UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1950
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Jolliffe Hall To Operate As Men's Co-Op
Jolliffe hall will become a men's scholarship hall next September Chancellor Deane W. Malott said today.
The action to change Jollie will increase the scholarships available to self-supporting men to approximately $15,000. By cooperative operation, a scholar saves about $300 a year in board and room costs.
For several years, when women's housing was in the emergency category, Jolliffe hall has been a dormitory for 34 women. However the building was purchased in 1942 with money given by the late O. Jolliffe of Peabody for a residence for self-supporting men.
Dr. L. C. Woodruff, dean of men,
said rearrangement of the hall could
raise its capacity to 50 men. That
would increase the number of men's
residence scholarships available by
50 per cent to 150. The combined
capacities of Battenfeld, Sterling and
Oliver halls is 100.
The increase from $30,000 to $45-000 in the value of men's residence scholarships comes at an appropriate time, Dean Woodruff said. With a waning proportion of men students drawing government benefits the demand for loans, scholarships and work is rising.
Liquor Dealer May Move From Library
Wichita—(U.P.)-A. Wichita liquor dealer still has his liquor license, but authorities are concerned because of the store's nearness to a public library.
The license was issued to Oscar Asmann over the protest of Ford A. Rockwell, Wichita city librarian, because "nothing in the 1949 act specified how far a store must be placed from a library."
Arthur A. Herrick, liquor control director, said the law provides that a store must be located a certain distance from a church or school, but there is no mention of a public library in that section of the law.
Kansan Photo by Bob Blank
The principal characters in Victor Herbert's operetta, "Sweet-hearts," take a break before beginning their dress rehearsal Sunday.
Left to right is William Wilcox, who plays Lt. Karl; Martha Weed who takes the part of Liane; Gene Courtney, who plays the comic, Mikel; Jeanne Aldridge, who is Sylvia; and Barry McDaniels who plays the part of Prince Franz.
The first performance will be given at 8:15 p.m. in Fraser theater today. The operetta will run until Friday, Feb. 10. Tom Shay, instructor in speech, is the stage director, and Gerald M. Carney, assistant professor of music education, is musical director.
Dean Marvin Digs For White Library
Burton W. Marvin, dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, will participate in the ground-breaking ceremonies for the new William Allen White Memorial library on the Emporia State college campus today.
Dean Marvin is one of the 11 honored guests who will wield spades at the ceremony and one of four who will make short talks. Others who will speak are Gov. Frank Carlson; Fred M. Harris, Ottawa, chairman of the board of regents; and R. A. Clymer, editor of the El Dorado Times.
US May Build Railroad To Alaska To Stop Russia
Washington—(U.P.)—The United States may build a railroad to Alaska because of the 'cold war' with Russia.
Government engineers are looking over the plan. It calls for a 1,400-mile track linking the United States with its most northern outpost. In addition to the Russian angle, the engineers are bent on making Alaska more prosperous.
The proposed line would fill a gap between the Alaska railroad and rail lines in British Columbia which connect with systems in the United States.
The 81st congress directed President Truman to open negotiations with Canada for permission to survey a possible route for the line. If permission is granted, the survey is to start at once.
Little difficulty is expected in getting Canadian permission and co-operation. Such a line long has been hoped for in Western Canada.
Premier Byron Johnson of British Columbia came to Washington during congressional debate on the bill authorizing the survey. He said his province wanted the proposed line
American economists also have plumped for the line ever since the industrial possibilities of Alaskan resources became apparent.
Actual construction of the line hinges on the outcome of the survey and a congressional appropriation to finance the job.
Current efforts to build the line were based on a desire to fortify the most vulnerable point on the continent against enemy invasion. At one point Alaska lies only 50 miles from the Soviet Union, directly on the great circle air route to Asia.
The house committee on foreign affairs, stressing the importance of a heavy freight rail route to Alaska, said "it seems a foregone conclusion that in any future conflict, Alaska will be a prime enemy target."
Defense of the territory, the committee said, depends on the ability of military forces to deliver supplies to military bases which already have been established there.
A secondary line is the newly developed Alcan highway, unusable to any extent except during summer months and limited mostly to light traffic. Furthermore, the committee said the Alcan highway was built mainly for military purposes, the 16,600-mile stretch being "too long and costly" for commercial transportation.
Army engineers, however, surveyed from Prince George up the mountain in French' to Kobe. 85 miles from Fainkauks. They thought it should work.
Economically, the committee said, a rail route is needed to bring out Alaska's natural resources such as fish, furs, timber and vital minerals.
Right now the principal line of communication between Alaska and the United States is by sea, highly dependent on time of war, costly in time of peace.
The current survey will study the economic resources of Alakka and
Kalpitiya.
Without the above data, the congressional committee said, no decision can be made as to whether the line should be built.
Professor Loses At Roulette
Princeton, N.J. Feb. 6—(U.P.)-Dr Allison W. Bunkley, an assistant professor at Princeton university, observed his 25th birthday by lecturing on the deadly gun gambling game of Russian roulette.
