1954
Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ka.
Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, April 15, 1954
51st Year, No. 125
—Kansan photo by Gordon Ross
FLOAT FRAMEWORK—Nancy Garrity, Jeanie McDonald, and Beverly Jackson ready the skeleton for Chi Omega's float, which will compete with 27 others in the Kansas Relays parade on Saturday.
Oratory Contest Finalists Listed
Six students have been selected from preliminary tryouts to compete in the finals of the Delta Sigma Rho Oratorical contest at 8 p.m. today in Strong auditorium.
The student speakers and their topics include William Arnold, college junior, "The Turning Point", Hubert Bell, college junior, "Uncontrolled by External Law"; John Eland, college freshman, "The Ghostly Investigation"; Don Endacott, college junior; "Junior Senator from Wisconsin"; Robert Ball, college senior, "The Crisis of Faith," and Robert Kimball, college freshman, "Return to Religion."
Richard Smith, college junior and president of Delta Sigma Rho, national honorary forensic fraternity, sponsor of the contest, will be chairman.
Judges will be the Rev. Hice Lardner, minister of the Presbyterian church of Olathe; Allen Crafton, speech professor, and Mrs. Crafton; Gerald L. Pearson, director of extension classes, and Robert M. Davis, professor of law.
First prize will be a complete 30-volume set of the Encyclopedia Americana donated by Walter W. Ross, Kansas City, Mo. Second prize will be $15 and third prize, $5.
Lehmberg Given Fulbright Grant
Stanford E. Lehmberg, graduate student from McPherson, has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship for study in England in 1954-55. He will study history at Sydney Sussex college in world famous Cambridge university.
Lehmberg's grant is one of 192 the study in the United Kingdom, for which competition is most intense, and one of approximately 1,000 for foreign study next year. The grant covers transportation costs both ways, education fees and board and room. The U.S. State department makes the award.
Cool Weather Brings Rains To Dry State
Indications are for partly cloudy skies turning fair Friday with considerably cooler temperatures. There may be some frost in Northwest and North-Central Kansas tonight, said State Weatherman Tom Arnold,
A low pressure area and cold front which moved across Nebraska last night "will bring occasional showers here today." C. J. Posey, Lawrence volunteer weather forecaster, said.
The rain was brought by a warm, moist air current flowing into the area from the Gulf of Mexico, which left scattered showers over Eastern Kansas and Missouri.
Topeka — (U.P.)— A cool front completed its southeasterly sweep through Kansas today bringing rains ranging from sprinkles to an inch and a half.
The heaviest downpour in this section was recorded at Olathe, where the 1.21 inches brought some relief for a severe water shortage. About 900,000 gallons of water was added to two small lakes at the city of Olathe, with the mayor of Olathe, estimated today, Lawrence received .37 of an inch
The weather in Lawrence will be cooler today and tomorrow. The high here yesterday was 82. The low was 59. The temperature extremes in Kansas yesterday were 40 at Goodland and 83 at Hill City.
Much of Western Kansas was missed completely by the moisture although Dodge City in the southwest measured a third of an inch. The most generous showers were in the southeast.
Independence reported 1.50 inches,
Chanute 56, Walnut 81, Fort Scott
56, Iola 90, LaCygne 63, Quenemo
51, Emporia 16, Olathe 121, Lec-
compton 12, Topeka 07, Wamego
01, Horton 46, Wichita and Hutch-
inson 02, Russell 15, Garden City
and Goodland 03, Hill City
01, and traces at Salina and Concordia.
In the last 24 hours Kansas has minimum temperatures ranging from 37 at Goodland to 64 at Waco mego and maximum between 80 and 95 Cities.
German Movie Set Tomorrow
394 Classes Listed For Summer Term
"Keepers of the Night (Nachtwache)" will be presented by the University Film Series at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Hoch auditorium.
The German-language movie of life in Germany in the early postwar period is the final picture to be shown in the series this semester. It is the story of a young doctor who loses her faith in God when her little daughter was killed in an air raid, and of two men who try to win her favor.
The new pastor of a Protestant hospital, a widower, and the little girl's father, a former Air Force pilot and now a prominent actor whom the doctor believed dead, are both rejected by the young doctor. On a trip to a fair the pastor's young daughter is killed through the actor's carelessness. The actor, who was full of venom against all religion, becomes despondent, and even the pastor feels his faith waning.
A summer session schedule offers 394 courses in 46 departments of the university was released today by Dean George B. Smith, director of the summer session.
Registration and enrollment are June 11-12, followed by eight full weeks of classwork ending August 7. Eight credit hours may be earned.
Twenty-five workshops and conferences for special groups are planned by University Extension in cooperation with the teaching departments. Academic credit may be earned in nine of these workshops.
