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UNIVERSITY DALLY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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MONDAY. OCTOBER 30,1950
Thank Marconi And Godfrey For Return Of Ukulele Craze
Bv RICHARD HUNTER
Marconi didn't know what he was starting when he invented the radio. If it hadn't been for the radio Arthur Godfrey probably would never have become famous, and if Arthur hadn't become famous, the ukulele probably would never have been revived.
But Godfrey did become famous
But Godfrey did become famous and with him his favorite instrument, the ukulele. College students saw the advantage of a uke serenade on moonlit evenings, and now at every school from Vassar to the University of Kansas one will find between 50 and 1000 ukes.
Students at K.U. caught the uke craze early last winter, and have been playing and learning to play the little stringed boxes with as much enthusiasm as their fathers had in the days of the racon coat.
A survey of ukes on the campus, taken by a U.D.K. reporter, shows that there are an average of 10 ukuleles in each organized house, and at least twice that many like enthusiasts.
The uke has become the foundation for several social organizations at K.U. One of these organizations is the Uukulele and Coffee Drinking society. The society meets every Thursday at the Pi Kappa Alpha
social fraternity to drink coffee and introduce new songs and techniques.
A pledge in the U.C.D.S. must be able to sing and play. When a mony is in perfect mony with an active member before being initiated.
Girls are playing them, too. Almost any night you can walk past a sorority or organized house, and hear the strains of "Play a Simple Melody" above the usual giggles and screams.
The uke first came to America around 1880 from the Hawaiian Islands. Contrary to popular belief, the instrument is not a native of the Islands, but a small guitar of Portuguese origin. However, the name ukulele is of Hawaiian derivation.
The word actually means "flee" coming from two words "uku", insects, and "leele", to leap, and is so called from the movement of the fingers in playing the instrument.
Team Gives Signed Ball To Stricken Teammate
Virgil Wenger has a new decoration in his room on the second floor of Watkins Memorial hospital—a football signed by all the players on the Jayhawker football team.
And it isn't any ordinary football. It is the one used in the thrilling game three weeks ago when Kansas defeated Colorado 27 to 21.
About ten days before the Colorado game, Wenger, a business junior, became ill. After a heavy scrimmage with the freshman team no evening in mind, he field in the conditional condition. Doctors at first thought that during one of the lineman's furious charges he had received a blow on the head.
Severe headaches developed and his eyes wouldn't focus. Finally a spinal tap was taken and the illness was discovered. The big, strapping junior, who was just coming into his own as a football tackle, was a victim of polio.
Tween came a bad week with paralysis settling into his right leg, and some stiffness showing in his arms and side. Virgil kept his big smile working. Somehow he had the idea that it could be a lot worse.
Progress of the thrilling Colorado game is well remembered by most Jayhawkers. The team from Boulder built up a 21 to 0 third quarter lead which was wiped out in the
last 20 minutes of play by an inspired and fighting Kansas team.
Custom at Kansas gives the football from any winning game to some senior on the squad. Everyone on the team agreed that no senior would have this football. This one was for "Big Virg."
It took time to get everyone on the squad signed up, but finally all the signatures were on the ball in black India ink.
Co-captains John Amberg and Mike McCormack made the call Thursday and presented the ball to the big, good looking fellow who has managed to keep smiling. Doctors tell him it will be months before his right leg will be in good working order again.
Will Exhibit Illustrations
For Wenger, that football makes a wonderful object to look at. No hospital room flowers ever were as pretty, he said, as that brown ball which occupies a place of honor on his bedside table.
An exhibit of illustrations from children's books will open Sunday at the Museum of Art.
Chinese Troops Now In Action In North Korea
The exhibit will have about 120 illustrations by 100 of the best known American illustrators of children's books.
The most widely known work to be shown will be Norman Rockwell's illustration of the dead cat scene from "Tom Sawyer."
Other artists to be represented include Wanda Gag, Marguerite de Angeli, and Maude Miski Petersham. Works by the winners of the Caldecott award will be shown.
The Caldecott award is given annually for the best American illustrated children's book by Frederic Melcher, editor of Publisher's Weekly.
Work by Dorothy Lathrop, who won the first Caldecott award for her illustrations in "Animals of the Bible," will be shown. Last year's Caldecott winner, Leo Politi, who won the award for his illustration of "Song of Swallows," will be represented.
Howard Pease, noted author, will give a public lecture in the Museum Nov. 14 on "Writing for Children's Books."
U. W. S. 10th Corps, Korean, Oct 30—(U.P.)A 10th corps spokesman said today that "we have identified a Chinese Communist regiment in combat south of the Chosin reservoir."
