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Long Awaited Fieldhouse Is Under Way
Plans for the 16,000 seating capacity University of Kansas fieldhouse are now being drawn in Topeka under the direction of Charles Marshall, state architect, J. J. Wilson, K.U. business manager, said today.
It is hoped that the blue prints and specifications for the fieldhouse, which will be one of the nations largest, can be completed by early fall.
The huge structure will be located west and a little south of the Military Science building in the south-west portion of the campus. The long axis will run north-south on the extreme western intramural field and the vacant area to the
north, straddling an imaginary projection of 16th street.
The fieldhouse proper will be $347\frac{1}{2}$ feet long with a clear span (no posts) width of 245 feet. The sides will be 60 feet high and the roof at the center will be 98 feet above the ground level.
A guiding principle in the planning was that there should be a maximum of permanent seats, Mr. Wilson said. 65 percent of the 16,000 capacity will be permanent steel seats in the balcony on all four sides. The 16,000 capacity is figured on a basis of 18 inches per person with 2 feet and 4 inches between
rows. The arena space between balconies will be 108 by 204 feet, although the floor arena will be a bit larger, projecting underneath the balconies.
For basketball a portable floor will be placed on the special claydirt arena floor. Temporary bleachers will be erected from the basketball court edge to the balconies.
Mr. Wilson said the fieldhouse is being planned so that a gymnasium addition could logically be added at some future date.
The arena floor will have an 1/8 mile indoor track.
Approximate dimensions of the
fieldhouse proper now being constructed at Kansas State college are 320 by 180 feet. However it is being built as a complete unit with gymnasium added.
The first floor of the K. U. building will have locker rooms, showers, storage and offices for the athletic program. No definite assignment of space has been made yet, according to Wilson.
Athletic Director-elect Arthur "Dutch" Lonborg has been consulted in the planning and is in touch with the situation.
The exterior of the building wil
probably be a stone finish, Mr. Wilson said. However the large steel skeleton will provide the basic support.
The 1949 legislature appropriated $750,000 for the fieldhouse. "That is not enough for so large a structure," Mr. Wilson said, "but we are proceeding with the planning. A reasonably definite determination of actual costs can't be made until the plans and specifications are completed."
Mr. Wilson indicated that once the basic structure is provided for, many parts can be left unfinished and completed as money is available.
-Kansan Photo by Bob Blank
REALLY A MOUTHFUL! Burt A. Robson, business senior, left, and Betty Ruth Cattell, College senior, right, take large bites of barbecue at the senior picnic held Tuesday at Potter lake while be entertained with skis and antics of happy seniors.
Engineers Get Dunked As Seniors Play, Eat
Law students have more "pull" than engineering students, or at least that's what one would be led to believe after seeing six engineers get dunked in Potter lake at the Senior Day tug-of-war.
Charles Hoffhaus, College senior and member of the class day committee, was on a raft in the lake trying to keep the area clear of dogs, but was not too successful.
More than 500 students watched the contest in which 3,000 pounds of lawyers pitted their fat and muscle against 3,000 pounds of engineers. Referee was Marvin Small, '49, assistant general secretary of the Alumni association.
Activities began with a "Spirit of '50" parade from the west end of Jayhawk drive to the terrace of the Union. Dressed to look the characters in the famous "Spirit of 76" painting, Louise Lambert, James Hawes, and Ernest Friesen led the parade of five carloads of cheering, active students.
On the terrace of the Union, the merrymakers were entertained with songs by the Delta Delta Delta quartet, and the ATO quintet. Heywood Davis and Win Koerper, College sophomores, presented their accordion and guitar arrangements of western ballads. Dean Banker, business senior, gave a skit showing how a coed takes a bath. James Hawes was master-of-ceremonies for the affair.
Accounting Is Hard Work Business Speaker Says
These festivities were followed by the tug-of-war, and a barbecue at the picnic grove on the west side of Potter lake. Women from Mortar Board, women's honor society, served barbecued ribs, baked beans, potato salad, and cokes to a large number of seniors and their guests.
The accounting profession means irregular hours, hard work, and pressure, but there are many continuous wage increasing jobs in the profession, Vernon B. Burgett, public accountant from Kansas City, Mo., told students at the annual School of Business convocation today.
Large businesses offer excellent post graduate courses for accountants, he told the students. Also, after working in the profession six or eight years an accountant can practice on his own account, stay in the profession with a large corporation, or go
into private accounting, he pointed out.
Mr. Burgett also pointed out that a beginning public accountant's salary was usually between $210 and $215 a month, plus overtime amounting to about $300 a year.
