Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
Monday, Oct. 5, 1953
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
51st Year. No.14
Kansan photo by Dean Evans
ISN'T IT FUN—A pensive Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, Dean of Students L. C. Woodruff, and Dean of Men Donald K. Alderson, appropriately dressed, begin their ride at the head of the annual nightshift parade. They were followed by about 800 students, who snake-danced down Massachusetts street Friday, finishing the event with a rally in South Park.
Weekend of Festivities Ends with KU Victory
It was quite a weekend.
University football fans were treated to their first victory of the season and their first glimpse of a brand- spanking-new Jayhawker. Students whooped it up at the Night-shirt parade and parents of new students and high school musicians tasted University life.
Festivities began Friday when the nightshirt parade was staged. Nightshirt students and faculty assembled at the Union building, paraded through downtown Lawrence, and held a pre-game rally at South park.
Garbed in pajamas, blue jeans, and diapers, students presented a colorful, and sometimes bizarre, sight. One entreeprising young man, presumably a student, had a Stars and Bars flag flying from his diaper.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, clad in a white nightshirt dotted with tiny Jayhawks, spoke briefly to a throng of students at the park. "We've had a football drought these past two weeks," he said. "The Indians had a way of resolving drouths—by praying to their raINGO. We'll borrow from the Indians by communicating with the weatherman and it will rain touchdowns tomorrow," he predicted.
There was no torrent of touchdowns the next day, but with a 23-0 lead, football fans could rest easily. They settled down either to watch the technical aspects of the game or to exchange bright remarks with Kiwanis club peanut vendors.
A minor casualty was the new Jayhawker, which suffered a torn back as a result of the first half activities and had to leave the game. The 12th member of the team will be sewed up and ready to go for the next game two weeks hence, however.
The "live" replica of KU's mythical bird caused considerable comment. Leading the team on the field at the start of the game, it brought "Oh!'s," "Ahi!"'s and "Isn't he cute?" from the crowd.
Made by the Collegiate Manufacturing company of Ames, Ia., this past week, it took three workers six days to construct the Jayhawker. Blue plush material was mounted on a wire cage for the chest and head, while the bill and feet were covered with yellow felt. The eyes, which light up with a Jayhawk touchdown, were made of plastic dishes. The bird "sees" by an opening between the head and chest.
Halftime was enlivened by a huldancing 100-piece Iowa State college
band and the 75-piece Abilene high school band which had a bit of trouble spelling out "Hello."
The two bands had joined 6 others in a pre-game spectacle. Prof Russell H. Wiley led the bands which covered the field and track in the national anthem.
Saturday morning the bands had marched through downtown Lawrence, Highland Park (Topeka), fronted by Scottish majesties; Hiwatha, led by two four-year-olds dressed in Indian costumes, and the fast-stepping Shawnee Mission band were favorites of the crowd.
The big weekend included Parents day Saturday. Mothers and fathers of new students visited the campanile, classrooms, and other parts of the campus. An informal reception was held at the Union building where the visitors were greeted by the chancellor, dean of students, and the deans of men and women. More than 700 parents were registered.
A victory dance in the Union ballroom ended the weekend's activities.
The Art Education club will meet at 4 p.m. Monday in 332 Strong. Discussion will be led by Evelyn Snyder, fine arts sophomore, club president, concerning the various projects the club will sponsor during the year.
Art Education Club to Meet
Miss Foley won the June Bride contest sponsored by radio station KWBW at Hutchinson. She wrote a letter to the program "June Bride" describing her sister, Mrs. Floyd Keffer, who received the prizes.
Eileen Got Only Glory
While listening to the program before the wedding Miss Foley had jokingly said to her sister, "Till win those prizes for you."
Eileen Foley, journalism senior,
won $500 in prizes this summer in a
radio contest, but for someone else.
She then wrote the letter during the last week of the contest without her sister's knowledge. The winner was announced while the Keffers were honeymooning.
Mrs. Keffer's gift included clothing, jewelry, and house wares. Miss Foley received a rosary for her part in the contest.
The opening concert of the 1953-54 season will be presented by Raymond Stuhl, cellist, and Alberta Stuhl, pianist, at 8 p.m. today in Strong Hall. The concert will also feature a gram of sonatas for cello and piano. The concert is open to the pub-
Stuhl Concert To Be Tonight
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Tempo di Gavotte
Largo
Allegro
Sonata, F major, Opus 99...Brahms
Allegro vivace
Adagio affettuoso
Miego Sonata- No. 2 ... Martinu
Allegro passionato
Allegro commodo
Allegro
Largo
Man Burned to Death
ROK Coup Feared In Anti-Red Camp
A 76-year-old bachelor, Charles Higgins, was burned to death today when fire destroyed his shack-like home in North Lawrence.
Police believe the fire started from an oil stove. They said the Higgins' shack caught fire a week ago but firemen were able to extinguish the blaze.
Munsan—(U.P.)-Violent anti-Indian feeling swept South Korea Monday (Korea time) with reports of possible armed violence and a ROK coup to free 22,500 anti-Communist prisoners.
FACTS Plans Radio Program
Daily radio time on KDGU. University wired-wireless radio station, was purchased by the FACTS party yesterday at a meeting in the Union building.
