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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, Oct. 2, 1952
50th Year, No. 12
Committee Sets Tentative Plans For Homecoming
The homecoming committee, composed of 17 faculty members and 13 students, yesterday made tentative plans for homecoming activities Nov. 7-10.
Reginald Strait, associate professor of physical education, and William Cottle, professor of education, will direct the committee.
Tentative committees named for the events are: registration committee; Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the Alumn association; half-time committee; R. C. Mahler; professor of business; Lyle Anderson, business senior; Russell Wiley, professor of band and orchestra; Col. Lynn Moore, professor of air science; Grace Endeacott, fine arts professor; Robert R. Ebel, professor of physical education, and Will Adams, graduate student.
Carillon-chapel committee; Ronald Barnes, carillonneur, and Thomas Corton, dean of the School of Fine Arts; public relations committee; Tom Yoe, director of public relations, chairman, and R. Edwin Browne, director of radio.
Finance committee; Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the chancellor, chairman; Arthur Lonborg, athletic director; E. R. Zook, secretary of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, Ravensbury, Fred Ellsworth, queens committee; Karl Edwards, assistant professor of education, chairman; Kenneth Anderson, associate professor of education, co-chairman; William H. Shoemaker, chairman; Michael Peterson, dean of women; Janice Manuel, college senior, and Orrine Gray, education junior.
House decorations committee: Don Ai
Aderson, assistant dean of men, chairman;
Martha Peterson; Allie Gay Grove, education
senior; Kenneth Merrill, business seni-
ner; Bill Patterson, college senior;
Janie Manuel, and Will Adams.
Hasketball committee: Duane Unruh, education senior, chairman, and Dean Kelley, education senior. Pep rallies committee: Jim Perry, chairman; Endacott, endocrinology college Pre-game committee: Professor Wiley, chairman, and Colonel Moore.
Follies committee: Tom Shay, instructor of speech; Martha Jane, instructor of music education, cochairman; Grace Endacott; Martha Jane Ferry; Perry and Linda Jenkins, college junior.
Student Union activities committee: Richard Winternote, assistant secretary of the Alumni association, chairman Lewis, student union president, Frank Bunker, Student Union director. Dance committee: Betty Liechy, director of Student Union activities; Phil Kassaehn college senior, and Nancy Canary, college editor. Downtown counselor Mr. Zook.
Two rallies are planned for tomorrow and Saturday to help ease the Kansas football team into the Big Seven conference opener against Colorado Saturday.
Rally Planned For Friday
A mid-morning rally will be held at 10:45 a.m. Thursday in front of the east wing of Strong hall. Five minutes will be taken off the 10 a.m. classes.
on the 10 team.
Oliver Spencer, Jayhawker co-captain, and A. C. "Dutch" Lonborg, director of athletics, will be the featured speakers. A pep band will be present.
A car rally will be held Saturday morning. Persons attending the rally will meet in front of the Union building at 11:30 a.m. After a brief tour of the campus to pick up additional cars, the parade will go to U.S. highway 40 to meet the team as it returns from staying all night at Topeka.
The Jayhawkers are expected to reach the Lawrence city limits about noon. The bus will be stopped and a rally held there. The cars will follow the bus to the stadium.
will follow "We urge everyone to attend the rallies and show the team that we are backing it 100 per cent." Sidonie Brown, head cheerleader, said.
CO-ED NAMED QUEEN—Marilyn Ringler, college senior, will represent Lawrence in the American Royal Livestock and Horse show in Kansas City-later this month.-Kansan Photo by Phil Newman.
College Senior Named Miss Lawrence, 1952'
Marilyn Ringler, college senior, has been selected as "Miss Lawrence of 1852."
She will represent this city in the American Royal Livestock and Horse show contest to be conducted in Kansas City, Mo., later this month.
Miss Ringler, a blue-eyed blonde, was chosen over 12 other entrants in a Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsored contest. The contestants had to be 18 to 24 years old and unmarried. They were judged on the basis of personality, style and culture, as well as physical beauty.
The first freezing weather this autumn hit Kansas last night. A dry, wind-driven cool front tumbled the temperature to 32 degrees in Goodland, but no frost was reported.
"Miss Lawrence" said, "It was really nice winning." She is now concerned with representing the city as well as past contestants have. Miss Ringler is the third straight University girl to win the contest.
In 1950, Nancy Lindsey, now Mrs. George Helmstadder, was named Miss Lawrence and later became a princess to the Royal Queen in the Kansas City contest. In 1951, Marcia Horn, now Mrs.
Hill City reported a 38 degree minimum over night ht. Others were in the 40s. No rain accompanied the weather change, and none is forecast. Temperatures probably will remain at about 40 in the northwest tonight
Weather
COLD OF FAIR northwest tonight and will climb to 80 to 85 over the state tomorrow.
