Kansas State Historical Society
Topeka, Ks.
Bob Kenney Wins 'Mr. Formal' Title
Bob Kenney, engineering senior and member of the 1952 Olympic championship basketball team, has been chosen "Mr. Formal" at KU.
Kenney, a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity, was chosen by a group of six judges over candidates from 23 other campus organizations, and will receive a jackpot of prizes including a complete "After Six" formal wear ensemble and an automatic entry into the "Mr. Formal U.S.A." contest, competing against winners from over 100 other colleges and universities throughout the country.
The winner of the national contest, which will be judged in New York city by a panel of celebrities, will receive $500, a week expenses-paid trip to Hollywood, and a screen test with Alex Gottlieb pictures.
Other prizes Kenney will receive are a Ronson Adonis lighter, a Kaywoodie white-briar pipe, a set of "Top Hat" toiletries by Charbert, a pair of black dress shoes from the Royal College Shops.
The final judging was held Friday afternoon, Judges were Virginia Mackey, journalism senior; Stephanie Drake, college sophomore; Sara Starry, college junior; Mary Louise Lavy, fine arts freshman; Margaret Allen, college freshman, and Jane Henry, college freshman.
BOB KENNEY
A one month theater pass for two at the Commonwealth theatres, $5 in services from ACME Bachelor Laundry and Dry Cleaners, a bouquet of one dozen roses from Owens Flower shop, and two free dinners at the Dine-A-Mite.
The other 23 finalists, who were chosen to represent their respective organizations were Ed Tucker, Phi Kappa Psi; Dean Owens, Sigma Chi; Dean Pontius, Pi Kappa Alpha;
Duane Van Gundy, Sigma Pi; Bob Marshall, Alpha KappaLambda; William Hadel, Phi Kappa; Dee Halley, Phi Kappa Tau; Bill Dorsch, Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Fred Tarry, Sigma Phi Epsilon; Bill Dodd, Tau Kappa Epsilon; Jack Axlin, Don Henry Co-op; Apennon Theod, Nella Chi; Joe Renner, Lambda Chi Alpha; Myron McClenny, Kappa Sigma, and Ron Denchfeld, Batten-feld hall.
Monday, May 11, 1953
Winds Slap Midwest, Kill 11, Injure Scores
By UNITED PRESS
Tornadoes and windstorms that killed 11 persons and injured at least 180 left a pattern of destruction today in seven states.
Minnesota, where nine persons were killed, was hit hardest. Eight of the victims were killed in tornadoes and the ninth in a violent wind.
Wisconsin reported two dead and at least 16 injured.
Other tornadoes hop-skipped through Iowa, Arkansas, and South Dakota last night. Saturday night twisters struck in Kansas and Nebraska, injuring 150 persons at Hebron, Neb., and "almost blowing the town off the map."
Six members of a family were killed near Hollandale, Minn., when a twister splintered their home and tossed their bodies 100 feet.
Near St. Charles, Minn., a one-year-old girl was killed and her mother seriously injured when a tornado lifted an automobile into the air and threw it into a ditch.
A state-by-state survey in the Midwest showed the following tornado toll last night:
Wisconsin: At least 16 persons in
Minnesota: At least 10 persons injured. Many barns and farm buildings damaged. Damage reported at Hollandale, St. Charles, Woycoff, and Preston. Widespread damage general throughout southern Minnesota and some wind damage in Twin Cities.
Story Wins $75 For Education Junior
Dorothy Shade, education junior,
was announced today as first place
winner of the Edna Osborne Whit-
comb Scholarship contest. She
received first prize of $75 for a
short story, "Death of an Ideal."
Ann Ivater, college senior, won
second place for $25 for a story,
"The Quillton."
Mrs. Natalie Calderwood, assistant professor of English, was chairman of the selection committee.
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jured. At least 15 barns destroyed and "considerable" cattle killed in storm center in west central part of state. Twisters reported near River Falls, Augusta, Albertville, and Ludington.
Three winners of the W. B. Hamm Memorial scholarships for Rooks county residents were announced today by registrar James K. Hitt.
Ham Scholarship Winners Named
Westhusin and Moos are winners of competitive examinations and interviews given high school seniors in Rooks county. Miss Sammons, who has held a residence hall scholarship at KU, has done superior work. The standards of selection are similar to those of the statewide Summerfield and Elizabeth M. Watkins scholarships.
