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Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, May 12, 1955
52nd Year, No.144
Three Kansas Rivers Now Nearing Bankful
Southeast Kansas, plagued with drought and dust, now faces the situation of having more water than it needs, with three southeast Kansas rivers—the Marmaton, Neosho, and Marais des Cygne—nearing bankful stages today following last night's heavy rains.
Sachem Lists New Officers
Dick Blair, college junior, has been elected president of Sachem honorary society for senior men.
Other officers are Joseph Steinbacher, business junior, vice president; Phil Coolidge, third year architecture, secretary; James B. Miller, college junior, treasurer; and Dale Trott, engineering junior, keeper of the possessions of the organization and master of ceremonies for initiation.
Names of outstanding students and students elected to honor societies at the Honors convocation whose names were omitted in yesterday's Kansan are:
Mortar Board: Mary Ann Curtis,
fine arts junior.
Sachem: Richard Reynolds, John M. Simpson, and Joseph Steinbacher, business juniors.
Owl Society: Donald Dixon, engineering sophomore.
Honor seniors in the School of Education: Alice J. Worthington and Marv Jean Zee.
Honor seniors in the School of Law; Ronald O. Thomas, second-year law, and Walter E. Ash, first-year law.
Fulbright Goes To Dr. Ireland
Dr. H. A. Ireland, professor of geology, is the recipient of a faculty Fulbright award, the State department has announced.
Dr. Ireland will lecture in geology at the College of Arts and Sciences in Baghdad, Iraq. The award was made for the 1955-56 year. It is one of approximately 400 grants for lecturing and research abroad during the period.
Dr. Ireland joined the geology faculty in 1948 in his present position as professor of geology. While working toward his M.S. degree at the University of Oklahoma, and for six years after he received it in 1927, he was an instructor in geology on the Oklahoma faculty. His Ph.D. was received in 1955 from the University of Chicago.
Dr. Ireland was appointed last fall to the editorial board of a new glossary of geologic terms to be published by the American Geological institute. This spring he completed work on a research project involving minute invertebrate marine fossils of northeast Kansas.
The funds used for carrying out the Fulbright program are foreign currencies realized through sales of surplus property abroad.
History Society Elects
Officers for next year were elected by Phi Alpha Theta, honorary history society, at a meeting last night. Officers elected were Phyllis Springer, college junior, president; Beverly Lander, college junior, vice president; and Reid Harrsch, librarian, secretary-treasurer.
Reception to Honor Ises
CCUN and the Graduate club will hold an informal reception for Dr. and Mrs. John Ise at 8 p.m. Saturday in Henley house. The public may attend.
The U.S. Weather Bureau today reported the Marmaton river will crest at Fort Scott at about 34-feet sometime this afternoon, resulting in a slight overflow.
The Noosho will crest at about 6 feet, six feet below bankful, tonight at Parsons and at 14 feet three feet below bankful, tomorrow morning at Oswego. The Marais des Cygne will rise to about half bankful tomorrow at Trading Post.
The weather forecast for today is occasional light rain in the east and central portions of the state ending today and becoming partly cloudy over the state tonight.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy, with scattered afternoon or evening thundershowers likely in the west and central portions of the state. The high today will be in the 60's in the east to the 70's in the west. The low tonight will be 45-55.
In Pittsburg, a barn and four small buildings were destroyed by a tornado that hit a farm area about five miles northwest of there yesterday.
Elsewhere in the nation, downpours in Texas and Oklahoma caused flash floods in Oklahoma City and soaked wide areas of Texas farmlands. Three persons were killed on rain-slick Oklahoma high-waves.
The tornado knocked out lines and telephone service in most of the area, Crawford County Sheriff Rudy Stevens said. No injuries were reported.
The weather was generally calm and fair elsewhere in the country, but in North Carolina a major forest fire had swept over at least 8,000 acres in two counties. The blaze apparently was started by lightning.
Postal Raise Faces Ike
Washington—(U.P.)—President Eisenhower today faced the alternative of approving a postal pay raise larger than he wanted or vetoing the bill for the second straight year.
Sen. John O. Pastore (D-R.I.) told a reporter, "I have a feeling the President might not veto this bill." But there were Republican warnings that the Chief Executive would do so.
But Sen. Frank Carlson (R-Kan.), senior Republican member of the committee, indicated to the Senate that he expected the President to veto the measure. In that case, Sen. Carlson said, he would vote to sustain the veto and—if that succeeded—would introduce a bill for a 7.6 per cent raise, a figure Republican leaders indicated earlier was acceptable to the President.
Sen. Pastore, a member of the Senate Post Office and Civil Service committee , said Mr. Eisenhower might be impressed by the lopsided 66 to 11 vote by which the Senate approved the compromise pay bill and sent it to the White House late yesterday. The House approved the compromise Monday, 328 to 66.
It calls for a raise averaging 8.6 per cent.
Heads Universities Group
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy has been elected president of the State Universities association, a part of the larger National Association of State Universities, which includes some large state colleges organized in the university pattern. The selection is for a one-year term.
'Senior Reminder' Outlines Commencement Activities
—Kansan photo by Bill Taggart
WHICH STORIES DID YOU READ?—Jack Tusher, graduate (right) interviews Larry Tretbar, college senior, in a readership survey of the University Daily Kansan.
