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University Daily Kansan
Friday. April 1, 1955
Student Plans For Vacation Are Varied
By JANE PECINOVSKY
In less than 24 hours the campus will be deserted and the dormitories, halls, sorority and fraternity houses will be empty, for spring vacation officially begins at noon tomorrow
Although many students have already packed their suitcases and departed for their homes by train, car or bus, there are those who have Saturday morning classes and must remain here until tomorrow.
Students' plans for this 10 day vacation include travel, study, parties, sleep, work, or general relaxation. This holiday offers an opportunity to forget the confusion of college life, the books, the assignments, the clubs, the organizations, and the activities.
Bermuda, Mexico, Florida, New York, and California are some of the places the lucky ones will visit during vacation. Those heading south will return with sun tans and be the envy of the poor souls who remained in Kansas.
The students who plan to take the Western Civilization examination in May have promised themselves that during the spring holiday they will begin the readings, if they have not already done so. In the period when no daily assignments are due, the ambitious student will probably acquaint himself with several of the first units of Western Civ.
Since students were up late the past two weeks studying for mid-semester quizzes, preparing projects, and writing reports, sleep is what most everyone wants when he goes home. Parents will be instructed to allow their sons and daughters to remain in bed until noon, at least the first mornings of vacation.
Holidays at home are an excellent time to get the old gang together for parties, picnics, and gab fests. If other colleges are vacationing at the same time, high school friends renew their acquaintances and compare their schools.
Watching television, reading magazines or books, shopping, playing golf, tennis, softball will help the students to relax and temporarily put the University in the back of their minds.
Religious Notes
The KU Westminster fellowship has elected officers for next year. They are James Ragan, college junior, moderator; Elizabeth Immer, college sophomore, vice moderator; Harold Smith, college junior, stated clerk; William King, college sophomore, treasurer, and William Hirsch, college sophomore, public relations.
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An all day retreat will be held Saturday, April 30 for the old and new officers of Westminster fellowship to evaluate the year's activities Joan Worthington, education junior will preside.
The Reverend Mother Ruth, CHS Superior of the Community of the Holy Spirit in New York was a guest speaker Sunday at the Canterbury association at Trinity Episcopal church. The Reverend Mother spoke about religious life.
The Reverend Mother held a Lenten Quiet Day Monday at the Annual Retreat for the Women's Auxiliary of the Episcopal church
Mary Light, of the Canadian Guild of Health, under the sponsorship of five churches in the Union Community Service, spoke Sunday at the Trinity Episcopal church.
The Canadian Guild of Health includes persons in all the healing professions.
City wide Holy week services, sponsored by the Lawrence Ministerial Alliance, will be held from 12:25 to 12:50 p.m. tomorrow in the Jayhawker theater.
The Lutheran church, 17th and Vermont streets, held their last mid-week Lenten service Tuesday evening. The service was titled, "Verdict of the Cross."
Good Friday services will be held
Phi Beta Pi, professional medica fraternity, announces the initiation of the following men, Lynn McKim Cecil Hassig, Pat Barrett, L. A Hollinger, Thomas Coolidge, Eugene Borntick, Gene Yadon, Norman Harris, Al Duncan, and Frank Chekys, all college seniors; Hale Dougherty, graduate student, and Richard Lockwood, medical freshman.
Sellards hall and Don Henry Coop held an exchange dinner and dance Wednesday. Chaperones were Mrs. Wilma Hooper and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Howes.
Photographers Snap Girls; Photographers
The divertive but none the less challenging art of posing a pretty girl for a photograph probably wasn't revolutionized but it was given a new twist yesterday by three thinly clad KU coeds and about 25 photographic fanciers of the well turned feminine ankle.
They put the practice of preserving feminine pulchritude on film (cheesecake) on the supermarket level, but the 25 photographers, participants in a short course in photo-journalism being held at the University were equal to the occasion.
The project was one of several picture taking assignments given about 50 persons who are attending the course which will end tomorrow.
