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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Feb. 17, 1954
'Round the State:
Building, Wrestling Accident Mark News
(U.P.)—The go-ahead on building projects, the light-hearted sport of professional ladies wrestling, and the grim significance of a highway accident were the newsmakers in Kansas today.
Eureka—By an overwhelming vote of more than 7 to 1, Greenwood county Tuesday approved a $252,000 bond issue which will provide money to build a county hospital. The tally was 3,570 to 490.
--tion is at its best!
Blue Rapids—A $122,000 bond issue to finance construction of an auditorium and gymnasium for the Blue Rapids school system carried in a special election yesterday—393 to 210.
Voters also approved a $10,000 bond issue to convert the present gym into a music and manual arts room.
Topeka—Low bids opened by the state Tuesday totaled $627,577 for a four-story, brick-faced armory in Kansas City to house seven units of the Kansas National Guard.
The total was greater than the estimated cost of the planned structure, to be at 20th and Ridge avenue. However the Adjutant General's office said work probably will proceed with some alternate construction arrangements made to pare the cost.
--tion is at its best!
Liberal — Hair - pulling female wrestlers are so popular in this Southwest Kansas town that the American Legion sponsored events are moving into bigger surroundings. But, explained harrassed police, you are a dual warrant to this.
But, explained harrassed police. there is a dual purpose to this:
They figure they can keep a better watch over enthusiastic spectators in a larger auditorium. The last time female wrestling matches were held, several lady spectators crawled into the ring and started a free-for-all.
Topeka—The bus-transport crash near La Cygne that took three lives last night was Kansas' worst traffic accident in nearly four months. A two-car collision in Wyndotte county on US 73 Oct. 22 killed four.
The Tuesday night accident on a long hill brought Kansas' 1954 traffi fatalities to 60. A year ago, the total was 77.
KU Demos To Hear Miller
Rep. Howard S. Miller (D-1st congressional district) will address the Young Democrats in the Jayhawk room of the Student Union at 8 p.m. Thursday.
Rep. Miller, the only Democratic congressman from Kansas, won his seat in Congers for his stand on flood control.
The speech by the congressman will precede the Washington Day convention to be held in Topeka Feb. 19 and 20. Washington Day is a gathering of state Democrats in preparation of elections.
KU delegates to the convention are Camilla Klein, Don Dirks, president of the KU Young Democrats; Dick Jackson, Edwin Stene, and Jim Swords. The first three are second year law students and Stene and Swords are college seniors.
Qualifying Test Given for Welders
The shop practice department of the School of Engineering and Architecture is helping the State Highway department give qualification tests to welders applying for work on the new fieldhouse.
The test requires the welder to weld three one-half inch plates, 10 inches wide, in overhead, vertical, and flat positions.
Two specimens then are cut out of the plates with an oxacetylene machine and machined smoothly on all surfaces. The specimens are placed in a testing machine and checked for soundness, elongation, and ductility.
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SAEs Sponsor Boot-Heel Drag
"Take it way, Leon" will be the key word Friday, February 26, at the "Boot-heel Drag," in the Student Union ballroom, when students will hear the music of Leon McAuliffe and his band.
The dance, a 'come-as-you-are' party, is sponsored by Sigma Alpha Epsilon, social fraternity, and is designed to promote better relationships between faculty, independent students, and organized houses.
Leon and his dance band from the Cimarron ballroom in Tulsa, now record for Columbia. His recordings include "Bonaparte's Retreat," "Rag Mop," "Blacksmith Blues," and "Careless Hands." His latest record, "Run 'em Off," is on the jukebox in the Hawk's Nest of the Student Union. Mr. McAuliffe has a television and radio program in Tulsa.
The dance, which originated here last year, if true to form, will climax a series of unusual publicity stunts staged by its sponsors. Stunts last year ranged from hanging a dummy in Fowler grove to a "kangaroo" court trial and an attempted "lynching" of Lawrence C. Woodruff, denied after C.Woodruff told fraternity members that he did not plan to attend the dance. Dean Woodruff immediately urged everyone to attend.
