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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1948
(University Dally Kansan Photo by Wallace Abbey) THIS GIANT CRANE, working southeast of Watson lawn, daily hoists steel beams into place in the library addition. The new subbasement and two floors are expected to be completed by the end of the year.
Necks Crane As Crane Brings 'Baby' Into World
Necks are craning to see the machine crane as it swings beams into place on the new library addition.
Students watching the birth of the "baby" experience mingled feelings of pleasure and agony. Pleasure comes with the wonder of the great mechanical fellow's ease as it picks up and swings the large steel beams into action. Answer is felt on the warrior.
muscles of the necks of those watching, as they tilt their heads backward following the movement of the mechanical giant.
Observers unconsciously grean as the crane operator hoists one steel beam after another into place. They sigh with relief after the big steel object has swung past the two workers high above with what seems like only inches to spare. They are perched in a precarious position htop the structure to bolt the beams together as quickly as they are swung into place.
The new addition which is to be finished this year will consist of a sub-basement and two additional floors. A stack room will be built later on the east side of the building. Huff Brothers Construction company is doing the work.
All of the students on the ground agree that they would not like to be in the position of the men at the top of the steel frame work. The workers seem to be unaware of any danger as they fit and bolt the beams into place. In fact, a circus monkey might even eny their light and easy effort as they scamper over the steel skeleton.
Dean, Taylor Win Quill Club Contest
Mary Jane Dean and R. W. Taylor, graduate students, are winners of the Quill club short story and poetry writing contest.
Taylor, graduate student in the department of English, received the $10 prize for his winning short story "Snow in the Wind." Miss Dean graduate student in the department of speech and drama, was awarded $5 for her two poems, "Inspiration and "Malevolent Madness."
All three manuscripts will appear in the May issue of Trend, magazine published by Quill club. Both Miss Dean and Mr. Taylor will in addition be given honorary memberships in Quill club.
Students interested in becoming members of Quill club have until May 13 to submit a short story or poem for consideration by the club. Three copies of each manuscript for the contest must be submitted to Prof. Ray B. West, 211 Fraser.
Schoeppel Club Hears Denious
J. C. Denious, former lieutenant governor of Kansas and now campaign manager in the Andrew Schoepel race for senator, met with the local Schoepel for Senator club Tuesday for an informal discussion of the campaign.
He told members that "Mr. Schoeppel now intends to visit all the counties in central and western Kansas in the next 30 days and will visit the eastern counties following harvest."
Mr. Denious, who is also editor and publisher of the Dodge City Globe, stated that in the near future there would be a "Schoeppel for Senator" club in every county in Kansas.
Others who attended the meeting were William Turrentine, secretary of the Schoeppel campaign, Dolph Simons of the Lawrence Journal-World, and Charles D. Stough, Lawrence city attorney.
The next meeting of the local club will be June 15, after the beginning of the summer session, Jack Greene, chairman, announced.
F. Carter Stevens, business columnist and art critic for the New Orleans Item, was a visitor to the William Allen White School of Journalism today.
Columnist Visits Campus Today
He told the Reporting I class that a liberal education is an essential part of a newspaperman's training.
Detroit, May 12- (UP)—Some 73-
000 Chrysler corporation auto workers struck today in a nation-wide test of labor's demand for a third round of pay raises.
Mr. Stevens is spending a two-weeks vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Chase Stevens. His father is professor emeritus of botany.
Chrysler Strike Idles Thousands Across Nation
Fairchild, '10. Visits Here
C. I.O. United Auto Workers began leaving their jobs on an almost exact schedule at 10 a.m. in 11 Detroit plants. The pattern stretched into Indiana and to California.
Many thousands more auto workers will be idled by the Chrysler strike. Briggs Manufacturing company, which makes bodies for Chrysler cars, announced immediate layoff of 11,000 workers.
Briggs said it will lay off 2,000 more Monday because of the Chrysler tie-up, leaving only 10,500 out of its 23,500 employees on the job. Other Chrysler parts supply plants also are expected to close throughout the country.
Mr. F. P. Fairchild, chief engineer of the Public Service Electric and Gas company of New Jersey, visited the University School of Engineering today. Mr. Fairchild was a graduate in mechanical engineering in 1910.
Chrysler was the U.A.W.'s first target in the auto industry. The union demanded 30 cents an hour. It also seeks 25 cents an hour from General Motors corporation and 30 cents from the Ford Motor company.
The G.M. labor contract expires May 28 but a strike against two of the "big three" companies at the same time appears highly unlikely labor observers here say.
Norman Matthews, chief of the union's Chrysler department, declared flatly: "We'll give them the damnest attack they've ever seen."
A veteran management-labor observer said he feared the strike would be "long and bitter."
Sign Parties With Dean Of Women
All organizations at the University are requested to turn in dates for parties next year to the dean of women by Thursday, Sue Webster, chairman of the All Student Council social committee, said today.
Students who wish to apply for the job of dance manager for the 1948- tern are to turn in applications to Marymaster, 1625 Edgehill Road, by Friday.
Miss Webster said that organizations are to specify an alternate date for social functions, and are to designate whether or not they wish it to be a closed affair.
Applicants for dance manager should state their qualifications in a letter. The All Student Council will choose the manager from the applications received.
Activities, Character, Service Win Honors For Ray, Shirley
Two University customs were overridden Tuesday as Raymond Evans and Shirley Wellborn reigned as honor man and woman.
For the first time in 25 honors convocations and in the history of the University a woman was chosen for the top honor position. This was the third time that two persons have shared the throne.
The chancellor is pointing committee deviated from preceding traditions when they named a student who had not yet graduated for the honors. Both Shirley and Ray were chosen on the basis of breadth of interest in activities, character, leadership, scholarship, and unselfish service to the University.
The good natured Ray and the busy Miss Wellborn have sparkplugged student activities during their college careers. Ray's brilliant athletic performance brought the University to the fore in the athletic field. Miss Wellborn's organizational work helps keep the student body running smoothly.
The tall immortalizer of number 42 was graduated from the School of Business last semester and now plans to turn to professional football. He was named All American three times, for basketball in 1942 and '43, and once for football in 1947. He was on the Big Six basketball team in 1942 and '43 and football in 1947 and '48.
Riffin' Ray was the nation's leading passer in 1942, 1946, nd 1947. During his absence from the University he played for the second Army Air Force Superbombers at Colorado Springs. He was the number one ball carrier in the league.
Ray Evans will be remembered for his attempts to spark a losing Jayhawk football team in 1941 and 1942. His completion of 18 out of 21 passes in one game and then losing
to Nebraska will not be forgotten.
Ray's athletic career began early on the baseball sandlots. He became a catcher and during the summer his team always won the championship, At Wyandotte High school he starred in basketball. Just before tournament time, he injured his left leg, and with a special device improvised by his coach he played the games and entered the tournament. His senior year was climaxed by his being named on the All State basketball and football teams.
Miss Wellborn's college career sparkles with the offices she's held, her activities and scholarship. She was one of six persons chosen to the Phi Beta Kappa, honorary scholastic fraternity, last fall. She served three years on the All Student Council and was secretary this year until she had to resign because of the pressure of other activities.
Presidentships were only part of her intensive program. She is president of Mortar Board and was president of the I.S.A. in the spring of 1946 and fall of 1947. She was president of the Associated World Students in 1946 and helped build the organization. An independent, she was president of Locksley hall in 1945 and vice-president in 1944.
Shirley was president of the Women's, Executive committee in '46 and a member of the Inter-Dorm council the same year. She was elected to Jay Janes in 1945, and served as treasurer in 1946.
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