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Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, March 29, 1954
51st Year, No. 117
—Kansan photo by Larry Trethar
BOO!—A Jayhawk-type chapeau was sported by Kay Scott, college junior, in the Kappa Kappa Gamma skit at the Rock Chalk Revue.
—Kansan photo by Larry Tretbar
REVUE, BACKSTAGE—Participants in the North College hall skit at the Rock Chalk Revue gather behind the scenes to discuss the international situation prior to going on stage.
international situation prior to going on stage.
Beta's, Chi Omega Win 1st in Revue
Beta Theta Pi fraternity and Chi Omega sorority were the first place winners in the Rock Chalk Revue, held Friday and Saturday evenings at Hoch auditorium
Delta Upsilon was the second place winner in the men's division, and Kappa Kappa Gamma was second in the women's division. Alpha Tau Omega and Phi Delta Theta fraternities were given honorable mentions for their performances, and Pi Beta Phi sorority and North College hall were given honorable mention in their division.
Beta Theta Pi's winning skit was titled "Madame Butterbail," and it was a melodrama taking place in a fraternity kitchen. Chi Omega's winning performance, entitled "Ignorance is Bliss, or Dophe Saves the Day," concerns a "witch" teacher $^{a}$
KU Debaters To Compete
William Arnold, college junior,
and Hubert Bell, college junior, will represent the University today and tomorrow in the regional eliminations for the West Point national debate tournament at Midland college, Fremont, Neb.
The two students will compete with other midwestern schools to become one of five teams from all sections of the country to qualify for the tournament at the U.S. Military Academy next month.
Another University debate squad tied for second place at the Missouri Valley Debate tournament at Baton Rouge, La., last week. Texas university won first place and the universities of Oklahoma and Nebraska, along with KU, tied for second.
KU's affirmative team of William Crews, business senior, and Richard Sheldon, college senior, won five rounds, with no other team winning more. The other University team was composed of Letty Lemon, journalism junior, and Kenneth Dam, business senior. Miss Lemon also won fourth place in extemporaneous speaking.
KU, who presents a riddle, which is solved by "Dopey."
The winners of the review were presented permanent trophies by football coach Charles "Chuck" Mather. Plaques were presented to the organizations receiving honorable mention.
Alpha Tau Omega's portion of the program was titled "Carmen in invenzo and Phil Delta Theta's skool" called "Just Plain Mother Schnakel".
"Parisian in Lawrence" was the title of the Delta Upsilon skit, and Kappa Kappa Gamma's performance was called "Intersection Interlude."
Police identified the dead as Blackie Barton, 39, who was injured fatally when he leaped from a third floor window; Solomon David Blanton, 77, a pensioner, and Charles Crouse, 79, formerly a county employee. The bodies of Mr. Blanton and Mr. Crouse were found on the third floor of the three-story structure, the Walker hotel.
The between act performances received as much attention as the regular acts in the Revue. Warren Tuckness' guitar playing was the individual highlight of the two evenings. Other acts were presented by Ruth Taggart and Jan Miller of North College hall, the Alpha Phi sextet, the Four Jesters of North College hall, singers Larry Byrd and Veda Driver, and tap dancer Manuel Jackson.
Pi Beta Phi presented a skit called "Coffee Time," and "Swigadoon" was the title of North College hall's skit.
Kansas City, Mo.—(U.P.) Th re e men were killed yesterday in a fire that swept the two upper floors of a small hotel in downtown Kansas City.
Three Men Killed In K.C. Hotel Fire
Fire department officials believed the blaze started in a trash closet. It raged for more than five hours as dozens of firemen fought to bring it under control.
Dr. Charles M, Gruber Jr., of Indianapolis, Ind., will deliver the 18th annual Noble Pierce Sherwood lecture at 8 p.m. today in Lindley auditorium.
Gruber to Give Sherwood Talk
the lecture honors Dr. N. P. Sherwood, professor emeritus of bacteriology and chairman of that department most of his 42 years on the University staff. It is sponsored by Phi Beta Pi, medical fraternity.
Dr. Gruber, who is both a doctor of medicine and doctor of science, will speak on the topic, "Alcohol, Tobacco, and Medicine." He will be introduced by W. Clarke Wescoe, dean of the School of Medicine.
He is a fellow in the American College of Physicians and holds an American Board of Internal Medicine certificate. Before joining the Lilly Research Laboratory staff in Indianapolis, he was associate professor of pharmacology at the Jefferson Medical college.
