Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, April 13, 1955
52nd Year, No.123
Speech Contest For Students Starts April 20
The eighth annual intramural speaking contest, sponsored by the Forensic league in cooperation with the department of speech and drama, will be held at 7:30 p.m. on successive Wednesdays, April 20, 27, and May 4. The speeches will be given in Green hall.
-Kansan photo by Nancy Collins
Different types of speeches will be given each of the three days. Informative talks are scheduled for April 20. Demonstrative speeches will be given April 27 and entertainment talks will be heard May 4.
Individual winners in each division will receive trophies. Two trophies, one for men and one for women, will be awarded the houses, groups, or organizations in each division accumulating the most points in the three contests.
OUTSTANDING MARINE—Wes Santee, education senior, receives an award for the outstanding Marine athlete from Capt. Virgil F. Cordinier, professor of naval science. Santee won the award last June in a Marine track meet at Camp Lejeune, N.C. He won the 880
Points will be given for participation and for the first three places in each event. No more than three contestants from any one group may enter any single event.
All regularly enrolled students are eligible with the exception of members of the Forensic league, Delta Sigma Rho, and persons who have participated in two or more speaking or debate tournaments.
Registration for each of the contests must be made 24 hours in advance. Registration blanks are available in Room 5, Green hall.
The University symposium on the honor system, sponsored by the Forensic league, will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, not April 12, as reported in yesterday's Kansas. The symposium will be held in the ballroom of the Student Union.
and mile runs and was on the winning mile relay team.
Correction
Prof. Hood to Be Honored For Invention of Dermatone
George J. Hood, professor emeritus of the Schol of Engineering and Architecture, will receive the Holley medal at Columbia, Mo., tonight in recognition of his invention of the dermatone, a skin grafting machine.
Prof. Hood built the first successful skin grafting instrument in 1938 after eight years' experimentation. Two years ago, he perfected a dermatome which would cut skin grafts of uniform thickness from 5 to 50-thousandths of an inch. He received the distinguished service award of the American Society of Engineering Education in 1952.
The Holley medal is awarded annually by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for "some great and unique act of genius of an engineering nature that has accomplished a great and timely public benefit."
Prof. Hood was graduated from the University in 1902 and taught engineering drawing here until 1947.
Down the River Via Raft- Adventurers Find Excitement
BY LARRY TRETRAP
Nine bearded KU men landed a Lee's Ferry, Ariz., on Easter Sunday after an eight-day trip down the Colorado river. The trip climaxed several months of planning by the group—of which I was a member.
We were looking forward to high adventure and excitement, and we found them. But they were secondary to the scenic beauty and wonders of the canyon. For eight days and 170 river miles we drank up the beauty of the area.
The other party members were Thomas Ryther, Harlan Parkinson and Don Sifers, college seniors; Leslie Wenger and Edward Miller, business seniors; Bruce Wenger, college sophomore; Paul Enos, engineering junior, and James Steerman, college freshman.
The walls of the canyon, which ranges from 800 to 1,500 feet, are a kaleidoscope of colors, ranging from the red hues of the sandstone to the yellows, browns, and blacks of the varied mineral deposits.
Hite, Utah, was the point of departure. A desolate mining town of three families, food is flown in and the chief occupation is uranium prospecting.
With hopes of high adventure, we packed food, sleeping bags, cameras, and geology picks into two boats, constructed of marine plywood and fiberglass. The lead boat for our expedition was the camera boat used for the filming of "Smoke
Rain measured officially at as much as six inches soaked parched fields in wide areas of Kansas and Missouri today. Government experts said it was "possibly the heaviest and most general rain in the area in several years." Even long-dry western Kansas got good amounts. Reports from Western Kansas points showed about two and a half inches at Scott City and Ness City and more than an inch at Syracuse, Jetmore, and Garden City. Kansans can expect occasional showers extreme east, elsewhere fair to partly cloudy this afternoon. Fair tonight. Cooler in the east and south central this afternoon and tonight. Thursday will be generally fair in the east, partly cloudy west and warmer.
Weather By UNITED PRESS
Our desire for adventure was soon fulfilled! The first turn in the winding river revealed a series of rapids which could be identified from a distance only by a rumble resembling that of a fast-approaching freight train.
Signal," which was filmed in the canyons of the San Juan river, a main tributary of the Colorado.
J. Frank Wright, our guide and owner of the Mexican Hat expedition, ran the first boat skillfully through the turbulent waters, making it seem as easy as rowing across
Lone Star lake. Tension ran high, however, as the second boat neared the rapids. Tom Ryther, manning the oars, successfully "shot the rapids," though narrowly missing a groups of rocks hidden from the view of our inexperienced eyes.