Miss Ringler lives with her parents at 1654 University drive. She is majoring in home economics and is a member of the home economics club. She is secretary of Pi Beta Phi, social sorority, a member of the Quack club, and point system manager of the Women's Athletic association.
On winning the contest, Miss Ringler received a large bouquet and prizes from the local merchants.
Richard Docking, won and also became one of the two royal princesses.
Miss Ringler was named the sweetheart of Sigma Chi last spring. While attending Liberty Memorial high school she was football queen.
KU to Play Host To 1.000 Parents
More than 1,000 parents will be guests at the University in observance of Parents' day, Irvin Youngberg, Endowment association secretary, estimated today.
Women residents in the two halls total 350, which would indicate, according to Mr. Youngberg, that parents of more than half of the freshmen women are planning to visit the University this Saturday.
No formal program has been planned.
Tickets for the Kansas-Colorado football game may be purchased at reduced prices at the booths. Parents may sit in the student section which is being enlarged for this game.
The KuKus and Jay Janes, men and women's pep clubs, will operate registration booths at the east side of the stadium, the information booth on Jayhawk boulevard, the Museum of Art, Strong hall, North College hall, and Foster hall.
An informal reception will be held in the Museum of Art from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. The chancellor, dean of men, and dean of women will be present. Members of the ASC will act as hosts and guides.
House Probes Hollywood Reds
Los Angeles, Cal.-(U.P.)-A member of the House committee on un-American activities said today that the investigating body's files contain the names of 300 to 400 "top" movie makers and Hollywood stars believed to be communists or Fellow travelers.
Rep. Donald Jackson (R-Calif), here for the Committee's public investigation of Red infiltration into southern California entertainment and professional circles, told a luncheon yesterday:
"Communists knew, that to reach every hamlet from Podunk to Tanganyika and the smallest film fan club, that motion pictures were their best medium for propaganda purposes and they went right to work on it."
Jackson did not identify any of the persons or say if they would appear at the committee's hearings this week.
Ike Drive Chairman Denies Plans for a Radio-TV 'Blitz'
"Wouldn't they like to know? We are not revealing what we plan or what area we will cover. We are going to divide the cost among all the state organizations affiliated with the national committee, but how we will present the program is our business."
Asked if the plan was for a 12-state "saturation" program in the last three weeks of the campaign. Mr. Williams said:
The programs, some of which already have been prepared in New York, will consist of 12-second and one-minute films showing Gen. Eisenhower answering questions asked by voters.
New York—(U.P.)-Chairman Walter Williams of the national citizens for Eisenhower and Nixon committee denied today that his organization had $2 million ready to put on a last-minute radio and television "blitz" for the Republican ticket in the presidential election.
son, which is backing Gov. Adalie E. Stevenson of Illinois, the Democratic presidential candidate, attacked the radio-TV campaign yesterday as being one "conceived by high-powered hucksters" of New York.
"The program is one we have been hoping to put together," he continued. "It was announced Sept. 13 at a regional meeting of our organization. There has been no secret about it—everybody knew about it, apparently, but the Democrats."
George W. Ball, executive director of the volunteers for Steven-
Discussions of the cost of the radio-TV program the committee is planning, Mr. Williams said, "have ranged all the way from $200,000 to $2 million." The committee is now collecting funds for it, "but we don't know where we are going to wind up," Mr. Williams said.
Kansas Editors To Hear LaCoss
Issues of the presidential campaign, with emphasis on corruption, will be the topic of the speech by Louis LaCoss, editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat's editorial page, at the Kansas Editors' day Saturday. He will speak at 11:30 am. in Fraser theatre. The public is invited.
Mr. LaCoss won the Pulitzer prize for editorial writing in 1951 for his editorial on corruption in public
LOUIS LaCOSS
office. His subject Saturday will be "The Case History of a Pulitzer Prize."
Mr. LaCoss began his newspaper career on the University Daily Kansas, of which he was editor in 1912. He later worked on the Kansas City Star and the Parsons Sun before joining the staff of the Globe-Democrat.
Editors of neary 400 Kansas daily and weekly newspapers have been invited to hear Mr LaCoss and to be guests of the University at the Kansas-Colorado football game. A record crowd is expected for the day's activities.
Mrs. Marie Engleman, editor and publisher of the Hill City Times, also will be here for Editors' day and will speak, at 2 p.m., Friday, to the Communications in Society class in the Journalism building.
The editors also will discuss newspaper problems in their annual wrangle session, and will be guests at a luncheon given by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
Daily Kansan to Post World Series Scores
The Daily Kansan will post inning-by-inning scores of the World Series on the bulletin board of the University information booth for the duration of the Series.
As a service to students attending classes while the Series games are in progress, the daily scores will be kept up to date at the close of each inning from information received from the Daily Kansan's United Press service.
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