UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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United Nations Conference Set For Jan.25-26
Dates for the third annual United Nations conference at the University will be Jan. 25-26, it was announced today by Frank T. Stockton, dean of University Extension.
The public information department of the U.N. will join with University Extension in presenting the program. The purpose is to provide information about the functioning of the U.N. and techniques for taking UN information to the community level.
informational techniques to be covered include film, radio, television, library services, press and publications, and the non-governmental organizations.
Several U.N. officials from Lake Success will bring information about the latest developments.
"We want to bring the U.N. and its program and problems within the reach of people in this area," Dean Stockton said. "Few of us can visit Lake Success, but many can attend this conference."
Official Bulletin
Jan. 3, 1951
Square Dance club, 7:30 tonight
Recreation room, Union.
K. U. Dames Bridge and Canasta 7:30 p.m.today, Union ballroom west.
Fresh-hawks, 7:30 p.m. today, 9 Strong. Those who have missed two meetings must attend to retain membership.
Red Peppers, 7:15 p.m. Thursday,
101 Strong.
Chess club organizational meeting and tournament, 7:30 p.m. Thursday. East Room, Union.
Pershing Riffles, 5 p.m. Thursday Military Science Building lounge All members attend.
Students planning to take Western Civilization examination 1:30 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 6, register at Western Civilization office today through Friday. Place of examination assigned at registration. Examination admittance card must be presented at time of examination.
Deutscher Verein: Donnerstag um 5:00 Uhr nachmittags in 502 Fraser. Platte Von Europa werden gezeigen werden. Alle sind willkommen.
Christian Science Organization, 7 p.m. Thursday, Danforth chapel.
All Student Council, 7:15 p.m. today. Pine room, Union.
Jay Janes, 5 p.m. today, Memorial Union.
QST: KU Amateur Radio club meeting postponed until January 10.
Red Cross Needs Aides
The American National Red Cross seeks to recruit from graduating seniors women hospital recreation workers and hospital staff aides. Positions are open now and vacancies will probably continue through the spring.
The large general hospitals in the midwestern area are located at El Paso and San Antonio, Texas; Denver, Colo.; Hot Springs, Ark.; Great Lakes, Ill.; and Battle Creek, Mich.
Applications are sought from women majoring in recreation, group work, physical education, speech art, music or sociology. Psychology students may also apply if they have activity interests and recreation skills, or case work experience.
Interested women may obtain application blanks from Miss Martha Peterson, assistant dean of women.
Old Woman Fit To Be Tied
Memphis —(J,P)— A passer-by thought an elderly matron had suffered a fit until she carried her and saw the hoc scotch squares chalken on the pavement.
—Kansan Photo By Ed Chapin
THE UNIVERSITY'S unfinished 400-foot radio tower fell to the ground Dec.28 after someone deliberately loosened clamps holding the guy wires.The tower was being erected in a field near Pioneer cemetery one mile west of the campus.
KBI Intensifies Search For Man Who Topped FM Radio Tower
BY EDWARD J. CHAPIN
An intensified investigation is being made by police to discover the identity of the person who loosened guy wires and sent the University's 400-foot FM radio tower to tapping to the ground Dec. 28.
"The clamps were loosened deliberately," John Costelow, Topcka contractor, said. "There can be no doubt about it. Seven of the Crosby clamps were removed from the southeast pier and three from the northeast pier."
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation began investigating the case Friday when it became apparent that the tower had been sabotaged. The KBI and Sheriff Travis Glass discovered a 12-in. crescent wrench that apparently had been discarded by the saboteur in his flight through
nearby Pioneer Cemetery. The wrench is being checked for fingerprints
Police officers believe that the man began removing the clamps from the southeast pier but was unable to cause the tower to fall since seven other piers served as anchors. In reconstructing the crime police believe he moved to the northeast pier where he removed, three clamps from the man's apartment grw wires. Next, in order to cause the wires to slip thru the remaining clamps, he used a block of wood to force the clamps loose.
