UNIVERSITY DAILY
Kansas State Historical Society
49th Year No.73
Topeka, Ks.
Wednesday, Jan. 9, 1952
Still Need More Blood Donations
hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
With 265 pints of blood already donated by 10:30 this morning, donors were still needed to fill Thursday and Friday bloodmobile
Fieldhouse Delay Unnecessary-Phog
A charge that there has been unnecessary delay in the construction of the new University fieldhouse was reiterated today by Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, head basketball coach.
"I told the Topeka Lions club yesterday," said Dr. Allen, "that I thought there had been unnecessary delay in the construction of the KU fieldhouse and I still think so. The explanation by the state architect just doesn't make sense."
The reference to the statement by the state architect was in regard to an answer made by Charles Marshall on the cause of the slowness of the construction of the million-dollar building. Marshall said the delay could not be avoided.
Dr. Allen began his charges by admitting that this was the same contractor who did the job at K-State but contended that this is just another sign that something is wrong.
"The construction contract is held by the Bennett Construction company of Topeka," he explained, "the same firm that built the excellent fieldhouse at Kansas State college. The building and other essential materials are not immediately available. That is nobody's fault in a war crisis."
"This is the same contractor who built the fieldhouse down at Kansas State University, and that he is showing the same enthusiasm for us that he showed for them."
Dr. Allen stated that although the contract for the fieldhouse was let go, construction was to begin immediately with knowledge nothing was done until fall.
"This delay is blamed on a lack of steel but this just isn't so. We had the steel and then we lost it. If the contractor had been alert this wouldn't have happened. It couldn't have been taken away if the wont be locked up because the building is both an armory and a fieldhouse. But because there was no progress it was allotted elsewhere."
In his reply, Marshall said the work is moving along rapidly and that he wondered about the basis for Dr. Allen's remarks. Workmen had not seen that they had never seen the coach at the site of the construction.
"When the K-State fieldhouse was going up, Jack Gardner, K-State basketball coach, went nearly every day to see how things were going," Marshall said.
The state architect said nearly half of the 900 pilings for the building have been driven and work on the rest is moving along. Steel to bring the structure to grade level is at the site and will be installed as fast as footings are completed, he said.
However, he added that steel for
Lab Theater Play Schedule Changed
The Lab theater production,
"The Marriage of Sobeide," will be presented at 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 14, and Tuesday, Jan. 15, in the Little Theater of Green hall instead of Wednesday through Saturday of this week as previously scheduled.
The change was made because of the Thursday and Friday performances of the Black Hills Passion play, according to Frances Feist instructor in speech.
The play will be staged two nights instead of four due to final examinations which begin Thursday, Jan. 17, she said.
the superstructure is not available because of shortages caused by the defense program. Every effort is being made to obtain the necessary steel to complete the building.
RAY HOWER, business senior, was one of the first in line Tuesday afternoon as scores of University students answered the American Red Cross appeal for blood. The donations are needed for the fighting men in Korea. Mary Brockman, Red Cross worker from Kansas City, Mo., is shown attaching equipment for the measuring of Hower's blood pressure.-Kansan photo by Don Sarten.
Kansas Weather Fooled Old Timers When It Went Cold And Wet In '51
Weather in the Lawrence area in the past year had the oldtimers shaking heads in both disbelief and wonderment as Kansas, generally "hot and dry," went "cold and wet."
Only two years are known to have been colder than 1951. The past year had a mean average temperature of $3.50$, which was described as "209 below normal." It was the
Statistics released by C. J. Posey, a professor of meteorology at the university who retired in 1947 revealed that records were nearly set for yearly averages of both cold and rainy days.
"Winter days" were classified by the retired professor as "below freezing temperature days." The consecutive days were from Dec. 13, to 27, inclusive.
Professor Posey, who has been the unofficial Lawrence weather observer since 1920, and is in possession of records on weather antics dating back to 1868, said that "the miserable year was climaxed by 17 'winter' days—15 of which occurred in succession."
"The average for a year doesn't vary much," Mr. Posey explained.
"Compare our coldest average of 50.01 in 1869 with the warmest average on record, 1934, when we had a high of 59.15, and you'll see what I mean."
It was the second rainiest year on record. A precipitation measurement of 50.76, was 14.31 above a normal year. But this was still shy of a record 51.62 established in 1915.
Breaking down days into "clear, partly cloudy, and cloudy." Professor Posey said that 142 days were clear, 94 partly cloudy, and 129 cloudy, with a percentage of cloudiness for the year set at 48.21. A normal cloudy year averages about 43 per cent, the professor said.
The driest year around Lawrence was in 1937 when 21.59 moisture content was recorded by the local weatherman.
coldest year since 1929, which registered a chilly 53.11. But the coldest year on record was in 1869 and its mean average was 50.51.
Winter Band Concert 'One Of The Best'
One of the best concerts of the season was given Tuesday night by the University Concert band. The performance, the band's annual winter concert, proved why it is at the top among campus music groups each year.
By JIM POWERS
Tommy Lovitt, cornetist, made perhaps the best showing of the three featured soloists, although Robert Ausherman, clarinetist, and James Ralston, baritone vocalist, performed well.
The evening started with Strauss' overture to "Die Fledermaus" and Handel's "Water Music Suite," both played interestingly and in good quality.
Oboist Edith Nichols, fine arts sophomore, turned in another fine performance on the five movements from Handel's suite.
