UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1951
University Band Performs With Power And Precision
By STANFORD E. LEHMBERG
With power and precision the University band directed by Russell L. Wiley presented its annual winter concert Wednesday night in Hoch auditorium.
In the ice-breaker spot on the program was the "Finale" from Skostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Its blatant notes assured that listeners were fully awake for the more thoughtful Guilmant "Choral March and Fugue," a transcription from the organ repertory.
Tom Lovitt, education junior, was cornet soloist in Herbert L. Clarke's "From the Shores of the Mighty Pacific." Mr. Clarke's cadenzas and scale passages were effective vehicles for Mr. Lovitt's versatile technique and ringing tone.
A decided Eastern flavor was present in Ketelbey's "With the Roumanian Gypsies" and the march and scherzo from the "Love for Three Oranges" by Prokoofief. The band transcription of these opera interludes seemed a particularly hapny one.
Malotte's "Lord's Prayer" and Richard Rogers' "Some Enchanted Evening" were rather oddly matched vocal offerings of Dale Moore, fine arts freshman. A band concert is not the best place to present the Lord's Prayer, but the wife virile singing gave it life and color. In "The South Pacific" excerpts the well-scored accompaniment backed up on the soloist well.
The Overture to Mendelssohn's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" gave the flutes and clarinets some uneasy moments but came off well. Zez Confrey's "Dizzy Fingers," with all clarinets playing the runs, was a total success. B放 intonation in the double reeds severely marred the beginning of the excerpts from the first act of Wagner's "Lohengrin," but that was soon forgotten in the sweep of the music. The rousing "Finale" from Tschaikowsky's Fifth Symphony concluded the program.
As encores the band played "My
Mate by Allord and the "Alma
Mate."
A number of small children who insisted on sailing paper airplanes from the second balcony provided the only disturbing element for the large audience.
Medical Group To Hear Expert
Dr. C. Willet Asling, professor of anatomy at the University of California, will present a lecture "Pituitary Hormones and Growth," honoring faculty alumni members of Phi Beta Pi medical fraternity, at 8 p.m. Friday in 426 Lindley.
The material is based upon Dr. Asling's own research as a member of the Institute of Experimental Biology and will be presented later at the Conference on Metabolic Interrelations in New York.
Much of the information is so new that it has not been published in biological journals, Dr. Asling pointed out in a letter to the active president of Pi. This is particularly true of the new hormone, ACTH, he said.
The lecture will include material on growth, hormones, thyroid and thyrotropic adrenocorticotropic hormones as well as gonadotropins and sex hormones if time permits.
Dr. Asling received his M.D. degree from the University of Kansas School of Medicine in 1939 and taught anatomy at the University until 1944. He received his Ph.D. at the University of California.
Guests at a dinner honoring Dr Asling preceding the lecture will be, Paul Roofe, professor of anatomy; Russell Mills, associate professor of biochemistry; Kenneth Jochm, professor of physiology; C. Young, professor of bacteriology; Dr. Karen Sherwood, professor of bacteriology; and Mitchell Korzenovsky, instructor of bacteriology, faculty alumni members of Phi Beta Pi.
Dr. Boyden Crouch, physician; Dr. O. Stoland, professor of physiology; Dr. E. L. Trecee, professor of bacteriology; L. C. Woodruff, dean of men; and Dr. Monte Belot and Dr. Bernard Hall of the Menninger clinic in Topeka.
Bus Company Fares Are Now 10 Cents
The Lawrence bus service has new rates which went into effect Wednesday. Its new rates are a straight cash fare of 10 cents, a full fare coupon book of 11 tickets for one dollar, and 12 tickets for 60 cents in a children's coupon book.
Tokens now in use can be used until Feb. 8, 1951. The company has had the two tokens for 15 cents fare since its start in 1935.
KU Employees Donate Blood
The volunteer donor list of the Douglas county blood storage program was increased by 150 through the recent compulsory chest X-ray program for University employees.
Mrs. C. B. Holmes, who is in charge of blood donor recruitment for the Douglas County Red Cross chapter, described this blood typing and registration period one of the most successful the community has had. The number of rejects, 30, among those typed was below the usual rate.
Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of the K.U. student health service, installed the blood typing service along with the compulsory X-ray process. Each person was asked about the blood storage program as he came for the X-ray. University employees actually supplied a larger donor list since some had previously volunteered during the city-wide registration.
