Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
51st Year, No. 136
Friday, April 30, 1954
ROCK CHALK—Pam Barron, freshman, and Irby Hughes, Margie Campbell, and Jim Miller, college sophomores, left to right, practice the famous KU chant at the Cheerleader School in the Union ballroom. Truouts for next year's cheerleaders will be Monday.
Democrat Group Elects Officers
James Swords, college senior, was elected president of the KU Young Democrats last night.
Camilla Klein, second year law, vice chairman of the Young Democratic Clubs of America, was chosen to give the keynote address at the Kansas Young Democrat State convention to be held in Topeka, May 15 and 16. Sen. Estes Kefauver (D.-K.) will also speak.
Other officers elected are Lawrence Loftus, college junior, vice president; Darlene Hunsaker, fine arts sophomore, second vice president; Eloise Feuerborn, college sophomore, secretary; Don Kay, college junior, treasurer; and Joane Manney, fine arts sophomore, and Roger Collins, college sophomore, college council representatives.
The group unanimously endorsed Loffus as its candidate for Kansas Junior National committeeman. Loffus, who already has the support
Franklin, and Douglas county clubs should win the position by a large margin, said Donald Dirks, former president of the Young Democrats.
The club is sending six students to the Missouri Young Democrat State convention today and tomorrow.
Joane Manney and Donaal Dirks received letters of appointment to the rules and credentials committees respectively. The committees will meet during the two day Kansas Young Democrat State convention.
Weather
Showers or thunderstorms in the extreme east and light rain or drizzle in the west and central portions
of Kansas a re expected today. There was freezing drizzle in the northwest t h i s morning, w i t h snow and tempera- tures as low degrees ip
as 28 degrees in Denver. The
SHOWERS
weather tonight and tomorrow is expected to be cloudy, with occasional rain or drizzle in the west portion and east portions by tomorrow afternoon.
Cheerleaders Teach Novices All the Ropes
Rock-Chalk, Jayhawk, Kay-You! This familiar yell could be heard coming from the Student Union ballroom this week. Inside were some 55 students "whooping it up" with the cheerleaders.
This was cheerleader school, held Monday through Thursday to teach students interested in trying out for a next year's cheerleading job the fundamentals of the profession.
By attending the school, everyone who tries out next Monday night will have had, an equal opportunity to learn about KU cheerleading, even though some may have had more previous experience The cheerleaders served as coaches, teaching them the motions of four yells and two songs, and offering points for improvement.
"We also try to teach them how to project their personality to the audience," said Betty Lou Watson, college sophomore, one of the cheerleaders, and this was just as important as knowing the proper motions.
At the end of the sessions most of the student cheerleaders have a chronic case of aching muscles, Miss Watson said. She added that most of them didn't realize how much work there is to cheerleading.
About 35 women students and 20 men students have been attending the sessions. Most of the women are predominantly upperclassmen.
Cheerleading tryouts wil be held at 7 p.m. Monday in the Kansas room of the Student Union.
The substructure of the earth on possible future University building sites is being studied through borings being made by the Raymond Concrete Pile co., Keith Lawton, director of physical plant operations, said today.
Possible Building Sites Being Studied
The borings are being made west of the Military science building and near Corbin and North college halls.
Student Festiva To Feature Art
The annual Delta Phi Delta Student Art festival will be held at the Student Union Sunday and Monday.
If weather permits, oil paintings will be displayed at the new patio entrance. The remaining art works will be exhibited in the main lounge. The festival previously was scheduled for Fowler Grove, but was changed because of the rain.
Five types of art work will be shown in the festival. Any student or faculty member may enter sculptures, oils, allied techniques, watercolors, drawings, and miscellaneous work. Each contestant will be limited to four entries.
McCarthy Aide Admits Delivering Cut Photo
Shearer Avers 'Law As Guide'
Collins, holder of an International association of Rattlesnake Hunters awards membership card for catching live rattlesnakes at Waynoka, Okla., has decided to put an end to his startling snake exhibitions and eat the four live ratlers he caught this year. The largest is five and a half feet long.
"I think that when you are on the court you should let the law be your guide instead of political affiliations," Kent Shearer, third year law and chief justice of the Student court said in an interview yesterday.
Washington —(U.P.)—A member of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's (R.-Wis.) staff took responsibility today for delivering a "doctored" photograph of Pvt. G. David Schine and Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens to Senate investigators.
"Tye sent out 25 invitations already," Collins said this morning, "but only four indicated that they would eat the main course." He is sending approximately 80 of them in all, but he said he felt that four
"Although everyone on the court has had affiliations with campus political parties, our oath and non-partisan method of our selection of judges require that we be non-partisan in rendering any decision in court." Shearer said.
