University Daily Kansan
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Russians Block Trucks On Road Into Berlin
United Press World News
The Russians halted western truck traffic to Berlin today only six days after lifting the Berlin blockade.
They demanded Western trucks obtain new entry permits from the German Economic commission for the Soviet zone before crossing the zonal border on the Berlin superhighway.
The Soviet move was the first against freedom of traffic to Berlin since the lifting of the blockade Thursday. It threatened to raise a new issue in the Big Four Council of Foreign Ministers scheduled to open next week in Paris.
By noon hundreds of trucks were drawn up under a hot sun at Helmstedt on the British side of the border.
German anti-Communists called on the Council of Foreign Ministers to open the Soviet zone to free elections. Kurt Mattick, co-chairman of the Berlin Social Democratic party, said a free vote would result in overwhelming rejection of Communist rule in eastern Germany.
Some Western circles wondered whether the Russians might have ordered the new restriction in a pique over the results of the German people's congress elections in the Soviet zone Sunday and Monday.
Shanghai-Communist forces seeking to encircle Shanghai were reported nearing a junction to the North that would completely isolate the big city. The Communist advance toward the Whangpoo river above Shanghai forced the U.S. Navy to cancel its daily shuttle run along the river to the city.
Applications for the position of producer-coordinator for the 1950 production of College Daze, all student musical, should be turned in at the Union activities office by 5 p.m., Monday, May 23.
Producer Sought For College Daze
Applications should include name, class standing, grade average, experience which qualifies for the position, and a list of reasons why each applicant desires the position. The selection will be made before the end of the term by Craig Hampton, fine arts junior, and Margaret Granger, College sophomore, the executive officers of Student Union activities.
A damage suit was filed in Douglass county district court Tuesday against Marion R. Cox, business senior, by Frederick J. Moreau, dean of the law school. The suit asks for $11,260 as a result of injuries in an automobile accident March 22.
Moreau Files Against Student
University Band To Give Annual Concert Tonight
WEATHER
Dean Moreau alleged in the petition that he suffered shock and permanent disability to his right knee and loss of time from his duties as dean of the law school.
The two cars driven by Cox and
Laurie were crashed at 20th and
Louisiana streets.
KANSAS-Partly cloudy and continued warm today. Thundershowers likely late tonight, ending tomorrow morning Tomorrow partly cloudy.
The suit seeks $10,000 for permanent disability to the dean's knee, for damages to his automobile, $200 for expenses and $260 for doctors' fees.
University band members are tuning their instruments today in preparation for the annual spring concert to be given at 8 p.m. in Hoch auditorium.
Activity tickets will admit students. General admission is 50 cents.
Russell L. Whey, associate University students will take ad- vantage of seeing the last concert of the band this semester.
The program will be as follows: William Tall Overture (Rossini); "Harkstow Grange," English Folk song from "Lincolnshire Posey" (Grainger); "Bride of the Waves" (Clarke) by James Sellards, cornet 'solist; "Les Preludes," Symphonic Poem (Listz); "Recitative" and "Prayer" from "Grand Symphony
Three members will be in the soloist's spotlight. James Sellards, cornet soloist will play "Bride of the Waves"; Neil Humfield, trombone soloist will play "Recitive and Prayer" from "Grand Symphony for Band"; and Roger Butts, piano soloist, will play "Concerto in Jazz."
Students will have an opportunity to cross fingers, put their tongue cheek, and pat their foot, all at the same time on band concert, Professor Wiley, said.
Twelve numbers, especially arranged for band will be presented by the 120 bandsmen. Raymond Zepp, instructor of band, will conduct one number, "Bolero," a Spanish Dance (Mozkowski).
"The public seldom sees the band at its musical best," he said. "On the football field, we are a football band. At basketball games we play under difficult surroundings.
"The band is at its best in concerts and that is when students should make a special effort to hear their band." he said.
Twenty-four band members have received gold keys this year, Professor Wiley said. The gold bass drum keys, inscribed with the University of Kansas Band seal and Jayhawk are given to persons with a three year membership in the band or who are on the officers staff.
