Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
53rd Year, No. 138
Thursday, May 3, 1956.
Lawrence Firm Bids $79,587 On Landscaping
Keith Lawton, administrative assistant to the chancellor, said today the apparent low bidder for the Corbin, North College, Gerdie Sellards Pearson hill landscape project, is the Kansas Construction Co., Lawrence. Its bid is $79,587.
Other bids opened in Topeka yesterday were: Kafer Construction and Engineering, Lawrence, $82-.29; Kaw Paving Co., Inc., Topeka, $84,350, and M. N. Penny Construction Co., Lawrence, $89.975.
"The bids have been taken under advisement and it appears at this time on the basis of the alternate bids a contract can be let," Mr. Lawton said. The state purchasing agent at Topeka has 30 days in which to accept a contract.
—(Kansan photo by John Battin)
Work planned is for construction of walks, drives, a parking area, and retaining walls. Additional planting and landscaping will be done around Gertrude Sellards Pearson and North College Halls.
House OK's Ike's Price Support Plan
WASHINGTON (UP) - The House began voting on the new Democratic farm bill today by shouting approval of a price support boost for growers of four feed grains.
Members also voted for a provision backing up the administration's unprecedented action in extending price supports this year to commercial corn growers who overplant their allotments.
BEATS THOSE WOODEN STEPS—A group of students stroll down the new steps of the hill between Maltt Hall and Robinson Gymnasium. In
the background is Flint Hall and Fowler Grove. Employes of the department of buildings and grounds sodded the area.
Landscaping Beautifies Campus
Business Students Presented Awards
Awards were given to five students at the Business Day picnic Wednesday at Potter Lake.
The Alpha Kappa Pi award went to John S. Bushman, Neoho Falls; Delta Sigma Pi, John Simpson, Salina; Wall Street Journal, Richard Reynolds, Emporia; Phi Chi Theta, Estalene M. Young, Tribune, and Chi Omega, Mary F. Snowday, Salina. All are seniors.
The faculty won the traditional softball game between students and faculty 22-21.
What's Wrong With Retirement?-
Retirement Of Sam L. Jones Announced, Students Mourn
So this is Sam L. Jones? A knight in shining armor, a champion of the oppressed, defender of freedom; this is the stalwart gentleman who from time to time blasts forth on the editorial page of the
"Just who is Sam L. Jones?" a tender freshman or sophomore might ask. Sam probably has as much longevity as any student at the University. In the fall of 1947 he arrived on the campus optimistic, eager, and smiling. Today, after nine long years of toil, broken by a four-year stint in the U.S. Navy, Sam has somewhat of a less cheerful outlook on campus life.
Now Sam feels it his duty to let some of the younger generation draw from his years of wisdom. He feels they should be warned of the malfunctioning of the All Student Council, the pepless primping of the multitude of cheerleaders, the fumbling efforts of our exalted faculty, and the babbling incoherency of the fraternities and sororities.
We feel it is the duty of the University Daily Kansan to acquaint our readers with this noble lad. With staunch courage he has withstood the blasts of all concerned. Most of the time his efforts have been of no avail but he did succeed in driving former ASC president George Sheldon to cover on one occasion.
However, Sam has had a change of heart. He is suffering from senior-itis, or a "short timer's attitude."
SAM L. JONES
He is going to retire and rest on his laurels. "I am going to retire and concentrate on getting out of this University," Sam said Wednesday in his last public utterance.
Goodbye Sam, we'll miss you. It will probably be some time before the University Daily Kansan's editorial page gets as much readership as during your tenure as editorial editor.
Old wooden steps rising 25 feet to the top of a bluff have vanished on the south slope of the Hill and a pleasant landscape now complements a modern Malott Hall.
Gene Blitch, landscape foreman,
said the bluff between Malott and Haworth Halls rose 25 feet in a basal distance of 30 feet. Landscape contractors have graded dirt to form a less severe slope which has been sodded and planted.
"The old slope grew nothing but weeds and natural grasses and the trees didn't amount to much." Mr. Blich said "Planting of shrubs and trees is about 95 per cent complete. The University has spent about $6,000. The planting will be completed this fall."
Five varieties of crab apple trees, sumac, honey locust, hawthorne, redbud trees, russian olive, pines, oak and silver linden have been planted. Mr. Blitch said another planting, Siberian dogwood, has a brown twig in the growing season that turns scarlet in the winter.
"It will take three years for the trees and shrubs to become established before they can stand up under the elements," Mr. Blitch said. Dry weather is the biggest danger to dry. Sod can't be watered in the summer because crab grass would snuff out the blue grass.
