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Daily Hansan
52nd Year, No.112
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Monday, March 21, 1955
8 Revue Skits For Rock Chalk Are Announced
Eight skits have been announced for the Rock Chalk Revue to be held Friday and Saturday in Hoch auditorium.
Beta Theta Pi will dramatize a uranium rush at the University as Roger Brown, college freshman, has the story in ballad form, and Sigma Nu will do Romeo and Juliet in the style of Marlon Brando.
The University parking problem as it might have been in the days of the Vikings will be presented by Pi Kappa Alpha. Alpha Tau Omega's skit, entitled "Phogous Caesar," concerns Allen fieldhouse.
Gamma Phi Beta will put womanhood on trial for her vices and her vanity, and what happens backstage before the Rock Chalk revue curtain goes up will be shown by Pi Beta Phi.
F. Debtis Gamma will do a takeoff on "The Wizard of Oz" called "The Wizard of Mt. Oread." The problems a girl faces when she comes to the University will be presented by North College hall.
A 12-page booklet will be available to the Rock Chalk revue audience giving a summary and pictures of each skit, a listing of the cast and staff, and a history of past productions.
Murphy Says Annual Must Support Self
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said today that the Jayhawker would have to be self-supporting but that he would take no arbitrary action toward financing it until he heard a report from a student committee.
The chancellor discussed the pos-ibility of adding the cost of the University year-book to the activities fee.
The Senate of the All Student Council received a letter from the Jayhawker advisory board Tuesday stating that the book could not continue publication next year without a new plan of financing.
"The Jayhawker is a student publication." Chancellor Murphy said today. "I cannot justify supporting it with University state tax money. However, I will take no arbitrary action before hearing from a student committee.
from a student. "I have asked Bob Kennedy, president of the All Student Council, to form such a committee which would represent all elements of the student body. I will not sit on that committee, but will act upon its recommendations.
"I do not think that the issue should be decided by a student referendum vote, because it is a matter of fee policy. Only the administration can recommend a change in fees, and only the board of regents can implement it."
Attacker Sought
Although the editor's policy is not to carry news of this nature, it is widely known that Lawrence police are searching today for a man who brutally attacked a University housemother Saturday night. Were it not for the possibility of future developments, the needless inquisitiveness of area papers, which are carrying the story today, and the fact that the major wire services sent stories on the incident—complete with names and details—over their facilities today, even the above information would never have been printed.
—Kansan photo by Gene Smoyer
JUST GOOD FRIENDS—This scene was repeated many times at the Navy Ring Dance Saturday night in the Union Ballroom, as dates presented class rings to 24 members of the junior class. After the ring was presented, the couple was "free to do as they wished." If the woman walked out of the large ring first, the couple is pinned. If the man walked out of the ring first, they are engaged. If they walked
out together, they are just good friends
13 Dead, 17 Hurt In Airplane Crash
Springfield. Mo.-(U.P.)-An American airlines plane with 38 persons aboard crashed into a muddy field near the Springfield airport during a light drizzle last night. At least 13 persons were killed and 17 others injured, many of them critically.
--ready becoming dangerous.
Assigned Concert, She Left Early
There's a gag so old in journalistic lore that even reporting instructors won't tell it any more. It goes like this:
Cub reported to city editor: Couldn't interview the mayor today. boss.
City editor to cub reporter:
Why not?
Cub reporter to city editor:
Somebody shot him.
Well, a Kansan cab reporter was assigned Friday to cover the concert of the University Symphony orchestra Sunday afternoon. She went to the concert. They were playing records. She went home.
No story. Conductor Russell Wiley's plane was grounded in Little Rock, Ark., and he couldn't make it to the concert.
--ready becoming dangerous.
Cold, Tornadoes, Blizzards Hit U.S.
By UNITED PRESS
The first day of spring today found the nation battered by tornadoes, blizzards and a fast-moving cold wave.
Heavy snows in the Midwest contributed to at least four deaths and at least 14 persons were killed when an American airlines plane, flying through heavy mist, crashed at Springfield, Mo.
Continued light showers or snow is forecast for the Lawrence area for tonight with temperatures dropping to near 15 degrees tonight and in the 30s tomorrow.
