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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5.195
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Military Critic To Address The University Club
Kenneth L. Fox, military commentator for the Kansas City Star will lead an open discussion of American plans and goals for rearming and mobilizing, at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the University club. Speaking on "America Orders Arms," he will "break the ice" for the forum session. Club members may bring guests, said Prof. Elmer F. Beth, host.
Using his background of five years of military service in World War II, his observations on a tour of European capitals, and information obtained during a recent assignment in Washington, D.C., Mr. Fox will analyze the major problems facing Americans as a result of the decision to "prepare for the worst" in international relations.
The speaker is a lieutenant colonel in the Army Organized Reserve corps, and has been an editorial writer on the Kansas City Star since 1946. His army service began in 1940 with the Missouri National Guard. He was commissioned a second lieutenant of infantry in 1942, and then became aide-de-camp to Lieut. Gen. William H. Simpson. In May of 1944 he joined the press section at European Theater headquarters and served as chief army public relations officer in several areas. He later was stationed in Frankfurt, Germany, as deputy public relations officer for the Theater Service forces.
In the fall of 1950 Mr. Fox made a European trip, gathering information in London, Berlin, Switzerland, Greece, Rome, and Paris, To get first-hand information for his editors and signed articles, he has made four trips to Washington recently.
He is a native of Kansas City. He received his B.A. at Washington university, St. Louis, where he earned membership in Phi Beta Kappa, honor society. He became a full-time reporter on the Star in 1938, after several years of part-time reporting.
Washington—U.P.) - The Federal Communications Commission has decided to find out whether some television programs are in the public interest.
FCC To Check TV Programs
A public conference will be held
previewing the knifes and double-magnifying glasses.
The conference, date not yet set,
the will take up the number of
"signatures" to be used.
At present, the F.C.C. is hearing requests by educators that 25 per cent of the television channels to be allocated be reserved for educational programs. They have complained that TV stations have failed to produce enough educational shows.
There was little doubt that the conference was prompted by the commission's concern over the "poor taste" of some television programming. The F.C.C. has no authority toensor programs, but it can revoke licenses if stations fail to operate in the public interest.
F. C.C. Chairman Wayne Coy already has criticized the "degrading antics," "vulgar double-entendre" jokes and "downright indecency" seen on some TV programs.
Dr. Roy Schafer of the Austen Riggs Foundation, Stockbridge, Mass., has been appointed lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Clark university, Worcester, Mass.
Former Graduate Student Named To College Staff
Dr. Schafer, a graduate of Evanderchilds High school in the Bronx, N.Y., received his bachelor of science degree magna cum laude from City College of New York in 1943, and his master of arts degree from the University of Kansas in 1946.
'Tail Twister' Is In Union Mural
A mural showing a Jayhawker holding a Wildcat by the tail is one of six murals being painted by Pat Bowers, graduate student in the School of Fine Arts, on the walls of the Hawks' Nest in the Union building.
The other five murals will portray the Jayhawker in victorious poses with other Big Seven opponents. Bowers, who was commissioned by Dean Woodruff to paint the murals, will have them finished in about three weeks.
Business School Lists Honor Roll
Uncertainties of the international situation and the more personal problem of impending military service are adversely affecting scholarship in the University of Kansas School of Business, Dean Leonard Axe believes.
The 35 names on the School of Business honor roll for the fall semester constitute only 7.2 per cent of the senior class and 6.8 per cent of the juniors. Honor roll standards in business are grade point averages of 2.30 or better for seniors, 2.20 for juniors.
Last spring an almost even 10 per cent of each class made the honor roll, Dean Axe said. In some postwar years the percentage has been a little higher, and almost never below the theoretically ideal one-tenth.
Further, Dean Axe reported, only four students, all juniors, made the "all A" or 3.00 average. They are Eugene Wesley Haley, Lawrence; Keith Saunders Kelly, Fort Leavenworth; Robert Wayne Lewis, Lawrence; and James Kenneth Logan, Quenemo.
Seniors making the honor roll William Robert Beilharz, Charles Edward Bernard, Melvin H. Clingan, William Edwards, John Raymond Elliott, Edward Raymond Fry, Wren Elliott, Edward Riley, Hilton Robert Allen Hanley, Jack D. Richard Donald E. Johnson, Nancy Lucille Luncle, William Robert Leopard
James Ivan McArthur, Kenneth Eldon Miller, Donald E. Powell, John Samuel Ranson, Fredric Eliott Rothe, James R. Selig, Zara Ann Zoeller.
