friday, May 16, 1952
Kansas State Historical Society
Topeka, Ks.
Police Drag Lake for 2 Missing Men Daily Kansan KU Janitor Gives Police New Lead Efforts to locate two University
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
49th Year, No.146
Monday, May 12, 1952
ROTC Students to Be Recognized Today at Annual Honors Day Parade
Awards will be presented to 13 Air Force cadets, 12 midshipmen, and Army cadets at the ceremony that will touch off Armed Forces week for this area.
Thirty-four ROTC students will receive awards at the ROTC$^®$ honors day parade on the drill field at 3 p.m. today.
Rear Adm. Francis P. Old, commandant of the Ninth Naval district at Great Lakes, Ill., will review the parade of 1,500 cadets and will be honored at a reception afterward in the Military Science building.
Capt. Clyde Stafford of Chicago, representing the Hearst newspaper syndicate, will present the national second place trophy to the AFROTC rifle team for its performance in the Hearst national rifle match held earlier this semester.
Members of the team are Max Embree, college senior; Richard Kummer, engineering senior; Frank Jennings, fine arts sophomore; George Lund, engineering sophomore, and Norman Wilson, engineering sophomore.
Other AFROTc cadets receiving awards are Eugene Haley, business senior; Richard Wood, college junior; Paul Arrowwood, business senior; Philip Peterson, engineering senior; Zenon Zanetos, college junior; John Transeue, engineering junior; Darrell D. Kellogg, college junior; and George Colander, engineering junior.
No leads have been uncovered by police concerning the $200 statue stolen from a display in Strong hall May 3 or 4.
No Leads Reported On Stolen Statue
Elden Tefft, instructor in design, said the statue was taken between 9 p.m. May 3 and 7 a.m. the next morning. He said the statue was hollow cast in plaster and mounted on a walnut base. It was a form conception of a man's face.
The statue was by James Bass, fine arts freshman, and represented a semester's work.
Midshipmen receiving honors are Duane Dunwoodie, engineering senior; James Gillett, college freshman; Edward House, engineering senior; Mahlon Ball, engineering junior, and Jimmy Simmons, engineering sophomore.
Kenneth Harris, engineering senior;
John Ether, college junior;
Robert Galliart, engineering freshman;
William Martin, business senior;
Leon Stromire, business senior;
Harold Lowe, college senior;
Construction Workers Strike Tie Up Four Campus Projects
Common laborers went on strike early today, halting work or four major construction jobs on the campus.
Construction closed down on all jobs throughout the city. Pickets were stationed at job sites to prevent other workers from entering. Of the approximately 250 workers on strike, 70 to 75 are working on campus jobs.
PICKETING—A striking laborer is shown picketing campus dormitory construction along Alumni place early today.-Kansan photo by Jack Long.
Work on the science building, Student Union, fieldhouse, and scholarship halls stopped when Amerian Federation of Labor laborers and mason tenders of local 1290 walked out.
The common labor wage scale under the Wage Stabilization board as set up June 24, 1950 was $1.20. Employers granted a raise of 12 cents and are now offering 15 cents to boost the scale to $1.47.
The workers are striking for the Kansas City, Kan., wage scale of $1.88 an hour. They voted unanimously to ask for the scale at a meeting May 1. Employers offered an increase to $1.47.
The strike also affects construction on the new Liberty Memorial High school, a light company job north-west of Lawrence, and a chemical company in North Lawrence.
and Lyle Jenkins, engineering junior.
Army cadets to be honored are Robert M. LaFollette, engineering junior; Keith Kelly, business senior; John Evers, college junior; Donald Erickson, engineering junior; Kenneth Ochs, business senior; Allan Hall, fine arts sophomore; Robert Worcester, engineering freshman; William R. Arnold, college freshman, and George Michale, college sophomore.
14 Students Win Scholarships
Don House, engineering senior,
won the $25 first prize in the
Student Technical Paper competition of
the Kansas City section of the
American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
Fourteen students to be graduated this month from nine Kansas high schools will enter the University next fall as Summerfield scholars, James K. Hitt, Summerfield committee chairman, announced today.
If a Summerfield scholar continues superior work at the University the award will be the amount needed beyond his personal resources to assure him a four-year course. This may be as much as $900 or $550 a year.
The institute held its last dinner meeting of the year Thursday at the Wishbone restaurant.
The scholarships, established at KU in 1929, are made possible through a fund established by the late Solon E. Summerfield, '99.
Don House Wins Engineering Prize
The title of House's paper was "A Punched Tape Memory Device." Kansas State college won second prize.
