Kansas State Historical Society Topoka, Ks.
University Dailu Kansan
Friday, Oct. 13, 1950
Lawrence, Kansas
O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F K A N S A S
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
High Schools Will Attend Speech Institute
One hundred and twenty-five debaters and their coaches from 15 Kansas high schools will attend the annual High School Speech and Debate institute at the University of Kansas Saturday.
The yearly institute, sponsored by the Kansas High School Activities association, the University's speech department, and University Extension, is designed to acquaint the high school coaches and students with the debate question of the year. Also, demonstrations of college debating, extemporaneous speaking and dramatics will be given.
Prof. Donald Olson, University of Nebraska, Prof. E.C. Buehler, K.U. and Victor L. Capper, Atchison high school debate coach, will conduct a roundtable on high school debating problems. Kim Giffin, assistant professor at K.U. will give an analysis of the debate question of the year.
E. A. Thomas, high school activities commissioner from Topeka, will open the institute with a talk in Strong hall auditorium.
A Big Seven debate between Nebraska and Kansas, university teams will start the afternoon session. The question, that is being debated this year by Kansas high school teams, will be "Resolved—That the American People Should Reject the Welfare State."
Kent Shearer and Steve Mills both from Russell, will represent K.U. in the negative.
The afternoon program will also include an extempore speaking demonstration, conducted by Giffin with the aid of Lee Turner, Newton, and Guy Goodwin, Wichita. Prof. Allen Crafton will discuss dramatics.
Spur Club To See Royal
Thirty-seven members of the Spur club will leave at 4:15 p.m., Tuesday. Oct. 17, for the American Royal Horse and Livestock show at Kansas City, Mo.
Gayle Mott, instructor in equitation and Spur club advisor, says there is a possibility of several members entering a riding contest in the hands and feet class. The contest tests the ability to handle horses.
The club will travel by chartered bus and observe horse and cattle exhibit until 7:30 p.m. when they will attend the night show at the Royal building.
Don Henry, instructor in physical education; Martha Peterson, assistant dean of women; Wealthy Babcock, associate professor of mathematics; and Kathleen Doering, associate professor of ontology, will accompany the group.
UDK Errs, Operator Reported Fire
A story in the University Daily Kansas Monday said that Mrs. Eva Cofer, telephone operator, did not realize there was a fire in the building in which she was working until firemen entered the room. This was a mistreatment.
Mrs. Cofer notified the firemen and department heads and received a letter of commendation from the chancellor for her work.
U K To Cover Game
Two University Daily Kansan sports writers will cover the Kansas-Iowa State football game at Ames Saturday.
Moreau Is Home From Hospital
F. J. Moreau dean of the School of Law, was released yesterday from St. Lukes hospital in Kansas City, Mo., where he has been recovering from an operation necessitated by an automobile accident this summer. Dean Moreau is convalescing at his home at 1942 Louisiana.
300 Members Sought By YM
Three hundred new members is the goal of the Y.M.C.A. in launching a 6-day membership drive Monday.
Under the leadership of Tom McGuire, College sophomore, a crew of "Y" members will interview as many male students as they are able to contact. Present plans call for at least one member to work in each organized house for men.
"We want to let people to know about the Y.M.C.A., its background and past record," M. David Riggs, general secretary, said today. "Our organization is interested in discovering the basic principles of finer living.
"The cost of membership is nominal, $2 a year. In return for this investment the member has a choice of taking part in many activities including study groups, social clubs, leadership training, marriage-for-ums, sports, Christmas caroling parties and our second annual Rock Chalk Review."
The Y.M.C.A. has as its major goal service to the community, to the campus and to its individual members. Mr. Riggs said.
He asked that students be notified that the "Y" office has been moved to larger quarters in the northwest corner of the ballroom on the third floor of the Union building.
Welcome Home Rally For Team Sunday
A welcome home rally for the Kansas football team will be held at 9:25 a.m. Sunday at the Union Pacific station. The team will arrive at 9:39 a.m. from Ames.
