It's Relay Time Again Thousands Arrive For Annual Event Daily hansan
Bv DON TICE
More than 750 college athletes and 1,500 high school cindermen will compete today and tomorrow for honors in the 28th annual Kansas Relays, one of the midwest's largest track and field events.
The meet got under way at 9 a.m. this morning with the high school athletes facing a strong, cold wind under cloudy skies.
50th Year, No. 125 SEC.A LAWRENCE, KANSAS Friday, April 17, 1953
The college and university athletes will begin their competition tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. with the running of the 110-meter decathlon high hurdles.
33 Colorful Floats,7 Marching Bands To Participate In Saturday Parade
The preliminaries in the shot put will start at 10 a.m., and one final, in the discus, will be run off in the morning. Other than that the big show will be in the afternoon, beginning at 1:15 with the opening ceremony by the KU band.
Coach M. E. "Bill" Easton's host Kansas Jayhawks will attend to
They won both of these events at the Kansas, Texas, and Drake relays last year. They also wore the jersey the day at the Texas Relays this year.
win both the distance medley and four-mile relay conditions straight,
WES SANTEE this year.
The Kansas teams will be led by Olympic ace Wes Santee. The rangey junior from Ashland has turned in five miles under 4,10; his best time being 4.06.7 at the Drake Relays last year, and a repeat in that time at the Texas outing this year.
Distinguished Air Force and Army ROTC students will receive recognition certificates during the review Monday.
Four other members of the 1952 Olympic team, three from the Big Seven ranks, will be in the competition tomorrow.
Thane Baker, Kansas State, and Neville Price, Oklahoma, are the other Big Seven Olympians besides Santee. Baker was runner-up in the 200-meter at Helsinki, and Price, who was competing for his native land, the Union of South Africa, came in 11th in the finals of the broad iump.
The primary purpose of the federal inspection, which will continue through Tuesday, is to examine the training, both in the classroom and on the drill field, of the cadets. Some of the points on which the units will be graded are teaching procedures, adequacy of instructional facilities, affectiveness of instructors and the general military bearing of the cadets.
Darrow Hooper, Texas A&M,
finished second in the shot. He was
beaten by less than an inch, and
Arnold Betton, Drake high jumper,
came in seventh with a leap of 6
feet 4 3/8 inches.
Two defending team champions in the high school meet, Wichita East in the AA division and Stafford in class A are back this year.
Stafford has a good chance to win the "A" title for the second straight time, and Wichita East is due for some tough competition if they expect to repeat their win. Their main trouble will come from Shawnee Mission, who edged them out by two points in the Ottawa relays.
The defending champion in class B, Protection, isn't here to defend its title, so the race in that division is wide open.
ROTC Review Slated for Monday
A full dress review for the three ROTC units will be held on the intramural fields at 4 p.m. Monday in conjunction with the annual federal inspection of the Army and Air Force units.
The public is invited to witness this review, which will be preceded at 3:30 p.m. by a special exhibition by the Air Force ROTC drill team, under the direction of Cadet Mai, Zenon Zannetsel.
-Kansan photo by Ken Coy
DISPLAY AT EXPOSITION—These engineers take a final check on their models which are part of the Engineering Exposition today and Saturday. They are (left to right) William Dulaney, engineering junior; Donald Woodside and David Bell, engineering seniors.
15,000 Expected for Two-Day Exposition
More than 15,000 persons are expected to visit the 33rd annual Engineering Exposition, which today opened a two-day stand.
Twenty-four exhibits, sponsored by the various engineering departments, and three University ROTC units, are housed in six buildings and the parking lot in back of Marvin hall.
Keith Hartell, engineering senior, is the general chairman of the exposition.
As a sidelight, Explorer scouts will show movies and set off a miniature atomic blast during the exposition.
Two main entrances, one in from of Marvin hall, and the other in front of Lindley hall, will be used. The entrance to Marvin hall was built by Theta Tau, professional engineering fraternity.
A jet engine, movies on the Wright brothers, and a 1912 plane loaned by the Phillips Petroleum company are being shown in the aeronautical engineering laboratory. ROTC units are showing their exhibits in the Military Science building.
Marvin hall houses exhibits by the following groups: aeronautical engineering, architecture, civil engineering, physics, engineering drawing, mechanical engineering, mathematics, applied mechanics, Boy Scouts of America, chemistry, and industrial design.
Fowler shops houses exhibits by shop practice groups. The electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and hydraulic laboratories are housing their own exhibits.
Lindley hall has the geology petroleum, mining and metallurgy chemical engineering. State Geological survey, and KU research exhibits.
A large traveling trophy will be awarded to the department having the best display by Sigma Tau, national honorary engineering fraternity. Judges will be members of Sigma Tau representing each of the 11 degrees granted by the School of Engineering.
Fifteen-minute airplane rides will
be given to six winners of a drawing at 11:30 Saturday morning in the aeronautical engineering laboratory. The winners will be flown in a Cessna "180" on a tour over the campus and the Lawrence area.
The Student Court has not been asked to send the court record from the recent FACTS libel trial, now on appeal, to the disciplinary committee, Dean Laurence C. Woodruff, head of the committee, said today.