Shearer was instrumental in drafting the statement of principles of POGO party, but he ceased to attend the regular POGO meetings after the ACI primary when it appeared that his primary interested in Greek unity would be realized.
"To whom it may concern: You are hereby summoned to appear at the Collins and Wilhelm Snake Pit at 1140 Louisiana, second floor, on Saturday evening, May 1, 1954, from 7:00—? The purpose is to enjoy the rare privilege of eating rattle-snakes. We will furnish the snakes and possibly the beer, but you B.Y.O.S.B.R. (Bring your own snake bite remedy)."
"The student court is an individual branch of KU student government equal to the All Student Council and the supreme interpreter of the laws of the council," he said.
Land Snakes Alive But Not for Long!
He said that in the event that any justive exhibits partial tendencies in their work, such action will be taken to the chancellor and he will do as he feels necessary.
By GENE SHANK
To show the fairness of the court in past decisions, Shearer said that in three political issues presented to the court last year over which FACTS and Pachaacamac tangled, in two cases Shearer said he voted with FACTS although politically he was opposed to them.
Shearer was interviewed by the Kansan since the question of the validity of the action taken by the ASC election committee in voiding the recent campus election is to be brought before the student court today.
Somehow it doesn't pay to be a vegetarian—particularly if you're invited to the "snakefeed" that Richard Collins, third year law student, is throwing tomorrow.
But if you are invited, here's the invitation you will receive:
snakes would be sufficient for the number of persons who would eat them.
Collins, who said that rattlesnake meat "tastes like the white meat of a chicken," will prepare his main dish by skinning the snakes, cutting them in sections along the ribs, putting them in salt water over night, shaking them in flour, and then throwing them in a frying pan.
The snakes, though completely
Prospective Meal-This "delectable" creature is seen posing for the picture that appears on the invitations to a gala snakefeed.
unaware of the forthcoming feast, seem to be in strange temperament this week. Collins indicated. He fed them several mice last Wednesday, and the finicky snakes won't even touch them.
The witness was James N. Juliana who was put under questioning at the Army-McCarthy hearings after the Wisconsin Senator announced he was the one person who could best tell the story of what happened to the famous photograph.
Mr. Juliana said two sets of photostats were made from a print supplied by Pvt. Schine. One showed Pvt. Schine, Mr. Stevens, and Col. Jack T. Bradley, commandant of McGuire Air Force base near Fort Dix, NJ.
The other showed only Pvt. Schine and Mr. Stevens, Mr. Juliana said he delivered that version to hearing Counsel Ray H. Jenkins "because I thought that was the one you wanted."
Mr. Juliana testified that after Pvt. Schine delivered the original picture, he asked Don Surine, assistant committee counsel, to have photostat made of the three persons and also showing only Mr. Stevens and Pvt. Schine.
Mr. Juliana testified that when the photostats were delivered, he had mounted on hard white paper the enlarged photostat of just Mr. Stevens and Pvt. Schine. He placed the others in a filing cabinet in the office of Staff Director Francis P. Carr.
"No sir" Mr. Juliana replied.
He said that he then furnished just the mounted photostat of Mr. Stevens and Pvt. Schine to Mr. Jenkins.
He said that he furnished just the Stevens-Schine photograph to Mr. Jenkins because he had believed that was what Mr. Jenkins wanted.
Mr. Jenkins brought out that he had no knowledge that the disputed photograph was a "cropped" or "doctored" photograph.
Mr. Jenkins brought out that he had been advised earlier that a photograph of Mr. Stevens and Pvt. Schine was in existence. He wasn't told the original picture showed a third person.
"Did I say to cut anyone out?" Mr. Jenkins asked.
Jean Diehl Wins Tri Delt Award
Mr. Juliana's testimony highlighted a session during which Special Army Counsel Joseph N. Welch suggested that Sen. McCarthy himself be called to testify out of turn in order to speed up the dragging investigation.
Jean Diehl, college freshman, has been awarded the Delta Delta Delta general scholarship for 1954-55 school year.
A resident of Miller scholarship hall, Miss Diehl learned yesterday that she had been selected from applicants from colleges and universities all over the country to receive the sorority's national scholarship award.
This is the first time the award has gone to a University student.
The local Delta Delta Delta chapter awards a scholarship each year to a University woman.
Nevins to Speak at 8 p.m.
Nevins to Speak at 8 p.m.
The Kansas Centennial History conference is being held in the Memorial Union building today and tomorrow. Allan Nevins, professor of history at Columbia university, will speak on "Kansas and the Stream of American Destiny" at 8 p.m. today in the ballroom of the Student Union.