Many of the candid shots appear in today's edition of the Kansas and in a special picture supplement edited by Whitley Austin, editor of the Salina Journal, Fred Wulfehart, editor of the Hutchinson News-Horatio, and Jimmy Bedford, photography instructor in the journalism school.
As part of a workshop in picture taking the photographers were assigned the job of posing the three comely coeds, Mary Fisher, fine arts sophomore, Diane Miller, education senior, Joyce Schmidt, fine arts junior, on the lawn in front of the journalism building.
With the desired poses of 25 persons being voiced it was demanding on both the models and the photographers.
During the course of the picture taking the models were required to stand up, sit down, knee, prop their well filled bathing suits against a tree, and scamper across the lawn as if chasing an imaginary animal, while the photographers maneuvered for choice angles.
One of the photographers, not to be outdone by the conventional methods of his companions who operated from the ground level, shinned up a tree in his effort to get a different angle of the subject. Others not being able to locate a suitable vantage point facing the girls moved in back of them to record another interesting view.
Not being able to get close to the immediate scene of action a few came up with an indirect device of snapping the happenings. They took pictures of photographers taking pictures of pretty girls.
Others still further removed from the original subjects had to be content with taking pictures of photographers taking pictures of photographers taking pictures of pretty girls.
The Moton Indians in the region of Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, are believed to be the only people in the world who have no dogs.
Sunrise services will be held Sunday at Haskell stadium sponsored by the Interdenominational Youth council. The services are open to all University students.
from 1 to 3 p.m. Friday, April 8,
in the Trinity Episcopal church. All
students may attend.
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Hillel will conduct a Passover service and dinner Friday, April 8 at 1247 Ohio st. All those interested in making reservations should contact Stan Berger, telephone 1047-W.
Whatever Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill's decisions are concerning his retirement, he is "bound to keep them in his own mind until the last possible minute." Walter Taplin, economic adviser to the British Broadcasting corporation, said in an interview yesterday.
By JOHN HERRINGTON
Mr. Taplin said: "One of the things which makes Sir Winston a great man is his sense of the moment. He has a great knowledge, not only of history, but also of the time at hand.
"He is a dramatic personality And if he feels that the moment is not right to announce his retirement, he will not do it."
Mr. Taplin said that there is an "air of probability" concerning the fact that Prime Minister Churchill will have Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip as dinner guests April 4 at No. 10 Downing st., and he is sheldued to address the House of Commons the next day.
It has been speculated that the Prime Minister will inform the queen of his decision to retire at the dinner party and the next day will officially step down in his speech before Commons. This procedure would be in keeping with tradition in Great Britain that the queen always is informed first of the prime minister's decision to relinquish the premiership. Commons—and the Commons the people
On the subject of a big powers conference, Mr. Taplin said he thought a compromise could, and probably would, be worked out between the stands taken by President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Churchill.
But, Mr. Taplin emphasized that whatever Mr. Churchill does he'll do it at his pleasure and with full regard for the moment.
The President has said that a
New York Is Unprepared For Attack
New York—(U,P)—If the enemy were to launch a sneak assault on New York tomorrow he could count on trapping 3 million men, women and children in an H-bomb explosion even though the city had an hour's warning that an attack was on the way.
BBC Aide Discusses Winnie, Press
This conclusion is inescapable on the basis of data gathered by a citizens planning committee which just finished a nine-month study of the possibilities of pre-attack evacuation of New York City.
A one-hour warning is the most defense department will promise in the event of attack today, although the new continental attack warning system now under construction would advance this warning time two to six hours.
But in the meantime, with a one-hour warning the most to be expected, any attempt to empty the world's largest city would have only limited success.
Of the 8 million population, about 5 million live or work within the danger zone of a direct hit by an H-bomb on midtown Manhattan, which is considered the most likely target for an enemy bent on causing the greatest havoc with a single blow.
Casualties in the New York metropolitan area could be reduced in proportion to the amount of time permitted for evacuation or dispersal of the population, civil defense planners believe.
