1947
University
45th Year No. 40
Monday, Nov. 17, 1947
Daily STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Lawrence, Kansas
hansan OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Medical School Already Filled, Stoland Says
Many pre-medical students who plan to enter the School of Medicine in 1948 will be disappointed.
At deadline time Saturday 169 students had registered for the professional aptitude test to be given by the Graduate Record office, New York, for the Association of American Medical colleges. These students plus over 100 others from throughout the state may be eligible to enter in 148 but only about 85 will be accepted, Dr. O. O. Stoland, secretary of the School of Medicine, said today.
One. The size of laboratories and staff here is insufficient to handle the number of students who hope to enter.
Dr. Stoland gave two reasons why students will be forced to turn to other schools.
Two. There are not enough patients available for teaching purposes.
"We are not meeting the demand for doctors in the state, but we are providing our share, and prospects look good for an improvement in the situation." Dr. Stoland said.
He advises applicants for the 1948 freshman class in the School of Medicine to apply for admission now.
The 85 students who were accepted last year had a 1.5 grade average or better. Accepted students this year will be judged on four factors:
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Cne. Their pre-medical science grade average.
Two. Their total College grade average.
Third. Their grades in the professional aptitude test.
sional aptitude test. Four. Their interview.
Extension To Hold Nine Adult Classes
Six of the courses will carry college credit and the remainder are certificate courses. They are business and professional speaking, accounting, engineering drawing, English composition, elementary Spanish and college algebra.
Nine classes in an adult education program will be started at Leaven- porth Thursday by the University Extension. Three more are scheduled to begin with the next two weeks Gerald Pearson, director of extension classes said.
Certificate courses are: the United Nations in action, how the young child grows and learns, interior decoration, employee supervision, arts and crafts, and income tax.
The Leavenworth board of education is sponsoring the program with the cooperation of civic groups and the civilian personnel divisions of the federal prison and Wadsworth Veterans hospital.
Classes will be held in the senior high school building from 7 to 9 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The Veterans administration has approved all classes.
Senior Injured In Accident Sunday
Marjorie Duncan, College senior, was injured slightly when the car in which she was riding early Sunday morning, struck an inter-urban motor train at Second and Locust streets.
A Watkins hospital report this morning stated that Miss Duncan was shaken up in the accident. Hospital authorities said that Jacob H. Torbert, first year law student, driver of the car, was not injured.
Little Man On Campus
"Don't look now, but there's that 3-letter word rearin' its ugly head!"
Give $10,000 To Hospital
Topeka—(UIP)—A grant of $10,000 was made today from the Kansas emergency fund to the University of Kansas Medical Center at Kansas City for research equipment to be used in the fight against heart disease.
The grant will be used to purchase special delicate recording instruments, for heart physiology research.
Conturing machines are fast replacing older methods for the mapping of rugged surfaces. Such a machine, the multiplex, is now being used by the federal geological survey to correct distortion in air photographs caused by tilt of the airplanes and imperfection of lenses.
The multiplex aids in making base and drainage maps in the laboratory. Air photographs, which show the position of such features as roads, streams, railroads and buildings, are used as bases for making the contour maps.
Frye, Nixon Go To Geological Meet
Dr. John C. Frye, executive director of the state geological survey, and Earl K. Nixon, geologist for the survey, recently attended a conference at the federal geological survey's central divisional office in Rolla, Mo. to discuss the use of conturing machines in making topographic maps.
Expenditure of the $10,000 from the state's half million dollars emergency fund set up in 1943 was unanimously approved by the fund committee, composed of the governor, lieutenant governor, auditor, speaker of the house and chairman of the senate and house ways and means committee.
The state and federal geological surveys cooperate in mapping the topography of areas in this state.
Gov. Carlson said the committee was informed the newer techniques of cardiac study and the opportunities afforded by rapid development of chest surgery should open the way to a far better understanding of heart disease.
Pep Rally Tomorrow
The Traditions committee of the A.S.C. will sponsor a pep assembly in Hoch auditorium at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow.
Classes are to be shortened tomorrow for the Traditions convocation in Hoch auditorium. The schedule will be as follows:
First period: 8:00-8:30
Second period: 8:40-9:10
Convocation: 9:20-10:30
Third period: 10:40-11:10
Fourth period: 11:20-11:50
The University players, directed by Margaret Gosney, College senior, will present a skit on University traditions written by Allen Crafton, professor of speech. It explains the origin of four University symbols:
Bookstore To Pay Off In January
One. The mythical Jayhawk.
Two. The Rock Chalk chant.
Three. The Alma Mater.
Four. The University colors, crim-
Cheerleaders will teach a new University touchdown-victory song, and will lead in group singing.
Purchase rebates on books and school supplies will be made in January, L. E. Woolley, bookstore manager, said today.
The rebates are made every six months and represent the net profit of the Union bookstore on all sales made during the six month periods.
Vespers Please Large Crowd
BY CHARLES L. O'CONNOR
Six University musical organizations pleased a large crowd Sunday afternoon in Hoch auditorium with the first Vespers program of the year.
The University Symphony orchestra directed by Prof. Russell L. Wiley opened the program with Brahms' jubilant "Academic Festival Overture," and it was performed in a professional manner.