Radio station KFKU will have a booth exhibiting their services to schools across the state at the annual meeting of the Kansas Teachers Association in Topeka Nov. 1 and 2 at the Municipal auditorium.
KU Exhibit Booth To Show Services
The four programs of the classroom series that are to be featured in the exhibit are; the "Flying Carpet," a series of dramatized stories, "Art by Radio" (presented by Miss Maude Ellsworth of the school of Education at K.U.), "The Wonderland of Science," dramatized stories about science, and "Music by Radio," presented by Miss Mildred Seaman of KFKU.
KFKU's booth will be number 11 on the first floor and is being set up so that teachers who follow the Jayhawk Junior classroom programs can ask questions and have them answered. Another purpose of the booth is to stimulate interest in those teachers who do not make use of the classroom programs.
The "Flying Carpet" and "Wonderland in Science" stories were written by Carolyn Conboy of KF-KU and produced by Mrs. Ruby Le Neve Motta.
The official report of the Chinese Communist regiment in action was the first formal U. S. confirmation of persistent reports that Communists' troops in sizeable numbers had crossed the border from Manchuria.
The KFKU booth was designed by Vernon Acker, sophomore in fine arts and will be manned by members of the KFKU staff.
South Korean officials have insisted for several days that considerable numbers of Chinese Communist troops had entered North Korea. Official American sources had written criticism, although acknowledging that some volunteers of soldiers of fortune might come from Manchuria.
The 10th corps spokesman refused to give any details. He said the number of prisoners he regiment known to but would not be made public for the time being.
He said the available information indicated that the entire Chinese Communist regiment was in action.
The spokesman refused to comment on press reports that South Korean forces were being attacked by the Chinese in greater strength than a single regiment.
The area in which the regiment was placed is the center of a strong counter-attack against the South Korean 3rd division northwest of Hamhung. Late reports indicated the Communists were being thrown back on the snow-covered battlefield.
Draft Let-up Until Nov. 20
Selective service board number 11 of Lawrence reported that no more men from the Lawrence area are expected to be called for physicals "at least until Nov. 20."
Ninety two men were examined during the month of October—50 from the Lawrence area and 42 who are registered with other boards but are living here. The last group included many K.U. students.
James K. Hitt, registrar, emphasized that a draft physical, even if passed, does not mean a man is "in." All draft boards are required to postpone the induction of any college man in good standing until the end of the school year. Although he may pass a physical, he cannot be inducted before spring as long as he remains in college.
Any man receiving notice to report for a physical should report to Mr. Hitt's office at once. Then a letter may be sent to the local board notifying them of the man's student standing and requesting the postponement.
A planning committee to discuss the desirability of calling a 1-day conference of public officials and citizens to discuss the impact of international affairs on local and state government will meet at the University Nov. 6.
Citizens' Groups Will Meet Here
This was announced today by Prof. Ethan Allen, director of the Bureau of Government research. Public officials and representatives from citizens' groups will attend the November meeting.
Successful Homecoming Spoiled By Cornhuskers
Possible topics for such a conference, according to Dr. Allen, might be civilian defense, effects of the armament program on the economy, atomic energy effects on the environment, projects the shortages of men and materials. Any topics chosen would be aimed at the local government level.
The Jayhawkers' 1950 Homecoming was a huge success in all respects but one—the wrong team won the game. The Nebraska Cornhuskers provided the only off-key note as they overpowered a game Kansas team 33 to 26.
Student Court Fines Thirteen
Fines for 13 parking tickets were sustained and five tickets were dismissed in Student court Oct. 26.
Guy Louis Quinn, College junior, who appealed eight tickets at the session, was found guilty for all eight. Quinn, who rides a motorcycle, said he had received none of the eight tickets he was charged with. He claimed he was not aware of his guilt until he received a bill for the fines. He appealed on the grounds that the tickets were not fastened securely to the motorcycle and had blown away.
Margery Kauffman Gray, College junior, appealed four tickets. One ticket was dismissed because Mrs. Gray received it before she enrolled. Fines for the other three were continued. The ruling was based on the regulation requiring students to keep their cars off the campus until they get a parking permit.
Ralph E. Kron, graduate student,
was found guilty for one violation.
Kron received a "no permit" ticket
on the day he was issued his permit.
He had the permit displayed on the
windshield of the car. Traffic regulations read: "To be valid the permit must be displayed on the rear license of the car."
Arthur W. Johnson, journalism junior, was found guilty for a "no permit" ticket. He appealed on the grounds that zone E is not properly marked. Johnson said he did not consider the arrow marker which points in the general direction of the zone sufficient marking.
Bautista Murillo, business senior,
was awarded dismissal of his case
for a "restricted one" ticket he
received in a zone not clearly marked
as restricted.
