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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, SEPT. 29, 1947.
ONE WILL SAIL FOR HOME—Mehra Daruvallu, Ieft, native of Bombay, India, chats with sister, Dina, as they pose for the University Daily Kansan photographer. Mehra will sail for Bombay where she will teach English Literature at Bombay College. Dina has gone to California to complete a liberal arts course.
Colorful KU Indian Student Returns to Native Bombay
"I have accomplished what I set out to do, and now I can go home to pass on to others what I have learned here," Mehra Daruvalla, graduate student from India, told a University Daily Kansan reporter.
Often seen on the campus dressed in her colorful native costume Mehra left the University Friday for her home in Bombay, India.
Mehra came to the University with her sister, Dina, to prepare for teaching English literature in Bombay college.
Has To Return To India
"My sister was to study journalism, but she left for California when she found out that she would first have to complete a liberal arts course." Mehra said. Note To Return To India
Mehra smiled and said that she would love nothing more than to be able to stay in America, but "I have to return to my country," she added with a break in her voice.
"Illiteracy is very high in India because it is expensive to go to school." Mehra said. "However, changes are now in the planning stage that will enable the masses to receive an education. Now that my country has her independence it will become a truly great nation; her resources and devoted people will help development."
Mehra not wear her native dress, the sari, back home. Like most
of the educated class there, she likes Western fashions.
She's Proud Of Country
"I am accustomed to people in this country staring at my clothes, but I want them to know I come from India.
"I have often been mistaken for a Mexican or gypsy. On the train a woman once approached me and asked if I would tell her fortune," Mehra said, laughing.
Mehra has completed her courses here for a master of arts degree, but has had to return to India with only three chapters of her thesis still unfinished.
"If I miss my ship, I will have to wait six months for another. The trip will take an entire month."
Before this semester is over, Mehra Daruvalla hopes to pass on to her students in Bombay what she has learned at the University of Kansas.
Swing Symphony Loses To Long Hair
Between Bach, Beethoven, and boogie, it's the two Mr. B's hands-down within the University's ivy-covered walls.
D. M. Swarthout, dean of School Fine Arts, explained that the two concert courses sponsored by the University this semester leave no time for Norman Grantz's Swing Symphony on the program schedule.
Grantz's company is now making a tour of colleges and universities and will appear at Kansas State and the University of Missouri.
Dean Swarthout said that it was not the School of Fine Arts' policy to sponsor the type of program the Swing symphony offers.
"We are hoping to bring some of the finest things in music to the University, just as the departments of literature and art are interested in bringing the best in their fields to the students. We feel that is the job we have assumed here.
Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women, will give a tea for women students from 4 to 5 p.m. tomorrow and Thursday at her home. Invitations will be sent to various women students. The teas will continue throughout the year.
Members of the Mortar Board will be hostesses.
A license has been granted to the K.U. Radio club's broadcasting station, WOAHW, Paul Gratny, president, said Thursday. The station will go on the air this week.
dean Of Women Will Give Tea Tomorrow Afternoon
Radio Club Gets License For Station WOAHW
New members will be inducted at the club's next meeting on Oct. 9.
Activity Books Will Be Ready Next Monday
Miss Riggs Leaves Hospital
Student Activity books will be ready for distribution to students beginning Oct. 6, it was announced today by H.I. Swartz, auditor of student organizations.
Bulletin boards will be set up across from the business office in the corridor of Frank Strong hall Names of owners of activity books will appear with the number which appears on the student's book.
Miss Margaret Riggs, instructor in the psychology department, was dismissed from Watkins hospital Saturday. Miss Riggs was injured in a motor scooter accident on Sept. 12.
In order to receive the book, the owner must take his number from the bulletin board, and present it with his activity book receipt at desks which will be set up in the retunda of Frank Strong hall.
Mr. Swartz stated that he hoped to have the bulletin boards in place by Thursday, but distribution of books will not begin until Monday. The receipt for the activity book will admit students to the library, but the books must be picked up in time for the South Dakota State game.
Varsity dances this year will be held in a nightclub setting, Charles Johnson, dance manager, said today
Married students may pick up tickets for their wives at the same time they pick up their own.
Dances To Follow Night Club Pattern
"The dances will be held in the Union ballroom for greater convenience of students." Johnson said. "Tables will be placed around the dance floor, and cokes will be sold in the ballroom."
The first regular Varsity will be held Saturday and has been billed as "The Grand Opening of the Varsity Nite Club." Wayne Ruppenthall's orchestra will play. During intermission there will be a floor show with Jack Moorhead, master of ceremonies.
Glass Blowing Shop To Move To Bailey
The glass blowing shop will be moved from the engineering experiment station to the basement of Bailey laboratories Wednesday, said Fred Rustenbach, University glass blower.
"The new quarters will provide better facilities with more equipment and a larger room," said Mr. Rustenbach.
While the new shop will continue to serve all departments work will now be done through the chemistry department as in most universities instead of the research department.
Herriott Promises
issue with stories cut from other college magazines and censored by Dr. J. C. Coleman. Original stuff was out."
Publication was held up so long that no sales were possible, the letter added.
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"We also lost nearly all of the money due us from our national advertisers, because we did not use the covers sent us for the issues we did not print," the letter explained.
