TUESDAY FEBRUARY 21, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Photographic Essay Portrays Daily Life Of Navajo Indians
Sixty-one thousand American citizens who are not a part of American society is the subject of a Life magazine photographic essay now on exhibit on the third floor of Strong hall.
The Navajos, who have farmed in northern Arizona for more than 700 years, present a sociological study of a culture which has neither completely lost its ties to the tradition nor completely assimilated the white man. Before white man came, they could always migrate when resources failed them. Now, they struggle to exist on land that cannot support them.
Photographed by Leonard McCombe, the exhibition first takes up the daily life of a single Navajo family, the Yellowsalts, and follows its members through domestic chores, butchering, herding, baking, and their business transactions at the still-existing trading post.
Mr. McCombe faced great difficulties in photographing the Navajos. He lived among them weeks before he made any attempt at photography, since they were reluctant to admit an outsider to their intimate family group. Particularly difficult to obtain pictures of the cleansing-by-sweating ceremony, since the only light came from a fire in the middle of the hogan, Navajos' earth-covered lodge.
A section on ritual and religion includes the five day puberty ceremony, in which a young girl prepares for womanhood. Dressed in her best clothes, the girl grinds corn meal for cake batter. The huge cake is then baked in a pit five feet wide and six inches deep. On fifth day, the girl runs toward the sun and back past the cake, being baked by a fire burning above it. She is then considered a woman.
Sponsored by the design department, the exhibit will be shown until Wednesday.
Child Actors Prefer Football To $150,000
Hollywood, Feb. 21—(U.P.) T he highest paid child actors in radio—both have $150,000 contracts—said today they'll toss it all away if rehearsals ever interfere with football practice.
A fast play is more fun than a fast line, is the way David and Ricky Nelson look at it.
David, 13, and Ricky, 9, are the sparkplugs of the Ozzie and Harriet radio show. They're also the only kids in the business under a 10-year contract to their parents.
This calls for 'em to be funny on the Ozzie and Harriet show once a week at salaries that'll total $150,000 each by 1959. The boys like this career stuff okay—as long as they can still play football.
Comes the time rehearsals and script-sessions interfere with gridiron duties and the kids have their bosses right where they want 'em.
There's a special clause in those contracts—in fine print—that says the deal's off.
the bears on.
David, who weighs in at 110,
first string quarterback at Bancroft
Junior High school and the Hollywood
Y.M.C.A. eleven. Ricky, a slightly scrawny 75, is scat back for the sub team at Marian Colbert school.
school.
"We never want the show to interfere with their normal lives." Harriet said. "And we don't want to force them down a path they might be sorry about later."
There's another reason the boys' bosses are so understanding. Fa was once a star quarterback at Rutgers university before he went into the band-leading business. He was even head coach for two years at Lincoln High school in Jersey City.
His parental pride is cinched either way. If the boys take up football, he can always brag they're chips off the old block and tackle. And if they stick to radio he can still tell the old-timers he taught 'em all his gags.
If he does, he'll be stretching it a little. because David and Ricky aren't slow when it comes to dreaming up ideas on their own.
Soil conservation experts estimate that the United States is losing 8,000 acres of land a day through erosion.
Socially Speaking
Watkins Hall Party
Watkins hall held its annual Heaven and Hell party Saturday, Feb. 18. Guests were: Wayne Davis, Norman Bell, Jack Thane, Thane Robinson, Dale Oakson, Richard Moore, Robert Reiswig, Henry Bradshaw, Ralph Moberly, Jean Richter, Vernon Ashby, Clinton Carrier, Albert Kihm, Dean Nickell, David Webber.
Theodore Bernard, Pete Allen, Edward Kaufman, Loven Ford, Chet Somerville, William Todd, Norman Wenger, Gordon Witherspoon, James Stoner, Donald Jackson, Walter Buchholtz, Alfred Moore, Robert Lindsay, Ira Landrith, Robert Storrs, Marcus Glover, Wesley Peters, and Kenneth Shouse.
Kappa Sigma fraternity announces the election of Anthony Witt and James VanAntwerp as Guards.
Kappa Sig Elects
Photo by Hank Brown. Howard-Allen
Announces Pinning
Sigma Kappa sorority announces the pinning of Miss Avanelle Allen to Mr. Bill Howard. Miss Allen is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Allen of Sedan. Mr. Howard is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Howard of Anthony.
The pinning was announced Feb. 12 by Miss Nita Brewer and Miss Dorothy Glamann, who dramatized a poem. Miss Glamann and Miss Brewer wore pink carnations. Mrs. Mary Younkman, Sigma Kappa housemother, wore a corsage of white gardenias and Miss Allen wore a corsage of small orchids.
Industrial Design Students Discuss Employment Possibilities At Meeting
Miss Allen is a College junior; Mr. Howard is a business junior and a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
Student Union activities will have a party at 8 p.m. tonight in the Palm room of the Union. All those interested in joining the organization are invited to attend.
Richard Gayhart, K.U. student and church organist, played the wedding music.
