PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, DECEMBER It 1952 PAGE SIX SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1952 BUT FEW STUDENTS: City Bus Line Hauls 750,000 Riders Yearly - # -# * * * * * . K.> By ERIC VETTER Ann Arbor's busy 10-bus City Bus Line is onefof the little known phases of city life to most students: The boxy gray vehicles are con- stantly seen on the streets but only a small portion of the stu- dent body uses them. Few stu- dents even know the routes the line follows or its schedules. Yet the system is no small operation, providing transportation for 750,- 000 passengers annually. About the only students who consistently ride the bus line are those who live on Fraternity Row, out Washtenaw, or Geddes. For their benefit, the company runs two student noon-time specials. One heads out Washte- naw while the other services the Oxford-Hill area. They pick up students at stops on North University and East Uni- versity at noon and deliver them about ten minutes later at their destinations in time for lunch. The buses then wait until 12:45 p.m. at the end of the line before re- ~turning to campus. ACCORDING to John R. Stokes, mnanager of the bus line, the coaches carry about 40 students on the out-going run but only a dozen coming back. This is generally a non-profit "service, Stokes said, because most students walk back to campus. Public school :buses are also non- profit as students ride at a re- LOOK BACK : Past Makes Present 'U' Look Mild duced ten cent fare. The usual passenger tariff is 15 cents, an increase over the 12 cent fare in effect until November of 1951. The line suffered a $16,000 deficit last year, but Stokes thinks it might break even this year. THE COST OF running a bus is fixed at 50 cents per mile. "This means a deficit in the summer and a surplusin the winter," Stokes said. "December is the best money making month for the line when an average of 90,000 passengers use the line. In August, however, an average of only 49,000 fares are taken although the mileage cov- ered is nearly the same." Running from 5:45 a.m. to 10 p.m. on a strict time schedule, the buses leave the Huron-State terminal every hour and half hour and reach the ends of the lines on the quarter hours. The regular bus routes are from Washtenaw to the Fairgrounds, which services the city from the east to the west ends, the Burns Park-Hospital line, and the South Main. route which carries passeng- ers out Main to Stadium Blvd. Because the firm is a subsidiary of the Great Lakes Greyhound Company, drivers alternate be- tween regular Greyhound runs to Detroit and other points and the city lines. They take part in regu- lar training and safety programs' and must pass both physical and aptitude examinations before be- ing hired. ' s k: t.. . - -4 ti w :: week which students livig far from campus use to get home in time -for lunch. One line runs down S. University to Washtenaw and then into the Oxford Rd.-Hill St. area. The other follows E. University to Hill and then out Washtenaw. X's mark the spot where the buses load. AA Business Up for Yule Gift Season (Continued from Page 6) television sets and othernhousehold appliances. MOST LOCAL merchants re- ported that evening sales have been steady but not spectacular, with the exception of Mondays when sales have been consistently high. Many stores predicted a slight tapering off in business in the last three days before the 25th. The University Christmas, re- cess beginning, Friday is expected to cut short much gift buying activity in the State St. area, according to businessmen there. Again in tune with the national trend a number of larger stores in the downtown area reported a shortage of extra help to handle the Christmas rush but appeared satisfied with the part-time help they had taken on. A number of businessmen blam- ed the weather during the last several weeks as a definite hind- rance to shopping. One merchant thought that a good snowfall would put people in a better frame of mind to finish their Christmas shopping. Christmas Suggestions VAN HEUSEN SHIRTS and SPORTSHIRTS INTERWOVEN SOCKS SWANK JEWELRY WEMBLEY TIES BRENTWOOD SWEATERS . FAUTLESS PAJAMAS S / Ii Cooper s JOCKEY" Underwear Also a complete selection of * Robes * Mufflers * Gloves * Slipper Socks STADEL& SON 302 South Main 4 4 _, * Read and Use Daily Classifieds ' .. The Per of Thouc UNIVERSITY FLOWER MISS PROFROCK, Prop. 523 East Liberty M13c GIFTS FOR MEN el~itn~cc/ve F .R 0 W OR L.D F AMOUS INiti.J4 %J4tjej By JUNE GRANSTROM "Lights go out at 9 p.m." as a university regulation would bring cries of despair from today's co- eds, but it was quietly endured by University men in 1842. The rigid discipline which pre- vailed on campus in those days makes current traces of paternal- ism pale in comparison. The be- lief was evidently "early to bed and early to rise," and rising bel sounded at 5 a.m. Reluctant students who want- ed to snatch a few illegal min- utes of sleep were rousted out of bed by the "Professor of Dust and Ashes," Pat Kelly. Kelly helped around campus in return for squatter's rights, and bel- lowed at the students in the same tone he used for his live- stock. Harsh peals from a former loco- motive bell, rung delightedly by Kelly, regulated the students' wak- ing hours. The bell hung from a pine pole behind a combination classroom-and-dormitory which housed the whole student body. EVEN AWAKE the University student's time wasn't quite his own. For one thing he had to sit through the one hour scheduled chapel periods twice a day. But he had a full half hour to wash and dress before chapel-though the ice in the water pitchers had to be broken first. Some freedom was allowed. After dinner, the men could go down to the village of Ann Ar- bor-if they were chaperoned by monitors and returned in time for lights out. Scholars with an athletic bent could work off their energy in the only form of "sport" existing at the time. This consisted of sawing wood and filing wood-boxes, a task which wasn't always optional. CHRISTMAS GREETINGS and A HAPPY VACATION MEN Lee's Barbers 611 S. 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