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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1950
World Wide News Floods Hit Midwest
Two of the dead were crewmen who died in the flaming wreckage of their 50-car freight train which broke through a storm-weakened bridge over Wild Horse creek in north central Oklahoma. The other victims were killed in Nebraska. Most were motorists who were engulfed when flash floods rolled across highways without warning.
Chicago, May 10—(U.P.)—Flash floods, roaring down rivers in a broad belt from Oklahoma to Canada, left nine persons dead today and seven others missing.
Southwest Iowa, hit by heavy rainfalls, prepared for flood conditions as rain water drained into streams already bursting their banks. In Wisconsin, the Mississippi was expected to rise 18 inches within three days.
The Red river in flood-ravaged North Dakota and Minnesota was expected to hit a new crest of 46 feet sometime today. The forecast of only scattered light showers brought hope that the situation there might be eased.
But in Nebraska a search was resumed for seven persons missing in the wake of floods which followed a torrential $7^{1/2}$-inch rainfall Monday. The bodies of four members of one family were reported recovered after their car was swept off a highway north of Auburn, Neb., into the raging little Nemeha river.
The body of a motorist, who had been missing or more than 24 hours, was found Tuesday night. His companion still was unreported. Searchers also found the body of a bus driver whose vehicle plunged into a water-filled ditch. The body of a passenger also was recovered. Four other bus passengers still were missing as was a section hand who stepped from his home into the path of the swirling waters. Two children were missed after their parents lost their grip on the youngsters as flood waters engulfed their car.
Cabano Now A Tent City
Cabano, Quebec, May 10—(U.R.)—The army erected a tent city today in the ruins of this fire-razed lumber town for 1,200 residents whose homes were destroyed. Firefighters from six neighboring towns extinguished the blaze late last night after battling the wind-driven flames for more than eight hours.
The disaster bit Cabano, which has 4,000 residents, four days after the same fate befell Rimouski, Quebec, 65 miles to the north.
The fire leveled about one third of the town. It burned most of the main street business buildings and 150 houses. Damage was estimated at two million dollars.
Russian Boycotts Council
Tokyo, May 10—(U.P.)-Lt. Gen.
Kuzma Derevyanko, Russian representative on the Allied council for Japan today boycotted a council meeting at which the U.S. denounced Russia for its treatment of Japanese war prisoners.
W. R. Hodgson, British commonwealth representative, said Russia's failure to repatriate or account for 300,000 prisoners should be taken before the United Nations general assembly.
It was announced that Gen. Douglas MacArthur had sent resolutions of the Japanese parliament, requesting a UN investigation, to the UN.
The Veterans Administration will accept sealed bids until June 13 for the construction of a new 500-bed VA hospital at St. Louis.
Harvard Doctor To Give Lecture
The initial E. J. Curran lectureships in ophthalmology at the University of Kansas School of Medicine will be given by Dr. Edwin B. Dunphy of the Harvard university school of medicine at 4 p.m. Wednesday May 17.
Dr. Dunphy will lecture in the amphitheater of the Clinic building at the K.U. Medical center in Kansas City. His subject will be "Ocular Therapeutics, Theoretical Considerations and Practical Applications."
Dr. Edward James Curran of Kansas City in 1948 endowed an annual lectureship in ophthalmology. Dr. Curran has been a member of the K.U. medical faculty for 39 years, 34 of them as chairman of the department of ophthalmology. He received his M.D. degree from Harvard in 1908 and three years later became professor of anatomy at the University.
Bracke Calls KU
'Snobbish' In Book
William B. Bracke, 35, former instructor in English at KU., is the author of a new book about Kansas entitled "Wheat Country," which has been reviewed for the Christian Science Monitor by William L. White.
The book, which tells the story of Kansas from the days of Coronado to the present, is ranked high in both the American Folkways series and in the literature on Kansas by the son of the famous William Allen White. However, Mr. White says that he feels that "some of the professor's observations will not be received in Kansas with universal aplause.
