MONDAY, JANUARY 30. 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE.
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New Dance A Sure Sensation But Watch Charley Horses
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
Washington—U(P.F.)—In case you haven't heard of it, the latest lance rage is called the "La Raspa."
I’m no Fred Astaire, but when I kick up a heel I like to wheel with the toe of my hand. In German of the A. Murray School of Dance to take a couple of turns with me.
I'm no Final Attic, but you a
Anne was nicer than was necessary. She put up with my toe-stepping as we tripped the heavy fantastic at the Carlton Hotel's Congo room.
Ramon Ramos, an orchestra leader, put out a tune which has fattened up the embassies and skinny ones from the state department in a tizy.
- Old folks enjoy the dance as well as the kids.
Anne outlined the dance for me this way:
Two people can "Raspa." So can six or eight couples.
First you square off-man opposite woman.
The guys hold their hands behind their backs and the lady swishes her skirts. From here on, it's Anne's description and my reaction.
"You skip on every heavy beat."
That got this old man because I couldn't tell a heavy beat from a light one. Anne said the bull fiddle gave you the cue.
"You go through that for two sequences. Then you lock right arms, and put the left hand on the hips. Whirl clockwise a couple of times."
That sent me counter-clockwise and fouled up the demonstration for a moment.
"Lock left arms and go around counter-clockwise."
There we went, the wrong way again.
"Then you do the raspa. To the music which sounds like rap-a-pa-rap-rap-a-pa-rap.
"The man twists the girl back and forth.
"About that time the music simmers, and you walk forward eight steps.
"You bow on the eighth beat, walk back for eight beats—count'em—and then repeat.
"Do a polla around your partner, and give a hearty bonus."
er and give a hearty hand-clap,
"Turn back to back—hold up the hands. Swing around and do a waltz."
The waltz was for me. I found myself humming the Missouri one.
"Now lock arms again, walk for ward four steps, do a double take and back up—and slap the outside of your right shoe."
Student Gives Talk On Bird Collection
I tried it with an expert and wound up with a Charley horse.
The distribution of red-winged white birds in the great plains region was discussed by Wallace Good, graduate student, recently at the meeting of Phi Sigma, national biological fraternity.
The talk was based on Good's study and collection of red-winged white birds made during the summer of 1949.
The collection, which includes over 400 specimens, has been donated to the Museum of Natural History by the collector.
Financing has sure become scientific down through the ages. Do you realize that a money order would have saved the Prodigial Son the trouble of coming home?—Arthur "Bugs" Baer, "Baering Down on the News", New York Journal-American, New York, N. Y.
Worms Aid Mans Lawn
La Junta, Colo.—(U.P.)—The qualms of R. H. McNeal about "worm ranching" are at an end.
McNeal, a 58-year-old railroaе warehouse foreman with the normal yen of liking things nice without too much work, was reading an advertisement last year that a new variety of worm would take care of grass-destroying insects and then provide a fine fertilizer for the lawn.
Later, McNeal learned that the worms were so reproductive that each one could produce 350 of his own kind in a single year.
So the little box didn't last long. After three weeks' he had to double the number of containers and he had to continue the doubling process. But he couldn't make his way to the furnace for all the worm boxes.
McNeal ordered 6,000 worms, and carefully nurtured them through the winter in a box which he put in his basement.
In desperation, McNeal picked the first warm day of spring and threw all the worms out in the back vard.
There, the wrigglers lived up to their advance publicity. They fertilized. They ate parasites. McNeal's lawn became rich and green and his flowers grew tall and pleniful.
The word spread quickly. McNeal decided to go into business. Within a month he was supplying gardeners and flower growers from 15 states.
And he's breathing a lot easier now that he has some way to dispose of the surplus.
"Those worms," he said. "They grow on you."
'Borrowed Eyes' Aid Five In Family
Rochester, N. H., — (U.P) — Five members of a Rochester family see through "borrowed" eyes.
The five, children of Joseph Brochu, were afflicted with a hereditary condition known as corneal dystrophy that dimmed their vision gradually until they could see only blurs.
