Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
Thursday, March 15, 1956.
53rd Year, No.109
Hall Tells Two State GOP Officers To Quit
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
EMPORIA (UP)—A rip-roaring Republican battle has broken out in Kansas with a sharp split between Gov. Fred Hall and two Kansas party officials. ♀___
Gov. Fred Hall demanded the resignation of Kansas Republican Chairman Lloyd Ruppenthal and Executive Secretary Wilbur Leonard. He said they had gone over to his political enemies in the governor's National Convention delegate fight.
Reject Demand
Mr. Ruppenthal and Mr. Leonard rejected the Governor's demand.
There is no means by which the Governor can force the resignations. They were men Governor Hall had picked for their jobs and had been his chief lieutenants two years ago in his successful campaign.
Governor Angry
The Governor acted immediately after an explosive district Republican convention in which he suffered a setback in his campaign to control Kansas' 22-member delegation.
This incited the Governor. He said Mr. Leonard is being paid $9,000 a year "To work for Republican county chairman, not oppose them."
The major surprise was Mr. Leonard's sudden candidacy for a delegate place. With Mr. Ruppenthal's blessing and voting support, he beat a staunch Governor Hall man, Marion County Chairman Leslie Powell.
Governor Hall said resignations of Mr. Ruppenthal and Mr. Leonardo would be in "the best interests of the Republican Party."
In Topeka Governor Hall was called "a poor loser" today by the campaign manager of his Republican opponent for governor.
James V. Pratt, directing the campaign of Warren W. Shaw, challenged the Governor's authority to call for resignations of Mr. Ruppenthal and Mr. Leonard.
Mr. Pratt said Mr. Shaw was staying clear of the delegate selections
"Our only interest in the district conventions," he said, "is the election of a delegation for President Eisenhower."
Weather Defeats Lawyers, Engineers
Due to the change in weather, the proposed tug-of-war between the lawyers and the engineers has been postponed indefinitely.
The lawyers accepted the challenge by the engineers last week, saying, "that they do not usually engage in this type of "Mickey Mouse."
Greeks,Where Do You Stand?
You Greeks probably know how the membership of your chapter ranks with other KU chapters, but do you know how you stand nationally?
For example, among KU social fraternities, Sigma Alpha Epsilon has the most members in the nation—81,000. Second is Sigma Chi with 70,000. Phi Delta Theta is third with 65,000, Sigma Nu next with 62,000, and Lambda Chi Alpha fifth with 61,000.
Delta Upsilon is the oldest fraternity, nationally, among KU fraternities. It was founded in 1834. Beta Theta Pi was founded in 1839. Phi Delta Theta and Phi Gamma Delta in 1848, Phi Kappa Sigma in 1850, and Phi Kappa Psi in 1852.
Of the KU sororities, Pi Beta Phi is first with 61,116, Chi Omega second with 57,000, Delta Delta Delta third with 56,000, Kappa Kappa Gamma fourth with 50,000, and Kappa Alpha Theta fifth with 47,139.
Weather
KANSAS—Snow this afternoon ending west and central portions by evening and east tonight. Clearing west tonight. Colder most of state tonight. Friday mostly fair and warmer. Low tonight, 15 northwest to 20-25 southeast.
—(Daily Kansan photo)
EGAD! A BOMB—Lawrence detective Richard Stanwix and KU policeman Edwin Femstemaker look at a parathion gas bomb stolen by some Lawrence junior high school students. The gas, a deadly poison, is used by the botany department to kill insects and fungi in the greenhouse. The Lawrence and KU police are continuing investigation of several other thefts that have occurred on the campus within past months.
Widen Scope Of KU Photo Short Course
An expanded program faces participants in the fifth annual KU Photo-journalism Short Course to be held April 12-14 with provision made for possible organization of a Kansas press photographers association.
Jimmy B. Bedford, photo-journalism instructor and chairman of the Short Course planning committee, said the organization meeting will be held the first night.
Feature Speakers Listed
Feature Speakers Listed
Speakers and workshop personnel being featured are George Yates, chief photographer for the Des Moines Register, one of the photographers on the scene for the first Kansas Relays in 1923, and Earl Sebert of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. in 1955 named Photographer of the Year by Encyclopaedia Britannica and the National Press Photographers Association.
Other participants are Paul Threlfall, director of film production; KAKE-TV, Wichita; Harold Lyle, chief photographer, Topeka Daily Capital; Don Richards, editor of the Kansas Industrial Development Commission's publication, "To the Stars," Richard Clarkson, photographer, Lawrence Journal-World, and Dean Burton W. Marvin of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information.
Tour Scheduled
The program includes also:
The expanded darkroom workshop. The publication of a "Short Course newspaper" in the University Press' offset plant, using pictures assigned, shot, developed, printed and edited by Short Course students.
A tour of the Reuter pipe organ factory in Lawrence, with three experts showing how they would shoot a picture story of the factory operation.
A session on television news film shooting and editing, in addition to sessions on newspaper and magazine picture editing and a panel on critique.
Awards will be given for the best pictures taken during the first two days.