A 15-year-old pine tree, measuring 6 inches in diameter at the base, had the top snapped out recently by a car south of Malott Hall. "The tree had grown about three years in the present location and was worth $250." Mr. Blitch said.
Sprinkling is done with sections of 2-inch aluminum pipe, 20 to 30 feet long. The sections can be turned about 20 degrees and fittings enable the sections to be turned up to 90 degrees.
"Autos being parked and students forgings paths over the sod is disastrous to the grass," he said. "The weight compacts the soil until the roots are damaged and the grass dies."
"The tragedy is that there was ample parking space along 16th street. We have a nice campus here, but defacing and destruction of landscape plantings isn't helping the appearance."
(Related story on Page 8)
Education Dean Recovers
Dean Kenneth Anderson of the School of Education is expected to return to his office Monday. He has been ill since April 21.
Scholarship List To Be Compiled
University dormitories, social fraternities and sororites, and professional and honorary organizations have been requested to turn in the names of members to the registrar's office in order that the annual University scholarship list may be compiled.
The list is also requested so that the names of professional and honorary groups to which students belong may be placed on their permanent record cards.
The official scholarship report is compiled each spring by the registrar's office. The fraternity and sorority lists that are released after the first semester are unofficial Inter-fraternity Council and Panhellenic Council reports.
Two Get Fulbrights To Study In Germany
Jack Guyant of Kansas City, Mo., and Paul Enner of Ferry, seniors, will study at German universities next year under Fulbright scholarships.
Guyant will study psychology at the University of Hamburg, and Enos will continue his study of geology at Eberhard Karls University, Tuebingen. Guyant and Enos bring to six the number of University seniors who have received Fulbright awards for study abroad.
Want Degree Early? Be A Top Student
If you're a superior student and aren't worried by heavy class loads, you can zip along faster toward that degree.
The University Senate has said in effect that you can take as many courses each semester as you can convince the faculty you can handle. The Senate is the all-University governing body composed of senior faculty and deans.
The Senate regulation on maximum enrollment, adopted this week, limits undergraduate courses loads to 15 per cent of the total number of credit hours required for graduation. However, the faculties of the various schools may exempt superior students from the requirement.
The 15 per cent rule, which had prevailed for many years, set the maximum loads in most schools of the University at 18 or 19 credit hours a semester, and up to 21 or 22 in certain engineering curricula.
In revising the rule to exempt superior students, the Senate decisively rejected a proposal to set any numerical upper limit.
Probe By Congress Of AAU Rumored
The sources reported that the request for the inquiry will be brought by Sen. Frank Carlson, (R-Kan). They will grow out of the AAU's suspension of the entire William & Mary track team for two members of that team competing against Santee.
Reliable sources connected with the fight between Wes Santee and the Amateur Athletic Union say that a congressional probe into the activities of the AAU may result soon, possibly within the next three weeks.
Weather
Partly cloudy southeast, mostly cloudy west and north this afternoon with occasional rain northwest and extreme north portions by evening and in east and north portions tonight. Turning cooler west and extreme north. Much cooler northwest this afternoon. Cooler over state tonight. Friday partly cloudy and cooler east and extreme south portions. Low tonight 30s northwest to 40 southeast. High Friday in the 50s.
2nd B-47 Crash Near Lincoln In Month Kills 4 Airmen
LINCOLN, Neb. (UP)—A B-47 Stratojet bomber crashed about three miles northwest of the Lincoln air force base Wednesday night, killing the crew of four.
Only a month ago another B-47 crashed at Cereso, Neb., about 12 miles north of Lincoln, also taking four lives. Air Force authorities immediately clamped tight security measures around the crash scene.
The victims were identified as Capt. Marion J. Perdue, San Antonio, Tex.; Capt. Charles H. Stozesifer, Marticopa, Calif.; Staff Sgt. William F. Rockholt, Fellows, Calif.
Malott To Speak At Topeka
Dr. Deane W. Malott, former chancellor of the University and now president of Cornell University, will address the 69th annual convention of the Kansas Bankers Association Friday, May 11, in Topeka.
Take Up Journalism UP Manager Says
COLUMBIA, Mo. (UF)—An appeal to journalism school graduates to make journalism their career was made by William C. Payette, assistant general news manager for United Press, at a journalism week session Wednesday night at the University of Missouri.
Mr. Payette said there is growing competition for the journalism graduate in a "short labor market." Many are being proselyted, he said, by "highly organized non-journalistic enterprises."