Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
50th Year, No. 121
Monday, April 13, 1953
Students Return For Second Half Of Spring Term
Classes resumed today after the week's relief from the grind of school and returning students found the campus repaired and refreshed for the month and one-half period remaining in the school year.
C. G. Bayles, superintendent of buildings and grounds, said work was done on the fluorescent lighting in Strong hall. Another job aided by the absence of students, he said, was the painting of the Robinson gymnasium basement.
Painting was also done in Haworth hall, and partitions in the basement of Hoch auditorium were altered, he said. Work began on the parking lot west of the faculty club, he said.
By the official starting time of the holiday, Saturday noon, most students were home or well on the way.
Three conferences were held on the campus during the week. About 375 persons came to a two-day session on secondary oil recovery. The short course in photo journalism drew about 65 photographers, while 50 attended the third annual Kansas Conference on Aging.
More than 4,500 high school and junior high school students from 84 schools in northeast Kansas crowded onto the campus Friday and Saturday for the state high school district music festival.
Instrumental and vocal music was judged by Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts; Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and orchestra; Raymond Zepp, instructor of band; Mrs. Marie Wilkins, and judges from schools in Nebraska, Missouri, and Illinois.
Facilities of the cafeteria and Hawk's Nest were stretched to ac- commodate about 1,500 musicians each day.
Chicago Surgeon To Speak May 8
Dr. Charles Huggins, professor of surgery at the University of Chicago, will be guest speaker at Student Research day at the Medical School Mav 8.
The program will include presentation of selected papers prepared by students and house officers of the Medical School.
Awards offered this year include the Russell Haden medal and an award of $100 for original work by a medical student; an award of $100 for original work by a house officer, and the Phi Chi award of $100 for the best original work by a junior or senior medical student.
Weather
Widespread frost blanketed northern Kansas last night and the
night and the weather bureau said it probably was severe enough to damage flower and vegetable gardens and threaten part of the peach patch. Rapid warm-up began this morning, and by 9:30 am, the temperatures had climbed near 50 degrees.
—Kansan photo by Frank Jennings
WARM
nthroughout Kansas. Some increase in cloudiness was expected tomorrow, with the warming trend continuing toward normal for the season. The low tonight will be around 30 northwest, 40 southeast. The high Tuesday will be 55 to 65.
Margaret Allen Picked As KU Relays Queen
BEAUX ARTS BELLES—An evening of gala entertainment, with prizes for the zaniest costumes, is being planned by these art-ful girls —Donna Francis, fine arts sophomore; Kay Gustafson, college freshman, and Dolores Hawkins, fine arts senior. They're going to the Beaux Arts ball April 25 at the Union ballroom where a special floor show and decorations are expected to add to the phantasmagoria.
Margaret Louise Allen, college freshman from Kansas City, Mo. has been chosen to reign as queen of the 28th Kansas Relays Saturday.
Miss Dunn, a 21-year-old senior from Kansas City, Mo., is president of Kappa Kappa Gamma social sorority. She was K-State homecoming queen last year. She is vice-president of the women's pep organization and is a member of Theta Sigma Phi, women's honorary journalism fraternity.
Miss Allen, a 19-year-old cover girl, was chosen in Kansas City from a group of 14 candidates from Kansas and Big Seven colleges and universities.
Miss Allen's attendants will be Charleen Dunn, of Kansas State college, and Vivian Graber, of Wichita university.
The Realys queen is majoring in economics. She has studied piano and has sung with church and school choruses, in addition to participating in tennis, swimming, hockey, basketball, softball, and table tennis. A resident of North College hall, she has been a member of several dormitory sports groups.
The blond, blue-eyed queen, completely recovered from a chemistry laboratory explosion Oct. 7, will reign with two attendants over a parade, the Relays, and a dance in the Union ballroom Saturday night. She will be crowned at the Relays.
Miss Graber is a 21-year-old
Miss Allen began a modeling career at the age of 15, and has been a magazine cover girl a number of times, being elected Butter Queen of America by the American Eutter institute in 1950, and Girl of the Month and cover girl for The Fortress, a monthly serviceman's magazine in February of 1952.
New York—(U.P.)—Joseph P. Ryan, president of the AFL International Longshoremen's association was arrested today on a 30-count indictment charging him with grand larceny of $11,390 in union funds.
Longshoremen Head Arrested for Larceny
music major who plans to enter a teaching career. She maintains a 2.5 grade average, and has been on the deans honor roll several times.
Attorney Frank S. Hogan said the indictment covers the period from April 14, 1948 to April 16, 1951. Financial records of the ILA showed that in the calendar years 1948-1951 Ryan received from the union $46,-926 in excess of his $20,000-a-year salary.
Ryan claimed he used the money "to fight communists on the waterfront."