Juniors: Paul David Berkley
Lawrence Allen Blakeley, Thomas
Roy Crahan, Donald Leroy Ferrell
Barbara Hagan, Eugene Wesley
Haley, Walter Eugene Hocken-
bery, Arthur Otto Kaaz, Jr., Keith
Kelly, Robert Wayne Lewis, Aubrey
Gene Linville, James Kenneth
Logan, Robert W. Shinn, Leon
Castle Stromire, and Myron Elbert
Yadon.
Weymouth, Mass. (U.P.)-Although blind for 21 years, Wilfred Laramee, 62, works daily as a carpenter.
Blind Man Is Carpenter
Light Opera Guild To Give 'Pink Lady'; Fourth Production
Lowell Thomas Jr. To Show Movies Of The World's Most Remote City
The Light Opera Guild will present its fourth annual production tonight when the curtain goes up for "Pink Lady" at 8 p.m. in Fraser theater.
The program, which will start at 4 p.m. in Fraser theater, will be open to the public without charge.
A visit to Lhasa, the world's most remote city, will be offered Tuesday when Lowell Thomas, Jr., will present a commentary and color movie "Out of This World: a Journey to Lhasa."
Excavation was finished and foundation work for the information booth begun last week at the building site, agrass Jayhawk drive from Bailey chemical laboratories.
The Guild is composed of Phi Mu Alpha, men's music fraternity, the University Players, and two women's music sororities, Mu Phi Epsilon and Sigma Alpha Iota.
The film was made by Lowell Thomas, Sr. and Jr., on an expedition in 1949. On the return to India, Thomas, Sr. suffered a near fatal accident on one of the highest Himalayan passes, a misfortune that the expedition one of the most publicized in recent years.
Construction was halted temporarily because of the cold weather. A spokesman at the Constant Construction company, the firm contracted for the job, declined to estimate when the building will be finished, because of the uncertainty of the weather.
The purposes of the Light Opera Guild are to give the students actual experience in the production of operetas; to give some actual experience to students planning to enter professional work and to bring famous, shows from past operetas to this campus.
The Thomases were able to obtain entry to Tibet and the welcome of the Dalai Lama—previously only six Americans had done so—because the rulers of the Lama kingdom feared invasion by the Red Chinese and sought a means to get their message to the outer world. The Chinese Communists have since occupied the kingdom.
Bob Ausherman, education senior,
is president of the Guild this year.
Vice - presidents are Jacquelyn
Stoops, fine arts senior; Mary Lou
Lane, education senior, and Marilyn
Barr, fine arts junior. The officers
are the presidents of the organizations
composing the Guild.
Two Representatives of the Merck and Company incorporated, Manufacturing chemists will be in Dean T. DeWitt Carr's office, 111 Marvin hall Tuesday to interview February, June and August graduates in the fields of chemical and mechanical engineering, and chemistry.
ChemistsToBe Interviewed
Chemical engineers should be in the upper half of their class and interested in research work, process development design or production. Chemists should be in the upper third of their class and be interested in research or development.
The information booth will be a one-story structure made of native limestone. Electrical wiring will be installed by the Building and Grounds department, which is under the supervision of C. G. Bayles.
There will be a group meeting in 207 Marvin hall at 10 a.m. Tuesday and the individual interviews will begin at 11 a.m. The chemical engineers and mechanical engineers may sign the interview schedule in Dean Carr's office; chemists may sign the schedule in the chemistry office, 214 Bailey Chemistry laboratories.
Start Work On Information Booth
His first "expedition" was in 1939 when he was an assistant cameraman on the voyage around South America made by three heavy cruisers—the first such trip since the completion of the Panama canal.
The film traces the journey from the lowlands of India, up through the Himalaya mountains to Lhasa and return. By use of portable tape recorders the Thomases brought back authentic Tibetan music and chants by the monks.
Lowell Thomas, Jr., although only 27, already is a veteran of the Air Force and of travels to the far off parts of the world. Thanks to the air age, he probably has gone farther and seen more than his famous adventurer father at the same age.
Members of the Guild production staff are Gerald M. Carney, associate professor of music education; Don Dixon, assistant professor of speech; Clayton Krehbiel, instructor in music education; Leo Horacek, instructor in music education and G. Criss Simpson, associate professor of organ and theory.
Recent operettas presented by the Guild include "The Mikado" and "The Gondolier's" by Gilbert and Sullivan, and "Sweethearts" by Victor Herbert.
Professor Carney said the Guild plans to present another Gilbert and Sullivan show next year. In future years all of the well-known Gilbert and Sullivan shows will be presented.
Biographer Will Lecture Today
Catherine Drinker Bowen, one of the nation's leading biographers, will lecture on "History and Biography" in Strong auditorium at 4 p.m. today.
Mrs. Bowen will use her most recent work, "John Adams—the Story of the American Revolution", as the basis for her lecture. She will tell of the research and interviews involved in the collection of material. She will tell how she plots a biography, shaping it to humanize the subject without disregarding facts.
