Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
Tuesday, April 17, 1956.
53rd Year, No.126
George Shearing Group To Appear April 29
The George Shearing Quintet will present a two-hour concert at 8 p.m. Sunday, April 29 in Hoch Auditorium.
George Shearing was born totally blind in London, England, the son of a coal miner. He did not come to the United States until during World War II, but his piano and combo arrangements, which have become famous for their gentle dissonances, caught on rapidly with American audiences.
The original Shearing Quintet recorded for MGM and their few records were contagious to the extent that Americans everywhere acquired a taste for the "new sound." The quintet is now recording for Capitol. Their latest album is called "The Shearing Spell."
Six In Group
Members of the Shearing Quintet actually number six, including Mr. Shearing. The two drummers alternate; Willie Bobo plays jazz drums and Armando Peraza plays bongs and Latin American rhythm. Johnny Rae plays the vibraharp; Jean (Toots) Thielmans, guitar and harmonica; Al McKibbon, bass viol, and Mr. Shearing, piano.
Mr. Shearing enjoys juggling modified minor seven chords, which give his arrangements of standards and popular songs and ballads their unique flavor. One musician made the remark that "perhaps if Mr. Shearing could see how his chords appear in manuscript, he would never write them that way. They look terrible on paper, but they sound delightful when he plays them!"
On Panel
"Lullaby of Birdland," presently popular on jukeboxes and the radio, was composed by Mr. Shearing.
Mr. Shearing has recently studied classical music and piano at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. His daughter, 15, also studies music seriously.
He is much opposed to racial prejudice. He is one of the few white musicians who has a Negro manager, John Levi formerly played with the original Shearing Quintet, but is now manager for the combo, Plans for a panel on "Racial Prejudice," of which Mr. Shearing is to be a member, are being made by the SUA and YMCA, John Zoellner, Tonganoxie sophomore and general concert manager, said
The quintet will arrive at KU Sunday afternoon.
Tickets are $1 a person and are on sale at the concessions stand in the Student Union.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
The 1956 Kansas Relays parade will be held Saturday morning, featuring floats, queens, bands and military marching units.
Twenty-six floats have been entered in the parade, which is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. The floats are being built around the Relays theme, "On to the Olympics." Trophies will be awarded to the best three floats in the men's and women's divisions.
26 Floats In Parade
Bands from six area schools will also take part in the parade, along with the Army ROTC band, and the Air Force ROTC dell teams.
The Relays queen candidates will be presented to Relays fans in convertibles.
Judging the floats will be Lisi Ryby, Lawrence Chamber of Commerce president; Col. Justice R. Neale, professor of military science and tactics; Capt. Virgil Gordinier, professor of naval science; Donny VanNortwick, secretary of the chamber of commerce, and Wes Whitney, Lawrence insurance man.
Owl Initiation Wednesday
The Owl Society, junior men's honorary group, announces the pledging of twenty men chosen for membership on the basis of their scholarship, leadership ability, and their participation in University activities.
Members elect are: Jerry McNeal, Wayzata, Minn.; Jim Trombold, Wichita; Ralph Varnum, Kansas City, Mo.; John Zoellner, Tonganoxie; Jerry Elliott, Hutchinson; Bob Peterson, Emporia.
These men, who will be juniors next year, were elected before spring vacation and will be initiated into the society Wednesday, April 18, following a 6 p.m. dinner at The Stables, 1401 W. 7th St.
Jerry Buchanan, Wichita; George Blackburn, Joplin, Mo.; Jim Schultz, Salina; Stewart Gunckel, Kansas City, Mo.; Bob Boyer, Wichita; Jack Davis, Ottawa; To m Moore, Topeka; Wally Strauch, Elmhurst, Ill.; John Knightly, Hutchinson; Gene Paris, Kansas City, Mo.; Roger Brown, Topeka; Ray Dean, Kansas City, Mo.; Mike Grove, Larned, and Herb Hilgers, Plainville.
Annual Spring Band Concert 3:30 p.m. Sunday
The University Concert Band, directed by Russell L. Wiley, will present its annual spring concert at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Hoch Auditorium.
The band has 126 members with about one half of them music majors. In addition to playing for athletic events the band gives a winter and spring concert and makes a tour of Kansas towns every year. Prof. Wiley is completing his 22nd year as the band's conductor.
The program Sunday will include "Espana Rhapsody" by Chabrier, "Irish Tune" from "County Derry" by Percy Grainger, "Legend" by Niverd arranged by Masters, "None But the Lonely Heart" by Tschiakowski, Waltzes from "Der Rosen-kavelier" by Strauss, "Three Men Suite" by Coates, "Lincoln Portrait" by Copla, narrated by Dan Gomez, Hutchinson junior, "Variations on a Theme by Hadyn" by Brahms, and "Invocation of Alberich" from "Das Rheingold" by Wagner.
Paul Wallace, instructor of music education, will play a trombone solo in "None But the Lonely Heart." The admission price is 50 cents. Students will be admitted by ID cards.
$175,000 For New Hall Given By Mrs. Pearson
Mrs. Joseph R. Pearson of Corsicana, Tex., has made a gift of $175,000 that will permit the University to move rapidly toward construction of a dormitory for 412 men, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy announced today.
"Equity" gifts were made by the Pearson's to make possible construction of Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall, named for the donor of the current gift, and Grace Pearson Hall.
The hall, to be built on West Campus Road north of Carruth and O'Leary halls, will be named the Joseph R. Pearson Dormitory for Men. Mr. Pearson died last summer.
Joseph P. Wilson, dormitory director, said many features of Carruth and O'Leary halls, opened last fall for 200 men, would be duplicated but on twice the scale. The structure will be concrete frame with buff brick exterior. The Carruth and O'Leary plan for two-man rooms will be repeated.
