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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1950
'Nativity Play' Is Successfully Given
By RICHARD HUNTER
Heavenly choirs, Gabriel, Joseph and Mary brought a church-like atmosphere to the Little theater of Green hall Tuesday night as the "Nativity Play" was presented.
In keeping tradition Thomas Shay, instructor of speech, announced the play was about to begin, and that the audience should give its full attention.
Brilliant portrayals were given by; Curtis Glover, fine arts senior; as Gabriel; Frederick Burton, fine arts freshman; as Joseph; Opal Fleming, fine arts junior; as Mary; Wilson O'Connell, College senior, as King Herod; Patricia Elliott, College freshman, as Rachel; and Wayne Helgesen, fine arts sophomore, as the third Shepherd.
Others in the cast were: Joseph Myers, Liberty Memorial High school student, Isaiah; John Welsh, College sophomore, Arnold; and Donald Zurbuchen, education senior, Queen; Donnard Trent, engineering senior, First Shepherd; Joe Winters, engineering freshman, Second Shepherd; Jack Pickering, Nuntius; Richard Sheldon, Baltazar; and Jerry Kudson, Jasper, College freshmen; Peter Keleti, graduate student, Melchior; and Janith Lewis, College sophomore, a maiden.
Others were Edna Riley, education senior, and Norma Lo Falletta, College freshman, as two women; Soldiers were played by Donald Zurbuchen, Donald Trent, Joe Winters, and Mark Gilman, College freshman.
Three Lawrence elementary and Junior High school students in the play were Carolyn, Virginia, and Kenneth Kreve.
The beautiful choir music, "Noel," "Gloria," and "Kyrie Eleison," composed by Willard Straight, fine arts senior, added immeasurably to the religious mood of the play.
The "Nativity Play" will be given again at 8 tonight, and 3 p.m. Sunday.
Debate Teams Win At Iowa
Four students, representing the University debate squad, received the highest rating at the Iowa debate tournament, held Dec. 1 and 2. The debaters, Jack Stewart, and Eugene Balloon, business seniors; Haywood Davis, College junior; and Win Koerper, College and law junior, debated the question: "Resolved that the non-communist nations should form a new international organization."
Each team of two debated four times. Stewart and Balloon won all four of their debates with a 4.7 team rating. Balloon won second highest ranking of any individual in the tournament. Schools that debated against the two were Michigan State, Kansas State, Nebraska, and Illinois.
Davis and Koerper received a 4.0 team rating, but encountered tough competition from Iowa, South Dakota University, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin, and lost three while winning one.
In the discussion part of the tournament, with the subject "Responsibility of the federal government for welfare of the people of the United States," Stewart received a rating of superior, Balloun and Koerper each received a rating of excellent, and Davis received a 3.5 or good rating.
Balloon spoke on conservation of natural resources in the extemporaneous speaking contest, and received third place in the contest with a 4.0 rating.
Hush-Hush Preview Reveals Proposed Army Fashions
Washington—(U.P.)—A hush-hush preview of a proposed gray uniform for army officers and men was held recently at the Pentagon.
Medical School Offers Physicians Postgrad Course
Top-ranking army officers who got a look at the uniform declined comment, but it was reported that models in varying shades were displayed. The possibility of replacing the army's traditional olive drab has been under consideration for two years, but nothing has been decided to date.
Several hundred physicians will converge on eight centers to attend the first offering of the 1950-51 University of Kansas circuit course in postgraduate medical education this week.
Teams of two instructors will start Tuesday in Beloit and Iola. On consecutive days they will visit the other three centers on each circuit. On January 9 the instructors will exchange circuits and repeat the process.
Each two-doctor team includes a member of the K.U. medical faculty and a prominent Kansas practicing physician.
The circuit course plan by which the K.U. medical school takes the best in medical education to the doorstep of practicing physicians has experienced a steady growth. This year the circuit is being expanded from seven to eight centers. Six monthly programs will be given at each center.
Dr. William H. Algie of Kansas City and Dr. D. Bernard Foster, director of the division of neurology and neurosurgery at the Menninger foundation, Topeka, will instruct on the northwestern circuit next week. Dr. Algie, assistant professor of pharmacology at KU., will lecture on new drugs. Dr. Foster will instruct on psychiatry.
