Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
University Daily Kansan Monday. April 17, 1950
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
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Wichita Student To Be Queen Of KU Relays
Joyce Lawrence, a Municipal University of Wichita sophomore, will reign as queen of the 25th annual Kansas Relays at the University Friday and Saturday.
The queen's attendants will be Marilyn Davis, a student from the Municipal University of Washburn, Topela, and Jean Jennings, a student from Kansas State college, Manhattan.
The queen and her attendants were chosen from 32 candidates submitted by colleges and universities in Kansas. They were selected from photographs by Ken Neuman of the Neuman Photo laboratory, Kansas City, Mo., and Jack Stevens of Stevens Modeling school, Kansas City, Mo.
University hostesses in the queen's court will be Jonell Ashcraft, College sophomore; Marilyn Ringler. College freshman; Jamie Estlack pharmacy senior; and Elaine Modrell, journalism junior.
Miss Lawrence, an 18-year-old green-eyed brunette, is a member of the Sorosis sorority at Wichita university. She has also been selected as queen of the school yearbook, "Parnassus," this year.
Conrad Gets $1,250Award
The fellowship will also provide for payment of all fees.
Walter Conrad, graduate student, has been awarded a $1,250 fellowship in mechanical engineering for the 1950-51 year at the University by the Stanolind Oil and Gas company, Tulsa, Okla., Chancellor Malott announced today.
For the past two years Stanolind has maintained fellowships at KU for graduate students in chemistry.
The company will provide fellowships at the following institutions for next year: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena; Louisiana State university, Baton Rouge; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; University of Oklahoma, Norman; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; University of Texas, Austin; Texas A. and M., College Station; and Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Selections will be made by the schools with the co-operation of Stanolind. The fellowships will be awarded to those students considered most worthy of scholastic aid and best able to carry on advanced study in their respective fields.
Engineers Plan Various Displays
Among the exhibits to be shown at the 1950 annual Engineering Exposition, which opens Friday, will be the displays of the mechanical engineering department.
In Marvin hall this department will show various machine designs, time and motion studies, methods of motion transmissions, industrial plant designs and layouts, and mechanical engineering problems that confront the present-day engineer.
In the mechanical engineering laboratory, directly behind Marvin hall, automotive, diesel, and steam engines, and steam turbines will be demonstrated in operation.
Joyce Lawrence
Rain Soaks Dry Midwest
Chicago, April 17—(U.P.)The former dust bowl soaked up a crop-nourishing rain and damaging floods fanned out over the northern plains today.
Farmers from western Texas to Nebraska and from the Rockies east across the wheat belt cheered a general rain which eased fears that dust bowl days would return. In North Dakota, melting snow and ice gorged streams and rivers and sent them rampaging over their banks across the lowlands.
Spring weather spread across most of the nation, but winter lingered on in the northeastern states where below-freezing temperatures were recorded.
recorded.
In the southwest, the hardest hit wheat area in Kansas, the moisture equalled or exceeded the total amount that had fallen there since the first of the year. The Oklahoma panhandle wheat country was benefited too, as was the Texas areas around Amarillo.
The U.S. Weather bureau reported that rainfall during a 48-hour period averaged one inch or more from Lubbock, Tex., north to Goodland, Kan. Lesser amounts were reported farther south in Texas and north into Nebraska and eastern Wyoming.
Agriculture officials said the downpours were worth "many millions of dollars," and would alleviate at least partially the drought that has plagued wide areas of the central and southern plains. However, they were hesitant to speculate whether the rain would end recurring dust storms,
India Won't Go Communistic Malott Declares
Communism is not a major threat in the sub-continent of India, Chancellor Deane W. Malott told members of the Council on World Affairs of Greater Kansas City at a luncheon meeting April 15.
"Out of a population of nearly 400 million, there is an estimated Communist minority of only some 80,000 people," he said. "Nor does India appear to be taking leadership in the formation of a southern Asiatic bloc at the present time."
The most serious immediate problem in India, Chancellor Malott pointed out, is the critical disintegration of relations between Pakistan and India, now temporarily stabilized as a result of the New Delhi conference between Jawaharlal Nehru, India's prime minister, and Liaquet Ali Khan, the prime minister of Pakistan.
"Restless Asia has become a critical center of the world's history in the making." Chancellor Malott called attention to the urgent desire for help which India's men of affairs think essential to bulwark Asia against communism.
He stressed the almost hopeless problem presented by India's newly-won independence and subsequent partition.
"It is 12,000 miles to India, but there on the other side of the world is a land of strange contrasts—of fabulous wealth and incredible poverty, of ignorance of the masses and great wisdom and learning on the part of the leaders." Chancellor Malott, said.
"There is contrast of modern technology and science and a way of life which has changed little since the first century of Christianity.
"It is a land of mystery, of hidden restlessness awaiting a new catalyst, of determination to stand on an equal footing in the congress of nations, a great force for good or for evil in the future of the world."
The Kansas department of the American Legion auxiliary will offer a $300 scholarship to a Kansas girl for her freshman year at the University, it was announced today by Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
Legion To Award $300 Scholarship
Mrs. Harold Goble of Riley, president of the Kansas department, expressed the Auxiliary's desire that the winner be selected for scholarship, character, personality and financial need. Preference will be given daughters of veterans.
Announcements Deadline Extended
The April 15 deadline for ordering senior announcements has been extended till Thursday, Harold Swartz, student activities accountant, announced April 15. He said that seniors have been very slow in ordering their announcements and this is their "last chance." The announces are priced from 15 to 60 cents apiece. Seniors who wish to order announcements should do so as soon as possible at the business office, 123 Strong hall.
