MONDAY, MARCH 27,1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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University Daily Kansan Presents—
Slim Bob Day Needs His Books To 'Anchor' Him In High Winds
One of the few students on the campus who likes to carry heavy books to class is Robert Day, business manager of the University Daily Kansan for the past eight weeks. Six feet tall and weighing 129 pounds, he is known as the skinniest man in the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, and the heavy books are necessary to protect him from the high winds atop Mount Oread.
Bob enrolled at the University in the fall of 1946 as a chemistry major. After spilling a bottle of acid which ruined the pants to his best suit, he decided that chemistry was something from which he should stay away.
Robert Day
A journalism senior, Bob graduated from Cherryvale high school. During the war he served as a first aid man with the 43rd Infantry division and 1st Cavalry division in the Philippine Islands.
Married and 24 years old, Bob's favorite pastime is reading. "I even read medical books while in high school," he said, "and really surprised my biology teacher by writing a 35,000 word term paper on the human circulatory system."
Besides being business manager, Bob is president of Alpha Delta Sigma, professional advertising fraternity, and a member of the Kansan board.
Tall and blonde. Bob has no definite plans for after graduation, but would like to work for some manufacturing company, either in advertising or sales promotion.
"I just want to make as much money as I possibly can," he said, rushing off to take care of the financial affairs of the Daily Kansan.
Bottlers Lobbying For 71-2 Cent Coin
Washington, March 23—(U.P.)-Mint director Nellie Taylor Ross said Wednesday that milady doesn't want her pocketbook cluttered up with any new coins, like $2\frac{1}{2} cents or $7\frac{1}{2} cents. Despite all the hullabaloo, Mrs. Ross said only one person has been to see her about it. She told a senate banking subcommittee, "no conditions now exist which would justify the addition of new coins to our system."
However, soft drink makers told the subcommittee the proposed new fractional coins would cure everything from galloping inflation to the high price of candy bars, and would save Americans "billions." The subcommittee, headed by Sen. Glen H. Tayler, D., Idaho, opened hearings on several bills to mint new "small change" coins.
Edward W. Mehren of Beverly Hills, Calif., president of the Squirt Co. and board chairman of the American Institute for Intermediate Coinage, said Americans would save $252,000,000 a year alone just on a 7½ cent cup of coffee. Mehren also said that more than 200 soft drink bottlers have gone broke in the last few months, largely because of the 10 cent tag many retailers put on their nickel pop bottle.
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Sig Eps Entertain Winter General Vets
The veterans at Winter General hospital in Topeka were entertained March 22, by a group of men from the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. Ernie Shank, business senior; Bob Davis, College freshman; Phil Loeenguth, College sophomore; Jack Roth, fine arts sophomore; and Zack Farha, business senior, provided musical entertainment for three wards in the veterans hospital. Jack Roth was the master of ceremonies for the group.
The Sigma Phi Epsilon barbershop quartet sang, "Chinese Honeymoon", and "When You Wore a Tulip". Imitating the Page Cavenaugh style, the quartet, with Phil Loevenguth playing the bass, sang, "The Story of Three Bears," Ernie Shank and Zack Farha played an ukelele duet and sang, "Lulu's Back in Town".
The show was one of a series, provided for the veterans by organized houses from K. U. The shows are sponsored by the Red Cross.
Weather Is Forecast From Jar Of Olives
Sydney, Australia—(U.P.) A Sydney grocer has a jar of olives on his shelf that are not for sale. They are "weather prophets."
One fine, sunny, blue-skies morning, a customer walked in and pointed to the olives. The grocer, C W. Mansell, wouldn't see them. He had turned around dark wood round the top and the darkened olives meant it was going to rain.
"If the weather's good, the fluid is clear and olives pale green," he said.
The customer went away, shaking his head. By mid-afternoon a terrific thunderstorm broke out and several people were struck by lightning at the beach.
"Lots of racing men ring me up on Saturdays to find out about the weather." Mansell said.
For days the grocer had crowds of curious visitors.
Big Bend National Park in Texas is the only national park in the United States to enclose an entire mountain range—the Chisas, or Ghost, Mountains.
Among his phone calls was one from a weather bureau official.
Socially Speaking
AO Pi Officers Elected
Joann Barr has been elected president of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority for the spring semester. Other officers are Shirley Hobbs, vice-president; Dorothy Kolb, treasurer; Patricia Young, corresponding secretary; Mary Gilles, recording secretary; Edith Williamson, study plan officer.