Members elected three students to fill vacated All Student Council posts. Richard Pope, graduate student, was named to the Senate representing the graduate school. Jim Rowland, fine arts sophomore, was elected Senate member from arts. Ron Sammon, senior, was named to the Representatives member for men's dormitories, and a fourth vacancy, House representative from men's Co-ops, will be selected at the next meeting.
In other business, the group discussed the proposed ASC amendment prohibiting freshman women from competing for Homecoming and Javihawker queen.
Bill Arnold, college junior, suggested, "setting up standards for the selections would cost a good deal that could embody the idea of the proposed bill."
The program will be heard 5:30 to 5:55 on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday of each week, and will follow "Pachworks," Pachacamac-sponsored record and interview show.
The group voted to instruct their ASC delegates to table the bill until freshman members were elected to the council so that their opinion might be heard.
Committee members appointed were: Membership: Jocelyn Dougherty, and Margot Baker, college sophomores; and Jane Snyder and Paul Enos, engineering sophomores.
Judiciary committee: Lloyd Kirk, college junior, chairman; Winkie Stewart, college junior; and Ralph Jones, engineering sophomore.
New York Takes Early Lead In Crucial Series Game
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Frank Newby, college senior, was named issue chairman, Bob Laughlin, college junior, was elected chairman of public information; Glenna Williams, college junior, was appointed records chairman and Marc Hurt, college junior, was elected FACTS treasurer.
New York—(U.P.)-The Brooklyn Dodgers, trailing the New York Yankees three games to two, entrusted their World Series hopes today to their strikeout king, Carl Erskine.
He was opposed by Ed (Whitey) Ford, who was trying to wrap up an unprecedented fifth consecutive series triumph for Casey Stengel's Bronx Bombers.
Erskine, who won 20 games as the Dodgers captured the National league pennant easily, set a new series strikeout record when he fanned 14 Yankees in winning the third game.
Ford, an 18-game winner, yielded three runs in the first inning of the fourth game. He was coming back in big Yankee stadium, where the series scene shifted today, with one day's rest—all that Erskine had between his first game disaster and his
But, like Ford, he had flopped in his first series start. He yielded four runs on three bases on balls and two triples in the first inning of the first game, a contest which the Dodgers eventually lost.
third game excellence
The Dodgers, who usually murder left handed pitching, were $ \frac{5}{3} $ to 5 favorites to win today's game and send the series into a seventh game. If it is necessary, the probable pitchers will be Preacher Roe for the Dodgers and Ed Lopat for the Yankees.
Stengel, while admitting his Yankees were in the driver's seat, said, "frankly I'm worried about today's game."
"Of course, should we lose there's always another game tomorrow, but when a series goes down to a seventh game, anything can happen," he declared.
"I'd sure like to wrap it up today."
Stengel continued. "But these Dodgers still are going to take a lot of beating. Don't forget they came back to even it up when we had them two games to none. So I'm not counting on anything, but I'm hoping."
- Allied troops were alerted for "any eventuality" in the face of a South Korean threat to "take up arms" against the allegedly pro-Communist Indians.
The Indian chairman of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimmaya, said the grave development may prevent the controversial explanations to prisoners resisting repatriation.
Swedish and Swiss sources on the commission confirmed the bleak outlook of Gen. Thimmaya, chairman of the group handling prisoners during the scheduled 90-day period when "explainers" will try to convince reluctant POWs to return home.
Reports—believed officially inspired-circulated through Seoul that Lt. Gen. Won Yon Duk, provost marshal general, was preparing for a coup similar to the June 18 liberation of 27,000 anti-communist North Koreans.
It was Gen. Won who almost wrecked the Korean truce last June 18 by permitting prisoners to flee Allied compounds under unilateral orders from President Syngman Rhee.
South Korean political leaders called upon civilians to attend mass meetings Tuesday and protest the "barbarous" Indian handling of anti-Communist prisoners.
Mr. Rhee's government ordered school children to take a holiday Tuesday and march to demonstration centers.
South Korea planned the mass escapes, the sources, said to prevent Indian guards from slaying more anti-Communist prisoners who do not want to go back to Red rule.
Government sources said the South Korean people would harbor escapees from Indian custody just as they had sheltered the fugitive North Koreans almost four months ago in an act that imperiled the truce.
Peiping radio, voice of Communist China, blamed the United States fog South Korea's defiant attitude toward the Indians, who were assigned to guard the prisoners for 90 days, while "explainers" of both sides attempt to change the captives' minds about going home.
The Red radio said the U.S. was attempting to force the Neutral Nations Repatriation commission to change its stand on repatriation by planning to release the prisoners.
Your correspondent declares that if the Americans succeed in carrying out their scheme of armed abduction of the prisoners of war, the Korean armistice would be completely blown to pieces," radio Peiping said.
Weather
Kansas Forecast: Fair tonight and Tuesday. Scattered light frost tonight. Low to night 30s west and north, 35 to 40 southeast. Little change in tempera ture Tuesday. High Tuesday 65 to 70 extreme northeast, to 75 southwest. T h e
temperature sank to a sub-freezing 31 degrees in Russell at dawn today as a weekend October cold front banished summerlike weather from Kansas and gave the eastern part of the state some relief from the drouth. Lows of 33 degrees were noted at Salina and Goodland. There was slight frost in the Kaw River valley. In Topeka, State Weatherman P. N. Eland said the trend is toward a slow moderation of the nippy temperatures under sunny skies.