February 16, 1946 — Mr. We Cy Morrow, Principal , ‘| Stohrville Rural High School - 3 eed Bluff City, Kansas — | i | Der Rhy OG . I was mighty happy to get your letter of the = indtent | and I am answering immediately « ay EN / Iwill be very happy to take Kenneth's case up with) Daas Henry Werner, the Adviser of Men, toward the possibility of getting Kenneth in one of the Men's Residence Scholarship halls, if it is — possibles While I am not on the committee, I am a good friend of | the dean's, but I am sure that Kenneth's record will speak for igadlts Ian enclosing a carbon copy of the ietter I have written to Dean Werner. k Please congratulate Kenneth for me and assure him thal | I will be very happy to have him on my basketball team here, I will help him in every way possible in obtaining © his desires. ¥ . I imagine that you and Kenneth wild be up for the Kilcane! Relays at which time we hope ba have a visit with you bothe With i all good wishes, I ax? | | 4 ‘Sincerely, : y | } k i | f { [ C4 : Director of Physical Bducation, | FCAsMF . ~ Yarsity Basketball Coach. Ente oo Ptohrville Rural High Schoo! — WW. €. Morrow Principal | & Blutt City, Kansas . February 15, 1946 Dr. Forrest C. Allen, Coach Intercollegiate Basket Ball University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Dr. Allen: Because of your distinctive position I am writing to solicit your shpport i matter, which I trust is meritorioud and in which you probably might be interested. You possibly will remember me as a student on the campus and as principal of the high schools at McLouth and Tonganoxie nearby, For this,my.second year, I am serving as principal and coach of the Stohrville Rural High School, located at Bluff City in Harper county, Kansas. However my bona-fide residence is at South Haven, Sumner county, Kansas. At South Haven I have a son, “enneth, who finishes high school this spring. Kenneth is making pland and desires to enter K. U. this fall. His mother, Laura McKay (deceased “ecember 30,1944) and I graduated at K. U. in 1916. I have a Master's from the same in 1934. Kenneth's application to Dean Henry Werner (or is it Adviser to Men?) for residence in one of the Men's Residence Scholarship Halls is going ferward in today's mail. For your consideration I would like to state that Kenneth has been "all out" for athletics:since he was in the sixth grade. A brief resume of such athletic participation follows: Four years! of high school football, climaxed last fall by his being captain and quarter-back of an ever-viétorious nine game season. A regular member of his school basket ball team from grades six to twelve.-- high point man in his district basket ball tournament last spring and consistently high point scorer in all games this season and he is not an individual player. In his sophonire year his school tried baseball -- Kenneth did a creditable job of catching. Last spring he was something of a general utility man on his track team. Last, but not least, he has been consistently on his high school Honor Roll this year. (For the latter I give all the credit to his mother -- she was Phi Beta Kappa at K.U.+ i Stohrville Rural High Srhool 7. €. Morrow : *Principal | =— Bluff City, Kansas —————— —_—_ ——————————— This month Kenneth was seventeen years of age, is slightly over six feet tall and by next fall sould weigh 170-175 pounds. Harry E. Morrow, of the Journal World staff at Lawrence, is my brother and thereby is Kenneth's uncle. Any support or assistance you may be able to give towards Kenneth's favorable consideration on the above mentioned application will be forever appreciated. The Morrows at South Haven are pulling strong for a repeat victory over the Sooners at Norman, which should just about give you and the old school the Big Six in basket ball. Good luck and best wishes from A loyal fan 3 Ww. Morrow, Ke Ue TLS Dear Sir: I will appreciate it very much if you will kindly send me an autographed photo of yourself, along with your autograph on the card enclosed. The collecting of autographs and photos of outstanding athletes has been my hobby for many years and your addition will be most welcome. someday I hope to make this one of the greatest collec- tions of its kind and I know this dream can be achieved with the cooperation I'm getting from you athletes and coaches. q « & Thanking you, I remain, Yours truly, Te /61¢/ 2 ee Manabctie US; Marwan Mr» Guy Mitchell 106 EB, Third Hutchinson, Kansas Dear Guys | | Jack Sehroll ome stopped in to the office to tell me that you might be interested in entertihp the University of Kansase I want to assure you Guy, that we would be delighted to have yous and we would help you