Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
University Daily Kansan Thursday, May 11, 1950
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Lawrence, Kansas
Post Editor To Speak At Kansan Dinner
Ben Hibbs, editor of The Saturday Evening post, will be the speaker at the annual Kansan board dinner at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the ballroom of the Union building, Mr. Hibbs was a 1923 journalism graduate of the University. Approximately 285 journalism alumni, Kansas news-papermen, students and faculty members of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information are expected to attend the dinner. Lou Sciortino, chairman of the board of the University Daily Kansan, is in charge of the informal dinner.
Before becoming associate editor of the Country Gentleman magazine in 1929, Mr. Hibbs was assistant instructor of journalism at the University; news editor of the Fort Morgan, Colo., Times; news editor of the Pratt, Kan., Tribune; head of the journalism department and director of publicity at Fort Hays State Teachers college; editor and manager of the Goodland, Kan., News-Republic; and managing editor of the Arkansas City, Kan., Traveler.
Mr. Hibbs was born in Fontana, Kans and was graduated from Kingman high school. At KU, he made 110 hours of "A" and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was a member of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity; Sigma Phi Epsilon, social fraternity; Sachem, and the Quill club. He was editor-in-chief of the Kansan his senior year.
In 1940 Mr. Hibbs became editor of the Country Gentleman and in 1942 was promoted to editor of the Saturday Evening Post.
Mr. and Mrs. Hibbs will arrive in Lawrence this afternoon and will be guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ellsworth. Mr. Ellsworth is the K. U. alumni secretary.
Mr. Hibbs will also be a guest speaker at the Communications in Society class at 2 p.m. Friday in 102 Journalism building.
The following annual awards will be presented at the dinner;
The Henry Schott memorial prize to the man considered by the faculty to be the outstanding junior man in the School of Journalism. This is a cash award to assist the man in his senior year.
Certificates to the senior men and women students considered outstanding in the news and advertising sequences in the School of Journalism.
The Sigma Delta Chi achievement citation to the outstanding senior man.
The Sigma Delta Chi scholarship certificates to the students in the top ten per cent of the senior class in the School of Journalism.
Members of the Limaean club will go into the field Saturday and Sunday morning to collect the flowers. Although the specimens will be kept in pots, they must be transplanted only a short time before the display opens.
in the School Certificates for the best news stories, best feature stories, best editorials, best institutional advertisements, and best promotional advertisements appearing in the University Daily Kansan in the 1949-50 school year.
Both common and rare flowers will be shown. Each will be labeled with both common and scientific name.
Over one hundred varieties of wild flowers now blooming in the woods and prairies near Lawrence will be displayed by the botany department from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday on the second floor of Snow.
Botanists Will Display Flowers
Positions Open On Jayhawker
Applications for secretary and circulation manager of the 1951 Jayhawker must be submitted to John Eulich, business manager, in the Jayhawker office in the Union before Thursday, May 18.
The circulation manager will be paid on a commission basis. Applications for the positions should contain qualifications, activities, and ideas for the 1951 Jayhawker.
Crop Prospects Below Average
Washington, May 11—(U.P.)-The government soon may find itself holding farm prices down—not up. This possibility arose today in the wake of an agriculture department report that food crop production prospects are below average.
The report, based on May 1 conditions, said the 1950 wheat crop for the first time in seven years is likely to fall below one billion bushels. And it said fruits—especially peaches—are likely to be scarce this summer.
There was further bad news for consumers. Dun and Bradstreet said wholesale food prices—with meat leading the way—have advanced to the highest level in 16 months. Retail prices usually follow shifts in the wholesale level.
Unless crop prospects improve, officials said, the farm support program—for many major crops—will have to shift into reverse gear after the 1950 harvest.
Instead of increasing its investment in farm surpluses to hold up farm prices, the government would have to start moving some of its stockpiled products back on the market to avert shortages and high prices. The government now has almost three billion dollars--about three-fourths of its price support investment—tied up in wheat and cotton.
Speaking Contest Begins Tonight
The informative speaking division of the intramural speaking contest will be held at 7:30 p.m. today in Green hall. The women will present their speeches in room 106 and the men in 105.
The contestants will give five to eight minute talks "in which the chief emphasis is on describing, explaining, or giving worthwhile knowledge to the audience," William Conboy, instructor in speech, said.
Judges for tonight's contest will be: Gene Courtney, Harold Harvey, Don Palmquist, Thomas Rea, and Thomas Shay, instructors in speech; Soey Bong, business junior; Fred Six, College junior; Beatrice Buehler, Nancy Lindsey, Jerome Lysaught, College sophomores; Patricia Gardenhire, College freshman; and Abigail Bixby, education senior.
Tonight's contest is the second in a series of three intramural speaking contests being sponsored by the Forensic league and the department of speech and drama. After-dinner speeches will be given Thursday, May 19.
Positions Now Open For Publications
Positions are open for editor and business manager of the following publications: the Student Directory, K-Book, and K.U. Calendar. Anyone interested in these offices should turn in a written application to Jack Howard, 1621 Edgehill road by Friday.
500 See Barbara O'Neal Named Law School Queen
—Photo by Gagliardo-Clarkson
Business Slate Elected Commerce Party Wins 3-1
BARBARA O'NEAL, fine arts junior was chosen from 22 contestants to be Miss Res Ipsa Loquitur (Let the thing speak for itself), first queen of the School of Law. She is shown receiving a gold loving cup from Lee Turner, 1st year law student, one of the judges who selected Miss O'Neal. The selection was announced at the annual banquet Wednesday night honoring the late Dean W. L. Burdick.