His lecture, to a group of six friends gathered in his apartment Saturday night, was the most convincing of his short professional career on the Princeton campus. It lasted less than one hour and ended with Bunkley dead with a bullet in his brain.
Campus associates of the young expert on Latin American affairs knew him as a brilliant scholar who had "done an astonishing amount of work" for his age. Friends who witnessed the tragedy described Bunkley as an impulsive young man who was so possessed that he gambled away his life with a 32 cell revolver he had purchased in fear of Argentinian assassins.
The said Bunkley, son of retired Retire Adam. Joel W. Bunkley, obtained a permit for the weapon because he feared reprisals from government and been about the government of Argentine president Juan D. Peron.
Bunkley, who was graduated from Princeton in 1944 with highest honors, invited his friends to his apartment "for a drink" after attending a basketball game with three undergraduates, an alumnus and a graduate student. After a few drinks, he produced his revolver and began demonstrating the game which is played by placing a single bullet in the weapon, twirling the cylinder, and twinging the trigger with the muzzle pressed to the head, his friends told police.
Bunkley tried it once. The gun clicked. He had won.
Laughing, he tried it again. The gun clicked on an empty chamber a minute later. He flipped, sniffing and clicking. His friends pleuded with him to put the gun away.
"I no it' once more" he said.
The order spurred Him. He trumped the trigger. The gun went off. He fell fatally wounded with a bullet in his right temple.
Authorities listed the death as accidental.
"I'll do it once more," he said.
Thief Takes His Loot In Oil
Falls City, Neb. — (U.P.)—A thief stole four 32-ball canisters of cylinder oil, five gallon cans of gear oil, and 75 pounds of grease from a bulk oil station here. In terms of money, the loot was valued at $150.
Philippine Educator Visits Campus After 20 Years
Visiting the University recently for the first time in 20 years were Dr. Tito Clemente, '26, Philippine educator, and his wife.
All About Even In British Politics
London, Feb. 6—U.(P.)The Labor and Conservative parties were running neck and neck in popular opinion polls today as the British general election campaign hit full stride.
Prime Minister Clement Attlee and deputy Conservative party leader Anthony Eden led the list of speechmakers today. Eden will make a full dress radio speech tonight in reply to Labor arguments set forth in a flurry of weekend speeches. Attlee will address a meeting of his constituency at West Walthamstow.
More than a dozen top Labor leaders will be speaking to local audiences throughout the country at the same time. Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express poll showed the two major parties closely together with the Conservatives holding a slight lead. The Liberal News Chronicle's last Gallup poll a week ago showed the Laborites with a slight edge.
The Daily Express said today that 45 per cent of those polled said they would vote Conservative and 44 per cent said they would vote Labor. The poll showed that 11 per cent of the voters still haven't made up their minds. These were excluded from the results.
Regardless of how people say they will vote, the overwhelming majority think the Socialists will win -58 per cent think the Socialist government will be returned while others will win. This "Floater" vote is expected to be decisive if the race is close.
Today is the first day on which formal nominations can be filed. Nominations close on Feb. 13. There is every prospect that there will be more than the 1,812 candidates already scheduled to run for the 625 seats in parliament.
How Good Can A Clue Be
Austin, Tex. — (U.P.)—A citizen had a clue for police when he reported the theft of 11 chickens from his yard. One of the chickens, he said walked with a limp.
Dr. Clemente, chief of the measurement and research division of the Philippine bureau of public schools, earned his bachelor's and master's degree at KU. between 1924 and 1929. While completing his education at Columbia university in New York, he met Mrs. Clemente, who was taking her master's degree at the teachers' college there. She is now dean of women and professor of public health education at the University of the Philippines in Manila.
The Clemente's, slight of build and witty, are in the United States for the first time since leaving school. Under a United Nations fellowship, they are studying American vocational guidance and educational systems by touring various universities and colleges, and both urban and rural public school systems.
The striking difference between the school systems of the two countries, Mrs. Clemente said, lies not in the physical plants but in the degree of centralization of authority. Dr. Clemente agreed.
"The desirable system is the middle point between the close supervision of schools by the government, as in the Philippines, and the almost total lack of supervision by the government in the country," he said.
The problem with grade school children in the Philippines, Mrs. Clemente said, is not in getting them to come to school but in finding a place to put them. Another difference, she noted with amusement is that at the University of the Philippines, women students must be in at 8 p.m. during the week except for occasional dances and other social functions, when closing hours are extended to midnight or 1 a.m.
The Clemente's will leave New York Saturday for Europe, where they will continue their studies before returning to Manila.
Fire Department Makes 'Dry Run'
Lawrence firemen with 3 units answered a false alarm at 12:10 p.m. today at the Military Science building.
Steam used for thawing gutter pipes at the building was mistaken for smoke by a passerby.
Little Man On Campus
By Bibler
"Boy, they sure set that ball back down the court in a hurry, huh?"
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