Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
Wednesday, Sept. 22, 1954
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
52nd Year. No. 6
ONE WILL BE CENTENNIAL QUEEN—Shown rehearsing the coronation ceremony for the "Trails West" pageant planned for tomorrow night at Haskell stadium are three KU students: left to right, Polly Pepercorn, college freshman; Judy Cotton, college sophomore, and Susan Montgomery, education junior. One of the three will be selected at the Centennial ball tonight. About 900 persons participating in the pageant staged a dress rehearsal last night at the stadium.
900 Rehearse for Pageant Depicting Lawrence History
In preparation for the opening performance Thursday night of "Trails West," Lawrence Centenial pageant, a cast of more than 900 persons last night staged a full-dress rehearsal in Haskell stadium.
The pageant, depicting Lawrence and Douglas county history, will be given through Sept. 28 at the stadium. The program will start at 7:25 p.m. each day.
Appropriate costumes for the episodes depicted will highlight the program, which includes a capsule history of the city from the time it was occupied by Indian tribes to the present day.
The founding of Lawrence as a city, its activities as a "free state" during the Civil war, and an enactment of Quantrill's "Sack of Lawrence" bear out the significant traditions inherited from the past.
A new era, the coming of the railroad to Kansas, also will be a feature. A locomotive will travel across the grass stage with a contingent of can-can girls aboard.
Bonds Sold For Turnpike
Topeka — (U.P.) The Kansas Turnip authority, in the largest financial transaction in the state's history, today sold $160 million in bonds to finance a 234-mile toll road.
After months of negotiations and careful arrangements, it took only a 22-minute session of the sevenmember authority to accomplish the actual sale.
The bonds went to a syndicate formed by Smith-Barney & Co. and the First Boston corporation, both of New York, and a Kansas group of bond dealers represented by Beecroft, Cole & Co. of Topeka.
The issue was underwritten by 378 bond brokers throughout the nation who will present the bonds for sale to the public.
The sale produced $155,680,000 in cash for the turnip authority, at a net interest cost of 3.4425 per cent.
The bonds will be offered to the public at $995 for a $1,000 face-value bond, bearing 3% per cent interest.
Cost of getting the huge bond issue, biggest ever sold in Kansas, to the market was $4,320,000. Of this, $800,000 will be passed on to the public in the price of the bonds. The net cost to the Turnpike authority was $3,520,000.
The apprehension experienced by Lawrence citizens having their first look at the automobile is evidenced in the segment describing the turn of the century.
The "Roaring Twenties," heyday
Coach Grilled By 50 KU Quarterbacks
Coach Chuck Mather showed films and answered questions fired at him by about 50 persons at the first meeting of the Kansas University Quarterback club last night.
Dean Graves, engineering junior,
welcome the new members. Graves was appointed by the Student Union board to head the group.
Mather was kept busy for about an hour answering questions about his grading system, signal calling, and formations. He discussed the TCU game while it was being shown on film, pointing out the bright spots and the mistakes of the KU squad.
The north wind that blew a cold front across the Midwest yesterday held on today and the chilliest weather since last spring invaded Kansas today on the last full day of official summer.
Vacancies in the Men's Glee club, Women's Glee club and University chorus have been announced by the assistant professor of music education.
The next meeting will be held Tuesday, Sept. 28, and will feature the films of the UCLA game. Coach Mather will be on hand at all meetings to answer questions.
Weather
The temperature dipped to 44 degrees in Lawrence this morning and climbed 20 degrees by noon. It was 39 degrees in Topeka.
Tom Arnold, Kansas weatherman, predicted winds tomorrow afternoon over the east and central sectors of the state.
Students may enroll in the clubs for one half hour of credit and in University chorus for one hour of credit.
The high today is expected to be in the 70s in the east with the low tonight ranging in the 50s.
Glee Club Chorus Vacancies Remain
of the Charleston contest, flappers and cake-eaters, will include a dancing exhibition.
A call to serve their country in time of war is answered by citizens of Lawrence in the two World War scenes.
A salute to the educational traditions of KU and Haskell Institute is given in the closing scene. It will include a brief history of each school.
