18. 1949
University Daily Kansan
Thursday, May 19, 1949
Lawrence, Kansas
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
12 To Receive Award Of Merit At Dress Parade
Midshipmen and cadets from the University R.O.T.C. and N.R.O.T.C. units will be honored at the joint Army, Navy, and Air force dress parade at 4 p.m. tomorrow at intramural field number four.
midshipman Theodore Tober, pharmacy junior, will be presented an engraved wrist watch for his selection as the outstanding midshipman of the N.R.O.T.C. unit. Capt W. R. Terrell, professor of naval science and tactics, will present the award on behalf of the Kansas City Mo., chapter of the Naval Academy Alumna association who each year presents a gold watch to the outstanding midshipman.
Col. John Alfrey, professor of military science and tactics, will present medals to cadets for excellence in performing their duties in the R.O.T.C. unit. Cadets to receive medals are: John Evers, College freshman; John McKinley, and Richard Kummer, engineering sophomores; Max Pachl, College junior; Robert Bransfield, engineering junior; and Joseph Mendenhall, College sophomore.
Engineers Nominate 23
Other midshipmen to be presented certificates for outstanding performance in the naval unit are: Richard Traskowsky, College sophomore; Clayton Comfort and Alfred Young, engineering freshman; Harold Heinrich, College freshman; and William Meier, business junior.
Twenty-three students have been nominated for offices in the University chapter of the American Institute of Electrical engineers.
The nominees are Ralph E. Church, Emmett G. Green, and Donald E. Huffman, juniors, for chairman; William P. Barnett and Bruce R. Chadwick, juniors, and Eugene T. Halbert, senior, for vice-chairman; David M. Garlock and Herbert D. Lewis, juniors, and Kenneth L. Hoffman, sophomore, for secretary; William R. Faris, James A. Gibson, and Donald D. McMurray, juniors, for treasurer.
Nominees for class representatives in the University chapter are David J. Stewart, senior; Alfred L. Case, and John R. Zweers, juniors, for senior representative; Warren E. Arnspiger, Norman L. Bell, Robert E. England, and Elton B. Noble, sophomores, for junior representative; Royce L. Bray, Gene K. Hoskinson, Charles B. Ogilvie, and Charles W. Stephens, freshmen, for sophomore representative.
Virginia Lois Thomson, College freshman, underwent emergency surgery at 6 p.m. Wednesday. Hospital authorities today, described her condition as good.
Virginia Thompson Recovers
Billy H. Hamilton and Joseph A. Hull will present student papers at the meeting. Hamilton's paper "Magnetic Amplifiers", recently won second place in a student paper contest sponsored by the Kansas City section of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
The election will be held at 7:30 p.m. today in the recreation room of the Union.
Hull's paper is entitled "Application of Electronic Measurement Technique as Applied to Physiological Problems" and has been presented at a meeting of the Kansas City section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
Suderman Wins Lewis Award
Elmer F. Suderman, graduate student, has been awarded the $75 second prize in the Hattie Elizabeth Lewis memorial essay contest, it was announced today by Mattie E. Crumrine, assistant professor of romance language and chairman of the senate committee. The title of Suderman's essay was "The Teachings of Jesus and the Conquest of Fear."
No first prize of $100 or third prize of $50 was awarded by the committee this year. The committee has the right to award positions according to the quality and number of essays.
The contest, which was established in 1911, is open to any regularly enrolled student at the University.
Miller Gets KU Position
Miss June Miller, a student here in 1936-38, has been appointed associate professor of hearing in the University of Kansas School of medicine, Chancellor Deane W. Malott announced today. The appointment will be effective August 1.
Miss Miller will head a program concerned with training of teachers of the deaf, supervision of a hearing diagnostic clinic, supervision of a pre-school teaching program for deaf children, and a basic program in hearing research.
Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, dean of the School of Medicine, said that the program, made possible by a special grant from the legislature, will use facilities of the Lawrence campus, the Medical Center in Kansas City, and the Kansas School for the Deaf in Olathe. The program will deal mostly with hearing defects in children. Dr. Murphy said.
