Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
Monday, Feb. 13, 1956
53rd Year. No.86
He's No Flag Pole Sitter!
The campus police were notified at 8 a.m. Saturday that a dummy was tied to the flag pole in front of Strong Hall. The police discovered that the dummy wasn't a dummy. It was Alan Morris, Caney sophomore, pictured above. He was very much alive.
Morris was found tied to the flag pole with tape and rope. A pillowcase had been put over his head and a rope was around his neck. Also hanging around his neck was a sign which read, "I'm a dumb sophomore, don't let me loose."
Morris, an active member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, was tied to the pole by pledges. He was fastened to the pole for about five minutes before police released him.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Morris said he was the work master for the day and was issuing work assignments when the pledges attacked him. He said they threw the pillowcase over his head and started to tie him with tape as they carried him to a station wagon.
"They continued to tie me as they drove off," Morris said.
He said he thought he was somewhere around Potter Lake and didn't find out where he really was until police unfastened him.
Morris told police, "I guess I'm not very popular with those pledges."
KU TV Series On Health To Start Sunday On KMBC
Do you know what happens to your heart if you have a heart attack?
The program is the first of a series called "Highroads to Health" to be presented by the University Radio and Television Division and the Medical Center. Other programs planned for the series will be on cancer, the Kansas Plan, polio, rheumatic fever and histoplasmosis.
This question will be answered at 10 p.m. Sunday on KMBC-TV when the University presents a case history of a heart attack, called "The Heart's Blood."
"The Heart's Blood" will be narrated by Dr. W. Clarke Wescoe, dean of the School of Medicine, and will include comments by a man who has recovered from his heart attack, and actual film clips of the heart beating. It will be produced by Bruce A. Linton, chairman of the Radio-TV Committee,
The new series is the first of feature-length to be presented by the University after expansion of its curriculum and personnel in the television field. Already on the air over most television stations in Kansas and western Missouri is a one-minute weekly feature, "The KU Bulletin Board," consisting of short stories of research and other activities on the campus.
and Dr. David Ruhe, audio-visual director of the Medical Center, in cooperation with the Kaw Valley and Kansas City Heart Associations.
Weather
Clear to partly cloudy today and tonight. Warmer over most of the state today. Tuesday partly cloudy and turning colder with snow flurries in the northwest. High today generally in the 50s. Low tonight in the 30s.
Fee Payment Deadline Due
Payment of fees began today and will continue through Thursday. Payments are to be made at the Business Office, 121 Strong. ID cards will be validated at that time. A two-dollar penalty will be incurred for fees which are paid late. The enrollment of students not having paid by Monday, Feb. 20, will be canceled.
The schedule for payment is:
A,B,C,D,E,F... Monday, Feb. 13
G,H.IJ,K,L... Tuesday, Feb. 14
M,N.O,P.Q,R... Wednesday, Feb. 15
S,T.U,V W,x,Y.Z... Thurs., Feb. 16
Marterie Plays To Large Crowd
Crewcuts were bobbing, petticoats were swinging, and corks were popping as the third annual "Nightclub Party" closed Friday.
Ralph Marterie and his downbeat orchestra were well received as they played sweet and swing music for a standing room only crowd. Couples gathered around the bandstand and watched Marterie play such favorites as "Trumpeter's Lullaby," "Dry Marterie," "Perdido," "Caravan," and others.
Besides playing many requests, Marterie pleased the crowd with both dreamy music and music for the hep-cats.
the decorations and refreshments were in nightclub style, creating a background for Marterie, who made the "Nightclub Party" a success.
$75 Design Prize Won
C. Warren Bates, Springfield, Mo., fifth year architecture student, won first prize of $75 in residential design competition sponsored by the Kansas_Concrete Masonry Association.
Honorable mention went to N. Millard Hart, Liberal, and James D. Hogue, Topeka, both fifth year students, and Phil W. Coolidge, Topeka, fourth year student.
