Daily Hansan
kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Tuesday, Nov. 8, 1955.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
53rd Year, No. 40
GOP Points Up Prosperity Issue For Campaign
Compiled By Kansan Editors
Nomination contests in both political parties, and a look at broader election issues were in the political news today with the statement by Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) that he expects most of the "favorite son" candidates to throw their support eventually to Adlai E. Stevenson, and with Republicans still relying on the current prosperity and peace as campaign issues.
President Eisenhower's illness still overshadows talk of Republican nominees but the Republicans are looking past the nomination to the general election. If the President decides not to run again, the Republican campaign will be waged on the issues of peace and prosperity. It is a strange kind of peace, an uneasy one.
But there is nothing strange about the prosperity plank as of today, just 12 critical months before next year's presidential election. The boom is on. The reports of personal and corporation income and treasury revenue sound it loud and long.
What the Republicians have to fear is the possibility that the boom will ease off between now and election day. That could be deadly.
Even though some farm prices are down and others—pork for example—are seriously depressed, the national economy is setting new records. Personal income in September was reopened the highest in the nation's history—at a rate of $307,500,-000,000 annually if sustained for a year.
All of this represents a lot of money, a lot of buying, and a lot of jobs—a boom time economy. A tax cut next year, a presidential campaign year, seems almost assured. And there seems a fair prospect that the budget shortly will be balanced—a feat Mr. Eisenhower promised when he ran in 1952.
With these money figures come government reports that October employment was 65,161,000—up nearly half a million over September and more than 3 million above October. 1954.
On the Democratic front, consolidation of various factions seemed closer with Adalai Stevenson expected to announce his candidacy for the 1956 nomination from Chicago next week.
Calendar Queen To Be Announced
An estimated 700 seniors turned out for the senior coffee hour this morning, the largest such gathering in several years, according to William Buck, Kansas City, Kan., senior activities chairman.
The seniors were given tickets which will admit them to sit in a reserved section at the game. Pennants with "1956" on them were sold and will continue to be on sale at the Student Union concession stand. Seniors not at the coffee may pick up tickets at 226 Strong.
The seniors voted on the calendar queen. Her identity will be announced Friday, Buck said. The queen will be crowned before the KU-Oklahoma A&M game Saturday, which is senior day.
Honking cars, carrying pennantwaving seniors, paraded over the campus after the coffee hour.
Molotov Secretive On Big 4 Deadlock
GENEVA — (U.R.)— Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov flew to Geneva today from three days of conferences with top Kremlin officials. He gave no clue as to whether he brought concessions to break the Big Four deadlock over Germany.
Western diplomats expressed hope that new Soviet proposals would save the Big Four foreign ministers conference from foundering on the subject of German reunification when they resumed the meeting.
CROP Collection Starts Tonight
One hundred University students will help in a door-to-door canvass of Lawrence tonight for money for CROP (Christian Rural Overseas Program).
The students are members of various religious organizations on the campus. The quota for the Douglas County drive is $4,500, which is enough to buy 15 carloads of dried milk.
The Rev. Norman Brandt, pastor of the Immanuel Lutheran Church, and the Rev. E. E. Klein, minister to Baptist students, are in charge of the student drive.
The Rev. Mr. Klein said the money collected will be sent to national headquarters in Elkhart, Ind. It will be used to buy government surplus dried milk to be sent overseas to needy countries.
university students helped in the drive last years. Enough money was collected in Douglas County to buy milk, dried milk, the Rev. Mr. Klein said.
He added that Kansas is one of the states which gives the most liberally to CROP.
'Land Of Dragon' To Open
"The Land of the Dragon," a Chinese fantasy for children, will open at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Studio Theater of Green Hall. The play, the second of the Studio Theater series, will run through Friday. Student ID cards will admit.
Two shows for children will be given at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday.
The heroine, Princess Jade Pure, strives to gain her rightful kingdom from her wicked aunt, Precious Harp. A young dragon, Small One, and his friend, Road Wanderer, help the princess overcome her evil relatives. Road Wanderer loves Jade
"The Land of the Dragon" is a Chinese fairy tale written by Madge Miller, an American.
Pure and needs the help of his dragon friend in winning her affection.
The picture shows Ann Straub, Chicago junior, (right) as "Princess Pure" rehearsing with fellow thespians Glenn Pierce, Lawrence sophomore, playing the "Road Wanderer" and Jeri Lynn Sanders, Prairie Village junior, playing "Small One the Dragon."
Weather
Generally fair this afternoon, tonight and Wednesday. Warmer west and north this afternoon and over state tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight generally in lower 30s. High Wednesday 60 to 65.
