University Daily Kansan
Friday. January 9, 1948
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
ISA To Vote For Heads Of Committees
The Independent Student association Thursday voted to revise the constitution to provide that I. S. A. council members be elected to the chairmanship of a specific committee. Previously, it had been the practice to elect council members and then assign them duties as head of a committee.
According to I. S. A. officers, the change will result in the election of better qualified committee chairmen.
The election will be held Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the rotunda of Frank Strong hall; from 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the lobby of the Union, and from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Union ballroom. Results will be announced at a dance in the Union ballroom from 7:30 to 9 p.m. that night.
This constitutional amendment allows for no fewer than a total of three freshmen and sophomore members, and no more than two senior members.
Persons who wish to work at the polls Wednesday may leave their names, addresses and telephone numbers at the desk in 228 Frank Strong hall.
Names of I. S. A. members will be in an alphabetized file at the polls so that the members can vote without showing a membership ard.
Third Humanities Lecture Tuesday
Hayward Keniston, dean of the College of Literature, Science, and Arts at the University of Michigan, will lecture on "Literature as a Barometer of Modern European Society" at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Fraser theater.
This will be the third in a series of humanities lectures at the University.
Dean Keniston, a Hispanic scholar, resigned as dean of the graduate school at Cornell university in 1925 to become professor of Spanish at the University of Chicago.
He served as a cultural attache in the American embassy in Buenos Aires for two years during the war
He has published studies of Dante and Garcilaso de la Vega, and a large book on Castilian prose.
French Club Celebrates Feast
The Feast of the Kings was celebrated Thursday by the French club at a meeting in Frank Strong hall
Although this feast is ordinarily celebrated on Jan. 6, it was held Thursday, the regular meeting night of the club.
The custom is to bring the family and close friends together on the afternoon of the feast and have a party. Cake is served and the person who gets a lima bean in their cake is king or queen of the celebration.
Appropriate songs were sung and cider and cake were served.
WREN To Broadcast Game
Between Kansas-Colorado
The basketball game between Kansas and Colorado Saturday may be heard over station WREN starting at 8:30 p.m. The announcer will be Max Falkcustien, College senior.
Weekday games will usually be broadcast at 10:30 p.m. and Saturday games earlier.
Dr. Axe Granted Leave Of Absence
Topeka, Jan. 9—(UP)—A sabatical leave was granted Dr. Leonard Axe, acting dean of the University of Kansas School of Business Administration, by the state board of regents today.
Dr. Axe will do graduate work during the spring semester at Harvard university, returning to the University next fall.
Faculty To Get Tax Statements
Income withholding tax statements for 1947 will be mailed to University employees next week.
The statements are prepared in Topека and should be received by the business office tomorrow. They will be mailed to the address shown on the employee's exemption certificate on file at the business office, Mrs. Jane Morries, payroll clerk, said.
Taxes for both full and part-time University employees are withheld according to exemptions and the worker's pay. Employees who have received less than $500 and have not had any taxes withheld will not receive a statement and will not have to file an income tax return March 15
Statements will be sent to employees who have received more than $500 and have not had any tax withheld. They will have to file a tax return before March 15.
Statements will also be received by employees who had taxes withheld but have not earned $500 during the year. They must file a return to have their taxes refunded.
14th Becomes One Way Street
Fourteenth street from Massachusetts to Tennessee will soon be added to the list of one way traffic streets in Lawrence, C. A. Blesner, chief of police, said today, Traffic will go west.
Nominations for a faculty advisor and an amendment providing for a welcoming committee for visiting teams were discussed by the K club at a meeting Thursday.
The other one way traffic streets are: North Park street from Vermont to Massachusetts going east; North Park street from New Hampshire to Massachusetts going west; Tennessee street from 19th to 11th one way going north; and Kentucky street from 11th to 19th street to one way south.
One way traffic on these streets will go into effect the last of January or the first part of February depending upon when the traffic signs can be put up Chief Bliesster said.