Miss Miller, after leaving K.U. in 1938, completed her undergraduate work at the Central Institute for the Deaf in St. Louis, Mo. Last year she received a master's degree in education for the deaf, from Columbia university. She comes to K.U. from the University of Oklahoma, where she was assistant professor of hearing in the speech department.
Miss Miller is formerly of Olathe. Her father is Ernest W. Miller, managing editor of the Olathe Mirror.
Raymond A. Collidge, '24, architecture, visited the architecture department Tuesday. Mr. Collidge is a former Kansas state architect and is now practicing in Topeka.
Architect Visits Campus
Pleasing an audience of more than 1,000 the University concert band displayed musical versatility of delicacy and force in the annual spring concert Wednesday in Hoch auditorium.
1,000 Hear Spring Concert By University Band In Hoch
The bandsmen, dressed in their uniforms and the women dressed in pastel evening gowns, played 12 band arrangements and 2 encores. Russell L. Wiley, associate professor of band, and Raymond Zepp, instructor
By FRANKIE WAITS
With Raymond Zepp "Bolero," Spanish Dance (Miozkowski) seemed to please the student audience especially well because of the exciting Spanish rhythm.
US Too Easy With People It Aids, Dolph Simons Says
The sparkling cornet of James Sellards, education senior, thrilled the audience in his performance of "Bride of the Waves" (Clarke). Sellards mastered the most difficult passages with clarity and grace. Unusual ability was displayed on the high and low notes.
band, and Raymond Zepp, instructor of band, conducted.
After opening the concert with a stirring arrangement of the "Star Spangled Banner", the band played the "William Tell Overture" (Rossini). This was a favorite with both audience and band members, and presented the band's quality of force extremely well.
The state department of the United States is too easy with the people in foreign countries whom it is helping, Dolph Simons, editor and publisher of the Lawrence Journal World, said Wednesday evening. He spoke at the N.R.O.T.C. Hawkwatch society meeting.
the piano soloist, Roger Butts, fine arts sophomore, exhibited a powerful touch in "Concerto in Jazz" (Phillips). Switching with the band from boogie woogie to syncopated swing to jazz, this was one of the most popular numbers with the audience. The eight-minute piece is the only jazz concerto written for band and piano.
Mr. Simons said that few persons realize that Turkey is our strongest ally today because of her strategic position in relation to Russia.
"Les Prudes," Symphonic Poem (Liszst) is seldom played by band organizations because of its extreme difficulty. In a demonstration of the beauty of Liszst's music, the band displayed the greatest possible range of dynamic contrast from very loud to the softest tones, all with a distinctive beat.
Neill Humfeld, education junior, trombone soloist, presented Recitative and Prayer from "Grand Symphony for Band" (Berlioz) with pump and dignity. The mellowness of his tones was outstanding.
The shortest number was "Flight of the Bumble Bee," from "The Legend of Tsar Saltan" (Rimsky-Korsakoff). The number was 64 seconds long.
"The Dover Coach" (Vinter) was presented with such reality one could visualize the English coach scene with its coachmen and trumpets.
The remaining numbers, which were shorter, were played with equally as much musical skill.
WEATHER
Cloudy and cooler with occasional showers today; high near 70. Low tonight near 60. Partly cloudy and mild tomorrow; high 70 to 75.
"We should stop this pussy-footing around," Mr. Simons declared.
"These foreign peoples will not respect us if we continue to go around with an open pocketbook and give them money." Many countries are our friend only as long as we are giving them something."
"The Turks hate the Russians and have fought them four times in the last generation," he said. Turkey now has four submarines and four destroyers from the United States "mothball fleet" and are using them to good advantage to train officers and men.
"In case of war, I am glad that the Turks will be on our side. They proved how tough they were in World War I when they defeated all efforts of the French and British to send ships and men through the Bosphorus," he said.
Mr. Simons has just returned from a trip around the world as a guest of the U. S. navy. He visited 22 foreign countries and traveled over 35,000 miles by plane and ship.
SAM Presents Honor Scroll
George Toombold, personnel director of the Boeing Airplane company, Wichita division, was presented with the Society for the Advancement of Management scroll Wednesday at the annual club banquet.