Two Faculty Members Back
Two University faculty members have returned after missing the fall semester for very different reasons.
Dr. Robert Schatten, associate professor of mathematics, studied at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, N.J., the past half year.
Dr. Robert Beer, entomology instructor, is back after a strange experience. In September, as a medical supply officer and captain in the Air Force reserves, he was ordered to active duty. Soon after reporting to Hamilton Air Force base, California, he learned that officers of his particular category could not be recalled involuntarily to active duty.
About three weeks later he was returned to inactive duty status. But that didn't happen before Dr. Beer had to do some wrangling with a superior officer who didn't want to pay Dr. Beer any travel allowances to and from California or pay for the time he was in the service on the illegal orders.
Dr. Charles Michener, chairman of the entomology department, said Dr. Beer's return is extremely welcome since the number of graduate students in entomology is at an all-time peak this year.
'Nice Well-Behaved Guy'
Takes A Riotous Vacation
St. Louis (U.P.)—Stanley B. Gallat's landlord always knew him as a "very nice, quiet, well-behaved guy."
But Mr. Gallat:
1. Refused to pay his check in a restaurant and quarreled with the waitress.
2. Backed his truck into a police man who came to question him.
3. Led six squad cars in an 80-mile-an-hour chase.
4. Sideswiiped five parked cars.
5. Backed into a police cruiser.
6. Fought a pitched battle with a dozen officers in the tiny bathroom of his apartment.
7. Broke the noses of five officers in the fight.
8. Had his own nose broken.
At St. Louis County postal attendant told police that the 200-pound gas appliance serviceman, was "very intoxicated."
'The Pink Lady' Begins Tonight With Cast Of 59
Combine "South Pacific" and "Oklahoma," then add a 1910 setting and you have "The Pink Lady; the Light Opera Guild's presentation which begins tonight in Fraser theatre.
The curtain rises at 8 p.m. on the operetta, which is stocked with a cast of 15 principals, a chorus of 25 and orchestra of 16. Performance will also be given on Feb. 6, 7, and 9. Gene Courtney, instructor in speech, plays the part of Monsieur Dondierid and Jeanne Aldridge in his co-star as Claudiene, the Pink Lady.
Other principals include Phyllis McFarland as Angela, Fred Tarry as Lucien and Tom Shay as Benevola the detective. The 75 costumes are from a professional company in Boston.
Tickets for the presentation are 75c. They are on sale at the ticker booth in the basement of Green hall until 4 p.m. today and from 9 to 12 a.m. and 1 to 4 p.m. daily thereafter. All seats are reserved.
The operetta is in three acts. Scene one takes place in the courtyard of an inn in Conpiegne just outside of Paris. For scene two there is a shift to the sales room of an antique shop in Paris. The final scene returns to the inn.
"The Fink Lady" is co-directed by Don Dixon, assistant professor of speech, and Gerald Carney, associate professor of music education. Mr. Dixon directs the dramatization and Mr. Carney the music.
William Holman and Miss Patricia Richardson have been announced as new staff members at Watson library.
Mr. Holman is a new circulation librarian replacing Miss Elizabeth Bloss, who resigned to be married. Mr. Holman has his master's degree from the University of Illinois library school.
Name Two Librarians
Miss Richardson is the new exchange librarian replacing James Tydeman, who has been transferred to the periodicals. Miss Richardson has her master's degree from the University of Denver School of Librarianship.
New student employees at the library are Francis Abel, Dorothy Boyer, Mrs. Beverly Carson, Harold A Dietsch, Trenton Fleming, Elizabeth Jean Helsley, Jack W. Jester, Leander Leopold, Janith L. Lewis Joe McDaniel, Verda Nye, Mrs. Annette O'Neal, Robert M. Perrill, Richard D. Randall, Joe Weston Smith, Joan Squires and Mrs. Sally Taylor.
Former Instructor Promoted To Major
William E. Hensel, former instructor of military science at the University, recently was promoted to the rank of major in the United States Army. He is serving with the U.N. troops in Korea.
Major Hensel served as senior infantry drill instructor at the University from September 1947 to September 1950 at which time he left for Korea. During his stay at the University Major Hensel held the rank of captain.
Major Hensel is now the executive officer of the 1st battalion, 8th regiment of the First Cavalry division in Korea.
Engineering Senior Receives 2nd Lieutenant Commission
Theodore C. Finkmeier, engineering senior, was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Corps of Engineers, effective Jan. 30.
At a brief ceremony in the Military Science building, Lt. Col. Roy W. Matz, assistant professor of military science, administered the oath of office of the officers reserve corps.