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University Daily Kansan
Monday. Oct. 18, 1954
Hurricane Kills 163 In U.S., Haiti, Canada
By UNITED PRESS
Weary workers from South Carolina northward to the Canadian province of Ontario sought to restore order today out of the havoc left by hurricane Hazel, one of the worst ever to rip the North American continent.
The known overall death toll stood at 163, including 82 in the United States, 60 in Canada and 21 in Haiti where the hurricane loosed its first lethal punch last Wednesday. Property damage ran into hundreds of millions of dollars.
North and South Carolina probably were hardest hit by the hurricane in this country. President Eisenhower, slashing through government red tape, yesterday ordered immediate "blank-check" federal aid for wide areas of those two states.
The White House said "immediate consideration" would be given similar aid requests from any of nine other states hit by the hurricane.
In Ontario, the week end blast was the province's worst natural disaster and took the heaviest toll of lives since 119 persons burned to death aboard the luxury liner Noronic in Toronto five years ago.
Damage in the Toronto metropolitan area alone was estimated at $100,000,000.
The sodden wreckage of what was once one of Toronto's best residential areas in Etobicoke township continued to yield bodies, but the progress of recovery and identification was slow. One street alone counted 54 dead or missing. Officials feared many of the victims had been swept out into Lake Ontario.
Most of the Canadian dead were residents of attractive waterfront homes which were washed down Ontario's rampaging Humber river while residents slept. The flooded roads, crumbling homes, crumbled bridges, washed out highways and flooded stores and farms.
The hurricane, carrying 130 mile per hour winds, hit the U.S. coast early Friday near Myrtle Beach, S.C. It swirled northward, leaving a trail of death and damage in North Carolina, Virginia, the district of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
John Russell director of the Red Cross disaster service in the Southeast, said "at least 1,000 homes were totally destroyed" in the area from Pawley's Island, S.C., to Cape Lookout, N.C., and countless others sustained damage. At Carolina Beach, N.C., 475 of 1,500 summer homes were reported wiped out.
Accountants to Hear Blocker
Dr. John G. Blocker, professor of business, will address the Wichita chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants Tuesday. He will discuss recent trends in cost accounting.
KDGU Schedule
6:30 Keynotes by Carle
6:40 Daily Kansan Headlines
6.40 Daily Kansan Headlin
6.45 Rhythm, Backroom
7:00 Bookstore Hour
8:00 University Theatre Concert
8:45 News, weather
English Good Collister Says
Students entering the University the past four years have shown increased proficiency in English, Dr. E. Gordon Collier reported to approximately 200 high school and college English teachers who attended a conference here.
9:55 News
Dr. Collister is a director of the Guidance Bureau which administers placement examinations to about 1,800 new students each fall.
He attributed the improvement to increased emphasis on English and better teaching in the public schools.
"On all sides we hear complaints that high school graduates do not know as much today as they used to." Dr. Collister said.
"But the results of our English placement examinations for the past five years show that the mean scores on the examinations in English usage, spelling, vocabulary, and reading speed for entering freshmen at KU have equaled or exceeded the scores in preceding years, beginning with 1950. with the exception of a lower mean score in spelling for 1952.
"This is evidence that your efforts have not been in vain."
Other speakers for the two-day conference Friday and Saturday were Dean George R. Waggoner of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Prof. William C. Hummel, Kansas State College. Six workshops on phases of English and literature met each day.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
Art Education club, 12 noon, 332
Strong. Bring lunch and dues.
Baptist Student union 12:30-12:56:pray. Danforth chapel. Devotions and prayers
All Student Council elections com-
mitted to the special ARS nort. Plum, Room, Union.
Museum of Art record concerts, noon
and 4 p.m. Schubert. Third Symphony
major; Bach. Sinfonia for Double
Orchestra. Ravel, the Child and the
sorcerers.
TOMORROW
EE students, special AIEE-IRE meeting 11.11, 201, EEL.
Phi Delta Kappa, 6 p.m. Sunflower room. Union, Diner, business, tour
Pre-Nursing club. 7:30 p.m., Fraser dining room.