in every. ~~ possible. While I imagine thet your G.I. Bill of Rights would provide you with the necessities of life, you would want some additional work, We are in @ position to offer you work of this nature whereby you oould earn twenty or twenty-five dollars a month easilye Being acquainted with your fine basketball ability, and the splendid coaching of Chop Cairn, we would be delighted to have you entertain the thought of entering the University of Kansas. Won't you write me at your earliest convenience and tell me your plans for the future and in what course you would like to mjore We have a fine four year course with a major in physical renin I am - gending you a brochure outlining our four-year courses . Trusting to hear from you in the near future, and with kindest regards, I am, Sincerely yours, Forrest C. Allen, Director Physical Education - Varsity Basketball Coach “February 11, 1946 Dr. James % May 626 Lathrop Building Kansas City, Missouri ‘Dear Dre May: Dr. Allen has referred your letter of February 8th to this office for basketball tickets requested for February 15 and 25. Please note the correct date for the Nebraska game, February 15. In error, some of our schedule cards and tickets were printed for the 16th. Iam enclosing the eight tickets for the two. games and you may send us your check in the _emount of 910.50 covering the cost of the tickets at $1.30 each with 10¢ added to the total amount to cover insured mailing charges. — Due to the fact that we have been out of ‘pegular reserved seat tickets for the lowa State game for several days, I am giving you some temporary seat tickets which will place you back of the visiting team bench. This is | the only thing we can possibly give you other than general admission tickets in the top bal- cony and I do not believe you would care to make the trip here to watch the game from that - location. — : ye ris ; Regretting that we do not have a better selection of reserved seat tickets to offer you and thank- ing you for the order, Il am Sincerely yours, | Be Le Falkenstien Financial Secretary _ ELFimp Bnce v — a fh ee Lib ie ic Page 7 ot LE lowe Feb / @ ihe eS 7 7s Oa “7 prvi HARVARD UNIVERSITY FATIGUE LABORATORY MORGAN HALL January 22, 1946 ss Mre Ae Ne MacArthur : : ; ( George MacArthur & Sons Baraboo, Wisconsin Dear Mr. MacArthur: Thanks for your letter of the 19th instant. You certainly ere in a rough spot and I can appreciate your situation. We are needing towels now and needing them badly, and so I have sent a purchase request to our state business manager, together with ten blank bid sheets, and -T am hoping that our state business manager will be able to find them for us, later in the summer we may call on you for a future order, but at the present time this urgency is upon us and we will take care of this first. : Very truly yours, Director of Physical Education, FOA sVF : : Varsity Basketball Coach. -—GEOLMARTHUR eSONS Manutacturers of SuperTerk, Supe yer, Velyg Ted Barasco feauboo, WISCONSIN January 19, 1946 University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas ‘TT: Dr Forrest Allen- Dirctor Physical Education Dear Dr. Allen: It certainly has been a long time since we have corres- vonded with each other. I have seen your name in the papers frequently of. late, however, and it always brings back fond memories when I see it. I imagine that you are calling in regard to turkish towels for your school. We have been fortunate in being able to serve you in years past, and we sincerely hope that we can continue to do so. We are, really in deplorable condition here at Baraboo, In January 1943 we had to stop sales to schools that could not give a workable priority. ve had over 4000 dozen towels on order for makeup at that time. We swung into the hospital and ordnance plant fields. Hospital business grew fast, ordnance plants swamped us. Now the latter are out of the picture, but hospitals still have 0800 dozen towels on order with us. We are running to top capacity here at Baraboo, capacity being regulated by the amounts of cotton yarns we can cajole from the southern manufacturers of yarns. At our present rate of production we have business enough on the books to keep us filled until next September. So, Dr Allen, about the only thing we can offer now is September 1946 deiivery. In lots of 50 dozen or more, SUPER-GYM plain stripe towels now sell at $7.69 per dozen, FOB Baraboo. We would be mighty glad to book your order for delivery next fall. As I said before, Dr Allen, we are in a bad spot. We want to get back into the field of our greatest love, the school field, but hospital orders carry a CC rating GEOLMMT:ARTHUR e SONS Dr Forrest