Dean Smith said the School of Education would offer 66 courses for teachers at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
There also will be large programs in the departments of art and music. Most of those faculties will be present because of the 17th season of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp for high schools age boys and girls.
The credit workshops include advanced clinical practice in problems of hearing, home economics education, elementary school workshop, health education, teaching of English, industrial hygiene engineering, teaching of foreign languages, driver education and improvement of secondary school education.
The schedule provides for entering freshman to the doctoral degree candidate, Dean Smith said.
The music camp, opera workshop and School of Fine Arts will provide numerous concerts. The extensive recreation program includes the university swimming pool and outdoor movies.
Quantrill Raid To Be Relived
A new twist will be added, however—the 1954 edition of the raiders will be met by a welcoming committee and served a special dinner as a part of Lawrence's local centennial celebration.
University of Kansas students will predominate in a group of 40 horsemen who will storm Lawrence May 1 in a repeat performance of Quantrill's famous sack of the city in 1863.
The gang will begin its ride at Spring Hill, near the place where the original Quantrill group gathered. From there they will follow the actual route of the Quantrill gang past Olathe and into Gardner.
The raiders will "steal" a fresh string of horses in Gardner after shooting up the town, and then move on to Eudora where they'll bed down for the night.
Six Win Honors In IM Speaking
Winners last night of the information contest, the first of the annual Intramural Speaking contests, were:
Women's division: First place—Nancy Reese, college senior, representing Kappa Kappa Gamma, whose topic was "Cerebral Palsy." Second place—Lois McArdle, college junior, representing Alpha Delta Pi, who won with "Japanese Dating Customs." Third place—Bettany Stanford, college freshman, representing Foster hall, "Advancement of the Oil Industry."
Men's division; First place-Robert Lynch, freshman in medicine, independent, "Another World Watching." Second place-Jerry Brownlee, graduate, representing Beta Theta Pi, "Our Next War," Third place-John Ball, college freshman, representing Alpha Tau Omega, "21 GI Communists"
Trophies to individual and house winners will be awarded following the next two contests. Demonstration speeches will be held next Wednesday and entertainment speeches April 28.
Lawyers to Attend State Bar Meeting
A group of faculty members and students of the School of Law will attend, the State Bar association meeting in Topeka today, tomorrow, and Saturday.
On Friday a luncheon will be held at the Kansan hotel in Topeka for graduates of the School of Law. Guest speaker for the luncheon will be Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy. Dean F. J. Moreau of the School of Law and Gerald Sawatzky, editor-in-chief of the Law Review, also will speak.
Dean Moreau, chairman of the Legal Education and Admissions to Board committee, will make reports of committee work at the meeting.
Women's Drill Team To Meet
Women's Drill Team To Meet The Air Force ROTC Women's Drill Team will meet at 7:30 p.m. today at the Military Science building.
The Uninvited-
Russians Take Notes on Airplanes
New York —(U.P.)— Officials discovered today that the most interested spectators at a national convention of aircraft specialists here was a group of uninvited Russians who crammed their brief cases with pamphlets about the latest trends in the nation aircraft design.
The Russians, led by an aviation expert from the Soviet embassy in Washington, have been attending meetings along with 1,000 of this nation's top aircraft designers, and executives, an official said, but have been careful not to identify themselves.
Their presence was discovered yesterday when a delegate to the convention suddenly noticed one of them had a thick accent. Another delegate recognized the acent as belonging to Lt. Col. Boris Bogatyrv, assistant air attack at the Soviet embassy in Washington, who
attended the convention last year
attended the convention last year.
Col. Bogatyrv registered last year as an univited guest, but apparently didn't even bother with such trivialities this year. Neither did the small swarm of Russians he brought with him.
For that reason, the Society of Automotive Engineers, sponsor of the convention, decided it had a perfect right to tell the cloak-and daggar Reds to go away if they showed up at closing sessions today and tried a repeat performance.
Smiling and bowing but talking as little as possible, they took down long and detailed accounts of meetings, bought up all technical pamphlets they could find, and now and then even asked a guarded question at one of the 750 exhibits spread through the Statler hotel.
It was the frantic collection of just about everything in sight that
"The Russianian went through the place like locusts. Each time they went outside somewhere they had both arms filled."
finally brought attention to the Russian leader and his thick accent. As one delegate who had watched the operation put it:
Some of the delegates who have had experience with intelligence operations said that "good intelligence is just a matter of having a first-rate filing system." They said that there definitely would be value to masses of fresh details on U.S. aviation even if it was underclassified.
Several meetings at the convention were "confidential" and were addressed by Air Force specialists. But an official said he doubted if the Reds got into any of them because admission was by written invitation only, and positive identification was required.