6 Soloists Set In Choir Roles
Appearing in solo roles with the A Capella choir at 8 p.m. tonight in Hoch auditorium will be Gretta Reetz, fine arts junior; Betty Southern, fine arts sophomore; Judith Tate, education junior; Carolyn Craft, fine arts freshman; William Wilcox, fine arts special student, and Dale Moore, fine arts senior.
Miss Reetz, Miss Southern, and Miss Tate are sopranos. Miss Craft is a contralto. Wilcox and Moore are a tenor and a baritone, respectively.
The program of 16 numbers is one featuring a number of folk-song arrangements, a group of Russian liturgical and secular selections of the past century, some numbers both spirited and sustained from such masters of choral writing as Victoria, Sweelinck and Bach, as well as several choral numbers from composers of today, both British and American.
The program will be brought to a close with a motet by the English composer, Vaughan Williams, combining choir, organ and trumpet with Stanford Lehminger, graduate, at the console and James Sellards, fine arts senior, playing the trumpet.
Ike Might Veto Extension Of High Farm Price System
Washington — (U.P.) Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson is "confident" President Eisenhower will veto any bill to continue present rigid farm price supports.
He said "only time will tell" whether Congress will approve this year the administration's plan to substitute lower, "flexible" farm price props for the present high floor system.
Asked if he has any assurance from Mr. Eisenhower that a bill to continue the present system will be vetoed, the secretary replied: "He hasn't said as much but I feel confident he would "veto such a bill" in the interests of agriculture and of the welfare of the country."
"It's right, and I'm old-fashioned enough to believe if it's right, it's pretty good politically," he said in a television interview yesterday.
of both parties to continue the present high support system. Many feel that any move to lower farm prices in an election year would lead to defeat of those voting for the lower supports.
Mr. Benson, however, said he feels "very strongly" that GOP chances would not be hurt this fall if the flexible program were put into effect.
There is considerable sentiment among most farm bloc congressmen
Naguib's Power Slipping; Mobs Terrorize Cairo
Cairo, Egypt —(U.P.)— A joint meeting of the Egyptian cabinet and revolutionary council today canceled President Mohammed Naguib's plans to dissolve the council and restore civilian rule.
The Army, on orders of Gen. Naguib's rival for power, Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser, took over the policing of the tense capital.
The decision, taken amid violent anti-Naguib rioting and demonstrations, apparently meant Pres. Naguib, who collapsed from strain earlier in the day, has lost his shaky grip on the nation's quarreling government.
Gen. Naguib's physical collage at Cairo's airport and the week-end uprising against his plans to restore civil rule, played strongly into Col. Nasser's hands in the bitter power struggle.
Gen. Naguib, apparently sensing his defeat, was said by witnesses to have whispered "I want to die" to his son. The child revived his with heart stimulants.
Army authorities said the military assumed police powers after police were unable to cope with a mob of 500 pro-Nasser demonstrators.
Two persons were killed, the army said, and two others were wounded as the mob smashed through police lines and entered the state council building. There they beat and injured council president Abdel Tazzak Sanhoury.
Advertising Poses Question
C. J. Posey, Lawrence's volunteer weather observer, said this morning there was a temperature drop of 47 degrees in the last 24 hours. The high reading recorded by Mr. Posey yesterday was 72 degrees, and the low last night was 25 degrees.
Rioting developed during a tense meeting of the cabinet and revolutionary council which is expected to decide whether Egypt will be returned to civilian rule, as Pres. Naguib wishes, or remain under the military leadership of the revolutionary council.
Temperature Falls 47 Degrees-Brr!
At 8 a.m., when most of the students were walking to classes, it was 30 degrees.
Nearly nine days after the official arrival of spring, Kansas temperatures plunged to as low as 14 degrees today. That low was recorded at G o o d l a n d. Nearly all t he state had a hard freeze, the extreme s o u t heast corner being the
Posters for some sort of advertising campaign now being conducted in University halls which house freshman women ask the question, "Will You Be the One?" The group sponsoring the campaign is not identified on the posters, and the only other words appearing are short lists of freshman women's names
Weather
exception. Kansas had a quick flip of the calendar Sunday, from spring back to winter. An intense cold front that boiled up a heavy dust cloud for its vanguard dropped temperatures 15 degrees in three minutes at Garden City. State weatherman Tom Arnold said the cloudy, cold conditions will last into tomorrow, with a moderating trend in the temperatures tomorrow afternoon.