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Daily hansan
Tuesday, Dec. 6, 1955.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
53rd Year, No. 57
MISS ESTHER TWENTE
A Fulbright grant to lecture at the University of Adelaide in Australia has been awarded to Miss Esther Twente, chairman of the graduate department of social work.
Miss Twente Gets Fulbright
Miss Twente will be gone during the spring semester, the summer session, and the fall semester of 1956. The academic year at the University of Adelaide begins early in March and ends with annual examinations in November.
Miss Twente holds degrees from the University of Missouri and the University of Chicago. She has been teaching at KU since 1937 and has been chairman of the graduate department of social work since its establishment in 1946.
The University of Adelaide, in southern Australia, was founded in 1874. It has 370 staff members and 5,000 students.
No Emblems May Cover License Tags
If any part of your 1956 automobile license plate is covered either by a campus parking permit or any other emblem, you may find a ticket on your windshield after Jan. 1.
John Hazelet, chief of the Lawrence Police Department, said this morning that a state law and a Lawrence city ordinance prohibit the covering of license plates in any manner. This law has not been fully enforced in the past, he said, but as soon as the 1956 plates are in use it will be. The main reason for the crackdown is that at time motor cars in Kansas will carry only one license plate. It must be fastened to the rear of the vehicle.
Chief Hazelet pointed out that students with parking permits are common violators of this law. He suggested that students attach the permit on the back of the tag instead of on the identifying side.
New Phone System Is Proving Successful
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—(U.P.)-The Southwestern Bell Telephone Company said today its new system of two-letters, five-digit dialing, which brought a change in the phone numbers of more than three-quarters of a million persons, caused fewer errors than expected.
The new numbers went into effect throughout greater Kansas City on Dec. 4. Between 9 a.m., Dec. 4 and 9 a.m. yesterday, electronic devices showed 243,000 errors in dialing were made. That wasn't bad, the company indicated, since the system handled 1,800,000 calls during the period. The error rate, spokesmen said, was approximately 14 out of 100.
Students To Give Talks Tonight In Workshop
"Know Your University" will be the theme of talks to be given by 16 Speech I students in workshops at 8 p.m. today and 8 p.m. Thursday in Strong Auditorium.Eight students will speak each night The public is invited.
The 16 were selected from a group of 50 last week. Judges were members of the faculty of the Department of Speech and Drama.
"There will be no winners named in the workshops," William Conboy, assistant professor of speech, said. "The program is designed not to determine winners, but to provide an educational experience outside the classroom," he explained.
The speakers tonight are: Janis Irvine, Stafford freshman; Edward Wakeland, Caney senior; Larry Walter, Lewis sophomore; Joyce Elliott, Independence, Mo., freshman; Robert D. Murphy, Kansas City, Mo., freshman; Diana Schur, Minneapolis junior; Russell Beasley, Topke sophomore, and Sandra James, Wichita sophomore.
Speakers Thursday will be: John Reinert, Park Ridge, Ill., sophomore; Barbara Booker, Augusta freshman; William R. Baker, Kansas City, Kan., freshman; David Ontjes, Stafford freshman; Dorothy Wohlgemuth, Cummings freshman; Ann Nichols, Hutchinson freshman; Steve Schmidt, Salina junior, and Ronald K. Miller, Kansas City, Mo., freshman.
372 Receive Shots To Stop Influenza
Yesterday was the biggest day for the influenza vaccination program at Watkins Hospital as 117 persons received shots.
A total of 372 students, faculty members and families of both have received the protection shots so far this month.
Hospital officials said the daily number of vaccinations must increase greatly if the goal of vaccinating two-thirds of the student body is reached before the Christmas vacation.
John Stephens, Stafford senior,
has been appointed picture editor
of The Daily Kansan by Gretchen
Guinn, managing editor.
Named Picture Editor
Georgia Student Uprising Spreads
ATLANTA, Ga. (U.P.) - Students at Emory University and the University of Georgia, angered because a new segregation sports policy will hurt Georgia teams' reputations, burned Gov. Marvin Griffin in effigy on two fronts late last night.
They were the third and fourth institutions in the state to burn the governor in effigy since he asked the state Board of Regents to prevent Georgia Tech from meeting Pittsburgh, which has a Negro player, in the Sugar Bowl.
The tech staff cuts.
The new constructions broke out a few hours after the regents adopted a compromise racial policy that will allow Tech to play in the Sugar Bowl Jan. 2, but will probably bar state-supported schools from future integration in Southern football games.
Tech Still Goes To Bowl
There was widespread fear that the new policy would doom both Georgia and Georgia Tech, which together have been to 14 major bowl games in the past 15 years, as national football powers.
Spread To Girls' Dorm
Spread To Girls' Dorm
Athens police took into custody about 15 Georgia students as they turned their demonstration into a mild panty raid after their march downtown and the effigy burning.