Alpha Phi Omega 7:30 p.m., Oread
room, Union, Imaggrent.
Museum of Art record concerts, noon
& 4 p.m. Ravel, "The Child and the
Soul."
Phi Sigma, 12 noon, 301 Snow, Dr Noble Sherwood, speaker.
Cantervary association, prayer 6:45 a.m., Eucharist 7: am, Danonchap church
Newman club executives, 7 p.m.
Castle, Choir, 12 p.m. church.
WEDNESDAY
Phi Mu Alpha, 7 p.m., English room Union, informal attire: bring dues.
Radio Players audition Unison Umo
noon. KDU studios. 217 Journalism
KDU.
Entomology club, 4 p.m., 301 Snow Dr. Jenks speaks.
University Veterans organization, 7.30
r.w.m. bodyguard team, Military Union
Radio Players auditions, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
KDGU studios, 217 Journalism.
Radio Players auditions, 10 a.m. to noon, KDGU studios, 217 Journalism
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MODERN DRIVERS—Maria Griffith, Calendar Queen, and Harlan Parkinson, senior class president, add a modern touch to the old-fashioned beer wagon they are sitting upon at the game Saturday.
All Hail the KU Seniors! Saturday Was Their Day
By LARRY HEIL
Saturday's score was disheartening, but the pre-game festivities were the most colorful we've seen.
Our first clue that the Oklahoma game was something special came when we muscled our way into a seat at the stadium. We found that we were sitting in front of a group of rowdies who were waving banners and cheering wildly, apparently for themselves. Our date informed us that it was Senior day and the flag wavers were seniors.
Finally, we noticed Calendar Queen Maria Griffith coming across the field from the west. Miss Griffith was introduced by senior class president Harlan Parkinson, who said that the president of the Alumni Association, Chester Mize Jr., would perform the coronation, where he met the secretary to the alumni group and presented Miss Griffith with a large bouquet. We waited for the crowning. He kissed her.
Leading the parade were two Chevrolets of ancient vintage filled with more banners and rowdies. Behind these, a group of KuKus, doubling for Clydesdale horses, pulled a beer wagon. The wagon housed a band playing a few real instruments, a wash tub, and a lyre fashioned from a white toilet seat. Sarg, a familiar campus dog, followed.
The yelling behind us reached a climax at the appearance of a procession which seemd to advertise old cars, seniors, Pabst Blue Ribbon, and church seats all at the same time.
"All hail," we said.
"I am honored to be a representative of such a fine class," she said, producing a banner from somewhere. The announcer began giving the Oklahoma starting lineup as a convertible passed marked "Beat KU." Apparently neither was part of the ceremony.
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Memphis Pays 'Boss' Crump Last Recognition
Memphis —(U,P)— E. H. Crump, the last of the colorful big city political rulers, will be buried today in this city he ruled with "oenevolent dictatorship" for a half century.
Thousands of citizens have filed past his casket at the Crump home since the white-maned, 80-year-old political leader died Saturday. He had been confined to his bed with a heart ailment for the past two weeks.
His body will be on view until Episcopal funeral services are held at the Crump home today. Dr. Donald Henning of Calvary church will officiate at the services, after which Mr. Crump's body will be taken to Elmwood for burial.
Since 1909 Mr. Crump had named city and Shelby county officials, made policy decision and run the city. There had been elections but the voters found only one slate of candidates on the ballot—Mr. Crump's. The mayor and commissioners made their "decisions" at "rehearsal" meetings with Mr. Crump, then later the same day would announce their decisions in a regular meeting.
The death of the legendary figure marked the end of an era of big city rulers. Some of the best remembered were Frank Hague, former mayor of Jersey City, N.J., and the late Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago; the late Thomas J. Pendergast of Kansas City, and James M. Curley, former Boston mayor and congressman.
He controlled the elections for governor in 1936 and 1938. His control got its first real setback in 1948 when Sen. Estes Kefauver won election over Mr. Crump's candidate.
The average American lives 68% years, an increase of nearly four years over the average life expectancy ten years ago.
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