Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
Friday, Oct. 9, 1953
51st Year, No. 18
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Mrs. Heady Confuses FBI
SO LONG FELLOWS—Members of the Jayhawker football team entrain for Colorado last night in the top picture. Below, the only two students on hand for the departure wish the boys luck against the Buffs. Oh, yes. About 10 townspeople were on hand to lend support.
Washington — (U.P.)— FBI officials were considerably embarrassed today at the way they muffed the identification of Mrs. Bonnie Headie, an accused kidnapper of Bobby Greenlease.
They were particularly red-faced because it was their second conspicuous bobble in the case. They already had made a mistake in reporting the confession of another one of the kidnapers, Carl Austin Hall.
The identification difficulty stemmed from a rare coincidence—the existence of two Bonnie Brown Heady's. In announcing the kidnappers' arrest Wednesday, the FBI picked the wrong one.
It said the Mrs. Heady taken into custody was the widow of a professional gunman and had a long criminal record—including arrests for prostitution, aiding a prisoner to escape, and harboring a fugitive.
A check of fingerprints showed up the error. In a statement yesterday, an FBI spokesman admitted the criminal record released Wednesday "did not pertain to the Bonnie Brown Heady now in custody."
The prisoner's attorney said in St. Louis that his client was a respected St. Joseph housewife until she turned to drink a few years ago, divorced her husband, and began keeping company with Hall. He said she had no police record.
In reporting Hall's confession, the FBI originally quoted him as saying he had killed the six-year-old Greenlease boy. It later had to concede he actually had not admitted the slaying. The reason for the mistake was not explained.
An occupational therapy seminar a one-hour course meeting every two weeks, last night discussed occupational therapy in physical training, in military hospitals, and in other countries. Donna Rigdon, fine arts junior and chairman of the Occupational Therapy club, said the seminar program may include visits to high schools to explain occupational therapy.
Therapy Seminars Meet
Engineering Gains 10 %in Enrollment
Final enrollment figures for the School of Engineering and Architecture show a 10 per cent increase over 1952 totals. Late enrollments this fall brought the total number to 1,271, compared to 1,155 a year ago.
A large portion of this year's increase can be attributed to the increase of freshmen and transfer students. The freshman class this year is up 39 from last year's total of 371 and transfers hit an all-time high.
Two women's enrollment records were set this year. There are now 14 women in the school, the highest number ever to enroll. Miss Marjorie Heard, sophomore from Russell, set the other record when she became the first woman ever to enroll in aeronautical engineering.
This year's breakdown by classes
10 freshmen, 36 sophomores,
27 juveniles, 83 seniors.
These students come from more than half of the states in the union and from 20 foreign countries.
Eight departments showed increases in enrollment with the aeronautical department first with an increase of 49 percent. The mechanical engineering department is second with a 45 percent increase.
Business Senior Gets $500 G.E. Award
Kenneth Dam, business senior,
has been named the recipient of a
$500 General Electric corporation
scholarship as the outstanding accounting or finance major in last year's junior class.
Dam, a Summerfield scholar, has an overall average of 2.98 and a 3.00 average in School of Business subjects.
The Jayhawker staff requests that all party pictures or pictures of any nature concerning student activities be turned in to the Jayhawker office in the Union no later than Oct. 16 for inclusion in the Fall issue.
Jayhawker Seeks Student Pictures
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Complete identifications should accompany each photograph.
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Tool Engineers Hear Bendix Aide Tonight
The American Society of Tool Engineers at a meeting at 7:30 p.m. today will head a talk on industrial radiography by Charles B. Minnich, chief engineer in engineering standards of the Bendix Aviation corporation. The meeting will be in the Fowler shops.
Faris Gives Arab Credit for Culture
The meeting, at which plans for a field trip will be discussed, is open to the public.
The influence of the Arab has been of great importance in developing the culture of modern civilization, Dr. Nabih Amin Faris said last night in the season's first Humanities lecture.
Pach to Promote Floating Holiday
A committee was appointed to draft a bill for a floating holiday at a meeting of Pachacamac political party last night.
Party members endorsed college freshmen John Eland as candidate for the All Student Council senate, and Dave Leslie for the ASC house of representatives.
Jerry Dawson, business junior, was elected business school representative to the senate to replace Don Humphreys, college senior, who recently transferred from the business school. Humphrey's resignation stated that he felt his change of schools required his resignation.
In other action, committees were appointed to investigate the Rock Shalk review and Watkins Memorial hospital.
Earlier yesterday a joint meeting of candidates for FOR office and members of Pachacamac was held to standardize campaign speeches in the coming FOR election.
