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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Dec. 16, 1955.
Don't Crash The Christmas Party
(Lawrence Journal-World Photo by Rich Clarkson)
Wreck Toll Rises On Week Ends
Traffic hazards increase on weekends.
In the first place, there is more traffic than during the week. The 1955 edition of Accident Facts published by the National Safety Council reports that of weekly fatal accidents, 21 per cent occurred on Saturday and 18 per cent on Sunday last year.
But in addition to extra traffic, other conditions that cause accidents seem to grow on weekends, too. After a hard week of classes college students are apt to be in a gay mood and be a little careless on the highways.
If they have been up late for the past three or four nights they won't be in the top physical condition they should be to drive. Tired eyes, headaches, and sleepiness don't add to anyone's safety.
Since party time is on the weekend, the influence of alcohol is liable to be greater.
Then there are the unavoidable conditions such as darkness and bad weather that make driving more dangerous.
The temptation to hurry home or the necessity of rushing back to Lawrence to meet closing hours enlarge the chances of accidents caused by speeding. But home will still be there if you don't hurry, and any housemother would rather open the door a few minutes later than not at all.
These same conditions apply to the holidays, and no matter how good a driver you are, you still have to watch for the other fellow.
Don't get in that holiday haze while you are driving. The more you realize an accident can happen to you, the more you will do to prevent one from happening.
Daily Transan
University of Kansas Student Newpaper News Room, KU 251, Ad Room, KU 376 Member of the Inland Daily Press association. Associated College of Journalism by the National Offering service, 420 Madison ave. N.Y. Mall subscription rates: $3 a semester or $4.50 a year. Published a semester at Lawrence Kans., every afternoon during the University year except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays and examinations may be delayed matter, Sept. 17, 1910, at Lawrence, Kan. post office under act of March 3, 1879
NEWS DEPARTMENT
Gretchen Guinn...Managing Editor
A. Reformed Horse-Trader?
A Reformed Horse-Trader?
COVINGTON, Ky. (U.P.)—Police here hunted throughout northern Kentucky for a trace of a "dog trader." Douglas Brewer told officers a motorist stopped at his filling station for gas. After he left, Mr. Brewer noticed his full-bred beagle pup was missing. The trader was not completely heartless though; he left a mixed-breed dog.
Sam L. Jones, Marion McCoy, Dick Walt, Ted Blankenship, Assistant Managing Editors; John McMillion, City Editor; Barbara Bell, Assistant City Editor; Bob Bruce, Telegraph Editor; Bob Lyle, Assistant Telegraph Editor; Jane Pecnowsky, Society Editor; Gladys Hillary, Society Editor; Harlan Elliott, Sports Editor; Kent Thomas, Assistant Sports Editor; John Stephens, Picture Editor.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Leo Flamagan Editorial Editor
Louis P. Hoult, Lee Ann Urbane, Associ-
sult
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Charles Sledd ... Business Manager
Jack Fisher, Advertising Manager
Jim Holmes, Admin. Activator
Bob Wolfe, Circulation Manager
Bob Wolfe, Circulation Manager
This Thief Has A Conscience
This Thief Has A Constitute CLIFTON, N.J. — (U.P.)—Police thought they had one of those "meantest thief" cases on their hands when someone broke into an oyster bar and stole a polio fund container with $3.60 in it. But a letter arrived the next day containing a $5 bill. It said the writer was "ashamed" for stealing the money.
Udall Tornado Rates Top News
(Daily Kansan Associate Editor)
By LARRY HEIL
The tornado which struck Udall, Kan., killing 73 persons and destroying 170 homes made the story which the editors and editorial writers of the Daily Kansan unanimously voted as the top news story in Kansas for 1955.
Governor Fred Hall made the stories that rated second and third in the poll, the firing of Eugene W. Hiatt and the veto of the right-to-work bill. The Hiatt story included the subsequent hearing by the State Civil Service Commission during which Martin M. Kiger charged that Mr. Hiatt was uncooperative and Mr. Hiatt charged that he was being fired because he had refused to turn over a list of names of state house employees to be used in soliciting funds for Gov. Hall's political campaign. The Civil Service Commission upheld the firing but said that Mr. Hiatt should be rehired for a comparable position.
The right-to-work bill was a piece of proposed legislation which would have banned the union shop in Kansas and made secondary boycotts and jurisdictional strikes illegal. Gov. Hall vetored the bill March 28, and the legislature failed to pass it over his veto after a bitter dispute.
Almost as highly rated was the fifth place story of the three big Lawrence fires, which gutted Trinity Episcopal Church, the Patee Theater, and the Plymouth Congregational Church.
The fourth story was the murder of Mrs. Wilma Allen, Aug. 4, and the confession of Arthur Ross Brown who is now awaiting trial.
Chicago paper's headline recently said: "Lynch New Fire Chief." Obviously football coaches don't have an exclusive on this activity.
From the Lincoln U. Clarion: Man may not live by bread alone, but many get by on crust.
The ground-breaking ceremony for the Kansas Turnpike was held Dec. 31, 1954, and the story of construction on the road ran through 1955. The super-highway is scheduled to be completed late in 1956. This running story was rated sixth in the voting.
Mary Grice, reporter for the Wichita Beacon, posed as an unmarried expectant mother, and uncovered a black market in babies which was selling more than 150 unwanted children a year. This story placed ninth.
The uncovering this year of the May, 1954 wire tappings of the jury rooms in the Federal District Court, Wichita, by Dean Edward H. Levi of the University of Chicago School of Law rated story number eight.
In seventh place is the success story of the Kansas City Athletics who, bringing major-league baseball to this part of the country for the first time, had an attendance record of over 1,346,000 their first season.
Other stories which were mentioned in the poll but did not place in the top ten were the anti-trust suit against the Kansas City Star, the prolonged drought over the state last spring, the outlaw of the movie censorship board, and ex-President Harry S. Truman's memoirs.
Story number 10 was the signing of the American Association contract which will bring triple-A baseball to Wichita in the form of a farm team of the Milwaukee Braves.
The Lawrence Journal-World editorialized the other night on the campus Christmas vacation, stating that it began Dec. 22 and ran for 12 days. We would like to mention in passing that the vacation begins Dec. 20 and covers 14 days. Accuracy, accuracy, accuracy!
Merry Christmas!
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