UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1950
AP Chief Tells Students How News Is Distributed
Increased public demand for news of sports was stressed by Cal Manon, assistant chief of the Associated Press news bureau in a talk to the Communications in Society class this week.
Mr. Mamon told the beginning journalism class how news is received and disseminated by special leased wires throughout the nation. Kansas City is the most important "split-point" in the nation, he said. It is the last "eastern city" on the route west. The next metropolitan center is Denver.
Kansas City gets all news from the east over four major trunks; the A wire, including news of general interest throughout the country; the B wire, carrying regional news and messages; a special sports wire; and one carrying financial news.
Eastern news must be trimmed at Kansas City for western consumption and western news must be processed for eastern use, Mr. Manon said. Since there are fewer papers of the Associated Press in the west, there are only three major western hookups.
Mr. Mason compared the job of a state editor under the Associated Press to that of a train dispatcher. He gives the "go ahead" signal to a correspondent who has notified him of a story he is ready to send. It is up to the state editor to gauge the relative importance of about a million wo3s of news a day to his part of the clientele.
The four-state services of the AP also originate at Kansas City. A special editor for each of the states—Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas—adopts the news received over trunk lines from east and west to fit the needs of his readers.
Making rapid-fire decisions of this kind involves a sensitive knowledge of the state he is servicing. Knowledge of geography both physical and commercial, is indispensable to an Associated Press man or woman, Mr. Manon commented.
Methods of newsgathering and redistribution by other press associations are similar to those used by the Associated Press, though differing widely in details.
Chancellor To Attend Meeting In Washington, DC this Week
Chancellor Deane W. Malott left Monday to attend a meeting of the Business Advisory council of the United States Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C.
- The meeting will be held Wednesday and Thursday. The Council is composed of businessmen and administrators selected to work with the Secretary of Commerce Chancellor Maott has been a member of the Council since 1944.
Church Group Plans Paper
A bi-monthly "newspaper" will be published by members of the Wesley foundation, Methodist student group.
The paper will be named in a contest for Wesley foundation members. Details will be announced later.
The first issue of the paper will be mailed Sunday, March 19, to 500 Methodist students. Alternate issues will be distributed at the First Methodist church, Sunday night at Wesley foundation meetings.
"To publish all the news concerning Wesley foundation, the news of interest concerning its members, and to be an effective agent in the communication of this news is the purpose of the paper," said Dean Robertson, editor.
The $8 \frac{1}{2}$ by 11 inch "newspaper" will be mimeographed and will consist of two sheets with four printed pages.
The following will work on the paper; Dr. Edwin F. Price, Director of Wesley foundation; Marian Cox, Dorothy Lear, and Janette Pollom, College seniors; Robert S. Bell, College junior; Elton B. Noble, education junior; and George Sheldon, pharmacy junior; Donna McCosh, Mona M. Millikan, and Richard Millikan, College sophomores; and Glenn Davis, fine arts freshman.
Cost of the basic structure of the Memorial campanile is slightly in excess of $160,000.
Welding Firms Offer $7,700 For Papers
Three are welding companies are offering $7,700 to engineering students, student publications, and colleges for undergraduate student papers on welding.
The James F. Lincoln Arc Welding foundation, Cleveland, is offering $5,000 for papers on arc welding design and technology. Undergraduate engineering students in all branches of engineering are eligible.
Scholarships amounting to $1,750 will be given to the institutions attended by first award winners. Papers for this contest must be in by Monday, May 15.
The American Welding society, New York, is offering $350 for the two best undergraduate papers on welding and the same amount to the student publication in which the articles are published.
Student papers entering this contest must be published in a student newspaper or magazine. This contest closes Monday, April 10.
A prize of $250 is being offered for an undergraduate paper on resistance welding by the Resistance Welder Manufacturers' association, Philadelphia. Monday, July 31, is the deadline for entries for this contest.
Complete information on eligibility, method of presentation, and content for these contests may be obtained from Karl F. Limbacher, assistant professor of English, 4 Lindley annex.
White Elephant Sale Today
A white elephant sale will be sponsored by the Y.W.C.A. at 4 p.m. today in the Kansas room of the Union. Anyone caring to buy or sell anything may attend.
'Say It With Flowers' Started Fund For Needy Students At KU
"Say it with flowers. A beautiful sentiment, beautifully expressed." From these words by Dean Olin Templin came the idea for the creation of the "Flower Fund" at K.U. It is a fund which makes it possible to help needy students here at the University.
Jayhawker Staff Elects
Publicity directors for the Jayhawker annual have been elected. Robert Jomayvaz, College sophomore, and Robert Sevier, College graduate, are new directors, will plan the forthcoming Jayhawker sale drive.
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The fund is administered by a committee of the University faculty. The fund is built up by donations from those people who believe in the aid that the fund is giving to the students.
From this fund comes hundreds of short term loans to students to aid them in meeting various emergencies. Among them, in the past, have been railroad fare from Lawrence to a sanitarium for a student who was needy and seriously ill; eye treatments for a foreign student whose funds were frozen in his native country; and the cost of repairs to an artificial limb for a crippled self-supporting young man.
The Flower Fund committee is sincerely grateful for all contributions from anyone who wants to help support the fund. All contributions may be sent to:
Kansas University Endowment Association
The Flower Fund
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Fraternities May House Foreign Students
Fraternities at the University will decide next week on the possibility of housing foreign students beginning next fall semester.
At a meeting of the interfraternity council, J. A. Burzle, associate professor of German, told the representatives that the fraternities would be asked to pay one student's room and board.
The number of European students coming to K. U. has not been determined. Out of a total of more than 10,000 applicants, 500 students have been accepted by the United States. The 500 approved students will be placed in the major universities throughout the United States.
Fraternity representatives were told that other universities have taken foreign students and have found them to be excellent students
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