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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1951
PAGE EIGHT
Governor Arn Pledges Support Of FEPC Bill
Topcka (U.P)—The whole-hearted support of Gov. Edward F. Arn today was behind a Kansas Fair Employment Practices act to eliminate discrimination as to race, color or creed.
"I would welcome the opportunity of signing this bill as the governor of Kansas," the state's chief executive said in a prepared statement released at a time regarded "critical" for the measure.
The bill provides no direct penalty for violation of the no-discrimination clause. But it permits court action to get an injunction to force compliance with its proposals.
The F.E.P.C. bill passed the house last Friday by a wide margin of 89-14. It now is before the senate federal and state affairs committee.
A five-man commission, appointed by the governor, would be created by the act to establish job classifications and qualifications.
In the house of representatives, the "little Hoover" state financial reorganization bill was killed at the direction of the governor.
The governor also got his wish for a resolution asking a substitute two-year study of revamping the state's financial setup.
The house gave preliminary approval to the senate bill boosting teacher retirement benefits. The minimum would be $50 a month instead of the present $40, and the maximum for career teachers with 30 years service since 1926 would be $90 a month beginning in 1956. The top is now $75.
YW To Elect On Thursday
Elections for the Y.W.C.A. officers and the junior cabinet will be held Thursday. Election polls will be in the rotunda of Strong hall, Fraser hall, and Henley house.
The freshmen will have an elections party at 4 p.m. Thursday at Henley, where they will vote for both W.C.W.A. officers and junior cabinet officers.
Upperclassmen will vote for the W.Y.C.A. officers only. Candidates are Jean Almon, fine arts junior, and Kathryn Conrad, College sophomore, president; Betty Berry and Virginia Mackey, College sophomores, secretary; Patricia Lloyd College sophomore, and Ann Wagner, education sophomore, treasurer
Jerry Hesse, College sophomore,
district representative; Helen Maduros,
education junior; and Ada Watson, College junior. All Student Council representative. Karo University Kirchstaff freshmar, and Jonna Mitchell, College junior.
Student Religious council representative.
The following freshmen women are candidates for the junior cabinet: Barbara Allen and Marilyn Hawkinson, College, president; Mary Ream and Jean Ann Scupin, College, vice-president; Norma Lou Falletta, College, and Louise Heim, fine arts, secretary;
Margaret Black and Helen Boring, College, treasurer; Vernie Theden and Mary Updegraff, College, publicity; Susan Forney, education, and Myra Roesler, College, projects; Sidonie Brown, College, and Nancy Gilchrist, education, social.
Results of the election will be announced at the barbershop quartet contest Thursday night in Strong auditorium.
Music Sorority Cancels Musicale
The Sigma Alpha Iota musicale scheduled for Monday, April 2,
has been cancelled, Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts
announced Tuesday.
Sigma Alpha Iota is the professional music sorority on the campus.
Show Tryouts Planned Tonight
Tryouts will be held in Fraser theater at 7 p.m. today for two parts in the University roadshow "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Replacements are needed for the comedy parts of Snug (Lion) and Snout (Wall).
The show will be on the road from March 27 to April 7.
Spring At KU But Snow Nearby
Spring arrived on the campus at 4:26 a.m. today. That was the minute at which the sun was on the vernal equinox, the point where the sun's yearly path crosses the equator coming toward us in the northern hemisphere.
The sun will set at almost exactly the west point on the horizon tonight, and will move rapidly north for a few weeks, said Robert R. Brownlee, assistant professor of mathematics. The difference can be seen easily from day to day now. Mr. Brownlee said.
(U.P.)The calendar said that spring arrived officially but millions of Midwesterners knew it lied.
Vast areas lay buried under a heavy snow blanket. Temperatures hovered near zero in the northern districts and as far south as St. Louis the mercury was expected to have a hard struggle climbing above freezing throughout the day.
Strong winds swept the plains, as many north-south highways were closed in Iowa and miles of secondary roads were impassable in Minnesota, Nebraska, and the Dakotas.
Weather observers said the Middle West actually should be glad that spring didn't arrive in a rush of warm weather. They warned that a sudden thaw could produce dangerous floods.
Color Movies WillBeShown
Full-color movies will be shown at the University club at 8 p.m. Thursday to illustrate "Safari in Tropical Mexico," a talk by Dr. Rollin Baker, assistant curator of mammalogy in the Museum of Natural History. Members may bring guests.
