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LAWRENCE. KANSAS
53rd Year, No.134
Friday, April 27, 1956.
Retiring Profs Represent 302 Years At KU
A total of 302 years of service to the University will be honored at a faculty dinner for eight re-iring faculty members at 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, May 2, in the Student Union Ballroom.
—(Daily Kansan photo)
Each retiring professor will be presented a certificate of service by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
Those being honored are Forrest C. Allen, professor of physical education and basketball coach; Miss Nellie Barnes, assistant professor of English; Herbert B. Hungerford, professor of entomology; Joseph M. Kellogg, professor of architecture; F. P. O'Brien, professor of education; J. M. Osma, professor of Romance languages; Guy W. Smith, professor of mathematics, and Harry Wahl, professor of pathology and bacteriology.
Prof. Hungerford has been on the faculty 45 years, the longest of the eight.
Reinhold Schmidt, professor of voice, will sing several numbers. After the dinner a general reception will be held in the ballroom.
This is the second annual dinner. It was begun by Chancellor Murphy as a fitting way to pay tribute to retiring faculty members.
Faculty members who plan to attend are reminded that reservations must be made in the Student Union by Tuesday, May 1.
Need More Funds? Try Chemistry
If you are interested in earning money while working for an initial degree or while working for higher degrees, chemistry is the field to enter, particularly here at the University.
The chemistry department has an almost unlimited supply of fellowships and scholarships. These awards range in value from a few hundred dollars to thousands of dollars. Opportunity for summer teaching positions offers more financial support for chemistry students.
Not only has the department monetary awards, but also honorary awards, including the award to one senior by Alpha Chi Sigma for outstanding "scholarship, personality, and integrity."
A fellowship of $1,500 is offered by the Monsanto Research Company and by the American Organic Chemical Association. The Dial Chemical Company offers a teaching fellowship and the Du Pont Company, offers a teaching fellowship for $2,400 plus fees.
U. S. Road Program Passage Expected
WASHINGTON (UP)—The biggest highway construction program in history cleared a major hurdle in the House today. Final passage was expected by nightfall on the 51 1/2 billion-dollar road construction program.
The highway bill will raise federal taxes on gasoline, tires and trucks to help finance the construction program which includes a 27 1/2 billion dollars interstate highway network.
In other congressional developments, Gen. Curtis E. Lemay told a special Senate Armed Services subcommittee his Strategic Air Command is suffering from a shortage of skilled manpower. He said that unless the situation is changed "we are not going to be able to man the aircraft we have."
I'M JUST A DOG-FACE SOLDIER—Members of the Army Reserve Officer's Training Corps here snap to attention in Thursday's review on the intramural fields. Col. Harry W. Gorman of Michigan State University and Col. Stafford N. Ordahl of Southwest Missouri State Teachers College were the inspecting officers. Both are professors of military science and tactics.
Rocky Marciano To Quit Ring
BROCKTON, Mass. (UP)—The wife of world heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano said today he will announce his retirement from the ring this afternoon.
"Rocky called me this morning and told me it was in the works—that he was going to meet with newspapers his afternoon and tell them he plans to retire," Mrs. Marciano said.
Marciano will be 32 on Sept. 1.
He broke into the professional
anks July 12, 1948, with a one-
ound knockout victory. He fought
nine times in 1948 winning by
bockouts each time. He never
has been defeated in the ring.
Bus Segregation End Demanded
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (UF)—Negroes waged a 20-week-old, city-wide bus boycott today with a new demand for outright abolition of segregation.
This represented a big change in their original demand at the start of the boycott for merely improved seating under existing segregation laws so Negroes would not have to stand while seats are still vacant.
While city officials threatened a court test of the bus line's attempt to integrate its buses, the Negroes mostly stuck to their car pools or walked.
The explosion tore a big hole in the yard and damaged three front windows of the home of a 26-year-old Negro mail carrier who had lived with white neighbors without previous trouble for three years, police said. The occupants were uninjured.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UP)—A dynamite blast slightly damaged a Negro dwelling between two white homes Thursday night and shook the entire neighborhood.
Dynamite Damages Home Of Negro
Forest Fire In New Mexico
ALAMOGORDO, N. M. (UP)—A raging fire had swept over more than 4,400 acres in the Lincoln National Forest today and was still burning uncontrollably and threatened to become one of the worst blazes in New Mexico history.
Weather
Partly cloudy south, mostly cloudy north this afternoon, tonight and Saturday. Colder west this afternoon, over state tonight and east portion Saturday. Considerably colder northeast tonight. Low tonight 30s north to 40s south. High Saturday 50s north to 60s south.
Theis Hits Kansas GOP
PHILLIPSBURG, Kan. (UP)—Democratic state chairman Frank Theis state night called on Kansans "to take the blinkers off" and clean up what he termed "the Republican mess in Topeka" through the Democratic party.
Theis, Arkansas City attorney, addressed a Democratic meeting for the 40th state senatorial district.
