THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Zany Promoter's Latest Scheme To Have Flying Midget's Theme
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New York (U.P.)—If you see a little guy soaring through the air over your city, don't get alarmed about men from Mars or flying saucers.
He may be just a fugitive from Jim Moran's latest Zaniness—flying midgets on kites.
Moran, the cockeyed publicity man who personally hatched an ostrich egg and sold an icebox to an Eskimo, says he will launch his plan for the "Steady Employment of Midgets" the next breezy day in Central Park.
Three midgets, each insured for $25,000, are standing by for the right wind.
"Why, I flew a 100-pound suitcase over Mt. Sinai hospital the other day on one of these kites," he said. "The heaviest of these mudgets doesn't weight over 80 pounds."
The big plastic kites will lift their weight and more, Moran said confidently at a pre-soaring briefing
A photographer taking pictures of the midgets suggested the hospital would be a convenient place to soar over.
"Of course, we've got to allow for droppage." Moran agreed.
"There's absolutely no danger," he said, "unless the line breaks."
As proprietor of the "Moran Office of Midget Employment Stabilization," Moran figures this all "may go down in history as the second Kittybawk."
If Moran can get a sponsor, the mudgets will carry placards aloft
If the Central Park launching goes well, Moran said he would recruit the nation's midgets on a full-time basis, and "I'll have three of them flying over each major city on every breezy day of the year."
advertising one commercial product. "This will change the skyline of New York City" , he said.
Two pint-sized men and a woman signed up for the maiden flight. George Henry Shurety and Ivor Levi F. Boden, who have teamed together for 21 years, and Elsie R. Schultz said, "We'll chance anything."
Moran's kites have a surface of 36 square feet and are made of plastic and wire screening. They were developed, he said, by Francis Rogallo, chief of the wind tunnel at Langley Field, Va.
"Do you have permission from the city for kite flying?" a reporter asked.
"Well." Moran retorted, "It'll be a helluva thing for free enterprise in this country if you can't fly midgets on kites over New York City.
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Yakle-Peters Engagement Told
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Yakle, Herington, announce the engagement of their daughter, Rita, to Mr. Wesley Peters, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Peters, McPherson.
Assisting Miss Yakle with the announcement were the Misses Verla Steffey, Yvonne Settle, Sally Davidson, and Julia Willard, housemother
Miss Yake is an education junior and a member of Mu Phi Epsilon, honorary music sorority. Mr. Peters is an engineering sophomore.
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Richard Hale was elected Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity president for the spring and summer months.
Phi Kappa Sigma Elects New Officers
Other officers are Thuston Smith, vice-president; Norman Harris, social chairman; William Wilson, pledge trainer; Eugene Turner, recording secretary; William Tobler, corresponding secretary, and Sam Prochaska, treasurer.
John Garrison, house manager; John Olson, sergeant-at-arms; Marvin pool, athletics chairman; Earl Smith, scholarship chairman; Robert Attebury, activities chairman, and Robert Sigler, song leader.
Phi Kappa Sig's Pledge Two Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity announces the pledging of Ray Wolfford, Wellington and Don Mosher, Plainville.
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Phi Kappa Tau Installs Officers
Wormhoudt-Hackney Pinning Announced
Kappa Alpha Theta sorority announces the pinning of Miss Gretchen Wormhoudt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Wormhoudt, Ottumwa, Iowa, to Mr. Richard Giles Hackney, Atchison.
Appointed officers are: Edward Campbell, house manage; Frank Davis, social chairman; William King, rush captain; Earl Merriman, steward; Courtney Sloan, chaplain; Gerald Rushfelt, pledge trainer; Norman Wears, chapter editor; and Larry Worral, intramural manager.
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Miss Wormhout is an education junior. Mr. Hackney, a journalism junior, is a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
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Emory S. Williams was installed as president of Phi Kappa Tau social fraternity, April 2.
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Other officers are James Garr, vice-president; Harry Lacy, secretary, and Fred Kauffman, treasurer.
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