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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
MONDAY, MAY 22, 1950
Jerre Mueller Chosen Queen Of IFC Ball
Jerre Mueller, College freshman, was named "All-Fraternity Sweetheart" at the Inter-Fraternity Council "Mid-Century Ball" May 19.
MISS JERRE MUELLER
KU Geologists To Colorado
The University campus will extend to Colorado this summer when more than 70 geology students travel to the K. U. permanent geology field camp north of Canon City. The five-week field course is required of all undergraduate students majoring in geology.
This summer's group will be the largest ever to attend the camp and two five-week sessions will be held. Dr. R. M. Dreyer, professor of geology, will be in charge of the first session and Blakemore E. Thomas, assistant professor of geology, will supervise the second session.
The field camp consists of several dormitories, a staff cabin, a study and recreation hall, as well as a shower. The camp will have electric lighting for the first time this summer.
- Miss Mueller, a member of Delta Gamma sorority, was selected by Ronald Reagan, movie actor. Eacon sorority at the University entered a candidate.
A gold cup and three dozen roses were presented to Miss Mueller by Joseph Wimsatt, social chairman of the council, and Dale Helmers, retiring president of the council. The cup will be kept by Delta Gamma sorority until next spring and then will be returned to the I. F. C. to be awarded to the new queen. A small replica of this cup will be the permanent possession of the queen each year.
Other winners were Anne Jackson, Chi Omega, second; Frances Hoyt, Sigma Kappa, third; and Dana Richmond, Abiba Phi, fourth.
This is the first year that an "All Fraternity Sweetheart" has been selected. The dance was held at the Lawrence Country club and Clyde Bysom's orchestra played. An acrobatic dance number was given during intermission.
Five men from each fraternity were invited to the dance. Chaperons were Dr. R. W. McClure, Miss Mary Anne Wolf, Mr. and Mrs. William Hogan, and Mr. and Mrs. John Weatherwax.
Students Fined For Stealing Signs
Three University students were fined $25 each in police court at 8:30 a.m. today on charges of destroying city property. The three are Charles Benscheidt, engineering sophomore; Doerr M. Casebier, College freshman; and Robert L. Pechin, College freshman, police reported.
The three men, all members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, were arrested at 10:47 p.m., May 20. At the time of the arrest, they were carrying a stop sign which they had broken off the supporting post. They had also torn down a one-way sign. John Ingalls, captain of the Lawrence police, said.
World Wide News
Jury Indicts KC Attorney
Kansas City, Mo., May 22 (U.P.)-Samuel C. Hayden, discharged a month ago as an assistant Jackson county prosecutor, and Thomas (Tano) Lococo, gambling partner of slain Charles Binaggio, were indicted today on charges of income tax evasion by a federal grand jury investigating underworld activities here.
Mr. Hayden has been a practicing attorney here for 16 years. He served in the state legislature from 1937 to 1941 and formerly was a justice of the peace. The grand jury charged he was "one of 15 partners in the largest gambling place in Kansas City."
Prosecuting attorney Henry H. Fox, FJ, fired Mr. Hayden when the grand jury recently listed him as a partner in the gambling enterprise. He said then he served as counsel and not as partner. He was indicted on one court, Lococo on five. Bond for Mr. Lococo was set at $5,000 and for Mr. Hayden at $1,500. They will be arraigned Friday morning.
50 Killed In Peru Quake
Cuzco, Peru, May 22—(U.P.)—This ancient Inca capital two miles up in the Andes was 20 per cent destroyed and at least 50 persons were killed by a violent earthquake Sunday that toppled entire districts in six seconds of destruction, government officials reported today.
Work crews labored throughout the night filling wide cracks in the Cuzco airport so that a relief airlift of doctors, nurses, medicines and milk could begin flights from Lima. 350 miles west northwest.
The earthquake, most violent in this city's history, struck at 1:35 p.m. Sunday.
Russian Trip Causes Arrest
An army spokesman said a lieutenant and a sergeant of the Soviet mission were arrested when they returned from an unauthorized trip "outside the limitations prescribed for members of the Russian mission."
Frankfurt, Germany, May 22—(U.P)
-At least two and possibly four Russians were arrested by U. S. military police today for violating restrictions on members of the Soviet military mission here.
Germans working near the mission compound on the outskirts of Frankfurt said two other Russians also were arrested—a major and a civilian. They said all four, plus another Soviet civilian, were returned later to the compound under military police escort.
"Orders later were given for their release, and presumably they either will be or have been released," a spokesman said.
U. S. army headquarters said the Russians were taken to a military police station for questioning.
South Amboy, N. J., May 22—(U.P)
-The indicated death toll in Friday's munications explosion rose to 28 today when a stevedoring firm added two more names to the list of persons missing.
Explosion Death Toll 28
The Healing Company, whose crews were working on the docks at the time of the blast, said John Kinretsky, Jersey City, and Walter Sullivan, 36, Hoboken, had been missing since the disaster. The company's announcement boosted the number of missing to 24, there were four known dead.
Spring Concert To Be Tonight
Beethoven, Bach, Schumann, and von Weber will be represented on the program of the University Symphony orchestra at its spring concert at 8 p.m. today in Hoch auditorium.
Eugene Jennings, fine arts graduate student, will be featured on the piano in one of the major works of the evening, the "Concerto in A Minor" by Robert Schumann.
Osheim Is Head Of Delta Sigma Pi
Loyd Osheim, business junior,
was elected headmaster of Delta
Sigma Pi, professional business
fraternity. Thursday.
Others elected are William Blanchard, Treasurer; Cecil Nystrom, senior warden; Theodore Otta, chancellor; Melyin Rice, junior warden; Rovert Rudruff, scribe; and Glenn Starmer, historion.
F. T. Stockton, dean of University Extension, was re-elected faculty advisor. Robert Morrison and Don Plantz, instructors in economics, are assistant faculty advisors.
English Head Named To Replace Prof Clubb
James L. Wortham, today was named by Chancellor Deane W. Malott, as professor of English and chairman of that department at the University, effective July 1.
Professor Wortham, now assistant professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, will succeed Prof. M. D. Clubb, who asked relief from his administrative duties but will continue teaching.
For the past four years Professor Wortham has been in charge of the freshman English courses at U.C.L.A. His revamping of the instructional methods and instituting of teacher-training for those courses were considered most successful, explained Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Now 38 years old, professor Wortham has lived most of his life in Washington and California. He received the A.B. degree from U.C.L.A. in 1933 and the M.A. degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1934. He earned the Ph.D. degree in 1939 from Princeton university. For the next three yeas he was an instructor at Occidental college in Los Angeles. There he also taught journalism and was adviser for the student paper that received an All-American rating.
In 1943 he entered the navy and studied Japanese at the Navy language school, Boulder, Colo. He did translation and acted as an interpreter both in the United States and in Japan after the war. He was released as a lieutenant (J.g.) in March of 1946 and joined the U.C.L.A. faculty.
Professor Wortham's field in research is Elizabethan English. He is married to the former Miss Mary Harper, once a resident of Kansas City. They have children aged 6, 4 and 1.