University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Jan. 18, 1949
Lawrence, Kansas
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
French Official Will Speak At UN Conference
Antoine Goldet, director of the United Nations department of economic affairs, will be the principal speaker for the United Nations conference at the University Jan. 25 and 26
The conference, the first "state-size" one of its kind, has as its purpose bringing the U.N. and its work home to the people on whose support it must depend. K.U. Extension is sponsoring the program with the cooperation of the section for nongovernmental organizations in the U.N. department of public information.
During World War II he was a lieutenant in the Lbraine group of the bomber force of the Free French air force. He was wounded twice and received the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre.
Mr. Goldet, a Parisian, earned a doctorate degree from the Ecole des Sciences Politiques in 1926 and later became a section secretary in the National Office for Research and Inventions.
Mr. Goldet, a native of France, will speak at a luncheon in the Union the second day of the conference. His subject will be "The Achievements of the Economic and Social Council."
After the armistice he served as a chief of the French economic division of the Allied Control council in Austria. More recently he was inspector-general for national economy for the Rouen and Caen districts in France. He was also a member of the French delegation to the 5th and 6th sessions of the U.N. economic and social council.
Students desiring to attend the conference may do so for a registration fee of $1.00. The fee includes no luncheons, or the banquet. The fee for a single session will also be $1 plus any food cost.
New Staff For Kansan
Anna Mary Murphy, College senior, is editor-in-chief of the University Daily Kansas for the first eight weeks of the Spring semester. Don Welch, Journalism senior is the business manager.
Other executives named by the Kansas board for the coming semester include Bill Mayer, managing editor, Marjorie Burtser, and Richard Barton, assistant managing editors.
Other business executives are William E. Beck, classified advertising manager, Charles L. O'Cannon, national advertising manager and Dean Kanuth, circulation manager.
The managing editor and the business manager will make other executive staff appointments at the time the new staff of the paper takes over for the spring semester, Thursday. Feb. 3.
All the appointees are journalism seniors.
WEATHER
Kansas: Cloudy followed by light snow northwest and moderate sleet or freezing rain over extreme south-east, spreading to southeast half this afternoon. Snow northwest and freezing rain southeast changing to rage tonight and becoming moderate to heavy with strong winds reaching 40 to 50 miles per hour over west with heavy drifting and blizzard conditions. Much colder tonight by tomorrow. High
with a cold wave by tomorrow. High today 30 north, low tonight zero to live below northwest to 20 southeast.
Curfew Rings On Between Terms
Closing hours for the next two weeks have been announced by the office of the dean of women. They are:
11 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 11 through Friday, Jan. 21.
1 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 22.
11 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 23 through Wednesday, Jan. 26.
Midnight Thursday, Jan. 27 through Wednesday, Feb. 2.
These hours are in accordance with A.W.S. regulations.
No Stops At KU In Beauty Hunt
New York, Jan. 18—(UOP) The nation's prestigious girls go to the University of Texas, some fellows at the University of California said today.
Nope, said Daniel Walters, student editor at the University of Washington at Seattle. Ohio State has the best lookers.
the object is to get 12 regional contests going and select during the premier of "Mother Is A Freshman" the all-America freshman co-ed who will win a free trip to Hollywood.
Thereby hangs a tale. And probably some college editors are to be hanged.
hanged.
Don't tell the sweet young freshmen but co-eds apparently become plumb ordinary looking to the boys who rub elbows with them in the same classes every day. Or maybe the grass always looks greener on some other campus. Except at the University of Louisville down at the blue grass country: the University of Southern California, and Ohio State.
"Like our horses, our freshmen females are both fast and beautiful." wired Dick Cohen of the University of Louisville Cardinal.
"We have them all here," said Lee R Adams of the Ohio State Lantern.
But Morton Kenter of the University of Cincinnati took one look out the window and wired in his reply, "Michigan," he said.
R. Adams of the University Look no further, said Gerald Mather of the Southern California Daily Trojan. "Anytime we can do a favor like this, don't hesitate to call on us. The joint is crawling with women."
Sigma Delta Chi Honors Memory Of W. A. White
Roy A. Roberts, president of the Kansas City Star, will be the principal speaker for the presentation of the 1948 Sigma Delta Chi historic site plaque to the Emporia Gazette on Feb. 9.