UNIVERSITY DAILY
47th Year No. 144
Wednesday, May 10, 1950
Lawrence, Kansas
hansan
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Strike Halts Five Railroads
Chicago, May 10—U(P).Loco-
motive firemen and engineeren
walked off the job in a strike which
crippled five big railroad systems
today and federal mediators sus-
pended all talks with the railroads
and the union pending a report to
the White House.
the White House. Chairman Francis O'Neill of the national railway mediation board, who had continued settlement attempts hours after the walkout began at 6 a.m., said no settlement was reached and that he would report to the White House today.
Mr. O'Neill acted after meeting alternately with the railroads and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen for 25 straight hours. At one point, he said the disputants were "not far apart."
But in announcing suspension of the talks, he said "We had a package deal we were working on, but it didn't work out." He refused to elaborate.
Trapped Man Gives Up Hope
BULLETIN
Dominick Atefo was pronounced dead at 1:35 p. m. CST.
New York, May 10—(U.P.) A well-digger trapped for more than 24 hours in a shaft 18 feet beneath a Brooklyn garage gave up hope today under the agony of third-degree burns and the pressure of tons of sand and rock.
As rescuers toiling with picks and shovels neared his side in a race with death, Dominick Atteo, 45, groaned in a cracked voice: "I can't stand it any longer. I'm going... I'm going."
His friend, Father John Garrone,
shouted down into a partly dug well
where Atteo was buried to the waist
by a cave-in at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday.
"Can't you move a little?" the
priest asked. "No, please, no," At-
"Hold on, Dom, we've got hundreds of people working and praying for you," Father Garrone shouted. "Police and firemen and your family are here, and we've got an ambulance ready."
Atteo had received the last rites of the Roman Catholic church. Shortly after noon, he called for his sons. John, 27, and Joseph, 25, who had been working with the rescuers making a trench to free him.
"They're almost there, Pop; hold on a little longer." John shouted.
on a little longer.
Atteo had complained earlier of difficulty with singing. It had been feared that a flash fire of the oxygen which had been pumped into the shaft, set off by a cigaret, might have blinded him. However, Dr. Harold Berson, who had been lowered into the shaft several times to administer plasma and stimulants, said Atteo was not blind.
An Editorial By Need Seniors Pay Dues?
Why, then, should some pay and others get off scott-free? Most seniors—they think they have to pay. Yet, those who refuse to pay will be graduated. All they lose is the privilege of attending the senior breakfast or helping out with the class gift—an information booth.
During the past few weeks 1,262 seniors have paid $3.40 each for class dues. If most of them were asked why they probably would say it was required. Yet, it isn't true! Out of approximately 2,400 seniors about 900 will escape paying the dues!
Robert F. Bennett, chairman of the senior class gift committee, gave his opinion at the class meeting. After the class had decided on the gift, Bennett told the seniors they did not have to pay the dues if they were against the selection. Bennett says he feels that no senior should have to pay if he strenuously objects. Objections could include things such as the gift, the senior class breakfast, the method used in handling the senior meeting, or a personal dislike of the class officers.
Some seniors have voiced opinions on paying the dues. They have legitimate gripes. Some attended other schools until this year. Some have other needs for the money. There are many reasons for not paying the dues.
Nearly 800 seniors were graduated in February. Fewer than 100 of these will come back to commencement or pay the dues. Figures of past classes uphold this figure. Perhaps 200 of the June graduates will not trouble to attend any of the activities such as baccalureaate services or commencement exercises. They also will refuse to pay their dues. Yet, everyone else is expected to pay.
Students have been discussing where the total class dues will go. This is a difficult question to answer. There is no way to determine how many seniors will pay the dues.
The class of 1949 held its annual meeting in Hoch auditorium with a box lunch eaten while the class prophecy was read. This was held at noon and yet only 450 seniors attended. Perhaps this year's graduates will get up at 8:30 a.m. to eat eggs and smoke the traditional corncob pipe and tobacco—which will cost approximately 25 cents per person.
Then there is the class deficit. This was incurred by dances that flopped. The total deficit was $411.17 until the All Student Council appropriated $253.11 to apply on the debt.
Those are expenses to be reckoned with. Those are things the $3.40 helps pay. But what about those who will not pay? Those who were graduated in February or who will not be here for commencement and most likely will not pay. Presumably the rest think they have to pay the dues.
The Veterans administration refused to pay the $3.40 for veterans on Public Law 16 or 346. This is because they claim the University does not require every senior to pay the fee. The V.A. pays only those things that are required of everyone. Yet, the veterans are expected individually to pick up the check when even the V.A. knows better!
The proper procedure to keep from paying them is to write a petition asking that you be exempted. Reasons should be stated for refusing. Many students objected to the gift, some do not want to attend the breakfast, others say they should not have to pay for debts incurred by others. These are some reasons. There are many more.
When the petitions are turned in at the student organizations' window of the business office, a committee of four persons will examine them. Members of the petition committee are as follows: Karl Klooz, University bursar; Harold Swartz, accountant for student organizations; Miss Lambert; and Bennett.