Lovitt played Goldman's Scherzo as though he had written it, mastering the difficult runs with ease.
Ralston sang three numbers from "Oklahoma" and gave notice that he could be with the Rodgers and Hammerstein troupe next year quite capably. He performed the unusual task of playing first trombone in the band when he wasn't singing.
Despite late December snows that have been labeled by many as indicative of a "rough winter ahead," the records reveal that only nine inches of snow fell in the past year. This is nine inches below a normal year's amount of 18 inches.
The highest temperature of 1951 was 100 degrees, recorded on August 6, and it was the only day of the year in which the temperature rose that high. In "1934 or '96, we had 58 days registering 100 degrees or more," the weather observer declared.
Others who deserve mention for
Throughout the program, and especially on Wood's "Virginia, A Southern Rhapsody," Eugene Johnson, flutist, was a standout and the best player in a very good section.
The greatest variation in temperature in one day occurred on the
And the troublesome skips from the low to the high ranges of the clarinet were handled nicely by Ausherman on von Weber's Concerto No. 2, first movement.
contributing much to the program are Dale Moore, bass drum, and Ronald Wigington, tympani.
22nd day of March. That day had a 36 degree "low," and a 77 degree "high."
The band showed up well as a unit on "March Militaire Française" by Saint-Saens and on the last number, finale from Tschalkowsky's Symphony in F minor, 4. which the highlight of the evening to many.
The finale added a rousing climax to the concert in which the musicians had to play for all they were worth.
"Hot" days of "90 degrees or more"
numbered 23, according to the professor's figures. Normally, there are 37 hot days in a year in this area.
There were 124 days of rain measured by the weatherman. "So you can see that it rained on an average of every third day," Professor Posey explained.
And they were worth quite a bit at that.
He's telling us.
One hundred more donors are needed to fill the slack Friday schedule. And a few more are needed for both Thursday morning and afternoon times.
At the end of the first day of blood donations, yesterday, a total of 183 pints had been given. Another 82 pints had been given by 10:30 a.m. today.
The bloodmobile quota for the four-day stay is 600 pints. Lt. Col. Bayard Atwood, project officer for the bloodmobile, and Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of Watkins hospital, said they were sure this morning that the quota would be reached.
The hourly quota for the bloodmobile is 32 pints an hour. Donors were reported making this quota today. One hundred fifty pints a day are needed to fill the four-day quota.
"Donations are running steadily now," Colonel Atwood reported. "We are taking an volunteers from ROTC Earth Day and running them through in a body."
The Red Cross is handling donations under the direction of the United States defense department. All blood collected is being flown, either as liquid or in dry plasma form, to the armed forces.
Colonel Atwood stated that ROTC classes held at noon would be rescheduled since the bloodmobile is in operation during the noon hour.
"Any ROTC men in those classes should check at the Military Science hall to find out the time of rescheduling," he said.
The blood-taking process takes 50 minutes to complete, Red Cross officials said. They also explained that it was a painless process.
German Club To See Films
Two films, "Enjoy your Holidays in Austria," and "Winter Paradise," will be shown at the meeting of the German club at 5 p.m. Thursday in 15 Fraser. The films will have English commentary, and will be open to the public.
Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday, colder tonight, little change in temperature Thursday. Low tonight 15 north to 25 south, high Thursday 30's north to low 40's south.
Black Hills Passion Play Opens Thursday In Hoch
University students and residents of Lawrence will be able to see one of the unique religious presentations in the world Thursday and Friday when the Black Hills Passion play comes to Hoch auditorium.
Matinees, at 2 p.m., and evening performances, at 8 p.m., are set for each day.
KU identification cards will gain admittance for students to the Thursday and Friday matinees. However, since Friday has been set aside for the public school children at a bargain 50-cent rate, KU students will find better seats Thursday and are urged to attend then.
For the two evening performances all tickets will be sold at a scale varying from $1 to $3. Public sale of these seats at full price is necessary to meet the costs of this great production, according to Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University.
Adult tickets may be purchased now at the Chamber of Commerce suite in the WREN building downtown, or at the Hoch auditorium box office preceding each performance.
The Passion play deals principally with the story of the last seven days in the life of James of assizes. A "double" stage, which eliminates scene-change delays, makes possible a 2½-hour presentation time.
Josef Meter heads a cast of more than a hundred in the role of the Christus, which he has played more than 9,000 times in Europe and North America. KU students as extras in the mob scenes and as choristers fill out the cast.
The Black Hills Passion play traces its history to Luenen, Westphalia, Germany. It was there in 1242, monks of the Cappenberg monastery presented what is believed to be the first of several passion plays now in existence.
About 35 students still are needed to serve as scenes actors in teenage roles, and Reba soldier.
Rehearsal for all students and Lawrence residents who wish to be in the drama will be at 7.30 p.m. today in Hoch auditorium. If not enough people volunteer Allen Cohen, a local teacher he might ask everyone in the drama department, including wives and children, to be in the play.
Ticket sales are going slow at present, which is unfortunate, since the presentation of the Passion play by the Black Hills group has received wide acclaim over the nation as a brilliantly done, enjoyable and impressive drama.
Background music from Bach, Handel and others will be provided by a choir of about 20 University students. Actors in the drama number about 25, plus about 70 extras recruited in Lawrence.
Unusual features of the drama are the authentic Biblical costumes, the mammoth scenery and the unusual lighting. It will require all of today to erect the lighting equipment.