DEAN FOR A DAY CANDIDATES—Only two of the 28 students above will be acting deans of women when all women students attending an AWS meeting at 4 p.m. tomorrow in Fraser Theater vote for their candidates. The two selected will assume the duties of Dean Martha Peterson at 8 a.m. Thursday, lasting throughout the day. First row—Peggy Whitney, Topeka senior; Ann Rumsey, Lawrence junior; Prissy Schartz, Ellinwood senior; Eve Stevenson, Salina freshman; Juliane Keeter, Clovis, N.M. senior; Kala Mays, Great Bend freshman, and Mert Seaton, Ponca City, Okla., junior. Second row—Mary Jo Huyck, Bethel senior; Sue Smith, Kansas City, Mo., freshman;
Salli Willen, Manhattan freshman; Sara Diebert, Irving senior; Pete Doty, Mission senior; Jo Ann Boswell, Kansas City, Mo., senior; Mary Emily Parsons, Kansas City senior, and Suzanne Schwantes, Winfield senior. Third row—Barbara Beye, Larned junior; Nancy Barta, Wichita senior; Barbara Bryan, Mission freshman; Carol Schowengerdt, Raytown, Mo., junior; Gladys Henry, Abilene senior; Kay Davis, Kansas City, Mo., junior; Becky Breese, El Dorado senior; Yvonne Schenck, Blue Springs, Mo., junior; Marjorie Heard, Russell senior; Mary Ellen Lewis, Winfield senior; Mary Ann Taylor, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, and Deanna Holmes, Lawrence
freshman.—(Daily Kansan Photo)
21 Nominated For Homecoming Queen Title
Twenty-one women students have been nominated for 1955 Homecoming Queen.
Twenty organized women's houses each named a candidate and a petition brought in the name of another, Dr. Ted Metcalf, associate professor of bacteriology and chairman of the queen committee, said today.
Candidates will be judged on the basis of personal, informal interviews with the judges, who will be eight faculty members and two Lawrence businessmen. The queen and her attendants will be announced at the Homecoming Follies Friday night, Nov. 18 on the eve of the Homecoming football game between Kansas and Missouri.
The queen candidates and the houses they represent: Elaine Mae Arnold, Kansas City, Mo. senior, Locksey Hall; Shirley Baker, Garden City junior, Templin Hall; Barbara Barnhill, Kansas City, Kan. junior, Sigma Kappa; Joyce Bell, Mission sophomore, Alpha Chi Omega; Isabel Bolin, Mission junior, Gamma Phi Beta; Donna Daise, Rupeton sophomore, Sellards Hall; Grace Favors, Kansas City, Kan. senior, Grace Pearson Hall; Mary Fischer, St. Louis, Mo. junior, Alpha Omicron Pi; Joyce Goode, Overland Park sophomore, Delta Gamma;
Jane Hewitt, Wichita sophomore, Kappa Alpha Theta; Joyce Klemp, Leavenworth sophomore, Watkins Hall; Marilyn Krueger, Natoma sophomore, Alpha Delta Pi; Gennelle Linville, Salina sophomore, Alpha Phi; Marjorie Mahoney, Russell sophomore, Chi Omega; Shelley Markle, Lyons junior. Foster Hall; Dorothy Louise McClure, Oak Park, Ill. junior, by petition; Dorothy Ann Robins, Halstead sophomore, Miller Hall; Wansley Sharp, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore, Delta Delta Delta; Sherlie Steffens, Kansas City, Kan. sophomore, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Ann Straub, Chatham Park, Ill. junior, Pi Beta Pie; Wanda Wellier, Oberlin sophomore, Douthart Hall. The follies will be entitled "Left-overs of 1955."
The variety show will be part of Homecoming activities Friday night, Nov. 18, in Allen Field House. It will include acts from outstanding productions and talent from the organized houses, and will feature a precision drill by the Angel Flight, a can-can by 30 freshman women, and the Ku Ku's "Oriental Pep Rally," complete with an "imported" dancing cheerleader.
The highlight of the Follies will be the presentation of 10 finalists for Homecoming queen and the crowning of the queen.
Nat Eek, speech instructor, is chairman of the Follies committee and director of the show.
Rehearsals will start in the Field House at 8 p.m. Thursday. Master of ceremonies and narrators are still needed and should tryout at this time, Mr. Eek said.
Waggoner To Meet Watkins Scholars
Dean George R. Waggoner of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet with Elizabeth M. Watkins scholars at 7:15 p.m. today in the Pine Room of the Student Union.
Dean Waggoner and the group will discuss the College administrative committee's experimental advisory program in which 32 freshmen are participating.