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3 Dances Set For Weekend
Three dances are scheduled over the weekend which should contribute to student entertainment and relaxation.
They are the senior all-school dance and the Army ROTC annual spring formal tonight, and the "Hob Nail hoo" tomorrow night.
The senior dance will be held in the Union ballroom with Matt Betton and his Dixieland band furnishing the music. The dance will start at 9 p.m. and last until midnight.
Students attending the all-student dance will choose from a field of 10 candidates the "Senior Ring" queen. She will be crowned by Charlie Hoag, business senior, and senior class president, in the intermission.
Candidates for Senior Ring queen are: Mary Agnes Leach and Norma Jean Mock, education seniors; Barbara Sue Spaulding, Shirley Ann Strain, Helen Janet Zimmerman, Barbara Ann Findley, Frances Louise Hoyt, and Leah Helen Ross, college seniors; Nancy Evans Lichty, college junior, and Doris I. McConnell, fine arts senior.
Also tonight, the "Annual Spring Formal" dance will take place in the Military Science building. This is a cadet affair which will begin on Saturday and continue into midnight. Gene Hahn and his orchestra will furnish the music.
Saturday evening the "Hob Nail hop" sponsored by the student Engineering Council will be held in the Union ballroom from 9 p.m. until midnight. Music will be furnished by the Varsity Crew orchestra. Tickets are now on sale for this dance at the front entrance to Marvin hall and from members of the student engineering council.
14 Communities To See Comedy
"The Contrast," an early American comedy to be presented in Fraser theater. March 25-28 is this year's Cowlitz County it has given in 14 towns from April 7-18.
This is the fifth year of the University road show. Other plays presented on tour were "Hamlet," "She Stoops to Conquer," "Midsummer Night's Dream," and "Twelfth Night."
The troupe, which will give up Easter vacations and one week of school, will travel in private cars. A horse is required at rent, costumes, and lighting equipment.
This is the first year that the play will be presented twice each day in some towns. The tour schedule follows:
April 7, Baldwin, Baker university;
April 8, Eureka; April 9, Marion;
April 10, Pittsburg; April 11, Independence, Independence Junior college; April 12, Claremore, Okla.
Wentworth Military academy; April 13, Coffeyville (morning show);
April 14, Coffeyville (morning show);
14, Caney; April 15, Bartlesville, Okla. (morning show); April 15 Sedan (night show); April 17 Argentina; April 18, Augusta (afternoon show); April 18, Leon (night show).
Production staff members are Richard McGehee, college junior, set construction; William West, college senior, assistant set construction; Jo Anna March, college junior, stage manager; Shirley Lytle, college freshman,prompt; Eddina Symms, college junior, props and assistant stage manager; Dan A. Palmquist, instructor in speech, lights.
Snyder to Give Concert Sunday
Paul Snyder, associate professor of piano, will present a recital at 4 p.m. Sunday in Strong auditorium.
Prof. Snyder, a member of the University staff since 1945, has given recitals in New York and other American cities, and in 1935 appeared as soloist with the Kansas C. Philharmonic orchestra.
He taught at the Conservatory of Music in Kansas City until 1925, when he went to Europe to study and present concerts there and on the continent.
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Swedish Movie To Be Shown Tonight
"Torment," a Swedish psychological drama with English titles, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Hoch auditorium.
The movie, ninth in the foreign film series, was awarded the Grand Prix du Cinema award at the Cannes France Film festival
Group singing and organ music will begin at 7:15 p.m.
Oh, Happy Day!
By MARY BETZ
Spring Finally Makes Its 1953 Bow
Warm breezes and a peek-a-boo sun marked the beginning of spring today.
Officially, the season will start at 4:01 p.m. with the coming of the vernal equinox—the time when the sun moving northward from the southern hemisphere, is exactly over the equator.
The first day of spring brought typical weather for Kansas—warm temperatures and predicted thundershowers. Temperatures are expected to rise to the 60s and 70s to daw.
Other sections of the country were not so lucky weather-wise, however. A whirling blizzard with winds up to 80 miles an hour hit the high California Sierra region. Snow flurries and scattered showers were reported in the Atlantic and New England regions.
Unofficially, the arrival of spring probably will not affect the routine of campus life. Since the first warm day in early February students have complained of having that stop-studying, let's-take-it-easy malady, spring fever. At least, they are justified in having it now.
No new cases of pneumonia were reported today by the Student Health service, as over-eager classes met on the soft, cold , damp new grass in favorite campus spots, the past few weeks.
Local drug stores expect a run on suntan lotion soon, as sun-worshiping students take to the decks to cultivate that south-of-the-border look, often at the expense of class attire. Students are in classes around the "tanning hours" has been started by women in the freshmen dormitories.
Administrative officials reportedly are studying the problems of how to get sleeping students "off the grass and into class." Alternative suggestions are installing special steam whistles on each shade tree, or hiring men to canvass the campus before each class hour to wake up students.
One co-ed said she knew spring was coming long ago, "because the lawyers have been sitting on their steps between classes for just ages" and "because the box elder bugs have started coming out, too."
Daily Hansan
50th Year. No.110
Hal McIntyre To Play Here
Hal McIntyre and his orchestra, recording stars for MGM, will play in the Union ballroom from 9 to midnight April 18 for the SUA sponsored Kansas relays dance. Tickets for the dance are on sale in organized houses and at the information booth.
Mr. McIntyre started his present orchestra in 1938, after playing for four years with the Glenn Miller orchestra. Mr. Miller advised him to start his own band.
One of his first engagements was at the Commodore hotel in New York. Shortly after, he got a contract with RCA Victor.
