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KU Medical Center Dedicates New Building
A $600,000 Student Center was dedicated in Kansas City last Monday at the University Medical Center. The building, located at Olathe and Rainbow boulevards, was constructed and furnished in part from the Battenfeld Memorial fund established by Mrs. Edward H. Hashinger in memory of her son, Dr. Jesse R. Battenfeld Jr.
Speakers at the dedication ceremonies were Dr. Edward H. H. Hashinger, president of the Student Center; Rev. Howard E. Mueller, Chaplain at the Medical Center; Dr. W. Clarke Wescoe, dean of the School of Medicine; Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, chancellor of the University; James C. Warren, fourth year medical student, and Dr. Galen Tice, professor of radiology.
The Student Center includes dining facilities for students and faculty, an auditorium that can seat the entire student body and faculty, a lounge, a book store for medical texts, a snack bar, and a recreational library, all on the first floor. A seminar room, a recreation room with pool and ping pong tables and showers, and food preparation and storage spaces are being completed in the basement.
The second floor contains 13 double hotel-type rooms for visiting lecturers and participants in the postgraduate course.
Miss Mildred Cravens, former assistant institutional manager at the University of Tennessee, was named executive director and resident manager of the Center.
Since then fund drives have been held, and with the assistance of individual contributions the building was completed.
NEW STUDENT CENTER—This is the building which was dedicated last week as the $600,000 Student Center for the University Medical Center in Kansas City. All of the money used for the new structure came from private contributions. A cafeteria, an auditorium, a lounge, a book store, a snack bar, and a library are included in the Center.
Daily hansan
51st Year, No. 122
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
CAROL SHELLHAAS
Carol Shellhaas Tops Field Of Relays Queen Hopefuls
Miss Carol Shellhaas, college sophomore, has been chosen queen of the 29th annual Kansas Relays, to be held Friday and Saturday.
Monday, April 12, 1954
Miss Shellhaas was selected in competition with candidates from other Kansas and Big Seven colleges and universities. Marlene Smith of Washburn university and Marilyn Hobbii of Ft. Hays college were chosen as attendants.
Judges for the contest were Jack Stevens of the Patricia Stevens Modeling agency, and Jay Barrington, sports announcer from Kansas City. Mo.
the queen will be crowned at 3 p.m. Saturday in Memorial stadium. During the relays she will present medals and trophies to the winning individuals and relay team members. She will also preside at the relays dance to be held Saturday night in the Student Union. The
The third annual Parents Day at the University has been set for the UCLA football game Oct. 2. The University will hold open house for the parents in the morning, and in the afternoon the parents can buy tickets at reduced prices, in the student section.
Parents Day Set for Oct. 2
Miss Shellhaas was selected to represent the University in the Relays queen contest from a group of 54 girls in a contest sponsored by Student Union Activities. Judges for the KU contest were Dr. John Ise, professor of economics; John Estes, photographer, and Kathryne Stevens, society editor of the Lawrence Journal-World.
queen and her attendants will also participate in the KU Relies parade in Lawrence on Saturday morning.
Trail Memorial Dedication Set
Dr. Howard R. Driggs, president of the American Pioneer Trails association, will formally present an Oregon Trail Memorial to the University at 9 a.m. Saturday in front of Lindley hall.
The formal dedication will be part of the Kansas centennial year celebration. Dr. Driggs will make a short presentation address and Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will accept the memorial. Dean E. Wood, president of the Kansas City council of the association, will speak on the topic, "The Significance of the Oregon Trail."
Dr. Driggs, professor of English, education at New York university, gave the Oregon Trail plaque to the University last year to permanently mark the spot where the old trail passed over the campus. Funds to erect the base of the memorial were contributed by the class of 1916.
On the plague is a picture of an oxen-drawn prairie schooner and the words "Oregon Trail Memorial." Besides the plaque, Dr. Driggs has given the University 20 books written by himself on famous pioneer trails in the United States.
Lyndon, Kan. —(U,P)— Wealthy stockman O. W. Hess went to trial a second time today on charges of cattle theft.
Hess Trial Resumes; Cattle Theft Charged
The first trial last November, moved to Lyndon from Alma on a change of venue, resulted in a hung jury for the Wabaunsee county cattleman.