"He called his alma mater, the University of Kansas, 'one of the most snobbish schools in the Midwest' whose 'tight coteries of the fraternities and sororities cause a good many potential students, particularly the daughters of farmers and small business men,' to attend smaller colleges 'where the adolescent heartbreak of not being oledged is unknown.'
"This was also an accurate description of K.U.," Mr. White adds, "when I attended it for a year in 1920, and found it to have been a much more snobbiest institution than Harvard. One can only hope that it is not true today."
Mr. Bracke, is now teaching English at Washington State college
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Guest conductors for the orchestra and band will be Guy Fraser Harrison, conductor of the Rochester symphony; Richard Duncan, conductor of the Omaha symphony; Gerhard Schroth, leader of the St. Louis philharmonic, and C. J. McKee, Topeka High school.
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Jobs for geology graduates are going to be difficult to find, T.E. Weirich, chief regional geologist for the Phillips Petroleum company, told members of the Geology club Tuesday. He estimated that there are three or four students for every available position.
Noble Cain, Chicago composer and choral conductor, will be guest leader for the choral division. Donald Gleckler, Topela High school, will again be the regular director of the chorus work. All the guest leaders will be making return engagements.
The orchestra and band will present the regular series of six Sunday afternoon and evening concerts. Women will be housed in Corbin hall and the men in McCook hall. Nevin Wasson, Kansas City, Mo., will be boys supervisor.
Phillips Geologist Sees Job Drought
Professor Wiley will be regular leader of the band, which last year had members from 16 states. Prof. Ferguson will lead the camp, will lead the orchestra.
Dates for the 13th season of the Midwestern Music camp at the University will be June 19 to July 30, Prof. Russell L. Wiley, director announced today.
Mr. Weirich went on to show how the study of geology is not a complete loss even though the knowledge is not directly applied. He explained that geology could be valuable to one as a citizen, military strategist and engineer.
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Ray Ocamb, College senior, was presented the Erasmus Haworth award which is given to the outstanding senior geology student each semester.
Billy Gwin, graduate student, was elected president of the club for next year. Other officers elected are Rober Beu, engineering senior, vicepresident and Sally Smith, College junior, secretary-treasurer.
Third Man Is Charm
Omaha—(U.R.)—Detectives pulled a fast one on some gamblers. Two officers walked through an establishment, looked around and found no play in progress. They left, but a third detective hid in a dark hall and watched as the boys started making bets and spinning wheels again.
Young Country Folks Like Television; May Keep 'Em Home On The Farm
Waltham, Mass., (U.P.)—Science may have answered that age-old question—how're you going to keep 'em down on the farm?
The answer may be television,
Carleton I. Pickett, executive secretary
of the Massachusetts Farm
Bureau federation, has said.
"Video's going to make home a little more pleasant for the young folks, said Bucket, whose organizer is 6,000 Massachusetts farm families.
"We use to have too many young people going away from the farm. Television's going to make them more content down on the farm."
Farm leaders said the biggest trouble to date has been that telecasting facilities still were too limited to bring big city entertainment into front parlors in all rural sections.
But in video-viewing areas, they said, farmers seem to be outdoing their city slicker cousins in raising television aerials on their chimneys.
"I know from observation that there are proportionately more sets out in the country than in the city," Pickett said.
The commissioner said television could be much more valuable than radio or written extension service bulletins in teaching farmers the latest tricks of their trade.
"It's difficult to tell a man how to set strawberry plants or prune a tree," said Chandler. "But on television, you could show him how to do it."
Eibel Studies Injuries
Duluth, Mimn. - (U.P.) A 10-year study of high school athletics shows that 78 per cent of all injuries happen on the football field. The study was made by Edwin R. Elbel, University of Kansas physical education instructor. Only 1 per cent of the injuries resulted from wrestling or baseball, Elbel said.
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