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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Oct. 6, 1953
—Kansan photo by Dean Evans
A YEAR AND A HALF'S WORK—Sam Dickinson, artist at the Museum of Natural History, puts the finishing touches on tropical section of the panorama of animal life on the main floor of the museum. Work on the section started in January, 1951, with an expedition to Mexico to study the tromes.
to study the tropics.
Tropic-Life Area Soon To Be Panorama View
By KEN BRONSON
An exhibit that was begun in January 1951, is nearing completion on the main floor of the Museum of Natural History. Expected to be completed early this winter, the tropical life-zone scene is one of the most fascinating views in the panorama.
Dr. Rollin H. Baker, assistant curator of the museum; Alfred J. Robinson, Topeka; Walter W. Dalquest, Louisiana State university, and George C. Young, taxidermist, traveled to Jesus Carranza, Vera Cruz, Mexico, in 1951 to begin the actual collecting for the scene. After arriving at Jesus Carranza, the party traveled 30 kilometers into the back country by canoe with the help of four Indian guides.
Two weeks were spent in the area collecting animals and plants and taking colored movies and slides.
The actual exhibit was started in May 1952. To make room for the new exhibit, the sea lion scene was placed in storage.
In March 1952, Dr. Raymond Hall, director of the museum, Sam Dickinson, artist, and Mr. Young traveled to the Panama Canal zone, where more collections were made and pictures taken. Mr. Dickinson also painted color sketches of the area.
When the exhibit is completed the scene portrayed will be a replica of the tropical backwoods. The main animals in the scene will be two monkeys, a tapir, a small deer, and a peccary.
The undergrowth of vines and bushes makes a vivid setting for the brilliantly colored tropical birds resting in the trees.
The Tropic life-zone completes the southern end of the panorama. One more exhibit is yet to be finished in the entire project.
Marvin Appointed ToAccreditingUnit
Burton W. Marvin, dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism, has been named to a seven-figure list of schools for accrediting schools of journalism.
The group was named by the American Council on Education for Journalism. Of the seven on the committee, four are educators and three are from the news-gathering and publishing industry.
Industry representatives are Herbert Brecker, Hartford (Conn.) Courant; Douglas Cornette, Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal; and Hugh Tarrey, Station KLZ, Denver.
Besides Dean Marvin, the educators are Quintus Wilson. University of Utah; Leslie Mccormor State University; Earl English University, University of Missouri.
3c Letters Fly In Speedup Try
Washington —(UP) — Three-cent letters began flying between Washington, New York, and Chicago to day in a Post Office experiment aimed at speeding up mail delivery;
The inaugural flight—with first class letters riding right along side their more expensive air mail brethern—left Washington for Chicago at 7:30 a.m. CST.
Postmaster Gen. Arthur E. Summerfield, who ordered the experiment, presided at brief ceremonies at the capital's National airport and then climbed aboard the plane to keep personal tabs on the initial flight.
Under the new system, regular letters, postcards, and some newspapers and other preferential mail which has a time value will be flown between Chicago and New York and Chicago and Washington whenever planes have space available.
Additional flights were scheduled immediately afterward from New York to Chicago and from Chicago to New York and Washington.
Postal customers pay no extra charge for the service, but they get no guarantee that the regular mail will go by air.
If the Chicago-New York-Washington operation works successfully postal officials plan to put the speed-up service on a nationwide basis.
A one-hour meeting of the Mathematics club is planned for 4 p.m. Thursday in 203 Strong. The program will include a talk on recreational math, according to president Herb Lechner, college senior. This talk is accompanied by refreshments and an opportunity for students and instructors to get acquainted. Any student interested in math is invited to attend.
Math Club to Meet Thursday
Bacteriology Club to Picnic
The "Bug-a-boo Jamboree," bacteriology club picnic, will be held at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Potter lake. The picnic is open to all interested in membership in the club.
Benson Rejects Direct Supports On Meat Prices
Chicago —(U,P)— The "two-price" plan for farm supports, born and then buried in the 1920s, got a new lease on life today as the Eisenhower administration turned thumbs down on direct supports for sagging meat prices.
In a major speech before the American Meat Institute last night, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson said the federal government should not increase duer level, nor would it buy for storage to "beg" the market.
He explained that under the twoprice system, a farmer with 1.000 bushels of wheat would sell a portion, say 600 bushels, at government support prices and market the remainder at prevailing world prices
But Mr. Benson said at a news conference that his department may try to revive interest in the two-price system of supports and said there had been talk on Capitol Hill of reviving the old proposal.
In his speech, Benson blamed dropping cattle and lard prices that have caught livestock men in a "cost-price" squeeze on the "mis-guided" attempts of the recent Democratic administration to suppress inflation with price controls.
Mr. Benson acknowledged the gravity of the farmers' plight, particularly in critical drought areas, but said the situation is already much more stabilized."
The audience of about 4,000 meat packing industry members is itself the object of an investigation ordered by Mr. Benson himself into the battle between falling prices for meat on-the-hoof and rising retail prices.
Benson said his advisors, including cattlemen themselves, have opposed direct price support subsidies because of concerns he said he will not recommend any.
A vocal group of independent cattlemen, who banned together during the recent southwest drought, has demanded supports on the producer but Mr. Benson's remarks evidently closed the door on their pleas.
3-DayMeeting To Be on Art
The University will be host to a three-day Midwestern College Art conference (see painting and drawing professor, said today).