Two counts were dismissed in the first trial by Judge A. K. Stavely for lack of evidence. Two others remain.
A venire of more than 100 persons was called to obtain a iurv.
Weather
Gradually fairer weather for northeast Kansas was the outlook today. According to Ronnie Rungie-
weather man. "Spring is really on the way, all right." To morrow's weather should strengthen the trend toward clearer skies and higher temperatures that began after the end of m u g y y weather whi ch
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Sunday Rated Kansas' Deadliest Day of Year
By UNITED PRESS
Sunday produced the bloodiest one-day batch of traffic accidents in Kansas in one year, the Highway Patrol reported today.
Seven persons were killed in six accidents-five of them involving only one car—to bring Kansas' highway and city street fatalities this year to 130.
One year ago the weekend toll was 11, as six persons lost their lives in a railroad crossing accident near New Cambria.
Despite the half dozen fatal accidents, Kansas motor vehicle deaths this year remain behind the pace of 1953. A year ago today the toll was 144.
Loss of control of his car cost 19- year-old James Lauderback his life south of Emporit on K-99.
A head-on collision north of Great Bend took two lives—Robert E. Robertson, 21, Great Bend, and Donald Siebert, 25, Pawnee Rock, two others were hurt.
James Goodsheller, 24, McPherson, was killed when his car veered from a country road on a return trip from a fishing excursion. Gerald Livengood, 22, also of McPherson was injured.
Wichita's fourth traffic fatality of 1954 was Mose Lucas, a pedestrian, hit early Sunday. He was standing by his parked car.
Raymond Shields, 20-year-old Fort Leonard Wood soldier home on leave, was killed near Parsons. He collapsed on a highway and was hit by an oncoming car after he had struggled back to the road from his own wrecked vehicle.
Lucille Lavonne Seeer, 17-year-old high school student, was killed when thrown from a car which went out of control on a gravel road near Loring.
Parks Dies In Kansas City
John Parks, former teacher of design died last week in St. Mary's hospital, Kansas City.
Mr. Parks was an artist, teacher, and aspiring author. He taught at KU from the fall of 1951 until the end of the spring semester last year. "Tree Climbers," an oil and tempera painting done by Mr. Parks while he was in a hospital, was shown at the Mid-America show held recently in the Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City.
A half completed book, which Mr. Parks had not titled, was found in his hospital room.
Mr. Parks was 32 in February. He was graduated from North High school, Wichita, in 1869, and his first art training was a course sponsored by the Wichita Art association
Mr. Parks served with the Marines in the Pacific during World War II, and he was graduated from the Chicago Art institute. Surviving are his father, Alfred N. Parks; a sister, Mrs. Arnie Holland; and two brothers, Alfred N. Parks Jr., and Robert R. Parks, all of Wichita,
French Hit Red Positions Near Vital Dien Bien Phu
Hanoi, Indochina—(U.P.)—French Union forces stormed from their foxholes today in a second counter-attack against Communist forces who have made six desperate but unsuccessful efforts to win back a strategic hill overlooking Dien Bien Phu.
Close-quarter fighting was in progress around the hill which overlooks both the besieged fortress and the Communist positions east of Dien Bien Phu. It is only half a mile from the French command headquarters.
(There is a University Daily Kansan story from United Press on our foreign policy toward Indochina on page 7).
It was the second big French Union counter-attack of the weekend. In the first Col. Christian De Castries sent tanks to the hill to save the French and loyal Viet Namese troops who had beaten back five battalion-size Communist attacks.
French artillery went into action from the strategic height against the enemy but the Communists mounted a sixth attack during the night. It failed and the French moved out of
their foxholes with hayonets fixed
their fortresses with payonets fixed.
Communist troops have tunneled ever closer to the heart of the besieged fortress for the past week and French sources said the enemy slashed a trench through the southern French airstrip today, rendering it useless.
The Communists already had brought the two airstrips under heavy artillery fire, making it impossible for Col. De Castries to evacuate his hundreds of wounded
The International Red Cross appealed to both belligerents today to respect the Red Cross symbol. The French, who have made two unsuccessful appeals to the Communists for a cease-fire to evacuate the wounded, have accused the Reds of firing on planes bearing the Red Cross symbol.