50th KU Nightshirt Parade Tonight
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
50th Year, No. 3
TV Transmitter Tower Constructed for Game
Construction of a platform to house a relay transmitter atop Mt Oread marks the completion of one of many steps being taken by NBC to televise the Kansas-Texas Christian game tomorrow.
The transmitter will be the first part of a "four-hop" relay series which will send the television program from Memorial stadium to Kansas City, Mo. From there the program will be relayed to Omaha, Neb, and put on the NBC main cable for nationwide coverage.
A 22-man crew will be used by the network to produce the action of the game on live TV, according to Ad Schneider, NBC producer. This will include cameraman, video and audio operators, technical directors, technicians, engineers, announcers and assistants.
He explained that pictures from six cameras trained on the game will be fed into the mobile unit, and the director and technical director would choose the best of the pictures to be beamed over the nation.
Mr. Schneider said part of the crew would be in the NBC mobile unit, a 35-foot long vehicle which will be parked either next to the stadium or under the stands during the game.
Cheering and crowd noise also will be fed into the mobile unit from a parabola, a large dish-shaped microphone, which will be located near the press box.
From the mobile unit, the program will be relayed to the transmitter on Mt. Oread. This transmitter, located on a platform constructed on four large poles above the intersection of 12th street and Oread avenue, will relay the program by microwave transmission to three similar relay points between here and Kansas City.
Relay stations are necessary, Mr. Schneider explained, to boost the power of the program by restoring the intensity and power of the wave, and to relay it on.
Films and commercials for the televising will originate in Kansas City, he said. ___
No Developments In Laughlin Case
No new developments had been reported by today in the University investigation to seek definite determination of the status of ROTC students in regard to Selective Service.
The investigation was instigated last week when fullback Henry "Bud" Laughlin was drafted, although he was regularly enrolled in the AFROTC. Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy promised action in a statement issued Saturday.
Weather
Temperatures ranged into the 40s for Kansas last night and the weather bureau promised fair and cool weather for today and tomorrow.
Highs yesterday ranged from 79 at Concordia to 98 at Coffeyville but generally temperatures were in the 80s. It was cool last night with lows near 45 in the north and in the lower 50s south.
FAIR
Forecast: Partly cloudy tonight
with chance for few scattered showers east and central portions. Generally fair Saturday. Cooler west Saturday. Lows tonight near 40 northwest, 50-55 southeast. Highs Saturday 70 northeast, near 80 southwest.
Enrollment Changes Planned Tomorrow
Changes in enrollment in the various schools may be made as follows:
Friday, Sept. 19, 1952
College and Journalism: 9-11 a.m. tomorrow on second floor of Robinson gym; Engineering, 9-11 a.m. tomorrow, engineering office; Pharmacy, 9-12 a.m. tomorrow at 215 Bailey, and Business, 9-12 a.m. tomorrow, business office.
Students enrolled in Law, Fine Arts, Graduate, and Education schools may change enrollments in the respective offices for the next two weeks.
Caudle Relates 'Pressure' Deal
Washington —(U.P.)— T. Lamar Cauldie told Congressional investigators today the story of a former bootlegger who claimed he got in trouble as a tax赋 because he refused to pay a $20 million "debt."
A house subcommittee investigating the justice department told Caudle, their star witness, to go ahead.
Caudle, fired last year from the justice department, said he couldn't vouch for the story, which he attributed to the "Niggy" Rutkin, a former New Jersey rum runner. He said he hesitated to tell about it in public for fear of "hurting somebody."
Rutkin and his attorney came to see Caule about their troubles—after Rutkin was convicted of evading $275,000 in taxes, Caule said. The ex-bootlegger insisted he never would have been prosecuted if Rheinfeld had not demanded $20 million. Caule added.
Caudle said Rutkin told him Joseph D. Nunnan Jr., former internal revenue commissioner, was attorney for a former rum running association on whom Rutkin blamed his prosecution.