"At times, when the political going is tough." Thesis said, "the GOP has been known to apply the lash to the backs of Kansans by whipping them into line with its formerly faithful one party press and its hordes of state employees spreading propaganda."
He said that both old guard and new guard Republicans cultivate the concept of Kansas citizens being a faithful old team of horses whom the GOP drives down the roads the political leaders choose.
He went on to contend that now the "mess in Topeka" has become so evident to the most naive Kansas political observer, "these Republican politicians have had to put the blinkers on the faithful old team—our Kansas citizens—to drive down the road a few more miles."
Coaches Afraid Allen Charges
Forrest C. (Phog) Allen said today he didn't know what "AAU" really stood for, but suggested it might mean "asininities amplified, unfathomable."
The retiring university basketball coach charged today's track coaches are as afraid of criticism and reprisals—from the national AAU and meet promoters—as were basketball coaches 15 years ago when he was attacking "easterners" for fixing games in Madison Square Garden in New York.
What is needed, Mr. Allen said, is for track coaches to speak out "and break this matter of excessive expenses into the open."
Mr. Allen has been savagely critical of the AAU for banning former KU miler Wes Santee.
"But I appear to be standing alone," he said.
Mr. Allen said when he charged basketball games were being fixed in the East in 1942, "they really started beating me over the head." Coaches who should have joined him, he added, were afraid to open their mouths.
He said the AAU's contention it is acting to preserve "true amateurism" is ridiculous, since the AAU "sponsors the very promoters who are supposed to have paid the 'excess' expense money."
Nixon Seen As Campaigner
Mr. Allen commended former Stanford athlete John Fulton, who has said AAU secretary Dan Ferris approved an excessive expense account for him. Mr. Ferris denied it.
High School Seniors Get Scholarships
The W. B. Ham scholarships at the University for students graduating from Rooks County high schools, has been awarded to Helen L. Hull of Woodston, Gordon C. McKinnis of Stockton, and Gary L. Rempe of Plainville.
The scholarships are given in memory of the late Judge W. B. Ham of Stockton. His heirs gave land located near Stockton to the KU Endowment Association, which maintains the awards from the income.
WASHINGTON (UP)—Republicans today visualized Vice President Richard M. Nixon as their chief barnstorming campaigner this fall.
They assigned Mr. Nixon that role as soon as he announced yesterday that he again wanted the No. 2 spot on the Republican ticket.
Democrats saw Mr. Nixon in the same role. They immediately began flairing him for campaign tactics which they felt were unfair in the past and would be in the future.
Republicans said Mr. Nixon was a "natural" for the strenuous, barn-storming type of campaigning which President Eisenhower has said he would not engage in this fall.
Humanities Talk Covers Effects Of Enlightenment
The effects of the German enlightenment on art, science and religion were discussed Thursday night by Dr. John H. Randall, Jr., Columbia University professor of philosophy, in the last of the year's humanities lectures.
"When the German enlightenment finally arrived" Dr Randall H. Larson
Until the 17th century, Germany had lagged behind France and England in development of philosophical thought, Dr. Randall said in his talk on "The German Enlightenment: Seedbed of the Romantic Appeal to Experience."
sau, it really shook men's souls."
The Newtonian science concept swept through Germany in the 17th century much as it had in England and France. Dr. Randall continued. However, because Germany was predominantly agricultural, science did not come as a crusade but merely as an escape the Germans were seeking from the grasp of pastoral influence, he said.
Dr. Randall explained most Germans wanted their religious ideals revised, and science gave them the opportunity they wanted—a religion of nature and reason.
The final outcome of the German enlightenment was the reconciliation of romantic thought and of pure reason, embodied in the figure of Spinoza, Dr. Randall said.
A necessity of getting beyond pure rationalism was felt, he said. Christianity came to be "only one more step in the development of a greater religion."
He said art and science took their respective places in German thought. Physics was expanded not only through experience alone, as Newton advocated, but in the mind as well, through reason.
Writing For Kids Called Good Field
"Juvenile literature is an enormous field for a writer," said Donald Wilcox, free lance juvenile fiction writer, at a meeting of Theta Sigma Phi, national honorary professional fraternity for women in journalism.
"The juvenile book field is solu- creative that some publishing companies carry slow-selling adult litera- ture on the profits of children's books" Mr. Wilcox said.
He said that one company has sold about 500 million children's books and records in its 14-year history, Commenting on the effect of television on children's books, Mr. Wilcox said that it has made children request romantic books at an earlier age.
Alger Hiss Speaks At Princeton U
PRINCETON, N.J. (UP)—Convicted perjurer Alger Hiss addressed a group of Princeton University students on foreign policy last night in an atmosphere of classroom calm.
It was his first public appearance since he was released from a federal prison in November, 1954, after serving three years and eight months of a five year term for perjury.
Mr. Hirz spoke to an audience of 250 students and 45 reporters without text or notes. The speech which lasted less than a half hour was mainly about last year's "Big Four" Geneva Conference.