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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN LAWRENCE KANSAS
MONDAY. DECEMBER 18, 1950
Engineers Plan Sewage Disposal Conference
A conference on sanitary engineering, the first of its kind in the state, will be held at the University Thursday, Jan. 11.
Dwight F. Metzler, chief engineer for the Kansas state board of health, said Monday that the one-day conference will be sponsored by the KU, civil engineering department and the state board of health. Metzler said the program is planned for city engineers, consulting sanitary engineers, equipment salesmen and contractors engaged in the design or building of sewer systems and sewage treatment works.
F. M. Veatch, Kansas City, Mo,
will instruct on the design of trick-
ling filters, Charles A. Haskins, a
consulting engineer, Kansas City,
Mo., will lead a period on the
theory of sewage treatment. The
other instructors, both of the state
board of health staff, will be Gordon
M. Mau, "Calculating Stream Load-
ings;" and Roger D. Lee, "Sedimentation Theory and Practices."
Many Kansas cities must construct sewage treatment and disposal plants within a few years. The conference is planned with the aim of clarifying technical problems arising from the new and higher standards limiting stream pollution.
Metzler will preside at the conference. T. DeWitt Carr, dean of the school of engineering and architecture, will welcome the group to the campus. All meetings will be in Fraser theater.
This Girl Knows The Score
Memphis—(U.P.)—Carol Farqhara-
son racked up 84 points when her
Chi Sigma basketball team beat
Sigma 100 to 2.
A Cappella Choir Holds Annual Sing
The University A Cappella choir will hold its annual Christmas "Sing" around the large Christmas tree in the rotunda of Strong hall at 4:20 p.m. today.
Solisto will be sopranos Jeanne Aldridge, graduate student, and Joyce Ristine, fine arts freshman; and Clayton Krehbiel, education instructor, tenor. The choir is under the direction of D.M. Swarthout, professor of piano.
Washington (U.P.)—The Department of Defense today announced the following casualties in the Korean area for Kansas.
New Kansas Casualties
Died of Wounds
Private first class Carl K. Estell
and Carol Estell, 112 North 12th
Arkansas City
Corporal George Stephen Puhr, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. George S. Puhr, Sr., 4209 Mission Rd., Kansas City.
Wounded
Chief warrant Officer Loyd Vernon Dirst, son of Mrs. Lela Bestwick. 106 N. 12th St. Hiawatha.
Corporal Charles Louis Bell.
Glasco...
Private first class Wayne Kozak
3115
Strong Aye. Kansas City.
Sergeant first class Bobby Bailey husband of Mrs. Ardith A. Bailey, Woodbine
Missing In Action
Sergeant Alfred L. Demain, son of Mrs. Lulu E. Demain, Dighton, Newton, Kans.
Major Jess E. Evans, husband of Mrs. Lizabelle B. Evans, 1620 North Jefferson St. Junction City.
Sergeant Massey O. Lewis, husband of Mrs. Frances N. Lewis, 324 West 12th St., Junction City.
Killed In Action
Killed in Action
Corporal Walter M. Whitman,
husband of Mrs. Mildred N. Whit-
man, 1315 Haskell Ave., Lawrence.
Law School Class Practices In Green Hall Courtroom
"Your honor, my colleague, the counsel for the defense, has erect in several statements. I should like to point out the correct legal interpretation of this case."
A scene in a downtown courtroom? No, a scene likely to be taking place any afternoon after 4 p.m. in the practice courtroom in the basement of Green hall.
Early in the semester members of Court Practice II, a required noncredit course for second year law students, were handed cases to be prepared and tried before a panel of three judges. Two students worked on the side of the defendant and two for the plaintiff. About Dec. 1 the first of the cases were brought to "trial."
