Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, Sept. 16, 1955.
53rd Year. No. 3
NEW BIRD—University cheerleaders seem enthusiastic as they run to meet a late model Jayhawk during the traditions convocation last night. An older version of the Jayhawk, being abandoned, can be seen peeking out on the right. The skit depicted the evolution of the Jayhawk from a skinny long-legged bird to the strutting specimen of today.
—Kansan photo by Jack Fisher
New Students Learn Traditions At Convocation
" . I will transmit the University better, finer, and stronger than it was transmitted to me." With these words, more than 2,000 new students officially became members of the University in the induction ceremonies last night in Memorial Stadium.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy administered the oath of a lighted torch was carried from the Rock Chalk Cairn to a freshman representative who lit the altar fire.
Dana Anderson, college senior, narrated the skit. James Remsburg, engineering senior, was chairman, and Constance Cloyes, college junior, was assistant chairman.
Earlier in the ceremonies, Chancellor Murphy read the Scripture and explained the symbolism of the fire. L. C. Woodruff, dean of students, interpreted the seal of the University.
Earlier in Hoch Auditorium new students saw a skit showing the origin and history of the Jayhawk, the Crimson and the Blue, the Alma Mater, and the Rock Chalk vell.
Traffic Toll By Counties
TOPEKA — (UP)—One-fourth of Kansas counties went without a traffic fatality during the first half of 1955, the State Accident Records Bureau reported today.
small population. Johnson County, the state's fourth most populous, had the most traffic fatalities for the half-year period. Johnson's 17 accident deaths compared with 15 for both Sedgwick and Wyandotte, first and second in population. Shawnee, the third largest county, had 10 lives lost in traffic mishaps.
The "honor roll" included 26 counties, nearly all of them with small populations.
Wyandotte's 439 persons injured were by far the greatest. Sedgwick suffered 305 traffic injuries, Johnson 286, and Shawnee 182.
The counties without any motor vehicle deaths;
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Barber, Clark, Comanche, Doniphan, Elk, Ellsworth, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Harper, Haskell, Jackson, Kearny, Lane, Mitehell, Osage, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Rush, Stanton, Trego, Washington, Wichita and Woodson.
Weather Outlook:
More Of The Same
Little change is predicted in Kansas weather for the next 36 hours.
A minor cool front in Wyoming and western Nebraska apparently is stalling. It likely will not move over the Kansas border.
Kansas temperatures yesterday climbed to 100 degrees at Wamego, Pittsburgh listed the mildest maximum, 90 degrees. Lows early today ranged from 63 at Goodland to 76 at Concordia.
Charles Ise Ashes On Way
For the next five days the outlook is for temperatures to average 6 to 12 degrees above normal for this season. Low tonight around 65 northwest to 70-75 elsewhere.
The body of Charles Ise, 28-year-old University graduate who was killed in a plane crash in California, has been taken to a Berkeley funeral home for cremation and the ashes will be returned to Lawrence next week, according to word received by his father, Dr. John Ise, retired economics professor.
Is Children. The volume contains the first detailed analysis of living conditions and behavior of all children of a given community. The study was made by Dr. Barker and Dr Wright, and their staff over a six-year period.
Faculty Members Write Textbook
Dr. Roger G. Barker and Dr. Herbert F. Wright, psychology professors, are co-authors of a new psychology textbook, "Midwest and Its Children."
English Knight Opens Lecture Series Tonight
Another son, John Ise Jr. of Berkeley, telephoned his father last night and said arrangements are still incomplete.
Charles Ise, who was graduated in 1945, was killed along with three other persons after their light plane crashed near Lake Pillsbury, Calif. Air and ground search teams found the bodies in the wreckage of the plane yesterday morning after a three-day search through the heavily wooded area. The plane disappeared Sunday after the four rented it from a flying service.
John Ise said he would complete arrangements to go to Baltimore where he will teach at Gouche women's college. The school tern there will begin Sept. 30. Dr. Ise will leave sometime after the ashes of his son are returned to Lawrence He had planned to leave Sept. 14.
Sir Francis Raymond Evershed will begin the Judge Stevens lecture series at 8 p.m. today in Strong Auditorium.
As master of the rolls in the British Royal Courts of Justice, Sir Francis fills a position ranking with that of a justice in the United States Supreme Court.
Other lectures are at 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. The subject for the series is "The Academic and Practical Aspects of English Law Contrasted."
Chancellor and Mrs. Franklin D. Murphy, F. O. Moreau, dean of the School of Law, and Mrs. Moreau, and members of the faculty of the School of Law and their wives will be hosts at a dinner honoring Sir Francis tonight in the Student Union.
Stevenson, in a speech at the opening of Jamaica's Tercentenary Fair, commented on the millions of peoples who have gained independence since World War II.
KINGSTON, Jamaica—(U.P.)-Adlai E. Stevenson said last night he gets a "little bewildered" by the hot-and-cold attitude of some Americans toward the Soviet Union.
Other dinner guests will include several justices of the Kansas Supreme Court and Arthur C. Mellot and Delmas C. Hill, federal district judges for Kansas; Stephan S. Chandler, federal district judge for Oklahoma; Albert Ridge and Albert Reeves, federal district judges for Missouri, and other Kansas district judges and officials of the Kansas Bar Association will be present.
