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Thursday, Oct. 13, 1955. University Daily Kansan
KU Sponsors River Project
The University and Resources for the Future, Inc., are co-sponsors of a Kansas basin project, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy announced. The project will be devoted to studies of resource utilization in the Kansas river basin.
Dr. Charles C. Colby, formerly Chairman of the Department of Geography at the University of Chicago and now visiting research professor of geography at KU, has been named director of the project. Professor Colby has had experience in the study of land and water resources and has served as consultant with the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Headquarters Commission of the United Nations, and with both private and public enterprises.
During the first year the work of the Kansas basin project is to be divided into two parts. The first part will consist of the preparation of a pilot study of the basin, the second of the deliberations of an interdisciplinary faculty seminar.
Research By Staff
Dr. Colby Named Director
Dr. George F. Jenks, associate professor of geography, will devote time to the Kansas Basin Project as chief cartographer. Dr. Jenks is author of the Kansas Atlas and is nationally recognized as a leader in creative cartography.
The research during the first year will be conducted by members of the project staff and faculty members. The Departments of geography, geology, political science, history, sociology, economics, and zoology, the State Geological Survey, the Bureau of Governmental Research, and the Bureau of Business Research will be represented.
Dia That Crazy Hole
LOS ANGELES—(U.P.)—Airline executive Don Fry discovered a five foot hole had been dug on the front lawn of his Van Nuys home for the erection of a 40 foot tower and air raid siren. City public works officers said they did not know who ordered the hole dug.
Official Bulletin
Items for the Official Bulletin must be brought to the Public Relations office, 222-A Strong, before 9:30 a.m. on the day of publication. Do not bring Bulletin or Public Relations office should include name, place, date, and time of function.
Museum of Art Record Concert, 4 p.m.
Sauce's murders
Today
Baptist Student Union, devotions and prayer, 12:30 to 12:50 p.m., Danforth Chapel. Meets every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
Der Deutsche Verein-5 Uhr in 502 Fraser, Koeffleakatsch, Liederinger, Erschirungen. Alle herzlich eingeladen! Films on Art, 7.30 p.m. and 9 p.m. Film on Art, 18th Century in Williamsburg (color), Salzburg (Black and white).
American Society of Tool Engineers, 7:30 p.m. Room 300, Fowler, Speaker: Mr. Phillip Flemming, Plastics Engineer, Bendix Aviation. "New Developments in Plastics and the Development of Isocyanate Forms."
Fulbright Forum, 4 p.m. Fraser Theater. Students interested in overseas study under Fulbright program are in-
Engineering Council, 7:30 p.m., dean's office.
Graduate Club, 7:30 p.m., Jayhawk Room. Student Union. Discussion: "Are the Social Sciences Sciences?" Panel, Mona Bajigui and Lillian Blake.
The Christian Science Organization, 1809 S. 5th St. Students, faculty and friends invited
Newman Club choir practice 7:30
p.m. All members and interested studen-
tists welcome
Poetry Hour, 4 p.m. Music Room, Stu-
dio Theater, Hopkins Hall
Reader: James L. Wortzki
Museum of Art Record Concert, noon
and evening Museum Berlioz Lille
The Return to Lille
Sociology Club, 4 p.m. Room 11,
Strong Annex E. Richard D. Robinson
presents colored film: "A Day in a Turkish
Village."
Museum of Art film on art, 7:30 p.m.
Quill Club, 7:17-5 p.m. on front of Fraser where we will proceed to Dr. Meserve's home, 924 Madeline Lane.
Bring any manuscripts you wish to read to group.
Tomorrow
KIU Christian Fellowship, Missionary
Meeting,
12 noon, Dr. Bill Allen
and 1 pm.
Hillel Services, 7:30-8:00, Jewish Community Center, 1409 Tenn. Refreshments
Smoke Leads To Big Fire
K. U. Mennonite Fellowship, 7:30 p.m. Get acquainted with Massachusetts. Get acquainted social.
SIMSBURY, Conn. —(U,R)—Two sheds of tobacco were destroyed by fire today. Police blamed the $80,000 blaze on a careless smoker.
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*Reinhold Schmidt, bass-baritone, will sing at the opening concert of the faculty recital series in Strong Auditorium at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19. He will be accompanied by Marian Jersild, assistant professor of piano.
Schmidt Sets Song Recital
900 Mass.
The program will consist of the song cycle, "Die Winterreise" by Franz Schubert, composed in 1827 to a text by Wilhelm Mueller. The cycle is rarely heard in its complete version, as it will be performed on this faculty recital. It is open to the public.
New York Doctor To Speak On Heart
Mr. Schmidt, professor of voice, has been the principal bass-baritone of the Philadelphia Civic Opera Company and the Chicago Opera Company. He has also sung with the Kansas City and the Detroit Symphony Orchestras, and has appeared with many oratorio societies in the East and Midwest. He received national recognition as soloist and musical director of the "Contented Hour" radio program.
He has been at the University since 1949.
Small amounts of linseed oil poured into the container before putty is stored will keep it from drying out.
History Club To Hear Humanities Lecturer
Dr. William Dock, professor of medicine at New York University, will give the annual Porter lectures Tuesday and Wednesday at the University School of Medicine in Kansas City, Kan.
Dr. Leo Gershoy, professor of history at New York University and humanities lecturer, will speak at 7 p.m. Monday on the "Idea of History in the Later 18th Century" at the History Club meeting in the Jayhawk Room of the Student Union.
The Porter lectureship was established in 1929 from funds left by Dr. J. L. Porter of Paola.
He will speak on heart pulsations at 4 p.m. Tuesday and on heart sounds at 4 p.m. Wednesday in Battenford Auditorium at the Medical Center. At 11 a.m. Wednesday he will speak in Strong Auditorium on "Coronary Disease—the Professor's Friend."
Special guests will be Western Civilization instructors and members of Pi Delta Phi, honorary French organization. The meeting is open to the public.
Settin' The Woods On Fire
TOKYO—(U.P.)—Sanzo Sato, 32, was arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a farmer's house and confessed he also started four other fires. Authorities learned Sato has an abnormal desire to start fires when he is drunk. Sato is a fireman.
South American Dances Shown
The Columbus Day dance, sponsored by Le Cercle Français, La Tertulia and El Ateneo, was held last night as foreign students from South America demonstrated the rumba, cumbia and the cha-cha.
Aida Guardiola, graduate student from Puerto Rico, and Mario Weitzner, junior from Vera Cruz, Mexico, demonstrated the cha-cha-cha. The audience followed them to pick up some of the steps.
Ayda Lopez, graduate student from Cartagena Calle, Colombia, and Hector Orjuela, assistant instructor in Spanish, danced the cumbia, a candle-light dance, wearing native costumes. "The Four Engineers and a Female Bacteriologist" also added several Latin American songs.
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