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University Daily Kansan Thursday, April 26, 1956.
More Activities Parking Advocated
There seemed to be a mixup on campus parking Friday and Saturday, and the result was that a number of Engineering Exposition visitors were given parking tickets for parking in an area in which restrictions were supposed to have been removed earlier.
On April 19, The Daily Kansan carried an article stating that "Parking will be allowed on the south side of Jayhawk Drive from Hoch Auditorium to the Chi Omega fountain starting Friday morning."
Yet, when the visitors parked along this side, they received tickets both days of the exposition. This seems to be a great injustice and shows a lack of coordination between the University and the Lawrence police department.
With the parking situation the problem that it is, we cannot understand why parking was not allowed on Friday and Saturday along the entire
south side of Jayhawk Drive. We realize that this might make traffic move a little slower, but visiting officials to the exposition were allowed no place to park on the campus.
To whom it may concern we would like to offer two suggestions:
Most visitors, we are sure, don't appreciate parking three or four blocks off the campus and then walking up the hill. We are somewhat conditioned to the climb. They are not.
1. We suggest that during activities when a large number of visitors are on the campus proper, they be allowed to park on the south side of Jayhawk Drive and in the near-at-hand parking zones.
2. We'd like to see that the tickets given out for parking on the south side of Jayhawk Drive Friday and Saturday be declared "invalid" by the proper authority.
Larry Stroup
15 Years Ago
Nazis Hit Greece. British Shell Tripoli
Fifteen years ago this week the attention of the world focused on the tiny country of Greece, where the German army was conducting another relentless campaign.
The United States had not yet entered the war, but headlines spoke of Allied losses.
The Nazis marched through Greece in spite of bitter resistance from British and Greek troops. The German attack reached its climax when the Nazis marched into Athens, the capital city. However, the King of Greece had already left the country to establish a temporary government at Crete. And the Germans eyed Turkey as the next possible target, while Hitler made final plans for a treaty with France.
British Retaliation
In retaliation, the British fleet shelled the Nazi stronghold of Tripoli, causing heavy damage to the important port city, but the Germans reported the sinking of five British ships in Mediterranean waters. All were reportedly filled with British evacuees from Greece
The attention of the Western Hemisphere was also focused on the European crisis, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King announced a virtual merger of the economies of the two countries in an effort to step up production of war materials for aid to Great Britain, FDR also asked for 1,000 doctors to volunteer to go to England.
This aid for Great Britain was endorsed by both Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Secretary of Navy Frank Knox.
Labor Is Tense
The labor situation was equally tense, with a threatened strike of soft coal workers averted only after Southern mine operators yielded to the President's plea to increase wages $1 per day. A proposed walk-out of the Automobile Workers of America was forestalled by a proposed plan of mediation, as Mr. Roosevelt called for full production from all industries in an effort to increase aid to Great Britain.
Col. Charles A. Lendbergh resigned from the Air Force, as a result of the President's remarks at a press conference. FDR referred to Col. Lendbergh as a defeatist and an appeaser.
The New York drama critics honored Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine" as the best American play of the year, and gave a similar accolade to Emlyn William's "The Corn Is Green," as the top foreign play of the year.
In athletics, the Dodgers and the Indians had jumped out to early leads in the major league pennant races, with Enos Slaughter, a young and frisky St. Louis Cardinal, holding down third place in the National League batting race. Eddie Arcaro announced his final plans, for riding Whirlaway in the upcoming Kentucky Derby.
At KU, the Relays weekend took the spotlight, with some 5,000 persons attending the first meet since 1932 which lacked an appearance of the great Glenn Cunningham. And plans were already underway for more festivals later in the spring in the form of the University's 75th anniversary celebration. Ben Hibbs, a 1924 graduate made good, was slated to be the featured sneaker.
And More Politics.
... Letters ...
Editor:
I realize that the Kansan is put out by amateur journalists, but it argues a certain real denseness
The headline in the Kansan before me reads "Negro Stoned, 4 Men Held." Glancing casually at the paragraph that followed, I found, to my horror that a man of God had been murdered last Sunday in Huntsville, Ala.
COLD NO'S
Campus politics had their day, with Pachacamac controlling the Student Council elections with a narrow majority over the Progressive Student Government League.
No, that's not such a good idea, lady. A little skidding goes a long way on ice. But it is a good idea to get the feel of the road surface before starting out. Try your brakes lightly while driving slowly and when no other vehicles are near. Test acceleration, too, because "gunning" a car is as dangerous as breaking suddenly.
that you should apparently fail to see the essential truth of the matter. The minister, who was hit by a 10-pound stone and was 79 years old, is dead. He was not merely another Negro stoned in the Christian state of Alabama.
I dare say that you could not justly be accused of sensationalism if you had written an accurate headline and put the story on the front page, where it seems to belong in terms of its moral significance. It seems at least as important as the tale of delinquency in Havana, Cuba.
Kenneth Inniss Graduate student
To the members of Delta Tau Delta, the burning of their Relays float was not a joke. Maybe if the writer had spent all day Thursday and Friday and a good part of those two nights working on the float, he might not have seen it in such a humorous light.
I suggest that before whoever wrote the comment tries to be so humorous again, that he stop and think a little, 'The Delta test bad enough without someone trying to make a joke about it.
Three men were burned trying to put out the fire, one fairly seriously. We certainly do not feel that the comment in the UDK was appropriate.
I believe that whoever wrote the "short ones" in Tuesday's Kansan was definitely out of line in his joke (?) about setting floats afire to get your name in the paper.
Editor:
The house put in a lot of hard work, time, and pride in building a float that would help make the Relays parade a colorful event.
Louis Stroup
Topeka junior
Fortunate KU students enjoyed a school holiday while the entire school embarked on a Dandelion Digging Day which was one of the highlights of the spring semester.
And the students and citizens everywhere flocked to see the latest movie depicting the air age—"I Wanted Wings," featuring Ray Milland, William Holden, Wayne Morris, and Brian Donlevy.
-Dick Walt
Delta Gamma was formally installed as the 10th national social sorority on the campus.
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If the campus police want a chance to try out their new "speed gadget," they should set it up a block from one of the women's organized houses about 10 minutes before closing hours.
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Several of the floats in the Relays parade referred to AAU's Harry Henshel as a "hitch-hiker." We wonder if he will sue the sponsors of the floats for libel.
With the campus enjoying spring weather, it takes a witty professor to keep the students' thoughts from wandering out to Lone Star.
We see that the ASC has a new president. Good, now maybe the council can do something constructive.
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