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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1950
Freezing Snow Falls As Cold Wave Sets In
Freezing snow which began falling on the campus Monday night had covered streets and sidewalks with a thin glaze of ice by early afternoon today making walking and driving hazardous.
Drivers and pedestrians exercised extreme caution. However, several cars were stalled on the streets to the campus, notably along Mississippi street. They had to be rescued by fellow drivers and occasionally a passer-by would lend a hand. Not many drivers tried to climb the steep 14th street hill.
Strong northerly winds carried the arctic air directly south over the great plains and the Mississippi valley. The mercury headed toward zero and below in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, and the Dakotas.
As temperatures dropped below freezing, buildings and grounds employees spread sand and gravel on the slick pavement. The ascending side of most streets received a generous covering of small gravel and the campus sidewalks were spread with sand.
Goodland, where the state's high temperature of 58 was reported Monday, recorded zero for the Kansas low today. The cold wave struck Goodland during the night and drove the mercury downward $18\frac{1}{2}$ degrees in an hour. Winds were reported 35 to 40 miles an hour with gusts to 50.
The United Press reported today that a blizzard struck through Nebraska into Kansas riding on a cold wave that sent temperatures plunging as far south as Texas, but floods abated in California and along the Ohio river.
Snow ended at mid-morning in Western Kansas but the region was warned against extreme low temperatures tonight and continued high winds.
Snowfall measured 2 inches at Phillipsburg and 1 inch at Russell, Concordia, and Goodland.
Temperatures over much of Kansas will fall to zero tonight.
French Club Sends Gifts
Children in Orleans, France will receive Christmas parcels from the French club at the University for the fifth time this year.
In 1947 an American exchange student from the University met the schoolmasters of a girls' grade school in Orleans. She wrote to the officers of the French club and asked for food and clothing to distribute to the children in the Orleans school.
Since 1947 the directors of the Orleans school have kept the French department informed about the children receiving the gifts and the activities of the school. The French department has received many examples of artwork and photographs from the Orleans children.
AWS Sets Up Two Precincts
Two precincts for women living in private homes were organized Monday at a meeting sponsored by the Associated Women Students. Approximately 50 women attended the meeting.
Precinct I will meet at 4 p.m. Monday, Dec. 11, in the East room of the Union and precinct II will meet at the same time in the A.W.S. women's lounge, 222 Strong hall. Each group will elect a president, a representative to the A.W.S. house, and chairmen for business, contact, intramural, and social committees. These officers will meet together Thursday, Dec. 14, to plan the program for the year.
Edris McCarty, education senior,
is chairman of the A.W.S. precinct
committee and she was assisted by
Loretta Cooley, College sophomore.
Carol Krehbiel, College junior,
and Jane Floyd, College sophomore,
will help them.
A. W. S. summer counsellors were chosen to serve as precinct advisers. For precinct I advisers are; Harriet Flood, Cynthia McKee, and Anneliese Schnierle, College sophomores, and Ann Wagner, education sophomore.
Precinct II advisers are: Suzanne Springer and Ada Watson, College juniors; Virginia Mackey, College sophomore, and Patricia Harris, fine arts junior.
Cancer Film To Be Shown Wednesday
A cancer instruction film, "Challenge-Science against Cancer" will be presented at 3, 4, and 5 p.m. Wednesday in Strong auditorium.
Dr. Paul G. Roofe, chairman of the anatomy department, said the 35-minute film is being sponsored by the School of Medicine. Its primary purpose is to make everyone aware of the incidence and nature of cancer, Dr. Roofe said. He urged that all students see the film.
"It is being shown both to instruct the public and to make doctors more conscious of their duty in fighting such a universal disease," Dr. Roofe said.
Cello And Piano Concert Well Received By Large Audience
By ELLSWORTH ZAHM
Two skillful and mature artists, Nikolai and Joanna Graudan, made a magnificient impression on concert goers with their cello and piano concert Monday night in Strong auditorium.
Although the expressive duo seemed to play too intensely some of the selections, they played as one, giving listeners more the impression of a solo recital. Both were equally good as soloists, and their tones were beautiful.