This year the southeastern circuit is Iola, Coffeyville, Newton and Junction City. On the northwestern circuit are Beloit, Colby, Garden City and Great Bend.
On the southeastern circuit will be Dr. Howard E. Snyder of Winfield, who will instruct on surgery and varicose veins; and Dr. Sloan J. Wilson, associate professor of medicine and oncology, who will lecture on diseases of the blood.
The Kansas Medical society and the Kansas State Board of Health are co-sponsors with K.U. of the circuit course plan.
To Show Cancer Movie Today
A movie, "Challenge: Science Against Cancer" will be shown in Strong auditorium at 3,4,and 5 p.m. today. The University Medical center will present the film for the benefit of the public.
Three Below Zero; Five Year Record
List Kansas War Casualties
Robert M. Green, second year law, will speak at a Young Democrats meeting in 106 Green hall at 7:30 pm. Thursday. Green is the newly-elected representative to the Kansas legislature from the 52nd district.
Student Legislator To Talk
Washington—(U.P.) — The Department of Defense today announced the following Kansas casualties in the Korean area:
Missing in action: army; Private First Class Kenneth A. Banister, son of Mrs. Slyvia Banister, Arkansas City; Sergeant First Class Carlis J. Callahan, husband of Mrs. Norma Callahan, Kansas City; Private Elmer L. Miller, son of Mrs. Irene Miller, Olathe, Major R. B. Straight, husband of Mrs. Mildred F. D. Straight, Topeka, and Master Sergeant Carl W. Waterbury, husband of Mrs. Rosa L. Waterbury, Junction City.
Killed in action: marine corps; Private First Class Gerald D. Hooper, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hooper, Athol.
Wounded: army; Sergent First Class Robert E. Mauldin, husband of Mrs. Dorothy H. Mauldin, Chapman; Corporal Louis A. Hornback, son of Theodore Hornback, Kansas City; Sergent Johnny C. Lenon, son of Mrs. Easter E. Lenon, Independence; and Corporal David L. Tucker, son of Mrs. Etha B. Tucker, Greensburg.
Students who braved the elements to attend 8 a.m. classes this morning experienced the coldest December day in five years.
The mercury hovered at three below zero this morning, the coldest since December, 1945, when eight below was reached. The lowest December temperature ever recorded in Lawrence was 15 below zero on Dec. 15, 1932. C. J. Posey, volunteer weather observer, said this morning.
Elsewhere in Kansas the United Press reported several sub-zero temperatures with the coldest reading in the statewide deep freeze Goodland's 14 degrees below zero.
It was the coldest readings at the frosty high plains outpost near the Colorado border since March, 10, 1948.
North winds brought the stinging cold wave with such other subzero minimums as these:
Hill City -6, Russell and Clathe-
-5, Garden City, Dodge City,
Phillipsburg, Concordia, Wamego,
Topeka and Emporia -4, Chanute and
Hutchinson -2 and Wichita -1.
Anthony had a low of 2 above.
This was the most frigid Dec. 6 since the one seven years ago when Horton recorded -19. Kansas' coldest December day in weather history was 26 below zero at Oberlin Dec. 12, 1932.
It was indicated, however, that the army intends to keep the so-called @isenhower jacket which is short and fits snugly at the waist.
The snow is over and the sun is out, said state weatherman Richard Garrett. However, increasing cloudiness is due in the west and there is a possibility of light snow in the west and north-central sectors by Thursday night.
One proposal is that the new gray uniforms should be made of the same material for both officers and men. Officers now have authority to buy olive drab uniforms made of more expensive materials.
Members of the Women's Army Corps also are experimenting with a new uniform of a soft taupe shade. Designed by Hattie Carnegie for WACs, army nurses, and women's medical specialists, it is intended to become official in January, 1951. However, only a limited number—less than 100—have been issued for test purposes.
The Kansas lows tonight are due to range from 5 above in the east to 10-15 above in the west. Daytime temperatures tomorrow will moderate to a 25-30 degree range, Mr. Garrett said.
