THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1949
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE NINE
New Yorker Sees Daylight First Time In Ten Years
New York, April 28—(U.P.)—Bearded, bespectacled Paul Makushak, 33, saw daylight for the first time in 10 years today after police dragged him from a three-by-five foot room in which his mother had sealed him shortly before the nation began mobilizing for war.
When the 6-foot tall Makushak unfolded himself from the cramped,
book-lined cubicle, his black hair was long and unkempt. His curly beard reached his chest. His thick- lensed spectacles were repaired with wire.
He blinked from his clean white bed in Kings County hospital today and said he "just meditated" for the decade that he was sealed in the room.
"I wish I was back." he said. "I don't like the world."
Police were called to the sixroom, junk cluttered Makushak home in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn Tuesday night by Elsie Kowalski, a young neighbor.
Mrs. Anna Makushak, 58, had engaged the girl to feed her son before she went to a hospital Tuesday for treatment of an internal disorder. The girl became frightened when she started lowering some food through a hole in the ceiling.
On the first floor of the building, police found Peter Makushak, 62 living behind his tailor shop. He said he had moved out of the third-floor apartment after an argument with his wife several years earlier and she would not let him return.
"His mother said he had gone to Canada," he said.
The father said his son, a former college student whom the family once gave a Cord automobile as a reward for high grades, disappeared "about 10 years ago."
The father first learned of his son's true whereabouts when his wife called him to the apartment Tuesday and asked him if he wanted to see his son again. She showed him the boy through the hole.
The old man shrugged when questioned by police.
"I moved out because I thought my wife was acting irrational," he said.
Young Mr. Makushak said being sealed in the cubicle, partitioned off from the rest of the world behind brick and beaverboard, was his idea.
"I am opposed to violence."
Asked if he did it to evade the draft, he said:
Mr. Makushak pretended to know nothing of World War II, but he admitted listening to an old fashioned radio with earphones in his windowless cell.
Mr. Makushak was wearing ragged garments, 'an old stocking cap, a piece of army blanket about his shoulders, and a grey sweater on his legs as makeshift trousers.
Sweet William, Extrovert,
Loves People And Clothes
St. Louis—(U.P.)—Sweet William, a monkey at the St. Louis zoo, is an extrovert.
That's why he was sullen and refused to eat when he was put into a cage by himself. But he quickly shed his gloom when his keeper, David Schainker, put him in a more prominent cage, bought him a hat and a classy pair of trousers, and allowed him to shake hands with visitors.
ASCE Hears Engineers
Highway building in Kansas was outlined by Carl R. Fricke, soil testing engineer, and Delbert L. Lacy, field soils engineer, of the Kansas State highway department, Tuesday evening. They spoke to the University chapter of the American Society of Civil engineers.
Samples of proposed roadbeds are tested in the laboratories in Topeka to determine the type of road necessary to withstand the estimated traffic. Mr. Fricke said.
Mr. Lacy said that the need for the research and testing done by the laboratory can be seen in the many broken-up roads in Kansas. Traffic has increased in the past few years from 500 to 1,100 per cent over pre-war traffic. Roads originally intended for three ton trucks are now breaking up under the pounding of 14 ton trucks, he added
C. K. Matthews, senior engineer with Burns and McDonald, consulting engineers, Kansas City, Mo., was a guest at the meeting. Mr. Matthews is the senior contact member for the University chapter and the Kansas City chapter of the A.S.C.E.
Student chapter by-laws were adopted and refreshments were served.
Fine Arts Students Will Hear Wagner
Friedelind E. Wagner, grand-daughter of Richard Wagner, and great granddaughter of Franz Liszt, will speak on incidents in her life at a School of Fine Arts convocation at 4 p.m. Monday, May 4 in Fraser theater.
Miss Wagner's talk will include excerpts from her autobiography "Hirtege of Fire," and also anecdotes on such famous persons as Toscanini, Richard Strauss, von Ribenton, Goering, and Goebbels.
Her father, Siegfried Wagner, a famous musician, was a friend and supporter of Hitler. Miss Wagner was not in sympathy with the Nazi government and at the outbreak of World War II she left Germany with the help of Arturo Toscanini, internationally known conductor, and a close friend of the Wagner family. Miss Wagner came to the United States and is now a citizen of this country.
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Little Man On Campus
By Bibler
"If you have to drive this thing to school, do you have to park it in front of our house?"
Zoology Students Get Frogs, Snakes Salamanders In Southeast Kansas
Twenty students under the direction of Dr. Edward H. Taylor, professor of zoology, left Lawrence recently for Baxter Springs. They collected approximately 40 species of frogs, snakes, salamanders, toads, and fish on their field trip.
Baxter Springs is well located for such field trips, since it is in the southeastern corner of the state, and $ \textcircled{4} $ the students therefore have access
Baxter Springs is well located for such fie southeastern corner of the state, and the students, therefore, have access to collecting grounds in Missouri and Oklahoma as well.
Dr. Taylor said the trip was very successful from the standpoint of the number of species found, but not particularly so from the number of specimens collected.
"One of the main values of a trip of this sort is from the ecological standpoint. The students learns the habitats of the different species." said Charles Miles, College senior.
The trip was made without any serious wear and tear on the hunters which is quite an achievement since 16 copperhead snakes were collected.
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Aero's Win Exhibit Prize
The aeronautical engineering department was awarded the Sigma Tau trophy for the best exhibit in the Engineering exposition. Sigma Tau is a national honorary engineering fraternity.
Second place was awarded to the electrical engineering department and third place was given to the architecture department. This is the second year that the aeronautical engineering department has had an exhibit at the exposition.
T. DeWitt Carr, dean of the engineering school, presented the award to Levi A. Barnes, senior department chairman, Friday evening, April 22.
The awarding of the trophy was begun in 1931. Any department that wins it for three consecutive years is awarded the trophy permanently,
Faculty Entries Accepted
For Wichita Art Display
Four entries by two faculty members were included in the less than 500 pieces accepted for display in the decorative arts and ceramics exhibit in Wichita.
A bowl and vase by Professor Carey and a bowl and creamer by Mr. Smith were the entries ap-approved.
J. Sheldon Carey, associate professor of ceramics, and Carlyle H. Smith, instructor in design, had two pieces each accepted by the Wichita Art association from a field of more than 1,500 works.
Work in the exhibit includes sculpture, pottery, enameling, silversmithing, jewelry, and weaving.
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