Specialists To Speak Today
Dr. C. Willet Asling, noted endocrinologist, will speak on "Pituitary Growth Hormones" at 8 p.m. today in 426 Lindley hall. Dr. Asling is professor of anatomy at the University of California.
Congress Might Permit Drafting 18-Year-Olds
Washington—(U.P.)—A war-fearful congress appeared likely today to permit the drafting of 18-year-olds.
"Mr. Rustenbach was a real old time glass blower with 20 years of experience," Mr. Logan said. "I had helped him during one summer, so when he left Dr. R. Q. Brewster, professor of chemistry, asked me to take over."
KU Glassblower Makes Equipment For Chemists
By GEORGE HESS
Legislators said other provisions of the administration's universal military training and service program would "take some selling."
Most potent opposition came from Sen. Richard B. Russell, (D. Ga.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services committee. He opposed a section which would make draftees undergo 27— instead of the present 21-months of service.
The 27-month provision, however, was only a detail of a sweeping program that would enlist every young American in the defense of the country. Only the lame, the halt and the blind would be excluded.
The measure, as explained-yesterday to the Senate Preparedness committee by Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall and his manpower chief Anna M. Rosenberg, would:
1. Make every 18-year-old youth liable to four months of basic training and 23 months of service followed by a three to six-year period in the reserves.
2. Establish a "rehabilitation" program for those otherwise unable to serve in the armed forces and a "work" program for those unable to be rehabilitated.
3. Set up educational deferments for those whose college studies were considered to be essential. However, even these students would be liable for the four months of basic training and would have to complete the other 23 months of service after graduation.
Mr. Logan took over the glassblowing assignment in 1948. He had been working as a clerk in the chemistry supply room when the regular glassblower, Fred C. Rustenbach, left for a job at the Oak Ridge, Tenn., atomic energy plant.
"I had to get books and teach myself the general techniques. It was pretty hard at first." Real skill in
Mrs. Rosenberg explained that the defense department had examined alternatives and found them too expensive and too disruptive of the nation's economy. She was scheduled to outline some of those alternatives today.
Glassblowing is not a lost art. Years ago professional glass blowers made everything from water tumblers to beer bottles. Then machines took over and the profession nearly died. There are, however, a few left. K.U. has one.
4. Finance with federal scholarships those who were entitled to deferments but were unable to pay their way through school.
He also gets an occasional order from hospitals and other universities in this area for pieces of laboratory equipment not available through regular supply houses.
Walter Logan is his name. A tall, genial man with large, steady hands thickly calloused from touching the hot glass, he works full time in a shop in the sub-basement of Bailey Chemistry lab.
"My main job." Mr. Logan said. "is making all kinds of glass containers and equipment for scientific work. I supply all the various University departments with these articles."
He said that heat is the secret in blowing glass. It must be heated to the right temperature to be malleable, but must not get too hot or it will melt. If it is allowed to cool too quickly, or if parts of a piece of equipment cool at different rates of speed, the glass will shatter.
glassblowing comes from experience he added, and not from books.
"For one thing, it's cheaper." Mr. Logan said. "Also, I can produce things here much quicker than they can be ordered from supply houses. And some equipment would have to be custom-made anyway."
Why does K.U. make its own equipment?
His job does not leave Logan mucl time to experiment with blowing decorative pieces, but he does make very attractive little glass Jayhawks in Chancellor Malott. He also displays leather jacket holders and wine glasses he has made. A blown-glass swan rides a stack of papers on his desk.
World Wide News
Knowland Wants Limit On Troops Sent Abroad
"I still have lots to learn about my trade," he said. "I am studying textbooks at night to improve my skill." Anyone watching him at work could hardly help but conclude that he is already a competent workman who knows his job well,
Washington—(U.P.)—Sen. William F. Knowland (R. Calif.), proposed today that the United States send Europe one fighting division for every six put under arms by our Atlantic pact partners.
Arn's Program To Legislature
Topcake, Kan., (U.P.)-Kansas' new governor, Edward F. Arm, has offered a dozen recommendations to the new legislature, emphasizing at the same time that the state must move forward at a war-slowed
Specifically, the chief executive wants:
1. School law codification.
2. High-geared civil defense setup
3. Mental treatment center for children.
4. Renewal of the five-cent gasoline tax.
5. Expanded state emergency fund
6. Consolidation of two veterans offices.
7. An enabling law so public employees can enjoy federal social security.
8. Better disability and deathbenefit from state workmen's compensation
Republicans and Democrats alike expressed general approval of Arn's initial address, delivered in person to a joint session of the house and senate Wednesday.