Mary L. Parman Hickox, College senior, received dismissal of a ticket for parking in the hospital zone. Mrs. Hickox said she was being treated at the hospital at the time.
A "no permit" ticket was dismissed for Raymond Shideler, business senior. Shideler had parked in the restricted zone while answering a radio repair call for a downtown firm.
Dismissal from a "no permit" ticket was given Frank Mischlich, engineering junior. He had lost his permit the night before he received the ticket.
Confusion caused the postponement of the appeal of James Sunye, College senior. Sunye was not appealing the ticket that the court had on file, nor did the court have the ticket he wished to appeal.
A guilty sentence was ruled by the court in the cases of 12 students who did not answer summons to appear. The absent students were: Roy L. Oswald, Jack E. Smades, Dudley Kelley, John N Engeren, Jimmy Wins, Cornel J. Pimm, Bobers, Clare, Stewart Richard Loomis, Dorothy Jean Hudson, Jerome Grunt, and Howard Moore.
Eight cases were postponed to a later session. They are the cases of: James Sunye, Raymond E. Youmans, Howard Allan Lane, Duane L. Wilderson, Robert M. King, Wallace E. Good, Roland E. Pratt, and Dwain E. Kays.
Defense councils were: Donald Hardy, senior year law student, who defended Guy Quinn; Emerson Shields, senior year law student, who defended Mrs. Hickox and Bastista Murillo; and Lee Turner, junior year law student, who defended James Sunve.
Ted Ashmore, senior year law student, acted as prosecutor.
Justices were: Pat Thiessen, senior year law student, Ralph Brock, Jerome Jones, O. J. Kaufman, and Earl Watson, all junior year law students.
- Hundreds of cheering, boisterous students touched off the Homecoming celebration Friday night with a pre-game bonfire rally on the baseball ball diamond. They quieted only long enough to hear co-captains John Amberg and Mike McCormack and coaches Jules Sikes and A. H. Werner make pre-game comments of Saturday's tussle with the Cornhuskers.
Following the rally, the students wound their way up the Hill to Hoch auditorium for the annual Varsity-freshman basketball game and the 1950 Javahawk Follies.
Coach "Phog" Allen "slept" on a stage sofa and "dreamed" the skits which included the first nightshift parade in 1902, the 1947 Bowl team and band campaign, and the 1920 "dream队."
The Follies, a three-skit production, played to more than 4,000 students. Ski continuity was written by Kathleen Cale and Carolyn Oliver, College sophomores, and was narrated by Thomas Shay, instructor of speech and co-director of the Follies.
Donald Parker, organist; Allane West, pianist; and part of the University band played for the singing roles which were interspersed between talking and rhyming verse sections.
Ada Hatfield, College sophomore, was named Homecoming queen during half-time ceremonies at the football game attended by about 39,000 people. Identity of the queen had been kept secret until the announcement over the public address system.
Miss Hatfield and her attendants, Constance Maus, College sophomore, and Alice Walls, fine arts junior were presented colorful bouquets of roses and mums by Frank L. Hagaman, lieutenant governor, acting for Gov. Frank Carlson who was unable to attend.
First place awards in the Homecoming decorations contest for organized houses went to Sigma Alpha Epsilon in the fraternity division, Pi Beta Phi in the sorority division, Locksley hall in independent women's division, and Phi Chi medical fraternity in the independent men's division.
Judges of the Homecoming queen were Lawrence Bee, professor of sociology; Leslie Rice, professor of journalism; Dr. Forrest Brown, dentist; Clifton Cinnam, Traylor and Calvin Insurance company; and Robert McCov, shoe store employee. ...
Second place in the independent women's division went to Corbin hall while Jolliffe hall was second among the independent men. Don Henry co-op received honorable mentions in the independent men's division
Phi Delta Theta placed second and Alpha Tau Omega was third in the fraternity division. Phi Kappa received honorable mention. Alpha Phi was second among the sororites and Delta Gamma received honorable mention.
Judges for the decorations contest were Mrs. Forrest C. Allen, Mrs. Frank R. Gray, and Mrs. William R. Scott.
Joseph F. Wilkins, professor of voice described his visit to Europe the past summer to over 75 members of the International Relations club, Oct. 26 in the Hawk's Nest of the Union.
Prof. Wilkins said that his biggest difficulty was language. This problem made it hard to get along with people of various countries. An ideal solution to this would be a universal language, he said.
Professor Describes Visit To Europe
His main purpose in going to Europe was to attend the various operas and musicals. He said that no matter how badly ruined the music halls were they always had a good crowd.
The next meeting of the club will be on Thursday, Nov. 16.