Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
Friday, Jan. 6, 1956.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
53rd Year, No. 69
Workshop, Play Tryouts Slated For Three Days
An Actors' Workshop will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday and open tryouts for three University Theatre productions will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday and Tuesday in Studio Theater, Green Hall.
All students are invited to the Actors' Workshop. Drama students will present scenes from "The Glass Menagerie" and "The Silver Cord." A part of a play written by Douglas Robertson, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, will be presented.
The acting is done without stage lighting, settings and properties.
The three University Theatre productions will be given during the second semester. Any student may read for parts.
The three plays are "Menaechmi," by Plautus, the arena show to be given Feb. 28, 29 and March 1 and 2 in the Student Union Ballroom; "Pygmalion," by George B. Shaw, March 14, 15, 16 and 17 in Fraser Theater, and "Kind Lady," by Edward Chodorov, a road show which will tour Kansas high schools for two weeks in the spring. It will also be given in Fraser Theater March 28, 29, 30.
Scripts for the plays are available in the office of the speech and drama department, 5 Green, and may be checked out by students.
Ike: No Halt In H-Bomb Tests
WASHINGTON — (U.P.) President Eisenhower made it clear Thursday that this country will not be duped by foreign propaganda into calling off H-bomb tests.
Atomic sources saw in his state of the union message assurance that the United States will continue to perfect nuclear weapons for defense of the Free World.
A congressional authority said the new tests will be held this spring at the Eniwetok-Bikini proving ground in the Marshall Islands. The last tests there, in the spring of 1954, were of "super H-bombs" comparable in violence to 15 or 20 million tons of TNT.
"This year," the congressional authority said, "we are thinking in terms of 40 to 50 million tons."
The President spoke of U.S. efforts "to harness the atom for the betterment of mankind." He said "nuclear war would be an intolerable disaster," and added that this country will keep trying to get Russia to accept a system of arms control.
During a hydrogen bomb explosion set off March 1, 1954, change of wind caused radioactive fallout to dust a boatload of Japanese fishermen and nearly 300 Marshall Islanders and U.S. servicemen. Many countries asked that the H-bomb tests be stopped.
Senior Receives Insurance Award
Jack Fink, Quinter senior, has received the $100 insurance award for 1955 from the Kansas Association of Insurance Agents.
Fink was selected by a committee of faculty members of the School of Business on the basis of his promise of success in the field of fire and casualty insurance. Presentation was made by Harold C. Krogh, associate professor of business.
AT LONG LAST—A new type distribution box for Daily Kansans is being tested in front of Watson Library. The box is weather proof and has two separate units for papers. The front side of the box is part glass and the rest is metal and wood. Shown inspecting the box are Don Sledd, Lyons sophomore, Kansan carrier, and Mrs. Lee Coleman of Lawrence. —(Daily Kansan Photo)
Hattie Lewis Essay Contest Offers $225 In Prizes
A total of $225 is offered for the Hattie Elizabeth Lewis prize essay contest on "Applied Christianity."
Weather
Prof. Robert M. Boarts of the University of Tennessee and the Oak Ridge Project, will speak on the campus Monday on present day thinking in the development of training programs for students interested in nuclear science or engineering. The KU committee on atomic energy will sponsor a talk by Dr. Boarats at 4 p.m. in Room 122 Malott. Dr. Boarts will allow time for questions after his talk.
The first prize is $100,the second $75,and this
Senior Pictures Requested Now
Oak Ridge Expert To Speak
All seniors are requested to have their pictures for the Jayhawker taken as soon as possible.
Partly cloudy and turning considerably colder this afternoon and tonight. Saturday generally fair with little temperature change. Low tonight 15-20 northeast to near 30 southwest. High Saturday 40 northeast to 40s southwest.
$1,000 Loan Fund
Set Up For Students
Hank Wittenberg, Kansas City, Mo., senior, Jayhawker editor, said that seniors may make an appointment to have their pictures taken by John Estes, official yearbook photographer, by calling Viking 3-1711.
A bequest of $1,000 from the late Nina Claire Bowman of New York City to establish a student loan fund at the University has been announced by Irvin E. Youngberg, executive secretary of the KU Endowment Association.
Miss Bowman, a native of Newton, died Jan. 31, 1955, in New York City. She was graduated from KU in 1893 and taught Latin for many years in New York City.
Loans will be made from the fund, to be the Nina Bowman Student Loan fund, to students approved by the committee on aids and awards. Preference will be given to students majoring in Latin and other languages.
Essays must be not less than 3,000 nor more than 10,000 words. The stories must be typewritten, double spaced, and provided with a table of contents, footnotes giving reference to authorities cited, and bibliography. The contest is open to any student in the University. The deadline is April 20. Each contest should hand in three copies of his essay at the chancellor's office.
The memorial was established at the University in 1911 in memory of Hattie Elizabeth Lewis, a former student, by her husband, Prof. George Edward Patrick of Washington, D. C.
Engineer Groups Elect Professor
Prof. Kenneth E. Rose, chairman of the mining and metallurgical engineering departments at the University, has been given assignments by two engineering societies.
Dean Waggoner Lists Speaking Schedule
He also is state chairman of the vocational guidance committee of the Engineers Council for Professional Development. Members of the committee, now being formed, will be professional engineers who will give a portion of their time to counseling interested high school students in their areas.
