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Accordion Champ Lives Up to Title
By LEE ANN URBAN
"World Amateur Accordion Champion" is a long title for Carolyn Bailey, college freshman, but students who have heard her play agree that the name fits.
Miss Bailey won the title in a contest sponsored by the International Music league in 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio. She defeated about 500 accordion students from a Kansas-Oklahoma area to be eligible to enter the contest. That year she also competed with students from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Missouri to win the Southwest Accordion contest in Oklahoma City.
In 1953 she entered the international contest again in a trio and a 13-piece accordion band. Both groups won world championships. Miss Bailey was chosen queen of the one-week contest by fashion designers and presented with a watch and trophy to add to her collection.
"I used to practice about and hour and a half a day during the school year and two hours in the summer, but I don't have time now," she says.
Miss Bailey, who lives in Scranton but attended high school in Osage City, began playing the accordion when she was in the seventh grade. She took lessons Toneka.
With class work and activities, Miss Bailey doesn't get to practice as much as she would like.
"It took two months to prepare my solo for the international contest, and then I had to change the selection because the piece was five minutes long instead of the 4-minute limit. I practiced four hours a day on the second number."
Miss Bailey, majoring in music in the college, plays the piano and is taking organ lessons.
"I'd like to play the accordion professionally some day," she said.
She has entertained at a house-mothers' party, the KU-Kansas State Peace Pact dinner, the Corbin hall Thanksgiving dinner, and other events this fall.
Rock Products Parley Set
The qualities, processing and use of Kansas limestone will be discussed tomorrow and Friday at the conference on rock products at the University. From 60 to 75 persons are expected to attend.
Following a welcome by Dr. Frank C. Foley, state geologist, two speakers from the State Geological survey at KU will explain the research program in limestone and what minor elements rock men can expect to find... They are Russell Rumelis and John Schleicher, chemists.
J. F. Heenan, training director for the Monarch Cement company, Humboldt, will speak on "Safety Problems and Practices" in quarries. C. H. Scholer of the Kansas Turnpike authority, Topeka, will tell of "Use of Limestone in Construction Agregates."
A panel on "Use of Limestone in Hot Mix" will open Friday's program. Participants will be Max F.elschlaeger, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Merritt Royer, Kansas City, Mo., and Claude Rhodes, Newton.
ADVENTURE
Sociology of Law To Be Discussed
"The Sociology of Law" will be discussed by Robert W. Knudsen, graduate student from Norway, at the Sociology club meeting at 4 p.m. Friday in Room 17 Strong Annex E.
Krundsen will tell the group about an attempt to establish a social science of law which parallels with law as a social science phenomenon. He will also define what is meant by the sociology of law and discuss whether the social science of law should be a means to an end.
Morse Code visual signaling first was used by the Army during the Navajo campaign in June, 1860.
KU Leaders To Attend State Parley
Two University leaders will play prominent roles in the Governor's Conference on Education in Topeka tomorrow.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will be a luncheon speaker at the Hotel Jayhawk. He also is a member of the planning committee.
Dean Kenneth E. Anderson of the School of Education, with assistance of the State Department of Public Instruction, developed the program outline. Dean Anderson will conduct the briefing session for the planning committee and instruct group leaders and recorders at a special meeting this evening in Topeka.
Wednesday, December 8, 1954 University Daily Kansan
The materials sent to confeeers for pre-conference study included two publications of the KU School of Education. These were "A Study of 2,500 High School Graduates" and "Fundamentals for Children in Our Time." The first is a follow-up survey on high school alumni to obtain their opinions on the value of their training. The latter is a summary of the elementary education workshop held at KU last June.
Japan Parties Agree To Meet on Premier
Tokyo—(U.P.) The Socialists and the rebel Conservatives agreed today to name a new premier tomorrow who will lead Japan in a critical period of growing pressure for closer Communist ties.
The Socialists, split into two opposing parties, will insist that the new premier dissolve the Parliament in mid-January so the Japanese people can elect a new Diet (Parliament.)
Moderate and extreme Socialists met with conservative Democrats and decided to name tomorrow the successor to resigned Premier Shigeru Yoshida.
Their choice is certain to be Ichiro Hatoyama, a cripple, whom Gen. Douglas MacArthur purged from public life in 1946 on grounds he urged the Diet to suppress personal liberties before World War II.
Mr. Hatoyama leads the Democrat party, which signed an unprecedented truce with the left-wing parties to force pro-American Yoshida out of office after he had served six years.
The Diet voted an extra day in its special session, originally scheduled to end today, so a premier could be
named before the regular session opens Friday.
Political observers doubted that a Hatoyama government would swing sharply towards Communist China, which is attempting to bring Japan into its economic and diplomatic orbit.
His Democrat party said Japan should consider increased trade with Red China and it was believed Mr. Hatoyama may abandon some of Mr. Yoshida's extreme pro-American policies.
National Guard divisions made up two-fifths of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War I.
DuBois, a southern Illinois hamlet with the French name, doesn't have a single Frenchman living in it. The citizenry is almost entirely Polish.