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Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, Feb. 15, 1956.
16 Speakers Listed For Religious Emphasis Week
53rd Year, No. 88
GOP Hopeful Doctors Say Ike Can Run In '56
WASHINGTON—(U. P.)—Republican hopes soared today to their highest levels since the President's heart attack. The doctors have told Mr. Eisenhower there is no medical reason to bar him from serving another four years in the White House.
The second term decision was still to be made by Mr. Eisenhower, who said he will trust his "own feelings" more than his doctors' reports.
Republicans Cheer Report
Republicans Cheer Report Republican leaders quickly cheered the report as "a green light" and "the best news yet" to encourage their hopes for a second Eisenhower administration.
Dr. Paul Dudley White, the Boston heart specialist, and Maj. Gen. Howard Snyder, White House physician, talked for the group of six doctors at yesterday's news conference.
Holiday Starts Today
"... Fully aware of the hazards and uncertainties that lie ahead," Dr. White said, "We believe that medically the chances are that the President should be able to carry on an active life satisfactorily for another five to 10 years . . . but the (second term) choice is his, not ours . . ."
"We believe that he can serve four or five years or longer in a very active position of great responsibility." Gen. Snyder said.
Mr. Eisenhower has said that he expects to be ready to announce his decision by the end of this month. He can ponder it during his holiday, starting today, on the Thomasville, Ga., estate of Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey.
New Storm Heads For State
Dr. Snyder told the news conference in a formal statement that there were no physical abnormalities in the President's heart except the expected scar in the muscle and that there were no symptoms indicating the muscle was weak.
Mr. Eisenhower's pulse, temperature and blood pressure were described as normal and stable. His weight has held below 172 pounds on his low-fat diet which seldom goes above 1,800 calories a day.
TOPEKA—(U.P.)—A new winter's storm is heading for Kansas, the U.S. weather service said today.
There will be a snow of almost statewide proportions by tomorrow night, with sharply colder temperatures intensified by strong northerly winds. Blowing and drifting snow was forecast for Northwest Kansas Thursday.
The weatherman said the latest wintry onslaught comes from colder air pushed down over the plains states in combination with a storm brewed in the Rocky Mountains.
Cloudy through Thursday with freezing drizzle or light snow south-west and extreme west today. Snow west and central tonight and north and west Thursday. High today upper 20s northwest to 30s southeast. Low tonight near 15 extreme northwest to around 30 southeast.
The forecast:
KANSAN KURTAINS—This is one more way in which the press can serve its readers. Shown adjusting curtains made from copies of the Daily Kansan is Jeannette Pope, St. Joseph, Mo., sophomore who lives at Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall.—(Daily Kansan Photo)
Roman Comedy Slated For Feb. 29 - March 3
A case of mistaken identity is the plot of the Roman comedy of "Menaechmi," the next University drama production. It will run Feb. 29 to March 3 in the Student Union Ballroom.
The audience will sit on three sides of the stage. Settings will be like those in the period of 210-187 B.C. when Plautus wrote the play.
Originally the play was to be given on three nights. A Saturday performance was added because of the ticket demand.
Menaechmus is the victim of his identical twin brother, Menaechmus Sosicles. They were separated at infancy and Sosicles comes to his brother's home city many years later while Menaechmus is away and is mistaken for Menaechmus.
Members of the cast are Menaechmus, Jack Jordan, Dedo Soto freshman; Peniceulus, Scott Dale, Pratt sophomore; Messenio, Lynn Miller, Dodge City freshman; Erotium, Carol Rea, Branson, Mo., junior; Meneachmus' wife, Mary Jo Lowman, Lawrence sophomore; father, Dee Richards, Lawrence senior; doctor, Robert Yanike, Maryville, Mo., senior; Cylindrus, John Husar, Chicago freshman; maid, Virginia Miller, Topeka junior; and servants, Jerry Bailey, Humboldt freshman, William Baker, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, and Kenneth Plumb, Sunflower senior. Patric Little, Wichita freshman, will give the prologue.
A trip to study university theater facilities in the Midwest was planned by the University Players at their meeting Tuesday.
KU Players Plan Theater Tour
Members initiated at the meeting were Lois Harder, Soldier junior; David Johnson, Lawrence graduate student; Caroline Moreland, Kansas City, Mo., freshman; Richard Fanolio, Kansas City, Mo., junior; Joyce Elliott, Independence, Mo., freshman; Lee MacMorris, Hutchinson junior; Dee Richards, Lawrence senior; Joseph Pargament, New York, N.Y., freshman; William Henry, Parkville, Mo., freshman, and Rebecca Breese, El Dorado senior.