Shortly after Gov. Griffin asked the regents to take action against Tech last Friday, some 2,000 Tech students burned the governor in effigy at least six times, and then marched on the state capitol and the executive mansion.
The regents adopted on a vote of 13 to one yesterday the new rule which would enforce segregation in the stands and on the field of games played in Georgia.
Students at Mercer University, a Baptist-supported school in Macon, Ga., also had burned the governor in effigy.
Look Out For The Prof
CHOPPING THROUGH THE WALL—Firemen from the Lawrence Fire Department chop through the wall of the Museum of Art to get at the fire, as Henry Firner, KU electrical foreman, looks on.
—(Daily Kansan Photo)
ArtWork Damaged By Fire In Museum
A fire broke out shortly before 11 a.m. today in the Museum of Art. Damage to the building from the blaze was not extensive, but smoke damage to the art works may be more serious.
Stateswomen's Club Holds Dinner Tonight
The Stateswomen's Club, an organization of former members of Girls State, will hold a dinner at 6 p.m. today in the English Room of the Student Union. Dr. Francis Heller, associate professor of political science, will give a talk.
Faculty Leads In Campus Accidents
By BOB LYLE
(Assistant Telegraph Editor of
The Daily, Kansas)
A survey of University campus traffic accidents for the first nine months of 1955 indicates that 75 percent of all collisions involve parking maneuvers, and that students have a lower accident rate than do members of the faculty and University emplores.
The traffic engineering class of the civil engineering department, directed by Thurmul McMahon, assistant professor of civil engineering, is keeping a record of this year's traffic mishaps. In the future the class plans extensive comparative studies using the accident figures of past years.
The information gathered in the survey will be offered to the University traffic committee for use in determining the parking and traffic policy on the campus.
Average $115 An Accident The average estimated damage for accidents on the University campus is $115 an accident, which is relatively minor with the costs of repair and labor as high as they are, the survey reports.
the policy on the campus
Average $115 An Accident
A total of $22\frac{1}{2}$ per cent of drivers involved in accidents were faculty members and employees. Sixty-nine per cent of the accidents involved students and $8\frac{1}{2}$ per cent involved other vehicles. The lower student rate is based on an accident-vehicle ratio.
A total of 14 per cent of the vehicles which operate daily on Jayhawk Boulevard are faculty owned and operated vehicles. More than 50 per cent of the accidents happened during the first three months of 1955.
"The lower student rate is not surprising, as their perception and reaction time in an accident situation is much shorter," said Joe Skillman, chief of the campus police. "This enables them to avoid accidents many times when an older person could not react as quickly."
"It is true that students often operate motor vehicles in a reckless manner and do not exercise the caution that older persons do," Chief Stillman said. "It is a wonder they are not involved in more accidents than they are."
Highest In First 3 Months The survey shows that the accident rate was highest in the first three months of the year during unfavorable weather condition. Although Prof. McMahon did not release any totals because no concrete analysis had been made, he said that the new traffic regulations may result in a lowering of the accident rate over that of previous years.
These changes include elimination of parking on the south side of Jayhawk Boulevard and larger parking lots.
The eight-student class is keeping an accident spot map which shows the site of every on-campus accident. Past studies indicate an average daily traffic of nearly 7,000 vehicles with some day's total nearly 10,000 vehicles.
If the program of study progresses sufficiently, the School of Engineering may offer a major in highway and traffic safety, Prof. McMahon said.
The fact that 75 per cent of the accidents involve parking maneuvers, pulling away from the curb, and backing into or side-swiping parked vehicles parallels the accident situation in downtown Lawrence, Prof. McMahon said.
The blaze was discovered by Robert Branner, assistant professor of art history, in his classroom in the basement of the museum.
The fire, which started in a special humidity controlling air conditioning system, burned upward inside the north wall and into the floor of the main gallery.
An estimate of the damage has not been made yet.
The greatest damage to the building was caused when fiecem cut into the floor and wall in order to get to the source of the blaze.
The windows of the building were all closed so that the humidity could be controlled. Edward P. Maser, director of the museum, said that the humidity control unit had not been functioning properly and that men had been working on it only 20 minutes before the blaze was discovered.
Mr. Maser said that the paintings could be darkened by the smoke and, if so, would have to be cleaned to preserve them.
The paintings and rugs in the portion of the building in which the smoke was heaviest were removed by students in Mr. Branner's class.
Three fire trucks from the down-town unit of the Lawrence Fire Department answered the call.
Attends NROTC Meeting
Capt. Virgil F. Gordonin, NROTC professor, this week is attending a conference at the Bureau of Naval Personnel in Washington, D.C.
Weather
Partly cloudy and warmer with increasing southwestier winds this afternoon. Partly cloudy and windy tonight and tomorrow. Warmer tonight and in the southeast portion tomorrow. Low tonight 25-30 west to 30s in the east.