The Joseph R. Pearson Hall project will cost about $1,525.000.
Added to Mrs. Pearson's $175,000 gift will be portions of the University's share of the new state dormitory and two years, amounting to $700,000.
Dr. Murphy said an application for a loan of up to $650,000 has been approved by the Fort Worth regional office of the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency and the application is now in Washington, D.C., for final consideration.
The new Pearson Hall will have a basement and six floors. The basement will have a central kitchen with a cafeteria type serving line and dining hall in each wing, and laundry facilities. The main floor will have a large central lounge, lobby and student rooms. On each upper floor a recreation room will divide the north and south wings.
ASC, Class Elections Open Wednesday 7:30 To 6
Hall Disagrees With Ike's Veto
All pollworkers are required to attend a conference today in the Student, Tegen, Bulloch
Students are asked not to destroy incorrectly marked ballots, but to return them to pollworkers and ask for another. Ballots will be marked "1," "2," "3" etc. beside candidates' names in order of preference.
By BOB LYLE
If students are no longer in the school shown by their ID cards, a written statement from the registrar is necessary, telling the school in which the student is currently enrolled.
(Assistant Managing Editor of The Daily Kansan)
Polling places will be located in the Student Union lobby, on the first floor of Bailey, Green, Fraser and Marvin Halls, in the rotunda and basement of Strong Hall, on the third floor of Lindley Hall, and on the second floor of Malott Hall.
It's back to the polls Wednesday for the All Student Council and class officer general elections. Polls will open at 7:30 a.m. and remain open until 6 p.m.
Four ballots will be used in the elections: one for ASC president and vice president; one each for the ASC Senate and House and one for sophomore, junior and senior class officers. Graduating seniors will not vote for class officers.
Students must vote for Senate
GOV. FRED HALL
and House candidates only in the district which applies to them. ID cards will be used to determine voters' Senate district.
Veto Puts Demos On Defensive
Gov. Fred Hall said Monday night that President Eisenhower's veto of the controversial farm bill probably won't cost the President many votes if he seeks re-election, but it may hinder chances of electing a Republican congress.
WASHINGTON (UP) Congressional Democrats conceded privately today that they cannot muster enough strength to override President Eisenhower's veto of the farm bill.
They made a show of lining up votes for Wednesday's showdown in the house. But behind the scenes the problem they really were concentrating on was how to regain the offensive in the battle over farm legislation.
There were diverging views among Democrats as to whether their next move should be:
1. To give Mr. Eisenhower exactly what he had asked in the way of new farm legislation—a soil bank program and nothing else.
2. To enact the soil bank, but include provisions raising price supports above the minimum $82_{1/2}$ per cent of parity level at which Mr. Eisenhower set them Monday but keeping them under the 90 per cent level provided in the vetoed Democratic bill.
3. To send the President a slightly modified version of the bill he veeeted, but one which would be basically the same.
In a radio-television speech Monday night aimed chiefly at "farm folks." Mr. Eisenhower said he vetoed the farm bill because it was "a bad bill for the country . . . awkward . . . clumsy."
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He told the nation he was urging Congress to pass a straight soil bank bill "as promptly as possible" because "the farmers of America have a right to demand and expect that." (Related editorial, "American Far-
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Gov. Hall took time cut to comment on his vain effort to convince the President to sign the bill, before speaking to about 200 persons attending a meeting of the Lawrence Lions club Monday night in the Ballroom of the Student Union, Earlier in the day Mr. Hall and two other farm state governors were in Washington and talked with the President nearly an hour urging him to support the bill.
"I was disappointed in the president's veto but I was encouraged by his promise to do everything possible under existing laws and his request of Congress for new legislation," he said.
Veto Obvious
"Frankly, one of the reasons I thought the President should' sign this bill was my fear that Congress would not be able to pass another bill in time to give relief to the farmers this year. We spent about 50 minutes with the President—he heard all the governors through. Although he didn't tell us he planned to veto the bill, it was obvious from the arguments he gave against it he would veto it."
The governor said he didn't think the veto would hurt Mr. Elsehhower's own personal political chances because of his "tremendous personal popularity throughout the country." He indicated, however, that several of Kansas' neighboring farm states may have trouble returning Republicans to Congress.
"I have no fear about the situation in Kansas, though," Mr. Hall said, "because of the Republican dominance of the state."
Although he was in favor of several of the alternative measures including the soil bank plan proposed by President Eisenhower, he said he was not hopeful that anything can be done to help the farmers soon.
Cites Kansas Problems
Gov. Hall was accompanied Monday by his wife. He arrived in Lawrence late Monday afternoon from Washington.
Cities Kansas Problem
In his talk to the Lions Club Mr. Hall city a new law the problems of Kansas in general, this administration in particular. He said better highways, a more effective prison system and old age assistance are services of state government which, while adequate, need much improvement. He praised the work of the Kansas Water Resources Authority Board in working out the water problem in the state.
Mr. Hall described mental health as a problem that has been improved in Kansas from "a bad last in the nation to second to none" in 10 years.
Speaking of the controversial "right-to-work bill" the governor repeated previous statements that he felt the bill unnecessary and only a means of prohibiting fruitful labor-management relations. He described the present Kansas labor relations as "adequate."
"Today we have a good law. The right-to-work bill is not needed," he said.
Among those attending at Gov. Hall's speech was George Docking, Lawrence banker, who was defeated by Gov. Hall in 1954. Mr. Docking is the only Democrat who has entered this year's gubernatorial primary.
Correction
A outline under a Page 1 picture in about half of Monday's University Daily Kansans incorrectly identified Mrs. Joseph R. Pearson as Mrs. John R. Pearson.