Beneffitted by modern medical science and the Boston eye bank were Mrs. Natalie Le Mire of Biddeford, Me.; Miss Beatrice Brochu of Rochester; Mrs. Arlene Michel of Rochester; Mrs. Barbara Brochu of Assumption College at Worchester, Mass.; and Archie Brochu of Rochester.
Their eyesight was restored by surgeons who performed delicate corneal transplants, using healthy corneas to fashion clear "windows" for their clouded eyes.
Any girl can be gay in a nice car
In a taxi they can be lush,
But the girl worth while is the
A sixth member of the family also afflicted by the ailment, hopes to undergo a similar transplanting as soon as certain complications clear up.
When you're taking her home in the bus.
St. Cloud State Teachers College.
But the girl worth while is the ___ girl who can smile
Harry Gilson Still Missing
Almost three months have elapsed since Harry C. Gilson, College senior, was last seen in Lawrence. His unexplained disappearance has baffled friends and police.
The 22-year-old navy vet was involved in a minor automobile accident at 12th and Kentucky street on Nov. 8. Gillson's right front fen entrance is near of another automobile as it was moving through the intersection.
After the accident, bystanders said Gilson appeared unharmed. He discussed the accident with the driver of the other car. However, by the time police arrived, he had disappeared.
From that time on no word has been received by Gilson's parents, and Lawrence police have found no clues to shed light on what may have happened to the honor student. His room at 1321 Tennessee street was held for several weeks by Clyde L. Coe, engineering senior, who is a half-brother to Gilson.
During the Christmas holidays, Gilson's parents came from Marion and returned with his personal belongings. Coe, who described his mother as being intensely worried, said that Gilson had never acted moody or morose in the past. Friends and relatives have requested that anyone having information about Gilson's present location to notify them or Lawrence police immediately.
No Drunks Allowed On Airport Runways
Detroit — (U.P.)—Police have asked motorists not to drive along city airport runways while drunk—even though it's perfectly legal to do so.
George T. Murphy, traffic judge,
dismissed a drunk driving charge
against he baggage flagand, 48, charg-
ing for driving around the runways
while intoxicated.
"The law says that for a person to be guilty of drunk driving, the driving must be done, on a public highway or in a place open to the general public," Judge Murphy said.
City airport runways aren't open to the public," he ruled, "cass dismissed."
When Wall Street gets jittery, it's time for the rest of the country to remain calm. — The Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Ind.
Hollywood—(U.P.)—Pretty Colleen Townsend, who is trading a promising movie career for religious work, said she thinks "Hollywood is a wonderful missionary field."
Hollywood Actress Will Drop Movies For Missionary Work
"But I don't care if my missionary work leads me to a foreign land," the brunette actress said. "Till go where the Lord needs me."
When she told 20th Century-Fox studio she wouldn't renew her contract after it expires next month, her movie bosses were "wonderful about it." Miss Townsend said.
In place of fame and a big pay check, the 20-year-old screen player said she would take a two-year religion course at a theological school. This will be followed by work in "Christian education, either teaching in churches or as a missionary."
"I'm not giving up anything," she said. "I'm just going to do something better, what I like best, and what God wants for me."
The magazine covers she posed for to pay for her education paved the way Sinclair's friend to move into movies. Since she started films she has appeared in three tro roles.
Parts in "Chicken Every Sunday" and "Walls of Jericho" skyrocketed the vivacious actress to the chance to play Dan Dailey's girl friend in "Willie Comes Marching Home."
She emphasized there is "nothing wrong with movies." Until Miss Townsend enters school in September, she plans to free-lance as a movie and radio actress.
Theology first interested her more than two years ago when friends from Hollywood High school persuaded her to join the First Presbyterian church.
She went to "various churches" during high school and was a member of the Mormon Sunday school when she attended Brigham Young university.
"This is no reflection on Hollywood," the actress added, "But Christianity has something I want. I know I'll find true happiness in it."
There is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time is ripe--William Wallace Rose, Rochester Times-Union, Rchester, N. Y.
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