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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
APRIL 21.194
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'Door' Tickets Go Begging; Surprise Ending
"Ticket sales for tonight's opening of "Double Door" indicate that the melodramatic thriller will not play to a full house.
Activity books will admit students only if the dramatics slips are exchanged for tickets, the plays director, Donald Dixon, said. He added that some tickets will be available for exchange at the Fraser theater box office each night of the play's three-night run.
The speech and drama department's final production of the season has a cast of 12 veteran student-actors. Many of them appeared in "Juno and the Paycook" and the Shakespearean comedy, "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
A unique feature of the play is a surprise ending dreamed up by Director Dixon.
The regular ending was too much like the usual and they-lived-hap-
ply-ever-after stuff. I rewrote the closing scene," Dixon said.
Asked how he thought audiences would react to the unusual ending, Dickson said:
"Frankly, even I am curious. We will just have to wait and see."
Howe To Present Senior Piano Recital
Helen Howe will present her senior piano recital at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Frank Strong auditorium. Miss Howe, a daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. J. L. Howe, Lawrence, is a student of Prof. Carl Preyer.
While in high school she won best division ratings in both piano and oboe at the National Regional Music contest at Omaha in 1942. She attended the College of Ento pora for one year and, after teaching a year, enrolled at the University major. Miss Howe was a student of Prof. Ruth Orcutt until the latter left for the Hawaiian Islands.
She is secretary-treasurer of Mu Phi Epsilon, national music sorority, a member of Mortar Board, and was formerly a member of the All Student Council. In 1946 she was granted the Pi Kappa Lambda award for scholarship as highest ranking member of the Junior class.
New Directory Out Unless ASC Acts
Unless the All Student council takes action immediately, there will be no printed supplement to the student directory this semester.
The printing of the student directory and a supplement is, at present, under the supervision of the ASC, Dean J. H. Nelson said. The council has not discussed the possibility of printing a supplement.
The registrar's office has made a 12-page mimeographer supplement for its own use which has been distributed to campus offices for their convenience. James K. Hitt, registrar, said that he had received no instructions to have the supplement pointed.
Disabled Veterans May Get Automobile
Many disabled Kansas veterans entitled to an automobile at government expense have not applied for it. William Monypeny, director of the Kansas office of veterans affairs, said today.
World War II veterans are entitled to such compensation for the loss of the use of one or both legs above the ankle.
Applications must be in by June 30. Fligible veterans may contact district veterans affairs offices or the central office at 801 Harrison, Topeka, for information and forms.
'The Face
Is Familiar...
A Big Wheel on the campus, this guy is a former employee of the Liberal Arts and Science office. It is reported that now he's not a "good deal" working in Frank Strong.
He was born in Abilene and is a graduate of K.U. He did additional work at Harvard, did some writing, was was involved with Hawaiian pineapples for a few years.
At present he lives in Lawrence, and plans to continue his work at the University.
First'Eagle' To Fly Tuesday
a four-page Eagle will soar Tuesday.
For 5 cents a copy students can find out what the opponents of the Dove think about local, national, and international issues.
The day after the Eagle's appearance is the day of the campus election, in which voters will find on their ballots the question of admitting Oklahoma A. and M. into the Big Six conference. The Eagle will plug for admittance. That's the reason it's being put on sale Tuesday, the day before election, says Don Ong, of the Eagle's executive committee.
"A very definite middle-of-the-road policy will be followed in bte Eagle." Ong said. "It will probably seem right to the leftists, but should strike most people as a fair presentation of campus views."
Also included in the first issue will be articles on the Lawrence theater policy in regard to Negroes, the United States foreign policy, and the loan to Greece, a criticism of the closed American-United States atom bomb policy.
The Eagle's ideas of left, right, and center will be outlined, with a criticism of the scope of "radical activity on the campus." Ong said.
The paper will be distributed from Frank Strong hall, Marvin hall, and Watson library.
Only political parties which poll 5 per cent of the student enrollment at the past general election or those who can show 5 per cent of the student body as paid members are eligible to appear on the ballot of school elections. The All Student Council voted Friday afternoon
A.S.C. Sets Limit For Parties On Ballot
The A.S.C. voted down the motion to present the War World II memorial to the student body for a vote at the election Thursday.
