University Daily Kansan Thursday, April 10, 1953
BASKETEALL CHAMPS HONORED—The 1951-52 Kansas basketball team and its coach, Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, were honored last night in Kansas City, Mo., by KU alumni and basketball fans. Coach Allen is shown cutting a 3-foot cake having 66 candles, honoring the 66-year-old veteran mentor. See sports page for complete story. The team and coach will be honored again April 25 at a dinner in Lawrence
Dr. Allen, Basketball Team To Be Honored April 25
Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen and the Kansas national collegiate champion basketball team will be honored at "one of the biggest athletic fetes in Lawrence history" Friday, April 25.
A chamber of commerce-sponsored dinner and program—including a film of the 1952 Jayhawk basketball season—will begin at 6 p.m. in the basement of the Community building, 115 West 11th street.
The dinner, with tickets selling at $2.50 each, will be at 6 p.m. The program, free of charge and open to the general public, will be at 8 p.m. in the Community building auditorium.
Featured speaker for the program will be Dr. Allen. John Andrews, chairman of the sports committee of the Chamber of Commerce, said that Dr. Allen is "the greatest speaker in the world on the subject."
The speaking engagement will be one of many the doctor has filled during the past weeks since the Jayhawkers returned from New York and the Olympic playoffs.
"Why should we call in some outsider to tell us about our national collegiate champions and the U.S. Olympic basketball team?" Mr. Andrews said. "Let's let the man who coached the club do the telling."
Special programs for the event will be given those attending the dinner. The programs contain pictures of all the KU basketball team, season's records and complete data on the performances and feats of the team's individuals.
Athletic Director A. C. Lonborg will present various trophies, inlining one from the Helms team the collage the player of the year the collegiate "player of the year"
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, one of the honored guests at the banquet, will present gold basket-balls to the members of the team. Other special gifts will be given to the team members.
Special awards also will be made to Dr. Allen, Assistant Coach Dick Harp, Trainer Dean Nesmith and Student Manager Wayne Louderback.
Rebels Seize Bolivian Capital
La Paz, Bolivia — (U.P.)—Loyal government troops were reported marching on La Paz today to join loyalists resisting rebel forces who seized the center of the capital and several interior towns yesterday.
First aid stations and hospitals in La Pa reported seven persons killed and 70 wounded in the fighting raging in the outskirts.
A Clandestine government radio operating in Viacha, 15 miles south-west of La Paz , said loyal troops were moving north to join the Bolivar artillery regiment and the Lanza infantry regiment, still holding against rebel troops, police and armed civilians.
Frigid winds sent temperatures well below the freezing mark in Kansas during the night. In some places the lowest readings in history were recorded for this date.
Freezing Weather Sweeps Kansas
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Topeka recorded 26 degrees, one degree colder than a record low of 27 set in 1890.
The warmup which started at dawn under generally clear skies was slow.
The severe cold blast came after rains and sonws fell over the state early Wednesday.
Weathermen said temperatures would rise to about 45 degrees in eastern Kansas and to near 60 in the west. A strong sun was expected to bring the mercury into the 60's over most of Kansas by tomorrow.
Landon To Talk For Greek Week
Alfred M. Landon, ex-governor of Kansas and 1936 Republican nominee for president, will be the main speaker during Inter-fraternity council Greek week, Wednesday April 23, to Saturday April 26.
An address by Mr. Landon Thursday, April 24 in Strong auditorium will highlight four days of activities planned by the IFC to promote better inter-fraternity relations, foster school spirit, and improve and strengthen the fraternity system on the campus, said Keith McLvor, president of IFC.
Greek week will include an honor initiate dinner on Wednesday, April 23, five panel discussion groups, the address by Mr. Landon and the IFC spring formal Saturday, April 26.
"Greek Week" will replace the traditional "Hell Week" later this month, Keith McIvor, engineering junior and president of the Inter-Fraternity council, has announced.
"Hell Week", the bane of pledge existence in the past will be observed April 23 through 26 with several changes and innovations.
The new "Greek Week" was suggested by the national organizations of the various fraternities and is sponsored by the Inter-fraternity council, McVlor said. It will be designed to promote better understanding between fraternities, to draw more desirable publicity to fraternities, and to further school spirit, he added.
The five panel discussion groups will discuss scholarship, rushing, house management, University spirit and pledge training.
All students are invited to Landon's address. His topic will be current political issues. The speaker was graduated from the University in 1908 with a bachelor of laws degree.
Santiago, Chile -- (U.P.) The foreign office announced today that it had received a message from the Chilean embassy in La Paz reporting that Bolivian government forces had put down the revolution about noon today.