Union Plans Big Carnival
The Carnival committee of Student Union activities will meet with students interested in planning the Union Winter carnival. The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. today in the East room in the Union.
Committees that will direct and plan the carnival will be selected at the meeting. Students are needed to help with the ticket, contest, publicity, decoration, and booth layout committees.
The carnival will be held Feb. 3. It will include dance music by the Varsity Crew orchestra and organized house sponsored game booths.
Featured at the carnival will be the "Little Man On Campus" contest in which the living Worthal of the campus will be chosen. Six trophies will be presented during the evening.
Emporia Architect To Address AIA
Stanley Hagan, senior partner of the firm of Brinkman and Hagan, architects of Emporia, will speak at a meeting of the University chapter of the American Institute of Architects at 7:30 p.m. today in the Pine room of the Union.
Mr. Hagan is a director of the Kansas chapter of A.I.A., of which the University chapter is an affiliate. During World War II he was senior engineer in charge of all engineering departments at the Sunflower Ordnance works and head of the architectural department.
M. Hagan has recently visited the west coast area of the United States
Taft-Hartley Law Is Devilish, Says Lewis
Washington—U.P.)—John L. Lewis, who has bitter words of his own for the Taft-Hartley law, has some literary ones, too.
He said yesterday that the act "stands there as a constant menace, like Satan standing at the portals of Hell, saying to labor: 'whence and what art thou, execrable shape?'
The United mine workers chief was quoted line 681 of book two of John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost."
> He suggested that this be done until 10 American divisions are in Europe and our Allies have raised 60 divisions.
Knowland, in a speech prepared for senate delivery, broke sharply with recent proposals by Sen. Robert A. Taft, (R.-Ohio), former President Herbert Hoover and other Republicans.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is in Europe now determining what America's partners will put in the field under his supreme command. He has mostly a paper army, consisting of about two American divisions, three French, two British, and one Belgian.
Police Fear Cook Has Killed Two More
At least eight murders have been committed by the 21-year-old exconvict and officers feared he may have killed two prospectors who are missing south of the border.
El Centro, Calif.—(U.P.) A hint that gunman Bill Cook may have killed two more persons sent officers into a house-by-house search of Mexicali, Mex., for the squint-eyed fugitive today.
A posse of F.B.I. agents, Imperial county sheriff's deputies, El Centro police and Mexican officers discovered Wednesday that the missing prospectors were seen late Saturday at San Felipe, a Mexican fishing town on the Gulf of California.
Rebels Attack French Outposts
Saigon, Indo-China—(U.P.)—Communist rebel forces attacked two French outposts and a s lockage village in the Bacninh sector last night, the French disclosed today.
A communique said the communities raked the French posts with mortar and machine gun fire and inflicted "some" casualties on the villagers. Meanwhile, the French denied press reports that they had reached agreement with Nationalist China to rearm 23,000 of Chiang Kai-Shek's troops intermed in Indo-China after fleeing the Chinese communists.
In a few days, his body will be cremated and the ashes sent to Sauk Centre, Minn., the little "Main Street" town where Lewis was born 65 years ago. There he will be buried in the family plot.
Rome—(U.P.)-The body of novelist Sinclair Lewis was taken to a Protestant cemetery today to lie in state near the graves of the English poets Shelley and Keats.
The author, whose novel "Babbitt" made him the first American winner of the Nobel prize in literature, died of a heart attack Wednesday while recovering from pneumonia in a private clinic on the outskirts of Rome.
Lewis' 'Main Street' To Receive His Ashes
Fine Arts Recital To Be Presented
A School of Fine Arts student recital will be given at 3 p.m. today in Strong auditorium.
The following numbers will be played; "Trio Sonata in G" (K. P. E. Bach) by Clara James, senior, and Patricia Street, freshman, violinists; Dale Kempter, sophomore, cellist; and Carolyn Smith, sophomore, pianist.
"Sonata, Op. 27, No. 1" (Beethoven) by Jacquelyn Stoops, senior, pianist; "Sonata for Violin and Piano, No. 2 in A Major" (Beethoven) by Waldemar Geltch, professor of stringed instruments, violinist; and R. C. Broadstone, junior, pianist.