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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
53rd Year, No.85
Relays Group Lists Selection Of 7 Freshmen
E. R. Elbel, manager of the Kansas Relays, has announced the appointment of seven freshmen to the 1956 Kansas Relays Student Committee.
The new freshman committeemen are Walter Ashcraft, Ashland; John Barrett, Kansas City, Kan.; Dan Casson, Topeka; David Graves, Kansas City, Kan.; Stephen Hill, Lawrence; Charles Platz, Hutchinson, and Ralph Wright, Paola.
Other members are John Simpson, Salina senior; Don Johnston, Pittsburgh senior; Fred Heath, Kansas City, Mo.; Senior; Dick Raynolds, Emporia senior; Bill Buck, Kansas City, Kan.; senior; Martin Hanna, Winfield junior; Edwin Petrik, Caldwell junior; Bill Saylor, Kansas City, Kan.; senior; Jay Dee Ochs, Wichita junior; Bob Elliott, Wichita junior; Tom Hampton, Salina junior; Book LaRue, Columbus junior; Dave Lhuillier, Joopin, M. sophomore; Eldon Benson, Gorham sophomore; Ray Dean, Kansas City, M. sophomore; Wayne Rolley, Topeka sophomore; Bob Peterson, Emporia sophomore; Minter Brown, Topeka sophomore; Roger Jones, Leaward sophomore.
The committee will begin work soon in preparation for this year's Kansas Relays, which will be held on Saturday, April 21.
Y's Discuss Religion, Jazz
The view that jazz is helping solve the segregation problem was part of the panel discussion on Religion and Jazz Thursday night at the YM-YWCA all membership meeting in the Student Union.
The panel, moderated by William Woo, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, consisted of John Francisco, Massilion, Ohio, sophomore; J. Morgan Sherwool, Liberty, Mo., graduate student and Austin Ledwith, assistant professor in music theory and band.
The panel decided that jazz is now and will bring different races together to enjoy the expressiveness of jazz.
Before the discussion, a record by the Dave Brubeck quartet of CBS's TV show, "Look Up and Live" demonstrated the theology of jazz
German Club Makes Plans To See Opera
Members of the German Club and the German department are making arrangements to attend the Nazi Plover Games by Mozart, in Kansas City March 17.
Friday, Feb. 10, 1956.
NO, THE WORLD'S NOT UPSIDE DOWN—Scott Dale, Pratt sophomore, is just putting the finishing touches on buildings which will be used as background decorations for the Ralph Marterie Night Club Party—(Daily Kansan Photo)
The plans were announced at the club's meeting Thursday afternoon.
Tickets Not Sold Out Yet For Marterie Dance Tonight
Tickets are still available for Ralph Marterie the "Nightclub Party" James Whaley, Jefferson, Mo., sophomore and general chairman of the dance, said today.
About 900 tickets have been sold and tickets will be on sale at the door.
The dance will be held from 8 p.m. to midnight today in the Student Union Ballroom.
Decorations for the dance have been completed. A painted backdrop of a city skyline, candelight, champagne bottles containing catawba and cigarette and flower girls will provide a night club atmosphere.
Chaperones will be Elliot C. Dick, assistant professor of bacteriology and Mrs. Dick; Charles W. Dodrill, instructor of speech and drama, instructs Dodrill, and Dr. Robert M. Edwards, of Watkins Hospital and Mrs. Edwards.
Robert Vosper, director of libraries, and Howard Walker, director of University extension, met in Topeka Thursday with the State Advisory Commission concerning the new two-year experimental project at the Ottawa public library.
Heller And Hein ToAttend Meeting
KU Directors Attend Meeting
Francis Heller, associate professor of political science, and Clarence J. Hein, instructor of political science, will attend a special committee meeting at Wichita University Saturday.
The committee, representing several colleges and universities in Kansas, will discuss the establishing of a cooperative effort between the government and political science departments in the schools.
Prof. W. H. Shoemaker, chairman of the department of Romance Languages and Literatures, will speak at a Travel-Coffee at 4 p.m. Monday in the Student Union Browsing Room.
Shoemaker To Speak At Travel Coffee
Mr. Shoemaker will talk about his experiences as a research scholar in Spain last year.
The Travel-Coffee is sponsored by the Student Union Activities.
NROTC Physicals Due Feb. 13-18
NROTC annual physical will be given from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, Feb.18 in the Military Science Building.
All members of the NROTC except freshman contract students are required to take the examination. They may report any day during a free hour.
William Schlotterback 25, Ellis junior, is in good condition at Wattkins Hospital where he was taken after he was struck by a car at 8:57 am. today. The accident occurred on Jayhawk Boulevard in front of the Museum of Natural History.
Student Struck By Car, Injured
Schlotterback received a compound fracture of the lower left leg. He was struck by a 1951 Henry J, driven by Lawrence P. Ball 20, Cunningham junior, campus police reported.
The police report said Ball estimated his speed at 10 miles an hour at the time he struck the pedestrian. There were no other cars on the street, and Schlotterback was the only pedestrian in the street, police said. Police have asked anyone who might have seen the accident to call or see them.
Schlotterback said he started across the street in front of Spooner- Thayer Building. He said he thought the oncoming car would go behind him.
