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Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, February 14, 1955
52nd Year, No. 87
Same Date as Relays
Engineering Show Set for April 22-23
The 35th annual Engineering exposition will be held April 22-23 the same weekend as the Kansas Relays.
The two-day event is designed to show visitors the training which engineers and architects receive in the School of Engineering and Architecture and to show the facilities of the school. The attendance for this spring's exposition is expected to exceed 10,000 persons.
Sigma Tau, national engineering fraternity, will conduct a contest among the departments of the School of Engineering and Architecture for the best display. The contest was won last year by the Civil Engineering department. The Sigma Tau traveling trophy must be won three times by a department in order to be kept permanently.
Theta Tan, national professional engineering fraternity, will design the entrance to the exposition, which will be in Marvin hall. The entire show will cover seven buildings.
Chairman of the exposition is Dale Trott, metallurgical engineer junior from Topeka. He will be assisted by Lawrence Merrigan, civil engineering senior from Kansas City, Mo.
The exposition is managed and constructed entirely by students. The Engineering council, which is composed of elected representatives from each of the departments, selects the management.
The hours for the exposition this spring will be 9 a.m.-9 p.m., April 22, and 9 a.m.-noon, April 23.
Weather
Warmer weather was the wetterman's Valentine to Kansas today. The local forecast, fair and mild today, tonight and Tuesday. The high today will be 50, the low tonight will be 30, and the high Tuesday will be 50. Early today the Kansas minimums were from 18 at Wamego to 28 in Wichita. The highs Sunday ranged from 31 at Salina to 54 in Garden City.
Ballet Theatre To Give Program Here Thursday
A ballet based on Tennessee Williams' pay, "A Streettear Named Desire," will be featured by the Ballet theatre in its performance at 8:20 p.m. Thursday in Hoch auditorium.
Sponsored by the University Concert course, this American dance group emphasizes舞 which also is drama—and for theater goers as well as balletmanes.
Nora Kaye and John Kriza will dance the ballet leads. The tabloid version of the play, done by Valerie Bettis, follows the situations, characters, and main events of the Williams' play. The plot sequence, however, is interrupted to convey the memories, fears, and ultimate insanity of Blanche DuBois. Rayburn Wright has adapted and orchestrated the music written by Alex North for the motion picture score.
Tickets are on sale at the office of the School of Fine Arts and the Bell Music company for $4.08, $3.32, and $2.25. Admission will be free to students with ID cards.
The program will also include "Les Sylphides," the Pas de Deux from "Don Quixote," and "Theme and Variations" to music by Tchaikovsky.
The Woman's Air Force ROTC drill team, better known as the "Angel Flight," will hold a reorganizational meeting at 7 p.m. today at the Military Science building. All girls interested are invited to attend.
Drill Team to Reorganize
Red China, Moscow Congress Top News
Washington—(U.P.)-T h e Hoover commission called for a "senior civil service" of 1,500 non-political government executives today in the first of a series of reports to Congress.
Former President Herbert Hoover heads the commission which has been studying government reform for a year and a half.
A "task force" created by the commission accused the Eisenhower administration of weakening the civil service program. It urged both parties to eliminate the patronage system of giving federal jobs as political rewards.
The commission also proposed an unspecified additional number of administration-picked executives to carry out and defend official policies.
FILLS — Four congressmen said they would introduce bills today. One by Rep. Craig Hosmer (R-Calif.) would make Hawaii a part of California and Alaska a part of Washington as an alternative to statehood for the two territories. A bill by Rep. Oliver P. Bolton (R-Chio) would permit income tax reductions for all medical and dental expenses.
The task force called for a heavy reduction or outright abolition of most veterans' privileges, but the commission recommended much less trimming.
Among other recommendations, the commission called for higher pay for top-level government managers, placement of more jobs under civil service, elimination of political clearances for some: 32,000 rural mailmen, and an end to political appointments of U.S. marshals and field officials of the customs bureau and U.S. mints.
Benefits — Chairman Olin E. Teague of the House Veterans committee said any broad new benefits for peacetime veterans could imperil the "basic" benefits paid for men who were injured or killed in wartime.
The task force also called for creation of a panel to investigate the administration's personnel security program.
Members of the Ways and Means committees of the Kansas House of Representatives and Senate, and their wives, will visit the campus today. They are expected to arrive about 2:45 p.m.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will conduct the legislators on a tour of the Allen fieldhouse and Malott hall. The wives will be entertained by faculty wives at a tea in the Art museum.
