UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1960
PAGE EIGHT
Freedom Train Visit To Climax 'Rededication'
Mr. Case explained to the 40 members of the train committee the program usually followed by the American Heritage foundation in presenting the train. Mayor James H. Parsons said that definite action could not be taken until the executive committee had made the necessary arrangements to finance the program.
The Freedom train will be exhibited in Lawrence June 2 as the finale of Rededication to Freedom week, according to plans of the Freedom train committee under the direction of Fox Case, regional director of the American Heritage foundation.
More than 100 early American documents will be displayed in the seven-car train during the 12-hour open house. Between 8,000 and 10,000 people will have an opportunity to see the exhibit. Kansas is the 38th state on the schedule of the "Spirit of 1776" engine and its seven cars.
"The train is the symbol of the campaign." Mr. Case explained, "and the display of the documents it carries will constitute the second part of a three phase program."
The third part of the program should be a year's continuation of an education program designed to raise the level of active citizenship. Films, essay contests, pamphlets and advertising can be of aid to such a program he said.
Mr. Case suggested that the six days before the train's arrival be devoted to a rededication to the ideas of freedom. During this time special events can be sponsored by civic organizations, business and labor.
The American Heritage foundation is sponsoring the train in cooperation with the department of justice, with the approval of the president of the United States. The foundation is non-partisan and is composed of businessmen and religious and labor leaders.
Engineers To Hear GE Official May 3
William H. Milton, Jr., commercial vice-president of the General Electric company will speak at the University engineers banquet May 3, T. De Witt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering, said today. His subject will be "Engineering Futures."
Before becoming a company vicepresident, Mr. Milton was in charge of development and administration of the Hanford Engineer works in Washington, a General Electric project. The plant produces plutonium Also, he was creator and organizer of the General Electric training program for college graduates joining the company.
During the war he was a member of the laminated advisory committee of the War Production Board. Also, at that time, he was in charge of plastics development with General Electric.
The banquet will be in the Kansas room of the Union. Two hundred tickets will go on sale at noon today in the rotunda of Marvin hall. Attendance is limited to seniors in the School of Engineering and Architecture.
Milwaukee, April 27—(UP)—Isaiah Bruce, 54, began serving a one to three year prison term today for shooting his wife with a shotgun to "teach her a lesson."
Get Your Gun, Pa Ma Needs Larnin
Bruce appealed to Judge Roland J. Steinle for leniency on grounds that he was an expert shot and placed the bullet exactly where he wanted it to go—into his wife's leg.
The judge turned him down because it "might encourage" other husbands to try the same thing.
AICE To Hear JC Winters Today
Dr. J. C. Winters will talk to the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in 110 Fraser at 7 p.m. today. His topic will be "Ion Exchange as Promoted by Synthetic Resins."
Dr. Winters is with the Resinous Chemical Products corporation of Philadelphia.
Engine School Picks Nominees
Nominations for new engineering council officers were made Monday at the meeting of the engineering student governing body. There are four applicants for each of the positions of president, vice-president, and secretary-treasurer.
Petitions signed by 25 or more engineering students nominating three men for president, one for vicepresident and one for secretary-treasurer were approved. Warren A. Shaw, William R. Gibbs, and John J. Irwin, engineering juniors, are petition candidates for president. Billy H. Hamilton, engineering junior, was on a petition for vice-president. Students petitioned the council for the nomination of Laurence L. Allred, engineering sophomore, as a secretary-treasurer candidate
Members of the engineering council nominated John C. Monroe, engineering junior, for president. James M. Ralls and Charles R. Freeberg, engineering juniors, and Charles R. Svoboda, engineering senior, were nominated for vicepresident by the council. Dorothy J. Quirk, engineering freshman, David B. Wilkie, and Paul Whitford, engineering juniors, were nominated for secretary-treasurer.
Engineering council members are composed of one representative from each class, and one from each department in the school. Engineering students will vote for members and officers of the council May 7.
KU Graduate Gets Priestley Medal
The Priestley medal, the highest honor in American chemistry, has been awarded to Dr. Edward R. Weidlein.'09.
Dr. Weidlein has been director of the Mellon Institute for Industrial Research in Pittsburgh, Penn., for 25 years. He is a native of Augusta, and received his masters degree here in 1910.
Soloists have been chosen from former K.U. students who have continued their study since graduation. They are Ruth Russell, soprano; Minerva Davis, contralto; E. M. Brock, tenor, and Charles Sager, bass.
