Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
53rd Year, No.62
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, December 14, 1954
President Urges Traffic Safety For Tomorrow
By UNITED PRESS
Midnight tonight will be H-hour for S-D day—a day when the President has challenged the nation's motorists to get through 24 hours without a single traffic accident.
Safety experts, police, and city and state officials aimed new appeals to drivers throughout the country to face up to the presidential challenge and set an all-time safety record tomorrow.
Cities bet each other that their safety records would be better and "S-D" signs appeared on trucks, police motorcycles and even parking meters.
-Kansan photo by Nancy Collins
S-D day—short for Safety day—was thought up by a man who almost died in a traffic accident last March-Albert J. Eglia, registrar of motor vehicles for the state of California.
It was sponsored by the President's action committee for traffic safety and Mr. Eisenhower told the nation's drivers that if they practice common sense rules, tomorrow "can be a day without a traffic accident in all America."
accidently. Safety experts doubted if tommon's record will be absolutely spotless. But they hoped for a dramatic demonstration of how safe the nation's highways can be with a little special effort.
with a little snow.
On the comparable day last year
—Wednesday, Dec. 16—there were
4,907 traffic accidents in the United
cates. Sixty persons were killed
and 1,807 were injured.
Last Wednesday a United Press tabulation showed an even worse record-67 persons killed and a probable 2,144 injured.
picked up.
As the deadline approached, it appeared the weather won't cooperate with the nationwide safety campaign.
Moore to Discuss Verse Appreciation
The appreciation of modern verse will be the subject of Professor Geoffrey Moore's lecture at 7 p.m. today in Strong auditorium. Mr. Moore will trace the developments of English and American poetry by analyzing poems by W. H. Auden, Wallace Stevens, and other modern writers.
"GREAT CATHERINE" LAUGHS AT AMBASSADOR—Sheila Nation tickles the helpless Edstaston, played by David Calkins, in the Studio theater's production of "Great Catherine."
--in excitement.
Calkins portrayed the stuffy British officer to perfection. His calm, cool attitude toward the Great Catherine infuriated her with grave consequences. Miss Nation played the fiery empress excellently. Both Miss Nation and
'Great Catherine' Is Excellently Performed
By GRETCHEN GUINN
"Great Catherine," by George Bernard Shaw was excellently performed by the Studio theater last night in Green theater. All members of the cast performed their roles convincingly from Catherine the Great to the chambermaids.
The comedy of British dipolmacy and Imperial Russia moved smoothly along amid a generous number of laughs from the audience.
Standouts in the performance were Sheila Nation, fine arts freshman, as Catherine; Charles Belt, college sophomore, as Prince Patiomkin, and David Calkins, college freshman, as Edaston, a young British captain.
When Edstaston was not properly impressed by Catherine but preferred his sweetheart, Claire, played by Katherine Graham, college junior, the action reached the top in excitement.
Belt handled the difficult role of the continually drunk Prince Patiomkin, former lover of the empress, very well.
Calkins managed their German and British accents well throughout the play.
Other members of the cast are Shirley Ward, college freshman, as Varinka, Patiomkin's niece; Leland Dale Lowery, engineering freshman, as the sergeant; William Teichgraeber, college freshman, as Naryshkim, the chamberlain; Elizabeth Harrison, college freshman, as Princess Dashoff; Sylvia and Carol Sue Mattison, college freshmen, as ladies-in-waiting, and Kenneth Baker, college junior, and Kenneth Plumb, college sophomore, as soldiers and courtiers.
The play will be presented again at 8 p.m. today, tomorrow, and Thursday.
1,000 'Y' Members To Assemble Here
More than 1,000 persons from all over the United States will be on the campus Dec. 27-Jan. 2 for the quadrennial National Student Assembly of the YMCA and YWCA.
Library Schedule For Vacation Set
Watson library has announced the following schedule for the Christmas vacation period beginning Dec. 18:
Monday-Friday 8 a.m.—5 p.m.
Saturday ... 8 a.m.-12 noon
Sunday ... Closed
The library will be closed Dec.
24-25 and Jan. 1. Schedules for
departmental libraries will be
posted on their doors.