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Journalism Award Presented To Kansas City Newswoman
Miss Lucille Doores, general reporter for the Kansas City Kansan, received the Theta Sigma Phi certificate of award for professional work in Kansas journalism last night at the 1952 Matrix table banquet of Epsilon chapter of Theta Sigma Phi.
The banquet, annual event of the honorary journalism sorority, was held in the Crystal room of the Eldridge hotel.
The Kansas City "streetcar poet," Miss Anobel Armour spoke at the banquet. She stressed the idea that everyone has talents, but the individual must do the polishing and using of these talents for their success.
Miss Armour is head of the children's book department at Emery Bird Thayer in Kansas City, Mo., but her hobby is writing poems for both adults and children. She was given the title, "streetcar poet," because she composes or gives the final polish to so many of her verses while riding to work on the street-car.
It was emphasized by Miss Armour that one's talent was not a thing that just sprang up, but was developed over a period of years. "It's the magic of believing, hoping and working," she added.
"One step leads to another step, and all the pieces are held together by the wonderful people you meet and that remember you.
Patton To Serve As Pastor
John H. Patton, professor of religion and director of the Westminster foundation, was selected to act as interim pastor of the First Presbyterian church, 901 Vermont street, by the church session last night. He replaces Dr. Aszman who will resign effective June 30.
Kansan Newsroom SwampedWithCalls
The Kansan newsroom was swamped with telephone calls Wednesday night from persons inquiring about the latest election returns.
By 11:30 the number of calls had slackened considerably, with only nine calls received between 11 and 11.30. Calls continued to trickle into the newsroom until well after midnight.
More than 200 calls had come in by 11 p.m. for an average of about a call per minute. Mrs. H. C. Cofer, KU operator, said that during a one-hour period the calls were coming in four or five at a time.
Replies to the news of the Pach victories varied from "&&*$&*$" to "Wheee!!" One sweet young thing, when told of the Pach victory in the class elections, said "Well, that's sure too bad," while a considerable number of the callers sign off with "Good deal!!"
The heaviest load of calls came between 10 and 11 when the final returns were just coming in.
Flooding River Hits Five States
Pierre, S. D., (U.P.)-Muddy waters of the Missouri river burst through dikes and drove 1,600 persons from their homes in this state capital city today in the worst Missouri valley flood in modern times.
Downstream, the river poured through soggy dikes at South Sioux City, Neb., and surged into a residential section. Elsewhere, floodwaters were rising in Minnesota, North Dakota and Iowa.
Pierre's business section already was flooded knee-deep and the river's 25-foot floodcrest had not yet struck.
The surging waters covered 36 blocks of the town's lower business district and residential area, and inundated 65 more blocks of a sparsely settled section from which 31 persons were removed.
GLEE CLUB TO MAKE THREE-DAY TOUR—The Men's Glee club will make a three-day concert tour of five southeastern Kansas cities next week. The 35 members of the glee club are pictured above with the director, Joseph F. Wilkins, professor of voice.
University Music Groups To Make Tour Thru State During Vacation
Concert tours through Kansas will be given during spring vaca- tion by the Men's Glee club, and the University Chorale.
The 35-voice glee club will give six concerts in southeastern Kansas in three days. Their schedule includes Coffeyville, Altamont, Pittsburg, Columbus, and Girard.
The University Chorale, a group of 20 members, will give concerts in nineteen towns throughout Kansas in four days, Tuesday, April 15, through Friday, April 18.
They will go to Clay Center, Miltonvale, Glasco, Beloit, Lincoln, Ellsworth, Wilson, Norton, Russell, Osborne. Downs, Lebanon, Smith College, Phillipsburg, Norton, Hill
Kansas appearing before high school City, Wakeeney, Ellis, and Gormh.
The Glee club's music will include religious, folk, spiritual, and pep songs. Highlighting the concert will be an original musical comedy skit given by the "Serenaders" who play the music ranging from "Santa Lucia" and "A Hunting We Will Go" to old barbershop melodies.
Every spring the Glee club tours some section of Kansas. Last spring it gave concerts. in. northwestern
assemblies, public gatherings, and the patients at the tuberculosis sanitorium at Norton.
The University Chorale in a crowded schedule will give about five concerts a day. Most of their audiences will be at high schools.
Their half-hour programs will consist of light and classical selections.
The featured soloist will be Leo Horacek, instructor of music education. He will play Italian folk songs with variations on the cornet.
By the end of the year the group will have sung 40 concerts here and in surrounding communities.