The shop practices department is showing an exhibit in plastics, a relatively new field of engineering.
Libel Trial Records Not Yet Requested
FACTS, convicted and fined $50 by the court, several days ago entered a written appeal to the committee, asking them to read the text of the testimony given in the case and reverse the court's decision.
Dean Woodruff said his committee hadn't yet met, but probably would "sometime next week."
Three freshman football players and assistant grid coach Don Fambrough entrained for Amarillo, Tex., last night to attend the funeral this afternoon of John Spencer, frosh footballer who died in his sleep here Wednesday.
3 Players, Coach Attend Spencer Rites
The Women's Athletic association election which was to be held yesterday has been postponed until Monday.
The three are Ralph Moody, halfback from Minneola; Bill Neider, Lawrence center, and Dale Birney, lineman from Santana. They will return tonight by plane.
Women Postpone Election
The city of Lawrence will know for sure that "the Relays have come to town" at 10 a.m. tomorrow when the traditional Kansas Relays parade, with 33 colorful floats and seven marching bands, follows Massachusetts street from 6th to 12th street.
Pach Completes Election Slate
In a joint meeting with NOW and FOR parties, the Pachacamac party last night completed their preparations for the general elections next Wednesday.
Pach President Lawrence Loftus, college sophomore, said that the ballots Wednesday will carry the names of seven candidates whose names were inadvertently omitted in the primaries.
These persons were chosen by a "back to the houses" primary, Loftus said. One other person, Alice Shearer, college sophomore, will be named on the ballot without having been chosen by party primary, he said. Mrs. Shearer is to run for the House of Representatives as a representative for unorganized students.
Robert Worcester, engineering sophomore, and ASC elections chairman, was one of several members who protested when it was announced that FACTS might have its members watching polls to keep check on the YMCA and YWCA poll workers.
"I don't think we need any of that sort of thing, because these aren't party workers," Worcester said.
In his report as campaign manager, Norman Capps, college sophomore, said the party may use a free-ride service Wednesday to get out the vote.
2nd Parents Day Slated Next Fall
The second annual Parents day for parents of new students at the University will be Oct. 3, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy announced today.
The appointment of Walter J. Mikols, assistant professor of physical education and director of men's intramurals, as general chairman for the event was announced simultaneously.
The 1953 pattern will follow closely that of last year's successful observance, when 1,709 parents of new students registered. All departments and services of the University will hold open house in the morning. Parents will lunch at their children's organized house or at the Memorial Union. Tickets permitting parents to sit with their children at the football game with Iowa State will be sold at a reduced price.
"The whole program will be informal," Prof. Mikols said. "We want parents to have time to meet the deans and teachers of their sons and daughters, to visit their living quarters and to inspect the hospital and other student services."
Prof. Mikols joined the faculty in 1947 after receiving an M.S. degree from Indiana university. He coached the varsity swimming team until he was relieved this year to devote more time to the intramurals program.
Lawrence's American Legion post and 32 organized houses have entered floats. Bands, in order of appearance, are to be from the Air Force ROTC, the University, Liberty Memorial High school, Haskell institute, Wamego high school, Yates Center High school, and Council Grove High school.
Prizes will be awarded to the three best floats in the men's and women's divisions. Judges will be two faculty members and a Lawrence businessman. Winners will be announced at the Relays finals
MARGIE ALLEN noon.
Relaxes Queen
Kansas Relays queen Margaret Louise Allen, college freshman, and her two attendants, Charleen Dunn of Kansas State college and Vivian Graber of Wichita university, will be included in the march. They will ride in convertibles.
Army, Navy, and Air Force ROTC units will march in the parade and will share in the color guard. Air Force and Navy ROTC members will carry the colors, leading the parade. They will be escorted by two Army ROTC members.
All participants in the parade should be at North park at 9:15 a.m. Saturday with their floats. They will be assembled in marching order by M/Sgt. Mitchell P. Wojejik, ROTC instructor, who will serve as parade marshal. He will be assisted by members of the KuKus, men's pep organization.
Shelter for the floats has been obtained in the downtown area for tonight. In case rain forces cancellation of the parade, the floats will be judged at North park.
The parade, if held, will end at South park, where members of the Jay Janes, women's pep organization, will serve refreshments to the marchers.
Delta Sigma Rho Prize to Senior
First place in the Delta Sigma Rho oratorical contest was won last night by Donald Dirks, college senior and first year law.
Entitled "Chorus of Ajax," the winning oration likened the life of James Forrestal, ex-secretary of defense, to the deterministic philosophy of the chorus in the Greek plays of Sophocles. Secretary Forrestal, Dirks said, was a man who gave his life fighting the communists. He was a tragic figure, who died a victim of forces over which he had no control.
Proclaiming the need for a spiritual foundation for our society, Lee Baird, college sophomore, placed second with his oration, "This I Do Believe."
William Arnold, college sophomore, gave the third place-winning speech. Entitled, "The Turning Point," his oration declared that the United States has reached the point where it must decide between peace and war.
Last year's winner of the contest, Wilbur Goodseal, '53, presented the first prize of an Encyclopedia Americana to Dirks.