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Kansas State Historical Society Topoka, Ks.
Wednesday, Sept. 30, 1953
THE FIRST HIT-Second baseman Junior Gilliam of the Brooklyn Dodgers gets on first base after knocking the first hit of the game as the World Series between New York and Brooklyn gets underway today. This Kansan photograph was snapped by a staff photographer with a camera set up in front of a television set.
with a camera set up in front of a television set
ASC Proposes Ban On Freshman Queens
A bill limiting freshman participation in University queen contests, and specifying that queens should be chosen on the campus rather than by picture was presented to the All Student Council in last night's meeting.
Introduced by the social committee, the bill would prohibit freshman entrants for homecoming and Jayhawker queen. Richard Sheldon, council president, said the committee felt that an upperclass woman was more representative of the University. Dana Anderson, college sophomore, added that last year's freshman homecoming queen did not return to the University this year.
Under the terms of the bill, a freshman may be a candidate for any queen except the two positions named.
Anderson said that the second clause in the proposed legislation was not restricting the manner in which queen candidates be chosen. "An organization may pick a queen any way it wishes, so long as it is done on the hill by faculty or students knowing the girls involved," he said.
"What we're trying to get away from is choosing a girl simply because she is photogenic," Anderson continued.
In a second major action, the council approved a resolution to raise the fee for transferring ID cards. The $15 bureau cost of transferring was 25 cents.
Laurence Woodruff, dean of students, ACS advisor, said the athletic department had protested last year's low rate. "The result of last year's rate was to give the high school students a chance to sit in the student section, theoretically on the 50-yard line, for a quarter, when it cost him a dollar to buy a ticket in the bowl." he said.
Farrell Schell, engineering senior, pointed out that this resolution would put a strain on organized houses asking high school men to the campus for a football green field, and still pay a dollar an entitlement for tickets, he said.
Anderson reminded the council that it had no jurisdiction over the resolution because it involved no change in the constitution and was not legislation.
The system was approved to go into effect after the Iowa State game since all ID card transfers are ali- nabled for parents day Saturday.
Don't forget the Independent Student association's annual fall picnic at 6 p.m. today in the Potter lake area. Three-legged sack races will be held with tin can loving cups going to the winners. Frankfurters, potato chips, and cokes will be served.
In other action, a bill to raise parking fines was referred to committee, and council members volunteered to attend the K-State "Peace Pact" dinner Oct. 27.
Sheldon said there were vacancies on several council committees and volunteers from outside the council would be accepted. He urged students interested to call him.
ISA Picnic Set Tonight
Daily hansan
Campus GOP Plans Ike Birthday Party
The University Young Republicans will celebrate President Eisenhower's birthday with a party tentatively scheduled for the TeePee.
Collegiate Republican clubs throughout the nation decided at their summer convention to observe Oct. 14, the president's birth date, and attend a reunion of the KU club is planning its party for the following weekend.
Fifty per cent of the profits from clubs to finance other clubs in the state.
Joe Woods, pharmacy senior, is chairman of the planning committee for the event.
ID Cards Should Be Picked Up
Students who do not have their identification cards should pick them up at the business office before 5 p.m. Thursday, Robert Rose, director of the photographic bureau, said today.
Those students needing ID pictures retaken should report to the photographic bureau in the basement of Watson library before 5 p.m. Thursday, he said. The retake cards will be ready Saturday morning at the business office.
Movies of the UCLA-KU game originally scheduled for showing this evening, will be shown at 8 p.m. next Wednesday in the Union ballroom.
Football Movies Off
The University Concert course brochure has an incorrect date for the opening concert. The correct date is Wednesday, Oct. 28 for Boris Goldovsky's Opera theater.
Concert Mistake Corrected
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
51st Year, No. 11
Yankees Take Early 4-0 Lead In Series Start
BROOKLYN 000 0-0
NEW YORK 400 0-4
Memo to Instructors:
New York—(U.P.)—The New York Yankees, striving for an unprecedented fifth consecutive World Series championship, got off to a flying start and scored four runs in the first inning of the opening game of the 1953 classic.
Taking advantage of Carl Erskine's wildness and a freak bounce of the ball on a hit by Hank Bauer, the Yankees exploded two triples and drew three bases on balls for their four tallies.
Erskine, a 20-game winner for Brooklyn, retired Yankee leadoff batter Gil McDougall on a pop fly but then walked Joe Collins. Bauer lined what appeared to be a single hit and drove in the pin. Snider was set to field the ball, it bounced to the right and got through him for a triple, Collins scoring.
That Strange Ailment is Only Annual World Series Fever
Yogi Berra then struck out, but Mickey Mantle and Gene Woodling walked to fill the bases and then Billy Martin lined a triple to deep
Ballroom Boasts Many Empty Seats
While many students jammed and stood around two television sets in the Union lounge for today's World Series game, there were plenty of seats in the ballroom. Two sets will be in use in the ballroom for the rest of the Series with plenty of room to watch. Incidentally, the reception is much better there.
left center to score three more runs.
erkine then got Phil Rizuto on a ground ball to third, but the damage had been done.
A strange pall hung over the campus between noon and 2:30 p.m. to-day. Girls who passed men's houses on the way to class didn't hear the usual cat-calls and whistles. The TV room of the Student union was jam-packed.
Allie Reynolds, the Yankee ace who was trying for his seventh Series victory, started out shaky when Junior Gilliam, the Dodgers brilliant rookie second baseman, led off with a single to center.
Taking lots of time, the veteran Yankee right hander settled down, however, and retired the next three men in a row.