The three judges, one faculty member from the School of Law and two students who have already taken the course, act as a panel of appellate court judges. Under conditions very like an actual court-
their cases, complete with briefs room the future lawyers present and verbal clashes. The judges request clarification of uncertain points of law, listen carefully to both sides, and give their judgments. The students are graded on how they present the "case," not on whether they win it or not.
Most afternoons there is a liberal sprinkling of spectators, either watching a friend perform, taking notes on a particular point, or just soaking up the courtroom atmosphere.
-Photo by Richard Clarkson.
"MADONNA OF THE NORTH" a tableau in the Christmas Vespers presented Sunday by the School of Fine Arts. Joyce Nickell, fine arts sophomore, is the Madonna and John Harris, fine arts junior, is the man. The tableau was designed and made by the departments of design and drawing and painting.
Annual Christmas Vespers Attracts 7,000 Persons
By ELLSWORTH ZAHM
Approximately 7,000 persons attended the two performances of the traditional Christmas Vespers Sunday in Hoch auditorium.
Carols from the balcony of the auditorium and chimes from Dyche tower greeted Vesper goers. Inside, the auditorium stage was simply set with Christmas trees grouped around three taper holders on each side of the stage. The tableaux were presented on a raised platform at the back of the stage.
The first, "The Madonna of the North," depicted the Virgin and the Christ child in a northern setting watched over by a man and two animals. The background was a soft blue.
The three tableaux were beautifully and simply done. A tableau is a vivid representation of some scene by the grouping of persons who remain silent and motionless in appropriate postures.
Two boys in choir robes lit the tapers. The A Cappella choir, wearing blue robes and white stoles and carrying candles, formed a procession down two side aisles. Singing "O Come All Ye Faithful" they divided into two groups and sat facing each other on the stage. There were approximately 115 in the choir.
The second, "The Wise Men before Herod," was a living picture showing Herod wearing white shirts standing on a dais with three colorfully clad wise men before him. The background was a brilliant red.
"Flight into Egypt" was the last and showing Mary and the Christ child astride a donkey with Joseph following carrying a long staff. A great head of the Sphinx was against a blue background.
Clayton Krehbiel, director; and the audience participated in the program. The audience sang two carols, the popular "Joy To The World" and "Silent Night."
The A. Cappella chair, D. M.
Swarthout director; the University
Symphony orchestra, Russell L.
Wiley, director; the choral ensemble.
The program was broadcast over station KFKU from 4 to 5:30 p.m.
A-Bomb Movie To Be Tonight
Films showing how the atom bomb works, its effects, and a proposed civil defense program will be shown at 7 tonight, in the drill hall of the Military Science building. The hour long movie is open to the public.
The films are sequences from the March of Time telling how the A-bomb is made and the devastation it can create. They also show some of the men who helped make the bomb possible and an explanation of the difference between chemical and nuclear energy.
There are scenes of the damage caused by atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan. The civil defense set-up will show what can be done to reduce the number of casualties in case of an attack. L. Worth Seagondollar, assistant professor of physics, will be present to answer questions.
Buy your K.U. Calendar.-Adv.
KU Professor Writes New Book On Coastal Area
Carlyle S. Smith, assistant professor of anthropology, is the author of a study "The Archeology of Coastal New York," published this month by the American Museum of Natural history in New York City.
It is the only book devoted to the
city area of coastal New York
State.
Smith began collecting material for the study in 1932 when he was a junior in high school. At the time he did not realize that eventually the hobby would provide material for obtaining a Ph.D, degree from Columbia university. Field work covered a 15-year period. Most of the writing has been done since Smith joined the faculty in 1947.
Smith reports on archeological finds unearthed in some 40 sites in the short New York strip between Connecticut and New Jersey and on Long Island. He found evidence left by early inhabitants belonging to two distinct time periods.
Indians living in the area in the pre-ceramic period, which probably antedates 700 A.D., had no pottery but left a wide variety of projectile points of chipped stone used for hunting. The pottery culture era, approximately 1100-1700 A.D., left numerous items of earthenware and evidence of the practice of agriculture. Shellfish appear to have been an important item in the diet of the peoples belonging to both cultures.
