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Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
50th Year, No.4
Monday, Sept. 22, 1952
Nixon Tour Halts Abruptly After Ike Call
Portland, Ore. —(U.P.)—Sen. Richard M. Nixon today abruptly broke off his campaign tour of the Pacific Northwest to fly to Los Angeles to give a nation-wide television report on his $18,000 political fund but he said he would resume his tour.
Early today he told newsmen he was suspending his whistle-stop tour of the Pacific Northwest to make the television speech and give "a complete statement of my entire financial history."
The GOP vice presidential nominee would not say whether this meant he would remain on the Republican ticket as running mate to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. But the sudden shift in plans led to speculation around Nixon's headquarters here that the California senator would quit the ticket.
Asked if Eisenhower had asked him to resign from the Republican ticket, Nixon paused, then replied, "I will resume my tour."
"The time for the broadcast has not yet been set. It will be either Tuesday or Wednesday night and we will be using both ABC and NBC networks. The broadcast will be a half hour. (NBC in New York announced today the broadcast would be from 8:30 to 9 p.m. tomorrow night.)
Nixon received a long distance telephone call from Eisenhower last night and talked with the presidential nominee for about 20 minutes.
"I informed Gen. Eisenhower tonight in a telephone conversation of my decision and he agreed that was the proper way to handle the situation."
ROTC Units Hit Top Enrollment
Enrollment in the three ROTC units on the campus reached an alltime high this year with 1,697 men taking part in the programs.
Largest of the three groups was the Air Force unit which has an en-rollment of 1,044, about 100 more than last year.
However, the group with the greatest increase over the 1951-52 school year was the Army ROTC unit which has a total of 475 enrollees including 622 freshmen. That figure represents an increase of about 150 per cent, Col. Edward F. Kumpe said. That unit still has 40 vacancies open now.
Navy ROTC enrollment reached 278 men including 100 freshmen.
Weather
Temperatures tumbled into the mid-30s in Kansas last night but
today's clear skies were expected to prevail until tomorrow and bring some return of the heat.
Lows last night were generally in the 40s except in the southeast where the coolest was in the 50s. We reported a chilling he state.
WARMER ported a 35 for the low of the state.
Tonight promised to be cool, the weatherman said, but temperatures would be higher tomorrow. Highs will be in the 80s in the west and in the 70s in the east, he said.
PRANK COULD HAVE HAD SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES—NBC television cameras trained on the Memorial stadium turf for Saturday's Kansas-Texas Christian football game would have picked up these letters, burned into the grass, had it not been for a hasty paint and patching job Saturday morning. The letters, representative of the Tau Nu Epsilon banned society, were burned into the field sometime early Saturday—Kansas photo by Rich Clarkson.
sometime early Saturday.—Kansan photo by Rich Clarkson
Evening Clothes Highlight Parade
More than 1,200 wildly cheering students, dressed in varied costumes, participated enthusiastically in the 50th annual Nightshirt parade Friday.
Although few students were dressed in the traditional nightshirts, many were in the more modern "evening clothes" of pajamas. Gay polka dots, and multi-colored stripes stood out against the background of pajamas of every sort of erratic design and color worn by about one-third of the participants.
Chilly weather did not stop Lyle Armstrong, college freshman, from actively participating in the festivities. Armstrong was dressed in a diaper, derby hat and was smoking a cigar. He wore a band across his chest which represented him as Sig Ep 1987.
The students gathered in front of the Union for the traditional march through town. The University band led the carriage. Dressed in night-shirts, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, Dr. Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of women, Miss Martha Peterson, dean of women, and Bill Wilson, president of the All Student Council, followed the band.
As the students marched by the Rock Chalk cafe at 12th and Oread streets, the lights in front of the cafe blinked in rhythm with the band music. Most of the windows in the downtown business places were decorated with signs urging Kansas to beat TCU.
The Jay Janes and KuKu pep clubs headed the snakedance down Massachusetts street from 9th street to South park where the rally was held.
Lindsey Nelson, assistant sports director of the National Broadcasting company system, told the students that the televising of the Kansas-TCU game "starts a new era in intercollegiate athletic sports and
A. C. "Dutch" Lonborg, director of athletics, speaking to what he termed "the largest crowd we've ever had," told the students it was an honor for KU to be placed on a full NBC television network.
TV." He said television would give everyone an opportunity to see how football was played in other sections of the country.
About 60 dozen doughnuts and 43 gallons of cider were consumed by the participants of the parade and rally. Refreshments were furnished by the Junior Chamber of Commerce and served by members of Jay James, women's pep club.
Chancellor Murphy, relaxed in front of the microphone with his hands in his pockets, reminded the students that the University would go before the nation Saturday.
The establishment of the Gertrude Spaulding Havens memorial scholarship for a woman studying music at the Kansas university was announced today by Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts.
