Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
52nd Year, No. 18
Friday, October 8, 1954
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Taft Discusses Highlights Of Science in State
By IRENE COONFER
A contrast of Kansas science in 1854 and 1954 and highlights of those years were discussed by Dr. Robert Taft, professor of chemistry, last night.
Dr. Taft spoke in the first of four lectures being given this month on the role of science in Kansas. The series is sponsored by Sigma Xi, national honorary research society.
He told of the first account of the sunflower to be printed, after Maj. S. H. Long led the first expedition in 1819. "Now we are in the age of easier money," Dr. Taft said, contrasting the funds now available to those which were available for research before World War II. "Considering the vast sums from state, federal and private sources, this indeed seems, an era of ease for scientific advancement
Relating the tranquil picture of Kansas before its fight for statehood, Dr. Taft said science was relatively undeveloped and owed its first real steps of progress to the expeditions by railroad companies.
"There are now well over 1,000 professional scientists at work in the state. Although that is a great figure compared to 1854, we know that science, the service of man, still has fields to conquer in 1954."
KuKus to Plan Jayhawk Call
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Jon Baker was elected president of the KuKu pledge class last night and plans were made to produce a "new sound" to typify the call of a Jayhawk. Steve Jennings, college junior, and Conrad Brown, architecture junior, were elected pledge class vice president and secretary-treasurer, respectively.
Details of the new noise are being worked out by a special committee and the cry will not be revealed until the Oklahoma game Oct 16. According to Jim Miller, KK president, the哭 will be unique sound. It will represent the battle cry of a challenged Jayhawk.
Working out the new sound, Miller said, is part of an over-all plan to intensify University cheering activity this year. The program includes initiating new cheers and extending the practice of having organized houses answer the phone, "Beat ... (the oppoents)" on game week ends.
Seniors to Hold Class Convocation
All seniors will be excused from their 10 a.m. classes Tuesday to attend a senior convocation in the Student Union ballroom.
Harlan Parkinson, class president,
will introduce the calendar queen
candidates. One of them will be
elected during the convocation. To
vote each senior must purchase a
senior pennant.
Plans for senior day at the Oklahoma game will be discussed. Delcina Guest, fine arts senior, will give entertainment. Coffee and free cigarettes will be served.
ISA Meeting Set for Monday
An Independent Student association meeting will be held at 7:30 Monday in room 305 of the Student Union. The meeting is for all ISA members. Those who have been selling memberships are especially urged to come.
TENSE DUO: The mirror reflects the strained relations of Michael Redgrave, English professor, and his wife, Jean Kent, who star in "The Browning Version," first in the film series, at 7:15 p.m. today in
14 Dead or Missing In New Mexico Flood
By UNITED PRESS
Fourteen persons were dead or missing as flood waters poured over New Mexico farmlands today and a vicious wind ripped the South Atlantic seaboard.
Two other storms threatened the' South. Hurricane Hazel, 100 miles wide and roaring at 100-miles-an-hour, moved across the Caribbean sea, while a savage storm from the Gulf of Mexico flooded persons from their homes in northeast Mexico.
The violent weather was accompanied by nine plane crashes that took two lives since Wednesday. Three crashes yesterday, killing nine persons, were all blamed on gusty or murky skies.
As Roswell, N.M., search parties struck out today along the muddy banks of the Rio Felix and Pecos to find to some of the 10 missing alive.
Four bodies have already been taken from the flood waters and hopes that the other 10 survived were bleak.
Clare Luce May Quit Job
With settlement of the Trieste dispute, Mrs. Luce has scored a major victory now in one of America's toughest overseas assignments, and the way appears clear for her to return to the United States.
Rome — (J, P)— Authoritative diplomatic sources said today they expect Mrs. Clare Booth Luce to resign within the next few months as United States ambassador to Italy.
From the moment of her arrival 18 months ago, Mrs. Luce worked night and day, to persuade the Italians to accept a compromise. Her diplomacy and tenacity earned half of a territory they claimed as all theirs. They thanked Mrs. Luce for the half.
Both Italian and Allied quarters give Mrs. Luce a big share of the credit for the settlement this week of the nine-year-old dispute between Yuzolsavia and Italy over Trieste.
Mrs. Luce has spent all of her time here denying that she planned to quit. She hung on despite sporadic illnesses, periods of steepearness and constantly-interrupted attempts to vacation and rest. Finally the Communists demanded her recall, and there was no chance she could or would leave under such fire.
The water was going down on the Rio Felix and Berrendo rivers early today, but floodwaters were still rising on the Pecos.
The Pecos valley rivers went on a rampage Tuesday after 48 hours of pounding rain. The Rio Felix roared from its banks yesterday, ripping apart a house 250 feet from the center of its channel.
Seven persons, including three children, were in the house. The bodies of two were recovered and the rest were missing. Elsewhere, another child and two adults were missing.
At Alexandria, La., a wind-buffed helicopter crashed, killing five Air Force officers.
Race Strike Ends In Nation's Capital
Washington — (U.P) — A student strike against integration of Negroes and whites in Capital schools ended today.