Campus police chief Joe Skillman said Ball was charged with failure to yield right-of-way to a pedestrian, failure to slow to avoid an accident and driving a vehicle with defective brakes. He is to appear in Lawrence police Court Feb. 14.
Funeral services for Roger Beth, son of Prof, and Mrs. Elmer F. Beth, are tentatively set for 2 p.m. Monday at the Congregational Church. Rev. Dale Turner will preside.
Beth Funeral To Be Monday
Mr. Beth was found dead in his room by his landlady at his University City home. He had lived in the St. Louis suburb since last fall when he was discharged from the service and enrolled in Washington University. He was working towards a master's degree in chemistry and was a laboratory assistant in the department.
Mr. Beth, a Summerfield scholar, graduated from the University in 1952. As a senior he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, national scholastic honor society.
The body was brought from St. Louis to the Funk-Cooper-Warren Mortuary.
Religious Week Starts Feb. 26 On KU Campus
"Is This Your Life?" will be the theme for Religious Emphasis Week which will be observed Feb. 26 through March 2 with speakers from nine states.
Each religious group helping sponsor Religious Emphasis Week is bringing in a speaker who will speak in classes, organized houses, and to various religious groups. Key speakers are Dewitt Baldwin, director of religious activities at the University of Michigan, and Henry Allen, professor of philosophy and coordinator of students religious activities at the University of Minnesota.
An informal reception will be held Sunday, Feb. 26 at 4 p.m. in the Student Union.
Aide Named For Registrar
- On Monday, Feb. 27, Dr. Baldwin and Dr. Allen will speak at an assembly at 4 p.m. in Fraser Theater. Seminars will be held Monday through Thursday at 9 a.m., 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. On Wednesday, Feb. 29, a seminar will also be held at 8 p.m.
Carl G. Fahrbach Jr., former teacher and principal in the Newton schools, has been appointed assistant director of admissions.
Mr. Fahrbach, who fills a new position, will assist James K. Hitt, director of admissions and registrar. The operations of this office have multiplied in recent years because of the larger number of students seeking admission and the change in University policy that centralized in the registrar's office many of the enrollment and grade-recording functions formerly performed in the offices of the deans.
A native of Navarre, Mr. Fahrbach attended the high school at Chapman and taught four years in rural schools and at his home-town. He earned a B.S. degree in 1948 from Kansas State College at Emporia and an M.S. degree in 1951.
Mr. Fahrbach became a mathematics teacher at Newton Junior High school in 1948 and in 1952 became principal of the Lincoln Elementary school there.
Weather
Mostly fair and a little warmer throughout the state this afternoon and Saturday. Light snow Saturday in northeast. Low tonight 15 northeast to 30 southeast. Temperatures through Wednesday will average four to six degrees below seasonal normals with mild temperatures at the beginning of the period.
Press Responsibility Based On Freedom, Roberts Says
Fred W. Brinkerhoff, Pittsburg, Kan., editor, today defended Kansas newspapers and their editors as not having lost after all, as some have charged, the influence they had in earlier days of Kansas journalism.
Mr. Brinkerhoff, who is editor and manager of the two Pittsburgh newspapers, the Headlight and the Sun, spoke at a luncheon meeting of the William Allen White Foundation at the University, where he accepted the Foundation's third annual Award for Journalistic Merit. His speech preceded the seventh annual William Allen White Lecture, "The Newspapers' Responsibility," given by
"Newspaper responsibility is inseparable from freedom of speech and press, and the greatest challenge of all is truth in the news," Mr. Roberts said in his address.
Roy A. Roberts, president and general manager of the Kansas City Star, in Fraser Theater.
The most valued asset of the press, he said, is its integrity and the confidence the reader has in that integrity.
"This far out weighs monumental plants, high speed presses, distribution systems. So, not because of idealism, but because of common sense, the publisher accepts the
Most Valued Asset
responsibility of single ownership and seeks to give more in service, not less."
The publisher is not going to jeopardize his standing before the most important critic of all, the people. Mr. Roberts said.
Mr. Roberts expressed the opinion that, "whether it is healthful from a national standpoint or not," papers in one newspaper towns and cities have accepted the responsibility that goes along with the situation.
'Increased Ability To Serve'
"Whatever the disadvantages of the one-newspaper town, the increased ability to serve is beyond argument."
"Harry Truman ran rings around the Republican nominee in making news in 1948," Mr. Roberts said, although most papers were not supporting him.
Answering charges against the so-called "one-party press," Mr. Roberts said the candidate or political side that makes the most news will get the most news columns.
More Signed Editorials Needed
Mr. Roberts said the editorial page is another matter. There "soul-searching and self-criticisms are always in order," he said.
Mr. Roberts suggested fair comment and criticism on the editorial page.
He called for more signed editorsials by publishers and owners, and possible discontinuation of columnists whose main purpose is often "vendettas against each other, and, who don't represent the beliefs of the newspapers."
The ills of the modern newspaper might be on the way to being solved if "a short course of what made William Allen White the great figure he was was taught in journalism schools," he said.
Mr. Roberts pointed to Mr. White as the acme of individuality and personality in writing, who had strong convictions in what he believed right.