Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
Friday, Dec. 2, 1955.
53rd Year, No. 55
IT DOESNT HURT—Jack D. Fisher, Peabody senior, receives a free influenza vaccination at Watkins Hospital. The nurse is Mrs. Grace Brown.—(Daily Kansan Pohto)
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
To Avoid Dread Influenza, You'd Better Get Shots Now
Influenza vaccination of students has increased, but not enough, Watkins Hospital officials said. Only 80 students had received the free shots by 4 p.m. yesterday.
Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, Health Service director, said he hoped that at least 4,000 students are vaccinated before the Christmas vacation. However, this would mean speeding up the daily number of shots.
Hospital officials said the major problem in the vaccination program is that students won't take the time to stop at the hospital to get the shots.
"If two-thirds of the student population receive the shots, there is a pretty good chance of preventing or controlling a mild epidemic of influenza," he said.
Students also feel that since there isn't an epidemic at present they have plenty of time to get the shot, Dr. Canuteson said. Some believe the vaccine may have an effect on them and interfere with activities. This is not true, Dr. Canuteson explained, as only in a few cases will the vaccine irritate a small area of the arm.
Each shot, which contains one- tenth cubic centimeter of vaccine, will protect a student for six months or more. The immunity possibly may last for nine months.
"The importance of this protection program for students is great enough for us to think about setting up stations in various buildings on the campus, if we are forced into taking such action," Dr. Canuteson said.
Military Ball Due Tomorrow
Coronation ceremonies for the 1955 Military Ball Queen will take place tomorrow night during the Military Ball intermission.
The West Point-style ceremony will include a saber arch formed by members of Scabbard and Blade. The queen finalists will walk under it to the platform. The master of ceremonies, Richard C. Shaw, Wichita sophomore, will announce the queen who will be crowned by Capt. James M. Elliot, commander of the Olathe Naval Air Station.
The three services' official crests will decorate the walls of the ballroom, and a large shield of the flag colors will provide a backdrop for the bandstand.
Special guests will include Col. Leslie Griffith, chief of the Kansas Military District, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, and deans from the various schools of the University.
The crown is a silver tiara,
studded with pearls and rhinestone.
Names of former queens
are engraved on it.
Warren Durrett's orchestra will play.
Turnpike Authority Stymied By Above-Estimate Bids
TOPEKA—(U.P.)—The Kansas turnpike authority today ran up against above-estimate bids for constructing toll plazas and maintenance buildings along the 236-mile four-lane road.
Louis Strup, KTA director of public relations said the other bids
In all but two instances contractors' quotations were substantially higher than estimates of turnpike engineers. Within the 10 per cent overage allowable were bids for toll plazas at the eastern terminal of the turnpike, at the edge of Kansas City, and near Bonner Springs.
Cahill Construction Company of Kansas ity, Mo., bid $92,175, only $175 over the cost estimate, for the Kansas City toll plaza. S. R Brunn of Kansas City, Mo., offered to do the work at Bonner Springs for $23,813.20, where the estimate was $22,720.
The KTA also opened bids for a private communications system involving both microwave and very high frequency radio. Turnpike engineers will study the bids and make recommendations to authority members, who meet December 12.
probably would be rejected, and that the authority may negotiate with contractors in the areas. He said the bids evidenced disinterest of contractors based some distance from the projects in getting the work.
Bidding were Federal Telephone and Radio Corp., General Electric Co., Motorola, R.C.A., Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., and Westinghouse Electric.
2 Kansas Deaths, 68 In Nation, Spoil S-D Day
T O P E K A — (U.P.) — Kansas,
like the nation, had to list S-D
Dav a partial failure.
It suffered two traffic deaths more than the daily average for all year. During S-D Day 1954 there were no Kansas fatalities.
The highway patrol also reported 22 persons were injured.
One adverse factor was hazardous driving conditions through much of the state as roads became slick from a light covering of snow or freezing rain.
Kansas' traffic fatalities for the year now have climbed to 521 compared with 559 on this date in 1954.
- p. 328 - Disappropriate
Safety expert assessed keen disappointment today because the nation apparently failed to heed the S-D Day campaign.
A United Press count listed 68 persons killed in traffic during the 24-hour period which ended at midnight last night.
Two weeks ago, when a sample count was taken on an ordinary Thursday, 69 persons were killed.
