PAGE SIX
MI Research
Helps Clean
State Streams
By WILLIAM SUMMERS
How many times have you been
nauseated by the sight of the
smell of a Pennsylvania stream,
once clear, and a scenic and fish
ermen's attraction, now malo
dorous, disease-ridden, and an
eyesore?
Some still remain in such a
condition, but the state has given
orders that streams are to be
cleaned up. One hindrance has
been the tremendous cost of in
stalling filtering methods to pre-
Vent the waste from entering the
water.
The state contributes $lO,OOO
and the coal industry $35,000 bi
enially to the Fuel Technology
dePartment of the School of Min
eral Industries here at the Col
lege. The money is alloted to de
velop uses for waste Products to
help defray costs of installing the
filtering equipment.
Say, for example, that your
taiorite, stream was ruined by
anthracite coal silt.
Di. Calvin C. Wright, head of
the Fuel Technology department,
hsts at least three profitable uses
be the silt, after experiments
here.,
Perhaps the power plant or
lime or cement kiln in your town
is using anthracite, silt in its
stokers or kilns. 'Or silt may be
cleaned and dewatered. The
'cleaned product is combined with
bittiminous coal to make metal
lurgical coke. Over 200,000 tons
of this type of coke were used
last ,year.
The third, and perhaps most in
teresting, experiment is increas
intihe value of coal silts by pel
letazation.
Aid To Cities
l'eurs may be the Pennsylvania
city in the near future that will
derive its power for 24 hours from
the use of black pellets, I of an
inch in diameter, and two to four
inches long.
These pellets are made by mix
ing two common and certainly
inexpensive materials, water and
anthracite , silt. The moist silt is
placed in what is known as an ex
trusion machine and extruded
front a die in the form of rods,
which usually break into rela
tively short lengths.
This experiment is compare
five', new, having begun in
March of 1945 as a cooperative
project among the state, coal op
erators, the College, and the J.
F. Pritchard company, makers of
the extrusion machine peculiar to
this experiment.
At present, machines can pro
duce only four to ten tons of
Pellets per hour. A machine is
being built to turn out 40 to 50
tons in the same time.
When this is perfected you may
find that your city is being run
by waste coal silt pellets and that
the stream dividing or rimming
your city has lost a little of its
odor, unattractiveness, and most
of its germs.
Indictment --
(Continued from page three)
Allen said that it "is further
agreed that Cabinet and the stu
dent body alike should know more
of the reasons concerning policies
and decisions made by the admin
istration."
Pointing out that "Cabinet in
deed responded to Mr. Keller's
statement," Allen maintained that
"Thursday night's meeting, which
lasted three hours and 15 minutes,
did not develop wholly from Kel
ler's prompting.
"Headline actions don't accur
at every meeting and never will.
If an energetic student cares to
campaign each week, as last
Thursday, headlines will be made.
But Cabinet isn't functioning
necessarily to make headlines. It
is acting for the student body, and
justly so," he added.
Sandburg-
(Continued from page three)
American War, and on his return,
he entered Lombard College in
Galesburg. During World War I he
was a correspondent in the Scan
dinavian countries.
In 1904, Sandburg published his
first pamphlet of poems. Several
volumes of poems followed, the
' - '-)rnhuskers" sharing the Pulit-
Prize in 1913. In 1926 "The
Years" appeared. T •
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
now Your Colle • e Health Service
Group Boasts 35
Years of Service
(This is the second of a series of articles describing the history,
treatments, and services offered by the various departments of
the College Health Service).
Officially opening its doors January 15, 1915 1 the College Health
Service can boast a record of 35 years of service as an official part
of the College.
Started during the regime of President E. E. Sparks with
doctor, two nurses, and a six-bed infirmary, the Health Service
grown steadily to its present size
and capacity. Since college health
services, as they are now organ
ized, date back only to 1912, the
College was among the early lead
ers in organizing a student health
program.
A scarlet fever epidemic, .which
struck the campus in 1912, pointed
up 'the need for a College-super
vised health program. However,
action was delayed because of lack
of funds and it was not until 1915
that the College Health Service
took its first official temperature.
First Director Named
Dr. Wayne Forsythe became the
first director of the service and set
up his offices and dispensary in a
converted residence south of the
tennis courts near Beaver Field,
now known as the Beecher House.
