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Talking, Tugging Quilt To Be Investigated
POY SIPPI, Wis.一(UPI)-Six fearless women made plans today for an "impartial" test of the crazy quilt of Poy Sippi.
The mysterious quilt is said to be haunted.
Mrs. Dora Monroe, 61, owner of the quilt, begged out from the test because she suffers from a heart condition. She does not want to chance a shock.
The quilt, normal in material and workmanship to any other patchwork quilt, allegedly talks to people during the night, becomes heated and eventually tugs its way off the bed.
The best story related by Mrs. Monroe goes this way:
HER GRANDDAUGHTER'S boy friend took the quilt to his home at Winneconne, Wis., for a test. Sometime after midnight he was awakened when the quilt started moving. He got out of bed, sat in a chair and watched as the quilt straightened itself as though the bed had not been slept in.
Mrs. Margie Monroe, 20, Oshkosh, daughter-in-law to Mrs. Monroe, said she heard a beating when she slept under the quilt.
Mrs. Monroe's husband, William, was the last to use the quilt. That was only two months ago. The same tugging occurred about the same early morning hour for three consecutive nights. One night Monroe released the quilt and it "crawled" under the dresser, he told his wife.
MRS. MONROE said she is unable to trace the origin of the quilt since the man from whom she and her husband purchased the house has since died.
Two neighbors, Mrs. Nancy McCue and Mrs. Arthur Fraser, have rounded up four other women volunteers and have Mrs. Monroe's consent to test the quilt at Mrs. Fraser's home one night this week.
Mrs. McCue and Mrs. Fraser will try the quilt together while the four other women, one of them holding a camera, stand by as witnesses.
University Party's General Assembly discussed plans for the Nov. 13-14 All Student Council election last night at a meeting in the Kansas Union.
UP candidates in the living group election will be announced at a 7:30 to 11 p.m. party Sunday at the Dinea-Mite. The Campus Council will conduct interviews with prospective candidates Sunday afternoon in the Kansas Union.
The party's platform will be released next week, Bob Stewart, Bartlesville, Okla., senior and platform committee chairman, said.
Thursday, Oct. 17, 1963
UP Candidates To Be Named
Fred Hoffman, Toppea senior and public relations committee chairman, said speakers have visited Hashinger and Lewis Halls and will talk at Gertrude Sellards Pearson, Corbin and Grace Pearson Halls soon. He added that wing representatives are being recruited in the larger residence halls.
Bob Crosier, Lawrence junior and membership committee chairman, said fraternity pledge classes will sell party membership cards at freshman women's dorms tonight.
Military Ball Date Set For December 6
The 1963 Military Ball will be Friday, December 6, in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union. The ball is under the combined sponsorship of departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force R.O.T.C.
Music for dancing will be provided by the "Airmen of Note," the official Air Force band stationed in Washington, D.C.
WRA Announces Plans For Coed Volleyball Team
The possibility of men and women's living groups co-operating in a sports program has been discussed by the Women's Recreational Association (WRA) general board.
Tentative plans include a volleyball tournament in March. According to the plan a women's living group would ask a men's living group to be their partners throughout the tournament. The teams would be composed of three men and three women and any number of teams from the paired groups would be possible.
MARY MULVANEY, assistant professor of physical education and WRA advisor, said that by scheduling the tournament in March it would give the women a chance to practice during the WRA volleyball tournament in February.
Five WRA members and a physical education faculty member attended an exhibition hockey game Sunday at Iowa State University between teams who participated in the international tournament in Maryland last September.
Barbara Hobson, instructor in physical education, was accompanied by Barbara Bock, St. Louis freshman; Marilyn Matt, Minneapolis junior; Eleanor Burkhead, Kansas City, Mo. senior; Marilyn Mouden, Lawrence freshman; and Judy Waterman, Wichita senior.
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