The Commerce party elected its slate of candidates for the Business School council by a 3 to 1 majority in elections held Wednesday. Balloon, business junior
THE WEATHER
Band To Give Final Concert
The University of Kansas concert band, under the direction of Russell L. Wiley, will present its final concert of the year at 8 p.m. Monday, May 15 in Hoch auditorium.
The band will play four major works during the evening including Rimsky-Korsakov's "Capriccio Espagnole," Wagner's "Brunnhilde's Awakenings" from the opera "Sieg-fried," and the "Frescoes Suite" by Hayden Wood. The latter is reminiscent of the sea chanty music for which Wood is well known.
For the final selection the band will play the popular "1812 Overture" by Tschikovsky. It will be presented with a background of church bells, chimes, and cannon salutes, commemorating the Russian victory over Napoleon in the War of 1812.
Included in the program will be two soloists; Tom Lovitt, cornetist, who will play "Hungarian Mclodies" by Vincent Bach; and Neill Humfeld, trombone who will play Boccalari's "Fantasia d'Concerto."
KANSAS: Fair west and north clearing southeast. Not so cold extreme northwest tonight. Fair and warmer tomorrow.
Eugene Balloun, business junior, received 136 votes to 45 for Eugene Westergren, the Professional party candidate for the presidency. Westergren, as the defeated candidate, automatically becomes member-at-large of the council.
Other officers elected are: vice president, Lewis Jagger; treasurer, Charles Hall; secretary, Betty Jo Bloomer; all are business juniors.
Only 183 ballots were cast, and two were disqualified because or illegal marking. On both the bad ballots, the voters had cast a vote for each candidate for treasurer.
Balloting was slow during the voting period, and the polls were very quiet, except for a disagreement over the time for closing the polls. The Business News, business school paper, had listed the time for closing as 1:30 p.m., but the time was changed to 1 p.m., so that poll workers could attend the senior-faculty ball game. Professional party officials objected to the change, and the polls were kept open until 1:30 pm.
Editorial Writers To Hear Henry
John M. Henry, director of public relations for the Des Moines Register and Tribune, will speak to student editorial writers at 9 a.m. Friday in 102 Journalism building.
Mr. Henry is also the editor of the "Main Street" column in Cosmopolitan magazine. He was a student at the University from 1913 to 1915.
The highlight of the annual Law School Day banquet in honor of the late Dean W. L. Burdick was the crowning of Barbara Jean O'Neal, fine arts junior, as Miss Res Ipsa Loquitur of 1950.
More than 500 persons attended the affair, including members of the Kansas Supreme court, Chancellor and Mrs. Deane W. Malott, the deans of several schools, and judges and lawyers from Kansas and Missouri.
A gold loving cup and a kiss were presented to Miss O'Neal, a member of Alpha Chi Omega, by Lee Turner, 1st year law. She was selected from 22 contestants. The queen's nine attendants and runners-up in the contest were: Yvonne Josserand, Barbara Hagan, Pauline Reade, Patricia Ames, Melba Mather, Anne Murphy, Barbara Peck, Barbara Burdick, and Jeanette Steiner.
Principal speaker of the evening was Judge William L. Vandeventer of the Missouri circuit court of appeals. His topic was "Lawyers and Doctors." Paul Nye, president of the senior law class, was toastmaster for the occasion.
Awards for distinguished work in the moot court were made to Lawrence R. Wagner and Robert H. Royer, 3rd year law students. For their work on the Law Journal, awards were made to Robert H. Bingham, editor; Willard A. Burton, Jr. and Jesse H. Foster, Jr., co-editors; Anthony T. Dealy, Ted R. Ashmore, Paul B. Watson, J. Glenn Hahn, Joseph Stryker, Patrick Thiessen, Charles D. Johnson, Robert H. Meyer, Lloyd Faust, Ervin Johnston, H. Morgan Wright, and Jess Van Ert, staff members.
New members of the Order of the Coif, honorary law society, are: J. Glenn Hahn, Paul B. Watson, and Forrest A. Wilson. Chief justice W. W. Harvey of the Kansas supreme court was made an honorary member of the order.
A portrait of Dean Burdick, painted by Mrs. Bernice Lopez, was presented at the banquet to the Burdick Memorial association. The memorial is a fund to build a fireproof extension on Green hall to house the law library.
A skit lampooning faculty members was presented by several law students. Bernadine Read, fine arts senior, sang and dinner music was provided by a string ensemble composed of Merle Clayton, fine arts senior, cello; Dorothy Shoup, graduate student, piano; and Isabelle Gaddis, education junior, violin.
Student Receives Travel Scholarship
R. C. Broadstone, fine arts sophomore, has received a scholarship for a three month trip to Europe this summer. The scholarship was awarded by the Student International Travel association.
The scholarship is the only one awarded to undergraduate students from universities by the association. Broadstone was awarded the scholarship on the basis of home community work and general achievement. He is from Dighton, Kan.
Broadstone will travel in France and Switzerland, and will be accompanied by a professor of French from some American university.
Chancellor Malott Elected Head of State Universities
Chancellor Deane W. Malott was elected president of the National association of state universities for the 1950-51 school year at a recent meeting of the association in Chicago.
Presidents of 50 state and territorial universities hold membership in the organization.