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Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, December 13, 1954
53rd Year, No. 61
2 Debate Teams Take First Place In Tournaments
University debate teams won first place in the junior division of tournaments held at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and Southwestern college in Winfield Friday and Saturday.
Joel Sterrett, college freshman, and Gary Sick, college sophomore, won first place in the junior division of the University of Arkansas tournament by winning six debates with no losses. They defeated William well in the final to win.
John Field, first year law, and Robert Kimball, college sophomore, won second place in the senior division of the tournament. They won five debates and lost one in the finals to Central State College of Oklahoma.
Kimball won first in the extemporaneous contest and Sick was chosen the outstanding debater of the tournament.
In the Southwestern college tournament, the junior division was won by Abraham Gorelick and Kenneth Irby, college freshmen, who won eight debates and lost none. They beat Ottawa university in the finals.
sity in Wanda Welliever, college freshman, and R. L. Brown, college sophomore, also participated in the junior division and won two and lost three debates.
In the senior division Margaret Smith, education junior, and Don Hde, college junior, won three and lost two debates. William Arnold, and Hubert Bell, college seniors, won two and lost three. John Eland, college sophomore, and Alfred Callaway, college junior, won two and lost three. The University of Oklahoma won the tournament.
Eland won third in the oratory contest.
39 Athletes Awarded K's
Thirty-nine men have received varsity letters in football and cross country, A. C. Lonborg, director of athletics, announced today.
Men receiving football letters are:
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John Anderson, Bill Bell, Capt
Bud Bixler, Frank Black, Gene
Blasi, Dick Blowey, Ray Bower,
Don Bracelin, Bev Buller, Bobby
Conn, LaVerne Fiss, Bob Forsyth
John Handley, Joe Held, Bob Hub-
bard.
Dick Knowles, John Drake, Bud LaWalin, John McFarland, Terry Mcintosh, Don Martin, Ralph Moody, Don Pfutzenreuter, Bob Preston, Normed Reck, Dick Reich, George Remsberg, Ted R h ode, Dick Sandifer, Dick Todd, Gene Vignatelli, Mike Rogers, Dud Budrich, Rex Sullivan.
Men receiving cross country letters are: Capt. Al Frame, Tom Rupp, Jan Howell, Grant Cookson, and Lowell Janzen.
Weather
Fair and warmer weather is predicted for today and tonight with
Kansas just coming out of the coldest 24 hour period of the season. Tuesday will be partly cloudy with shifting winds, according to state weatherman Tom Arnold. He said there is little chance for any moisture.
COLD & FAIR
—Kansan photo by Larry Tretbar
CHRISTMAS VESPERs—Bringing in the seasons's greetings are Barbara Fischer, education senior, and Judy Cotton, college sophomore, who participated in the Christmas vesper program at Hoch auditorium, yesterday.
The combined glee clubs sang "Cradle Hymn," by Mueller-Shaw and a Ringwala-Shaw arrangement of "God Rest You Merry Gentlemen," under the direction of Mr. Kreebhl.
arts treasured.
The symphony orchestra, directed by Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and orchestra, played the second movement from "Concerto No. 1 in D Minor," by Brahms, with James J. Smolko, assistant instructor of piano, as soloist and the first movement from "Symphony No. 2." by Hanson.
30th Christmas Vespers Is Inspiring Program
Bv GRETCHEN GUINN
The 30th annual Christmas Vespers yesterday in Hoch auditorium was an inspired performance which was a fitting farewell to Donald M. Swarthout, piano professor and former dean of the School of Fine Arts, who originated the service.
The University A Cappella choir, directed by Dr. Swarthout, gave a particularly good performance of its numbers, "Fanfare for Christmas Day," by Martin Shaw; "Palm Grove Christmas Carol," by R. Deane Shure; "Gloria for Christmas," by Willard Straight; "Three Kings," by Healey Willan, and "The Shepherd's Story," by Dickinson.
"J-O-Y" was another distinctive tableau. J-O-Y was spelled out by three Christmas characters in a colorful and fanciful surrounding. The characters were portrayed by Ronald Allerton, Lawrence James Lawson, and Nancy Woodson, fine arts freshmen.
The tableaux were given with the background music supplied by the Choral Ensemble, directed by Clayton Krehbiel, assistant professor of music education. The tableaux, which were under the direction of the department of drawing and painting and department of design were, "The Prairie Madonna," "The Adoration," "Excelsis," and "J-O-Y."