A rummage sale was held last week in Kansas City, Mo., to start the activities preceding the dance, which is free to everyone.
Alpha Rho Gamma ElectsNewOfficers
Condon Kuhl, fine arts freshman, has been elected president of Alpha Rho Gamma, professional jewelry and silversmithing fraternity.
Other new officers are Ned Rose, fine arts freshman, vice president, and Henrietta Montgomery, fine arts sonhomore, secretary-treasurer.
New members of the organization are Mary Fischer, Ned Rose, Brent Kington, Lynne Livingston, Jane May, and Lee Hageman, all fine arts freshmen; Robert Fisher, Sue Wright, and Bill Wiglesworth, fine arts sophomores; Wendell Castle, fine arts junior; Joan Fordyce, college junior, and Isabelle Gaddis, graduate student.
When President William Howard Taft left the White House in 1913 he returned to Yale university where he had been a student in the class of 1878. He served as professor of law at Yale from 1913 to 1921 when he returned to Washington, D.C. to become chief justice of the Supreme Court.
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A Million Is His If Memory Returns
London — (U.P.) — Dentist Eugene Plant walks around London with the bemused air of a man trying to remember something.
This is exactly what he is trying to do. He is trying to remember what it was he used, sometime in the past 25 years, that suddenly started his hair growing.
"There's a million dollars in it if I remember," he said. "At least I think there is. I mean that's what everybody tells me while I am filling their teeth or pulling them out."
Plant is 67 and in the past year or so has covered his previously bald head with a respectable sandy-colored mop. But he's not sure exactly what started the hair growing again after 25 years of glaring baldness.
"I don't think it was the specialists I saw on Harley street," he mused, "but let me see, what did
they use—injections? Sunray? Violet ray? Salves? Screws? Lotions. No, I don't think it was any of those.
"Maybe it was the juice of raw onions I used to rub in." he went on. "I tried everything—really everything—after that day I looked into the mirror and saw an egg-shaped skull beginning to shim through my once waxy pompadour,
He ticked off these possibilities:
Decaying turnips-"I used to smear those on my scalp till my wife made me sleep in the basement."
Extract of ship's tar—"I made a hair pomade of it. It didn't smell so bad—after the decaying turnips."
Vinegar—"I rubbed so much into my head I went around smelling like a salad dressing."
Grass—I read once that natives who eat grass never grow bald. I'd like to find a cow who's eaten more of the stuff that I have."
Resin-"An acrobat suggested ruh it in nightly."
Feet—"A health faddist suggested I sleep with them higher than my head."
Macy Interviews To Be Tomorrow
Macy's department store of Kansas City, Mo., will sponsor a training program this summer for college men and women interested in working from the "bottom up."
Miss Louise Lambert, buyer in the teenage department at Macy's, will hold interviews from 2:30-to-6 p.m. tomorrow, in the Activities lounge of the Student Union.
Interviewees accepted will go to Macy's this summer, attend classes, and will be placed in various departments of the store. The training program will last from one to two years.
Popular Books Priced For Students
Come in and browse around our large selection of books by noted authors. These are some of the more popular:
ANCHOR BOOKS
"The Aeneid of Virgil" C. Day Lewis "Lafcadio's Adventures" Andre Gide "Three Greek Romances" Hadas "Modern Science & Modern Man" James B. Conant "Socrates"A. E. Taylor 65c to $1.25
PETER PAUPER FRE
"Fairy Tales" Oscar Wilde
"Poems & Lyrics" Shelley
"Wordsworth Poems"
"Plato Symposium of Love"
"The Fables of Aesop"
$2.50
MODERN LIBRARY
"The Histories & Poems of Shakespeare" 2 volumes
"The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln"
"The Decameron" Boccaccio
"Camille" Alexandre Dumas
"Jane Eyre" Charlotte Bronte
"The Portrait of a Lady" Henry James
"Clarissa" Samuel Richardson
"The Arabian Nights" Richard Burton
"The Canterbury Tales" Chaucer
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