Allen-— Page 2 and they must take precedence over school business on our books, and we must take the orders. We are on the horns of a dilemna, and they are pricking us badly. Now you have the information on towels. Our regular terms are 14/20 days net 30 days. We will look forward to hearing from you, and we hope that a semester's delay in delivering your order will not inconvenience you too greatly. My best personal regards. Yours v truly, Yo?) Wi bill GEO MeARTHUR & SONS AM/AA January 16, 1946 &, Milton B, Willer Central Building Topeka, Kansas Dear Milton: We have a size fourteen shoe which I think will be too big for your son. Our size twelve shoes are all of the composition rubber, None of them are pre-war and none of these shoes fit like the preewar stuff. I am sure the size fourteen will be too big, and so I think it would be needless to send them on. I will see if I can't dig up an old pair of some sort, even though they are worn, and mail them to yous. If they can help you any, I will be tickled to death. ; Give the young man my kindest regards and best wishes for a successful basketball season. Sincerely, ‘ . | Director of Physical Education, FCA: MP Varsity Basketball Coache January 10, 1946 Mr, William L. Martindell 611 West 6th Street Lawrence, Kansas Dear Mr. Martinde ll: Please drop in the Physical Education office to see Mr. Strait some time Monday morning, January 14. I tried all day yesterday to get you ” phone but couldn't fine —— at home. Sincerely, MF Secretary to Dre Allen January 9, 1946 Mr. Bill Medley 412 South Market Sfreet Caldwell, Kansas — Dear Bill: Your Special Delivery letter, which was mailed to me before Christmas, was not delivered until day before yesterday. Our team left Christmas for Oklahoma City but your letter was left at a neighbor's house. It was not delivered to the University. Doubtless they had some young inexperienced helpers to handle the Christmas rush and left it at the wrong place. Only this week a neighbor of ours, whe has been away, came over and left your letter at our house, saying that it had been left in her mail box. We sold our home at 80] Louisiana and moved into a cottage of ours that we owned down at 831 Louisiana, However, even this would not satisfactorily explain the situation because on the envelope it was marked 831 Louisiana, but was left across the street and these people were away during the Christmas week. T am sorry it has happened because I would have been happy to make reservations for youe However, I would not have been able to have gotten them myself, because they were making reserva+ tions and they would have been left in your name, We got no tickets at all and let the ticket people handle them. With every good wish for a Happy and Prosperous. New Year and regretting this failure on the part of the mail man, I am Stneerely yours, Director of Physical Education, Varsity Basketball Coach. J.C. BOBEK OIL COMPANY SKELLY OILS AND GASOLINE PHONE 7 CALDWELL, KANSAS Docu He Able Doc 22a thin a, January 7, 1946 Mre Frank Myers, Financial Secretary Athletics Association Kansas State College Menhattan, Kansas Dear Frank; Congratulations to Coach Knorr and your school on the exciting upset victory that you pulled on one of my good boys, Looie Menze. Of course, a lot of these fellows will say I rather hed a hunch. Well, I really did because I went out early to get the paper the next morning and when I read it, it was & total surprise. These Aggies boys are tough on the Nichols Gymna- sium floor, And I might add parenthetically, I have always found them tough on this Hoch Auditorium floor. Frank, I am still worried about that dust on that | Nichols Gymnasium floor, You have always been kind enough to have it scrubbed for us in the late afternoon to get the dust off the floor and lessen the slickness due to the dust. Too, the water seals the dust in the cracks, which helps no end. They have always scrubbed it with werm water, which we appreciate very much, and . we will appreciate this kindly act of cooperation, I would have written to Mike but I am following ‘precedent; since I have always written you previously about this, | I am continuing in the usval vain, ag Wishing you all a very Happy and Prosperous New. Year, I am Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, FCA3sMF | Varsity Basketball Coach. January 7, 1946 Mre Howard V. Millard Herald Review Sports Editor = ‘ Decatur Herald and Review | Decatur, Illinois Dear Howards I believe that you could arrange some games very profitably in our section, The Kansas City Northeast High i School has a very good team each year, The coach is Reaves E. Peters and a letter addressed to him, I