As the tower began to fall the man began his hurried flight through the cemetery. Approximately 125 feet from the northeast pier he either lost or discarded the wrench which he had used to destroy the tower, police said.
The tower is only part of the FM station equipment given to the William Allen White School of Journalism by John P. Harris, Hutchinson newspaper publisher, and his brother, S. F. Harris of Ottawa. Three top sections of the tower had not been erected when the fall occurred. Several of the lower sections may be salvageable, Mr. Costelow believes.
When the station is completed it will have the call letters KANU. While it was situated in Hutchinson the station was known as KIMV-FM. The Costelow Company was awarded the contract to move the equipment in October on a low bid of $22,800. The station was to begin operating in the fall of 1951. It is not known if the damage will cause a delay in the opening date. Extent of damage has not been estimated.
Expedition Will Explore Mexico
A three-man collecting party from the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History left Tuesday for an expedition into interior Arizona, Vernon, Mexico.
In the group were Dr. Rollin Baker, acting director of the museum; Alford J. Robinson, Topeka businessman and wildlife enthusiast; and George Young, museum taxidermist. They will be joined later by J. R. Alcorn, field collector for the museum who already is in Mexico; and Walter Dahlquest of Louisiana State university.
Mr. Dahlquest collected in the jungle area several years while on the K.U. staff.
Wilkins Recital At Eight Tonight
Mr. Robinson and Shawnee Sportsmen, Inc., a Topeka wildlife club, made a grant of $500 to finance the expedition. The group will be gone from three to four weeks.
The party will collect animal and plant specimens for the addition of a tropical North America section to the great panorama in the K.U. museum. Research specimens also will be sought.
A recital from works of Italian opera composers will be presented by Marie and Joseph Wilkins tonight at 8 p.m. in Hoech auditorium.
The program will be divided into two parts, the first presenting an opera composers and the second selections from Verdi operas.
Professor Wilkins, tenor, is head of the department of voice of the School of Fine Arts. Mrs. Wilks, soprano, was a guest teacher here from 1945 to 1949 and has sung leading coloratura roles at the Metropolitan opera in New York
Miss Lear Suffers Fractured Arm
Miss Vita Lear, assistant to the dean of the College, suffered a fractured upper right arm when she slipped and fell on ice Tuesday. Hospital authorities report her condition as good.
More than 10,000,000 acres of land have been leased in Nebraska for oil exploration.
AEC Finances Atomic Study
A grant of $0,720 by the Atomic Energy commission to Dr. Paul W. Gilles, assistant professor of chemistry, for a second year's study in high temperature chemistry was announced today by Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
The research is fundamental in nature and is unclassified with regard to security regulations. The A.E.C. provided $9,100 for the initial year's study.
Dr. Gilles said that three graduate students would hold research assistantships effective Feb. 1. They are Quentin Wheatley and Bernard Pollock, both Ph.D. candidates from Lawrence, and a third student not yet officially appointed.
Two students have recently filled research requirements for advanced degrees through work on the project. They are John L. Margrave and Paul J. Richardson, candidates for the Ph.D. and master's degrees respectively.
Requests For Exam Changes Due
James K. Hitt, registrar of the University and chairman of the Calendar Committee, today announced regulations covering any changes in the times of final examinations in courses or for individual students.
Instructors or students seeking a change or changes in schedule must present requests in writing to Mr. Pitt at 12'2 Strong Hall not later than 5 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 4. Requests on the part of individual students must be complete, showing the entire class schedule of the student, the nature of the conflict, and recommendations of any instructive concern.
Those submitting requests will be fled in writing of the action of committee
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1951
"The Calendar Committee grants very few such requests, and only those in which it appears that the nature of the conflict is such that greater hardship would be worked upon all concerned by following the examination schedule, than by making a change.
