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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, JANUARY 38, 1950
Drake, KU's Foe Tonight Features High Scoring Attack
Probable Starters
11
Kansas Pos. Drake
(6-4) Bill Hougland F John Rennicke (6-3)
(6-5) Bill Lienhard F Art Ollrich (5-9)
(6-9) Clyde Lovellette C Don Siefkin (6-4)
(6-0) Jerry Waugh G Herb Rothbart (5-11)
(6-0) Claude Houchin G Dan DeRuyter (6-2)
Kansas will play Drake university, member of the Missouri Valley conference, at 7:30 tonight in Hoch auditorium in a contest that will bring together two of the country's highest scoring cagers.
The Jayhawkers' scoring ace, big Clyde Lovellel, will be matched against John Rennicke in a duel which should keep the nets swishing from start to finish and give the fans plenty to rave about.
Kansas will attempt to better their .500 seasonal mark seven won and seven lost tonight in the first of two games to be played against the Blue Jackets by Jayhawkers play Drake a return game in Des Moines on February 20.
Lovellette has scored 290 points in 14 games for a 20.7 average. In four Big Seven contests, Lovellette has accumulated 93 points for a 23.24 average. Lovellette is the arraignment of concussion record scoring average which is 17.5 held by Gerald Tucker, former All-American at Oklahoma.
Last year the Jayhawkers split even in two games with the Bulldogs. Drake defeated the Allenmen in Des Moines 60 to 44 with Sieffen scoring 22 points. In the return game here, Kansas defeated the Bulldogs 62 to 37, their worst defeat of the season.
Drake is coached by Jack McClelland, former Drake cager and baseball player, who is in his second year as coach. He uses the fast break system. This year's team has won nine and lost six.
Remnicke, 6 foot 3 inch forward and a junior is pacing the Bulldogs' scoring attack with 234 points in 13 games for an 18 point average.
The pivot position will be handled by either Don Sieffen, 6 foot 4 inch junior, or by Verle Burgason, six foot 5 inch junior.
Art Oltrich, 5 foot 9 inch running mate of Rennicke's, is also noted for his high scoring ability. His present score is 11.2 on 168 points in 15 games.
The guard's spots will be handled by Herb Rothbart, 5 foot 11 inch senior, and Dan DeRuyter, outstanding 6 foot 2 inch sophomore. Rothbart is the "quarterback" and sets up the offensive plays. DeRuyter is considered a great prospect and already rated on equal terms with last year's all-conference guard, Bill Evans.
Drake has averaged 57.4 in 15 games and held the opposition to a 55.8 average.
In Drake's last game, the Bull-dogs lost a thriller to the strong St-Louis Billikens, 61 to 60, but showed plenty of scoring punch.
John Rennicke, 6 foot 3 inch forward, who has averaged 18 points a game for Drake in past games, is expected to crowd Kansas' Clyde Lovellette for scoring honors when the two teams collide at 7:30 tonight in Hoch auditorium.
Canada has about 37,000 square miles of peat deposits.
Paper is thought to have been invented in China about 105 A.D.
Miners Continue 'Wildcat' Strike As Truman Frets
Members of the Robena local voted January 28 to continue the walk-out. Action by 2,300 man local government determines of the district's other 23,700 miners.
Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 30—(U.P.) Thousands of soft coal miners rebelled again today against John L. Lewis' three-day week by refusing to work. First reports from the coal fields indicated the "no contract, no work" walkout was spreading.
The "wildcat" strike by United Mine workers went into its fourth week with President Truman reported to be deciding today whether to intervene in the eight-month old soft coal dispute.
More than 1,000 miners failed to report for the midnight shift at Weirton Steel company's Isabella mine near Untownton in southeastern Pennsylvania — one of the centers of the strike sentiment.
white House sources said President Truman might act by Tuesday if it become apparent that the 90,000 miners who struck the past week were not going back to the pits.
The strikers still had no more than a "suggestion" from John L. Lewis that they resume work. That invitation was issued more than a week ago, but was interpreted by the strikers as approval of the walkout by Mr. Lewis.
