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Smudge Pot Lighting To Open Derby Day
The lighting of the memorial smudge pot will open ceremonies for the second annual Sigma Chi Derby day at 1:30 p.m. Saturday when 11 sororities compete in races on the tennis court at the Sigma Chi house.
Nine events, four of which were not included last year, are listed in the four-page printed program. The new races are the four-legged race, the backwards basketball dribble, musical buckets, and the water-filled balloon relay.
Repeats from last year include the gunny sack race, the egg in spoon relay, the leap frog race, the pony express race, and the grapefruit relay.
Also to be introduced this year is a second place traveling trophy. Last year the first place traveling trophy, awarded to the sorority compiling the most points, was won by Chi Omega.
In a relay race is given a certificate and a cup is presented to the girl compiling the most points. At last year's Derby day, Francile Aronhalt, education junior, won the award.
Each girl who places first, second, or third in an individual event or in a relay race is given a certificate.
Sigma Chi members will publicize the Derby day by wearing derby hats on the campus Friday and at the event Saturday. The girls who participate will wear sweat shirts to designate the sorority to which they belong.
Members of the Derby day committee are Steve Schmidt, college sophomore; John Brown, college senior; Tom Graber, college freshman, and Dave Cleveland, journalism junior.
Dr. Sheppard Tries For New Trial
Cleveland —(U,P)— Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard goes into court with a master detective today in an effort to prove with new evidence that he should be granted a new trial and eventual acquittal in the murder of his wife.
The new evidence will be supplied by Dr. Paul L. Kirk, University of California criminologist hired by the Sheppard family to investigate the July 4 slaying of Mrs. Marlvyn Sheppard.
Judge Edward Blyth, the judge who sentenced Dr. Sheppard to life imprisonment for the crime, must decide if the evidence warrants a new trial.
Most of the material Dr. Kirk has prepared for the court has been kept a closely-guarded secret. But he has revealed clues indicating Marilyn's murderer was a left-handed person, that the murder weapon was probably a flashlight, and that the slayer likely suffered bites on the hand when Marilyn attempted to defend herself.
Dr. Sheppard's attorneys pointed out that he is right handed and bore no marks on his hands after the murder of his wife.
The prosecution intimated during dr. Sheppard's trial that the murder weapon probably was a surgical instrument. But it was never produced. ___
Extension Head Elected President
E. A. McFarland, manager of the Lawrence center of University Extension, was elected president of the Kansas Adult Education association last night at a meeting held in Manhattan.
held in Manahattan.
Mr. McFarland succeeds Walter Russell, director of the Topeka Night school, and will begin his one year term of office immediately.
Harold L. Royer, director of adult education in Emoria, was elected vice president of the association and Everett Nieder, director of adult education for the Wichita public schools, was elected to the association board of di-
E. C. Franklin Lecture Set
Clark School for the Deaf at Northampton, Mass., and New York City's Lexington School for the Deaf, both founded in 1867, started the movement in America to teach deaf children to speak and read lips.
The tapir is the largest land animal of the South American jungle.
Dr. George W. Watt, chemistry professor at the University of Texas will give the seventh annual E. C. Franklin Memorial lecture at 4:00 p.m. tomorrow in Room 124' Malott hall. Dr. Watt will speak on "Compounds of Elements in the Zero Oxidation State."
The lecture is sponsored annually by Alpha Rho chapter of Phi Lambda Upsilon, honorary chemistry society.
Dr. Watt is one of the outstanding figures in ammonia chemistry, a field pioneered by the late Dr. Franklin.
Dr. Franklin was a chemistry professor at Kansas and Stanford universities. He was at KU from 1894 until 1903 when he went to Stanford, where he remained until his death in 1937.
Ducks have a transparent membrane to pull over their eyes when in flight--like goggles.
London—(U.P.)—The Western B ig Three debated today whether a Big Four Ministers conference or a meeting of the chiefs of state stood the best chance of winning a cold war settlement from Russia.
Big 3 Discusses Settlement Plans
American, British and French diplomas met at 10 a.m. (7 a.m.
CST) to work out concrete plans for a four power meeting—the level of the conference, the subjects to be discussed and whether to hold it in early summer or in the fall.
Their meeting at No. 10 Carlton House Terrace, with West German Ambassador Herbert Blankenhorn sitting in on German problems, marked the start of a western diplomatic summer offensive that could end with a Four-Power meeting "at the summit."
The talks were expected to last until May 8 when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, British Foreign Secretary Harold MacMillan and French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay meet in Paris for a session of the North Atlantic Treaty Council.
Entries for the annual Art Festival to be held May 8-15 must be submitted to 327 Strong by Wed, May 4. Entry blanks may be obtained there. A fee of 25 cents will be charged for all entries.
Art Festival Entries Must Be in May 4
Wednesday, April 27, 1955 University Daily Kansan
Prehistoric Eruptions Made Modern Wealth
Kansas has been on the receiving end for unknown numbers of volcanic explosions in the past 120 million years. Although during that time there were no major volcanoes within the state's boundaries, the debris from nature's spectacular blow-off elsewhere has added more than 20 million tons of mineable volcanic ash to the industrial mineral assets of Kansas and has enriched the state in other ways.
The volcanic "asl" consisted of tiny fragments of gass or hardened lava, blown into the air by the force of volcanic explosions and carried by the wind for hundreds of miles. How many of the deposits from these ash falls accumulated in Kansas and their benefits are described in detail in a publication on volcanic ash resources of Kansas, published by the State Geological Survey at the University of Kansas in 1952.
During the geologic period known as Cretaceous, when seas spread over western Kansas, the tiny glassy particles settled to the bottom and formed deposits which covered many thousands of square miles. The sea water reacted with the glass to form the clay known as bentonite, which, according to State Geological Survey findings, has several potential commercial uses in Kansas.
In Tertiary and Quaternary times, after the sea withdrew and Kansas became land, there were many active volcanoes in the Rocky Mountain region. Some of the ash carried into
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