UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1949
PAGE SIXTEEN
24 Receive Speech-Drama HS Honors
Two hundred and fifteen students from 48 Kansas high schools participated in the first annual statewide Speech and Drama festival held recently at the University.
Dramatic readings, Donna Hacker, Russell; Diana Price, Winfield; Mary Loveless, Hutchinson; Jeanette Lindgen, Salina; Ernest Dade, Hutchinson; Joanne Hamilton, Wyandotte high school, Kansas City, Kan.; Jeanne Pivonka, Dighton; Mary Anne Bell, Washington Rural High school, Bethel; and Nancy Harris, Coffeville.
All contestants in the six classes of competition had won first division (superior) ratings in the four district festivals held previously. Each division winner of the state contests received a medal from the Kansas State High School Activities association in the festival jointly sponsored by the K.S.H.A.A. and University extension. Judges were chosen from the speech and drama department of the University.
Humorous readings, Dolores Blechel, Eudora; Clarence Dickson, Pittsburg; Marjean Sullivan, North High school, Wichita; Bob Lefell, Buhler; Earling Sitton, Ellis; Virginia Earbardt, Washington Rural High school, Bethel; and Velta Lee Stanley, Bennington.
The division winners were; oneact plays, Lansing and Hutchinson; extempore speeches, F. L. Baird, Newton; Terry Tice, Beloit; and Patricia Mitchell, Ottawa; original orations, Sam Bogart, Coffeyville; Betty Bishop, Wyndotte High school, Kansas City, Kan; standard orations, George Morgan, Hutchinson; Ellen Lentz, Atchison; and David Matheyn, El Dorado.
He's A Hero—Fine Later In Court—Fined
Ipswich, Mass.—(U.P.)-When Jim Hopkinson, 23, of Methuen was hailed as a hero by newspapers reporting his rescue of a passenger from his seaplane which overturned in Ipswich Bay, one of the most interested readers was Frank P. Sweeney.
Mr. Sweeney, who is a Massachusetts Aeronautical Commission inspector, appeared against Mr. Hopkinson in district court later when the young pilot was fined $10 for careless and reckless operation of an aircraft and $10 for carrying a passenger while holding only a student's certificate.
Medical Center Plans New Course
A short post graduate course in general surgery will be given at the University Medical center in Kansas City Monday, April 25, through Wednesday, April 27.
Participation by physicians in the extension program in medicine has shown an increase during the last year, H. G. Ingham, director, said.
Four guest lecturers will assist the medical school faculty in the course. They are: Guy A. Caldwell, Ochsner clinic, New Orleans; Dr. Reed M. Nesbit, University of Michigan medical school; Dr. Dallas B. Phemer, University of Chicago Medical school; and Dr. Wayne C. Bartlett, Wichita.
Six Schools To Meet Here
Six universities and colleges will be represented at the regional conference of student branches of the American Society of Mechanical engineers to be held at the University Friday, May 6, and Saturday, May 7.
They are the Universities of Arkansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Kansas, Oklahoma A. and M. and Kansas State college.
Two students from each school represented will present original student papers. Prizes of $50, $25, and $10 will be awarded to the three best papers presented. Judges will consist of a faculty member and a student from each school. Awards will be made at a luncheon at noon Saturday in the Kansas room of the Union.
Registration for the conference will begin Thursday evening, May 5, in the lobby of Marvin hall. Friday and Saturday mornings the student papers will be presented. On Friday afternoon the delegates will go on a field trip to Kansas City and visit several of the industrial plants there. Saturday the group will visit industrial plants in Topeka.
Carl J. Eckhardt, instructor in mechanical engineering at Texas university, will be the guest speaker at the banquet to be held 7 p.m. Saturday in the Kansas room of the Union. Mr. Eckhardt is the vice-president of the student chapters in the area.
Insects, 30 Foot Snakes Shared Jungle With Nixon
The Kansas Relays record in the century is : 094 set by a Texas Christian trackster in 1930. It was enued once in 1941 by Texas but a heavy wind discounted the performance.
By ARTHUR McINTIRE
Persons planning to chop their way through pathless jungles infested with dangerous insects and 30 foot snakes should consult Earl K. Nixon, of the State Geological survey. Mr. Nixon has spent about four years in Venezuela and Peru as a resident engineer.
His work necessitated living in the jungle where he spent two years of his total time in South America. He $ ^{\textcircled{2}} $ was working for a subsidiary of United, Stdra Steel corporation. count
Although the jungle has 30foot snakes, Mr. Nixon pointed out that they are not the dangerous ones. Casualties result from rattlesnakes, bush masters, and coral snakes, and average about one a month.
"We mapped several hundred square miles and did diamond drilling, trenching and sampling," he said.