As Caucle recalled it, Rieinfeld was supposed to have given Rutkin a "start in rum running" and claimed he owed the $20 million for that favor.
Washington—(U.P.)—The cost of living hit an all-time high for the sixth month in a row, during the July 15-August 15 period, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
When Rutkin refused to yield, Caudle said, Rheinfeld "turned him in to the government."
Cost of Living Again Hits All-Time High
Caudie identified Nunan's client and Rutkin's one-time colleague only as a "Mr. Rheinfeld." The testimony did not make clear what year the Rutkin case occurred, but Caudie said it was after Nunan left the internal revenue job. The witness said Rutkin told him his story last year.
The bureau said retail prices jumped two-tenths of one per cent during that period, assuring more than 1,250,000 railroad workers a two-cents an hour wage boost under their cost of living escalator wage contracts.
Eisenhower Says Running Mate Is 'Honest Man'
BULLETIN
Sacramento, Calif.—(U.P.)—T he e State Franchise Tax board revealed today it was investigating the state income tax of Sen. Richard M. Nixon as a result of a $17,000 financial aid fund put up by wealthy Californiaians.
Aboard Eisenhower Special (U.P.)-Dwight D. Eisenhower today defended his running mate, Sen. Richard Nixon, as "an honest man" and said he was confident Nixon will give the American people all the facts about financial assistance from a group of wealthy Californians.
Burl Laek, chief counsel for the board, said the investigation was strictly "routine."
"I believe Dick Nixon to be an honest man," Eisenhower said. The Republican presidential nominee issued a statement which was released aboard his train as it rolled through Nebraska.
Friends said that Eisenhower would swing hard in a Kansas City
"I intend to talk with him at the earliest time we can reach each other by telephone," Eisenhower said.
Disclosures of the financial assistance to Nixon were made in Los Angeles yesterday by Dana C. Smith, a tax attorney. He said that a group of Californians had paid Nixon's bills totaling between $16,-000 and $17,000 since he was elected to the senate two years ago.
Eisenhower took his "clean out the mess" campaign across southeastern Nebraska today en route to President Truman's home grounds of Missouri for a vigorous attack on corruption.
His stops today included Flattsmouth, Auburn, Nebraska City, and Falls City, Neb.
Smith, disburser of the funds collected from the wealthy Californians, denied that any money was "paid directly" to Nixon.
Tradition Opens Football Season
The 1952-53 football season will get under way officially tonight with the 50th Nightshirt parade.
A free movie—as traditional as the Nightshirt parade itself—will be offered to all students participating in the parade and rally, it was announced by the All Student Council traditions committee.
The parade will begin at 7:30 p.m. today in front of the Student Union. The students will snake-dance to 9th st., to Massachusetts st., and down to South Park where the rally is to be held.
After the rally, refreshments furnished by the Junior Chamber of Commerce will be served by the Jayanes, women's pep club.
The Granada theater will open its doors to all participants of the Nightshirt parade for a special showing of "Manbait." The drama stars George Brent and Marguerite Chaoman.
The show begins at 11 p.m. and will be over at 12:18 a.m. Closing hours for women are 12:30 a.m. No ID cards or special passes will be needed to get into the theater for the free movie.
The Nightshirt parade had its beginning on the eve of the 1902 Kansas victory over Baker university. A crowd of enthusiastic students gathered around the home of Chancellor Frank Strong and with their wild cheering managed to rout him out of bed.
Tradition has it that the chancellor—eager to participate—didn't bother to dress, but joined the students in a march down Massachusetts st.
He said the people could decide for themselves "whether you think I am sincere when I say I am determined to do my part in cleaning out the kind of things we have had going on in Washington."
Another way he hopes to get the books before the students is by adding book cases throughout the reading rooms. Eventually he wants to have a large library of books to teach in in cases where the students can browse through them.
Eisenhower's talk at Plattsmouth was his 25th in five days. He told a gathering at the station "I don't have a great deal to say."
speech tonight on the city's old Pendergast organization which first sponsored President Truman in politics.
