Lawrence, Kansas
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Postmen On Way With Initial GI Insurance Pay-off
Washington, Jan. 16.-(U.P.)-The postmen bring ringing at the homes of ex-GI's today with the pay-off in the veterans' $2,800,000,000 life insurance dividend.
Some 500,000 checks were in the
hallbags. The checks ranged from
as low as 60 cents to $258, the
maximum amount a veteran will get.
The checks are the result of a recalculation which showed that National Service Life insurance premiums were too high.
In all, about 14,500,000 checks will be written. After the delivery of this first batch of 500,000 checks, there'll be about 1,000,000 checks delivered every week until all are distributed.
How much a veteran gets depends on his age, the length of time his policy was in force, and the amount of the policy.
The 500,000 mailed today were written last week and shipped to local post offices to be held until they come into mailmen's sacks this morning.
The pay-off is expected ot spur business sales. A lot will be spent for home furnishings, appliances and television sets.
Some of it will go to go off medical bills and other debts. Some veterans already have "spent" their money by pre-Christmas purchases and agreements to pay up when they get their dividends.
Some of the money will go into savings. That's the advice from the treasury which wrote the checks. On the back of each is stamped: "Invest wisely. Buy U. S. savings bonds."
The veterans administration also wives to be careful of thieves and forgers.
"Be careful," the V.A. said. "Keep your mailbox locked, or else pick up the checks at once to prevent forgers from stealing them."
Union Station Fire Damages Cafe
Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 16—(U.P.) A fire in the Fred Harvey restaurant of the Union station last night caused building damages estimated at $10,-000 and forced more than 200 diners to retreat from choking smoke.
The patrons made hurried exits, but there was no panic and firemen quickly got the blaze under control.
Authorities said the fire was caused by a gas broiler which ignited grease in an air duct.
John McCleary, manager of the Sauurant, said most of the damage was caused by water. There was a three-inch pool on the restaurant floor and also in the adjoining cocktail lounge.
The Rev. Norman Brandt, new minister of the Lawrence Lutheran Trinity church, spoke Sunday to Gamma Delta, Lutheran student group, on his work with sudents at Wayne university, in Detroit.
Traffic was tied up for several blocks as hundreds of curious stopped to watch the firemen battle the fire.
No one was injured and rail service was not impaired.
Gamma Delta Hears Minister Talk On Work At Wayne U.
Gamma Delta elected the following officers: Paul Oppliger, engineering sophomore, president; Norlan Baumpham, engineering junior, e-pres. Margaret Gartner, College nursing sophomore, secretary, Charles Taylor, pharmacy chman, treasurer.
Cold Wave Sweeps Nation Bad Weather, Floods Kill 56
Chicago, Jan. 16—(U.P.)—A vast cold wave swept most of the nation today, riding on high winds that gave the Pacific Northwest its stormiest weekend in 50 years.
The cold drove temperatures down to the zero mark in the midwest, increasing the suffering among 5,000 refugees from floods raging along the Ohio and Wabash rivers.
Student Dies Of Asphyxiation
Gerald Edwin Raines, graduate student from Perry, was found dead at 3 p.m. Jan. 14 in his room at 801 Mississippi street by his landlady, Mrs. Violet McKone, and Arturo Hernandez, instructor in architecture.
The cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning, Dr. F. S. Deem, coroner of Douglas county, said today. The death was listed as accidental.
Coroner Deem said that "Raines must have awaken Saturday morning, found it was cold in the room, turned up the unventured gas fire and returned to bed. The room was tightly closed and the fire used up the oxygen, resulting in" the asphyxiation.
Mrs. McKone and Mr. Hernandez found the body when they realized Saturday afternoon they hadn't seen anything. The body was on the bed in the room.
A member of Acacia fraternity, Raines received a degree of bachelor of science in business from the University in 1949. He was 30 years old. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. V. C. Raines. Perry.
The body was taken to Funk's funeral. Maternal arrangements will be made.
WEATHER
A warming trend set in today, with skies clear. Minimums tonight will be 15-20 degrees, with highs Tuesday 40 to 45.
Most of Kansas had low readings in the 'teens early today, with Leavenworth reporting only 9 degrees.