Selection for the award, which was the first one to be given, was based on distinguished contributions in the field of industry and management in the Kansas or greater Kansas City area.
William Champion, education sophomore, was chairman of the committee to make the selection for the award. Serving with him were Frank T. Stockton, dean of University extension; T. DeWitt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering; Wayne Smith, society president; and Charles Fry, business senior.
Mr. Trombold, '32, guest speaker at the banquet, spoke on personnel problems. He advocated a cool head for making cool decisions and criticized the "warm-hearted and winning smile" type of personnel manager for using emotions to approach and settle problems.
"American free enterprise must be preserved by management," he said. Management will be put to the test in the next 15 or 20 years by the infiltration of "isms' which are trying to promise the laboring man more then he'll ever get, he con-
Recently elected were introduced by Wayne Smith, retiring president.
They were William Champion education sophomore, president; John Tabor, business junior, vice-president; Waldo Dick, business junior, secretary; and John Snider, education treasurer.
Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Terre. Clarke, Paul McCollum, Dean and Mrs. Frank T. Stockton, Prof. Harry Daasch, and Mr. and Mrs. George Trombold.
University High To Give Play
"Dear Ruth," a popular Broadway comedy for the past several years, will be presented at 8 p.m. tonight in Fraser theater, by the graduating class of University High school.
The setting for the play is World War II. The plot revolves around a series of letters written to servicemen by a girl who has become interested in world affairs through her high school work.
She signs the name of her older sister, Ruth, and sends the service-men her sister's picture. Life becomes extremely complicated for Ruth when a soldier comes home to marry her and finds her engaged to a banker.
The entire play takes place in two days. The cast includes: Elaine Magner, Margaret Latimer, Patricia Daniel, Edwin A. Stene, Angeline Stavros, Bruce Perdue, Ralph Wlechman, Donna King, Bill Naff, and Larry McDonnell.
Fort Worth, Tex., May 19—(U.P.) National guardsmen patrolled the streets today, guarding against looters as floodwaters of the Trinity river receded from Fort Worth homes.
Ft. Worth Flood Damage Nears 25 Million Dollars
Faced with a critical shortage of water for drinking and cooking, the city council asked all stores, theaters and other establishments to call a "business holiday" unless they had private water supplies.
The Trinity river was returning steadily to its banks, but some authorities estimated that the sudden flood that began Tuesday had caused 25 million dollars damage.
Thousands of Fort Worth's 330,000 residents lined up at public schools to get water rationed from supplies brought in by 34 tank trucks. Others joined queues at 14 centers to receive anti-typhoid innoculations.
Seven bodies had been fished from the muddy waters, and it was feared the total dead would rise to 11.
Authorities called out 200 national guardsmen after looting was reported in the damaged homes and stores where the river was falling.
Broken mains intensified the water shortage. A 20-inch pipe supplying water to the north side from the Holly pumping station broke when an old bridge gave way
The Holly plant, heart of the city's water system, was operating with a steam pump that supplied only eight million gallons daily. The city normally uses 36 million gallons a day. The plant's regular pumps were flooded out when the river rose.
Between 6,000 and 7,000 persons still were homeless. At the height of the flood, 13,000 persons were driven out of their houses.
Poison Ivy Thriving Now
Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of the University Health service, warned today that students should be careful to avoid poison ivy on field trips and picnics because the plant seems to be thriving this year. He said that several cases of poisoning are now being treated at Watkins Memorial hospital.
Kenneth Hoeschen, a florist at the University, said there is poison ivy in Marvin grove beside the Memorial drive, and along the fence between Mississippi street and the athletic practice field.
Mr. Hoeschen cautioned all students to stay away from weed patches that do not show signs of having been cut, and to watch carefully around the trunks of the trees in the grove. He said a staff of gardeners are working with a prepared chemical weed killer to rid the campus of poison ivy.
Five New Officers Elected By ASCE
Clyde L. Coe, engineering junior was elected president of the University chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers Wednesday.
Other officers elected are Burton C. Canfield, engineering sophomore, vice-president; Glenn W. Anschutz, engineering junior, corresponding secretary; James B. Coulter, engineering junior, recording secretary; and David L. von Niederhausen, engineering junior, treasurer.