SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1952. THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE SEVEN ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S BEST: University 'Hides' Wood Tech Lab a By MIKE WOLFF Tucked behind Victor Vaughn House in the former University Hospital steam plant is the brick and. wood building that houses the little known Wood Technology Laboratory. The laboratory has become "one1 of the best equipped of its kind in the country" since its founding in 1928, according to Prof. William. Kynoch, chairman of the wood technologydepartment. "Its primary use is to train stu- dents to function in technical ca- pacities - in the nation's rapidly growing wood industries," Prof. Kynoch explained. IN STUDYING the physical and chemical properties of wood and its industrial applications, the plaid-shirted wood technologists utilize modern equipment along with the conventional hammer and saw. Two dialectric heaters that dry glue in Fifteen seconds with radio frequency waves are the lat- est of the department's acquisi- tions. The laboratory's facilities are also devoted to research on the many problems of wood techno- logy. Sponsored by the National Association of Furniture Man- ufacturers, an adhesive-testing: machine is under construction by Alan A. Marra, research en- gineer at the laboratory. Efforts are underway at the la- boratory to utilize sawdust and wood chips for making boards. This is an attempt to combat theE vast waste of wood in industry. Norway Choir Will Sing at Hill One of the most famous choirs in Europe, the Singing Boys of Norway, will present the eighth Choral Union Series concert at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in Hill Auditorium. Under the direction of Ragnvald Bjarne, the group will sing a variety of numbers, ranging from "Echo" (two choruses in eight parts) by Di Lasso, to "Ku Baane," a Norwegian Folksong. Other features of the program will be violin solo "Violin-Romance in D" by Svendsen, piano solo, "The March of Sinclair" by Grieg, and vocal solo "Hear My Prayer" by Mendelssohn. Hill Auditorium - Ann Arbor MONDAY, MARCH 7 -8:00 P.M. THE PANHELLENIC ASSOCIATION PRESENTS A DOBL TH AUH*TI YAR -Daily-Larry Wilk REGISTERER'S AID-Members of the Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity nan their information booth to help students find their lost ID cards-or themselves--amid the tangles of registration. AND HIS NEW MUSICA LDEPRECIATION NE x REVUE of1952N gG$s Ja"tewg THE CITY SLICKERS and COMPANY OF 44 - Service Fraternity Aids Stu dents -s M. Students who struggled through the inevitable lines at registration last week were given the chance to solve some of their problems at the information booth run by the Alpha, Phi. Omega service frater- nity. APO is a national service fra- ternity composed of students with a background in Scouting who de- sire to render service to their school and community. THE FRATERNITY is now look- ing for new pledges. Students who are interested may attend an op- en 'meeting at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Rm. 3-KLM of the Union, accord- ing to Ed Lokker, '53 Ed., presi- dent of the local chapter. "Members may belong to a so- cial fraternity but they must have been affiliated with the Scouting movement at some time," Lokker said. The information booth at regis- tration is only one of the numer- ous services conductedrannually by the Michigan chapter. Members engage in such var- ied activities as helping to police ' the SL elections, serving as guides at the annual freshmen- principal conference and setting up the familiar "Keep Off the Grass" signs that dot the cam- pus every spring. In past years a portion of the money received by the fraternity for handling the coat-checking concession at J-Hop has been do- nated to national charities and to providing magazines for patients at lo'cal hospitals. Receipts from this year's J-Hop will be used in part to cov4r opera- tional expenses of the "Ugly Man" contest to be held in April. Funds from the contest will be used for more than 700 sets of finger- prints. Assistant Registrar Edward G. Groesbeck is the fraternity's pre- sent faculty advisor. Many faculty members, such as Norman L. Wil- ley, retired professor of the Ger- man department, have been ofj service to the APO in past years. T Congress Mcay Probe Nunan I--------------------------------- MAIL ORDERS NOW - USE THIS FORM I Checks payable to Panhellenic Association. ( Send to Panhellenic Assn., Michigan League, Ann Arbor ENCLOSED with self-addressed, stamped envelope find I ($ for tickets at $1.80 for main floor seats. $($ for tickets at $1.80 for center 1st balc. seats $ for tickets at $1.50 for remainder 1st balc. seats _$ _ for tickets at $1.20 for 2nd balcony seats These tickets will admit me to the 8:00 p.m. show. Name I Address WOOD RESEARCH--This is not a man from Mars but a student at the Wood Technology Laboratory examining lumber being dried in the laboratory's drying kiln. His asbestos suit, worn to with-3 stand the 180 degree temperature, has