Paul Haagen, director of Centennial activities, expressed the opinion that the program will be well received by the public. Dick Spitler is director of the pageant.
A special feature of the program Thursday will be the coronation of the Centennial Queen, to be selected tonight at the Centennial ball. Three KU students, Polly Peppercorn, college freshman; Judy Cotton, college sophomore, and Susan Montgomery, education junior, are the finalists.
Tickets for the pagent may be purchased at the log cabin in South Park daily from 9-11 and 1-8 p.m.
Italy Police Block Reds
Rome, Italy —(U.P.) Premier Mario Seicba ordered riot police to guard Rome's principal squares tonight in a firm answer to a Communist attempt to topple his government on charges it protected prominent persons involved in a drug-sex scandal.
They have been waiting eagerly for an opening to attack the short, tough Sicilian who blocked their bid for power in 1948.
The Italian Reds were in full cry for Premier Seelba's scab.
Italy's 'scandal of the century' has brought the arrest of the jazz-pianist son of Italy's former foreign minister, Attilio Piccioni, and forced the minister's resignation.
But the sight of truckloads of armed police in the alleyways near the Senate, Chamber of Deputies and Foreign Office removed the threat of serious demonstrations.
Students May Obtain ID Cards in Strong
ID cards may be picked up in the rotunda of Strong hall. Students must present their fee cards.
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KU to Honor Olympic Great
Kansans will honor the man generally considered the greatest athlete in the state's history in special ceremonies at the Kansas-Oklahoma football game here Oct. 16, George E. Little, executive director of the National Football Hall of Fame, announced yesterday.
Geoffrey Moore Tells of Defense Of U.S. Writing
He spoke in the first of a series of lectures, "The Spirit of Modern Literature," last night.
Geoffrey Moore, Rose Morgan visiting professor, last night told of his one-man campaign to explain the United States and its literature to the British because of his friendship toward the U.S.
Mr. Moore, who has taught at the Universities of Wisconsin, Southern California, Tulane, New Mexico, and Kansas City, said he felt it was his duty to attempt to dissolve prejudices which many Britons have against the Americans and American literature. He said some Englishmen feel that all Americans wear "zoot suits" and that no good literature has been written by Americans since Walt Whitman.
The campaign of Moore's to introduced literature of the U.S. was carried out in three ways: by writing, by lectures, and by radio and TV. He said lecturing and radio were harder than writing because of the resistance of the listeners who considered him and his family as refugees from bedlam.
Mr. Moore said the trend in England is toward young writers not holding posts in universities as they do here. He said that American literature is typical of the commercialized country in which it is written.
- James Bausch, now a Tulsa, Okla., insurance man, will receive a special plaque, honoring him with his election to the National Football Hall of Fame.
The award presentation here is in line with similar honor games at 17 college games around the country this fall. In all, 26 grid stars who have been elected to the Hall of Fame will be honored.
Mr. Bausch won all-conference laurels in football two years at Kansas but it was in track and the ball he obtained he attained his athletic heights.
Winner of the decathlon in the 1832 Olympics, Mr. Bauch smashed the old point record with an astounding total of 8462.23. It was the first time in history that anyone had topped the performance record recently named the greatest athlete in the first 50 years of this century.
Outstanding in track, Mr. Bausch also was a standout on Kansas football and basketball teams.
Mr. Bausch's decathlon triumph has been called one of the greatest feats in Olympic history. Trailing Wilson Charles Jr., of Haskell Indian institute in fifth place at the end of the first day's five events, the muscular Jayhawk used his favorite field events—the weights—to grab the lead, then tied Clyde Coffman, a Kansas teammate, with an astonishing leap of 13 foot, 1} inches in the mole vault to win easily.
A power in Kansas' first Big Six championship backfield in 1930. Mr. Bausch gained all-Big Six laurels in 1930 and in 1929. He was KU's first representative in the East-West Shrine game, competing in the San Francisco charity game on New Year's day, 1931, after being declared ineligible for further competition by league faculty representatives.
Mr. Bausch also earned a basket- ball letter as a junior in 1930.
JAMES BAUSCH—In His Olympic Uniform