Mr. Nixon said that hammocks are usually used when in the jungle due to their convenience. They are light, and are almost insect proof when used with a mosquito net.
"Insects are the scourge of the tropics. Ticks are the worst. There are thousands of them; big, little and medium sized."
There are no roads in the jungles, so the parties must make their own as they go. Mr. Nixon recalls riding dugout canoes hundreds of miles on the Orinoco river and its tributaries. Burros are used to carry supplies where terrain permits, but when the
"Due largely to climate, I believe, the Venezuelan's philosophy of life is superior to ours in some ways. They are never in a hurry and never have ulcers. Enjoyment of life—all too limited—is their ultimate aim," he said.
Mr. Nixon's family accompanied him on two expeditions. His wife is the former Miss Daisy Ramsey of Lawrence, and a University graduate.
country gets too rough, the natives take over.
The cost of living there has increased greatly in the last 15 years, Mr. Nixon said. He believes that the rise is caused by the fact that oil production is the single economy of the country. Foreign oil companies, especially those of America, have vied for labor, forcing up wages and the cost of food.
A pre-Inca image, a prehistoric specimin of ceramic art, which Mr. Nixon brought back with him from Peru is now on exhibit in the University Museum of Art.
Aeronautical Engineers Display Air Equipment
A scale model of a ram-jet engine has been constructed by students in the aeronautical engineering department and will be operated during the Engineering exposition today and tomorrow. It will demonstrate the principles of the ram effect on jet power plants used in high-speed aircraft. Thrust will be measured as the engine is run up. ...
Also featured in the department's exhibit will be a German ME 162 jet intercepter-fighter which was captured by the U.S. army in Germany at the close of the war. The air force used this plane at Wright field to test the performance and then turned it over to the aeronautical engineering department at the University.
This plane was featured in the 1948 Engineering exposition. For the 1949 exposition the engine has been changed and several minor repairs have been made to put the plane in good shape. This is a turbo-jet type of aircraft with a top speed of 522 miles an hour. It will be operated for the benefit of the visitors at the exposition.
The public will be given a chance to match wits with such distinguisheo aircraft designers as I Tan Yu, graduate student; and Charles W. Speith, engineering senior in a guessing the amount of weight necessary to break a wing structure design. A main spar section from a PT 19 will be loaded to failure in a special test procedure and prizes will be awarded to the visitors guessing the closest weight necessary to cause failure.
The tests will take place in front of the aeronautical engineering hut and the loads will be applied at intervals until the maximum load is reached Saturday, April 23.
An acro-plane, somewhat similar to a Link trainer, was built by students for the 1948 exposition and will be shown and demonstrated again this year. Free rides will be offered to those wishing them, and they will assimilate every movement possible in an actual airplane.
Visitors will be able to see the performance of an airplane before it has actually been built by watching a scale model in a wind tunnel which has recently been completed. In conjunction with the wind tunnel there will be an apparatus set up to show the flow of air over an airfoil section used in the wing.
Airplanes designed by students in the department will be displayed along with their respective drawings.
YM-YW Discuss Summer Camps
harold Kuebler, director of the Rocky Mountain Region Y.M.C.A. told the group that opportunities are unlimited for students interested in summer camp work his year.
Summer projects for members of the University Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. were discussed by two speakers at a joint meeting Wednesday.
"The summer camp at Estes Park. Colo. will be closest to most University students. Homer Rainy, president of Stephens college, and the Rev. William Hague, minister of the First Presbyterian church of Emporia, Kan., will lead the conference," Mr. Kuebler said.
"There will also be a student leadership group that will attend one of three schools this summer. The student will receive six hours of college credit for taking courses in social ethics, philosophy of religion, and campus leadership at Columbia university, University of Chicago, or the University of California at Berkeley," Mr. Kuebler said.
Slides were shown of Estes illustrating the topography of the Colorado landscape in that section and showing students the type of clothing to bring for that climate.
The state of New Jersey has extensive water navigation facilities, it rates high in industrial strength, its railway facilities are highly developed, market gardening is of high importance, its sea coast resorts attract hundreds of thousands of people each year.
Students interested in the summer projects of the Y.M.C.A. or the tours to Europe should see Ned D. Linegar, executive secretary of the University Y.M.C.A. as soon as possible.
Ernest Colwell To Talk Here
Ernest Cadman Colwell, president of the University of Chicago, will be the last lecturer in the current series of humanities lectures. He will speak on "The Humanities and University Education" at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 26, in Frank Strong auditorium.
One of the leading New Testament scholars in this country, he has been at the University of Chicago since 1930. He received his Ph. D in the Chicago university Divinity school and was appointed assistant professor of New Testament in 1930.
He became president of Chicago university in 1945 when, in a general administrative reorganization, Robert M. Hutchins was named chancellor.