They are Gary Westhusin and Harry Moos, who will graduate from Plainville high school this month, and Wanda Sammons, now a sophomore at KU, who was graduated from Stockton high school in 1951.
The scholarships memorialize the late Judge W. B. Ham of Stockton. His heirs gave Rooks county property to the KU Endowment association to support scholarships for students from that county. This is the third year such awards have been made.
The scholarships were given on merit without regard to financial need. The amount of each award is the amount needed to supplement the individual's financial resources to cover fees, books and living expenses.
Ham scholars now attending KU are Dale Darnell and Donnalea Steeple, Plainville; and Dean Ives, Stockton. The scholarships are renewable.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
50th Year, No.141
Lawyers and Engineers To Clash on Senior Day
"There is too much homogeneity and not enough individuality today. Dr. John Ise, professor of economics, said in his talk to the annual School of Pharmacy banquet Saturday
Ise Cites Lack Of Individuality
Homo Saps.
The annual banquet given by the pharmacy juniors in honor of graduating seniors was followed by a dance sponsored by Kappa Psi, pharmaceutical fraternity.
Dr. Ise said that people today know more about the comic strips than about the Korean war and other world events. His talk was entitled "The American Homo sapiens or Homo Saps."
Dean J. Allen Reese of the School of Pharmacy, Dr. Duane Wenzel, assistant professor of pharmacy, and Wayne Wagers, next year's Kappa Psi regent, made the awards. Norman Hogue, junior class president, was toastmaster.
Singers of Beta Theta Pi, social fraternity, were named winners of yesterday's Inter-Fraternity Sing.
was then approximately 135 attended the banquet including faculty members and their wives, students and dates, and alumni. ___
Seven pharmacy students received awards. They were Robert E. Seutter, the Lehn and Fink medal and the Bristol award to the highest ranking senior; Robert G. Nicholson and Ray C. Chiles, two Merk awards; Rebecca Garvin, award by the American Pharmaceutical association's student branch; Jay W. Oliver and Carl Snyder, two certificates to outstanding seniors; Ivan W. Watkins, Kappa Psi award to the highest ranking sophomore, and Jay Oliver, Kappa Psi key to the fraternity's outgoing regent.
Four fraternities entered groups in the competition sponsored by Phi Mu Alpha, professional music fraternity. The Beta's competed with Phi Delta Theta, Acacia, and Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Betas Take First In Singing Contest
Second and third place winners were Sigma Phi Epsilon and Phi Delta Theta, respectively. Marcus Hahn, instructor in music education, and Gerald Carney, associate professor in music education, were judges.
Trophies are to be awarded to the first three place winners, according to Clayton Krehbiel.
A tug-of-war to determine supremacy between lawyers and engineers will highlight the Senior Class day picnic in Clinton park.
3 Med Students Named for Awards
Wilford Hoofer and Marvin Liggett, medicine sophomores, were jointly awarded $100 and the Russell Haden medal for the best research by medical students at the annual Student Research day Friday at the Medical center.
Their research was on the effect of splenectomy on the transplantation of homologous skin grafts on heterozygous white mice.
heterozygous John Christianson, resident in medicine, was awarded the $100 prize for research by a staff member for his paper on serum iron in experimental hepatic parenchymal damage.
Dr. Charles Huggins, professor of surgery at the University of Chicago, spoke on "The Endocrinology of Mammary Cancer."
Other research papers were presented by Albert A. Kihm and Donald M. Lanning, Dale Anderson and William Humbert, medicine sophomores; Robert W. Weber, resident in medicine; Alexander Roth, resident in pediatrics, and Robert Owens, resident in urology.
W. C. Young and Paul G. Roofe,
professor of anatomy, and R. C.
Mills, professor of biochemistry,
attended the meeting.
Geology Students Get Writing Prizes
Two University geology students have been awarded the first and second prizes for attainment in scientific writing given by the National Grand council of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, national geological fraternity.
First prize went to Wilbert I. Odem, graduate student, for his paper entitled "Subaerial Growth of the Delta of the Diverted Brazos River, Texas." The article was selected as the most outstanding of those published during the year in The Compass, a bimonthly periodical of the fraternity.