In March, the band played to 4,000 persons in central Kansas cities on its spring tour. A complementary concert was given in the Music hall of Kansas City, Mo., for teachers, music student, and parents.
for Band" (Berlioz) by Neil Humford, trombone soloist; "The Dover Coach" (Vinter); "Bretagne" from "Suite Française" (Miliaud); "Boiler," Spanish Dance (Mozkowski) conducted by Raymond Zepp; "Concerto in Jazz" (Phillips) by Roger Butts, piano soloist; "March, Opus 99" (Kroopfehl); "Flight of the Bumble Bee," from "The Legend of Tsar Saltan" (Rimsky-Korsakoff); and waltzes from "Der Rosenkavalier" (Richard Strauss).
During the year, the band has played for the student introduction service, the January Middle west clinic where 50 new band members were introduced, three convocations, and the homecoming festivities.
Plea For Careful Driving Made For Sunnyside
"The band gave one of its most beautiful and impressive concerts in St. Joseph, Mo., at the annual Apple Blossom festival May 5," Professor Wiley said.
A child was nearly struck by a car in the Sunnyside housing addition recently which caused Keith Lawton, dormitory director today to issue a plea for safe driving to all motorists using the Sunnyside service roads.
The incident causing Mr. Lawton's action happened when a small child stepped from behind a parked vehicle. An approaching car was barely able to stop in time to avoid an ac cident.
Mr. Lawton explained that the service roads run through the back yards and children often cross them in their play.
"There are about 225 small children concentrated in a small area which is especially hazardous." Mr. Lawton said. "We have had no accidents yet, and we would like to maintain that record."
Mr. Lawton added that the traffic from the intramural contests near-by has caused congestion in the service streets since many motorists do not wait to use 16th street, but use the Sunnyside service roads.
The speed limit in the area is 15 miles per hour. Mr. Lawton said. Caution signs are being painted for all entrances to the area, he said.
The deans of men and women have contacted the Inter-dorm council, the Inter-fraternity council, and Panhellenic urging them to cooperate by using caution when using the service roads through the project, Mr. Lawton said.
"I want to emphasize that it isn't only the students who drive through there at what we feel to be unsafe speeds," Mr. Lawton stressed.
A letter received by the University Daily Kansan today signed by several Sunnside residents stated
"Many of the parents' of the children living in Sunnyside have become very concerned about the traffic through the streets of the project. We wondered the people drive these cars so near to our back doors realize just how many small children are playing there.
Every parent does his best to see that the children are not in the road but in an instant one can dash away from its mother into the path of a car. In one day, a child was nearly knocked down by a car, and a dog was run over—that could have been a child.
D. A. (Dixie) Moore, Lawrence police chief, said this morning he was instructing police patrol cars to violate violations in the Sunrise area.
"If anyone finds it necessary to use our roads going to or from the intramural field, or elsewhere, will he kindly drive at minimum speed? Better yet, we wish everyone one would use a different route whenever possible since any unnecessary traffic through our streets is definitely a hazard to our children."
Daily Kansan Wins Newspaper A
"The campus traffic office has had numerous complaints from Sunny-side residents objecting to motorists speeding along the streets and alley in the housing project," Chief Moore explained.
The University Daily Kansan has received honorable mention in a nationwide college newspaper competition conducted by the National Advertising Service, Inc.
"We want to do all we can to avoid any accidents. I am instructing the patrol cars to arrest any speeders observed at Sunnyside."
Notice was received in a telegram to Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the chancellor. The telegram said that a trophy would be awarded at commencement or some appropriate occasion.
National Advertising Service, Inc. is the national advertising representative of the University Daily Kansas.
ASC Selects 10 Cheerleaders
Cheers for University heroes next year will be led by the 10 men and women selected Tuesday in Robinson gymnasium.
Four of the group are second year cheerleaders. They Gair Sloan, engineering sophomore; Leslie Roenig, engineering junior; and Patricia Perkins and Paul A. Coker, Jr., fine arts sophomores.
Others selected are Patricia Ames and Betty Delaney, College sophomores; Howard T. Payne, Judith Johnson, and Patsy Landis, College freshmen; and Leon H. Clemons, engineering sophomore.
Payne, Sloan, Roenigk, and Misses Johnson, Ames, and Perkins will be on the regular team. The other four will serve as alternates.
A selection committee of 10 picked by the Traditions committee of the A.S.C. rated the 3 contestants on poise, pep and personality.