The concert was also unusual in that neither musician used music. Both played the difficult program from memory. Nikolai, the celloist, played the entire concert with his eyes closed.
The ensemble opened the concert with "Sonata" by Carl P. Emmanuel both. The "Sonata in G minor. Opus 53" by Carl Schubert followed, was romantically done.
The interesting "Sonata-Fantasia" by Babin, was an extremely difficult
Mendelssohn's "Sonata in D major, Opus 55" seemed slightly overdone and the cellist playing sometimes overshadowed the piano.
For an encore, the well received Nikalai and Joanna played part of a Brahm's sonata in minuet form. The enthusiastic audience called the couple back three times after the encore.
number. There was a palpable dissonance. The composer and his wife, Vronsky and Babin, a two piano team, played a concert at the University about 12 years ago. This was the first time that many of Monday night's audience had seen Babin's name on a program as a composer.
Atlantic Union Committeeman To Talk Here
A representative of the Atlantic Union committee, Henry Cornehlsen, Jr., will speak at 8 p.m. Wednesday night in the Hawk's Nest of the Union. The topic of his talk will be "The Atlantic Union and the Question of War or Peace."
Mr. Cornehlens is a journalist who has spent several years behind the Russian "iron curtain." During 1946 and 1947 he traveled through China and spent part of 1949 in the Russian sector of Germany. He has traveled around the world two times.
The Atlantic Union committee which has about 300 prominent American members, has been organized to advocate the proposal of a federation of the democracies of the world. Mr. Cornehlsen is speaking here through the sponsorship of the KU. chanter of the committee.
Prominent Kansans who belong to the committee include Chancellor Deane W. Malot, President James McCain of Kansas State College, and W. L. White, son of the late William Allen White, of Emporia.
Well-known men from all over the United States who have voiced their approval of the plan include atomic scientists Harold Urey, Arthus Compton, and Carl Compton.
Conservatives John Foster Dulles, ex-Governor Edison of New Jersey, and ex-secretary of War Robert Patterson are in this category, as are liberal Senators Herbert Lehm (D.-N.Y.), Estes Kefauver (D.-Tenn), and ex-senator Frank Graham (D.-N.C.).
Fur Exhibit Is At Museum
A fur exhibit intended to help trappers increase their incomes has been opened at the Museum of Natural History and will remain on display during the trapping season through January.
The exhibit includes properly prepared and stretched pelts of Kansas and Missouri furbearing mammals, such as moose, weasel, coyote, skunk, and fox.
Rollin H. Baker, acting director of the museum, said that profitable trapping depends not only on the trapper's ability to trap, but also on proper pelt handling. Superior pelts must be fully prime, correctly skinned, well dried and properly stained and dried. Proper pelt handling techniques for the different kinds of native furbearers can be learned from the exhibit.
The trapping season is limited to December and January, the time when furs are prime and bring the highest prices. In some years Kansas trappers realize as much as $750,000 from the sale of pelts.
Dr. Baker said this income could be increased by application of some conservation practices such as leaving some fur animals for future breeding stock and preserving and improving den sites.
Dr. Willard Hoehn of the Mid-West Research institute of Kansas City, Mo., will be guest speaker at the Phi Sigma, honorary biological society, initiation at 8 p.m. today in 417 Snow ball.
Phi Sigma To Hear Chemist
Dr. John Hoehn received his Ph.D. degree in 1936 from Iowa State college and served as a research chemist for the Mayo clinic from 1936 to 1939.
He is also an associate professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at Kansas City university. His field of study is on hormones, sterols, and bile acids.
The lecture will be followed by an initiation of new members.
World Wide News
US Support Of UN Only Way Out: Truman
Washington—(U.P.)—President Truman said today that U.S. support of the United Nations "is the only way out of an endless circle of force and retaliation, violence and war."
Mr. Truman, addressing the Mid-century White House conference on children and youth, said the war in Korea is but one phase of a life and death struggle with "Communist Imperialism" that could plunge mankind into a new dark age.