K Club Discusses Advisers, By-Laws
They discussed the constitution and by-laws but no decisions were reached.
McLaughlin Named Regents President
Topeka, Jan. 9—(UP)—Drew McLaughlin, Paola, editor of the Miami County Republican, today was elected president of the Kansas state board of regents.
Next meeting will be announced later, Otto Schnellbacher, president, said.
McLaughlin, a board member for 16 years, succeeds Willis Kelly of Hutchinson.
Hubert Brighton of Topeka was re-named secretary.
Government Men Profit In Food, Stassen Charges
Washington, Jan. 9—(UP)–Harold E. Stassen charged today that government "insiders" made more than $4,000,000 in profits by food speculation since the war and of this more than $1,000,000 went to Edwin W. Pauley.
Other "insiders" named immediately by Mr. Stassen as he appeared before senate investigators inquiring into commodity speculation were Brig. Ben. Wallace H. Graham, personal physician to President Truman, and Ralph K. Davis, wartime deputy petroleum administrator.
Mr. Stassen told the subcommittee that he hoped the investigation he precipitated by his Dec. 10 speech at Dovestown, Pa., would be followed through "thoroughly," and added that General Pauley did not make "full disclosures" when he was before the full appropriations committee on Dec. 12 to explain his speculations.
General Graham was scheduled to follow Mr. Stassen as a witness before the senate appropriations subcommittee.
Mr. Pauley, in his appearance before the committee, testified that when he was appointed to his post last September he began an orderly liquidation of all his commodity accounts and it was on this stipulation that he took the army post.
but subsequently he disclosed that he did enter the commodity market after his appointment, but he said he provide a "bonus" for his employees.
General Graham also said that "frankly, I lost my socks" when his grain speculations were disclosed.
Piano Recital To Be Sunday
Paul Snyder, associate professor of piano, will present his annual faculty recital at 4 p.m. Sunday in Frank Strong auditorium.
WEATHER
Kansas—Partly cloudy today and tonight. Colder today and east tonight. Generally fair with little change in temperature Saturday. High today 40 to 45 northeast to 45 to 50 west and south.
Sauer Signs For Four Years
This is Mr. Snyder's third year on the University faculty. He was an advanced pupil of the English piano teacher, Tobias Matthay, for four years, and also studied three years in Germany and Italy under the concert pianist and teacher, Arthur Schabel.
Mr. Snyder has appeared as soloist with the Kansas City Philharmonic orchestra under Karl Krueger.
Mr. Snyder's program follows "Sonata in G Minor, Opus 22" (Schumann); "Sonata in F Major, K 332" (Mozart); and "Four Ballades" (Chopin).
Topeka, Jan. 9—(UP)—George Sauer, football coach, today was signed to a new four-year contract beginning Feb. 1 at a substantial increase in salary, the state board of regents announced today.
The board declined to reveal either Coach Sauer's old or new salary as paid by the University physical education corporation, which made the contract. The regents approved it today.
Also approved were new one-year contracts at higher salary levels for KU Director of Athletics E. C. Quigley and Sauer's four assistants.
Writing Contest Closes Today
Entries in Quill club's creative writing contest must be turned in to Prof. Ray West, 201 Fraser, by 5 p.m. today.
Any under-graduate students except club members may submit manuscripts of not more than 2,500 words. Manuscripts, either poems or short stories, should be typed and marked as contest entries.
Contest judges will announce the winners next week, Janice Oehrle, chancellor said today. Winners will be awarded $5 for the best poem and $10 for the best short story, plus automatic membership in Quill club and publication of the prize manuscripts in the club's magazine.
The new magazine has not yet been named but will be similar to "New Writers" published by English students last spring. It will contain articles written by Quill club members as well as the winning contest entries.
Clarke M. Thomas has been named chairman of the publication's editing committee. Other members are Lois Lauer, William Roberts, Miss Ochrie and Professor West.