Those who judged were Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women; Richard A. Menuet, chairman of the Traditions committee; Mary Fischer, president of Jay Janes; William Y. Chalfant, president of the Kukus; Douglas H. Paddock, vicepresident of A.S.C.; Walter J. Brown, Jr., College sophomore; Pat Dunne, pharmacy junior; John Idoux, education sophomore; Dale Engle, engineering sophomore; and John Amberg, College sophomore.
Practice sessions have been held every night during the past week in Robinson gymnasium.
Boy Injured At Sunflower
Dennis Joe Mansfield, 5, is in critical condition today in Lawrence Memorial hospital after being struck by an automobile at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday near his home in Sunflower village. Hospital attendants said the child was suffering from fractures of the skull and left leg.
Dennis is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Mansfield. The father was on his way home from the General Motors assembly plant in the Fairfax district of Kansas City, Kan., when the accident occurred.
Witnesses told L. A. Billings,
Johnson county sheriff, that Dennis
was riding his small sidewalk bicycle
down a slight grade on Drive E
when he was struck. The sheriff said
the driver of the car was Albert
Cole, 21, a mail carrier, assigned to
the Sunflower postoffice. Cole has
been a resident of the Village four
Cole was booked at the county jail at Olathe on an open charge and is scheduled to go before county attorney John Anderson some time today, sheriff Billings. Billings said witnesses told him Cole was exceeding the 15-mile-an-hour Village speed limit.
Business Fraternity Postpones Field Trip
A field trip to the Kansas City, Mo., Chevrolet plant by members of Delta Sigma Pi, business fraternity, has been postponed until Thursday due to a conflict with a scheduled intramural softball game.
15 Courses Being Added To Curriculum
The catalog number on one course was changed, Miss Elliott said. She made the announcement for Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College, who is on a commencement speaking trip.
Fifteen new courses were added to the curriculum of the College and two new majors were discussed by committees at the College faculty meeting Tuesday, Miss Maude Elliott, assistant professor of romance languages, said today.
The new courses include Elementary Biochemistry, five hours of History of Art 80 both three-hour and History of Art 101 two hours.
Five additional courses in economics were added. They are Economics 8, a survey of accounting, three hours; American Economic Development 54, three hours; Time Series Analysis 102, three hours; Correlation Analysis 103, two hours; and Sampling Theory and Industrial Application 104, a professional credit course, three hours.
Elementary Number Theory 140
new the hour course offered
by the school
The political science department has added Government and Politics of the Far East 211, two or three hours; and The Economic Order 244, three hours.
French 3a, elementary French conversation, one hour; and Sociology 205, methods of archaeology, two hours, were added. These 14 courses will be offered beginning next fall.
Zoology 101. a course of natural history, will be offered for three hours credit to teachers in the summer session.
The two new majors discussed were Latin America Area and American Civilization. These were considered by the faculty and will be acted upon at the June meeting.
Dressy cottons, sun dresses, shorts, swim suits, and formalms were featured in the style show given Tuesday by the Coffee and Forums committee of the Union.
The major of Latin American Area, presented by Miss Agnes Brady, assistant professor of romance languages, will cover courses which include all phases of art, business, history, language, and geography of the Latin American area, Miss Elliott said.
American Civilization, presented by George Anderson, associate pro-
fessor in history, will include courses covering the western
illization in the Western hemisphere.
These majors are expected to be approved by the faculty at the next meeting on Saturday, June 4.
Union Committee Holds Style Show
This is the second style show given by this group during the year. Approximately 40 persons were in the audience. Mary Douglass, education junior, was the narrator and Natalie Logan, College sophomore, played the piano.
Style trends indicated stoles, one-piece swim suits, and two-piece cottons. Plaids and rayons came in for their share of the attention.
Ten University women modeled clothes selected from two Lawrence shops. Those who modeled were Patricia Dosien, education senior; Donna J. Lewis, fine arts senior; Gloria Horn, journalism junior; Beatrice Senor, College sophomore; Margaret A. Cowger and Mary McGinty, fine arts sophomores; Mary Claryd, College freshman; Jean Bush and Dorothy Durfee, fine arts freshmen; and Martha Duncan, College.