Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1956.
53rd Year, No. 77
NEW TYPE MEGAPHONE—Daryl Hall, Neodesha junior, is shown inspecting a J-34 jet engine being used by aeronautical engineering students for laboratory tests and demonstration this year. The engine is housed in a hangar at the city airport and was loaned to the University by the Air Research and Development Command, Baltimore, Md., through Wright-Patterson Naval Air Base, Dayton, Ohio. The students mounted the engine and assembled testing instruments and a control board to record the readings.—(Daily Kansan Photo)
Frenzied Buying Sends Ford Stock To $70 A Share
NEWYORK—(U.P.)—The price of Ford Motor Co. stock today soared past the $70-a share mark in frenzied over-the-counter trading.
This was a big premium over the original offering price of $64.50 a share for the 10,200,000 shares of Ford common stock. Brokers report the demand is "simply terrific." They quoted the stock at $70 and $71 asked—the price they are willing to buy and sell it at.
Brokers say people who never owned stock before are competing with seasoned investors in the rush to buy a chunk of the $2.4 billion motor empire.
The stock officially went on sale this morning through a giant syndicate of 722 investment banking firms. The group is committed to sell the stock at $64.50 to those lucky investors who have been allocated shares.
But thousands of persons who were left out in the cold when the stock was originally allotted to investors across the country are offering Ford's new stockholders a big profit if they'll sell.
a control board to record the readings.—(Daily Kansan Photo)
Demand for the stock has been torrid ever since the foundation first announced plans to sell part of its Ford Motor Co. holdings in November.
Bailey Hall To Be Ready For Second Semester
About 600 students in the School of Education will have a new home when the second semester begins.
The School of Education and its allied agencies will move to the remodeled Bailey Hall on Jan. 26, 27, and 28. The chimneys are gone from the old chemistry building, and a new red slate roof covers the 77 by 190-foot structure.
Here is a view of the new education facilities:
Basement—University statistical services, Guidance Bureau storage and shipping, Bureau of Visual Instruction offices and projection rooms, student lounge, student organization offices, Child Research Bureau, and speech correction and hearing laboratories
First floor-Guidance Bureau offices, testing rooms, and occupational information library; School of Education offices; art education classrooms and office; reading and study skills clinic, educational clinic, and Teachers Appointment Bureau and conference rooms.
Second floor—curriculum laboratory and seminar room, home economies education office. Bureau of Educational Research and Service. statistical laboratory, two large classrooms, school administration laboratory, and nine offices for individual staff members.
Third floor—music education offices, sound-proofed music education clinic auditorium and music education classroom and instrument storage, three offices for individual staff members, two seminar rooms, one large classroom, and a 190-capacity auditorium with audio-visual facilities.
Fourth floor-storage room, six practice rooms for music education students, and two large rooms with facilities for individual study for 30 or more graduate students.
New Kansan Staff Named
Dean Keneth E. Anderson of the School of Education said, "These facilities have come to completion at a most opportune time as the School of Education has experienced rapid growth in undergraduate areas of teacher education and areas of graduate study in education."
New staff members on the University Daily Kansan for the next eight weeks have been appointed. Marion McCoy, Overland Park senior, is managing editor.
Assistant managing editors are Larry Heil, Topeka, John McMillion, Coffeyville, Harry Elliott, Lawrence, all seniors, and Jane Pecinovsky, Kansas City Mo., junior.
Other staff members are Sam Jones, Lawrence senior, editorial editor; Dick Walt, Girard junior, associate editor; Barbara Bell, McPherson junior, city editor; Joan George, Caney junior, assistant city editor; David Webb, Independence junior, telegraph editor; Daryl Hall, Neo-
oesna junior, assistant telegraph editor.
Kent Thomas, Ottawa junior,
sports editor; Bob Lyle, Kansas
City, Mo., junior, assistant sports
editor; Ann Kelly, Leavenworth
senior, society editor; Felicia Fenberg, Kansas City, Mo., junior,
assistant society editor; John Stephens,
Stafford junior, picture editor.
Jim Wiens, Hillsboro, business manager; David Cleveland, Culver, Ind., advertising manager; Dick Hunter, Lawrence, national advertising manager; Bill Griffith, Mission, circulation manager; Walt Baskett, Kansas City, Mo., classified advertising manager; Clifford Meyer, Kansas City, Kan., promotion. All are seniors.