Reynolds was in trouble in the second inning when catcher Roy Campanella, leading off for the Dodgers, was hit on the hand by a pitched ball. Gil Hodges, who failed to get a hit in 21 times at bat in last year's Series, filed out to Woodling and Carl Furillo was called on strikes. But Billy Cox doubled down the left field line, sending Campanella to third. Wayne Belardi batted for Erskine and struck out.
Jim Hughes took over the Dodger pitching chores in the bottom of the second, and retired the side in order
Yankee ticket officials estimated the crowd at 70,000—1,000 above the stadium's actual seating capacity. There was a stiff breeze blowing in from right field, kicking up swirls of dust in the infield and littering the diamond with paper.
Men carried portable radios to class. Many instructors complained that students were late to class. Some instructors, it is rumored, fell "ill" this afternoon and dismissed classes. Many students also developed ailments and did not show up.
Members of several fraternities this morning scampered about their houses collecting money and handing out small pieces of paper with number on them. Television repairmen downtown stayed close to their telephones to rush out and fix TV sets immediately.
A call to the hospital, however,
showed no great influx of patients.
The reason? It's the Yankees vs
the Dodgers in the World Series.
Air Force Revises Decision on ROTC
Advanced Air Force ROTC students now under contract may complete their college training and will be deferred from Selective Service until their ROTC course is completed, Col. Thomas B. Summers, professor of air science, said today. His announcement is in line with a recent announcement by the Department of Defense.
GOV. EARL WARREN
Warren Named Chief Justice
Washington — (U.P.) — President Eisenhower today chose Gov. Earl Warren of California to be chief justice of the United States.
The tall, handsome Californian, at age 62, becomes the 14th man in U.S. history to occupy the nation's highest judicial position.
Gov. Warren succeeds Fred M. Vinson of Kentucky, who died of a heart attack Sept. 8.
Mr. Eisenhower announced the recess appointment at a news conference, his first formal meeting with reporters since July 22.
Gov. Warren's formal nomination will be sent to the Senate when Congress reconvenes in January.
Mr. Eisenhower told the crowded news conference he is confident Gov. Warren will make a great chief justice.
He said he expected Gov. Warren in Washington for the opening next Monday of the 1953-54 term of the high tribunal.
He said the reason he selected Gov. Warren was that he is a man of integrity, honesty, possessed of a middle-of-the-road philosophy and experienced in the law as well as the operation of government.
Gov. Warren will be the second Republican on the bench. The other is Associate Justice Harold H. Burke, appointed by former President Trump.
Gov. Warren has been governor of California 10 years. His present term will not expire until January, 1958. As Gov. Warren took office, Sacramento 15 months early, Lt. Gov. Goodwin Knight will move into the governor's chair.
Before he became governor, Warren was California attorney general.
Only a few days before Justice Vinson's death, Gov. Warren had announced formally he would not be made to vote for another term as governor.
Gov. Warren's name had been in the forefront of speculation about the chief justiceship since Justice Vinson died.
The nomination for Gov. Warren apparently was settled finally on Sunday when Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., Mr. Eisenhower's chief patronage adviser, flew to Sacramento for a three-hour conference with the governor.
The new policy revises an announcement in late July that most AFROTC students would have to agree to take flight training or be discharged from the program. The exception then was that a small number with highly technical backgrounds would also be commissioned,
Since active duty spaces under the 120-wing Air Force program are limited by appropriations, not all Air Force ROTC students now in the advanced course will receive commissions. This is a competitive situation in which only the best qualified potential junior officers will win commissions. The rest will be awarded certificates of completion,
Those not given commissions will receive certificates permitting them to apply for their commissions after they have fulfilled their Selective Service obligations.
The Air Force's chief need is for flying officers, pilots, and aerial observers. Most commissions awarded will go to students applying for flight training. A small number of commissions may be given to outstanding cadets who neither physically qualify for flight training nor have technical background skills.
Students receiving certificates of completion may enlist in the Air Force for two years with the grade of airman third class.
Present policy requires that officers commissioned through ROTC without previous military service, be called to active duty for a period equivalent to that required under the Selective Service act. Those accepted for flying or other special types of training must serve longer tours of duty.
Since legislation limits the number of Air Force officers on active duty at one time, the number of Air Force ROTC cadets to be commissioned cannot exceed the number of officer vacancies. These vacancies are not expected to accommodate all the senior cadets who normally would have been commissioned. Only the best qualified within the vacancies will be selected for immediate appointment.
Weather
One of the driest Septembers in decades was coming to a close today
in kansas. A good soaking rain over much of the state the first week in the month raised hopes that this year's drought might be shattered beyond all return later in the
fall. But that one rain was the only statewide September precipitation. There have been the lightest of showers in the ensuing weeks, and today state weatherman Tom Arnold had his familiar report: "No rain and no prospects." He said it might be small consolation to Kansans, but a number of other states are in the same situation. The nation's only appreciable rainfall in the last 24 hours was in the Pacific Northwest and in Florida and southern Georgia. Kansas had cooler weather today after passage of a cool front. A warming trend is due to begin tomorrow. In the last 24 hours Kansas maximum temperatures ranged from 77 degrees at Goodland to 97 at Chanute, and this morning's lows from 42 at Hill City and Goodland to 60 degrees at Chanute. The forecast for Kansas is fair tonight and Thursday with strong southwesterly winds Thursday. Cooler southeast and warmer west tonight, warmer Thursday; low tonight in 50s, high Thursday in 30s.