KU to Build New Dorm
Plans for a new residence hall were revealed today by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy as a result of a bill passed recently by the state
Reserve Room To Be Remodeled
Plans for extensive remodeling that will "let students get at the books" in the reserve room of Watson library were announced today by Robert Vosper, director of libraries.
The size of the room will be increased by nearly 50 per cent and new chairs, tables, and shelving will be installed. Removal of the south wall at the west end, behind the present check-out desk, will bring the reserve book storage area into the room making it L-shaped.
The shelving to eventually accommodate 25,000 books, will be placed throughout the entire room, Mr. Vosper said. To the books now kept on reserve will be added new books of general interest, now kept in the main stacks.
The work will be done during the summer.
"We want to make it easy for students to find and explore books beyond the scope of regular assignments," Mr. Vosper said. "Comfortable surroundings in which the books may be read are part of the plan.
"The whole idea is to encourage students to read books, both the books they must read and books they'll want to read," Mr. Vosper emphasized.
Giffin to Present Report
Kim Giffin, assistant professor of speech, has been chosen by the Central States Speech association to deliver a paper on "A Critical Evaluation of Research in Discussion and Group Methods" at the association's convention in Chicago April 17-18. Prof. Giffin also will organize and act as chairman of a sectional meeting on how to teach discussion in high schools and colleges.
Yanks-Senators Tilt Washed Out by Rain
New York—(U.P.)—Rain forced postponement today of baseball's gala major league inaugural festivities at Washington between the Senators and Yankees, leaving only the game at Cincinnati between the Reds and Milwaukee Braves for opening day.
The Washington opener with the Yankees was rescheduled for Thursday afternoon at 1 p.m. (CST) when the New Yorkers had been slated to return there for a night contest.
The University was authorized by the bill to raze Carruth hall, a dormitory located at the corner of 14th and Louisiana streets, and to use funds on hand to construct a residence hall where Carruth now stands.
"Carruth is completely unsatisfactory as a dormitory and because of its age is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain," the chancellor said. The new hall will house more than twice as many students as Carruth and will eliminate expensive maintenance costs, he added.
The Legislature also authorized the University to sell all or part of Robinson farm north and east of the city. Proceeds from the sale, willed to the University by the late Gov. Charles Robinson, will remain as an endowment fund.
"The farm poses problems of farm management which are not the proper province of the University. On it is located the Lawrence airport, which might as well become the property of the city." Chancellor Murphy said.
Another bill makes it possible for Kansas City, Kan., to develop park and recreational areas in the near vicinity of the KU Medical center which will aid in the increased growth and use of the center.
Duplicate objects of art and books may be sold, providing the proceeds to go to the expansion of the collections from which the articles are sold, by terms of a fourth bill.
The bill makes possible a flexibility in handling a gift or bequest to the University, which as state property could not be disposed of previously even in the case of useless duplications.
"By this means the University collections can be expanded in quantity and quality—but in no case will the University violate the specific written wishes of the donor of a collection," the chancellor said.
KU-MU Debaters To Hold Exhibition
The relative merits of congressional investigations will be aired in an exhibition debate between KU and the University of Missouri tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in the Little Theater in Green hall.
The question agreed upon by the two schools is: Resolved, that this house approves current congressional investigating committee policies.
Debating the affirmative will be Kent Shearer, second year law, Kansas, and Jim Windsor, Missouri. The negative will be upheld by Jack Stewart, first year law, Kansas, and Edward Travis, Missouri.
"Because the question is such a disputed one, we have decided to have a man from each university on each side." Prof. E. C. Buehler, director of the match, said.
Allied POW's Start Long Trip Home
Panmunjom, Korea (U.P.)—A small band of sick and wounded Allied prisoners of war begins a jolting ride to freedom today down the bomb-born roads of North Korea.
The 600 prisoners, including 120 Americans, will pass through "Freedom Gate" at Pamunjom next Monday, four days after their ride comes to an end at Kaesong, the Red base camp.
The 600 are being exchanged for 5,800 Communist prisoners under an agreement finally ironed out yesterday by liaison officers representing the UN and the Communists.
Twenty trucks and ambulances were to leave the small village of Chomma, close to the Manchurian border, at 6 a.m. Tuesday, (3 p.m. CST Monday) for the 200 mile-ride to Kaesong. Three other vehicles will join them on the way.
The prisoners will have a rough ride over North Korean roads cratered by the incessant bombing of United Nations warplanes.
An Air Force officer said today
there was "no chance" that Allied planes will halt their operations during the three days it will take the convoy to reach Kaesong.
However, the Reds gave the UN two large-scale maps showing what route the convoy will take and where it will stop the night. This was so UN pilots could battle against accidentally bombing or strafing it.
The "Freedom Vehicles" were plainly marked with red flags and a large square of red cloth draped across each engine hood.