The University Men's Glee club, directed by Joseph Wilkins, voice professor, followed with a Fred Waring-styleled arrangement of "Sweet and Low," and "Land Sighting." John Mowers, business junior, sang the lyric baritone solo in the latter number.
The capable University String quartet of Waldemar Geltch, first violin, W. Thomas Marrocco, second violin, Vincent Bleecker, viola, and Raymond Stuhl, cello, played the first movement of the Beethoven Quartet, Opus 18, No. one.
The University band, directed by Prof. Wiley, closed the program with the "Chaccone" from the contemporary British composer Gustav Holst's "First Suite."
The University Women's Glee club under the direction of Irene Peabody sang the delightfully modern "An Eastern Evening" and were accompanied by Shirley Brown at the piano and Jerarid Hamilton at the organ. Miss Brown, fine arts freshman, then sang "Ave Maria," accompanied by Mr. Hamilton, fine arts senior.
Dean D. M. Swarthout then directed the University A. Capella choir in four selections. The first, "Adoremus Te, Christe," by the 16th century composer Jakob Handl, was an excellent example of early liturgic choral writing. "My Love Dwelt In a Northern Land" was deeply moving. "There Is a Balm in Gilead," a Negro spiritual arranged by William Dawson, featured an exquisitely sung soprano solo by Lorraine Mai. The Russian composer Kalinnikoff's 'I Will Love Thee, O God, My Strength concluded a group distinguished by delicate pianissimi and almost flawless intonation.
Kansas Graduate Featured In Look
Dr. Marion J. Renner, graduate of the University School of Medicine in 1922, is pictured as Kansas" "airplane doctor" on four pages of a recent Look magazine.
Dr. Renner's Stinson plane is a familiar sight above the western Kansas prairies as he flies to his patients on isolated farms and ranches within a 100 mile radius of Good land.
Dr. Renner is the subject in the latest of a series of University Graduate magazine covers.
Dr. Renner was born near Lawrence. He worked his way through high school raising tomatoes and through K.U. pitching, eat, painting steel bridges and operating steam and gas engines during vacation.
"Money has never been much of a problem since I have never had much of it. During the drought years, I accumulated in charge accounts about $60,000 of which about $15,000 was paid. The remaining $45,000 was never paid nor was any attempt made to collect it.
Dr. Renner met and married Gertrude Horney, a school teacher from Brewster, in the same boarding house. They have a 13 year-old daughter, Sally, who "will go to KU. if I have anything to say about it."
"Ben Hibbs, now editor of Saturday Evening Post, and I roomed and slept together in a rooming house the first year I was in Goodland.
"We had grown up near each other and were class mates in high school. Ben came to Goodland to save the paper and I to save myself from a case of pneumonia."
President Asks Price Control And Rationing
Washington — (UP) — President Truman today asked congress to attack inflation by giving him the authority to impose ceilings on wages and prices, and to revive consumer rationing if necessary.
The President asked for the authority to put price ceilings only on selective cost-of-living items such as food, clothing, fuel and rent.
Mr. Truman appeared in person before a joint emergency session of the house and senote in the house chamber. It was his fifth appearance before congress since he became president April 12, 1945. Ceilings On Essentials
Then he pointed out that if the government imposed price ceilings, "in all fairness" it should have the right to prevent wage increases.
He asked for rationing authority over the same items as "a preparedness measure . . . . on a highly selective basis."
Mr. Truman coupled his call for a stringent anti-inflation action with a formal request for $597,000,000 of stop-gap aid to Europe during the next 4½ months.
House and senate convened separately at noon to start the emergency session. They then gathered together in the house chamber to hear Mr. Truman. The speech was broadcast by all major radio networks and was televised. Open With Lord's Praver
In an unusual ceremony, the house opened its session by repeating the Lord's prayer at request of the Rev. James Shera Montgomery, house chaplain.
Mr. Truman's "immediate anti-inflation program" included consumer credit controls, regulation of speculative trading, extension of export controls, allocation of transportation facilities, marketing of livestock and poultry at weights and grades for more efficient utilization of grains, expansion of conservation practices, allocation and inventory control of scarce commodities, extension of rent control, consumer rationing on short products, price ceilings on short products and such wage ceilings as are essential to maintain the necessary price ceilings.
7 Stations To Air Game
Seven radio stations, plus the coast-to-coast Columbia Broadcasting System network, will air the Missouri-Kansas football game. Ten newspaper will also cover the game.
Don Pierce, University sports publicity director, said that the news and radio coverage for this year's classic will be the greatest any Kansas game has had for many years.
Red Barber will broadcast for C.B.S., but Kansas will have to share network time with the Indiana-Purdue battle, Pierce said. Other stations that will broadcast the bame are, WREN, KCMO, KMEC, KCKN, KFH, WDAF, WHKH, and KSDY.
United Press and Associated Press, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, the Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoma, and the Kansas City Star have filed for lease wires, and Pierce expects the Wichita Beacon and the Wichita Eagle to file before the game. Reporters from the Coffeeyville Journal, the Emporia Gazette, the Topeka Daily Capital, the Topeka State Journal, and the University Daily Kansan will be covering the game.
WEATHER
Kansas—Cloudy today, with light rains southeast and light rain or snow west. Little change in temperature today. High today 35 northwest to 50 southwest. Tuesday rain,