This year the award will go to Martha Heck, a senior from Lawrence majoring in piano.
Alumnae Establish Music Scholarship
Mrs. Mel Taylor of Lyons, a member of the KU class of 1901 and a sister of Mrs. Havens, also a resident of Lyons who died in 1948, will contribute $100 annually to the KU Endowment association for the award. Mrs. Havens studied music at KU and was graduated in 1897.
Seek Vandals For Markings
University officials were investigating today an act of vandalism which, without the benefit of a hasty patching job, could have been seen by a national television audience of an estimated 20 million viewers Saturday afternoon.
Both the dean of men's office and Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy were attempting to learn the identity of vandals who burned the
20 Specialists Televise Game
As many of us watched the football game Saturday over television or sat in the stadium, undoubtedly some of us were not aware of the planning, precision, and co-ordination that the televising took.
Bv ROZANNE ATKINS
Twenty experts from New York and Detroit were here for the televising of the Kansas-TCU game. They arrived Wednesday and went to work setting up their equipment Thursday.
With four cameras playing upon the game and only one screen on which to show a picture, a great deal of skill was required to keep the pictures flashing upon the screen yet not on top of one another.
The main camera was set up on the 50-yard line. Two others were set up on each 20-yard line, and one in the end-zone. The producer co-ordinator "called the shots" over an intercom hooked up among the cameramen and announcers.
The announcers, Mel Allen, New York broadcaster; Russ Hodges, New York Yankee baseball broadcaster and commercial broadcaster Bill Henry, veteran newspaperman and announcer for NBC who covered the political conventions, spoke from a monitor TV set as the pictures were flashed on the screen. This arrangement kept the description of the plays with the right pictures.
This was no small project. It is estimated that it cost General Motors 3 1-2 million dollars to sponsor the televising of the games here at KU this season.
Library Hours Are Announced
The Watson library hours for this semester were announced today.
The library will be open from 7:45 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday, 7:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, and 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday. During holiday periods, new hours will be announced.
To obtain books from the general collection at the main circulation desk on the second floor a call slip must be taken to the desk. The slip should have the call number of the book, the name and author of the book, and the borrower's name and address. Identification cards must be presented to withdraw any books. Two cents a day is assessed for books returned past the date due.
Books from the reserved list can only be checked out overnight at 8:30 p.m. and must be returned at 8:45 the next morning. A fine of 25 cents for the first hour and 10 cents for each additional hour is assessed on all late books.
Saturday a book can be checked out at 3:30 p.m. and returned at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.
initials of the outlawed Tau Nu Episilon society into the turf at Memorial stadium early Saturday morning before the Texas Christian-Kansas football game.
Only the application of green paint and the replacement of some of the burned grass prevented the TNE initials from being picked up by the NBC-TV cameras used to telecast the game nationally.
The patching job, done by crews from the buildings and grounds department and the stadium staff, was completed about an hour before game time.
The prank took on added significance in the meaning usually associated with the TNE group which has been outlawed both on the KU campus and nationally. Had the letters, burned into the field on the 50-yard line facing the west stadium and the video cameras, not been touched up, the association of the drinking group and the university would have been beamed to the whole nation. NBC announcers would have had no recourse but to explain the charred letters.
Chancellor Murphy said today that the act is receiving thorough investigation and that disciplinary action would be taken if the guilty parties were found.
The letters were believed to have been burned into the turf about 3 a.m. Saturday. A fire in the stadium was noticed from the back of Strong hall about that time but its small proportions kept the observer from notifying the fire department. Two campus police officers assigned to guard the television equipment at the stadium did not notice the blaze. However, the field was not visible from their post in the driveway just west of the stadium.
Saturday's incident was not the first involving members of the TNE group. Last spring, the letters were painted onto the Hoch auditorium curtain while the Rock Chalk Revue was being presented. In previous years, the initials have been pointed on University sidewalks and walkways at fraternity and sorority houses here.
Student Recovers From Polio Attack
The second University student to contract polio here was taken to his home Friday after doctors at Watkins hospital diagnosed the case as "probably polio."
Resting at his home in Kansas City, Mo, is Joseph Willet Hollday jr., college freshman, who was admitted to the University hospital Thursday for observation. Doctors at the hospital said that Hollday apparently suffered only a light case and is expected to recover completely.
The other KU student hospitalized with the disease is Fred Young, business senior from Dodge City. He was admitted to Watkins hospital Aug. 31 and remained there Saturday. A hospital spokesman described his condition as good.
Sports Writers Poll Selects Marciano
Philadelphia—(U.P.) -As Rocky Marciano broke camp and came into Philadelphia today, sports writers overwhelmingly picked him to wrest the heavyweight championship from Jersey Joe Walcott at Municipal stadium tomorrow night.
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