College theaters to be visited later this spring are at Nebraska, Missouri, and Iowa universities.
Glenn Pierce, Lawrence sophomore, was elected vice president until club elections this spring.
Y's Plan Talks On Party Politics
The YM-YWCA Social Responsibility Commission met Tuesday to discuss activities for Political Emphasis Week April 12-13.
Steven Bailey, head of Governmental Research at Princeton University, will be the major speaker during the two days. There will also be a speaker representing the Democratic and Republican parties.
The purpose of Political Emphasis Week is to inform student voters about party issues and party primaries.
Band, Orchestra Set Spring Tour
The University Band and Orchestra, directed by Prof. Russell L. Wiley, will begin its spring tour of eight Kansas and Oklahoma towns March 19.
"It will be the largest group that has ever been taken on the road. Close to 180 students will be going." Prof. Wiley said.
Five soloists will be featured with the band and orchestra. They are Edward Masters, assistant director of band and professor of trumpet, Paul Wallace, instructor in trombone, Roy Johnson, assistant professor of piano, Donald Farrar, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore tenor, and Miss Charmaire Asher, instructor in percussion.
Each concert will begin with the orchestra and will end with the band. The afternoon performances will last about one hour and fifteen minutes, and the evening ones, two hours. Prof. Wiley said.
The two groups will plav a series of eight concessions in Canute, Iola, Parsons, Neodesha, Caney, El Dorado. Bartlesville, Okla., and Blackwell, Okla. The programs will be presented both in school and municipal auditoriums.
The groups will give a concert for the student body on Sunday, March 25 in Hoch Auditorium, and will go to Kansas City for an appearance in the Music Hall the following Tuesday.
"This concert will be given completely to the music students, their parents, and the teachers of the music schools in Kansas City," Prof. Wiley said.
Debaters Oppose KSTC At Emporia
John Eland, Topeka junior, and Bob Kimball, Kansas City, Kan. junior debated at the Emporia Lions Club Tuesday.
They opposed two members of the Kansas State Teachers College debate team on the question: "Resolved that the nonagricultural industries of the United States should guarantee an annual wage." Kim Giffin, speech instructor and debate coach, acted as moderator.
T. K. Houdek, executive secretary of the Kansas City Social Hygiene Association, will speak on "Interpersonal 'Competence' at the Sociology Club meeting at 4 p.m. Friday in Room 17 Strong E.
T.K. Houdek To Talk To Sociology Club
Last week two Emporia debaters appeared at the Lawrence Rotary Club.
Mr. Houdek took part in a seminar on interpersonal competence at the University of Chicago Family Center last summer. While at the University, he will also speak to the Marriage and Family Relations class.
Minnesota Michigan Men To Give Key Talks
Sixteen speakers will take part in Religious Emphasis Week, Feb. 27 through March 2 on the campus.
Key-note speakers are Henry E. Allen, coordinator of Students' Religious Activities at the University of Minnesota, and DeWitt C. Baldwin, director of the Student Religious Association at the University of Michigan.
Prof. Allen has traveled in the Near East, mainly in Turkey, and is the author of "Religion in Higher Education." He is on the faculty committee on campus religious activities at the University of Minnesota.
Prof. Baldwin is volunteer executive director of the Lisle Fellowship. He directs inter-faith and intercultural religious activities for the University of Michigan, and has served as missionary in Rangoon, Burma for 10 years.
Other speakers are:
The Rev Thomas O. Parham Jr., U.S. Navy chaplain, graduate of North Carolina College; David Adenyen, author and youth worker in China and Japan; Rev Charles E. Boddie, Associate Secretary of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society; Mrs. George Gray, instructor of English and drama at Southwestern College, Winfield, Kan.; Donald. Fred. Hetzler, Lutheran Students pastor at the State University of Iowa; Rabbi Benjamin Leon Marcus, spiritual leader of Temple Bhell Sholon. Topeka.
Charles D. Neff, assistant to the first presidency and public relations director of the Reorganized Latter Day Saints Church; Rev Donald Kuhn, department of youth and student work on the Methodist Board of Temperance; Rev Milton McLean, coordinator of religious activities at Ohio State University and member of the religious commission of the National Council of Christians and Jews; The Rev. Mother Ruth, Congregation of Sacred Heart, head mistress at St. Hilda's School in New York; Dr. Charles F. Kemp, pastor of the First Christian Church, Lincoln, Neb.; Rev Hart Helmich, director of the department of campus Christian life for the Evangelical and Reformed Church; Mr. Benjamin F. Sage, member of the Christian Science committee on publications for Kansas; and Dr. Paul A. Zimmerman, president of Concordia Teachers College, Seward, Neb.
HENRY E. ALLEN