At Anacostia High school, focal point of the week-long unrest. Principal Eugene Griffith reported that attendance was "better than normal" with only 81 absentees in the enrollment of 1,300 students.
Associate School Superintendent Lawson J. Cantrell said attendance at the few schools affected "so far as I have been able to check is perfectly normal."
At Eastern high school, Principal John P. Collins reported 227 absentees out of the enrollment of 1,900 and termed it "almost normal."
The strike ended in the face of a threat of sharp disciplinary action against those who failed to return today.
A student strike leader returned to class at Anacostia high and said he was going to try his best to make racial integration work.
Meanwhile, in Atlanta, a southern congressman encouraged strikes today against integration in public schools in the latest Dixie protest against lifting racial barriers.
The recital of poems and ballads by Mr. MaeNeice and Miss Anderson is scheduled at 8 p.m. Friday in Fraser theater. A reception for the guest speakers is planned at 9:30 pm, at the Museum of Art.
Rep. James C. Davis (D. Ga.) said that striking students in Washington, D. C., where he is a member of the district committee, were within their constitutional rights. He said the refusal to attend non-segregated schools may lead to a "sensible" solution to the problem.
British Poet To Be Speaker At English Conference Here
S six workshops on English teachings, visits to KU English classes,
'sensible solution' It's been about a month since schools opened and it's about two months until the U.S. Supreme court fixes final decrees on Dec. 6 on how its ruling outlawing public school segregation shall be carried out. Here is the situation as of now:
There has been no integration in public schools of the deep south, although Negro groups tried unsuccessfully to gain entrance at white schools in Alabama, North Carolina, Louisiana and Texas.
Georgia and Mississippi are preparing for statewide voting on proposed constitutional amendments permitting establishment of private school systems as a means of circumventing the Supreme court ruling. South Carolina previously voted to permit removal of a requirement for operation of a public school system.
A recital of poems and ballads by Louis MacNeice, British poet, and Hedi Anderson, interpreter of ballads, will be featured at the annual conference on the teaching of English composition and literature in high schools and colleges here Oct. 15-16.
More than 200 Kansas English teachers are expected to attend, according to Albert Kitzhaber, associate professor of English and conference director. Purpose of the conference is to have active involvement of English on high school, junior college and college levels in the state, he said.
Special displays for the conference will be on the second and third floor of Fraser hall. "Roads From the Fort," a novel by Arvid Shulenberger, associate professor of English; and "Widow Man," by Edgar Wolfe, instructor in English, will be shown in various stages of preparation, from manuscript to finished form. Books by Mr. MacNeice and typical English themes by KU students also will be displayed.
and a showing of the film version of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" are other features of the two-day conference.
Dr. George Waggoner, dean of the College, will speak on "Our Common Aims," the theme of the conference, Friday.
LOUIS MacNEICE
28 Houses Enter Union Carnival
Twenty-eight organized houses have their applications in for booths in the Student Union Carnival, held on the second and third floors of the Union Oct. 16. The usual contests for Little Man on the Campus, and Carnival queen will be held with the fraternities and sororities nominating candidates.
The Carnival will begin after the KU-Oklahoma football game. The admission is 50 cents per person or 75 cents a couple. There will be dancing from 9 p.m. to midnight with music furnished by Sam Smith's orchestra.
Originality and the number of tickets sold per booth are the standards by which faculty members will judge the booths. During intermission the Carnival queen and the Little Man on the Campus will be presented and trophies will be awarded to the four best booths.
The Carnival committee consists of:
Petrea Doty, education junior,
chairman; Humphreys Hodge e,
journalism junior, assistant chair-
man; Margaret Campbell, college
junior, publicity; Robert Bishop,
engineering junior, booth co-ord-
ination; Ted Ice, tickets; Paul
Hunt, chaperones; and Faydean
Orth. college juniors, contests.
As a preview for the Carnival, there will be a parade of the queen candidates and the carnival clowns during the halftime of the game.
Work Starts At New Dorm Site
Work was started Tuesday to level the site for the new women's dormitory on the north slope of North College Hill.
Workmen for the Constant Construction Co., of Lawrence are removing a small rise north of the tennis courts near Corbin and North College halls. The area was former site of the Rock Chalk Cairn.
Bids for the general construction contract and subsidiary contracts will be opened about the middle of next week. Work on the $1 1/4 million structure is expected to start shortly after contracts are let. University officials said they hope the dorm will be completed by January, 1956.
Scholarship Deadline Set
The deadline to submit applications for Fulbright scholarships for study in Australia and New Zealand is Oct. 15, Dr. J. A. Burzle, Fulbright director, announced today. Students wishing to study in those countries must have taken a medical examination by Oct. 11. Applications may be obtained from Dr. Burzle, 304 Fraser.
Weather
Topeka—(U.P.)-South winds and more sunshine peeking through partly cloudy skies brought Kansas warmer temperatures today. State Weatherman Tom Arnold said tomorrow would be about the same with partly cloudy skies and average temperatures for early October, Arnold predicted possible showers in northwest Kansas.
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