The secret of shooting the rapids, we found, was to keep the boat broadside to the current so that the oarsman might face the point of danger—sunken rocks or the stone wall along the river bank.
The Colorado river was a series of contrasts. As if Mother Nature created it in a number of moods, the winding river at one mile was treacherous and turbulent, the next, calm and smooth.
An example of the beauty and immenseness of the scenes was found in Twilight canyon, to which we hiked from the river. At one end was a huge ampitheater which is claimed to be the largest natural ampitheater in the world. It is so large that we figured two Hoch auditoriums could easily be placed inside it, and some 15,000 people seated under its stony dome. The acoustics were so perfect that we whispered across its 1,400 feet width and to shout in it hurt one's ears.
The only sign of life during the trip was a young Navajo sheep herder. Meals were prepared over a driftwood fire and springs provided our drinking water. Our only luxury was a roll of pink colored Delsey.
Foreign Program To Be Friday
More than 150 foreign students, representing more than 50 countries, will take part in a festival here Friday.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will give the welcome address to start the program at 8 p.m. in the Student Union ballroom. Brian Dunning, graduate student from the United Kingdom, will be the master of ceremonies.
The program of events and the participants are:
Mambo—Latin American Band; Hugo Balda, Ecuador; Hugo Guizar, Guatemala; Antonio Uribe and Luis Uribe, Colombia; Vernon Velez, Puerto Rice; and Mario Weitzner, Mexico.
"Land For Sale" (skit): Gerlof Homan, Eloe Loman, Nora van der Meulen, Hugo Zee, and Jaap Rooda, Holland; Walter Schamp, Belgium; and Mary Zee, U.S.A.
Austrian Folk Dance: Elizabeth Neubacher and Brigitte Stolwitz, Austria; Lone Bagh and Schamp, Belgium; Ludwig Pack, Saar; Rudolf Hartmann, Germany; and Miss van der Meulen.
French "Can-Can". Gerard Lagneau, Jacques Leca, Jacques Lopez, and Francois Montagioni, France; and Marcel Spaulding, U.S.A.
Kendo- Japanese Fencing: Rinei and Masanobu Yonaha, Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa); and Naomitsu Takashina, Japan.
Kenbu-Japanese Sword Dances:
Takara and Takachina.
German Band: Elisabeth Benhold, Gerhard Fisch, Rudolf Hartmann, and Thomas Treitel, Germany; and Pack.
Student - Hippa in Scandinavia; Hans-Christian Christensen, Kari Knudsen, Robert Knudsen, and Eva
Torgensberg, Norway; Stig Westman,
Ulla Sjostrom, and Ann Hjorth,
Sweden; Virya Kuuskoski, and
Sirpa Tomari, Finland; Lise Lorc,
Denmark, Thorunn Thorddottir,
Iceland and Miss Bagh.
Reading in Liberian Dialect;
James Nimley, Liberia.
"As They See It" (comedy skit): Pierre Ory, Lagneau, and Leca, France, and Spaulding.
French Folk Dances: Claudine Klipffel, Monique Poulenard, Claude Schwab, Lagneau, Leca, Lopez, Ory, and Montaggioni, France; and Paulsding.
Bhangra - Panjabi Folk Dance; Francile Aronhalt, Shirley Bowman, Mary Dresser, Mary Anna Grabhorn, Ginger Gincock, Shirley Hughes, Molly Kelley, Jane Miller, Christa Schmidt, Sara Ann Schroeder, Mary Ann Tayler, and Ginny Zook, U.S.A.; Genoveva Abdala, Mexico; Carmen Kloch, Colombia; Armida Punkay, Peru; Shanti Tangri, India; and Miss Thordardottir and Miss Tomari.
Latin American Group (music):
Balda, Guizar, A. Uribe, L. Uribe,
Velez, and Weitzner.
Cumbia—South American Folk Dance: Miss Kloch and Hector Oriuela, Colombia.
The committee in charge of the festival is composed of Maria Bozzoli, Costa Rica; Eva Torgensen, Norway; Brian Dunning, Jacques Leca; D. Shankaranayan, India; and William R. Butler, assistant dean of men.
—Kansas photo by Larry Treator
RIVER STYLE—A leisurely shave is enjoyed by Leslie Wenger in the outdoor shop created by the Glen canyon. Doing the job by lathering from the river is Bruce Wenger; Harlan Parkinson, rowing.