Two Sigma Nu's Involved In Wreck
It was really a chance meeting when two Sigma Nu fraternity brothers ran into each other Thursday. Their cars collided at the Jayhawk drive and Crescent road intersection at 1 p.m.
Raymond Grubb, College sophomore, was driving a 1930 Ford coach and had just turned from the circle at the end of Jayhawk drive into Crescent road when he crashed into a car driven by Robert B. Riss, College sophomore, who was going east on Crescent road.
Riss was driving a 1946 Chevrolet convertible. The front left fender, a headlight and the grill of his car were damaged.
Malott Returns From East
Chancellor Deane W. Malott returned to the University Thursday. Since attending the Orange Bowl game at Miami, he has traveled to Boston and New York to take part in a series of educational conferences.
Causes $1 Hike In Sunflower Rent
Tenants at Sunflower have jumped from the ground the frying pan and in the process have been burned.
The fire was the old pot-bellied stove furnished with a year's supply of coal to every inhabitant. The frying pan is the gas ranges and electric heaters that many tenants have been using—in place of the stoves.
So many persons have been making this change that gas and electricity bills have gone up too high. To make up for the added costs the management is charging every villager $1 extra each month that the high bills continue.
Kansas Roads Get $692,000 For Construction
Even those who have continued using the coal stoves must pay the extra fee, since it is impossible for the management to find all who have switched to gas and electricity.
Topeka. Jan. 9-UP)—The Kansas Highway Commission has approved 24 road construction projects for 142 miles and 11 bridges on federal aid, state and secondary roads.
The cost will total $692,000, the commission said today.
Contracts were awarded from low bids submitted at Osborne on Dec. 19 and at Emporia the following day.
In addition, negotiated contracts were approved with Brown and Rush counties for secondary road construction cost $45,540.89.
Among the major projects were two to improve U.S. 50N, in Lyon county. The work involves 10.3 miles of grading and one bridge, extending from the Morris-Lyon county line east.
The Jones Construction Company of Emporia obtained the grading contract at $260,374, while C. E. Gray, also of Emporia, won the bridge contract at $13.283. These contractors were awarded the projects before the war in 1941 but work was held up during the conflict. The contracts recently were re-negotiated by a state committee.
Eleven miles of grading and seeding and eight bridges on U.S. 24 in Osborne county were included in the awards. The work begins at the north junction of U.S. 24 and U.S. 281. Graded went to Brown Bros. Construction company, Manhattan, at $132,601, and seeding to Cook and Cone, Ottawa, at $3,579. Erickson Construction company, Assaria, was awarded the bridge contracts at a total cost of $63,101.50.
Police Seek Explosives
Free Hold, N.J., Jan. 9—(UP)Two trucks, each carrying enough illegal explosives to level a city, were sought by police of eight states today, after a secret Palestine arms ring was broken with seizure of nine men and 120,965 pounds of explosives.
F. B.I. agents captured eight of the men and 71,000 pounds of explosives —described by army authorities as cyclamite, $6\frac{1}{2}$ times more powerful than TNT—at a lonely New Jersey farm. A truck and driver with 49,065 pounds more of cyclamite were seized in Asbury Park, N.J.
Police said that two more truck-loads of the explosives were known to have been obtained by the organization yesterday from a war surplus depot. An eight-state police alarm was sent out to intercept them.
The more than 60 tons of cyclamite seized was in addition to 65,000 pounds of TNT captured last week aboard a Palestine-bound freighter in Jersey City.
Young Democrats Elect Bock Head
Robert Bock, first year law student, was elected president of the Young Democrats at their business meeting last night.
Other officers are Hubert Johnson, College sophomore, vicepresident, Elizabeth Gilman, junior, secretary, and Richard Collins, sophomore, treasurer.
The group will hold an informal mixer in the Kansas room of the Union at 7:30 today. Refreshments will be served.
Members were urged to attend the Washington Day dinner for state Democrats, in Topeka, Feb. 22nd.