The first College hospital was a
frame structure cut from half of
a barracks-like dormitory and
located approximately where the
Tri-Dorms now stand. It contain
ed six beds and because it was
used mostly to isolate cases of con-.
tagious diseases, was called the
"Pest House." The staff, in addi
tion to Dr. Forsythe, consisted of
two nurses, Miss Ella V. Fores
man and Miss Eula F. Forsythe,'
sister of the director.
In February, 1917, Dr. Forsythe
left the College for Ann Arbor,
Mich., where he organized a
health service for the University
of Michigan. He has served as di
rector there since that time.
Served Alone
Dr. Joseph Ritenour succeeded
Dr. Forsythe as director in 1917
and served as the only full-time
physician until 1936 when Dr.
Edgar S. Krug joined the staff.
Dr. Krug was followed by Dr.
Alfred H. Griess, who became the
team physician in 1939.
In 1928 College trustees deemed
the "Pest House" too small for the
swelling enrollment and the Penn
sylvania Potato Growers Associa-
Mi'holland=
(Continued from page one)
struction of dormitories general
ly has been financed through
loans, rather than by state funds.
Included in Milholland's re
quest were:'
Completion of the mechanical
engineering building; an addi
tional section for the physical
education building; completion of
Buckhout laboratory; completion
of Burrowes building; completion
of the main library; a new chem
istry building; a chemical storage
building and an addition to Pond
laboratory; greenhouses for agri
cultural research.
Mont Alto Aid
A physical education building
for the Mont Alto Forestry
School; an additional wing for
Frear laboratory; completion of
the main engineering building;
enlargement of the power plant;
completion of the general class=
room building; a central exten
sion building; buildings for the
livestock center; a military, air,
and naval sciences building; and
a general engineering building.
Funds also have been requested,
for equipment of three new class=
room buildings completed under
a 1945 allocation of $3,618,000.
No funds from the allocation
remain because of rising costs,
the College explained. The build
ings to be equipped are Willard
Hall, the plant industries build
ing, and the mineral science
building.
Costs of construction on cam
pus have increased greatly dur-.
ing and since thd war years. Al
though they house no more stu
dents, each of the new women's
dormitories cost about three times
as much as Atherton Hall.
biography of Lincoln was a work
of startling proportion from one
who was known as a poet, not a
- • at history.
By ROY B. McHENRY
tion furnished the funds to build
the present Collige hospital. It
was occupied in January 1929, and
at that time was considered the
most modern college hospital in
the country. It housed both ,the
Infirmary and the • Dispensary.
However, facilities at the hospital
became overcrowded and in 1934
the Dispensary was moved to the
basement of Old Main, where it
has been located since.
*Dr. Ritenour continued as direc
tor of the College Health Service
until his retirefnent in 1946 when
he was succeeded by Dr. Herbert
R. Glenn, the present director.
The next chapters in the history
of the Health Service probably
will be provided by the building
of a new addition to the hospital
in the near future..
Dirt Flies as
New Gardens
Are Prepared
A heap of dirt is flying around
as the new site for the test flower
gardens is being prepared north
of Nittal . iy Dorms. The purpose of
the new location is to provide
greenhouses handy to the newly
erected Plant Industries building.
The new site, according to Prof.
Robert P. Meahl, of the Horticul
ture department, will permit a
greater variety and number of
flowers grown in the greenhouses.,
"Only the annuals are to • be'
moved," Mr. Meahl said. "Tthe
roses and other perennials will re
main in the old location."
The test gardens have been here
since 1937 and are the only ones
in the nation at a college or uni
versity which are used for All-
America selections. In any season,
flower-lovers can see comparative
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1949
'Le Jongieue
Club Feature
The French Club, with the co
operation of the Modern Dance
Club, will dramatize "Our
. Lady's
Juggler," a short story by
Ana
tole if rance at its annual Christ
mas program tomorrow night.
Background music will be from
Massenet's opera, "Le Jongleur de
Notre Dame.'
The program also will include
Christmas carols and interpreta
tive readings from the works of
Peguy and Claudel.
The meeting, scheduled for 7
p.m. in 405 Old Main, is open to
all students interested in French,
music, and modern dance.
tests of flowers made by national
seed houses which will not be re
leased to the public for two years.
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THIS CHRISTMAS
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