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Dust Storm Causes Millions In Crop Damage
EL PASO, Tex. (UP)—A dust storm that had blackened the sky over six southwestern states and done millions of dollars of damage to wheat reached the Gulf of Mexico today.
It was the worst duster of the year. State and federal officials estimated that 50 per cent of Colorado's 3.4 million acres of winter wheat were "lost" in the storm. They said another 25 per cent was badly damaged.
By 11 a.m. wind gusts had reached velocities of 55 miles per hour at Salina. Goodland had blowing dust which reduced visibility to five miles and Hill City reported blowing dust with two miles visibility. Dust also was reported at Russell, Hutchinson, and Salina in central Kansas.
The damage thus ran into millions of dollars and the county agent of Kit Carson, Colo., said new winds today was kicking dust into the air and "dust ground blizzards" had cut visibility to near zero along the Colorado-Kansas border.
Dust was stacked up in fence rows "a couple of feet deep" in some sections of Colorado. But generally over and, the dust was clearing out.
Reports from pilots indicated dust two miles high from the area of Franklin, Neb., to 15 miles southwest of Hill City, Other states appeared to have escaped with lesser losses.
Dusters which churned up tons of topsoil across six southwestern states appeared to be dying. But the same storm center plowed into the midwest with heavy snow, thunderstorms, and roof-ripping winds.
Wednesday, March 28, 1956.
Daily Worker Still Publishing
NEW YORK—The Communist Daily Worker published its regular daily edition in makeshift offices today with assurance of Treasury officials that yesterday's tax raidals were not designed to interfere with publication of the newspaper.
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Internal revenue agents raided and seized the property of the Communist publication in Chicago and for non-payment of income taxes.
At the same time Treasury agents raided and locked offices of the Communist Party in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia and New York for refusing to file a claim for tax exemption and failure to cooperate with tax investigators.
The Daily Worker staff left its offices on the eighth floor of a New York building when agents sealed the door with warning stickers saying the property had been seized for non-payment of internal revenue taxes.
Wichita-Based B-47 Crashes, Kills Three
WICHITA (UP)—A B-47 stratJet from McConnell Air Force Base exploded in the air and crashed today four miles northeast of Wichita. The bodies of all three men aboard, an instructor and two students, were recovered.
Officers at McConnell withheld the names of the dead pending notification of kin. They reported the plane crashed on take-off.
Library Hours For Vacation
Reserve books in the education room and undergraduate library of Watson Library may be checked out for the entire vacation period beginning at 1 p.m. Friday.
The books will be due Monday, April 9. The library will retain one copy of each book on reserve for students who will remain on campus during the vacation period.
Library hours for the spring vacation; 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday; closed Sunday; 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, April 2 through Friday, April 6; 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 7; closed Sunday, April 8.
YW-YMCA Elects Officers
Katherine Westgate, Lawrence sophomore, was elected president of the YWCA and Michale Mills, McPherson sophomore, president of the YMCA, Tuesday in the Student Union.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Other YWCA officers elected were: Marilyn Sue Reeder, Topeka sophomore, vice president; Mary Jo Rouse, Wichita junior, secretary; Joe Yeo, Manhattan sophomore, treasurer; Elizabeth Havens, Poplin, Mo., sophomore, program chairman.
Other YMCA officers: Robert Downey, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, vice president; William Brigden, Topeka sophomore, secretary; Robert Berkebile, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, treasurer, and Ronald Groening, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, program chairman.
At a joint business meeting the YM and YW took a straw vote to consider a merging of the advisory boards into one unit called the Campus Y.
2 Foreign Students To Go On Y Trip
Miguel Cardenas, Chihuahua Mexico, graduate student, and Ayda Lopez, Colombia, South America, special student, will take the YM-YWCA sponsored trip to Washington, D.C., and New York City.