A light mist turning to snow in Lawrence made visibility on the highways poor, but the roads had not yet become icy at press time. According to the Douglas county sheriff's office, some highways in the western end of the state are already becoming dangerous.
becoming drug-farmers
Tornadoes whipped parts of Missouri and Arkansas late yesterday and blizzard conditions were reported in Iowa and Colorado.
Heavy, wind-driven snows also whipped Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming and New Mexico.
Temperatures nose-dived to 11 below at Rawlins, Wyo., and a subfreezing 27 above was predicted for California's citrus belt.
Despite the wintry storm, the calendar, said it was spring.
Today was also theoretically a time of equal day and equal night—12 hours of each. But the bending of light rays and modern methods of measuring sunrise and sunset combined to produce 12 hours and 11 minutes of daytime and 11 hours and 49 minutes of night.
But whatever the experts said,
it was far from springlike today as the weather dished up a giant layer cake of cold, rain, and snow.
The top laver spread snow from the southwest Great Plains into the upper Mississippi valley. The second brought light rain or drizzle from Central Oklahoma to the southern Great Lakes. Finally, a 128-mile band of showers and thunderstorms hit from northern Louisiana to Central Kentucky.
The weather was appropriately springlike in the East early today, although thick fog spread over northern Georgia and the Carolinas. To the west, temperatures had skidded towards zero in the northern Midwest and dropped 36 degrees at Amarillo, Tex.
The southern Great Plains felt the most disastrous storms late yesterday.
BUT OFFICER, WE COULDN'T HELP IT—The sign says "no stopping this side" but six drivers ended up in a state of mass confusion on Mississippi street in front of the Journalism building at noon today. Included in the melee was one of the University's trucks and the campus police car. Damage to the vehicles involved in the accident appeared to be slight.
—Kansan photo by Pete Ford
The plane, bound for Tulsa,
Okla., crashed as it was coming in
for a landing at Springfield.
One of the survivors, B. H. Mayes of Cushing, Okla, said there was no warning whatsoever of an impending crash. One witness reported a flash of light at the time of the crash, but the wreckage did not burn.
Persons living in the area notified police that the Convair had crashed. Ambulances were rushed to the scene, but they bogged down in the mud. Some of the injured had to be carried a half-mile through ankle-deep mud to be loaded in the ambulances.
Bob Tubert, newsman for station KWTO, said the stewardess and first officer were among those killed instantly in the crash. The pilot, Capt. Jack Pripish of Chicago, was pulled from the wreckage "in critical condition." Tubert said.
The main body of the plane didn't break up but the engines were torn loose and the wings sheared.
e died from a stroke. Coffeeville; John Davis, St. Louis; Richard Allen Padek, 2, Tulsa. Okla.; Wayne Slankard, Neosho, Mo. and Mrs. C. V. Canoy, Joplin, Mo. Volunteers helped get ambulances out of mudholes to rush some of the injured to Springfield hospitals.
American airlines officials said the plane left Newark, N.J., and stopped at Syracuse, Rochester, Detroit, Chicago, and St. Louis before it crashed while trying to land at the Springfield airport. It was scheduled to stop at Joplin, Mo., before ending the flight at Tulsa.
The Convair crashed about 10:30 p.m., more than an hour after it was due at Springfield. An airlines spokesman said the flight was behind schedule partially because of bad weather conditions.
The ceiling at Springfield was only 50 feet at the time the plane crashed, but visibility was five miles. A slight drizzle was falling. Reports of an explosion could not be verified and cause of the crash was not immediately known.
ASC Petitions Due Thursday
Thursday, March 24, is the deadline to petition for class officer positions and nomination certificates for the All Student Council. Positions may be filed with the ASC Elections committee, so that these may appear on the ballots for the primary election on March 30.
President, vice president, secretary and treasurer, of each of the sophomore, junior, and senior classes will be elected. A student must file a petition signed by 25 members of the class concerned to be a candidate for one of these positions. If more than three candidates file for a given class officer position, a primary will be held for that position to reduce the number of candidates to three for the general election.
Nomination certificates for candidates on the primary election party ballots must be signed by the president of the party and filed with the chairman of the Elections committee. The names of all candidates for ASC House and Senate positions who will run with party affiliation must be included.
Petitions and certificates of nomination should be filed with Bob Pope, Elections Committee chairman, at the Theta Tau house, 1602 Louisiana.