Naucas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
51st Year, No. 126
New Car, House Shown
A car with an all-plastic body and an experimental type of housing which may be used in the future to cut down building costs are two features that will be shown in the Engineering Exposition today and tomorrow.
Friday, April 16, 1954.
The plastic car, a part of the engineering shop practice exhibit, will be demonstrated in the plastic laboratory, showing the processes involved in its construction. Several sections of plastic automobiles also will be on display.
The experimental type housing is part of the architecture department exhibit. The design for the housing, a geodesic dome, was made by Ronnie L. Young, architecture senior. His design was selected as the best from those submitted by a class in architectural design.
Dean Glasco, architecture senior, who is in charge of the exhibit, said, "In this modern age we are finding it advisable to purchase more and more appliances to put in our homes. The cost of furnishing our homes is causing us to cut down on the building costs. As a consequence we are cutting down on space, but architects are constantly hunting for designs which will allow us to reduce costs without reducing size."
The display will consist of a 24-foot dome enclosing a full house of furniture. Architects at KU estimate that such a house could be built for $1,000. The dome is constructed of wooden trusses and is extremely economical.
Another feature of the engineering shop practice's exhibit will be a demonstration of underwater metal cutting and welding.
Students demonstrating this underwater work will wear aqua-lungs constructed and designed by Ronald Hill, engineering freshman. A miniature foundry in which students will demonstrate metal pouring also will be exhibited.
Campanile Sunrise Service To Feature Music, Readings
Because many students will spend Easter on the campus, the
MCA will hold an All-Student Sunrise service at six a.m. Sunday north of the campanile.
The service is non-denominational and anyone may attend. Parking space will be available on the south side of Memorial drive.
Ronald Barnes, University carilonneur, will play before and after the service. The University Chorale, directed by Clayton Krehbiel, assistant professor of music education, will sing. The remainder of the service will consist of scripture and poetry reading.
The chorale will sing "The Heavens Are Telling," Hayden; "God So Loved the World," Stainer; "Oh Sacred Head Now Wounded," Bach; "Christ Lag in the Todesbanden," Bach; "Ave Verum Corpus," Mozart; "Alleluia," Thompson, and "Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light" by Bach. Soloist Delcina Guest, fine
arts freshman, will sing "Were You There?"
Selections from the scriptures and poetry of T. S. Elliot, Kahil Gibran, Maxwell Anderson, and J. B. Phillips will be read in both solo and choral readings.
Nancy Reich, college freshman
Joan Guthridge, college senior; Marianne Anderson, college freshman
Shirley Gary, special student in college, Reinhold Schmidt Jr., college senior, Kenneth Morgan, college freshman, Sam Sebesta, graduate student, Carroll Erys, engineering junior, and Jim Mears, business junior, will read.
The Easter service is sponsored by the YMCA and endorsed by the Student Religious Council. Members of the YMCA will serve as authors.
THE TEXAS A&M mile relay team composed of (left to right) Jean Libby, Wallace Kleb, Frank Norris, and Gerald Stull. This队 ran a 3:17.7 at the Texas Relays to place third in the event, and also has been timed at 3:17.9 this season.
29th KU Relays Mark Busy EasterWeekend
Ball Wins First With Talk On 'Crisis Of Faith'
Hubert Bell and William Arnold, college juniors, tied for second place. Bell won with "Uncontrolled by External Law," and Arnold with "The Turning Point."
Robert Ball, college senior, won first place in the Delta Sigma Rho Oratorical contest last night with his speech, "The Crisis of Faith."
Arnold, in speaking of "The Turning Point," asked, "If war begins in the minds of men, is it not in the minds of men that peace must be found?" He stressed that today is a turning point where the American people must turn from war and follow the ways of peace.
In "Uncontrolled by External Law," Bell described the disastrous beginning of World War III, describing an imaginary atomic blast in Kansas City. He contrasted the present scene of the American and Russian conflicting forces with those of Athens and Sparta 2,000 years ago. He urged that America must give up some of its sovereignty to a federation of nations if an international peace is to be established.