The announcement was made today by Burton W. Marvin, dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information at the University, and chairman of the presentation committee. The award, which will commemorate the many contributions of the late William Allen White to American journalism, was voted at the convention of Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalism fraternity at Milwaukee in November.
"Mr. Roberts is the most appropriate speaker for the occasion," Dean Marvin said. "Not only was he closely associated with Mr. White, but he is immediate past honorary president of Sigma Delta Chi."
Mr. Roberts will speak at a lunch-eon in the Broadway hotel starting at 12:15 p.m. Invitations are being sent to all Kansas editors and publishers and to all Sigma Delta Chi undergraduate and professional chapters in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Nebraska.
Presentation of the plaque to the Gazette of which Mr. White was editor is scheduled for 1:45 p.m. at the Gazette building. The ceremonies will be held outside if weather permits.
permits Floyd Shoemaker, secretary of the Missouri Historical society and chairman of the Sigma Delta Chi historical sites committee, will make the presentation. Sigma Delta Chi annually selects one site of great historical significance to American journalism.
journalism.
Serving with Dean Marvin on the committee are H. W. Bouck, manager of the Emporia Chamber of Commerce; W. L. White, publisher of the Emporia Gazette; and C. G. Wellington, managing editor of the Kansas City Star and president of the Kansas City professional chapter of Sigma Delta Chi.
Merchants Losing Trade Marketing Survey Shows
Lawrence merchants are losing 70 per cent of the major clothing purchases made by University students, according to reports made in the market analysis class.
and sororites.
Other cities at which students have made important purchases are:
Kansas City, 30 per cent; Wichita, 8 per cent; Topeka, 5 per cent; and other cities the remainder.
other cities, standing reason given by students for purchasing articles in other cities was because it was more convenient, more stores, better parking, could get the brand or make they wanted, wider selection, and
Roy Ashmen, visiting associate professor of business said that he felt the class had reached a good cross-section of students. Most of the survey covered the co-operative houses, residence halls, fraternities, and sororities.
The students indicate that they are not satisfied with Lawrence because of the high prices, poor selection, poor parking, and poor appearance of the business places. tourists in
The class made two surveys in which there were over 1,000 respondents. The first survey was made last spring and the present survey was finished just before Christmas. The results of both surveys are similar.
The greater part of the persons covered by the survey lived between 50 and 300 miles from Lawrence. Eighty per cent said they had lived in their home towns for the past five years.
Twenty per cent of the persons surveyed drove their own cars and 35 per cent had automobile transportation available.
According to the results, week end purchases and week day purchases are about equal. However, 90 per cent of the buying was done during the day time.
lower prices.
UDK To Rest After Tomorrow
just five years. The survey covered all schools and classes at the University Persons who have lived here for only a few months to over four years answered the questionnaires.
Following the reports Richard Bowes, of the Consumers Co-operative association, told of the job opportunities for market analysts in Kansas City.
Mr. Bowes said that many companies are moving regional or main offices to Kansas City, so research staffs are needed. "However you may have to show some employer that you can increase his sales in order to create a job for yourself," he said.
Tomorrow is the last day of publication of the University Daily Kansan this semester. The first edition of the Spring semester will be Thursday, Feb. 3, the first day of regular classes.
The Kansan will be under the management of a new staff when it resumes publication. The outgoing staff wishes to thank you all for your patronage and hopes that you will like the future editions of the paper.
Spanish Society Elects Officers
Election of officers for the Beta chapter of Sigma Delta Pi national Spanish honorary society, was held after a banquet and initiation ceremony in the English room of the Union Jan. 14. The initiation was for new members.
Officers elected were Chalmers Herman, president, Kenneth Johnson, vice-president, Mrs. E d n a Cobb, secretary, and Rosalie Bishop, treasurer. Miss Bradly will be faculty sponsor for the organization.
New honorary members of the organization are: William H. Shoemaker, head of the Romance Language department, Jose M. Osma, professor of Spanish, and Domingo Ricart, assistant professor.
Associate members are Miss May Gardner, professor emeritus of Spanish, Mrs. Alice Koger, department secretary, and Henry C. Tuck instructor in German.