UN To Act On Chinese In Korea
Lake Success—(U.P.)The United Nations General Assembly takes its first step today toward getting Communist Chinese troops out of Korea.
The assembly's 15-member general (steering) committee meets to accept the west's request that the Chinese Communist intervention in the Korean war be added to the agenda of the 60-nation group as an "urgent and important" item.
The request was filed with U.N. officials yesterday by the United States, Britain, France, Norway, Cuba, and Ecuador. They will put before the steering committee today an explanatory memorandum supporting their charges of open entry into the Korean conflict by the Peking government.
The West's resolution against the Chinese Communists was not expected to be published until President Truman and the British Prime Minister Clement Attlee are in full agreement on the action to be sought against Peking.
reports from Washington that Mr. Attlee would come here Thursday or Friday to confer with Secretary-General Trygve Lie and the Assembly President Nasrollah Entezam of Iran raised hopes that by then the West's top chiefs of state might have agreed on a plan for settling the Far Eastern crisis through the U.N.
Telfel Honored For Editing,
And International Relations
Emil E. Telfel, associate professor of journalism, has been included in the second edition of the Directory of American Scholars. He was selected for his outstanding work in newspaper make-up, editing and international relations.
"The effort of the evil forces of communism to reach out and dominate the world confronts our nation and our civilization with the greatest challenge in our history," he said.
He said American troops fighting in Korea against "tremendous odds" have the entire country united to hind them because the people are aware of the grave danger of a general conflict."
Both Parties Predict Tax Bill Approval
Washington — (U.P.) Democratic and Republican leaders joined in predicting overwhelming house approval today of legislation levying a 75 per cent tax on war-swollen corporation profits.
Democrats estimated the bill will yield 3.4 billion dollars in new revenue in this fiscal year. As the economy expands to meet the war emergency, they said, the measure "may reasonably be expected" to yield as must as 4.6 billion dollars a year.
Republicans didn't dispute these figures but proposed an alternate plan which they claimed should yield 200 million dollars to 300 million dollars a year more. They recommended an increase in corporation income taxes combined with a milder excess profits tax rate.
Mr. Coburn, Mrs. Dorothy L. Coleman, reference librarian; and deLafayette Reid, Jr., assistant director of libraries; have conducted eight classes this semester instructing English classes in the use of the library.
"We would be very happy to instruct any other groups how to use the library's resources. Many students apologize when they ask for information at the reference desk. As librarians we're here to help students and they should not hesitate to ask any questions."
Atlantic Pact Will Name General Soon
German manpower will form a vital part of the fighting force—if the Germans are willing. The big job ahead, once the other nations reach agreement, is to sell the Germans on the idea.
The 12 Atlantic pact deputies, who have been wrangling over details since July 19, were reported near agreement on all phases of the big, new European army.
London—U.(P.)—The Atlantic pact nations are expected to announce Wednesday that they have agreed on the creation of an Allied armed force under Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to defend Europe.
The library has such encyclopedias as the Encyclopedia Americana, the New International Encyclopedia, the New American Encyclopedia, and the Social Sciences Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.
The encyclopedia merely gives a survey of a subject while textbooks
"Of course the hour lecture is just an introduction." Mr. Coburn said. Most of the English classes come to get information for writing term papers.
Vast Resources Of Library Are Maze To Many Students
"Many students are not acquainted with the library. They all themselves to be confused by the size of its resources and therefore hesitate in using them. Many are just not aware of what may be found in their library," he said.
Many students don't know how to use their library! At least that's what Morton Coburn, stack supervisor in Watson library, thinks.
provide detailed information. Students should know that the key to the library is the card catalogue situated at the end of the reference room labby. The library's 500,000 books are listed under the author's name, title, and subject of book in alphabetical arrangement.
To provide students with the latest developments in all fields, the library files around 2,000 periodicals. Indices for the contents of these magazines are located in the bibliography corridor at the west end of the reference room.
Some of the information-packed indices available are the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, International Index to Periodicals, Industrial Arts Index, Agricultural Index, Art Index, Music Index, Public Affairs Information Service, and the New York Times Index which is the largest newspaper index in the United States.