UN Forces Blast Korea Ports In Air-Sea Strike
Tokyo, Oct. 13—(U.P.)—The mightiest naval and air bombardment of the war is blasting North Korea's key supply and communications routes to Russia and Red China.
A powerful United Nations naval armada headed by the battleship Missouri and the aircraft carriers Philippines Sea and Valley Forge poured upward of two million pounds of death and destruction against the North Korean east coast from Chongjin, only 49 miles below the Soviet border, to Tanchon, 105 miles to the south.
In addition to attacks on port facilities and east coast railroad marshalling yards, the 37-ship naval force under Vice Admiral Arthur Struble, hit bridges and other military installations inland as far as their 16-inch guns could reach.
One bridge over the Namdae river used by the Communists to move supplies to Pyongyang was destroyed by the "Mighty Mo," as was another over the Poktae river. Another bridge over the Namdae remained to be destroyed.
Freight cars and marshalling yards near Yohaejin and Kimchon in the same general east coast area also were heavily damaged or destroyed.
B-29 Superforts hit highway and railway targets at Namsi in the northwest, only 15 miles from the Red China border.
Security regulations obscured much of the progress in the land-fighting toward Pyongyang, the Communist capital.
However, a dispatch early Saturday from the U.S. 1st cavalry said that the cavalryman had crashed into Kumchon, 12 miles north of the 38th parallel, on the main Seoul-Pyongyang highway. Heavy street fighting was in progress.
That Old Obnoxious Oct.13 Still Plagues This Student
"That Friday's bad luck cost me six months in a German prison on grass soup rations. After managing to stay alive while the Russian army liberated me, and traveling back through Russia to Italy, I was put on a plane headed for the states. "We stopped in the Azores to refuel." Chapin said, pausing to carefully light a cigaret. "That was Friday, April 1, 1945."
Kumchon, which had a pre-war population of 25,000, was the first large town to be entered by the dismounted cavalrymen since they began their drive northward from the Communist border, but it was not the point of northernmost advance on this front.
"Today is Friday, Oct. 13, and I should have stood in bed," Edward J. Chapin, journalism senior, remarked as he glanced nervously up and down the street.
"Don't get me wrong—I'm not superstitious," Chapin said as he cautiously stepped up on the curb, "but the darndest things have happened to me on Friday 13ths.
"Six years ago, Friday, Oct. 13, on a bombing mission over Germany—one that I wasn't even supposed to go out on. I had to fill in for a sick crew member at the last minute—I was shot through the arm, parachuted out of a burning airplane, and was taken prisoner by the Germans."
Opening the door carefully, Chapin edged into the Union cafeteria which we had reached by this time. After gently lowering himself into a booth and glancing to see if the walls were firm, he continued;
"Takeoff time was 11 p.m. and I was alternately assuring myself that nothing could happen in the next hour, and that there was nothing to superstitious beliefs anyhow.
"As we rolled down the runway which ended at the ocean shore, I heard a screech of metal against metal and felt the plane buckle underneath. The plane spun to a stop and, fortunately, no one was injured. A flat tire had caused the undercarriage to give way.
"Of course, all these things are just coincidences." Chapin said with a sort of quavering assurance. A few other little things have happened to me on these infamous Fridays such as car wrecks, losing money, and other instances too numerous to mention.
"These are the days that make me feel just like being born was unlucky," Chapin noted plaintively. "There may be something to it—you see, I was born on Friday 13."
Over1000 Tickets Sold For Dance
Ticket sales for the Harry James dance have been greatly increased the past two days, Margaret Granger, president of the Student Union Activities said this morning.
Medical School Plans Seminars
Two one-day seminars are to be conducted at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kans., as part of the School of Medicine's newly expanded postgraduate program.