Ann Scott, College junior, brought before the meeting a plan to have a rally on election day to remind students to vote. At the rally the three candidates for A.S.C. president are to appear.
The plan was approved by the Council and will be presented to Chancellor Deane W. Malott for his approval.
Learn To Usher At Church
In Class At Omaha
Omaha- (UP)—A church ushering course, designed to teach the technique of handling people, is being given for the fourth consecutive year at the University of Omaha.
Committee Asks Interior Budget Be Cut In Half
Washington—(UP)—Swinging its sharpest economy ax to date, the house approvals committee today chopped 43 per cent off the funds asked by President Truman for the interior department.
It voted to give the department $183,649,313 for fiscal 1948 instead of the recommended $322,531,220.
The total included $27,110,800 which congress is required by law to give the department each year. Omitting these funds over which the committee had no discretion, the slash was nearly 50 per cent.
For its vast projects, the department's reclamation bureau was allotted only $62,17,600 of the $145,-952,200 recommended—a 58 per cent cut.
Reclamation Budget Cut
From a percentage standpoint the cut in interior department funds was the biggest voted by the committee in any of the three major appropriations bills it has acted on thus far.
It trimmed the treasury-post-office bill from $13,285,302,721 to $12,
388,029,971. But the reduction—thought the biggest in dollars—represented only a 6½ per cent saving.
Increases For Mine Inspections
Remembering the Centralia, Ill. mine disaster, the committee granted $1,625,000 for coal mine inspection and investigation and $1,148,000 for investigating mine accidents and operating mine rescue cars.
The bill is due for house action late this week. The bill will go to the senate, which usually is more liberal in voting money for the interior department.
Even before the committee did its trimming job, the budget bureau already had cut the interior department's original request by $56,500,-000.
Senior Scouts See Relays, Tour Campus
Two hundred and fifty senior scouts were guests of Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity Saturday, for the Relays, tour of the ampus, and a luncheon at the Union.
Don C. Baldwin, chief scout executive of the Kaw council, spoke to the group during the moon lunchoon. He emphasized the importance of carrying scouting into everyday relations and into later life.
Complimentary tickets for the Relays were provided by the athletic department. The scouts came from Kansas City, Topeka and Independence.
Air ROTC Students To Attend Camp
Twenty-five advanced air R. O. T. C. students from the University will attend summer camp at Lowry Field, Denver, from June 22 to Aug 2.
These students, who will have completed one year of advanced air R. O. T. C. work, are John Gurtner; Donald McDaniel, Hubert Strecker; James Street, Billy Vaughn; and Leland York, engineering freshman David Poley, Charles Howard Penny, and Michael engineering sophomores, and Bobby Collison, Raymond Wagner, and Edwin York, engineering juniors.
Jack Campbell, Wallace Good,
Rahul Moberly, and Robert Stroud,
College sophomores; Berkley Harper,
College special; and Ia Jordan
Robert Mertel, and James Windblad
Robert Shannon, and John Higdon,
Glenn Hahn, and Morse E. Murray,
business juniors; and John Higdon,
business senior.
Shack' Has Come Long Way Since Days of Chemists
Many visitors to the campus probably never notice the "Shack," siting there half-hidden by shrubbery and overshadowed by larger buildings.
Others probably see it only as a misshapen appendage of Watson
But regardless of its present anonymity, the "Shack," Journalist building if you like, was at one time the University's second largest building. That was back when there were two buildings on the campus.
G.O.P. National Committee To Pick Convention Site
Kansas City—(UP)—Republicans should know tonight whether their 1948 national convention will be held at Chicago or Philadelphia.
The G. O. P.'s national committee meets here today to pick the convention site and study party finances. B. Carroll Reece, the Republican national chairman, has said that in all probability the convention will be awarded to Chicago.
Speakers for today's session are Barak T. Mattingly, G. O. P. national committeeman for Missouri, Gov. Frank Carlson of Kansas, and Rep. Charles A. Halleck of Indiana, house floor leader.
Steel Strike Averted By Wage Hike Agreement
Pittsburgh.—(UP)—The threat of a major steel strike this spring, was eliminated today with the negotiation of a 15-cent hourly wage increase for the employees of the "big steel" industry.