Student Hurt In Auto Crash
Richard E. Heikes, College and medicine freshman, and two other persons were injured Sunday evening in an automobile accident about three miles east of Perry.
Heikes suffered shock and lacerations of the face and scalp. He was taken to Watkins hospital where he is reported in good condition.
Also injured was Mrs. Juanita Shedrick, Kansas City, Mo., who is reported in good condition in Lawrence Memorial hospital. Her husband, Harry Shedrick, was treated and released.
Both of the cars involved in the accident were badly damaged.
Snow flurries are expected to morrow in the extreme northeast. Otherwise the same dry weather pattern will persist that has stretched Kansas' fall drouth to two and a half months.
A slightly warmer trend was in progress in Kansas today. Temperatures will turn colder again tomorrow afternoon in the northeast and north-central sections.
WEATHER
Library Records Show Fewer Books Checked Out This Year
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By MARION KLIEWER
Miss Frances DeArmond, circulation librarian, said that 6,468 books were checked out in November of this year as compared to 8,749 in the previous year and the drive in enrollment of 1,700 students must be taken into account.
University students didn't study as much in November as they did a year ago that month. That is, if records of the circulation desk in Watson library prove anything.
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Yet in November, 1949, there was about a 6 per cent increase over the previous year. The trend was also true for October, 1949, when compared with October, 1948. That year there was a 26 per cent increase in circulation.
All this amounts to the fact that,
accordingly, students last year
An interesting point arises when 1949 records are compared to those of 1948. There was a drop in end-users more than 1,000 students that year.
Figures in the main reserve library indicate that students start studying industriously in the fall. Miss Flora Ewart, reserve librarian, has records to show that students usually check out the most books in October. This rush slumps until the end of the Christmas vacation at which time students renew their reserve reading.
In October, 1949, approximately 14,000 books were checked at the main reserve desk. In November the figure was down to 13,300 and fell to 9,700 in December. For the remainder of the school year of 1949-50 the records were: January, 11,700;
Miss Ewart said that small books are the most popular with students. She said it makes little difference how small the print is; that students insist on reading them.
checked out more books than this year's students are doing.
"We always know when a term paper is due by the high number
The record number of check-outs at the main reserve desk is the nearly 24,000 books handled in October, 1948. In May of 1949, 16,000 books were checked out. Charles M. Baker director of libraries, explained the increases by pointing out that some classes didn't have textbooks that year and had to rely on reserve books for classroom use.
February, 9,500; March, 10,600; April,
7,600; and May, 10,700.
On Sept. 30, 1948, 1,413 books were checked from the main reserve to make the day the greatest in Watson circulation history. The average is between 450 and 500 books.
of periodicals requested," Miss Ewart said.
Mrs. Carmen Sydney, Green room librarian, said that students in Western Civilization got off to a good start this fall, but since then interest has fallen. This conclusion is based solely on reserve records.
Students using the education reserve books are busiest during October and July.
February, 1950, was the first month the Green room was open. About 4,000 books were checked in that month. The highest month has been October, 1950, with 8,211 books.
The Green room has books on sociology, social work, human relations, home economics, speech and drama, and journalism.
In October, 1950, 4,000 books were checked and in July, 1950, 4,000
Journalism books are read more than any other books on the reserve. Mrs. Sydney said.
books were checked. The reason for the high circulation in July is the research work done by education students for these. Many teachers attend the Summer Session to do graduate work and thus use many books.
The average circulation during the past 10 years for October has been 4,950 books and for July, 5,680.
The education reserve includes all reserve books for education, psychology, and philosophy. It has all the stack books for education. All current magazines for these three fields are also in the education reserve.
Mrs. Magda K. Jensen, education librarian, said that physical education books are called for most commonly. Other education books are art, childhood, music education and educational sociology.