Music Week Will Open With 'Messiah' May 2
Groups which will combine to present the "Messiah" are the combined glee clubs, the a capella chair joined by chosen students and faculty members, and the University Symphony orchestra.
The presentation of Handel's "Messiah" will open the annual Music Week festival on the Campus May 2. Rehearsals by all the major musical groups of the School of Fine Arts are now in progress. D. M. Swarthout, dean of the school, said that "prospects are most favorable for a brilliant concert."
The buildings and grounds department has constructed new sets of risers which will permit the chorus to face the audience on rising levels. The orchestra will be seated on an elevated platform on the auditorium floor. Robert Jerald Hamilton, fine arts senior, will be at the organ.
The program for May 3 includes special musical programs at the Lions and Rotary clubs of Lawrence. The young American artist to be presented that evening will be Evelyn Swarthout, daughter of Dean Swarthout. She will present a piano recital featuring novelties from Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, and Robert Palmer. Her concert will be in Fraser hall instead of Hoch auditorium as formerly announced.
During the winter season Miss Swarthout was chosen to present a program at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. She has appeared five times as soloist with the National Symphony orchestra.
On May 4 Stanley Chapple, English conductor and lecturer, will speak at the All-University convocation in Hoch auditorium. Mr. Chapple was formerly the conductor of the London Symphony orchestra and the British Broadcasting orchestra. He has appeared as guest conductor with symphony orchestras in Boston and St. Louis. His topic will be: "Fine Arts in Everyday Living."
Clubs To Hear Singer
Speakers at the Fine Arts banquet at 6:30 p.m. May 4 will be Mr.
Rabbi Samuel Mayerberg of Kansas City will speak on "Responsible Citizenship" at 4 p.m. today in the Pine room of the Union. He will be sponsored by the Y.M.C.A. and the Jewist Student union. All persons are invited.
Rabbi Will Speak Today
'This Is Forever,' Topping Murmers, And Lana Whispers, 'Yes, Darling'
Hollywood, April 27—(UP)—Lana Turner and her new husband, Bol Topping, ditched plans for a Palm Springs honeymoon today and announced instead they would fly to New York.
The 28-year-old actress was an breathless as if it were her first instead of her fourth wedding. She repeated her vows in a hushed whis-
Mr. Topping, in a dark-blue business suit, said "I do," loud and clear.
The movie queen and her millionaire, who were married Monday told studio officials they planned to go to New York, then sped off in a Cadillac painted "Lana loves Bob, Bob loves Lana" to spend their wedding night at a Beverly Hills hotel. Rev. M-
As the minister pronounced them man and wife, the round-faced, 34-year-old Topping caught his fourth bride in his arms and murmured:
On May 5 they will sail for London.
"Lana is a sweet girl," the Rev. Stewart P. MacLennan beamed after it was all over. "She has such a fine, earthy quality in her face."
"Yes, darling!"
As the service ended, the bride teetered on her champagne tinted slippers and swayed dizzily. The
Lana nodded her platinum gold curls, smiled ecstatically, and whispered:
"This is forever!"
"I have a gift for Bob, too," Lana said. "But it isn't ready yet, so I won't tell."
On her right hand, the new Mrs. Henry J. Topping wore a mammoth oval diamond ring the wealthy sportsman gave her several months ago.
Trembling, Lana held out her left hand while Bob slipped a plain platinum wedding ring on the third finger. It took her a shaky half minute to get a matching band on his hand.
Rev. Mr. MacLennan grasped her hands, along with Mr. Topping's and read the benediction.
"She would have collapsed right there," Best Man Wilkerson said "if the ministre rhadn't grabbed her."
She also wore her wedding gift from him, a sparkling two-inch wide diamond bracelet.
Smiling blissfully, she cut her sixtier wedding cake for photographers and posed in her figure-hugging champagne lace dress over nude satin, cut low at the neckline.
Chapple, Lawrence Sickman of the Nelson Art gallery in Kansas City, Mo., and Dean Swarthout.
The drawing and painting department will award the fine arts Archie K.U.'s counterpart of Hollywood's Oscar, to the best sophomore student selected by the senior class.
The program for May 6 will include special music at Lawrence clubs. At 8:20 p.m, the University concert course will present Frederick Jagel, tenor from the Metropolitan Opera company, in a recital at Hoch auditorium. This concert is offered by Dean Swarthout in recognition of 25 years of management of the concert course, and in appreciation of the support he has received from the Lawrence community. Lawrence Schools In Music Week
The Lawrence public schools will present a concert on May 7 concluding the musical presentations of the week. "A Ballade for Americans" by the Liberty Memorial High school chorus and orchestra will highlight the program. Other Lawrence schools will also present special numbers.