The U.S. and Canada counted 56 dead as result of the bad weather and floods. Ten of the dead were in Canada which was struck twice by the storm, once when it roared off the Pacific into British Columbia and again when it passed northeastward over the Great Lakes.
Seven deaths occurred in light plane crashes. The Pacific Northwest counted 12 due to freezing bad roads and high winds. Meanwhile, the U.S. weather bureau at Chicago warned that the continent might be in for a series of such severe storms.
Highway, train and airplane traffic gradually was returning to norms after the big storm, the winter in 1975 that struck the West Coast Friday.
Forecasters said a vast body of extremely cold air has hung over the Yukon territory and adjacent Alaska since Dec. 21 with the mercury hovering at 40 to 50 below zero. "As storms develop," a forecaster said, "chunks of this cold air are towed by hurled southward, or by the US, as a quiver of cold waves and sharp blizzard conditions."
Rains of about 8 inch fell throughout the flood area yesterday and officials said the increased run-off would swell rivers even higher, increasing the danger to lowland communities.
He said there was a possibility that the entire cold mass might sweep south suddenly. "In that case," he said, "we'd be in for an extreme prolonged cold wave that could break all records."
However, the Pacific Northwest was promised some relief from the snow that stranded hundreds of travelers and isolated many cities in Washington and Oregon. A "warm storm" was sweeping off the southern Pacific, bringing warm rains and southerly breezes that was expected to melt much of the snow blocking roads in the area.
Seniors May Call For Pictures
Graduating seniors who wish to have their pictures appear in the Jayhawker magazine should call for an appointment at the O'Bryon studio, 1024 Massachusetts street, phone 526, before they leave. A $3 charge covers the cost of the picture and the engraving.
Seniors who already have pictures of themselves should call between 3 and 4:30 p.m. today, Tuesday or Wednesday. The picture should be a 3 x 4 glossy print and will cost $2.25 for the engraving.
Leslie Named City Editor
Keith Leslie, journalism senior, has been appointed city editor of the University Daily Kansan for the first nine weeks of the spring semester by Mary K. Dyer, newly-appointed managing editor. Leslie served as assistant city editor throughout the present semester.
Other editorial appointments announced by Miss Dyer are Kathleen O'Connor, feature; Alix Neville, society; Nelson Ober, sports; and Norma Hunsinger, telegraph. All are journalism seniors.
Miss O'Conner and Miss Neville will serve on the Kansan staff for the first time. Ober and Miss Hunsinger have been assistant editors in their respective departments the past nine weeks. Miss Hunsinger was also an assistant city editor during the earlier part of the semester.
Assistants in the various departments are as follows: Anna Albright and Frankie Waits, journalism seniors, and Edward Chapin and Francis Kelley, journalism juniors, city; Faye Wilkinson, College junior, and Elaine Elvig, journalism junior, sojourn; Richard Art Lodge, Robert Enright, and Robert Hemenway, journalism seniors, sports; and Ralph Hemenway, Harrison Madden, and Bud Wright, journalism seniors, telegraph.
All appointments are for the first half of the spring semester.
Bibler To Leave, But LMOC To Stay
Bv JAY BUNDY
The University will lose its most talked-about campus figure through graduation at the end of the present semester. He is Richard Bibler, creator of the nationally famous collegiate cartoon "Little Man on the Campus."
But Worthal, his downtrodden comic creation, will be around for the spring semester to poke more fun at co-eds, professors, and fraternity life. After that, who knows? Bibler contract with the Daily Kansas expires at the end of the spring semester.
Bibler, a fine arts senior, has made no definite plans. "Td like to try tramps or editorial cartoons on a small town daily," he said, "but I've tried just about every paper in the U.S. No luck yet."
After serving in the air army force as a technical sergeant and returning to the "noble, free life of a civilian," Bibler enrolled in the
"Of course," Bibler said, "my true ambition is to retire to a little house, with a white picket fence around it, on top of a large hill, and keep on drawing Worthal. As things have turned out, I'm sure me in cigarettes. He's been a freshman for four years. He soon may have to go the way of all flesh."
One of his many potential plans is to enroll as a special student at St. Joseph's drawing his satires on college life. Bibler drew his first cartoon at 12.