Other historians do not go as far is to say that Chancellor Strong actually led the parade in his nightshirt. But the gathering of stu-
He expanded the point at Nebraska City, asserting that "we have to get a government that believes it is the servant of the people, that is cognizant of and wants to know your opinion as a servant of the JIS."
New Director Plans to Make KU Library More Helpful
He also plans to have a reference librarian on duty throughout the time the library is open. The librarian will be expected to help graduate as well as undergraduate students.
He did not mention Nixon in his first two whistle stops.
Plans to help students through expansion of Watson library are being made by Robert Vosper, director of libraries. Seven new librarians have been hired to help carry out this plan.
The new director praised the collection of books Mr. Baker had built up and said that the only area where he intends to make big increases is in the reference book division. He added that he feels that it is an obligation of the state university to obtain every reference book possible.
Mr. Vosper, who formerly was associate librarian at the University of California in Los Angeles, succeeded Charles M. Baker as library director July 1.
Mr. Vosper intends to make the library a teaching arm of the University and wants to develop teaching aids for college students throughout their college careers. In this connection he wants his staff to meet regularly with classes to explain to them how to get the fullest benefit out of the library.
The new librarians in the reference department are Miss Helen Ladd, formerly of the Nelson Art Gallery in Kansas City, and Milton Moore, formerly of the University of Redlands and the University of California Library School.
In the book order department, Donald Johnson who is a graduate of Chicago Graduate Library School, Aaron Polonsky who has been assistant librarian of the School of Social Research in New York City, have been added to the staff. Mrs. Florence Johnson, who is a graduate of the Columbia Library School, will join the staff October 1.
In the circulation department will be Miss Elma St. John of the College of Emporia. The new engineering school librarian is Mrs. Hazel Vaughn, a graduate of Pomona College in California.
In 1904 the snakedance—horowed from the University of Missouri—was added to the parade.
lents and the appearance of the chancellor is the same in all the stories.
With the years have come other changes. The parade has been changed to be the night before the first home game. However, the students' enthusiasm for the "dress-up" affair has not changed during the last 50 years.
In the beginning the parades were held after the first victory of the football season. They began and ended on the Hill. As the era of sound movies began, free movies were added to the enjoyment of the students. The parade was changed from after the first victory to the night before the first conference home game.
Stevenson Calls GOP Pessimistic
He also described Dwight D. Eisenhower, his Republican opponent for the presidency, as "the honorary head of a regency" under Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio.
Springfield. Mass.- (JP) -Adlai Stevenson struck back today at Republican critics of his humorous campaign speeches by calling them "grouchy old pessimists."
In a speech prepared for delivery in front of the Springfield city hall, Stevenson said he would continue to make an issue of his right to inject humor into his political addresses.
But he said he thought it was "no laughing matter" that Eisenhower had decided to "surround himself almost entirely with the old guard of the Republican party."
"Democratic administrations have produced the great social reforms of our era," Stevenson said. "We will defend those reforms against all those humorless souls who haven't been happy since the days of William McKinley."
The Illinois governor urged the "good" Republicans of New England to support his candidacy because "there is always a warm welcome awaiting you in the Democratic party."
"We know how to make people feel at home," he said. "That is why we win. Let me say further that if I am elected in November, I will be a president and not the honorary head of a regency."
Topeka—(U.P.)—The state's polio record of 1,068 cases in 1946 will probably be broken this weekend, the Kansas Board of Health reported today. The 1952 total soared to 1,002 cases yesterday when 23 fresh outbreaks of polio were reported.
State Nears Polio Record
Today's Kansan Has Picture Supplement
Today's edition of the Daily Kansan contains the first issue of the Daily Kansan Picture Supplement. The new supplement will appear periodically.
The supplement's picture stories, layout, and editing are done by the Photography II class. The paper is printed on the new offset presses in the Journalism building.
Today's features include picture stories on football, rushing, and orientation.
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