The two-year agreement, which is retrospective to April 1 and runs until May 1, 1949, was reached yesterday between Philip Murray, president of the C.I.O. and the United Steel Workers, and officials of the U. S. Steel corporation.
Mcscow. —(UP)— Soviet Foreign Minister V M. Molotov told the foreign ministers council today that the United States promise or probable financial assistance to the free territory of Trieste "might become external interference" in Trieste affairs.
The agreement provides for a wage increase of 12 1-2 cents an hour, or $1 a day. The remainder of the raise will cover elimination of inequities by hiking hourly wage rates and improvement in vacations.
Terms U.S. Aid To Triester
As External Interference
"The Soviet government believes that any external interference in the affairs of Trieste is undesirable," Molotov said.
CIO Invited To Conference
Washington.—(UP)—The AFL today invited the CIO to a "peace" conference here Thursday.
The invitation was the first action taken by the AFL executive council as it opened its quarterly session here.
Hope For Quick Settlement
Washington. — (UP)—Government officials today counted on a wave of weekend wage settlements to lay the basis for ending the 15-day nationwide telephone strike.
Film Stars To Texas City
Hollywood—(UP)—The film colony and many southern California organizations rallied to the relief of Texas City disaster victims today.
Orchestra leader Phil Harris announced that he and radio comedian Jack Benny would take their troupes to Texas for a benefit performance.
Telephone Strikers Arrested
Detroit..,(UP)—Sixteen strikers—including two top union officials—were arrested today after an outbreak of telephone picket line violence during which one man was injured seriously.
*Opened In 1884
It was opened in January, to alleviate the crowded condition in Fraser, and the chemists were chosen to move into the new building. After all, it had been the mul ti-flavored odors from their lab that had prompted the legislature to erect the new building. So it wa named simply the Chemistry building.
The building started its career in the usual manner; classes, lecture lab mishaps, and all the other trait of a chemistry building. But non malyce was shortlived because in 188 the new School of Pharmacy was opened and professors became hard pressed to find places for the man students in the undersized room New Building Built
This condition lasted for 14 year and then the legislature cam through with another 55 thousand and a new chemistry building Bailey, was built. But no soone iad the chemists left with their est tubes than in moved the medic with their cadavers.
With the move came a new nam—the Medical building. The medies were never very happy there however. It seems that there was enough space for them on the first floor, and a number of professor who tried to use the damo basement were stricken with malaria. The had completely abandoned the basement by 1911, because that year the Daily Kansan left its own drquarters in Fraser to take over the condemned portion of the Medicer building.
Until 1923, the Medical buildin was home for the future doctors and editors alike. Then, the doctors for Kansas City and the builn was left with only type lice as occupants and its new name was u Journalism building.
Word has it that in the near future the newspapermen are going to be leaving the cubby-hole offices and numerous frame additions for larger home. But to the "Shack it will be just another milestone along a busy road. It has seen then come and go before.
1947 Commencement Schedule Announced
The commencement schedule for the 1947 graduating class, largest in the history of the University, has been announced by the commencement committee. Gilbert Ulmer, asistant dean of the College, is chair man.
Commencement will begin June 12 and end June 16, when over 1,000 will receive diplomas.
Reunion dinners and celebrations are planned for June 15, with all headquarters in the Union. The class of 1907 will have a 40-year reunion, and the class of 1927 a 20 year reunion.
The main events follow:
8 p.m. School of Fine Arts commence ment recital.
8:30 p.m. Alumni-senior reception
Sunday, June 15:
7:30 p.m. Baccalaureate services.
Monday, June 16:
7.30 a.m. Breakfast for the class of 4'
10.15 a.m. Annual alumni association
12:30 p.m. Commencement lunches
7:30 p.m. Commencement exercises
Black Kittens Added To Navy Roster
Two new "boots" came into the department of naval science last week. They are coal off-loading boats that has been hanging around.
Despite the midnight color of the kittens, they are not looked upon as bearers of bad luck. Condir. R. J. Eaum said the kittens were born in the garage and have been cared for by the Navy. They will probably grow up to be catboat commanders or maybe members of the "black gang".