President Colwell's linguistic and manuscript studies of the New Testament include "Prolegomena to the Study of the Lectionary Text of the Gospels," the pioneer investigation of the medieval Greek manuscripts from which the lessons were read in the churches; "The Four Gospels of Karahissar," monuments by Byzantine Music; Lectionaries, "The Greek of the Four Gospels," and "St. John Defends the Gospel."
Directors To Talk At 'Y's' Meeting
Two guest speakers will discuss racial problems at the Kansas Interracial workshop tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday.
George Houser, national secretary of the Congress on Racial Equality, will discuss "An Answer to America's Racism," and William Boyd, head of the social science department, Fort Valley State college, George, will speak on "Human Rights in the South." Mr. Houser and Mr. Boyd will speak at a meeting of the entire workshop at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Frank Strong auditorium.
Registration will begin at 6:30 p.m.
tomorrow at Henley house. The fee
will be $1.50. All interested persons
are invited to attend.
The workshop is sponsored by the University Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A., C.O.R.E, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and the National Association for the Adancement of Colored People.
AATSP To Hear Puerto Rican Cervantes Day
The department of romance languages will feature two prominent speakers for its Cervantes day program tomorrow. They are Dr. Concha Melendez of Puerto Rico and Dr. Stephen L. Pitcher of St. Louis.
Stephen B. Both speakers will address the meeting of the Kansas chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow.
Dr. Melendez, professor of Hispanic studies at the University of Puerto Rico, will lecture in Spanish on "El Tema de Nuestra Expression." Miss Maude Elliott, Jose M. Osma, and Dr. W. H. Shoemaker, professors in the university's romance languages department, became personally acquainted with Miss Melendez from Spain 25 years ago.
Dr. Pitcher has been national president of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese and of the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers. He directed the N.E.A. conferences on Spanish and Portuguese teaching in 1944 and 1945 in co-operation with the Office of Inter-American Affairs.
She was graduated in 1922 from the University of Puerto Rico. She received her master of arts degree from Columbia University in 1926, a doctor of philosophy degree from the National University of Mexico in 1932. She has published several volumes of novels, poetry, and studies, chiefly on Latin America.
Dr. Pitcher, principal of the Clinton-Peabody school of St. Louis, will discuss the subject "Did We Learn Anything Worthwhile from the Army Specialized Training Program." He is business manager of the Modern Language journal.
The following schedule of events has been announced for the Cer vantes day observation:
10:30 a.m.: Meeting of the Kansas chapter A.A.T.S.P., Frank Strike auditorium.
3 p.m.: Open house in the romance languages offices in Frank Strong hall. A display of rare books, maps, and "realia" will be shown while tea is served.
1:30: Luncheon in the Kansas room of the Union for visitors, teachers. and students.
4 p.m.: Variety show in Frank Strong auditorium. Spanish students from the University and visiting schools will participate.
The state of Wyoming, which boosts the greatest reclamation project in the U. S., is fast developing into a great producing state. It is claimed that one million head of fine beef cattle and $3\frac{1}{2}$ million head of sheep graze on its prairies, ranches and farms, that the wool clip each year is of great value, while dairy farming is increasing in the state.
In mineral fuels, which are basic to industry, Kansas ranks fifth in the production of oil and gas and produces commercial quantities of coal. These are used for heat and power, and are basic raw materials from which products such as industrial chemicals, fertilizers, insecticides, synthetic rubber and plastics can be manufactured.
Kansas has long been famed for its wheat production, but the revenue from its mineral resources approaches the value of the wheat crop, according to the state Geological Survey.
Revenue From State Mineral Resources Approaches Value Of Wheat Produced
With water, fuel and transportation available at many places in Kansas, manufacturing is becoming an important phase of the state's economy. Chemical industries utilize fuels, limestone, chalk, salt, gypsum, pyrite, zinc, lead, brines and mine waters. Building materials, in addition to the native building stones, are
For many years Kansas has been among the top 10 mineral producing states, and is now capitalizing to a greater extent on these assets by converting increasing amounts of its raw materials into finished products, the Survey explained. being made from asphalt
being made from asphalt rock, shale gypsum, clay, loam, crushed rock, chat, sand, gravel, cement (from limestone and shale) and several kinds of clays.
The ceramics industries have opened a fertile field for the further expansion of Kansas raw materials. Ceramics products include pottery, tableware, chemical utensils, and refractories which withstand intense heat They can be made from shale, salt, chalk, volcanic ash, and clay.
Kansas has a diversity of rocks and minerals useful for many purposes. Volcanic ash and silica are used as abrasives. Chalk may be ground into whiting or used in supplement feede and agricultural lime. Lead and lead are important ingredients in other manufactured products.