The group will have dinner at the Student Union and return to Copeka after the Oklahoma A&M basketball game tonight. Seventyour persons are expected.
State Legislators Visit Campus; To Attend Game
Humanities Lecture Set
Dr. Clarence Ward, professor of fine arts at Oberlin college and one of the most popular Humanities series lecturers in eight years, will return tomorrow "by popular request," to present an illustrated lecture on the "Charm of the English Cathedral."
His lecture, illustrated by color slides, will be in Fraser theater at 8 p.m. During his three-day visit, he will also give illustrated lectures to classes in architecture, history, and history of art.
Dr. Ward visited the campus in February of 1953 and gave a Humanities lecture on "The French Cathedral, Bible of the Middle Ages."
Red China and the Soviet Union observed the fifth anniversary of their mutual assistance treaty today with warnings to the world that Peiping intended to take Formosa and that it could count on the assistance of Russia.
The Moscow-Peiping emphasis on Formosa ran directly counter to a press conference statement by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. He said the Nationalists would defend Formosa and had no intention of giving up their offshore islands.
He said it had been made "perfectly clear" that the United States would help defend Matsu and Quemoy against further Communist aggression.
The United Nations Security council meets in New York today (11:30 a.m. EST) to resume its discussion of a cease-fire but diplomats wrote off the session in advance since the matter was now in the hands of "secret diplomacy."
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, one of the exponents of "secret diplomacy," said in London he still is confident diplomacy can win a Formosa truce and prevent the crisis from flaring into war.
In other developments:
Paris - Pierre Pfilimain gave up his attempts early today to form a French government and President Rene Coty asked Socialist Christian Pineau to try. Mr. Pineau began a series of urgent conferences with political leaders with little assurance of winning their support.
Rome — A Belgian airliner was feared to have crashed in the hills north of Rome with 29 persons aboard, four of them Americans, one of them Marcella Mariani, who won the title "Miss Italy" in December 1953
Taipei — The "little war" in the Formosa strait was reported quiet. Nationalist military sources said the evacuation of 2,000 civilians from Nanchi island would begin tomorrow. They emphasized Nanchi would be defended against Communist attack "to the end."
KU Life Symbolized in Students' Mural at Call
By GRETCHEN GUINN
A mural painted by five fifth year architecture students has been causing quite a sensation at the Call cafe, 1422 Crescent rd.
The mural, depicting University students in an ancient Roman setting, was done by Phillip J. Green, Dean Glasco, Dana Dowd, Clarence L. Henderson, and John G. Hordyk. They did it as a project for architecture drawing 4, taught by Donald T. Walters, architecture instructor.
To prove to the students how different a drawing looks in large full-size that it does in a small scale plan Mr. Walters is giving them the opportunity to do a full-size project themselves since architects usually don't carry out the art work from the small plan.
The mural, the architects say, actually is not symbolic of anything in particular. Everyone can figure out an interpretation for himself. They said it shows KU students in Roman environment for a change. Each of the four panels depicts a year in college life. The freshmen
are pulling hard at a chariot. The sophomores are working, but not nearly as hard. The juniors are definitely enjoying life and are not working much. The seniors are shown as hard-bitten individuals who are riding in the shining chariot dragged by the other classes. The seniors are just about to get out of the chariot. Changing
The five architecture students decided they wanted to do a mural for a wall of the Call cafe. Miss Emma Lou "Mickey" Michaelson, owner of the cafe, said "No!" to their idea six times before she finally accepted.
the colors of the panels was used to break up the mural into years. Other things in the picture remind one of KU, like one-way signs, no smoking signs, and students with cigarettes in their mouths. The sports angle gets into the picture with a sign reading: "Today at the Coliseum: Lions vs. Christians."
Greene and Henderson began and the others contributed their ideas. All admitted that Greene was the artist of the mural and that on the painting they just more or less did the fill-in work and followed his directions.
The mural took about half a semester to do, and although it was finished on one of the blizzard
The basic idea the architects had when they did the mural was to put the college students and their life in a different setting. The result is quite interesting and unusual. The more one looks at the mural the more things about KU he recognizes.
nights we had recently, it was wrapped up in paper and carried to the Call to be installed.
—Kansan photo by Dee Richards