An address by Dr. Klaus Berger, director of the art museum, on the role of colleges and universities in developing art appreciation, a luncheon in the Student Union, and a round table discussion by R. Edwin Browne, director of KFKU, on the value of radio and television in art education have been tentatively scheduled.
Arriving at the University from Kansas City by bus, the conference delegates led the Spooner-art museum art and fine arts departments in Strong hall.
Colleges participating will be Park, William Jewell, Rockhurst, St Teresa, Kansas City, Mo., junior college and Kansas City, Kan., junior college.
Istanbul, Turkey — (UP) - American long distance swimmer Florence Charter today postponed her scheduled swim with Bosphorus. The 32-year-old former San Diego, Calif., stenographer, said she will try it tomorrow if conditions are right. Miss Chadwick swam the English Channel and the Straits of Gibraltar earlier this year.
Chadwick Balks at Bosporus
The six home runs by both teams in the fifth World Series game tied the record set in 1932 by the Yankees and Chicago Cubs. The Yanks also got four in that contest.
By STAN HAMILTON Kansan Sports Writer
We ran into Skipper Patrick, Associated Press sports editor in Kansas City, Saturday night after the game. He had been at Manhattan to cover the K-State-Nebraska game and happened into this reporter that night here in Lawrence.
Skip had nothing but praise for the surprising Wildcats' Veryl Switzzer and Corky Taylor, and went on to tell a few things that Manhattan coach Bill Meek had told him after the upset.
"I'm a native of Mississippi as you know," Patrick told us, "but I honestly believe that that Negro boy, Switzer, is the best back I have ever seen since I have been covering sports.
"I wouldn't hesitate to say that he is even better than KU's Ray Evans in his hey-day or any other Big Seven or other all-American back I have watched. If Kansas State comes up with two or three more wins this fall he ought to make all of them, but I don't, so kept him off of it or some of the all-conference teams last year was the lousy record his team had."
Then Skip went on to tell us that the Wildcats, contrary to popular opinion here, are not as desirous of beating KU as they are Missouri or Nebraska.
"Coach Meek told me," the AP priter said, "that he's trying to point his team for Missouri. I don't know why he wants to beat them so badly, but he claimed he wants their scalp more than he does KU's."
This statement by Meek strikes us as a bit odd. In basketball every winter, every KU and K-State game seems to be just a warm-up for the big intra-state contest. Of course in recent years the Cats haven't been able to approach the Jayhawks in gridiron strength, but it would seem that, after the pair of eage truncations
Bia Seven Standings
| | W | L | Pts | Opp |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Kansas | 1 | 0 | 27 | 0 |
| Kansas State | 1 | 0 | 27 | 0 |
| Missouri | 1 | 0 | 27 | 16 |
| Colorado | 0 | 1 | 16 | 27 |
| Nebraska | 0 | 1 | 0 | 23 |
| Iowa State | 0 | 1 | 0 | 23 |
| Oklahoma | 0 | 1 | 0 | 23 |
| | W | L | T | Pts | Opp |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Kansas State | 2 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 14 |
| Missouri | 2 | 1 | 0 | 47 | 43 |
| Colorado | 2 | 1 | 0 | 57 | 61 |
| Kansas State | 1 | 2 | 0 | 61 | 52 |
|ansas State | 1 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 25 |
| Oklahoma | 0 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 35 |
| ebbraksa | 0 | 2 | 1 | 36 | 68 |
Totals ... 8 10 2 320 311
Kansas State 27, Nebraska 0.
Missouri vs. Colorado 16,
Oklahoma 7, Pittsburgh 7.
Games this weekend:
Missouri at SMU (Friday).
Colorado at Texas.
Oklahoma vs. Texas at Dallas.
Nebraska at Pittsburgh.
Kansas State at Iowa State.
One hundred and eleven teams make up the list of "major" colleges. All other colleges are automatically assigned under the "small" college field.
Phog Allen's crew administered the second-place finishers last year, they would want to play turn-about in football.
However, the Wildcats must be respected this season. They have scored more points (90) than any other Big Seven school, and lost their lone game by one point. They dumped Bill Glassford's Nebraskans after the Huskers had battled to a 21-21 deadlock the week before with Illinois of the Big Ten. And, as Mr. Patrick emphasized, those two backs, Switzer and Taylor, will be troublesome, to say the least.
Kansas has not lost a grid contest to the up-staters since 'way back in 1944, when K-State stopped the Hawks 18-14 here. In fact, since that defeat, KU has won both seven consecutive games 247 out of 27. The all-time series, standing between the two schools is 33-14-3, with KU far on top.
Beat the Buffs
But this week it is Colorado, which has dropped only one game. That one, a 16-26 spilling at the hands of Missouri at Boulder, came after the Buffaloes downed Washington 21-20, and Arizona, 20-14.
The KU record against the Buffs stands at 7 wins, 3 losses, and a pair of ties. Since Colorado entered the Big Seven the record has been 3-2, Kansas. The mountain boys have taken both contests played on their home field and KU has done the same here. Last year it was Kansas, 21-12.
Swimming Hopefuls To Meet Thursday
Doug Wall, new swimming coach, has called a meeting of all varsity and freshmen swimming aspirants for 4 p.m. Thursday at the pool entrance. All men interested are to bring tennis shoes and sweat suits.
Kansas ranks ninth in forward pass defense, having allowed six completions in three games for a 15 per cent average. The opposition has gained an average of 34.3 yards a game through the air.
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