Engineers Open Show Friday
Friday will be a big day for engineering students as the 1950 Engineering Exposition opens for an expected record breaking attendance. This annual student display opens at 10 a.m. Friday and continues through 6 p.m. Sunday.
Among the many exhibits to be seen at the exposition will be a German jet plane, target plane, ram jet model, and engine cutaway displays.
Other projects to be presented by the aeronautical department are horizontal and vertical wind tunnels with airplane models, stress concentration demonstration, propellor vibration demonstration, torsional membrane analysis, radio controlled airplane model, and flight instruments.
An interesting model exhibited by the mining and metallurgical engineering department will be a three inch experimental cupola, which is a small furnace used for melting metals to be cast.
This cupola was built by Kermit Oswalt, engineering junior, as a replica of one built by the McWane Pipe company of Birmingham, Ala. This three inch cupola is believed to be the world's smallest. It is constructed to scale of the larger ones and performs the same as the larger units.
On hand at the exposition will be students from the engineering drawing department to exhibit finished plates from Engineering Drawing I and II classes, evolution of an article from drawing to the finished product, work with various drafting and lettering instruments and slide rule demonstrations.
WEATHER
KANSAS—Partly cloudy west mostly cloudy with showers today and tonight. Tomorrow partly cloudy. Showers extreme southeast; continued mild. Highs today 55 to 65.
Sculpturing Displays Shown In Strong
Twenty metal panels demonstrating the basic steps in making a statue from a sketch to the finished product are being displayed on the third floor of Strong hall.
The panels, showing William Zorach, sculptor, as he makes the statue, were taken from illustrations in Life magazine and are one of a series of exhibitions prepared by the editors of that magazine.
Ater choosing a pose from his sketches, he is shown building a basic support of aluminum tubing and copper wire for his figure. He then prepares his clay by pounding it with a wooden block and by handling it to feel its bulk, weight, and its pliability.
editors or that magician.
The first panel shows Mr. Zorach in his shirt sleeves and coveralls, sketching a pose of a nude.
Finishing this, the sculptor builds his figure by coiling six inch strips of clay around the wire skeleton. With his shirt sleeves rolled up and his glasses on, Mr. Zorch is seen
refining the contours of his clay model with a wooden block. He then sprays his clay figure to keep it moist.
Ready to cast a plaster from the original clay mould, Mr Zorch inserts metal blades, called shims, into the clay in such a fashion that the plaster, which will later be put on, can be easily cracked open. The shims mark the dividing lines between the sections of the plaster mould.
After the plaster mould is hardened. Mr. Zorach is seen tapping the plaster mould along the lines marked by the metal shims to loosen the sections. He then scoops out the soft clay figure with its wire skeleton from the inside of the plaster mould. Mr. Zorach discards the original clay figure but its impression remains in the plaster mould.
When the inside surface of the mould is dry, the sculptor paints it with lemon oil so that when it is finally chipped off it will not adhere to the fixture.
Mr. Zorach is then shown building the plaster mould by applying several coats of plaster on the outside of the clay figure. As the plaster dries he adds metal supports to keep it from cracking when it is later removed.
Mr. Zorach seals the sections together and entirely fills the mould with wet plaster by pouring it through an opening in the base of the mould.
When the plaster inside is hardened, he delicately chips off the mould and scrapes off the ridges left by the seams of the mould.
The last panel is a picture of the finished plaster statue.
Debaters Asked To West Point For Third Year
The University has been selected to compete in the West Point Invitational Debate tournament for the third consecutive time, E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, said today.
K. U. was the first school from this district to be chosen to take part in the contest which will be held at West Point, N.Y., Thursday through Saturday, April 27 to 29. Other schools in the district selected for the tournament are: Central State Teachers college, Stevens Point, Wis.; Luther college, Decorah, Iowa; and the College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn.
L. Edward Stollenwerck, College senior, and Kent Shearer, College junior, will represent K.U. in the tournament. At West Point the past year Stollenwerck tied for top individual speaker ranking.
At this year's tournament the deaners will discuss both the affirmative and the negative on the following questions: 1. "the federal government should nationalize the agricultural industries"; "the federal government should nationalize or national defense"; 2. "the federal government should nationalize the steel industry"; and 4. "the federal government should nationalize to control business cycles."
Thirty-four teams from all parts of the country will compete in the tournament.
McNown In Piano Recital
Bernard McNown, a candidate for a master of music degree in piano, will give a piano recital at 8 p.m. today in Strong auditorium.
Mr. McNown, an instructor in piano, has for the past year studied under D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts.
In 1944 he received his bachelor of music degree from the University. From 1945 to 1948 he was a member of the university of Baker university. Baldwin
The recital will include advanced piano literature from Bach, Chopin, Brahms, and Debussy.
KU To Vote Wednesday
The annual spring election of class officers and president and district representatives of the All Student Council will be held Wednesday.
Two students are candidates for president. They are Melvin Clingan, Pachacamac, and Wilma Shore, nonpartisan.
Polls will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. All students who are regularly enrolled for the spring semester may vote. Students must show their identification cards at the polls to receive ballots.
Polls will be in the basement of Strong, Fraser, Haworth, Green and Marvin.
KU Man To Teach At Harvard
Dr. Martin Scheerer, professor of psychology at the University, has been engaged to teach at the Harvard University summer school this year.
Dr. Scheerer, who is completing his second year at K.U., will teach a course on the abnormal personality and conduct a seminar on theories of personality.