
moving at a good pace," he ex-
plained.
A NUMBER of the part-time
employes will be University stu-
dents who are not returning to
their homes over the vacation
period, Koch said.
With this extra help, plus
30 extra dispatch cases, the
WUOMGiven.
More Power
University broadcasting station
WUOM-FM yesterday increased
transmission power from 13,500
watts to 44,000 watts after re-
ceiving approval of the Federal
Communications Commission.
This added power should in-
crease the WUOM range through-
out Michigan, particularly in the
southeastern section, according to
Dean Costen, studio engineer.
Listeners in areas covered pre-
viously should get a better signal
and clearer reception, he added.
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Holds LC See struction of a $2,000,000 building
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search and study laboratories, an
yLocal Talent auditorium, and a library.
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postmaster predicted his office To Talk t Forum
will have the bulk of the mail Tryouts for this year's Gulantics
taken care of by Christmas. Review will be held at 1 p.m. Sat- S I. Hayakawa, noted semanti-
Koch is planning to increase urday in Rm. 3G of the Union. cist, will discuss new foundations
pick-up and delivery services so Acts of almost any size, shape or for semantics at the Psychology
that a constant flow of mail will description can be accommodated Colloquium at 8 p.m. tomorrow in
enter and leave the post office. in the Gulantics review. Singing the Lane Hall basement.
The postmaster said that he ex- groups, juggling acts, imitators, Hayakawa, who formerly taught
pects the number of cards to dancers, 'or unicyclists are just a at the University of Chicago, is
reach 200,000 a day during the few of the varied types of acts currently doing work in graphic
week before Christmas. He noted which can be included in the show. modern arts as well as modern
that out-going parcel post has al- The Gulantics Review was origi- folk music.
ready picked up considerably. sated last year by the Men's Glee The semanticist also ser as
* * * Club, the Union, and the League to editor of ETC. the semantics ubli-
"WE ALWAYS can expect plenty provide the campus with an outlet cation in this country.
of packages on the way out from for local performers, and at the
the campus sub-station as students same time give the campus an en-
send many of their holiday gifts tertaining variety show.
before leaving for home, Koch Prizes of $100, $75, and $25 will XMAS GIFTS
explained. be awarded to the acts which take
The work of the post office first, second, and third places re-
is often complicated by the neg- spectively. See our large Selection o
ligence of mailers, he said. Beautiful Gifts, Plain or
Koch stressed the fact that Crested with U. of M.Seal
many people do not realize it costs o r aoo te ity U. oMSeal
two cents to send' an unsealed Hody 7'an ort y
card. "We are amazed at the num- HOldM eeting Here crests.
ber of people who ask for 11/2 cent
i stamps for this purpose." More than 700 Michigan high
* * * school students will attend the There is still time for
HE ALSO URGED that pack- fifth annual High School Confer-
ages be double wrapped and prop- ence on Citizenship here tomor- Crested Jewelry for Xmas.
1 erly addressed. In the case of row.
cities with zone systems, Koch Prof. Marshall Knappen, of the BURR PATTERSON
- pointed out the necessity of in political science department, will
- eluding zone numbers in the ad. keynote the program at 10 a.m. & AULD
dress. tomorrow in Rackham Lecture
"It would be a good policy to Hall with an address on "World 1209 South U. Phone 8887
place a copy of the sender's and Democracy May Depend on You."
receiver's addresses as well as a
1 list of the package's contents in-
side the parcel," he suggested.
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