UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
APRIL 30,1947
PAGE EIGHT
Students Give $4,189.11 To Memorial Fund
Student contributions to the World War II Memorial fund during the current drive total $4,189.11 Bruce Bathurst, student chairman, said today.
This amount, already $136.27 greater than student contributions last year, will increase when all organized houses have reported their contributions, he said.
"We urge all houses and independent teams to complete their campaigns and to report outstanding contributions as soon as possible." Bathurst said.
Kenneth Postlethwaite, organization director of the Memorial food, is meeting with Lawrence business representatives today, to organize a spring 'clean-up' campaign for the downtown district.
Last year's drive netted 30 thousand dollars from downtown merchants. However, this is 20 thousand dollars short of the goal which the Chamber of Commerce set.
Nearly 300 firms have not yet contributed to the fund, Mr. Postlethwaite said. Members of the Memorial committee are calling on all these firms this week and expect to reach the goal set by the Chamber of Commerce within a very few days.
Poststethwaite has been in both Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., this week, organizing similar campaigns in those cities.
"When all of these spring drives are completed, the Memorial fund should total at least 200 thousand dollars." Mr. Postlethwaite said.
Former Student Dies When Glider Crashes
Alvin Lee Earnett, 40 graduate of the School of Engineering, was killed Saturday in a glider crash near Cheyenne. Wowing.
He attended summer school here in 1944, and was a member of Theta Tuo, professional engineering fraternity.
A B-17 pilot during the war, Barbnett was employed as an engineer by United Air Lines in Cheyenne after his release from service. He joined a glider club in Cheyenne as a private instructor.
Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
S. A. Barnett, Olathe, he leaves his
widow, Mrs. La Verne Barnett, and
a daughter, Doris Kary Barnett, 3
months old, both of the home; a
sister, Mrs. Doris Poland, Olathe,
and a brother, Donald A. Barnett;
Earlingsing, Calif.
Lind And Lowrance Heard At K.C.U.
Dr. L, R. Lind, associate professor of Greek and Latin, and Dr. Winnie D. Lowrance, associate professor of Latin were on the program at the 40th annual meeting of the Classical Association of Kansas and Western Missouri, held Saturday at the University of Kansas.
Dr. Lind's topic was "Tadultore Traditore: The Great Ages of Translation." Dr. Lowrance reported on the meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Next year's meeting will be at the University.
Glee Club Elects Officers,
Plans Annual Spring Picnic
Martha Loffer, College junior, has been elected president of the Women's Glee club for next year. Other officers elected were: Joan Happy, business manager; Mildred Hogue, secretary; Lois Lee Richardson, librarian; and Betty Thomas, assistant librarian.
The annual spring picnic for the glee club will be at 4 p. m. on May 19 at Potter lake. Miss Irene Peabody, director of the group, said.
Juke Box Mixer At Potter Tonight
An I.S.A. Juke Box mixer will be held at Potter Lake from 7:30 to 9:00 tonight, Shirley Wellborn, I.S.A. president, said today.
I. S.A. membership cards or 15 cents will admit students. The dance will be held in Robinson gymnasium if it rains.
Dr. L. C. Woodruff, associate professor of entomology and biology, has been elected sponsor of the organization, to replace Henry Werner, dean of student affairs.
Coleman Resigns To Accept Post In New Mexico
Dr. James Coleman, assistant professor of psychology since 1945, has resigned from the department and will accept an assistant professorship at the University of New Mexico in September.
Before coming to K.U., Dr. Coleman was an instructor at the University of California. He received his bachelor of arts degree in 1938 and his doctorate in 1942. Phi Beta Kappa. He received his doctor of philosophy degree in 1942.
Dr. Coleman taught classes in abnormal, social, and advanced psychology. He will instruct similar courses at Albuquerque.
During the war he was an assistant personnel manager of the Douglas Aircraft Research laboratory, instructed in the extension division of U.C.L.A., and taught courses in psychology for the Army-Navy service program. Dr. Coleman has been preparing a text book on abnormal psychology. He hopes to have it published in 1948.
Nine students from a field of 18 contestants have qualified to meet in the finals of the all-University extemporaneous speaking contest tonight.
Speech Final At 8 Tonight
Speeches will begin at 8 p.m. in Fraser theater. Each of nine winners of last night's preliminary contest will draw three topics at 7 p.m., and will be allowed one hour in which to prepare a six minute talk on one of the topics.
Tonight's finals will be open to the public. Kenneth Johnson, in his speech, said today that he was anicipita "an interest and lively contest."
The following students, were selected as finalists: Aldo Aliotti, engineering junior; Ben Foster, College junior; William Conboy, College sophomore; Edward Stollenwerck, College freshman.