Lost Money Due From Ads
"I have told the Journal-World that I would assume payment of the money owed them. My relations with the Journal-World have been satisfactory in every way and it is unfair to them to make them assume a burden because of interference or negligence. If it is necessary, I will pay it as I consider it a personal obligation."
Phi Chi To Meet Today Will Welcome Professor
Phi Chi, honorary psychology fraternity, will meet at 5 p.m. today in 27 Frank Strong hall. Phi Chi has taken over the functions of the Psychology club, and all former Psychology club members are invited to attend.
DOUGLAS PADDOCK
KFKU Fills MC Position
Douglas Paddock, College freshman, has been chosen master of ceremonies for KFKU, Miss Milad Seuman, program director, said today.
Preliminary screening was based upon general knowledge of the social sciences, she added. Voice recording tests were the basis of the choice between the two final contenders for the position.
Paddock had experience in broadcasting with productions sponsored by the Kansas City board of education over station WDAF.
For his first appearance over KFKU, Paddock will narrate a music program at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. He will appear regularly as moderator on the discussion panel broadcasts and as narrator for the "Touring Dyche Museum" series.
Watkins Cock Dies In Hospital Saturday
Mrs. Emma Humphreys, 62, assistant cook at Watkins hospital, died Saturday in the hospital. Death resulted from a cerebral hemorrhage.
She is survived by a daughter,
Mrs. Alfred Hunter, Lawrence, and
a sister, Mrs. William Pavey, Perry.
Her husband died in August, 1946.
Mrs. Humphreys had been employed at the hospital since December, 1946.
Wife Of Student Will Open Nursery School Wednesday
A nursery school for children from 2 to 5 years old will be open Wednesday under the supervision of Mrs. A. Yale, College sophomore.
The school, which will be situated at 2012 Ohio street, will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Children Fight Forest Fires In Texas Counties
Conroe, Tex. — (UP)—School children joined foresters fighting 96 woods fires in a four-county area today as the Texas Rangers hunted for arsonists who has started 400 fires since last Monday.
U. S. and state forestry officials rushed men and equipment from Lukfin and Beaumont, Tex., Atlanta, Ga., Oklahoma, and Louisiana.
Scores of Montgomery county school children were let out of classes today to aid the forest crews Officials issued a call for 500 volunteers and asked for additional bulldozers and trucks.
The fires already had damaged 30-00 acres of woodland were threatening to spread over many acres more. A heavy pall of smoke hung over Conroe today as fires burned within six miles of town on the west, south and east. Only a few isolated backwoods homes were threatened. No deaths or injuries due to the fires were reported.
Timberland owners offered $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of the firebugs who started the blazes. Weary corps of fire fighters prayed for rain to halt the advancing lines of flames, but an attempt to create artificial rainfall with dry ice failed.
Paul M. Alexander, aeronautics teacher in the Conroe high school, and student James Baker dropped the ice into a cloud from an airplane at 10,000 feet. Alexander said the cloud was too thin and that too much warm air was rising from the fires.
Loss due to the fire was estimated at $150,000 to $200,000. Most of the damage will be to young trees and undergrowth. Hundreds of old trees will be unharmed unless a drouth follows the fires.
Officials feared that the wind might rise, sweeping the flames into new sections of the 2,000,000 acres of rich timberland in this area. A north wind blow the oak of pine smoke 40 miles south to Houston.
Progressives Lure Marooned PSGL'ers
Plans to round up independent votes left without a party by the recent termination of P.S.F.L.'s activities in nUiversity politics will keynote the meeting of the Progressive party Wednesday night, according to Paul Barker, president.
Barker explained that the "passage of the antiquated P. S. G. L." will give his party and independents a new political force for a voice in University politics.
The meeting will be held in 103 Frank Strong at 7:15 p. m.
News Of The World
Gang Robs 300 Persons
Cleveland — (UP) — A gang of hooded men, carrying submachine guns and revolvers, forced their way into the swank Lake County Mounds club early today, held up some 300 patrons and escaped in stolen cars with loot estimated at $200,000.
The first of the eight masked met walked, into the private club as singer Mary Healy, wife of comedian Peter Lind Hayes, started to drag her husband from a table as part of their act.
The audience roared with laughter as the first robber entered and announced "this is a stickup, stay in your seats."
The singer turned to the masked man and told him to behave himself. He shot a volley from his German gang and sang and the rest of the gang entered.
All wore green fatigue suits and had black stocking masks over their heads, except the leader who wore a gray felt hat. The robbers addressed each other by numbers, instead of names.
'Night Owls' Here By MU Standards
Either K.U. women are more responsible and "grown up" than their University of Missouri neighbors, or they have a more trustful dean of women.
University of Missouri freshman women must not stay out later than 7:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11:30 p.m. on Sunday, and 12:30 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. Their sophomore and upperclass sisters are permitted dates until 10:30 p.m. on week nights, with an extension to 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday and Sunday nights, and to 12:30 a.m. on Friday and Saturday.
Closing hours for all University women extends to 10:30 pm. week days, 11 p.m. Sunday, 12:30 a.m. Friday, and 1 a.m. Saturday.