RICHARD BIBLER
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School of Fine Arts as a freshman in the spring of 1946, and won a "You too can win fame and fortune—we need an artist for the newspaper" contest sponsored by the Kansan.
Thus, saw-toothed Worthal, the perpetual freshman, was born. He has been proclaimed as the Kansan's best drawing card.
Unassuming, soft-spoken Bibler has won fame and esteem for himself and his university. Little Man on Campus is currently the only syndicated college cartoon country. Association of legitimate print sellers is thanked to 89 dailies and weeklies throughout the country.
His caricatures have appeared in many national magazines. Varsity
magazine will run a feature story on Bibler which will be on sale the first week in March.
His lush lovelies, inspired by "three lonesome years on a South Pacific atoll with the army" were referred to as "sin-dicated stuff" by the Daily Chronicle at the University of Utah.
During his stay with the army, Bibler spent 34 months overseas. He was a staff artist for "Yank" magazine.
"My idea with Worthal," says Fibier, "was to create a face one could be sorry for." His ideas has developed as many as 20 uscome "from anywhere," and he able ones in a day.
Whenever Bibler is inspired by a humorous situation, he immediately makes note of it. He has a small black notebook for just that purpose. Later, he skillfully draws a cartoon about the situation.
Seven editions of "Little Man on the Campus" have been published since Worthals creation. More than 21,000 copies have been published. They have been distributed from coast to coast.
Bibler is president of the senior class, a member of Kappa Sigma social fraternity, a member of Sachem, senior men's honorary organization, and a member of Owl Society, junior men's honorary organization. His home is in Elkhart, Kans.
Movie Series To Be Shown Second Semester
The movies will be given in Hoch auditorium. Identification cards will admit students and some arrange-ment may be made for attendance by faculty and staff, but the movies will not be open to the general public.
A series of movies to be shown to University students during the second semester was announced today by Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the chancellor.
The movies are the result of a formal request made by the A.S.C. the past spring that the University obtain films, usually foreign made, that are not normally available elsewhere in Lawrence.
Movies which have been obtained and the Friday nights on which they will be shown are as follows; Feb. 3, "Children of Paradise" a French film; Feb. 10, "Mariage in the Shadows," a German picture made in post-war Berlin; Mar. 3, "Great Expectations," the Dickens' story made in England; March 24, "I Know Where I'm Going," British-made; Mar. 31, (tentative) "Don Quixote," a Spanish film, and April 28, "The Navigator," a Buster Keaton comedy made in 1924.
Nichols was appointed by Chancellor Deane W. Malott as chairman of a faculty-student committee to work out details for the experimental series to start next month.
Y-Orpheum To Be April 1
A Y-Orpheum composed of short plays written and produced by fraternities and sororites will be held + K U for the first time.
The Y.M.C.A. will organize the new event to increase school spirit hopes that if the orpheum is successful, it will become an annual event at K.U.
Fraternities and sororites are eligible. Scripts submitted for competition may be humorous, musical, or melodramatic. Length of presentation should not exceed 13 minutes, but individual submissions be submitted to the Y.M.C.A. office in the Union not later than Monday, Feb. 11.
The dramatic department of one of the other big seven universities will judge the contributions, selecting the four best from the sorority and fraternity divisions.
On Saturday, April 1, the top eight plays will be presented in Hochschule Sophiles for first and second places will be awarded in both divisions.
Pershing Rifles Elects Officers
Spring semester officers of the Pershing Rifles, honorary military society, were announced today by the U.S. Army Veteran and past-captain of the society.
Burley Onon Vandergrift II, College sophomore, was named captain of the Pershing Rifles. Other officers are: Richard Roshong, College sophomore, first lieutenant; Ronald Stang, College sophomore, and Sam Willcoxen, engineering sophomore, second lieutenants; O. Carl Anderson, Jr., and Donald Ferrell, college sophomores, sergeants.
Precautions To No Avail
Lincoln, Neb.—(U.P.) Some days you just can't win. Superintendent Walt Lundy had the Western Union office windows boarded up against strong winds predicted. The winds came, pried the wood loose, hurled it into the street and shattered a window.