THE MICHIGAN DAILY TAKE IT AWAY: Senstius Sees Waste Disposal Answer FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1953 - - x By DAVID KAPLAN THE PROFESSOR became fa- Ann Arbor's garbage disposal miliar with this practice when ne problem may shortly be solved as was in Great Britain .and the Ne- a result of a two-month European trip taken by Prof. Maurice W. Senstius of the geology depart- ment. Prof. Senstius advocates that Ann Arbor adopt the garbage dis- posal method used in The .Hague. A soil specialist, he has recom- mended that local garbage be transported some distance away and left there. therlands this summer to "study nature and man." In the past Ann Arbor's En- gineers and Public Works De- partment had the garbage re- moved from the city and fed to pigs. Now, however, a state law requires that all garbage be cooked to remove harmful para- sites. Cooking garbage helps the hogs, but far from solves the municipal problem. Get-Acquainted Offer! White T-Sh irts 1st Quality 29c reg. 55c value It was once customary to dig trenches in outlying districts and fill them with the refuse. Trench areas, however, are soon exhaust- ed. After extensive study of the same problem in The Hague, Prof. Senstius came up with his answer, pending the City Council's' approv- al. The Hague sends its garbage to an area 200 miles away from the city: one with sandy soils and an abundant water supply. There it is processed under nat- ural conditions (fermentation and decomposition) which will disin- tegrate it into humus, the mater- ial so essential for productive and profitable agriculture. PROF. SENSTIUS explained that the Waterloo area, twenty miles from Ann Arbor, is so ex- tensive and useful that it would permit both Ann Arbor and Ypsi- lanti to dump wastes there. The City Council has not yet decided what is to be done, but Prof.Senstius has prepared sev- eral talks which he will present to the Council. Although research on garbage disposal was the chief objective of Prof. Stensius' European trip, he was able also to further his stu- dies in the characteristics and1 utilization of the soil. "Dutch soil," he said, "proved a valuable testing ground for study-1 ing former sea bottoms, and de- termining the effect of deposited refuse on thq soil." Hillel To Hea' KitchenSpeak' Wilmer Kitchen, Executive Se- cretary of the World University Service, will discuss its functions' tonight at Hill Auditorium follow- ing Hillel's Sabbath Services,: which will begin at 7:45 p.m. The University .World service, formerly known as the N.S.S.F., aids students financially, finds jobs for them, and has built youth hostels throughout the world. The main' office of the 32 national branches of the organization is in Geneva, Switzerland. Hillel's Community Services will be held at 9 a.m. tomorrow. Dennison To Talk In Visitor's Series' "Our Dusty Universe," a talk byi Edwin W. Dennison, graduate stu- dent in astronomy, will be given at 7:30 p.m. today in Rm. 2003; Angell Hall. The lecture is one in a "Visitor's Night" series sponsored by the as- tronomy department.I Tau Beta's Made Guides Tau Beta Pi's thirty-five pled- ges, recognizable by gold lapel em- blems, have been assigned posi- tions as guides and assistants at the Engineering Centennial cele- bration to be held this week-end. Other pledge duites of the na- tional engineering honorary in- clude the learning of certain in- formation about the Society and writing a 500 word'essay on a non- technical subject. The winning es- say will be awarded $5 in a na- tional contest. Tau Beta Pi alumni will be honored at a breakfast given by the local chapter on Saturday at 8 a.m. Delegates from the frater- nity's chapters will vote at a na- tional convention this fall on the question of accepting women mem- bers on an equal basis with men. Porter To Give Talk at Rackhaim Prof. Katherine Ann Porter, no- ted novelist and visiting professor in English at the University, will speak at 8 p.m. today in the Rack- ham Amphitheatre. The lecture, open to the public, 1 is sponsored by Sociedad Hispan- ica. CORDUROY SPORT SHIRTS " RED * BLUE * GREEN * CHARCOAL l $399 BEAT IT OVER to the LITTLE (toe TONIGHT C GA9-12 MICHIGAN UNION -Daily-Don Campbell PULVERIZER AT WORK-Leaf-grinding machines such as this one are producing a fine powder from fallen leaves all over cam- pus, much to the dismay of women students who find that the dust's effect necessitates frequent shampoos. Campus Ground Cret .busy Clearing Leaves Women students have recently another three or four days to get been voicing complaints concern- it started again. ing the plant department's leaf- With the possibility of a sudden removing activities around cam- cold spell, the heat must be kept pus. on from the week after Labor Day Dust from leaf-cutting ma- to the week after Memorial Day. chines used in cleaning up Uni-1 versity lawns, according to these This long period of heated coeds, has drastically changed buildigs tends to cover most of their shampooing schedules. the colder days during the semes- ters, yet the unseasonal weather SUPERINTENDENT of t at present seems to have thrown plant department W. M. Roth ex- -verything out of kilter. plained that the, leaf particles "will, through decomposition and moisture, be turned into humus and are to enrich the soil." He said the task of removal by any other means would cost more.' The plant department alsorhas the job of trimming trees to in- sure proper growth. Several cases of elm disease were re- ported in Ann Arbor last year. The elm trees on campus are being watched for dead limbs, ac- cording to Roth, for that is where the disease begins. The bugs at- DELICIOUS tack the dead limbs and coitinue on to kill the whole tree. Ham burgers With winter on its way, the un- derground sprinklers in the Law and Quad and around the League are CHEESEBURGERS being drained. The pipes are not winter-proof, and the water must be drained BEER - WI N E out of them in order to prevent TV - SHUFFLEBOARD freezing and splitting of the pipes. In the near future, the fountain alongside the League will be shut Dinners off'and covered for the winter. 4:30 P.M. to 9:00 P.M. * * * THE PLANT Department also has an explanation for the heat 7 in campus buildings. 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