Nominees for FOR president are college freshmen Doris Borniell, Jody Curtis, and Marjorie Woodson; vice president, Norma Carothers and Diane Hawley, fine arts freshmen, and Orine Carrol, college freshmen
Nominees for secretary are Eleanor Hawkinson, Donna Underwood, and Letty Torchia, college freshmen, and Gloria Gorman, fine arts freshman; for treasurer, Lona Soice, Kay Braden, Joan Hereford, and Laddie Martin, college freshmen.
KuKus Pledge 17 Plan Hay Ride
Seventeen men were pledged Thursday at a meeting of the KuKu club, men's pep organization.
They are John Axline, Russell Sellet, Aubrey Smith, Donald Duncan, Robert Beaudry, and Joseph Holliday, college sophomores; Howard King, James Rose, Jerry Kindig, and Larry Murphy, engineering sophomores, and Warren Johnson, and Dale Trott, engineering juniors.
Bruce Power and Shannon Bennett, college juniors; William Cook and James Mears, business juniors, and Thomas Shannon, journalism senior.
Hugh Cox, college sophomore, KuKu social chairman, announced plans for a hay ride Friday, Oct. 23. Max Smith, college senior, was appointed chairman of the football flash card section.
Sachem Selects Cairn Committee
Sachem, senior men's honorary society, selected a membership committee and a Rock Chalk Cairn committee at its initial meeting of the year last night.
The membership committee selections are Jerome Lysaught, college junior, and Lawrence Kravits, engineering senior. Members of the Cairn committee will interview faculty and students as to outstanding University events that should be included on the Rock Chalk Cairn plaques. They are Richard Judy, college senior; Ronald Sammons, college senior, and Kenneth Dam, business senior.
Carr Attends ROTC Meeting
T. DeWitt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, left yesterday for Washington, D.C., to represent KU at a meeting of the Association of Naval ROTC colleges. The 52 members, one representing each school having the Naval ROTC, are all civilians and assist in formulating the program's scholastic policy. Dean Carr is to return Sunday night
Dr. Faris spoke on "The Arab Contribution to Civilization." He was introduced by Prof. George Anderson, chairman of the history department and member of the Humanities committee.
"From the ninth to the twelfth centuries, there were more words read in Arabic than any other language," Dr. Faris said.
Dr. Firis said the development of the culture which produced this large amount of knowledge was in three stages, military conquest, religious conquest, and cultural conquest.
"The Arab which developed this culture progressed from a man sitting under a palm tree, to a group seeking all the knowledge the world had to offer within a period of one hundred years," he said.
"In their conquests, the Arabs came upon older, more cultured civilizations which forced them to develop their own culture," he said.
Following early military victories, came the great age of translation when all the knowledge of the then-known world was assimilated by Arab scholars and translated into a period of Arab originality when the Arab truly had a culture of his own, he said.
Dr. Firis said there were three major fields of Arabic contribution to civilization. These were mathematics, medicine, and theology. Algebra, trigonometry, use of the number zero, and a calendar were more important than the Gregorian calendar, were some of the developments made by the Arabs.
Moslem and western theologians disagree on only two points—trinity and incarnation. Dr. Faris said.
This was the 34th lecture given in the Humanities lecture series since the program was inaugurated in 1947.
"The Arabs kept intellectual life alive while the West was fighting for its life with barbarism. The systematized scientific and philosophical knowledge of the Arab served as a connecting link between ancient and modern civilizations," he said.
Since its beginning, the series has honored one KU professor each year by asking him to speak in the series. Dr. Faris, a visiting Rose Morgan scholarship professor, from the University of Beirut, was the first of two University professors scheduled to speak this year.
Dr. Allen Crafton, head of the speech department, will be the second University professor on this year's series. He will speak November 12.
Past KU speakers have included C. P. Osborne, professor of philosophy; C. B. Realey, professor of history; W. H. Shoemaker, professor of Romance languages, and Frederick J. Moreau, dean of the School of Law.
Weather
Fine for football, foul for farmers—that's the Kansas weather pic
ture for today.
State meterologist
Tom Arnold said,
"It's the same old dry forecast—no rain in sight."
Along with the fair skies, temperatures will be below.
mal for the first half ofober. He predicted lows tonight in a 40-50 degree range and highs tomorrow afternoon 75 to 85. In the last 24 hours Kansas lows ranged from 37 at Hill City to 50 degrees at Witcha, and highs were spread from 76 at Chanute to 85 at Garden City.
Listening Party Set For KU-CU Game
A listening party will be held in the Union Saturday for the Colorado-Kansas football game. The party will start at 2:30 p.m. The game can be heard in every room of the building.
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