They will attend luncheons and dinners in Washington at which Vice President Richard M. Nixon Sen. Frank Carlson (R-Kan)、Sen. Richard Neuberger (D-Ore)、and E. Raymond Wilson, executive secretary of the American Friends Legislative service, will speak. They will also attend a United Nations seminar, will interview U.N. delegates, and will visit the General Assembly and the U.N. committees.
Kind Lady' Called Dull, Lacking In Suspense
A picnic for all sorority pledge classes will be sponsored by the Junior Panhellenic Council Thursday, April 19 at Potter Lake. Sally Rice, Abilene sophomore, is in charge of all committees for the picnic.
Pledge Picnic April 19
Chaperones—Shirley Ward, Salina sophomore, and Joan Miller, Girard junior.
TENSE MOMENT—Ruth Dodrill has a word or two to say to Joyce Elliott in "Kind Lady."
By JERRY THOMAS
(of The Daily Kansan staff)
Finance—Dona Seacat, Emporia, and Mary Lou Leavitt, Prairie Village, sophomores.
Refreshments—Barbara Parker, St. Joseph, Mo., and Betty Lou Douglas, Kansas City, Kan., sophomores, and Lee Manney, Arkansas city junior.
Publicity-Annette Degen, Kansas City, Mo., junior, and Virginia Gilliland. Linwood sophomore.
Play committee—Margo Jenkins,
Kansas City, Mio., and Janetha
Schmalried, Dighton, sophomores.
Entertainment—Diane Guyot, Arkansas City, and Roxie Brown, Ellis,
sophomores.
A play that relies entirely on suspense for effectiveness, "Kind Lady" lacks any trace of that quality most of the time. Only three times does one feel that Mary Herries, a wealthy spinster trapped in her own home, played by Joyce Elliott, Independence, Mo., freshman, has any problems at all.
Unaided and probably far from inspired by a half-empty house, only Miss Elliott, Ruth Dodrill, Westchester, Fa, graduate student, as Lucy Weston, Harper Barnes, Kansas City Kan., freshman, as Peter Santard, George Edwards, Kansas City Kan., junior, as Mr. Edwards, Judith Stone, Cedar Vale freshman, as Aggie Edwards, and Elizabeth Binford, Overland Park freshman, as Ada, rise above mediocrity.
The committees:
Studio Theatre gave a sometimes dull, sometimes adequate interpretation of Edward Chodorov's melodrama, "Kind Lady," Tuesday night in Fraser Theater. The play also will be given today and Thursday.
Don Bowen, Salina freshman as Mr. Foster, Sally Six, Lawrence graduate student, as Rose, Vera Stough, Lawrence sophomore, as Phyllis Glennning, William Teichgraeber, Emporia sophomore, as Henry Abbott, Warren Wandling, Milwaukee, Wis. freshman, as the John Koch-Wichita High School junior, as Mrs. Edwards, and Jerry Bailey, Humboldt freshman, as Gustav Rosenberg, were adequate, but far from convincing.
Far From Convincing
Miss Elliott did very well in her
Clean-up—Ann Johnson, Topeka and Marilyn Krueger, Natoma, sophomores.
6 To Attend Photo Fraternity Meeting
Four journalism students, a faculty member, and the University photographer will attend the 11th annual Kappa Alpha Mu convention Thursday through Saturday at the University of Oklahoma, Norman.
They are Nancy L. Collins, Richmond, Harry Elliott, Lawrence, seniors; John P. Stephens, Stafford Thomas C. Siegfried, Independence, Mo., juniors; Jimmy Bedford, instructor in journalism, and Harry Wright, director of the University photo bureau.
characterization of an old lady Her movements, pauses, and deliberations gave the impression of an old woman growing much older through mistreatment and poor health.
Edwards and Miss Elliott put over the best feeling of suspense for the evening when Miss Elliott first learns that she is a prisoner in her own home.
Miss Binford and Miss Stone did well in their brief character parts.