Prof. Rose is beginning a three-year term on the advisory committee of metallurgical education of the American Society for Metals. He will help evaluate course objectives and content in the field.
Dean George R. Waggoner of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will speak at the pinning exercises of the class of 1956 School of Medicine and department of nursing Sunday at the University Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
Dean Waggoner will be leader of a group conference Tuesday and Wednesday at the 12th annual American Conference of Academic Deans in St. Louis. The conference is held in conjunction with the meetings of the Association of American Colleges.
Concerts Slated Sunday, Monday
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The 250-voice University of Kansas Chorus will present a concert at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Hoch Auditorium. It is free to the public.
The chorus, directed by Clayton Krehbiel, assistant professor of music education, will feature two works which have texts adapted from poems by Walt Whitman. Mary Jo Huyck, Bethel senior, will be the accompanist.
The first number of the program will be "The Mystic Trumpeter" by Norman Dello Joio. Soloists will be Barbara Blount, soprano, Larned senior; Herbert Wildeboor, tenor; Lawrence graduate student; Jack Davison, baritone, Bolivar, Mo., sophomore, and Donnell Horn, French horn soloist, Kansas City, Mo., senior.
The second half of the program will feature a secular cantata, "A Free Song," by William Schuman. This number uses the Whitman poems, "Long, Too Long America" and "Look Down, Fair Moon." Part of it is an adaptation of "Song of the Banner at Daybreak." Dale Moore, baritone, Olathe graduate student, will be soloist.
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A concert of chamber music by Mozart will be presented at 8 p.m. Monday in Strong Auditorium by the University String Quartet and a woodwind octet. The program is free.
Prayer Vigil Set For UN Meeting
A continuous prayer vigil for better world understanding and peace will be held during the United Nations conference on the campus Monday and Tuesday.
The vigil, patterned after the one held at the beginning of the United Nations meetings, is sponsored by the Student Religious Council, the Kansas University religious advisers and Mrs. Pearl Richardson, an accredited UN observer for 10 years.
The prayer vigil will be held in Danforth Chapel beginning at 7:30 a.m. Monday, and extending through the end of the conference at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday.
Volunteers from the Student Religious Council will be present in the chapel to receive all interested persons for periods of silent meditation. Folders telling about Danforth chapel and a new directory of religious activities will be given out.
Campus UN Meeting To List Achievements
Minor Earthquake Occurs Near Pratt
The quartet will perform the "Quartet in E Flat, K. 428." Members are Raymond Cerf, professor of violin, and George Green, instructor of organ and theory, violins; Karel Blaas, assistant professor of music theory and viola, viola; and Raymond Stuhl, associate professor of cello, cello.
The Lawrence churches are also conducting meditation during the conference.
Louis F. Dellwig, assistant professor of geology in charge of the seismograph in Lindley Hall said the seismograph recorded a minor earthquake at 5:59 a.m. today, about 280 miles southwest of Lawrence, near Pratt. News-paper men at Pratt said wall-plaster cracks occurred in houses southwest of Pratt where the ouake centered.
A review of United Nations accomplishments in its first 10 years will be made by speakers at the eighth annual UN Conference Monday and Tuesday in the Student Union.
A second and smaller tremor was recorded 29 minutes later.
The woodwind octet, directed by Austin Ledwid, instructor of music theory, will perform "Serenade (Night Music), K. 388." Members are Clyde Morris, Topea junior, and Marilyn Jo Wiens, Belle Flaine freshman, obes; Robert Ausherman, Mission graduate student, and Charles Molina, Kansas City, Kan, sophomore, clarinets; Phyllis Glass, Lawrence graduate student and Raymond Roberts, Kingman junior, bassons; Donnell Horn, Kansas City, Mo., senior, and Jane Steinle, Russell sophomore, horns.
In the summary role will be a Briton, Vernon. Duckworth-Barker, who is senior information officer for technical assistance in the press publications bureau of the UN department of public information. He will speak at 10:45 a.m. and at a 6:15 p.m. banquet Monday, KU foreign students will be guests of the conference for the banquet.
The Kansas Commission for UNESCO will give a luncheon Monday in the Kansas Room of the Union. Ruth Wagner, editor of the Kansas Teacher magazine, will talk about her observations of fundamental education in Egypt last summer.
Dr. Frank Hoecker, professor of physics at the University and a member of the International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy in Geneva, Switzerland, last August, will preside over the Monday afternoon session in which the medical, industrial and geographical aspects of "atoms for peace" will be discussed. Also on the speakers' platform will be Dr. L. Worth Seagoon-dollar, associate professor of physics, and Dr. Louis F. Dellwig, assistant professor of geology.
Tuesday speakers will be Floyd Springer Jr., assistant to Foreign Operations Administrator Harold Stassen and a special adviser to the President on disarmament, and James Frederick Green, deputy director of the Office of International Economic and Social Affairs in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs for the U. S. State Department. Green will address the closing luncheon meeting.
Clayton Crosier of Lawrence, chairman of the Kansas Commission for UNESCO and Phyllis Carter, chairman of the KU Collegiate Council for the UN are among the officials scheduled to give four minute talks.
Virginia S. Maddox, director of the KU Extension library, will discuss the UN Voluntary Educational Center on the campus and Joyce McLeod, reference librarian, will tell about the KU Library's UN collection.