Dr. Baker was in a party of four men who formed a safari to Mexico last January. The object of the safari was to obtain tropical wild life specimens to add to the panorama of North American wild life in the Museum of Natural History.
The expedition was financed by the Shawnee Sportsmen, Inc., a Topeka organization, and Alfred J. Robinson, Topeka businessman, who made the trip and did much of the filming. Completing the party were George P. Young, taxidermist at the Museum of Natural History, and Walter Dhailquest of Louisiana State university, formerly on the K.U. staff.
Dr. Baker said that two specimens brought back are extremely rare. One is a small red deer that is found only in the North American tropics; the other is a white-lipped peccary or wild hog. Dr. Baker said he doubted that any other museum has mounted specimens of these two mammals.
E Jackson Baur, associate professor of sociology, will attempt to clarify current thinking about the class structure of society at a meeting of the Socialist Study club at 8 p.m. today.
Baur Will Discuss Social Class Tonight
Professor Baur will present material gathered from research studies of social structure.
The meeting, the third in a series sponsored by this club, will be held in 103 Green hall.
WILLARD STRAIGHT
Willard Straight To Be Heard In Senior Recital
Willard Straight will present his senior piano recital at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Strong auditorium. The public is invited to attend.
The program will include the "Organ Prelude and Fugue in D major" by Bach; Mendelssohn's "Variations Serieuses": Chopin's "B minor Sonata"; "Ondine" by Ravel, and two pieces by Debussy, "La plus que lente" and "Lisé joyouse."
Straight is a student of Dr. D. M.
Swarthout, professor of piano. He
egan his piano study at the age
of 16 with Gene Thompson in
Kansas City.
At the University he received the annual award by Pi Kappa Lambda as the outstanding freshman and sophomore in his class. He appeared as soloist with the University Symphony orchestra last year.
Several of Straight's compositions have been performed on the campus. The most recently heard was his "Gloria for Christmas" heard on the Christmas Vespers.
Straight is past secretary of Delta Chi fraternity, a member of Phi Mu Alpha, professional fraternity, and the Sachem Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa. He is president of the University A Cappella chair, a member of the University Chorale, and a member of the University Light Opera guild. He was co-composer and conductor of "College Daze of 1950."
A $2,000 grant for the study of histoplasmosis has been made by th U. S. public health service to Dwight Metzler, assistant professor of civil engineering and chief engineer for the State board of health.
KU Man Awarded $2,000 Grant
The research is aimed at determining if current water treatment practices in Kansas remove the organisms causing histoplasmosis. The disease produces symptoms similar to those of tuberculosis. Because it was confused with TB, histoplasmosis remained almost unknown and unstudied until recently. Its greatest incidence in this country is in the Missouri, Mississippi and Ohio river basins.
Mertzier said the study at K. U. would involve the development of new techniques. The staff of the state water laboratory will do the research with members of the K. U. faculty serving as consultants.
Bridge Winners Announced
Winners of the Four-no bridge club March 16 were Jack Gillmore, engineering senior, and Terryl Francis, College senior. Runners up were Albert Kihm, College senior, and Thomas Keiser, business junior.
Civilian Defense Not Organized, Experts Say
Civil defense is still lacking co-ordination and organization on theater audience of 50 Lawrence area civil defense representatives theater audience of 50 Lawrence area civi defense representatives Tuesday.
Hitt To Explain Ham Award
James K. Hitt, University registrar will visit Rooks county schools Monday, April 2, to explain the W. B. Ham scholarships to high school students and principals.
The Ham scholarships were established as a memorial to Judge W. B. Ham.
Awards are made on merit only without regard to the financial resources of the candidate. The amount of money provided is dependent upon the needs of the individual student.
Students who are graduating from Rooks county high schools may apply for the scholarships. A competitive scholastic examination will be given in mid April at Stockton.
Scholars will be chosen by the Ham scholarship committee on the basis of the examination results and personal interviews.
Members of the committee are Mr. Hitt; Donald Alderson, assistant dean of men; Robert Eckley, assistant professor of economics; Raymond Stuhl, associate professor of cello, and Ellis Stouffer, professor of mathematics.
