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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, NOV. 18, 1949
Photo by Bob Blank
Tumblers of the gym team rehearse for the Jayhawk Follies to be presented in Hoch auditorium at 7:30 tonight. Left to right, they are Dudley Houtz, College junior, standing; William Heffelman, engineering senior, with hands on the shoulder of Houtz; Robert Ziesenis, College sophomore, standing in center; Robert Kleist, engineering junior, on shoulders of Ziesenis; Ben Stephens, College sophomore, whose feet are held by Kleist; Kenneth Long, education sophomore, standing at right end.
Ghost Of'28 Jayhawk May Haunt 'Tigers'Saturday
Some folks will swear on a stack of K-books that the mythical Kansas Jayhawk actually exists. Perhaps this new twist to the old story will explain their belief.
Back in the late twenties, according to a story in the November 25, 1928 issue of the University Daily Kansas, Thomas W. Caffey, a student who lived at the Pi Upsilon fraternity house, received a gift from Central America in the form of a toucan, a tropical bird of bright yellow and black hues with a long beak. Also, this feathered nightmare's bill was faintly tinted crimson and blue.
It was only natural that the owner should offer this specimen as the
University mascot, because it did,
by a stretch of the imagination, resemble the famous K.U. emblem.
Appropriately named "Chalkie," the bird became the embodiment of Kansas spirit.
In its home at the fraternity house, the bird was tended by pledges. It was given loving care, in fact such loving care that it died after several months of fame as the Kansas mascot. However the bird gained nation-wide recognition during its brief lifetime.
The story goes that on the night before the 1928 Kansas-Missouri tilt, a zealous freshman was tending the bird, and in order to keep it warm through the cold weather he beamed its cage atop a radiator. During the night the heating plant failed and the bird caught cold. It died before morning.
"Chalkie's" untimely demise proved to be an ill omen. The Tigers clipped the Jayhawkers' wings 25 to 6 the following day.
Businesses Will Close During Homecoming Game
The Lawrence Merchants bureau voted unanimously Thursday to close downtown businesses during the University of Kansas Homecoming football game each year.
The business places will close at 1 p.m. Saturday for the K.U.-M.U. football game. They will reopen at 5 p.m.
Kansas could not bear to part with its only flesh and blood "Jayhawk" and so he was stuffed. He remained in the thick of campus life for many years until he was apparently lost—he hasn't been seen since.
As "Chalkie" passed into oblivion, Kansas returned to the popular fable which was summarized in a radio broadcast in December, 1926. "The Jayhawk is a myth, made up of a composite of the blue jay and the sparrow hawk, the Jayhawk myth has become the spirit of progress and power. Gone is the spirit of robber birds, of reckless plundering. Only the benevolent spirit of comradeship, of courage, and of fighting qualities, remain."
101st Vespers Set For Sunday
The 101st All-Musical vespers will be presented by the School of Fine Arts at 4 p.m. Sunday in Hoch auditorium.
The program will include numbers by G. Criss Simpson, assistant professor of organ and theory; the University String quartet; the men's and women's glee clubs; the University A. Cappella choir; and the University Symphony orchestra.
Papers Publish K U Editorials
Editorials written by University journalism students are now being printed in Kansas newspapers.
Discussing topics that vary from "How to Pour Beer in a Glass" to "Denunciation of Louis Johnson," students enrolled in the Editorial class of Charles Sloane have structured humorism, have seen work appear in recent weeks in the Leavenworth Times, Atchison Globe, and Emporia Gazette.
"The newspapers also like it as it gives their readers a chance to see what young people in the state are thinking about," he said. "Other newspapers have been informed of the plan and appear enthusiastic to have the editors printed in their columns."
Mr. Pearson states that the practice was begun this semester as result of a suggestion made by the Leavenworth Times. He approves of it as giving students "a chance to see their writing in print and observing changes professional journalists make in their copy."
The first student editorial to be printed was that of Norma Hunsinger, journalism senior. Entitled "Round One Ends—What Next?" and dealing with Communist conspiracy trials recently completed in New York, it appeared in the Leavenworth Times Oct. 24.
William Graves, journalism junior, was first to have his work appear in the Emporia Gazette, formerly published by the late William Allen White for whom the University school of journalism is named. The student editorial printed in the Atchison Globe was by Doris Greenbank, journalism senior.
An explanatory note usually precedes the editorial used by the papers, with the student's name given at the end.
Flowers May Indicate Gold By Geochemical Process
Growing plants may soon be used to prospect for gold.
If the old sourdough gold prospector of the nineties with his pick, shovel, and mining pan, had known about geochemical ore prospecting methods like those being developed at the Research foundation of the University, his plodding old pack mule might have been spared many an angry kick, and the crisp Alaskan air might have rung more often with the exultant shout, "bonanza!"
Uranium ore deposits the atomic energy building material, can be detected by a certain lowlying species of plant growing in the Colorado plateau country. Shallow but hidden deposits of the greatly sought after metal are usually found on the planet, which usually grows near concentrations of selenium, a non-metallic element. These Colorado plateau uranium ore deposits usually contain some selenium.
Geochemical prospecting, a new approach to prospecting for ore deposits, works on the principle that traces of ore metals from underground ore bodies are dispersed through the surrounding soils, plants, and streams.
Deep rooted plants of certain species sometimes bring up to their leaves and twigs some of the metals which are dispersed through the soil. By detecting and measuring these metals it sometimes is possible to follow them back to their source, which may be a hidden ore deposit.
A common horsetail plant growing over a gold vein in Canada is reporter, have accumulated more gold to the metal for each ton of the plant.
"The process is still in the experimental stage, and we're pretty much in the dark right now as to how successful it will be." Harbaugh said. "We hope to publish the results of our experiments next spring."
John W. Harbaugh and Daniel W. Brite, research assistants in the foundation, are conducting the experiments for the Research foundation. They are testing native types of vegetation from the tri-state mining region of southeast Kansas, northeast Oklahoma, and southwest Missouri.
The experiments consist of analyzing leaf and twig ashes of vegetation from the tri-state region and comparing the metal contents. The plants are analyzed for three metals, including zinc, copper, lead, nickel, cobalt, tin, silver, chromium, and germanium.
There are approximately 2,000 square miles of potential ore producing land in the tri-state district which has not been prospected. The geochemical process may prove to be a cheap, quick way of prospecting for ore.
Ernie Crates, surrounded by Jayhawkerettes from the chorus line of the Jayhawk follies, which will be presented at 7:30 p.m. today in Hoch auditorium.
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