Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
52nd Year, No.145
Friday, May 13,1955
It's Friday-the 13th
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Kansan photo by Nancy Collins
DRY BUT UNLUCKY—Barbara Blount. Fine arts junior, needed her umbrella for the "heavy dew" outdoors today, but may have aroused the evil spirits of Friday the 13th. Traditions say an omen of bad luck
will fall upon a person who opens an umbrella indoors.
Ad Groups Hear Selders
David Selders, president of Solders, Jones and Covington, Kansas City advertising agency, spoke last night at a joint meeting of Alpha Delta Sigma and Gamma Alpha Chi, men's and women's advertising fraternities.
The advantages and experience of working for a small advertising agency were explained by Mr. Selders. Advertising graduates are given a variety of work which is invaluable experience. There is more contact with the clients of the agency and they are more likely to develop faster than in a large agency.
Many of the small agencies are organized in "networks" to help each other gather data and make surveys, evaluate media and exchange information.
The talk was followed by a 30 minute discussion period in which Mr. Selders and John Kane, also of the agency, answered questions of the group. ___
SUA Holds Pizza Party
A Pizza party, sponsored by Student Union Activities, will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Sunday in the Trail room of the Student Union.
--ing Austrians. The streets were decked with flags. Austrian motorcycle police in white helmets cleared the way.
8 Students Chosen For SUA Board
The new board members are Bryce Cooke, college sophomore; Sue Harper, education junior; Eleanor Hawkinson, college sophomore; Ted Ice, college junior; Leo LeSage, engineering sophomore; Rollin P es c h k a, journalism junior; Phyllis Springer, college junior, and Mary Catherine Woodward, college junior.
Eight students were selected to serve on the Student Union Activities board last night. They will work with Union advisors in planning the activities for next year.
Alum Group Plans Expansion Of Association
Group to Visit KMBC Playhouse May 21
A theater party will leave for Kansas City Saturday, May 21 to see the presentation of the "Solid Gold Cadillac" Broadway play, at the KMBC Playhouse.
Members of a committee to expand the Alumni association will meet at 10 a.m. Monday in the Eldridge hotel. Paul Smart of Lawrence is general chairman.
The committee is composed of 12 captains who will direct the operations of eight-member teams. Fred Ellsworth, executive secretary of the Alumni association said the "whiz bang campaign" is designed to get new members from Lawrence.
Captains of the committee are:
Jack Happy, lecture course field
representative, and Richard F
Harp, assistant basketball coach.
Ray Culbertson, Charles J. Brown,
Gene Doane. Mrs. George Docking,
Howard Hurwitz, Lewis Rankin,
Oscar Rumsey, Mrs. William R.
Scott, Dale Turner, and Mrs.
Rowland S. H. Dyer, all of Lawrence
Those going are Leland Dale Lowery, education freshman; Herbert Paul Culp, college sophomore; Janice Sartin and Carol Sue Mattison, college freshmen, and Nathaniel Eek, instructor of speech.
Mr. Ellsworth said the Alumni association now has 1.048 members and 1.257 non-members in Lawrence. The committee has a goal of 400
A victory party in the Student Union is scheduled for all teams who will have made their quotas, Mr. Elsworth said.
Mr. Ellsworth said that all members of the KU Alumni association receive membership cards, nine issues of the KU Alumni magazine, nearly that many University Newsletters, meetings, class reunions at commencement, and addresses and personal information on classmates.
Convict Gets New Date For Death in July
Los Angeles—(U.P.)—Convict author Caryl Chessman, who has escaped a death sentence for seven years through legal maneuvering, will go to the San Quentin gas chamber July 15. Superior Judge Charles W. Fricke ruled today.
Judge Fricke has set Chessman's execution date an average of once a year only to have appeals set his mandates aside.
The new date with death came after the 33-year-old Chessman lost his latest legal move when the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied a petition for re-hearing of his case. Chessman still has a last resort—a Supreme Court writ of review.
Chessman, known as the "red light bandit," was sentenced to death by Judge Fricke seven years ago after being convicted of kidnapping under the state's little Lindbergh law.
While in death row at San Quentin Chessman authored the best selling autobiography "Cell 2455, Death Row," hailed by some critics as a brilliant work on criminology. He became adept enough in law to handle most of the paper work on his various appeals.
Cnessman was charged with kidnapping two women in Los Angeles and convicted on 17 of 18 felonv counts which included rape and robbery.
Paul Bunge to Head Alpha Delta Sigma
Paul Bunge, journalism junior, was elected president of Alpha Delta Sigma, honorary and professional advertising fraternity, at a meeting Thursday night. Other officers are Prentice Jeffries, vice president, and Rollin Peschka, secretary-treasurer, both journalism juniors.
Dulles Makes Trip To Vienna for Pact
Vienna, Austria—(U.P)—Secretary of State John Foster Dulles flew to Vienna today to join the other foreign ministers of the Big Four in signing the Austrian State treaty and to arrange for a later Big Four meeting of heads of government.
Mr. Dulles, almost mobbed photographers when he arrived from Paris, told reporters "I have travelled to many countries on many missions but I have never felt more satisfaction than to come here to sign this treaty."
Austrian Foreign Minister Leopold Figl greeted Mr. Dulles with a bouquet of blue and yellow spring flowers symbolizing the freezing of the province of lower Austria which has been under Soviet occupation for 10 years.
He expressed admiration for the "courage and steadfastness of the freedom-loving people of Austria."
He added that the successful completion of the treaty negotiations which will set Austria free for the first time since 1938 was "a central goal" of American policy.
Mr. Figl said it gave him "great joy" to welcome Mr. Dulles to Vienna to sign the treaty which is "particularly due to American help."
"We can now sign the treaty for which we have waited for 10 long years," Mr. Figl said.
"We look forward to the historic day."
Mr. Dullels and his party moved into downtown Vienna in what amounted to an impromptu parade. The route was lined with cheering Austrians. The streets were decked with flags. Austrian motorcycle police in white helmets cleared the way.
Austrian maidens in rainbow-hued peasant festival dresses sang and broke into impromptu folk dances as Mr. Dilles passed. Austrian farmers hoisted foaming steins of beer and glasses of country wine in toast to the American.
Ambassadors of the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union met today to initial the completed draft of the treaty restoring Austria's freedom for the first time since the Nazis took Austria by anschluss in 1938 and ending 10 years of four-power occupation.
The tough Western negotiating at the Five-power Treaty conference produced an Austrian "solution" better than the West and Austria ever dared to hope. It was a brilliant coup for the West though Russia was able to "neutralize" Austria in the cold war.
vienna was bedecked with flags and the populace was in a joyous mood at the prospect of freedom which had floundered on Russian stubbornness at the conference table in the nearly 10 years it took to reach agreement on the treaty.
—Kansan photo by Pete Ford
OREAD GOOSE STEP—This KU student appears to be a real goose-stepper, reminiscent of European military style. Actually he's merely stepping over a small rivulet on Mississippi st. during the ROTC review in the rain Wednesday afternoon. The rain caught most of the men unprepared and they are seen in the background wearing all types of clothing other than the official uniform.