Students Attend Classes While Mounted On Horses
Attending class on horseback sounds unusual but it's accepted practice for members of equitation classes who do it twice a week. Only rain or very cold weather keep them off the horses and in the lecture room.
The marine corps also has unveiled a new dress uniform for its women members.
It consists of a midnight blue ness jacket with straight formal skirt, flared at the hem, and a tailored blouse of white silk trimmed at the waist. The jacket, worn open, is ornamented with gold and silver bullion embroidery. A scarlet cummerbund completes the outfit.
Two Students Improving
Watkins hospital authorities said today that the condition of two students who underwent surgery Monday and Tuesday is good. DuWayne Englert, College freshman, was operated on Monday afternoon, and Max Herbert Cunningham, business senior, on Tuesday morning.
Donald W. Henry, instructor of physical education, is teaching equitation for the fourth year. He is assisted by Gayle Mott, owner of the horses.
The evening dress for women marines follows the same color scheme as that of the formal attire of male marine corps members.
Symphony Orchestra To Present Concert
A complete program of Tchaikovsky's music will be presented by 85 members of the University symphony orchestra under the direction of Russell L. Wiley, professor of
RUSSELL L. WILEY
The symphony concert will be the 17th given under the direction of Professor Wiley since he began working with the orchestra in 1941.
band and orchestra, at 8 p.m. Thursday in Hoch auditorium.
Roger Butts will play a piano solo of the popular "Piano Concerto in B Minor," Butts, a senior in fine arts, is a pupil of Jan Chiapsous, professor of piano, and is in his fourth year as accompanist for the Men's Glee club.
The opening number will be the "Romeo and Juliet, Overture—Fantasy." The second presentation will be the "Piano Concerto in B minor," and the symphony will close with the "Pathetique" or Sixth symphony.
"This is one of the most difficult programs that we have assembled, and it is of top professional caliber when it comes to technical difficulty." Professor Willey said.
"The audience reaction is the final seal of approval on the student work," he said, "and we hope for a large audience."
Karet Blaas, assistant professor of music theory and viola, will be concertmaster. Professor Blaas came to the University from Rochester, N.Y. in 194. He was a member of the Rochester Civic symphony orchestra. Lynden Goodwin, College freshman, will play principal second violin.
The symphony orchestra presents two programs annually, one in the fall and another in the spring.
Arthur B. Tice, graduate student, will play first viola; Maurice Pollom, fine arts senior, principal cello; Jerome Mandle, senior in education, principal string bass; Tom Lovitt, junior in education, principal trumpet; Eugene Oreutt, graduate student, first trombone; Edith Nichols, freshman in fine arts, first oboe;
ROGER BUTTS
Eugene Johnson, fine arts sophomore, principal flute; Duncan Sommerville, senior in education, principal bassoon; and Robert Ausherman, senior in education, principal clarinet.
About 60 per cent of the students know how to ride to some extent when they enter the class, Mr. Henry estimated. "Quite a few have never been on a horse or are afraid of them," he added, "but after they get over their fear they come right along with the others."
In addition, the students learn a little about jumping and play musical chairs and versions of basketball and tag on horseback. If they can get equipment for it, Mr. Henry said he wants to add polo to the schedule.
> "We take students wherever they happen to be in experience," said Mr. Henry, "and teach them how to ride and care for a horse."
"After the students can saddle and bridle a horse and mount and dismount, they learn to ride at a walk, "post" at a canter, and how to "cue" a horse to change. "If they're good enough, we teach them how to five-gait a horse," Mr. Henry said.
"The one bad feature of the course," said Mr. Henry, "is that the students must pay extra for riding the horses since they do not belong to the University." "However," he added, "it is at a lower rate than usual.
Marjorie Lee Brown. College sophomore, is one student who knew how to ride horses but had never ridden much with a saddle. She took the course the past semester partly because she "just liked to ride and partly to learn a little more about it."
"I enjoyed it very much" Miss Brown said, "and I think you really get your money's worth. It is a very informal and interesting class. We had a lot of fun and even had a picnic near the end of the semester."