The civil defense survey found that about 1 million of these could be moved out of danger within an hour by rail, subway and ferry.
Under condition of great congestion and confusion, however, these traffic lanes might accommodate no more than 1 million people.
This would leave about 4 million to get to safety by bus, taxi, truck and automobile through 200 outgoing traffic lanes.
"Thus," the survey disclosed, "until more efficient use of potential transportation and more than one hour warning can be assured, about 3 million people—or 37 per cent of the city's population—might be balked in any attempt to escape the target area except by walking."
detailed conference should be held with exploratory talks coming first to determine if anything definite could be settled by such a conference with Russia. Mr. Churchill, Mr. Taplin said, is more in favor of going directly into four-power talks with no detailed agenda in mind.
The prime minister's opinion is that the powers should get together and "start talking". Mr. Churchill feels, Mr. Taplin said, that by this method there would be no snag which could crop up in a pre-talks meeting designed to set up an agenda for a larger scale meeting later.
Mr. Taplin said there would probably be an "in-between solution" after a careful study by officials.
The BBC official said that the President's press conference which he attended as a spectator recently was a "business-like affair" bulld around "pertinent and to-the-point" questions by the newsmen and that he felt there was no display of "theatries" for the television cameras.
It has been contended in some circles that by opening the President's news conference to the TV media the conferences would become "performances" rather than informative gatherings. Mr. Taplin and from his visit to the conference he did not see this to be the case.
Mr. Taplin said that the press in Great Britain today is fundamentally healthy. But, he said, there are some dangers and situations which must be corrected.
He said that one of the greatest dangers to the British press is the growing tendency toward central control. He said the British press was founded on a policy of throwing off control, but that now, because of certain unavoidable situations, it is moving toward some centralization of control.
Among the reasons he listed the scarcity of newsprint in Great Britain causing the establishment of an agency which delegates the number of pages a British newspaper can run as well as the distribution of newsprint to different newspapers.
He said that this group was set up by the newspapers for their own advantage, not regardless, it is still in control and therefore constitutes certain dangers.
He also said that the British libel laws are still in an unsatisfactory
state and that reforms, now being contemplated, are needed.
Mr. Taplin said that one of the biggest differences between the American and British newspaper, and one of the big problems in Great Britain, is the strong tendency "to confuse news with editorial comment."
He said that one of the best "correctives" to this situation is the presence of British "weeklies" which can concentrate on comment and disentangle news and comment confusion which they find in the British dailies.
He pointed out that most of the lack of ability or desire, as the case may be, to separate news from editorial comment lies with the smaller and more popular British dailies. He said that another corrective measure to this situation is the *deliberate attempt for complete objectivity* on the part of the highly regarded papers such as the London Times and the Manchester Guardian.
Mr. Taplin was on the campus to address a business school convocation yesterday afternoon. He was entertained at a luncheon at noon yesterday and spoke to a journey school class prior to his speed before the School of Business.
Miss Peterson is co-chairman of the NADW and National Panhellenic Council committee on sorority affairs, which will provide the program Sunday.
Dr. Hilden R. Gibson, chairman of the human relations department and a professor of political science sociology, was said to be in poor condition today at the KU Medical center. He underwent brain surgery there Tuesday.
Miss Martha Peterson, dean of women, is attending the annual meeting of the National Association of Deans of Women in Chicago through Monday. April 4.
Betty Lu Gard, education senior, will take part in the Sunday program. She is national president of the Intercollegiate Associated Women Students.
Dean, Student Attend Meeting
Prof. H. R. Gibson's Condition Is Poor
10 DAY EASTER VACATION STARTS APRIL 2
STARTS APRIL 2
Plan now to fly home Round Trip (tax inc.)
From KC
Tourist 1st Class
Washington D. C. $101.20 126.61
Dallas 55.00 71.06
Chicago 41.80 54.67
New York 114.40 146.85
Denver 82.39
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