Hal Friesen, College freshman;
Robert Bennett, College freshman;
Keith Wilson, College sophomore;
Ernest Friesen, College junior; William Tincher, College freshman.
Judges of the preliminary contest were Lloyd Houston, manager of the Bell Music company, Fred Conger, of station WREN, John Mee, sales representative for the Pittsburgh and Midway Coal Mining company; Francis Feist and Elizabeth Stevens, instructors in speech, and Anne Martin, assistant instructor in speech.
All campus organizations who want their officers listed in the new K-Book must turn in the information by June to 228 building has Betty van der Smissen, assistant editor, said today.
K-Book Staff Wants Names Of Club Officers
The K-Book staff of 1947-48 hopes to compile and mail to new students a complete directory of student organizations and activities, Miss van der Smissen said.
Tornado Strikes At Worth, Mo., 20 Die In Storm
Worth, Mo.—(UP)—A tornado and high winds killed 20 persons in Missouri and Arkansas and left this farmland community with a third of its population dead or injured today.
Thirteen were killed and 59 injured here Tuesday when a tornado flattened three square blocks of homes; civic buildings, and stores. Seven others were dead and 12 injured at Bright Water. A wreck occurred on the state after high winds collapsed stores, city, and farm homes.
Missouri State Highway patrolmen patrolled the debris strewn streets here to prevent looting.
Business Area Flattened
The tornado struck at 2:45 p. m.
Tuesday. All of the town's 15 civic and business buildings were flattened. Most of the houses were damaged, and many collapsed. Two churches were destroyed and the third was badly damaged.
The tornadic winds smashed automobiles, tossed mangled parts of the wreckage into tree tops, before speeding across the Iowa border, 13 miles away, where it caused heavy damage at Clio, Ia.
Most of the townspeople saw the dreaded black funnel coming and ran to their storm cellars. Others to cobble from the darkened skies were killed,
Mrs. Ann Trump, grade school teacher, and Mrs. N. A. Combs, a registered nurse, and the town's only "medical man," were the heroes of this devastated town.
Town Without Doctor
When a man ran by the school,
yelling: "A tornado is coming! Find
some shelter!" Mrs. Trump calmly
closed her book and led her 12
pupils to a nearby fruit cellar. A
few minutes later the tornado leveled
the school building.
The town, which has no doctor,
depended on 59-year-old Mrs.
Combs to treat its injured during
the first hours after the tornado.
The storm barely had cleared the
town, when she turned her home
into a first aid station and ordered
the injured taken there.
Forty-three persons were given first aid treatment. Sixteen persons, one critically injured, were taken to nearby towns for hospitalization.
Jay Janes To Initiate
The annual formal initiation and dinner of the Jay James will be held at 6:15 tomorrow in the Kansas room. Union building. The outstanding title will be named, and officers for the coming year will be elected.
The International Relations club was erroneously named International club in Tuesday's story about election of officers and new members.
So Sorry Please
Washington—(UP)—Some 46.000 striking telephone workers in New York and Pennsylvania got back-to-work orders today as company and union officials reached the first major wage settlements in the 24-day nationwide walkout.
News Of The World
Some Phone Strikers Go Back To Work
Maintenance and plant workers in Pennsylvania, numbering about 6,000, began returning to their jobs early this morning under an agreement providing basic wage increases of $25,000 for New York company announced that 40,000 of its workers would return to work tomorrow.
The unions involved in the
allergies were independents, but
government conciliators believed
they might speed a general settle-
tion with the killoff of key strike
in the strike—the National Federation
of Telephone Workers.
Negotiations between N.F.T.W.'s strong long lines union and officials of the American Telephone and Telegraph co., continued in Washington, and government and union sources predicted the company would be fitful to make its first cash wage offer. The company was non-committal.
Federal Aid Is Necessary For Nation's School System
Washington—(UP)—Congress was told today that federal aid to the nation's school system is necessary and needing collapse of education facilities.
Benjamin Epstein of the emergency council of teacher organizations, Newark, N. J., said there is a mass exodus of teachers from school jobs, and that increasing numbers of "inadequate personnel" are being recruited into teaching.
Income Tax Case Ends
Kansas City.—(UP)—The income tax cases of Max Cohen and R. L. Carnahan, Wichita gamblers, ended Tuesday before Judge Ernest Van Fossan, who said that counsel for the government and for the Wichita men should file briefs with him during July in Washington. Mr. Cohen and Carnahan were appealing from government deficiency claims and penalties totaling about $389,000.
ASC Doesn't Want To Print Directory
Publication of the student directory may revert to the University, Anne Scott, chairman of the A.S.C. publications committee, said Tuesday.