Second prize of $50 was won by Leo D. Williams, Lawrence, and the $25 third prize went to John L. Boerger, Sedgwick. Both are fourth year students in architecture.
The masonry association also announced a $150 scholarship for architectural students to be administered by the University.
Chemistry Project Grant Renewed
Dr. Ernest Griswold, associate professor of chemistry, who is conducting a U.S. Ordnance research project, has received a renewal for the fourth year.
The project concerns the effects of certain salts on the solubility of other salts in non-water solvents. Its official title is "Salt Effects on Solubility and Ion-pair Equilibria in Solvents of Low Dielectric Content."
Dr. Griswald's research assistants are William E. Parker, of Wallingford, Conn., and George R. Cronin, of Bellaire, Ohio, graduate students.
Funeral services for Roger Beth, son of Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism, and' Mrs. Beth, were held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the Congregational Church. The Rev. Dale Turner presided. Burial was in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Roger Beth Funeral Held
Medical School Receives $39,981
A grant of $39,981 to the School of Medicine has been announced by the National Fund for Medical Education.
Asian Essay Contest Slated
Asian students can win $50, $75,
or $100 in the fourth annual Asian
Student essay contest. The deadline
for the contest is March 15.
In addition to the $100 first prize, second prize will be $75, and third prize, $50. Certificates of merit will be awarded to the 10 best essays.
The subject for the essay, which must be limited to 1,500 words, is "Change vs. Tradition in Asia: Is Compromise Possible?"
Students must be registered in a United States or Canadian college or university at either undergraduate or graduate level.
The essays must be written in English, and accompanied by a letter giving the student's name, nationality, the institution at which he is studying, and the major course of study.
Essays should be sent to Contest Editor, The Asian Student, P.O. Box 3223, San Francisco 19, Calif.
The grant is part of a total of $2-657,434 awarded by the fund to the nation's 81 medical schools. The funds were contributed by corporations and physicians.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said, "These are the most important funds that a medical school receives, because they may be used flexibly with no strings attached."
He said $11,000 of the grant to KU represented contributions from Kansas physicians and school alumni.
The money will be used to "shore up" the general budget of the medical shool, the chancellor said.
Each of the 75 four-year schools received a lump sum of $15,000 plus $30 for each undergraduate medical student. The six two-year schools received $7,500 plus $30 a student. Gifts of individual doctors were added to these amounts.
KU now has received a total of $130,561 from the fund, which was established under the leadership of President Eisenhower, then president of Columbia University, former President Hoover and Dr. James B. Conant, former president of Harvard University.
The 1955 grant was the largest in the fund's five-year history.
Dr. Brewster said the department of chemistry had not decided which of its subdivisions would utilize the Monsanto grant.
from Tuebingen, Germany, where he currently holds a Fulbright lectureship at Eberhard Karls University.
The Monsanto Chemical Company of St. Louis will make two $1,500 grants-in-aid to support graduate research at the University during the 1956-57 school year, Dr. Ray Q. Brewster, chairman of the department of chemistry said today.
KU Gets Two $1,500 Grants From Monsanto Company
One Monsanto grant will be in pharmaceutical chemistry, a division of the School of Pharmacy. The work will be directed by Dr. Joseph H. Burckhalter, who will return
These will be the first Monsanto grants-in-aid received at K.U., although several other industries have regularly supported research in chemistry for several years.
NEW FOUNDATION PRESIDENT—Rolla A. Clymer, center, editor of the El Dorado Times, was elected president of the William Allen White Foundation Feb. 10. W. H. Martin, Parsons, Kan., left, a member of the board, and Fred W. Brinkerhoff, right, who was awarded the foundation's third annual award for journalistic merit, are with Mr. Clymer. Other foundation officers are Dwight Payton, Overbrook Citizen, first vice president; Dolph Simons, Lawrence Journal-World, second vice president; Whitley Austin, Salina Journal, third vice president; Dean Burton M. Marvin, of the William Allen White School of Journalism, director; and Karl Klooz, bursar of the University,
secretary-treasurer.—(Daily Kansan Photo)