Gretta Reetz, fine arts sophomore, will participate in the 2nd district Kansas Federated Women's club auditions here tomorrow. Miss Reetz, student of Reinhold Schmidt, professor of voice, is entered in the third year voice division. Winners in the district audition will go to the state audition later this spring.
From RCA, he went to Hollywood, where he made four feature-length movies for Columbia studios.
Popular with colleges, Mr. McIntyre's style features subdued reo voicing, bright clipped brasses, and his own sax solos.
Voice Student to Audition
During World War II, he took his band to Europe for five months to entertain soldiers with a USO troune.
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
"When you men report to your houses, don't forget that the idea of abolishment was first brought up in ASC by Bill Nulton, a Beta, and we know that a lot of money for these 'Take it away, Franklin' signs is coming from Betas." Loftus said.
In 1936 he had his own band in Cromwell, Conn. Benny Goodman gave him an audition, and after 10 days with the Goodman orchestra, Mr. Mcftyre moved on to Glenn Miller.
Pach Criticizes Abolition Tactics
Pachacamac's Inner Circle last night criticized tactics of a group which is urging abolishment of the Coptic church in Monday's referendum election.
President Larry Loftus, college sophomore, and other Inner Circle members felt that the abolishment idea is backed largely by some members of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
Pach, which has voluntarily sent speakers to several organized houses to explain the bi-cameral reorganization plan to be voted on Monday, will combat the abolishment movement by giving voters to the reorganization plan, Dana Anderson, college freshman, said.
Friday, March 20, 1953
—Kansan photo by Chuck Zuegne
BILLIARD PROWESS EXHIBITED—Charles C. Peterson shows his prowess with a billiard cue. The 75-year-old dean of intercollegiate billiards gave a trick shot exhibition last night in the Union ballroom. After 22 years of touring the college campuses, he says "I am just starting on a career boosting intercollegiate billiards." The world champion trick shot artist calls himself "Shooting bull, the bald eagle of billiards." He was here for two days giving instruction in billiards.
KU Budget Increased By Senate Committee
Special to the Daily Kansan
An appropriations bill was introduced today by the Senate Ways and Means committee which will give the University an increase of nearly half a million dollars over last year's budget and a raise of several thousand dollars over Gov. Edward F. Arn's recommendation.
The proposed bill called for an appropriation of $5,540,000 for the 1954 fiscal year beginning July 1, 1953. The amount allowed in the 1953 budget was $4,721,466.
The amount recommended for KU represents about 2/3 of the amount that was requested. The University asked for $7,982,022. The sum in the bill also is an increase of several thousand dollars over the recommendation of the governor.
the fiscal year of 1955, the
Bill allowed the University $6,075,000 which is nearly a million dollars increase over the two previous years.
of what the University requested.
The request was $4,611,915.
Kansas State college was allowed $4,822,726 in the bill for 1954. A half million dollar increase for 1955 set the sum at $5,082,957.
The University Medical center in Kansas City was granted $2,159,915 for the fiscal year of 1954. An increase of more than $200,000 was made for the next year setting the sum for 1955 at $2,367,500. The amount granted in the bill is half
The requests for funds by the state schools was higher this year, and the recommendations by the governor sent to the legislature also were higher than in previous years. The Ways and Means committee also increased the figure over the governor's recommendation.
Crash Victims Are Dead
The Air Force said search parties had located the bodies of 21 airmen.
St. John's, Newfoundland —(U.P.)
—The U.S. Air Force said today that 33 airmen aboard two crashed bombers have been given up as dead.
Oilers Deny They May Fire Clyde Lovellette
Reports that Clyde Lovellette, former Kansas all-American basketball player, would be released by the Phillips Petroleum company were denied today by both Lovellette and Paul Endacott, president of Phillips, a former Kansas all-American himself.
Contacted in Denver, where the 66'ers were eliminated from the national AAU tournament in the second round. Lovellette said, "I'll be with them next year again as far as I know. I have no intention of leaving."
The reports today indicated that the club would release the 6-9 scoring behemouth because of difficulties he had with other players and game officials.
Lovelliece turned down a $50,000 offer from Milwaukee to play professional basketball last year to cast his lot with the Oilers. The Oilers rated favorite in the AAU tourney, were upset earlier this week by a college-graduate group from Oregon.
Contacted in Bartlesville, Mr. Endacott said that he had not heard anything about the rumor and that he had not been following the team closely. He said any report of the situation would have to come from Oiler coach Tom Scott. Scott was unavailable in Denver.
Suit Charges Fix By Rupp, Costello
Lexington, Ky.—(U.P.)—University of Kentucky basketball coach Adolph Rupp, racketeer Frank Costello and one-time Lexington gambler Ed Curd were named in a suit filed here today seeking triple damages of $573.257.78 in gambling losses.
The suit was filed in federal court here by Mrs. Lucille Chumbley Bradberry of Athens, Ga., who charged the defendants "concocted a fraud and debt collection scheme in schools, colleges and university sports and athletics."
Rupp immediately made an ex-
peration to all of Mrs Brad-
berry's allegations.
"It is all a fantastic lie." he said.
"It is all a fantastic lie," he said. Under Kentucky law, any disinterested party can sue to recover triple damages in gambling losses. The suit was filed in federal rather than a state court because Costello and Curd are not residents of Kentucky.
FACTS Elects Three To Vacated Posts
Margot Baker, college freshman, Mary Ellen Stewart, college sophomore, and Robert Laughlin, college sophomore, were elected by members of FACTS to fill FACTS All Student Council vacancies for the rest of the semester.
Miss Baker and Miss Stewart were uncontested. They replace Kay Conrad, college senior, and Joan Finke, education senior. The vacancy created by the resignation of Lyle Anderson, business senior, was filled by Laughlin.