Active members are: Chalmers Herman, Miss Mary Lewis, instructors; Kenneth Johnson, David Somerville, assistant instructors; LaVerla Harris, graduate student, Elen Patterson, College senior, Rosalie Bishop, Education senior, Betty Pinkney. Education junior, Ardyle Wilson, and Billine Ann Carter, College juniors, and Russell Chamberlain, College sophomore.
The installation of new members was conducted by Miss Agnes Brady, assistant professor of Spanish, assisted by Mrs. Edna Cobb, George Schanzer and Vincent Campopiano, instructors. These were former members who established the new chapter at the University.
PEO Clubs To Celebrate
Six local chapters of the P.E.O. sisterhood will observe the 80th anniversary of the group with a formal dinner Friday, Jan. 21. The dinner will be held at 6 p.m. in the Kansas room of the Union.
Chapters participating in the observance are the EA, AZ, and CW chapters of Lawrence, and chapters from Baldwin, Tonganoxie, and Bonner Springs.
The guest speaker will be Mrs. Virginia Cleland, of Atchinson, who is the first vice-president of the Kansas State chapter of the P.E.O. Mrs. Paul Smart will be the vocal soloist and Mrs. Don Phelps the pianist.
Any student at the University who is a member of the P.E.O. sisterhood may attend the dinner. Mrs. Raymond Nichols, reservations chairman, said. Reservations must be made by calling her at 2419, not later than tonight.
Receives Award For Ceramics
RECEIVES AN INTERVIEW
The 1949 Bleinger Memorial award for distinguished service in the field of ceramics will go to Dr. Edwin Ward Tillotson, a former member of the University department of industrial research. Dr. Tillotson is now assistant director of the Mellon Institute, science foundation, at Pittsburgh, Pa.
Winter Strikes With New Fury In Midlands Area
By UNITED PRESS
Winter threw a new punch at Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska today, with forecasts calling for blizzard conditions in much of the area by nightfall.
Dangers of a new, crippling coating of ice and sleet in Southern Missouri, Southern Kansas and Northeastern Oklahoma were foreseen in the new special warnings from the U. S. weather bureau at Kansas City.
Nebraskans were warned to expect the worst, including strong north to northwest winds up to 50 miles an hour today. Eastern Nebraska could expect temperatures of 5 to 10 below zero by tomorrow morning, with snow accumulations of four to eight inches.
Freezing rain was falling already at Joplin, Mo., one of the hardest-hit cities in last week's crippling ice storm. Roads were not seriously coated early today, but conditions were getting worse by the hour
The Kansas City forecasts for Kansas called for moderate to heavy snow today and tonight, except freezing rain in the extreme southeast corner with "heavy accumulation of ice."
The outlook for Missouri will heavy snow in the northwest and freezing rain in the south and east portions.
Bad drifting was foresee in a face of expected 35 to 40 mile an hour winds. The temperature was expected to drop to 10 above and snow accumulation for Kansas City was predicted at the 12-inch level.
A special forecast for the Kansas City vicinity, where traffic in the early morning rush hit countless snarls at slick intersections in almost blinding snow, predict blizzard conditions late today.
The record-smashing ice jam on the Missouri river at Atchison, continued to hold a flood threat for the lowlands between Atchinson and Leavenworth. There were scattered report of losses of livestock in the low areas already flooded by water spilling into Bean lake.
The jam is roughly 1 8miles long, Ralph Aldrich, government river forecaster at Kansas City, said. It extends from Kickapoo bend to about two miles north of Rushville, Mo.
A levee break at Mud Lake caused an 18-inch drop in that swollen body of water. An Oak Mills, Kan., farmer said he could not find any of 100 head of feeder cattle on his farm, four miles downstream from Dalbey.
Here's A Chance To Go To Harvard
Through its Mountain States Regional Scholarship program the Harvard business school is offering five awards up to a maximum of $1,800 each in an eight-state area including Kansas.
The purpose is to enable wellqualified students with inadequate financial resources to continue graduate study at Harvard. The amount of the annual stipend, which may be renewed, is adjusted to the scholar's needs, up to $1,800. That amount is considered sufficient for normal expenses for a single man in a Harvard residence hall, not including travel and social expenses.
Those considering candidacy for an award may obtain additional information from the office of the School of Business or the Graduate school.