Union Activities Party
Mrs. Davies is a graduate of Washburn university and a member of Delta Gamma sorority. She was active in music organizations at Washburn. Mr. Davies was graduated from the K.U. School of Business in 1949. He is a member of Alpha Kappa Psi, national business fraternity, and Phi Mu Alpha, national music fraternity. He is a former member of the K.U. band.
The couple will live in Osawatomi.
Job possibilities were recently discussed by industrial design students at a meeting in the Pine room of the Union. Donald Kane, instructor in design, led the discussion.
The bride was attended by Miss Marilyn Lindberg, University student, maid of honor; Misses Nancy Covert, Shalah Mull, and Phyllis Searle. Mr. Davies' attendants were Messrs. William Piggott, best man; John Hawkins, and Richard Lading, University students; and Messrs. Stan Lamar, William Gott and Keith Worthington.
Davies Wedding
Miss Patricia Lamar, daughter of Mrs. Ralph Lamar of Topeka, and Mr. Dean Davies, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Davies of Osawatomie, were married Feb. 12 at the First Presbyterian church, Topeka. The service was read by the Rev. Robert Lamar, Milford, Conn., a brother of the bride.
Mr. Kane suggested that students write to industrial design organizations and ask for advice about jobs. Jack Meeker, president of the group, explained that managerial jobs for men with mechanical engineering backgrounds are available.
Mr. Kane suggested that it is better to start with a smaller organization and build up a reputation, rather than start with a large concern where the employee is one of many persons.
Because industrial design courses have long been offered in eastern schools, executives prefer eastern graduates to those who have been trained in Middle Western schools. The course is relatively new in this section of the country and has been offered at the University only two years. Mr. Kane said.
The possibility of setting up an employment bureau for industrial designers was considered. The group also discussed what projects it should undertake for the engineering exposition.
M. Gabe C. Parks, brother of the bride was best man for Mr. Koenig, Usher们 were Messrs. Jack Gilman and Julian Zimmerman.
Mrs. Koenig, who recently completed requirements for the B.A. degree, is employed in the College office. She attended Washburn university two years.
Mr. Koenig, a graduate student in geology, was graduated from Columbia university, New York, in 1947. He is a scientific illustrator for Dr. Raymond C. Moore of the State Geological Survey.
Parks-Koenig Wed
The bride chose for her wedding a navy blue suit with matching hat and white accessories. Her corsage was of pink hyacinths and white carnations. She was attended by Barbara Holcombe as maid of honor.
University students who assisted at the wedding and reception were Misses Shively, Marge Newell, and Colleen Gamble.
Pi Beta Phi sorority announces the pledging Feb. 9, of Diantha Collingwood, daughter of Mrs. Faye Collingwood of Garden City.
Pi Phi Pledges
The marriage of Miss Paula Jean Parks, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Parks of Topeka, to Mr. Jack W. Koenig was solemnized Feb. 11 in the chapel of the First Baptist church, Topeka. Mr. Koenig is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert S. Koenig of Ft. Smith, Ark. The vows were read by Dean Arthur G. Sellen of Washburn university. Mrs. Floyd Flanagan played the wedding music and accompanied the soloist, Miss Helen Shively.
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Microfilms Will Be Made Of Mount Sinai Writings
Alexandria, Egypt—(U.P.)—The Mount Sinai expedition, sponsored by the American Foundation for the Study of Man, will microfilm 500,000 pages of ancient manuscripts at St. Catherine's monastery.
The monastery lies on Mount Sinai, midway between the two gulfs of the Red Sea. The manuscripts are in Greek, Latin, Syrian, Abyssinian, Arabic and Georgian.
William Terry, director of the expedition, said the microfilming of the documents, which already has started, will make them available for study by historians and Bible scholars throughout the world for several generations to come.
The manuscripts date back to the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.D. and were brought by monks, who then lived in caves, to St. Catherine's monastery in the 5th century.
Among the treasures at St. Catherine's are some 2,000 "firmans" or "letters" from the sultans and caliphs of Egypt regarding the privileges and prerogatives of the monastery.
Their microfilming will be undertaken by five experts, headed by a photographic technician, Wallace Wade, of the Library of Congress. According to Terry, it will take about four months of intensive work to do the job. The photographers will be taking between 10,000 and 15,000 shots daily.
As the archives of medieval Egypt were destroyed by the Turkish invasion in the 18th century, these "firmans" will throw light on an otherwise unilluminated period of Islamic history.
The editor-in-chief of the project is Dr. Kenneth Clark of Duke university, while the Arabic editor is Dr. Aziz Sorial Attia of Farouk I university, Alexandria.
The American Foundation for the Study of Man, Terry said, is doing this work on behalf of the Library of Congress in Washington and in co-operation with the American Schools of Oriental Research.
This precious manuscript later was sold to the British Museum for £10,000 gold, during the Russian revolution, according to Terry.
One of the manuscripts at the monastery is the "Codex Sinaticus," which was removed from the monastery by a German scholar named Tisendorff, who gave it to the Czar of Russia.
The expedition's work, Terry added, might help disclose hitherto unknown versions of some parts of the New Testament, as well as make closer estimates for textual criticism of the New Testament.
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