its own built-in air supply. some charity Foundation for sis. as the National Infantile Paraly- * * * THE LOCAL Phi Omega, founded in the chapter of AlphaI Gamma Phi, was fall of 1940 with an elaborate installation banquet in the Union Ballroom. Although its early headquar- ters were confined to the cellar of a West Side office building the men undertook such pro- jects as a drive to secure stu- dent and faculty fingerprints for the civilian identification files of the FBI. University former president, Alexander G. Ruth- ven, was the first to be finger- printed in the drive, that netted At present, a thousand pieces of In Tax Ca$e furniture are being rotated be- tween rooms under summer and WASHINGTON - Con- 'winter conditions to determine the ability of furniture to withstand flicting statements over a mid- the varying humidity undergone west brewery's tax case yesterday in the average home. heightened prospects for a Con- gressional investigation of Joseph Studeftsrlark D. Nunan, Jr., former Internal St d n s M r Revenue Commissioner.f Day ofPrayer This latest flareup was touched off by Senator Williams (R-Del.) when he reported in a Senate In observance of the annual speech that Nunan was given spe- World Student Day of Prayer, a cial permission to represent the special interdenominational serv- now defunct Indianapolis Brewing ice will be held at 7 p.m. today Co. Williams also questioned in the Methodist Church, 120 S. whether the government got what State. was due it.I The service that will be used Nunan promptly denied he ever was written intGeneva, Switzer- represented the brewery, or ac- land, for special international use cepted fees from it. He said he did today. Foreign students wil par- not recall ever asking permission ticipate here, reading scriptures to represent it. in many different languages. The service is sponsored by the Inter-Guild Association and fea- Local Voters tures a liturgical combined choir. Florida Bombings The Rev. Joseph Barth, of Mi- ami, Florida, will discuss the ef- fects of the Florida bombings on his community and the rest of the world at 2 p.m. today at Lane Hall. Dr. Barth, a Unitarian minis- ter, is sponsored by the Unitarian Student Group, -- STUDENT i NEW SHIPMENTS of USED TEXTBOOKS arriving daily! NEW BOOKS IF YOU PREFER For that hard-to-find textbook SUPPLIES TYPEWRITERS I I "+./ REPAIRED RENTED SOLD BOUGHT Campus Art Museum Oldest Public Gallery in Michigan Fountain Pens repaired by a factory trained man. Webster-Chicago Wirerecorders MORRILL'S 314 S. State Ph. 7177 i a Collections dating back nearly 100 years make the Museum of Art at the University the oldest public art gallery in Michigan. Exhibition space specifically for the Museum's collections was not set aside until five years ago, when it was reorganized as a separate unit. Now, at least once a month; new exhibits are on display to the public at Alumni Memorial Hall from 9 to 5 p.m. during the week 'Y and from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sundays. These are-usually rented from na- tional art agencies. The Museum's chief purpose, according to Director Jean Paul Slusser, is to give students direct acquaintance with original works of art. Although it doesn't ex- pect to compete with the great metropolitan galleries, he says, the Museum still faces the need of expanding its collections. Gifts are frequent and most welcome, Prof. Slusser says. By budgeting exhibition expenses, the Museum manages to purchase additions which have been con- centrated in the three categories of drawings and prints of all per- iods, modern sculpture and mod- ern painting. ;{r S{}:>":i":}i":7""i:Si":: c .~~~ rr .r ii V~ r Y? : 9 To Go to Polls (Continued from Page 1) H i s opponent, Mummery, al University alumnus, has "never been completely pleased" with Council operations and wants to find out how it works. * * * THE FIFTH Ward contest finds two University men shooting for the Dembcratic aldermanic nomi- nation, Dean Coston, a 28 year old radio engineer at station WUOM, and Hugh F. Pierce, a lecturer in the School of Education. In his campaign statement Coston said, "If I am nomina- ted I will exert every effort to encourage registration and vot- ing .. . in the ward so that our Councilmen can be made more aware of the problems and de- sires of the citizens in the Fifth Ward." The ,42 year old Pierce, has de- clared he'll try to "make the tax dollar go as far as possible . . . The only way to do this is by ef- ficiency in city government." -The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. tomorrow. Lecture on Egypt Colin Roberts, reader in papy- rology of Oxford University, will lecture on "Literature and Society in Graeco-Roman Egypt" at 4:15 p.m. tomorrow in the Rackham Amphitheatre. The lecture is sponsored by the department of classical studies. Following the service at 8 p.m. in the Wesleyan Guild lounge, The Rev. Roy Burkhart, minister of the Community church in Co- lumbus, Ohio, will speak on "Courtship to Marriage." 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