UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAY 23,1947
PAGE EIGHT
Village Blackout Snafus Routine
Sunflower Village was plunged into darkness Thursday afternoon when a low-flying airplane took out power lines between the Village and Kansas City. Power went off at about 4:15 p.m. and stayed off until about 6 a.m. today.
The darkness was greeted by residents with varied reaction. Many students cramming for exams or preparing term papers were forced to suspend their studying for the night. Others, muttering curses, tried to carry on by candle light.
Houses appeared haunted because of the eerie lights shining out through windows and doorways. Candles and kerosene lamps supplied enough light for impromptu get-togethers.
The village, usually a blurb of light on dark nights, last night blended into the blackness of the Kansas prairie. One resident returning from Lawrence at 10 p.m., said, "I almost pit it up in the dark."
The villager who had a battery powered radio was monarch of all he surveyed. Friends and neighbors sprawled over his furniture and floors.
Some inhabitants were awakened earlier than usual when light came on shortly before 6 a.m. More students agreed that they had a good night's sleep for the first time in months.
Vets Can Get Vacations
Want a vacation with pay?
If you're a veteran, even if you aren't going to attend summer school, you can do this by cashing in your accured leave time. Just go to the veterans bureau, 2 Frank Strong hall, and sign form 1908 before the end of the final exams. This leave time accurses at the rate of $2\frac{1}{2}$ days for each month of training under the G. I. bill, minus a day for every three class absences.
There's a catch, though. If you take this leave, an equal amount of time is subtracted from your total method of entitlement.
The veterans bureau will be closed on June 4 while the office is moved to one of the buildings behind Frank Strong hall.
French Society Honors Dille, Scott
Pi Delta Phi, national French Language honorary society, presented its annual award for the outstanding second-year French student recently. Co-winners are Kancy Dille, College junior, and Marjorie Jane Scott, College sophomore.
Regular members initiated are William Clubb, Harry L. Hughes, Marguerite Kerschen, Jane Malin, and Emily Stacey.
Special members initiated are Aldo Allotti and Roger Lecomte.
Honorary members elected to the fraternity are Marjory Smith Ericson, '32 and Samuel Smith Ericson, '36, both of whom majored in Erechah at the University. Miss Ericson was assistant chief of the Military Government supply department in Berlin. Mr. Ericson taught in the American center at Bogota, Colombia, and was an attaché with the American embassy in Madrid, Spain.
Sixteen Women Pledged To Methodist Sorority
Sixteen pledges were initiated into Kappa Phi, Methodist women's sorority, at a formal dessert and initiation ceremony recently.
Those initiated include Marian Cox, Lura Fralick, Billie George, Earbaria Glover, Wanda Good, Wilma Gall, Lorene Hahn, Marjorie Lenton.
Zenial McPeak, Kittie Nite, Dorothy Oyer, Edna Robinson, Shirley Sordker, Joan Stringfellow, Nora Lee Temple, and Joyce Walker.
Get Your Jayhawkers Before Monday. Bud
Students should pick up their copies of the Jayhawker before Monday to be assured of getting them. All copies not called for by Monday will be sold because of the demand for back issues.
Distribution will be in the Union book store Friday and in the Jayhawker office Monday.
Cut Agriculture Operating Funds
Washington —(UP)—The house appropriations committee, mainspring of the Republican economy drive today voted a reduction of $381,427,742—or 32 per cent—in the agriculture department's operating funds for the new fiscal year.
The action* was taken in the face of a warning by Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson that it would cripple the farm program. It would leave the department about $807,143,576 for the 12 months period beginning July 1. Much Less Than Budget
This would be 32 per cent less than President Truman's budget request and some $467,542.475 less than the department had available this fiscal year.
The committee said its decision was based on the philosophy that more of agriculture's problems must be solved by individual and community action rather than through federal paternalism accompanied by grants and subsidies. Urge Congressional Study
While Anderson said the department's budget had been pared to the bone, the committee charged that the agency still was guilty of duplication and overstaffing. At a congressional study with a view to consolidating related departmental activities.
Anderson said any cut in the original budget would "eliminate functions which are mandatory under the laws."
He Got The Award But Few Knew Why
At the Honors convocation when Chancellor Malott said George Brooks was awarded the Phi Sigma biology prize for his "taxonomy of the genus Enithares," many students laughed, but few knew what he meant.
Taxonomy is the classification and identification of insects. Brooks, a graduate student in biology, discovered 12 of the 43 known species of Enithares, while preparing his thesis for his masters degree. An Enithares is a water bug about the size of an ordinary house fly.
"This particular branch of back swimmers is not found in the United States," Brooks added. "I had to get specimens from national museums in England, Switzerland, and Australia." Brooks expects to publish his thesis this fall.
When an Enithares comes to res on the bottom of an aquarium, he does a half flip, and swims off upside down and backwards, Brooks says.
Executive officers of the Independent Women's Political party will be elected at 7 p.m. Monday at Templin hall. Representatives from all Independent Women's senate will comprise the Independent Women's senate electing the officers.
Independent Women To Elect Officers Monday
Apply Now For Dance Manager
Applications for next year's dance manager are to be submitted to Betty van der Smissen, ASC social chairman, by June 1.
The dance manager receives $5 for his work on each dance, but not more than $100 for the year.
The social committee has granted closed dates for several all-University dances next year. Any organization that wishes to have parties placed on the official schedule or listed in the K-Book, official student handbook, should contact the committee or bring their requests to a meeting at the Dean of Women's office at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Miss van der Smissen said today.
Class presidents should consider dates for the annual class dances as soon as possible, she added.
An all-University mixer will be sponsored by the social committee during the summer orientation program.
Harriet Harlow, fine arts sophomore, and Arthur Ruppenthal, engineering freshman, are the other members of the social committee.
Geology Club Elects Head
Roger W. Stoneburner, a graduate student in geology, was elected president of the Geology club at its last meeting of the semester Thursday in Lindley hall.
Stoneburner succeeds Byron J. Chronic, Jr., also a graduate student in geology. Other officers elected are Alfred Spreng, special graduate student in geology, vice-president, and Alice A. Fitzgerald, College senior, secretary.
H. H. Lane, professor of zoology, spoke to the club. He explained the different beliefs as to why the human thumb has only two segments instead of three like the other fingers of the hand.
Choir To Present Kansas City Concert
The University A Cappella choir will give a concert Sunday in the Linwood Presbyterian church in Kansas City.
The choir, with Dean D. M. Swarthout directing, will sing an anthem at a special afternoon service of the Kansas City Council of Churches.
So I'm sitting there in class dozing away as all good students do and thinking that here is a pretty square prof after all. I have explained before class how the electricity has gone off last p.m. and how I am forced not to study and how the whole situation is more than somewhat disturbing to all concerned.
A reception and dinner for the choir have been planned by the church before the evening concert. The choir will also sing at the
'Test Today' - A Fine Prof He Is Indeed
So this Joe is shaking his head
The choir will also sing at the baccalaureate service in the University stadium June 15.
Buehler Contest Won By Fred Six
E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, named Fred Six, senior, as winner of the speech contest in Liberty Memorial High school Thursday morning.
The contest honored the late Mrs. Buehler, who taught speech in the Lawrence school until her death this year. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Calderwood and Miss Margaret Habein of the University sponsored the contest to promote interest in Mrs. Buehler's work.
making like he understands the situation. And I am set. He will undoubtedly not produce this test which he has promised. Yes, he is a pretty nice little schnook after all.
But what is his first crack upon entering the room? "Get out pencils and a piece of clean paper?"
Better he should drop dead.
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