By LOUIS BUCK
200 Kansan Readers Questioned in Survey
"Did you happen to see or read anything on this page? Did you see or read any of the advertisements on this page? Can you read at all?"
Two hundred University Daily Kansan readers are being asked these first two questions and perhaps the third, in exasperation, by 27 students and Kansan staff members to provide information for a graduate thesis by a fellow journalist.
The personal interviews are being conducted today on yesterday's Kansan, which was arranged by the staff to represent an average Kansan for the interviews. Since the Kansan has no registered circulation list, Tusher set up the interviews in relation to housing, according to the proportional distribution of enrollment.
Jack E. Tusher, graduate student in journalism, began preparations at the first of the semester for a survey of a cross section of Kansan readers for his final thesis, "A Study of the Reading Habits of Students Who Read the University - Daily Kansan."
The 400 respondents Tusher selected were drawn from the student directory. Every 17th person was chosen to give a cross-section and give everyone a chance to express their views. The 166 questionnaires back and hopes to receive 75 per cent at the end of the survey.
The questionnaire sent by mail is designed to show general reading interests of the Kansan readers. The questionnaires include 26 questions, several of which have many possible answers, for the interviewee to mark such as other papers he may read, the Kansan advertisers he patronizes, and suggestions for improvement of the paper.
The thesis will be presented this spring by Tusher for approval by his adviser, James E. Dykes, assistant professor of journalism, and Dean Burton W. Marvin of the School of Journalism.
The Tusher survey has been divided into two sections, the questionnaire sent to 400 students by mail, and the research conducted on the campus today.
Tusher's 27 interviewers have been assigned specific persons to question, depending upon where they live. Students who are Lawrence residents, commuting students, students living in fraternity and sorority houses, independent homes. University dorms, scholarship halls, private homes, and married students all are being interviewed.
Each person will be shown a copy of yesterday's Kansan. The items he has read or seen will be marked by the interviewer. The person's name, classification, and sex will be recorded on the paper and be returned to Tusher for tabulation.
In order to keep the results uniform, the 139 men and 61 women are being interviewed on the same day. The total number of readers for each news story, picture, and ad will be determined by Tusher to find the percentage of readers for each item. All this information, plus tabulations from the questionnaire will be combined by Tusher into his thesis.
Tusher's thesis will be on file in the library for future reference and the final analysis will reach conclusions to serve as a basis in improving the Kansan.
The work on the survey has been done entirely by Tusher except for students who conducted the interviews. Tusher selected the thesis subject and has operated with a personal expense of nearly $50. Final tabulations are expected to be finished in 10 days.
A pamphlet of instruction—"Senior Reminder"—has been released by the University to aid graduating seniors in making plans for the $3rd annual commencement exercises, June 4, 5, and 6.
Seniors may pick up the pamphlet in the Alumni office.
"Uniform of the day," as usual, will be the cap and gown on June 6, commencement day. Students are asked to wear them at bacca-laureate, the class breakfast, and commencement exercises.
The cap and gown can be obtained 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 4 and 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, June 5. in Robinson gymnasium. A receipt for senior dues which are paid at the business office must be presented to get the cap and gown.
This receipt and the cap and gown receipt can be reclaimed upon turning in the cap and gown after commencement exercises.
For the procession for both the Baccalaureate and commencement exercises, seniors are asked to gather on the south side of Strong hall at 7 p.m. Sunday and at 6:35 p.m. Monday. If it raining they beware the weather commencement will be held in Allen fieldhouse.
Two long blasts of the University whistle after 5.30 p.m. will indicate that the exercises will be held in the fieldhouse.
If commencement exercises are held in the stadium, as planned, the following procedure has been arranged for checking in caps and gowns and receiving diplomas:
When commencement exercises are over, come down to the track, walk west and south around the track to the lighted area beneatn the press box. Enter the proper ramp corresponding to the initial letter of your last name, then go under the west stadium to check in caps and gowns. Present your cap and gown receipt and signed diploma receipt to the registrar's representative and get your diploma.
Dr. M. E. Sadler, president of Texas Christian university, will speak at the Baccalaureate service. About 1,000, including medical school graduates, will receive diplomas this year.
The manufacturers have cautioned students not to store diplomas in cedar chests. There is enough of the moth-killing aromatic oil in the average cedar chests to soften inks.
Among the events scheduled June 4, 5, and 6 are alumni registration at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 4 in the Student Union lounge. Other events that day include a meeting of the directors of the Alumni association, dinners for the class of 1905, Mortar Board, and the law class of 1930; an informal dinner for alumni, and a carillon recital by Ronald Barnes, KU carillonneur.
Sunday, June 5, a breakfast for the Endowment association trustees, and class reunions are scheduled for the morning. In the afternoon there will be another Alumni association meeting, a band concert and the all-University commencement supper.
The senior breakfast and commissioning of ROTC students are Phi Beta Kappa reunion and a reception for seniors, parents, and alumni are planned for the afternoon.
set for the morning of June 6. A KuKu's to Hold Rush Smoker
The KuKu's, men's pep organization, will hold their spring rush smoker at 7:30 p.m. today in room 305 of the Student Union. The smoker is open to all men interested in membership in the KuKu's.