US Attitude Addles Adlai
How to keep these people free and to concert wisdom, resources and energies to resist the aggressive new Communist Imperialism is the immediate challenge to the free world, Stevenson said.
A reception honoring Sir Francis will be healed in the Union following the first lecture. The public is invited to attend the reception, as well as the lecture series.
Stevenson, the Democratic Presidential candidate in 1952, would not say whether he will seek the Democratic nomination for next year's elections.
Campus Television Planned By Spring
Limited experimental television, probably an on-campus closed circuit operation, may be seen on the KU campus this spring. A similar setup is now in operation at the Medical Center in Kansas City,
The second low bid of $1,837,134 was offered by the Frank Quinlan Construction Company of Kansas City. Mo.
The process will take about three weeks, said Keith Lawton, administrative assistant to the chancellor.
Oklahoma City Firm Awarded Building Job
The contract to build a four-story Music and Dramatic Arts building at the University is in the process of being awarded to the low bidder, Harmon Construction Company of Oklahoma City, Okla.
The Harman company recently completed construction work on Carruth-O'Leary Hall, a new men's dormitory, and is the contractor for a 12-story state office building being built in Topeka. Equipment being used on these projects will be used in the construction of the Music and Dramatic Arts building.
The Harmon company's bid of $1,695,187 was far below a state Legislature appropriation of $2,400,000 approved to construct the U-shaped building which will house the School of Fine Arts and University Theatre and dramatic arts, which are now in several buildings on the campus. The bid was near the engineering estimate presented recently.
The building will be situated south of the main campus and north of Allen Field House opened last March. It will have an exterior of brick and native stone covering concrete and steel frame work.
Segmentes of the building will be of different heights, although the top floors will be on the same level. Variations of size in the lower floors will extend down an uneven hillside.
Music classrooms will be housed in the 60 by 310-foot east wing. The east side is to be devoted to drama classes and facilities.
A theater seating 1,148 person will be on the main floor of the west wing, which will be 128 by 327 feet. This section will also house stage and theater workshops and a recital hall 50 by 50 feet which will seat 398 persons.
The entire building will be air-conditioned.
(Picture and related story on Page 7.)
Maybe The Mayor Is Smoqbound?
CHICAGO—(UP)—Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago thinks the smog has gone to the head of Mayor Norris Poulson of Los Angeles
or Norris Powell. Daley said yesterday that a recent statement by Poulson that air travel had eliminated the need for a great city in the midwest is a "smog statement."
Poulson was quoted in an interview as saying:
"With air travel becoming the No. 1 means of transportation and also handling of freight, why, there is no need for a great city in the central part of the United States."
Said Daley, "The ends of the country may be on the East and West coasts, but the heart of the country is in the Midwest."
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Dr. Bruce A. Linton, chairman of the University committee on radio and television, has outlined the TV-radio goals of the University, and listed the equipment and funds.
He said that equipment for a limited closed circuit TV operation would include two camera chains, two television film projectors, audio pickup and lighting equipment, video and audio recorders, and a sound film camera.
In addition, some means of television recording apparatus, either kinescope or television tape would be needed to keep an experimental program record and for replay on other stations.
Dr. Linton said the cost would be between $34,000 and $70,000.
Hopes For Funds
"We have every indication that the present Legislature will act favorably on some kind of appropriation for the limited television set-up," he said. The committee on radio and television is going ahead with preliminary planning for use when it does begin."
Appropriations for television at the University are now pending in the Legislature, and application for a permit has been filed with the Federal Communications Commission, Dr. Linton said. It would permit the University to become part of a state educational network.
The reorganized radio and television setup at KU is keyed to future work in experimental and in more expanded programs, he explained.
Linton In Charge
All broadcasting activities at the University are in charge of Dr. Linton. KANU-KFKU, AM and FM stations, formerly operated independently, are now part of one broadcasting - setup, which also includes KDGU, the student-operated wired wireless laboratory station.
Students will be able to learn TV operation for general knowledge of a "vital medium" and as a preparation for professional work, Dr. Linton said. The medium can be used as an instructional tool, enabling many to see demonstrations at the same time, he added.
He said that the most important goals are programs of "intellectual merit" and of general public relations value to the University, plus service to the people of Kansas.
Adenauer Thinks Russians Peaceful
Rv UNITED PRESS
B O N N, Germany—Cancellor Konrad Adenauer said today his Moscow talks convinced him the Soviets urgently desire a long period of peace to enable them to overcome internal problems.
The Chancellor appealed to the free world to accept this Soviet need as a "reality."
"It may lead the world on two possible paths," he told a press conference. "It may develop peacefully, or it may lead to a return to the old methods."
Governors To Attend Pre-Game Luncheon
MANHATTAN, Kan.—U(J.P.)-Govs.
Milward L. Simpson of Wyoming and
Fred Hall of Kansas, plus their
wives, will be honor guests at the
Kansas State College-Wyoming football game here Saturday.
President James A. McCain announced the two chief executives also would be his guests at a pre-game luncheon.
Maj. Gen. John M. Lentz, Commanding General of nearby Fort Riley, also will be a guest at the game.