California and Ohio competed for the worst record, each reporting eight traffic deaths. There were six in Tennessee, four in both New York and Pennsylvania, and three each in Missouri, Michigan, and Washington, which usually posts a top safety record.
Across the nation, there were fatal traffic accidents in 21 states, while death took a holiday in the 27 others and the District of Columbia.
Snow Adds To Rate
Snowy weather swept the midwest and the accident rate nosed upward throughout the area. Missouri's three fatalities all occurred on icy highways during the last half of S-D Day.
The nation's two major cities, New York and Chicago, reported no traffic deaths. But there were plenty of accidents. In New York there were 173 smashups and 80 persons injured, while Chicago, mired in snow and slush, reported 171 accidents and 45 injuries.
Detroit, another snowbound city, had 231 accidents, and Houston. Tex., counted 103.
Mercury To Dip In Kansas Again
A fresh blast of winter is due to hit Kansas tonight. The latest forecast calls for cold northerly winds to whip into the state bringing snow and sharply falling temperatures.
Blowing and drifting snow is predicted in northwest and north-central Kansas during the night and in the northeast Saturday.
Temperatures likely will fall to lows of 15-20 in the northwest, but should remain at a mild 40-degree level in the southeast ahead of the storm.
Drizzle and fog continued over eastern and southern Kansas during the forenoon and spread into other state areas and on up into southern Nebraska.
The cold front will displace mild temperatures which Kansas has experienced the last 24 hours after a persistent cold snap earlier in the week
Brazilian Cellist Plays Wednesday
Aldo Parisot, a Brazilian cellist who has become well-known in this country through his appearances with major symphony orchestras, will appear at 8:20 p.m. Wednesday in Hoch Auditorium. The program is a KU Concert Course presentation. Student ID cards will admit.
During the current winter season Mr. Parisot will make his fifth appearance with the New York Philharmonic Symphony, presenting the new cello concerto written for him by the Brazilian composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos. Mr. Parisot has appeared with the Pittsburgh Symphony seven times, and with those of Cincinnati, Springfield, New Haven and other cities.
He plays a Montagnana cello, dated 1739, which is called "The Sleeping Princess" because it remained unplayed in the posession of an English family for over 100 years. It is one of the finest examples of the craft of Montagnana.
Mr. Parisot, born in Natal, Brazil, made his first public appearance at the age of 12 when he played with the orchestra in his home town. When he was 18 he went to Rio de Janeiro to study. There and in São Paulo he appeared frequently in recitals, and as soloist with Brazilian orchestras.
He organized and performed with the celebrated Jacovino Quartet, noted for introducing many new works of Villa-Lobos.
Mr. Parisot came to the United States in 1946, and made his debut the next year at the Berkshire Festival. For several seasons he was first cellist with the Pittsburgh Symphony. He relinquished his post and now tours North America annually as a soloist.
Engineering School Receives $500
Phillip Young, Washington, D.C. has donated $500 to the School of Engineering and Architecture, bringing his total donations in four years to $2,150.
The $500 will be added to the dean's contingent fund, used for school improvements for which state funds are not available.
KU Orchestra To Play Sunday
The 80-piece University Symphony Orchestra will present its annual fall concert at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Hoch Auditorium, under the direction of Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and orchestra. Student ID cards admit.
Karel Blaas, assistant professor of theory and viola, will appear as viola soloist in "Harold in Italy" by Berlioz, and will play a viola which he designed and made himself. Prof. Blaas was a member of the first violin and viola sections of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra for 16 years. He studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester.
"Harold in Italy" was written by Berlioz when the great Paganini asked for a composition to exploit a Stradivarius viola he had just acquired. The music is based on Byron's "Childe Harold."
The orchestra will open the concert with the overture from "Flight from the Harem" by Mozart. The music achieves Turkish effects by the use of piccolo, triangle, cymbals and bass drum.
Dean Harold G. Barr of the School of Religion was reported today as "progressing nicely," at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Dean Barr suffered a heart attack last Friday night.
The other number in the concert will be "Symphony No. 7" by Beethoven.
Women in the orchestra will make their first appearance in black, formal uniform gowns recently completed.
Dean Barr Improving
THE BIG MOVE-Through mud and snow, Mary Jane Vosseler, Leavenworth junior, moves some of her belongings into Gertrude-Sellards-Pearson Hall. The women from Foster, Hodder, Monchonsia and Locksley Halls are moving into Gertrude-Sellards-Pearson hall today and tomorrow. —(Daily Kansan Photo)