"Mere convenience to the student or to the instructor cannot be considered a valid reason for change of final examination time." Mr. Hitt emphasized. "A genuine conflict, entirely beyond the control of the student, resolution of which may not be accomplished by other means than changing the final examination time, must be demonstrated."
cessive load on the student. Unless competent medical authority indicates that it is too great a burden on the student to have three examinations on one day, no requests for change will be granted for this reason.
"Three final examinations in one day are not considered to be an ex-
"On the other hand, it is felt that no student should be required to take as many as four examinations in one day. Those having four examinations scheduled on one day are invited to submit their cases to the committee."
Those who did not save the copy of the final examination schedule printed in the Tuesday, Dec. 19, University Daily Kansan can obtain copies at the Registrar's office or at the offices of the deans.
Women's Clubs To Hold Group Meetings Jan. 4
The University Women's Club will hold neighborhood group meetings on Thursday afternoon and evening.
Group one will meet at 7:45 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Edward Kumpe, 1104 Tennessee street. Mrs. Arvid McCormick and John Parks of the School of Fine Arts will speak and give a demonstration of textile painting.
Group two will meet at 8 p.m. at the home of Mrs, Guy Keeler, 1769 Indiana street. Mrs. Paul Brotsman and Mrs. Vernor Smith are co-chairmen of the group. Prof. M. D. Clubb will speak and show pictures of the Grand Canyon.
Group twelve will meet at the home of Mrs. J. D. Stranathan, 1510 Crescent Road at 2:30 p.m. Mrs. H. A. Ireland is the group chairman. Mrs. A. H. Turney will speak on her recent trip to Europe.
Group eleven will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. W. H. Horr. 1030% Maine street. Mrs. Richard Schieflbusch is group chairman. Miss Lilja Peussa, a graduate student from Finland, will speak.
Group five will meet at the home of Mrs. E. E. Bayles, 1408 Kentucky street at 8 p.m. Mrs. William Simpson is group chairman. Professor Bayles will speak on his trip to Japan and show some of the Japanese pieces he brought back.
Group four will meet at the home of Mrs. W. H. Schoewe, 1002 Tennessee street at 8 p.m. Miss Kay Ewart is chairman of the group. An informal evening of knitting and sewing is planned.
Group eight will have a dessert meeting at 1:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Tom Fage, 2131 Rhode Island street. Mrs. R. W. Wilson is group chairman. Mr. Peter Keleti of the department of architecture will speak and show pictures on contemporary design for homes.
Group seven will meet at the home of Mrs. Maurice Gross, 125 East 23rd street at 2:30 p.m. Mrs. Gross and Mrs. William R. Scott are co-chairmen of the group. Mrs. Ralph Canuteson will speak and show some of the china she brought back from her trip to Europe.
Group ten will meet at the home of Mrs. Faul Malone, 1638 Indiana street at 8 p.m. Mrs. Gerald Pearson and Mrs. W. R. Terrell are cochairmen of the group. An evening of bridge or sewing has been planned.
Group six will meet at the home of Mrs. William Argersinger, 1831 New Hampshire street at 7:45 p.m. Mrs. R. M. Davis is group chairman. Professor and Mrs. John Ise will speak and show pictures of their European trip.
The formation of a committee to set a date for and plan the dedication of the World War II Memorial campanile has been announced by Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
of Fine Arts was named chairman.
Other members are Carl V. Rice,
Kansas City, Kan; Edward W. Tanner,
Kansas City, Mo.; Justice Hugo
T. Wedell, Topeka; Mrs. Harold Barr
and Charles Holmes, Lawrence;
and from the KU, staff, Fred Ellsworth,
Guy V. Keeler, Allen Crafton, Donald
Alderson, Miss Elin Jorgensen
and Tom Yoe.
Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts, Washington University.
Group Named To Set Date
The bell tower is now complete except for installation of the 53-bell carillon and the finishing work that can be done only then. Grading of the Mount Oread promontory overlooking the stadium is now in progress.
Casting of the bells is now being completed in England and delivery is expected this spring. It is hoped that dedication ceremonies can be held in May or June.