The first course on Oct. 26 will give instructions on practical methods and cautions in use of ACTH and cortisone. These new agents, which are used to treat arthritis and other rheumatoid diseases, have just been released to hospitals for treating patients. The course will be conducted by Dr. John H. Glynn, technical director of Armour laboratories, Chicago, and Dr. Emmerson Ward of the Mayo foundation, Rochester, Minn.
On Nov. 2 a course on the medical aspects of the atomic bomb will be presented by Dr. William H. Sullivan, scientific director of the Naval Radiological Defense laboratory, San Francisco. He will discuss the hazards of atomic warfare to the medical profession, how soon doctors can safely enter a bombed area, the best treatment for injuries, and the precautions that can be taken.
There will be no fees for the courses, and registration is not limited.
Students Suffer Loss From Fire
Clothing belonging to four students was damaged in a fire at 612 West 12th street at 11 a.m. Thursday.
Paul Ingels, Lawrence fire chief said the fire was caused by a short circuit in the wiring of the house. Walls and woodwork were damaged by the fire and the clothing by water
James Fraser, College senior; Donald Giberson, College sophomore; Thomas Black, College freshman; and Stephen Kritikos, special student, occupy the house which is behind the Rock Chalk cafe.
Women To Send Cards To Alumnae
One thousand cards concerning membership in the state alumnae association were written Thursday by members of the Stateswomen's club, the Girls' State alumnae group at the University. They will be sent to all alumnae from Girls' State of the past four years.
Elections will be held at the next meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 25. Club members heard the report of the nominating committee and a report of the first alumnae reunion of Girls' Staters which was held during the 1950 Girls' State convention.
WEATHER
KANSAS: Fair tonight and Saturday. Warmer extreme southeast. Low tonight 50-58; high Saturday 90 east to 94 west. For tomorrow, the weatherman said temperatures will zoom into the 90's.
More than 930 dance tickets have been sold, and 87 balcony tickets. Miss Granger estimated that approximately 300 more dance tickets will have to be sold today before S.U.A. can break even.
Tickets will be on sale at the gate tonight for $2.25 instead of the $2 price which has been charged all week.
The Y.M.C.A. will serve refreshments for the dance. Stands are expected to be set up at side doors.
Harold Swartz, accountant in the business office, estimates that the floor in Hoch will accommodate 900 to 1,000 couples. Sales would have to double today before there is any danger of the floor being overcrowded.
It was not known late this morning just when the band would arrive, but is expected by special bus early this evening.
A platform has been constructed on the stage for the band. No program of the dance has been released so it is expected that James will play some of the tunes which he has recorded, some of the current popular tunes, and some numbers by request.
Some of the more popular tunes which the band is expected to play are "Ciri Biri Bin," "Easter Parade," "Estellita," "Flight of the Bumblebee," "I'll Buy That Dream," "Sleepy Time Gal," and "One Dozen Roses."
Women students are reminded that closing hours have been extended to 1:30 a.m., and they need only show the ink stamp on their hand to be granted this privilege.
"There have been no I-D cards confiscated this fall," Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of men said Thursday. However, students are warned not to give their cards to outsiders, as card punchers at the football games have the power to keep the card if it is not presented by the owner.
No ID Cards Confiscated
"These cards are not activity tickets, as seems to be the common belief," Dean Woodruff said. The old activity ticket was banned by the board of regents two years ago
Because these cards are not activity tickets, the University does not have to pay tax on student admissions. If the cards were made transferable, an additional fee would be assessed, either at the beginning of the semester or at each game.
Students are reminded that the I-D card is worth one dollar towards the purchase of non-student tickets. The card will be punched in the athletic office and thus is void that particular game.
Tests To Be Given For Therapists
Physical therapists and pre-physical therapy students will take their first aptitude test at 7 p.m. Monday in room 17, Strong hall annex B.
Time and date for the second test will be announced later the Guidance bureau announced.
Radio Club On Stand By
The University of Kansas Amateur Radio club and the amateur radio in the military science building are operating on a stand-by basis in preparation for orders from the department of civilian defense to go on an emergency wartime operation. Many amateur radio stations have received such notices.