Easy Enrollment:
A Reminder
Class schedules are now available at the registrar's office and should be picked up if you haven't already done so. They list all instructions about classes and enrollment.
Also, official grade reports and registration cards should be picked up at Strong Hall before going to the Student Union to enroll. Students should have their registration cards filled out when they get to the Student Union. This will eliminate much time and confusion with advisers and greatly expedite enrollment.
After the student has seen his adviser and gone to the pen, he should be sure that the scribes on duty give him the right class card.
Roberts To Give Journalism Talk
Roy A. Roberts, president and general manager of The Kansas City Star, will give the seventh annual William Allen White Lecture at 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, in Fraser Theater.
Museum Gets Oriental Art
The Museum of Art has recently added to its oriental collection ten objects valued at over $6,000.
The most notable acquisition is a Japanese four-fold screen with a golden background. The screen dates from the Ashikaga period, 1337 to 1573 A.D.
The screen was exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. The value placed on the screen is $5,000.
Also acquired is a 19th century emperor's robe. The phoenix (the mythological bird which dies and is reborn in flames), emblem of royalty, adorns the robe.
An eight piece tea set of the Chien Lung period completes the new oriental acquisitions. Described as black lacquer ware, each piece in the set is inlaid with silver and mother of pearl.
All of the objects were given to the Museum of Art by Cornelius Ruxton Love Jr., of New York City.
SUA To Serve Coffee For Students In Union
Coffee will be served to University students from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. and 3 to 4 p.m. Friday, Monday, and Tuesday in the south lounge of the Student Union. It will also be served from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday.
The coffee periods, sponsored by the Student Union Activities, are for students relaxing between final examinations or taking a study break, Katherine Carry, SUA adviser, said.
Weather
Considerable cloudiness east with scattered light snow along eastern border and mostly fair west this afternoon, tonight and Thursday. Not so cold west this afternoon. Low tonight zero to 10 below north central and 5-15 above elsewhere. High Thursday around 20 northeast to 25-35 southwest.
VACATION BOUND--Discussing the coming YMCA-sponsored ski trip are, left to right, Bill Allaway, YMCA chairman; Dick Wink, Dallas, Tex.; senior and trip chairman; Raymond Hopponen, assistant professor of pharmacy; Berit Morris, Oslo, Norway junior, and Fred Krey, Stafford 3rd year law student. There will be two parties, one leaving for Winter Park and another for Arapahope, Colo. About 115 persons will participate—(Daily, Kansan Photo)
will participate.—(Daily Kansan Photo)
The lecture is sponsored annually by the William Allen White Foundation as one of a number of events marking the late Emporia editor's birthday.
ROY A. ROBERTS
Each year a man of high standing in American journalism is selected to give the address, and the text is printed in pamphlet form and distributed to editors, publishers, schools and departments of journalism and libraries all over the United States.
Previous William Allen White lectures have been given by James B. Reston, chief of the New York Times' Washington bureau; Ernest K. Lindley, head of the Washington bureau of Newsweek; Erwin D. Canham, editor of The Christian Science Monitor; Palmer Hoyt, editor and publisher of The Denver Post; Grove Patterson, editor of The Toledo Blade; and Norman E. Isaac, managing editor of The Louisville Times.
Mr. Roberts, KU '08, began his newspaper career as a reporter on The Lawrence World. He joined the Kansas City Star staff in 1909, covered the Missouri legislature for several years, was a Washington correspondent from 1915 to 1928, became managing editor of The Star in 1928, and since 1947 has been president and general manager. He is a past president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Gridiron Club and past honorary president of Sigma Delta Chi, professional fraternity in journalism. He served for a number of years on the board of directors of the Associated Press.
From the beginning of his career Mr. Roberts was a close friend of William Allen White, and in 1949 he was the principal speaker when Sigma Delta Chi presented its historic sites award to The Emporia Gazette in a ceremony at Emporia.
The annual Award for Journalistic Merit will be presented to a Kansas editor at a luncheon on the same day in recognition of service to his community, the state of Kansas and journalism.
Rolla A. Clymer, editor of the El Dorado (Kan.) Times, will give the address of presentation. The first such award was presented in 1954 to the late Charles M. Harger of Abilene, and it was conferred upon W. T. Beck of Holton a year ago. The luncheon will be in the Kansas Room of the Student Union building.
Trustees of the Foundation will hold their annual meeting at 10 a.m. in the Pine Room of the Union building.