Good Accents Needed
Good Accents Needed Convincing accents would have added much to the play. The setting was English, but the accents were a poor combination of English and American.
For a woman of wealth and apparently excellent taste in other things, spinster Mary Harries' home is exceedingly poor. The sets add nothing to the integral part of the play.
Photo Course 'Tailor-Made'
A "tailor-made" short course for press photographers and editors in Kansas and surrounding states will be offered at the University from Thursday, April 12 through Saturday. April 14.
George Yates, chief photographer for the Des Moines Register-Tribune, and Earl Seubert, 1955 "Encyclopaedia Britannica" Newspaper Photographer of the Year and photographer for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, will head the 14-man staff for the course.
Speakers at the conference will be Fred Wulfekuhier, picture editor for the Hutchinson News-Herald; Harold Lyle, chief photographer for the Topeka Daily Capital, and Paul Threlfall, former president of the National Press Photographers Association and now director of film production at KAKE-TV, Wichita.
Weather
Partly cloudy northeast, mostly fair elsewhere today. Colder with diminishing winds. Mostly fair tonight and Thursday. Colder east tonight. Warmer over the state Thursday. High today 45-50. Low near tonight 30 north to 30s south.
ASC Defeats UVO Honor Plan By Big Vote
A proposal for a University Veterans Organization honor system study committee was soundly defeated by the All Student Council Tuesday night. Fred Krey, Stafford third-year law student, and Bachman Sellers, Washington, D.C., graduate student, submitted the proposal.
The ASC also defeated a bill to provide a three-month foreign tour for a University undergraduate.
Twenty-four pledges were initiated Tuesday into Phi Delta Phi, professional law fraternity, at the Douglas County Court House.
ASC Nominations Deadline Near
The closing date for filing All Student Council and class officer petitions is midnight Thursday. Petitions must be turned in to Jim Miller, Kansas City, Kan. senior and chairman of the elections committee, at the Delta Tau Delta house, 1111 West 11th St. A $1 filing fee must accompany each petition.
Non-partisan class officer petitions to be signed by 25 members of the class of the candidate, must have the candidate's name, classification, and the office for which he is running. Party candidates must file their petitions with the party president by the deadline.
Law Fraternity Initiates 24
Four news ASC members were sworn in by president George Sheldon, Salina junior, to fill vacant seats in the ASC House and Senate. They are: Richard Armstrong, Prairie Village, and Patrick Little, Wichita, freshmen, Senate, and James Trombold and Joanne Hobbs, Wichita sophomores, House.
The Senate passed a bill for an appropriation to finance the organization of an ASC scholarship committee teacher evaluation program.
Jim Miller, Mission senior and chairman of the ASC elections committee, asked for action on proposed changes to the ASC constitution regarding primary elections procedures. The measure-was passed.
They are Donald L. Burnett, Larned, Ralph E. Pratt, Imgene, Iowa, Robert K. Scovel, Independence, Kan., Frank G. Spurney, Belleville, and John L. Swyers, Independence, Kan., seniors.
Robert S. Anderson, Marysville, Robert E. Atteberry, Salina, Michael E. Chalfant, Hutchinson, James R. Crouch, Lynn Grove, KY, Richard T. Foster, Halstead, and Thomas A. Peschka, Great Bend.
Bernard J. Schulte, Marysville,
Richard C. Simpson, Wichita, John
E. Wilkinson, Cherryvale, Austin N.
Vryick, Levaenworth, Wilbur W.
Systerman, Robert L. Tannen,
Torl, Iola, and Robert L. Tannen,
Hutchinson, first-ear law students,
Larry J. Austin, Wichita, Lawrence Loftus, Lenexa, Frank C. Sabatini, Lawrence, Clinton R. Carrier, Kansas City, Kan., and Henry K. Wilhelmsen, Lawrence, second-year law students, and Keaton G. Duckworth, Rolla third-year law student.