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...Dykstra, City Manager of Cincinnati and prominent in recent flood relief activities, was chosen president of the University of Wisconsin, it was reported last night by a member of the Wisconsin board of trustees. Dykstra succeeds Dr. Glenn Frank who was recently ousted by the board...
...bath tub is full of water for what we know in these days as "flushing." Three blocks away in the centre of my hilltop suburb is an enormous black iron tank with Legionnaires in charge, where I may get water. We boil it, we boil all water, as Mr. Dykstra instructs, but water has been provided. We are using again at the request of the City Hall, canned vegetables instead of fresh to save water...
...alarmed, none of my neighbors are alarmed. So simply, so efficiently have adjustments been made by Mr. Dykstra that life is a little inconvenient but about as usual. In the first stages of high water we citizens were tactfully and explicitly informed by Mr. Dykstra as to what was going on, what to do, how to cooperate through the mediums of the radio and the Press...
...operation of individuals, public utilities, professions, radio, press, industry, commerce, transportation, amusements, Red Cross, Salvation Army, other organizations, and not Mr. Dykstra. But you can't cooperate in chaos. Mr. Dykstra as City Manager knew all factors, all agencies, their place and capacities, and as such was properly made Disaster Administrator. He appointed a Central Disaster Committee and they, representative of all groups, functioning with City Hall, have seen that each group has had its place and each emergency has been met without overlapping, confusion or bombastic gestures...
Most citizens are at home today and have been all week, at Mr. Dykstra's request that streets be clear for food and relief, and police be free to attend flooded areas. We are watching fire in our homes with care as has been requested because engines and pumpers are needed in the Basin where gas tanks have been undermined and gasoline released by the flood, also because the Water Works, built high above flood danger, are inundated today...