Offer $100 Essay Prize
A $100 prize will be awarded for an essay on applied Christianity in the Hattie Elizabeth Lewis Prize essays contest this spring. Second prize of $75 and third prize of $50 will be awarded.
Any student at the University may enter the contest, said Miss Mattie Crumrine, assistant professor of Romance languages. Those who wish to enter must leave three copies of their essays at the Chancellor's office by Tuesday, May 1.
The essays must concern the application of the teachings of Jesus to some present-day problem, and must be between 3,000 and 10,000 words in length. The essays will be judged by Miss Crumrine, Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism, and James E. Seaver, assistant professor of history. The prizes will be awarded before the end of the semester.
The contest was established in 1911 as a memorial to Hattie Elizabeth Lewis, a former student at K.U., by Prof. Geo. Edward Patrick, her husband. Professor Patrick was a member of the faculty from 1874 to 1883.
Students who desire special information about the contest may see Miss Crumrine, 115 Strong hall.
38th Crossing Up To MacArthur
Washington (U.P.)—Secretary of State Dean Acheson said today that Gen. Douglas MacArthur has authority to cross the 38th parallel in Korea.
Asked at a news conference whether the U.N. commander needed any new authority to cross the North-South Korean border, Acheson said no, he did not.
Acheson said, however, that there is need for a common point of view on the 38th parallel question by the United States and its Allies.
Acheson would not say that U.N. forces would cross the parallel. He said the problem is being considered in consultation with other U.N. nations, MacArthur and other military leaders.
Questions from representatives at the regional civil defense meeting indicated that many community leaders have not been notified as to who the civil defense director of their area is, and have not received any material or instructions on civil defense.
The main objective of the state council is the organization of the 380 cities in the state with a population of over 300 persons. To date 255 cities have set up at least a skeleton organization.
One of the delaying factors in the organization is the lack of funds, Warren G. Paramore, executive assistant to the state chairman, said.
Three bills to obtain funds are in the state legislature, he pointed out. One bill will give the council one million dollars to distribute among local organizations for stock piling medical and transportation supplies to care for victims of atomic attack.
Kansas is probably more vulnerable to biological warfare than it is liable to atomic attack. Mr. Parameur made said. The former is a definite menace to crops, livestock, and humans while only Kansas City and Wichita may be considered A-bomb targets.
In case of attack on an ordinary metropolis, 120,000 casualties would result. Mr. Paramore said. In the first 24 hours, 40,000 would die, and at least one-third of the other 80,000 casualties, or 26,667 persons would require hospitalization. Kansas hospitals have a total of 6,500 beds.
If an atomic bomb were to be dropped on the Lawrence area, University buildings would be converted into a hospital capable of handling 5,000 to 6,000 patients, Dean Frank T. Stockton of the University Extension said.
"You don't insure your house because you believe it is going to burn down, but because that there is a possibility of its burning down," Dr. Hoecker said.
Dr. Frank Hoecker, professor physics, does not believe that any Kansas town is high on the Russian A-bomb list, but he believes that preparation should be made anyway.
Dr. Hoecker also told of the 10 two-man monitoring teams which are equipped to test foods, water, and land for radio-active materials. Sufficient equipment has been received so that at least seven teams could be put into the field simultaneously.
All monitoring personnel are graduate students, experienced in he measurement and handling of audio-active materials, he said.
The University Chorale, directed by Clayton Krehbiel, instructor in music education, will present concerts in several Kansas towns Monday, March 26, through Wednesday, March 28.
Chorale To Sing On Easter Tour
Sixteen University students make up the Chorale. Joanne Stokes, fine arts junior, is accompanist. Leo Horacek, instructor in music education, will be trumpet soloist.
A variety of light chorale music will be presented in shows in Emporia, Marion, Moundridge, Kingman, Harper, Anthony, Caldwell, Arkansas City, Winfield, Augusta and El Dorado.
The tour is sponsored by the Statewide Activities association
Students singing in the Choir are: sopranos, Myrna Lynch, Phyllis McFarland, Joyce Rohrer; altos, Joan Baur, Joyce Friesen, Jeanne Neihart, Althea Owen, Alberta James; tenors, William Oldham, Willard Straight, Fred Tarry; bass, Donald George, Dale Moore, James Ralston, Herbert Skillman, and Keith Riggs.