The Robena mine of H. C. Frick
Coke Company near Uniontown,
one of the world's largest pits, said
no men reported at midnight.
Sentiment against the three-day week was reported so strong in the area that no pickets were needed to keep the mines closed. An estimated 18,000 men were expected to be idle in district 31 alone.
President Truman will decide today whether to step into the soft coal dispute immediately or give Mr. Lewis and major producers another chance to settle at the bargaining table.
Midnight shifts also failed to report in the northern West Virginia panhandle area around Wheeling. Most of the mines there were not affected by the strike during the past three weeks.
White House aides said President Truman would make up his mind after studying latest figures on coal supplies from the interior department. One official emphasized that, in any event, there would be no white house action before Tuesday.
Kansan Personality Sketch
Sam Elliott Has Spread Cheer At KU For 60 Years
Mr. Elliott was campus mail carrier for 40 years before his retirement from that job in 1935. But his association with the University dates back much farther than that. He really became interested in the University in 1883 when he was 13 years old. He walked barefoot through the muddy Wakarusa valley to attend commencement exercises in the only building on the campus at that time, Fraser hall. He vowed then that some day he would attend the University.
That dream was never realized, but he managed to send five of his six children through the University. A daughter, Miss Maude Elliott, is an assistant professor of Romance languages at the University.
He keeps the dormitory in order, but more important, he runs a cooperative food concession on the side. Every day near store closing time he may be seen making the rounds of the grocery stores. He buys milk, bread, spreads and candy at almost wholesale prices and passes them on to his boys for what they cost him.
"The secret of success is just to begin," said Sam Elliott, who has spent 60 of his 80 years serving students and the University. He has put that philosophy to good use.
SAM ELLIOTT
He has had many jobs on the campus and has known personally every chancellor since the third one, Dr James Marvin, Mr. Elliott is at present curator of Danforth chapel and "housemother" for 50 boys who live in McCook hall, beneath the stadium.
Mr. Elliott's father, Robert Eliott, ran the first newspaper established in Lawrence. It was established Jan. 5, 1855, and destroyed May 21, 1856, by pro-slavery sympathizers. The paper was known as
the "Kansas Free State." A representative of the newspaper was sent to interview Lincoln to discover what policies should be followed in order to keep Kansas a free state.
When Robert Elliott went to the Kansas legislature he introduced a bill to locate the state university at Lawrence.
"Citizens of the town wanted the University to be located here." Mr. Elliott said. 'In those days people were very university minded. To peka had secured the state capital and the University was looked upon as the second best prize.'
"You'll find out when you grow older, that you love the University and all it' stands for," he said. "You'll get the beauty of the campus that you don't see now and want to scatter it everywhere. That's just what I've been trying to do."
Sam puts his trust in the students who pass through the University. "I'm sitting on top of the world, watching stars go by. These young people are the stars."
Dean Murphy Given Award
Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, dean of the School of Medicine, was named one of the 10 outstanding young men of the nation by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce. He was presented an award at a dinner Jan. 28 in Peoria, Ill.
Dr. Murphy was presented the award because of his efforts in developing a rural health program without government subsidy. The award stated that he had attracted national attention by his plan to solve the shortage of doctors in rural regions in Kansas.
He served as chairman of the advisory committee for state mental hospitals. He was named man of the year by Kansas Junior Chamber of Commerce members in 1948.
Dr. Murphy became dean of the School of Medicine in July, 1948. He has enlarged the staff and has instigated a program to provide more physicians in a shorter time than had been previously thought possible. He was the first to use television to instruct students in surgical techniques.
I DONT CARE WHO YA
ARE YOU GOTTA ELEVATE
YER MIND BY A SUB-
SCRIPTION TO "LOON"
AND "BUZZARD"
NOW SIGN
SHOVE OFF, MAC
SO YOU STEP
OUTTA TH' LINE,
THAT'S TOUGH.
MAC ...
WELL, ALL YOUR COURSES ARE CLOSED—
ACCORDING TO YOUR NAME YOU WERE SCHEDULED
TO ENROLL HOURS AGO. IT'S BEYOND ME
HOW SOME OF YOU STUDENTS TAKE ENROLLING
SO CASIALLY