"The council feels that it isn't a student function, because the expense involved in printing is great," Miss Scott said. "J. K. Hitt, the registrar, is in favor of the University taking over the job and the registrar's office would handle the printing of the directory.
"The A.S.C. will have to pass a bill amending its constitution to get the University to take over." Miss Scott said, "and the only difficulty with this plan is that students may not get directories if the University prints them."
Never Mind What The Sign On Top Says; Just Walk In If You Have Housing Trouble
"Aw, no. it can't be; it says dean of women's office!"
The recent transfer of the housing office to a room in the dean of women's office has caused much confusion for shy males on the campus, who stick their heads in the door of 220 Frank Strong and then back out, dismaved by the sight of chartreuse divans and rose chairs.
"It is comical to see the felons walk in," Mrs. Faye Netzer, head of the housing office, said. "They start in matter-of-factly, then look doubt-ful upon seeing the outer office filled with chattering girls.
The new "Housing Office" sign hung beneath the Dean of Women sign helps a lot, however," Mrs. Netzer said. "It seems to convince the fellows they really are in the right place."
“It's comical to see the fellows$^®$
When Mrs. Netzer is out and men come in to see her, the secretary asks them to sit down and wait, but few accept the invitation.
"Oh, I'll be back," they say and then loiter in the hall.
Hardened characters stroll in nonchalantly, sink in a divan, and pick up an issue of the "New Yorker." Mrs. Netzer added, "But it's a safe bet that these are either social chairmen or Miss Martha Peterson's math students in search of chaperones for dances or help with "analyt."
"The majority of men are o. k. after they get in and start talking" said Mrs. Netzer, sitting at her desk in a gray-and-yellow cubicle, "But at first they certainly look as if they're being-led in to slaughter."
600 Phone Lines Are Cut
Kansas City—(UP)—A telephone company spends 600 more home telephones in the greater Kansas City area were out of service today due to four acts of vandalism during the night.
A bullet, the spokesman said, was fired into a cable in the southeast section of Kansas City, putting another 40 phones out of service.
Two 200-pair cables were almost covered by an axe in Johnson county near the south city limits here, paralyzing service to 500 telephones. Nearby a 50-pair cable was hacked, and another was damaged in the southside residential district with an effecting more than 60 phones.
Service was cut off Tuesday from nearly 400 telephones in the Leeds district. A suburb, when two cables were slashed with an axe. The vandals also damaged a 15-circuit transcontinental cable between Topeka and Kansas City.
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Col. Durant Sentenced
London—(UP)—The musical comedy "Oklahoma" opens in the historic Theatre Royal in Drury Lane tonight and from reports of the advance ticket sale it looks like a sell-out.
House Cuts Relief Bill
Washington, —(UP)— The house today stood by its decision to slash 150 million dollars from the 350 million dollar general foreign relief bill. It voted to affirm its earlier acton cutting the relief program down to 200 million dollars.
Frankfurt—(UP)—Col. Jack W. Durant was convicted today of taking part in the $1,500,000 robbery of the Hesse Crown jewels and was sentenced to 15 years at hard labor.
Canada Slashes Taxes
'Oklahoma' Opens In London
Ottawa — (UP) — The Canadian government, which showed an overall profit of $352,000,000 last year, will slash income taxes 29 per cent for nine out of 10 taxpayers beginning July 1 and will abolish the excess profits tax Dec. 31.
Semantics Club Has Seminar
Students and members of the faculty interested in general semantics are urged by Phillip Persky, president of the General Semantics club, to attend the meeting at 8:15 p.m. today in 111 Frank Strong hall. The club was host to a similar group from Independence, Kan., at a seminar held in the Pine room of the Union Sunday. Robert Sayers, of the visiting club, was moderator at the informal discussion.
The practical uses of general semantics as a means to better personal adjustment in the modern world, were analyzed, and scientific methodology of general semantics, as it relates to medicine, business, teaching, and other professions, was discussed.
Members of the University club present were Dr. James Coleman, Betty Stevens, Carla Eddy, Alice Wismer, Betty Pretz, Jen Murray, Anita Bedell, Elaine Sawyer, Morgan Wright, William Conboy, Duane James, William Cappuille, and Phillip Persky.
Those attending from the Independence club were J. D. Turner, Ralph Pearson, Paul Gillis, Dr. James Hughbanks, William Burke, and Bernard Locke.
University High-To-Hold Annual High Home Night
Instructors and students of University High school, together with parents and friends of students, will hold the annual High-Home night at 8 tonight in the Kansas room.
George B. Smith, dean of School of Education, will be the main speaker. The program will also include talks by students, music by the high school mixed chorus and square dancing by a team of students. A dance will be held after the program.