Guidance Staff ToAttendMeeting
The Guidance Bureau staff will attend a Kansas Guidance Association meeting Saturday in Hutchinson.
Richard Rundquist, assistant professor of education, is president of the Kansas association, a branch of the National Vocational Guidance Association.
Saturday morning's session will be on guidance in Kansas. Dr. Arthur Hitchcock, executive secretary of the American Personnel and Guidance Association, will speak. Adel Throckmorton, state superintendent of public instruction, will discuss the future of the guidance movement in Kansas.
Professor Appointed To Testing Society
T. F. McMahon, assistant professor of civil engineering has been appointed by the American Society for Testing Materials to its Committee D-18 on soils for engineering purposes.
Committee D-18 has a selected membership of engineers from the teaching, research, construction and consulting branches of the profession. The committee is responsible for development of standard specifications and tests for engineering soils and with keeping them up to date.
Phog Allen Wants 'One More Year'
Rv BOR LYLE
(Assistant Sports Editor Of The Daily Kansan)
and
RON PHILLIPS
Dr. Forrest C. (Phog) Allen's announcement Wednesday that he wants to remain as basketball coach at the University of Kansas for another year touched off wide and diversified comment, but it seems to boil down to whether or not the Board of Regents will change its mandatory retirement age of 70 for University faculty and employees.
FORREST C. ALLEN
Fire Destroys Institution
FULTON, Mo. (UP)—Several hundred mental patients fled to safety as fire virtually destroyed most of the 103-year-old administration building at the Fulton State Hospital for the Insane early today.
In near-freezing weather, the patients left the building quietly and without panic. There were no death or injuries.
At 5 a.m., the Fulton Fire department reported the blaze, which broke out shortly before midnight, was "well under control but there still is quite a lot of fire." It appeared other hospital buildings were safe.
Fire fighting units from Jefferson City, Columbia and M-xico, Mo., and students of Westminster College aided the Fulton department in fighting the flames and still were at the scene more than five hours after the fire was discovered.
"This is the West?" is the theme of the Tau Sigma modern dance sorority recital to be held April 12 and 13 in Bailey Auditorium.
Tau Sigma Plans Recital
Among the numbers to be presented are "On the Trail," "Fale Moon." "Buttons and Bows" and "16 Tons." A bar room scene with a fight also will be given.
Those participating in the program are Shirley Hughes, group adviser; Ann Laptad, Lawrence, Donna Spotts, Ashland, seniors; Alaine Casebier, Oskaloosa, Mary Glanville, Kansas City, Kan., juniors; Mary Clark, Kansas City, Mo., Arlene Cushing, New York, N.Y. freshmen, Ruch Taggart, Topeka sophomore; Beverly Warner, Kansas City,Mo., Charlene May, Climax, Colo., Barbara Banish, Wichita, juniors; Christine Kennedy, White City, special student; and Shirley Bowman, Wichita sophomore.
In a dramaticie press conference at the field house Wednesday afternoon, Dr. Allen handed out copies of his request for one more year. He refused to elaborate on the typed statement, which read in part:
"I am enjoying splendid health, and if it should be the will of the people through the duly constituted authorities of the University of Kansas. . it would be the thrill of my life to end a long coaching career with a truly great team."
Dr. Allen cited this year's fifth place finish, the ineligibility of Dallas Dobbs and a great freshman team led by Wilt Chamberlain and Ron Loneski as the basis for his request.
Chancellor Murphy's Statement
"Sometime this month the University athletic board will meet and make recommendations regarding the employment of a coaching staff for next year." Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said.
"I will then forward those recommendations to the Board of Relegents for it to adopt or modify. This is the technique which always has been followed in the employment of a coaching staff for any sport, and it will not be changed next year."
"In my judgment for the Board of Regents to rehire Dr. Allen they would have to rewrite their Murphy said.
Ray Evans Comments
entire retirement policy." Dr. This last statement was made in regard to a question in Dr. Allen's request which said he wished to relinquish his professorship and be retained only as a coach.
Most of the nine members of the Board of Regents offered "no comment" on Allen's request.
Ray Evans, of Fairway, a former KU all-American and now a member of the Board of Regents, said that although the matter of Dr. Allen's retirement has been much discussed in the press, it has never been brought up at a meeting of the regents. Oscar Stauffer, chairman of the board, is on a trip abroad.
George Smith, dean of the University, said Dr. Allen's retirement marked a shift in some other as that of all other staff members of the University.
Other members said the matter would have to be considered in "the light of previous policy."
"The Athletic board may make recommendations to the chancellor and the chancellor may submit them to the Board of Regents. We have no knowledge here that either board will change its long established policy of retirement at 70 years of age. In the past 10 years I am relatively certain the mandatory retirement rule has been universally enforced."
A. C. (Dutch) Lonborg, KU athletic director, said the matter would undoubtedly be considered -at the next regular meeting of the athletic board Thursday, March 29.
Wilt Chamberlain, the 7-foot freshman basketball player who is one of Dr. Allen's principal reasons for the request to stay on for another "good year," said he was in favor of Allen staying.
"I sincerely hope that Dr. Allen gets his wish. He has done a lot to improve my playing." Chamberlain said.