Robert McCrae, graduate student, won the national second prize with his article entitled "Geology and Petrography of a Portion of the Reno, Nevada Quadrangle."
The special scientific writing awards were made on the basis of originality, scientific soundness, and contribution to earth science.
The first prize, a Parker double fountain pen desk set, has been received by H. A. Ireland, faculty advisor, and will be presented to Odem at a presentation ceremony.
Red PW Exchange Plan 'Too Vague,' UN Says
Panmunjom—(U.P)—The United Nations command told the Communists today their plan to end the prisoner-exchange deadlock was worded too vaguely and asked for a more direct proposal.
Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison, senior UN truce delegate, said that as it stands now the Communists' eight-point plan is not a "final resolution."
The Communists' chief spokesman, North Korean Gen. Nam Il, said it was "unnecessary to repeat" their proposal, which would give a post-armistice, political commission the job of determining finally what to do with anti-Red allied captives who do not want to go home.
Gen. Harrison brought up the subject of the political commission and again asked Gen. Nam for an explanation of how this agency could avoid placing some prisoners in indefinite captivity if the Communist plan were followed.
The UN objected to this section of the plan because it could mean a prisoner, to avoid extensive detention, would consent eventually to return to Communism against his will.
This would be forcible repatriation, an issue which led to a breakoff of truce talks last October 8.
Gen. Nam argued no such threat to prisoners existed. He earlier had said the prisoners would agree to go home after they had been assured by the Communists they had nothing to fear.
The UN asked for a recess until 11 a.m. tomorrow (noon CST Monday).
The text of the challenging letter from Lyle Jenkins, engineering senior and president of the Engineering Council, to Richard Randall, president of the senior law class, said.
"During the past year, that rustic manikin known as Uncle Jimmy Green has received several coats of paint. These efforts have resistance training police building and grounds painter-originate brigade, but no resistance whatsoever from those fledgling ambulance-chasers, the lawyers.
"Not satisfied with such cold war tactics, the senior engineers hereby challenge the senior lawyers to a duel.
"In order to establish the all-around supremacy of the engineers and to dampen the spirits of the various and assorted apprentice shysters, we suggest that the duel be of a form involving strength and team work, namely a tug-of-war. The contest will take place on Senior Day 13 May, 1953, governed by the rules set up by the Senior Class day committee.
Antagonistically, Iole M. Jenkins"
The battle will take place on the lower level of the park with the opposing sides on each side of the small creek. Since the creek is dry now, a portion of it has been blocked off with sandbags and the city fire department will fill it with water.
Each team will have 30 men, with an additional 10 men on each side to form a bucket brigade. If an opponent leaps across the creek to avoid a ducking, a member of the brigade is authorized to douse him with a bucketful of water.
Another highlight of the day will be when each school enters a float in a parade, with the best receiving a prize. The floats are to be at the Delta Tau Detla parking lot on West Hills road at 12:30 p.m. The parade will start at 12:45 p.m.
Tickets for the picnic can be bought from representatives in organized houses from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m. in the Hawks Nest and at the Information booth. They are $1 per person.
At 7:30 p.m. a ballgame will be played between the Faculty Fossils and members of the Senior class. The Fossils were winners of the independent A intramural softball championship last year.
The picnic is scheduled to last from 1-10 p.m. Since there are no tables at the park, each person is asked to bring a blanket to sit on.
Reed Says Budget Won'tBe Balanced
Washington—(U.F.)-Rep. Daniel A.
Reed said today that the Eisenhower administration has "run up the white flag" in the battle to balance the federal budget.
the New York Republican is chairman of the House Ways and Means committee and author of a bill—thus far sidetracked by administration leaders in Congress—that would advance by six months, to July 1, a scheduled 10 per cent income tax cut. Mr. Reed's bill could mean that personal income taxes would be cut about five per cent this year.
He said he is "amazed" that the administration has given up trying to balance the budget for fiscal 1954. "The spenders seem to have taken over," Mr. Reed said in a House speech.
Mr. Reed said the budget never will be balanced unless taxes are cut and business is "unshacked."
Meanwhile, influential senators grew impatient at White House failure to take a stand on the politically-sensitive problem of whether to try to keep existing tax rates in effect longer than scheduled.