Arlene Johnson, rush captain and Panhellenic delegate; Beatrice Senor, social chairman; Kay Peters, historian; Betty Theis, song leader.
Gray Pledges TKE
Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity announces the pledging of Richard Gray, College freshman from Minneola.
Watkins hall gave a formal dance March 25. Guests were; Dean Nickell, Robert Purdue, Loren Ford, Pete Allen, Walter Stockebrand, Chet Somerville, Richard Pelton, Gregory Fisk, Kenneth Henderson, Wesley Peters, Gordon Witherspoon, Vernon Ashby
Watkins Party Guests
Kerrel Butler, Joe Bukowski, Donald Schauf, Howard Cortright, Marcus Glover, Dan Gallin, Robert Couch, Henry Bradshaw, Darrel McNeil, Thane Robinson, Donald Yockey, Calvin Hershner, William Monday, David Webber, Alfred Moore.
Alpha Phi Initiates 37
Wayne Davis, Norman Bell, Albert Kihm, Keith Smith, Harold Stoops, Mrs. Josephine Hasalova and Miss Milica Hasalova of Washington, D.C., and Mary Jo Kasselman.
Kenneth Moore, Edward Kaufman,
Donald Jackson, J. Dean Alexander,
Theodore Bernard, Robert Reiswig,
Joe Gordon of Chicago, Ill., Wayne
Pontious, of Chicago, Ill.
Gamma Delta chapter of Alpha Phi sorority announces the initiation March 25 of the following women: Mary Brown, Jean Bush, Melba Cantrell, Mary Helen Carr, Phyllis Clegg, Moselle Davis, Dolores杜尔son, Martha Heck, Mary Ann Hunt, Marian Jenkins, Rosemary Keenan, Virginia Keeney, Mary Lou Ketchum, Jeanne Leuty, Betty Jean Lewis.
Mary Alice Lobaugh, Phyllis McFarland, Marian Mills, Marian Miner, Laura Price, Jean Ragan, Virlee Reardon, Dana Richmond, Leah Ross, Portia Sager, Elizabeth Stanford, Billie Stover, Dorothy Twente, Marilyn Ward, Sheila Wilder.
Dorris Jo Williams, Jan Williams,
Esther Williams, Ruth Williams,
Sally Young, Virginia Zeeveld and
Burbana Zimmerman.
The following women are pledges: Marcia Baker, Carol Beery, Helena Boese, Yvonne Bryan, Katherine Coad, Joan Collins, Rosemary Heiny, Donna Lutz, Donna Dee Hoag, Catherine Holloway, Virginia Lightfoot, Jane Lutz, Pat Jean McGinnis, Doris Miller, Frieda Sahm, Carol Squire, Jeant Tallant and Marilyn Thomas.
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Cardinal Favorite Bird Of State Legislatures But Kansas' Meadowlark Ranks Second
Washington, D.C.—(U.P.)The American cardinal, the western meadowlark and the mockingbird are the most popular birds in the nation. They can cite the lawbooks to prove it.
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Of the 33 states that have adopted an official bird by legislation, seven have picked the cardinal. Virginia, acting early this year, made the latest addition to the cardinal camp which now includes Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia and North Carolina. Kentucky, first state to vote an official bird, started the cardinal parade back in 1926, notes the National Geographic Society.
The meadowlark is the favorite of lawmakers for Kansas, Montana, Nebraska and Wyoming, and thus the top bird west of the Mississippi. It can also claim a fifth state, Oregon, although there its official status is by gubernatorial proclamation, not legislative action.
The familiar robin is one of the few; it represents Connecticut and Michigan. The goldfinch, gay and canary-like, has captured New Jersey and Iowa. The bluebird family also counts two states—Missouri, with the eastern bluebird, popular symbol of happiness; and Idaho, with the mountain bluebird.
South of the Mason-Dixon line the leading feathered citizen is that talented songster and mimic, the mockingbird, Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas are so recorded. South Carolina used to be on the list, but the mockingbird was deposed there in 1948 after a nine year reign and supplanted by the Carolina wren.
In other states that have made official selections, the variety of birds chosen covers a wider field, and only a few have been able to beguile more than one legislature.
For the nostalgic touch, Alabama may be in a class by itself. The state's choice of the grey and gold-touched yellowhammer is said to have been prompted by the similarity of the bird's coloring to the hues in a Confederate cavalryman's uniform. Vermont appears in a somewhat comparable romantic light with the hermit thrush, called the "American nightingale" because of the exceptional quality of its songs.
The highest post office in the United States is at Trail Ridge, Larimer County, Colorado. It is 11,797 feet up.
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