The new scholars are Clement D. Blakeslee and Don V. McIntyre, Wichita East High school; Lloyd L. Breckenridge, Norton; Gail Brooks, Hays; James W. Callis, Wichita North; Karl G. Heider and David G. Lawrence; Fred H. Horne, James M. Short, and Clifford F. Thompson, Shawnee Mission, Kansas City; W. J. Jordan, Iola; Rand S. Schreiber, Wyandotte, Kansas City; Larry E. Shiner and Jerome A. Willis, Topeka
Efforts to locate two University men students missing since Thursday morning from an all-pledge picnic reached a climax this morning as police commenced dragging Lone Star lake.
BERNARD E. RICKERS
The students, Bernard E. Rickett
20, and James E. Delphia, 19, both
JAMES A. DELPHIA
college juniors, disappeared at 12:15 am. Thursday after a party at the lake. Their car reportedly rounded a curve and has not been seen since.
Dragging of Lone Star lake this morning failed to uncover any trace of the missing KU students. Police said several "badly scarred rocks" were sighted in water 30 feet deep near the boathouse, but nothing to indicate that the car was there. A barge equipped with a magnetometer from the University geology department will be used to search the lake this afternoon.
BULLETIN
--organized houses by the group "We the undersigned hereby request that the following restaurants, the Call, Gemmell's, the Jayhawk, and the Rock Chalk serve all University students regardless of race or creed."
Henry Boehle, janitor at Haworth hall, today that he watched two young men about 20 years old drive a car the same color as the missing car to a spot southeast of Elk's Point Thursday afternoon for a swim.
It was about 5 p.m. Thursday, Boehle said, and he was fishing across the lake from the spot where the star stopped. One boy left the car and walked down the lake shore and then undressed and went into the lake. The other boy started to follow but then returned to the car.
The boy in the lake swam for about 15 minutes, the janitor said. "He swam out quite a way where the water is very deep. He would dive and stay under quite awhile."
Boehle got a strike on one of his lines and took his attention from the boys for about 10 minutes.
"When I looked again, they were gone, car and all." he said. "I could see at least half a mile down the road either way and they were nowhere in sight." Their car had been parked just a few feet from the water.
Boehle's information was relayed to the sheriff's office this morning
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Disappearance of 2 Students Causes 2nd Search in 3 Years
By ROGER YARRINGTON
The first search was for Harry C. Gilson, college senior, who disappeared Nov. 3, 1949 after an automobile accident in Lawrence. He was found walking in an arid, desolate region of Arizona about 10 miles from the Mexican border.
Gilson, an honor student and veteran, was involved in a minor automobile accident in Lawrence, but disappeared before police arrived at the scene. He was not seen again and a search by police and friends
The disappearance of two University students last week has caused the second search for missing students by local and state police in three years.
Cafes Weigh Racial Discrimination
A student movement to work for the admittance of Negro students into the four privately-owned restaurants on the campus marked time today as replies from the four restaurant proprietors were awaited.
Unofficially there has been such a movement for about a month. It was promoted by the regular members of a fellowship group of Wesley foundation, which is inter-racial in membership.
The group was concerned with a place to go for coffee after their weekly meetings. Proprietors of the four privately-owned restaurants on campus were approached. They all refused, their reasons being, in general; "Our customers don't want it." according to Don Hull, a member of the group.
A petition was circulated in a majority of the organized houses by the group. It read:
students regardless. By this method the group was able to present the signatures of 1269 students to the proprietors. The proprietors were asked to reconsider their original refusals. Further action by the group is pending their replies, according to Hull.
(Editor's Note: This article concerns a situation of long existence in Lawrence. In the belief that many are not familiar with the facts involved, the Daily Kansan is running a series of follow-up articles.)
stretched out over three months before the 22-year-old was found.
During his absence, his room was held for him by a half-brother. During Christmas vacation his parents came to the University and picked up his personal belongings.
When Gilson was finally found, he said he could not understand why anyone should be interested in his absence.
"I can't give any reasonable explanation for taking off," Gilson said. "I was just bumming around looking the country over."
After the accident, Gilson who had been unhurt, left Lawrence and hitchled to Oklahoma where he worked for two months as a 'swamper' on a tractor doing pipeline construction work.
Leaving his job on the pipeline, Gilson said he "just bummed around." He hitchhiked or walked from town to town, staying in rooming houses and eating out.
"I was headed for Bisbee, Ariz., when the police stopped me," he said. "The police were searching for a man who stole a car in Arizona and were questioning everybody when they found me."
Gilson's parents, who live on a farm near Marion drove to Arizona and brought him home. He returned to Lawrence to register for the next semester.