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Daily hansan
51st Year, No. 148
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, May 18, 1954
STANDING ON HEAD?—Prof. J. Sheldon Carey of the department of design demonstrates his new technique of working clay on an inverted potter's wheel. Working upside down puts gravity on his side and enables Prof. Carey to create taller pots.
Professor of Ceramics Develops New Process
By R. H. CHESKY
"Upside down throwing" may sound like a revolutionary new delivery in baseball pitching, but actually the phrase applies to a process as far removed from the national pastime as Lawrence from Nome, Alaska.
Upside down throwing is the creation of ceramic objects on an inverted potter's wheel—a process recently developed by J. Sheldon Carey, professor in the ceramics division of the department of de-
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"throwing" is a word that workers in clay use to describe working on a potter's wheel. For example Prof. Carey has always had a fondness for tall, slender pots, and has attempted to "throw" them as high as he could.
Throwing pots on a potter's wheel in the normal position has certain disadvantages, however, and one
who wishes to create really tall pieces must do his wo k in sections and join the several parts after drying. Prof. Carey always found that 16 to 20 inches, was as high as he could hope to throw a single section.
His desire to build taller pots led him to wonder if the potter's wheel could not be turned upside down in order to enlist the force of gravity on his side rather than working against it. This process, as far as Prof. Carey knew, had never before been attempted in the history of the potter's wheel.
Turtle Races, Softball Picnic Set for Seniors
Members of the senior class of 1954 will be busy today with a full schedule of turtle racing, softball games, and a picnic.
At 3 p.m. there will be turtle races on the intramural field. Seniors wishing to enter the contest bring your own turtle and place it at the starting line. At 4 p.m. there will be a softball game between the seniors and the Faculty fellows.
After the game, there will be a picnic at colcom's grove, east of the first driveway north of the Wakarusa bridge on U.S. Highway 69. Transportation will be provided from the ball game.
Chicken dinners will be served upon the presentation of a 25-cent ticket which may be purchased at the Information Booth.
A peace pipe smoking ceremony will be held at 8:30 a.m. Monday, June 7 at the senior breakfast Seniors will receive the '54 edition of the "Last Gasp" and will hear the class will and prophecy. Monday afternoon, June 7, there will be a University reception for seniors and their parents.
Dixie Joins to Oppose Segregation Decision
McCarthy Calls For Stevens' Aid
Washington —(U.R.)— Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy asked Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens today to join him in urging President Eisenhower to lift the secrecy order which halted the Army-McCarthy hearings at least until next Monday.
Simultaneously, acting chairman Karl E. Mundt (R-S.D.) of the Senate Investigating subcommittee said he would meet with Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., to begin efforts to get the President to revoke or modify the order.
Atlanta—(U.P.)—Dixie segregationists formed battlelines today in an effort to preserve the South's traditional color barriers despite the Supreme Court's historic decision that segregation in the public schools is unconstitutional.
Audience Debate Set for Tuesday
An audience debate before the Sartoma club at 6 p.m. Tuesday in Green hall will feature the national champions, William Arnold and Hubert Bell, college juniors, taking the affirmative stand on the national question, free trade.
William Means, business senior, and John Fields, college junior, will comprise the opposition team. Each tea mull debate for three minutes, followed by audience questions.
-Kansan photo by Ed Howard
THEY PUT HIM UP TO IT—Billy Barty, midget star of the Spike Jones television show, smiles broadly as he gets autographs from Wes Santee, America's No. 1 mileer, and B. H. Born, KU basketball star. The Liberace of the comedy world met Santee, long an idol, here last night. He is making a movie for the Spencer Chemical company. Mr. Barty plays the fictitious "Mr. N" in the movie.
'Run 38-Second First 440,' TV Midget Advises Santee
Billy Barty, long a fan of Wes Santee, met the runner last night at the Centron corporation here, where he is making a commercial movie. He immediately advised Santee to run his next mile with a 38-second first quarter, "and then you can coast in."
By ED HOWARD
The lively little man, best known for his Liberace routine on the Spike Jones television show, arrived in Lawrence Sunday from San Francisco, where he had done a police benefit show. He admitted he got a police escort out of town, but said "It's just a good thing that the plane was on time."
When Mr. Barty arrived in Lawrence, he said he wanted to meet Santee. He got the chance last night when Santee showed up at the set with 6-foot, 9-inch B. H. Born. KU basketball star.
tinually been asked to go through the Liberace routine. When asked, he shrugs his shoulders, gets a big grin on his face, and with a broad wink says "I would, but brother George isn't with me."
The 3-foot, 11-inch 85-pounder has been with Spike Jones about four months. He has the highest regard for the comedian, saying Mr. Jones is as zany without an audience as he is with one. He said that Mr. Jones once wore a headless costume while driving down Sunset boulevard in Los Angeles, causing a panic among other drivers.
During the three days he has been in Lawrence, he has con-
The high tribunal issued its long-awaited document yesterday. It came after months of deliberating an issue regarded as the most vital affecting one region since Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
the Supreme Court scheduled further arguments for next fall on vital issues connected with its unanimous decision and affected states were invited to submit additional briefs in the cases. Only after that will enforcement machinery be drafted.
Thus, Negro and white students will not be going to school together in large areas of Dixie for perhaps many more years.
The possibility of the long delay tempered reaction among white Southerners which ranged from appeals for calm to blunt warnings that no court decision can overthrow segregation in the South.
Most Dixie congressional delegations were highly critical. Sen, James O. Eastland (D-Miss.) said "the South will not abide by this legislative decision by a political court."
One of the biggest surprises of the decision was that it was unanimous. Gov. Herman Talmadge of Georgia, who hurled one of the sharpest barbs at the court's action, said he had expected at least a divided opinion.
The Supreme Court invited attorneys general of the segregation states to submit briefs in the new autumn arguments, but there was a question whether they would accept.
Georgia Attorney General Eugene Cook said he had contacted 17 attorneys general in affected states and had found none willing to submit to the decision without further litigation.
For the immediate future, some action by Southern state groups was in prospect. Alabama's special committee to recommend segregation-preserving steps to the legislature will meet within a week, as will a similar Georgia group.
The Inter-fraternity council, in an unprecedented unanimous ballot, last night elected Bob Worecster, engineering junior, president.
Others elected were Joe Steinbacher, college sophomore, vice president of Michigan business secretary, and man Lowe. College sophomore, treasurer.
IFC Elects Worcester
On the executive committee are Ray Krabenuhl, education sophomore; Bob Rush, college freshman; Joe Galbraith, education senior, and Grant Napier, college sophomore.
Weather
Partly cloudy to cloudy weather is expected this afternoon, tonight, and
tomorrow with a
few widely scat-
tered late afternoon
or nigh t i m e thunder-
storms in the extreme west portion of the state.
Not much change
is anticipated in
in temperature. Low tonight 45 to 50 in the north to 50 to 55 in the south. High tomorrow 70 to 75.