"The Prairie Madonna" was particularly distinctive. The Madonna, played by Donna Francis, fine arts senior, was shown in the sky stretching her hands to the brown fields and lighted towns of the prairie. The lighting of this tableau was very effective. Above the Madonna the words, "Pax in Terra," were inscribed.
Also included in the program was a carillon recital by Ronald
Barnes, carillonneur and instructor of music history; organ selections by Laurel E. Anderson, professor of organ and theory and University organist; Christmas carols played from the balcony of Hoch by the Brass Double Quartet, directed by Mr. Krehbiel, and candle lighting by Carl Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle Smith, and Allen Jameson, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Jameson, both of Lawrence.
Coach Chuck Mather will discuss "Sports in the University" before a faculty forum at 12 p.m. Wednesday, in the Kansas room of the Union. Reservations for the luncheon may be made at the YMCA.
Mather to Discuss Sports
Dulles, Wilson Brief GOP Leaders
Washington—(U.P.)—Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson today gave special reports on foreign and military affairs to Republican legislative leaders gathered at the White House. President Eisenhower called the
Red China Raps UN'Interference
United Nations, N.Y. — (U.P.)—Red China angrily accused the United Nations today of interfering in the Communist regime's agains by authorizing Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to try to arrange the release of 11 American airmen hailed there as "spies."
Radio Pieping, official voice of Red China, indicated that the outcast Communist government would reject any overtures made by Mr. Hammarskjold on behalf of the filers.
Red China's reaction came after Britain's U.N. delegate, Anthony Nutting, said his government stands "four-square" behind United States' and United Nations' efforts to gain release of the airmen.
The Peiping broadcast, quoting from an editorial in the official Peiping Peoples Daily, said the United States goaded the U.N. General Assembly into taking action, which it called "illegal and unjust." It said the United Nations "has no right to interfere with China's sentencing of American spies."
"Great Catherine Begins Tonight
After handling the problems which come with performing an elaborate period play, the Studio Theater will present "Great Catherine," by George Bernard Shaw, at 8 p.m. today through Thursday in Green theater.
Tickets are available at the box office in Green for 50 cents and may be reserved by calling KU 412.
For the past week the costume crew of the experimental Studio theater, headed by Patricia Johnson, college senior, has been converting velvet draperies into courtiers' jackets, and modern formals into 18th century ball gowns. An imperial nightgown was trimmed with mink and pincurls set in the wigs by the crew.
President Eisenhower called GOP congressional leaders to the committee a review of the legislative program he will send to Congress next month.
Congress Secretary Dulles discussed foreign affairs with the GOP leaders and Mr. Wilson briefed the group on the upcoming military needs of the nation.
Mr. Eisenhower was expected to spend most of the day briefing the top House and Senate Republicans on his legislative plans.
Senate GOP leader William F. Knowland predicted a "substantial amount of harmony" despite the party's deep differences over Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy and the administration's Far Eastern policies.
But both Sen. Knowland and House Speaker Joseph W. Martin, declined to forecast the fate of the President's proposals until they have had a chance to study them in detail.
Mr. Eisenhower was expected at today's day-long session to give the leaders a tentative outline of the State of the Union message he will send to the Democratic-controlled Congress in January. He also was expected to ask them for suggestions.
Tomorrow, the President and his aides will discuss national defense and foreign policies. For this, Democratic as well as Republican spokesmen from both houses have been invited.
Sen. Knowland said the new legislative program will not be as large as the 1953-54 recommendations since Congress already has put many of the President's proposals into effect.
The chief new item will call for an expanded economic aid program to combat Communism in the Far East. Mr. Eisenhower also is expected to ask Congress to postpone scheduled cuts in excise and corporation income taxes.
Legislative proposals left over from the 83rd Congress include revision of the Taft-Hartley law, statehood for Hawaii, a health reinsurance program, 18-year-old vote, postal rate increases, federal pay hikes, and reciprocal trade.
Democratic Sens. A. S. "Mike" Monroney (Okla.), Mike Mansfield (Mont.), and Hubert H. Humphrey (Minn.) said in separate interviews there is a good chance Mr. Eisenhower can get a liberalized trade program if he really plugs for it.
CHRISTMAS VESPERS—Directing the audience and A Cappella choir in the singing of Christmas carols at the Vespers yesterday was D. M. Swarthout, professor of piano.
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