The annual Pi Kappa Lambda banquet on May 8 will aid the music department in presenting different phases of the School. The department of design will exhibit work by both students and faculty members in the west wing, third floor of Frank Strong hall.
The drawing and painting department will exhibit the preliminary sketches of the 17 finalists in the Clay Center mural project. Raymond J. Eastwood, professor of drawing and painting, said he hoped to have the last two sketches ready to exhibit by that time.
Exhibits at Spooner-Thayer museum will include: to May 5, paintings by Grandma Moses; from May 1, an exhibition of textiles by Scalamandre, and after May 5 an exhibit of water colors by Charles B. Rogers, professor of painting at Bethany college, Lindsborg.
Twelve From ISA Will Go To Iowa
Twelve students will represent the University Independent Student association at a national I.S.A. convention at Iowa State college May 7-8.
L. C. Woodruff, dean of men, and Mrs. Woodruff will accompany the group, said Alice M. Wismer, I.S.A. president. The delegation will go in two cars.
A coke party honoring the Sweetheart contestants and members of the I.S.A. dance committee will be held at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas room. All I.S.A. members may attend.
Orientation plans for the 1948 fall semester submitted by Betty van der Smissen, will include an I.S.A. week. During this week new members will be solicited.
3 Faculty Members To Science Meeting
Three faculty members will represent the University at the annual meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science in Pittsburg Thursday through Saturday.
Dr. J. M. Jewett, of the state Geological Survey, and W. H. Schoewe associate professor of geology, will represent the Survey, Dr. A. H Turney, director of the guidance bureau, has been invited as a guest of the Vocational Rehabilitation board.
Their publication, Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, published quarterly, is edited by Dr. Robert Taft, professor of chemistry.
The academy is an organization of Kansas scientists. At the meeting they will read papers on research problems of interest to Kansas scientists.
Law Professor Will Address Student UN
Carl Slough, assistant professor of law, will open the mock United Nations conference Saturday with a short address, Robert D. Judy, in charge of arrangements for the conference, said today. Professor Slough will be the official representative of Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
The conference will follow U.N. procedure. Judy said that members of the International Relations club, sponsors of the event, are completing committee action on the material to be discussed, so that all items on the agenda will be ready for floor debate Saturday.
Judy said that delegations from each country will be composed of students from organized houses and clubs. In some cases, members of the Forensic league will be delegates-in-chief.
Additional delegates - in - chief their house or club, and country they are to represent are Eugene H. Martin, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Belgium; Roger L. Davis, Monchonsia, Czechoslovakia, Joseph B. Manello, organized independent group, France Hal M. Friesen, Miller hall, Venezuela; Casper Brochmann, Locksley hall, Norway.
A. Adair Watters, superintendent of police, told the night spot owners that unless they eliminate the "vulgarity and lewdness" from their entertainment he will haul them into court under a law that brings a year in jail and or a $300 fine.
New Orleans, April 27—(UP)— New Orleans police warned French Quarter night club operators today to clean up their shows or face prosecution on obscenity charges.
The move was brought about by complaints from both natives and tourists, Superintendent Watters said. He said that Detective Capt. Ray Scheuering was sent on a tour of the French Quarter spots and returned "shocked by the suggestiveness" of some of the shows.
He told them that dancers must wear pants, a fringe, and brassiere "to cover themselves properly." Comedians must clean up their patter and refrain from remarks about customers.
Workmen are ripping up the concrete floor at the main rear entrance to Frank Strong hall to connect a drain pipe from the roof with a sewer outlet.
'Clean It Up' Police Order
A new concrete floor will soon be set over the old one. It will slope downward until it is level with the drive in back of Frank Strong.
Both men are on permanent committees of the society. Mr. Plummer is on the Society Investigations committee and Mr. Carney is on the Membership committee.
Monday night Captain Scheuering outlined a new decency program to some 70 night club owners in a meeting at the city auditorium.
"We don't want to eliminate night life in the Quarter," he said. "We just want it kept on a high level."
Norman Plummer, ceramist in the state Geological Survey, and J. Sheldon Carey, assistant professor of ceramics, are in Chicago this week attending a meeting of the American Ceramists society.
Rip Up Concrete To Improve Drainage
The society was organized to stimulate interest in ceramics and clay products throughout the country.
Two Kansas Ceramiists Attend Clay Convention
Stockton To Topeka Meeting
F. T. Stockton, dean of University Extension, will attend a dinner meeting of Dr. Edwin O. Stene's extension class in administrative practices in Topeka today.