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Research Center's Work Includes Pamphlets, Schools
If you are a typical student, chances are you know little about the work of one of the University's busiest divisions—the Governmental Research Center.
Nearly a half century old, the Center devotes research, publications and training schools to state and local problems.
One phase of present research includes the study of administrative histories of the state's major agencies. A booklet on the State Board of Health was published recently.
Consultation services are part of the research. Staff members study problems, such as city parking and city zoning, and then make recommendations to the city government. They finished a community planning survey for Iola, Kan., last year and now are finishing a city zoning and annexation plan at Anthony, Kan.
Publications Issued
Publications are a big part of the Center's services. Besides the series of booklets on histories of state agencies, citizenship pamphlets are published. The pamphlets are designed for laymen to use in discussion groups on public issues. Statistical information on state and local finance also is published.
A monthly publication, Your Government, concerns state problems such as education, wildlife conservation and voting inadequacies. The next issue will be on municipal debt in Kansas. A weekly news release is sent to newspapers throughout the state informing them of research being conducted. Publications are not available.
Publications are sent to public
Mummer's Play To Be Given Tomorrow
A mummer's play, "St. George and the Dragon," will be given at noon tomorrow in the Hawk's Nest of the Student Union. The five-minute play is part of "Gammer Gurton's Needle," the University Theatre production to be given in Fraser Theatre Wednesday through Saturday.
In the cast are Kenneth Evans, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore; Dee Richards, Hutchinson senior; Bob Dumkroger, Clay Center senior; and George Edwards, Kansas City, Kan., junior.
The nummer's play is free. Student ID cards will admit to "Gammer Gurton's Needle."
libraries in the state as well as to 60 or 70 high school libraries. The Center exchanges them with material from other state and foreign research agencies. Publications are free to students.
Schools And Workshops Held
The third major phase of the division's work concerns training schools and workshops. Schools are held for public officials, including city clerks, law enforcement officers, county clerks and recreational directors. These schools have drawn officials from Missouri, Colorado, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Virginia.
Staff members often speak to such groups as Hi-Y, Girls State and the Kansas League of Women Voters. Last year, the Center provided 45 speakers for group functions.
The Research Center recently co-sponsored the Kansas Citizenship Clearing House, a program designed to interest students in politics. Workshops are held for various groups who want assistance.
Directed by Dr. Ethan P. Allen, professor of political science, the Governmental Research Center has a full-time staff of nine, and a part-time staff of seven political science teachers and nine graduate students. There are six members of the secretarial staff.
Speed--up
HARBOR SPRINGS, Mich. — (U.P)
-While officials in scores of Michigan communities are talking about reducing speed limits, this northern Michigan community has increased the speed limit on its main street from 25 to 40 miles an hour in the residential area and from 25 to 30 miles an hour in the business district.
Berlioz's "Harold in Italy" was the outstanding number in the concert given by the University Symphony Orchestra yesterday in Hoch Auditorium. Karl Blaas, assistant professor of music theory and viola, was viola soloist.
Orchestra Gives Concert
The orchestra was directed by Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and orchestra.
"Harold In Italy" suggests the wanderings of Byron's "Childe Harold." The interweaving of the plaintive viola theme and the orchestra accompaniment created a beautiful number.
The program was opened with the overture from Mozart's "Flight from the Harem." Beethoven's "Symphony No. 7" was the other concert presentation.
The beautiful music was exceptionally well-played. The audience gave each number warm and prolonged applause.
$10,388 Received For Bacteria Study
A third-year renewal of a research project sponsored by the U.S. Public Health Service has been received by the University.
Dr. Cora M. Downs, professor of bacteriology, has been granted $10,-388 to continue research for a "Rapid Diagnosis of Tularemia and Rickettial Diseases."
The bacteriology laboratory supervised by Dr. Downs serves as a regional research center in the Civilian Defense set-up.
Illinois produces about 40,000,- 000 bushels of wheat annually and two-thirds of it is grown in the southern third of the state.
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Gorton Elected Music Head
Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts was reelected Friday to the presidency of the Kansas Music Teachers Association which met at Salina. He also was elected to the Association's executive committee for a three year term.
The KU Chorale under the direction of Clayton Krehbiel, assistant professor of music education, performed in the opening session, an. Bruce Linton, associate professor of speech and journalism, was a panel participant.
Other KU faculty attending were Laurel E. Anderson, professor of organ and theory; Roy Hamlin Johnson, professor of piano, and Karel Blaas, professor of violin.
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(Author of "Barefoot Boy With Cheek," etc.)
THE GIFT HORSE
Today's column is about Christmas gift suggestions, and I suppose you think I'll begin by suggesting Philip Morris, Well, the joke on you. I'll do no such thing. Why should I? Anyone with two brains to knock together knows that Philip Morris makes an absolutely smashing Christmas gift. Only a poor afflicted soul with atrophied taste bud needs to be told about the new Philip Morris; its bracing flavor; its freshness, lightness, pleasantness, gentleness; its truth, its beauty, its brotherliness in this discordant world of ours. So why should I waste time telling you what you already know?
Let us, instead, turn to less obvious gift suggestions. Here's one I bet you never thought of:
Christmas is the best time of year, but it is also the beginning of winter. How about a gift that reminds one that though winter has come, spring is not far behind? I refer, of course, to Easter chicks. (Similarly, on Easter one can give Christmas chicks.)
Next, we take up the problem, common to all undergraduates, of trying to buy gifts when you have no money. To this dilemma I say-Faugh! It is not the price of the gift that counts; it is the sentiment behind it.
Take, for example, the case of Outerbridge Sigafoos. Outerbridge, a sophomore, finding himself without funds last Christmas, gave his girl a bottle of good clear-water and a nice smooth rock, attaching this touching message to the gift:
And here's a rock.
Here's some water
I love you, daughter.
Around the clock.
And the whole delightful gift cost Outerbridge less than a penny!
I am compelled to report, however, that Outerbridge's girl did not receive these offerings in the spirit in which they were tendered. In fact, she flew into a fit of pique, smashed the bottle on the rock and stabbed Outerbridge with the jagged edge. But the experience was not without value for Outerbridge. First, he discovered that the girl was not his type at all. Second, he learned how to make a tourniquet.
But I digress. Let's examine now a common complaint of Christmas shoppers: "What do you get for someone who has everything?"
To this I reply, "Does he?" Does he, for instance, have a unicycle? A sled dog? A serf? A burnoose? A hairball? A bung starter? (The bung starter, incidentally, was invented by two enormously talented men, Fred Bung and Otho Starter. Their partnership thrived from the very start, and there is no telling to what heights they might have risen had they not split up over a silly argument. It seems that Bung was a firm believer in reincarnation; Starter was just as firm a disbeliever. Bung insisted so violently on the truth of reincarnation and Starter scoffed so positively that they finally decided to go their separate ways. Singly, alas, the two fared badly. Starter gave up business altogether, joined the army, and was killed at San Juan Hill in 1898. He is today buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Bung drifted from job to job until he died of breakbone fever in Elizabeth, N. J., in 1902. He is today a llama in Uruguay.)
©Max Shulman, 1955
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