In "The Crisis of Faith." Ball emphasized that though the mechanized living of today calls for a great deal of faith, the American people have a lack of faith in things which are not material. He said America is facing a spiritual crisis, that it must have faith in its destiny and its hope for the future.
The three other finalists and their speeches were Don Endacott, college junior, "Junior Senator from Wisconsin"; Robert Kimball, college freshman, "Return to Religion," and John Eland, college freshman, "The Ghostly Investigation."
The University chapter of Theta Tau, national professional engineering fraternity, will hold a banquet tomorrow to observe the 50th anniversary of the society.
Theta Tau to Hold 50th Anniversary
Jamison Vawter, alumnus and now professor of engineering at the University of Illinois, who is grand regent of Theta Tau, will be the speaker and guest of honor at the commencement degree from the University in 1910 and a graduate degree in 1923, was national treasurer for 27 years.
Weather
Northerly winds after the rains,
will turn Kansas' temperatures from
after the rains,
temperatures from
unseasonable a b able
warmth to a be-
forest rainfall.
The low tonight
will I be between
40 and 45 degrees,
and the high to-
morrow will not
be above the 50s.
Temperatures for the Relays will be warm despite the expected partly clouded skies. A low near 40 is expected tomorrow night.
By RON GRANDON
The 29th annual Kansas Relays officially began this morning, Holy week activities in Lawrence churches were winding up, and campus committees were planning Easter sunrise services.
Approximately 15,000 persons are here for the various events, including about 2,000 high school competitors who were running, hurdling, throwing, and jumping in Memorial stadium by 9 a.m. Final competition for prep athletes from more than 200 schools was scheduled for 1:30 p.m., and track and field events will be finished by sundown.
Or watch the man in the aqua-lung working underwater in the shop practice exhibit.
Exposition: Amazing Show
free popcorn and a plastic car,
underwater welding and a fashion
show, human skulls and an airplane,
scenes from Korea and a
$1,000 house...
In Fowler shops you'll see a plastic automobile fender that has been hit 56,000 times—there's not a dent on it.
These and many more will interest, amaze, intrigue, and perplex you at the 34th annual Engineering Exposition today and tomorrow.
Take a look at the chemical engineer's exhibit. You'll see a women's fashion show, complete with bathing suits modeled by freshmen women.
Start at the beginning and enter the big parabolic arch entrance at Marvin. From here the big show spreads out through the seven buildings on the west side of the campus.
The best efforts of the 15 engineering departments are there for you to see. A trophy will be awarded for the best exhibit.
In competition with the engineers are the exhibits of seven other departments. The ROTC has big weepons on display.
If you want a guide through the Exposition wait for a member of the committee that conducts tours every hour.
The 34th annual Engineering exposition opened this morning with 23 exhibits from all departments of engineering on the Hill vying for the Sigma Tau engineering award. The exposition will continue through tomorrow.
For religious observers, a three-hour louren service today at the Trinity Episcopal church was only one of the day's Good Friday observances. Ministers from seven Lawrence churches gave brief talks on the "Seven Last Words" of Christ.
Dr. Glenn Olds Lawrence Holy week speaker, will give his final week's lecture at 8 p.m., today in the First Presbyterian church.
Tomorrow, as if the collegiate Relays' attraction of 16 top-flight national champions would not give the Hill enough to see, at least five other features will vie for visitors' attention.
The Student Union Activities board kept high school visitors busy during their free time today with sports movies and free cokes in the Union ballroom all day. A variety show is scheduled for the same place and purpose at 8 p.m. today.
Carol Shellhaas, Relays queen, and her attendants in a parade on Massachusetts street at 18 a.m. tomorrow will provide one of the major sideshows, and visits by Kansas high school seniors for the annual Jayhawk Jubilee will be an all-morning event of the same day.
The parade, which starts between 6th and 7th streets on Kentucky, will feature floats of organized houses, the University band, and three ROTC units.
BOB VAN DEE. University of Oklahoma, will be one of the favorites in the discus throw tomorrow afternoon. Van Dee won the discus event at the Texas Relays with a toss of 152 feet, $ \frac{2}{4} $ inches. He is also entered in the shot put, and is a consistent 50-foot putter.