am sure, will give you a pretty favorable reply. Wyandotte High School in Kansas City, Kansas, just across the line, has a beautiful gymnasium and their teams are always representative of their section. Marion Woolfs is the coach. . | The Topeka High School, which is 68 miles from Kansas City, is also a good outfit. Chet Davenport is the coach there. f In regard to the clinics in this section of the state, I would suggest that you write EF. Ae Thomas, Commissioner of High School Athletics, Topeka, Kansas. I am not exactly sure how they handle their clinic games. . If there is any further information that I ean give you, please feel free tocall upon mee It will be a pleasure. With all good wishes, I am Sincerely, | : Direotor of Physical Education, FCA:MF | Varsity Basketball Coach. . DrEcATUR HERALD AND REVIEW DECATUR NEWSPAPERS, INC. ~ PUBLISHERS DECATUR HERALD ESTABLISHED 1680 DECATUR REVIEW ESTABLISHED 1878 DECATUR, ILLINOIS TELEPHONE 5151 Jan.1,1945 Dr . F.C. Allen, University ef Kansas, Lawrence,Kan,. Dear Piegs- Next year we expect te have anether very fine High scheol basketball team in this city ( wen state title in I931-36=45 and have had same ceach fer I8 years) and I am trying te sell him m the idea ef 4 Heliday trip that weuld take us te Misseuri, Kansas and perhaps Oklahema er Arkansas, He is willing if I can line up the games 4s like all yeu fellews he is new engressed in the business ef ceaching,. . If yeu have the time wish yeu would send me the names ef any ceaches sf High scheols in yeur state that might be interested in meeting ene ef the best in Illineis prep circles, The Decatur team might appear as an eppenent ef some ene er twe Kansas teams in different sectiens ef the state in cennectien with a clinic. (Ai 3 ta PZ J war@ V,Millard Herald Review Sperts Editer, January 2, 1946 Mre Frank Myers Financial Secretary Kansas State College Nichols Gymnasium. Manhattan, Kansas ‘Dear Franks Will you please deliver to Dr. Lewrence E, Filkin of Junction City, Kensas, four tickets for the Kensas State vs Kansas game at Manhattan on January 9 The tickets are for Dre and Mrs, Lawrence BE, Filkin and fof Dr, and Mrs. Herbert Le Bunker of Junction City, Kansase Please charge these to our game accounts | I trust that you and yours had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Years : Sincerely yours, . : Director of Physical Education, FCAsMF | : Varsity Basketball Coache ‘ January 2, 1946 Mr, Dick Merriman Marysville, Kansas Dear Dicks | I am tremendously interested in seeing you attend the University of Kansas this next semester, which starts in early February. We are playing Nebraske at Lincoln on January 11 and I trust that it will be possible for you to come to Lincoln and be our guest for that CAMS e . We will stop at the Hotel Lincoln and will be glad to have you go out to the game with us from there. George Macleod has written me that he ~ expects to be at the game, so doubtless you ean ride up with hime I hope. so because I would like mighty well to have you meet our boys. And, too, we have heard so many fine things about you that we want you on our varsity basketball teams You know freshmen are eligible and you oan start right out with the squad. Don't you be afx of not making the basketball squad. A lot of fellows will tell you it. too difficult to make, Sylvester Schmidt made it and all the Marysville boys have made a fine showing here at the University, so don't let them give you the old talk that you are not good enough to make the team at KeUe You are, and to play with men like Black and Schnellbacher will help your game tremendously. You learn a lot more with good players ~ than you do with poor ones. So you set your cap for the University and I know you will be happy. With &11 good wishes, I am Sincerely, Director of Physical Education, Varsity Basketball Coach. Jenuary 2, 1946 # Mr. George De MacLeod 809 Broadway Marysville, Kansas Dear Maes oe The enclosed carbon copy to Dick Merriman, I_ hope, hits the spote Write me and let me know if Dick will be with you on the lith. We are stopping at the Lincoln Hotel. _I em sending the ball today. The price is $15.05 at wholesale, plus postage and so forth. You can make the check to me at your earliest conveniences With ell good wishes, I am Sincérely, : Be Direetor of Physical Education, : FCAtMF on | Varsity Basketball Coach, Ene. MacLeod Cleaners 809 Broadway © Phone 179 MARYSVILLE, KANSAS GIN 12-[ 23] 4 De ee fom ee ee TP a AQron ae fo i abn oe = MacLeod Cleaners 809 Broadway © Phone 179 MARYSVILLE, KANSAS Sania ceca sate sists Renee SETS eee pees rg KANSAS MacLeod Cleaners CLEANERS 809 Broadway © Phone 179 MARYSVILLE, KANSAS