Free Holiday Parking Set
Free parking will be permitted in all zones from noon Saturday to 8 am. Monday, Jan. 3, except those with yellow curbs or those marked "no parking." Joe Skillman, chief of campus police, said today.
of Campus Parks The 30-minute parking limit will not be enforced Friday, Dec.24, and Saturday, Dec.25. It will be enforced during the rest of the vacation period.
Chief Skillman urged that students use care in driving home from the University.
"We would like to see every student back after vacation and would like him to have a happy Christmas," he said. "So, in order to do this, we are asking that all students use extreme caution on their trip to and from KU as the highways will be loaded with traffic at this time."
The campus police will keep a close watch on all houses during the vacation, but they urge that someone in each house be left in charge during the holiday period. Chief Skillman asked that the campus police be notified by any house which will be totally vacant in order that a closer watch can be kept.
Student - Faculty Coffee Set
Student Union Activities w i 1 1
bell, faculty-coffee coffee at
4 pm tomorrow in the music and
browsing room of the Union. Dr.
Allen Crafton, professor of speech,
will speak.
This will be the fifth national or international quadrennial event of college age Protestant youth to which KU has been host the past eight years. These include the Student Volunteer Movement twice, the Ecumenical congress and the Methodist Student conference.
William Allaway, executive secretary of the KU branch of the YMCA is chairman for local arrangements. Housing, food service, classrooms and auditoriums and other details are being handled by E. A. McFarland, head of the institutes and conferences staff of University Extension.
The theme will be "Where art thou?" Attempts will be made to fix the responsibility of the individual and campus Christian associations into a world of fear, power and revolutionary change.
Nost of the assembly work will be done in small conference groups. Themes for these work groups of 20 persons each are "You in search of Yourself," "You in the University," "You in the Struggle for Freedom," and "You in the Nation and the World."
A conference within the conference will be a Faculty Seminar for teachers. The faculty will have two meetings a day outside the general assembly program.
Dr. Kirtley F.Mather, emeritus professor at Harvard university, is chairman for the seminar.
Outstanding Work To Be Honored
Outstanding public relations work will be recognized at a Kansas Public Relations institute to be held here Feb. 25 and 26.
Twelve awards will be given in four fields of commercial and non-commercial organizations by the Public Relations association of Kansas. In each of the two classes, three awards will be given for internal programs and three for external programs.
Organizations and individuals may enter their programs for consideration, or their programs may be nominated by any person. For those nominated, the association will write the candidate for an entry.
Red China Hints Trading Prisoners for Students
United Nations, N.Y.—(U.P.)-Red China binted today that it might consider trading 11 imprisoned U.S. airmen for 35 Chinese students who have been refused permission to leave America.
Radio Peiping called the detention of the students "a flagrant violation of international law."
The Red broadcast appeared to observers to be a possible effort by the Communists to form a parallel case because the United Nations has condemned Red China as a Korean truce violator for jailing the uniformed airmen as spies.
the uninformed arm of the Diplomats speculated that the Red Chinese would dwell on this subject before replying to U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's cabled bid for a meeting in Peiping on the fate of the imprisoned fliers.
ed theirs.
1 Most of the Chinese students have been refused exit permits do not wish to leave the United States. The others are not being permitted to return to Red China at this time because of
research.
The Peiping broadcast again ignored the Hammarskjold cabled request for a meeting in the Red capital with Premier Chou En-lai. The message left New York last Friday at 5:08 p.m. (EST) and arrived in Peiping four hours later, but it was not known whether it was delivered to Premier Chou.
valuable scientific knowledge they have acquired in their studies and research.
U. N. officials refused to be discouraged by the lack of a quick reply from Peiping. They reasoned that if Premier Chou were going to reject Mr. Hammarskjold's proposal outright, he probably would have acted by now.
Weather
A front that under other conditions might have brought moisture, sped across the state dry today. Kansas temperature extremes yesterday were 20 at Wichita and 56 at Garden City.
CHRISTMAS SPARKLE - Hoch auditorium reflects the season's spirit with glowing colored lights.
—Kansan photo by Harry Elliott