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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MARCH 13. 1947
Life In Wheelchair Is No Bum Rap For Him
The fluorescent bed lamp shone down on a man wracked with arthritis suffering from diabetes, permanently crippled. Yet he doesn't consider his plight a bum rap.
Paul Watson, College junior, is seen daily as he is pushed, reclining about the campus in a wheelchair. His hips, knees, and ankles are rigid stunted in his childhood by arthritis.
He eased his slight frame as he reached for a cigarette.
"From that time I have fought being sensitive. I can remember the time when I could out-run boys of my age. I knew that my best chance was to get out among others. My family helped immeasurably in making it possible for me to live almost any other boy."
He smiled as he recalled some of the things he has done in a wheelchair. "I've gone fishing. I've even gone watermelon swiping with the other boys." He paused. "We had to be careful about the tracks left by the wheelchair."
"I was really pulling for him," she said.
Paul's mother, sitting at the foot of his bed, started to tell about the scholastic honors he won in his home town high school at Pratt.
Paul interrupted, "Sometimes that was just the trouble. You see, like every cripple. I hate too much sympathy. I want to be treated just like any other human being."
A dark-haired girl entered the room and smiled at Paul as he started to tell of his plans for the future.
"This is my wife, Shirley," he said. Then he told about their meeting.
"Ever since I was first afflicted we have tried a procession of doctors. I've been in hospitals, in casts, and have had one operation after another, but none did any good."
"About two years ago I was in Wesley hospital in Wichita. Two girls came to visit my roommate. One of the girls was Shirley. We seemed to hit it off, and were married a year ago."
Shirley smiled approval.
"Many people used to forecast a failure," he went on. "Perhaps 50 years from now we will have shown the cynics that we are a happily married couple."
What is his greatest obstacle in
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Professors To Discuss Atomics Over KFKU
PAUL WATSON
What are we going to do with atomic energy? The first of three roundtable discussions on the choices and problems created by its use is to be over KFKU, 9:30 p.m., tomorrow. Four University porfessors will take part in the series.
"The Science, Defense and Secret of the Atomic Bomb," will be discussed in the first broadcast. Dr. David Hume, assistant chemistry professor; Dr. Frank Hoecker, associate physics professor; and Dr. Ethan Allen, chairman of the political science department and director of the Bureau of Government Research, will participate.
Dr. Walter Sandelius, professor of political science; Dr. Hoecker, and Dr. Allen will discuss "The Atomic Bomb—Actual Program To Date," March 27, 9:30 p.m.
Girl Born To Former KU Couple
March 20, 9:30 p.m., Dr. Hume, Dr. Koecker, and Dr. Allen will conduct a roundtable on "International Control of the Atomic Bomb—Is It Possible?" How Can It Be Set Up?"
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Mr. and Mrs. Donald Jackson, Topeka, are parents of a daughter, Patricia Lee, who was born March 9. Mrs. Jackson, the former Mary Ann Crav, was graduated from the School of Journalism in 1946. Mr. Jackson attended the University in 1944-5.
Paul grinned. "Stairs," he declared "They're the bane of my life."
"Most of my classes are in Frank Strong hall, and we can navigate OK there. But I have stayed away from Fraser. I need courses over there, but I'll just have to take them by correspondence.
Asked about his treatment by other students, Paul commented "I can see that many people are ill at ease when we first start talking. They are afraid they will mention my being a cripple It's my duty to put them at ease.
"Iused to avoid that word, cripple,
but I've learned to call a spade a spade.
It doesn't bother me any more.
After all, why should it? Someday
I'm going to be a lawyer, earning my own way."
"I heard about a cripple in Tennessee who has perfected a wheelchair that will go up and down stairs," he exclaimed. "It must be a marvelous invention."
He enters the School of Law next fall.
Paul Watson has come a long way, from a helpless child to a man, confident of his future.
There's one word for that, "Courage."
Thirteen powers behind the throne were initiated into the K.U. Dames, University married women's social organization, Wednesday.
K.U. Dames Initiate 13 Women Into Club
They are, Shirley Worcester, Gertrude Bower, Jean Leonard, Marie Pond, Shirley Brizendine, Daisy McCormick Pine, Genie M. H. Haessler, Erma Stricker, Mercedes C. Reed, Nancey Starley, Ann Harder, Jackie Werts, and Josephine Palmer.
Music was provided by the Three Queens trumpet trio, and by Mercedes C. Reed, singing There's One Thing I Got and That's My Man.
200 May Attend Art Conference
Approximately 200 high school art students and their teachers will flock to the campus tomorrow and Saturday to attend the conference sponsored by the School of Fine Arts.
Each instructor in the department will give exhibitions of techniques and artistry in the various types of drawing, painting, and crafts. A full schedule of exhibitions is planned for both days. Students are free to attend those which they choose.
Entrees in the annual art contest for work by high school students are on exhibit in the rotunda of Frank Strong hall. Work will be judged by Norman Enpink of Kansas State College, Emporia; Burnett H, Shrycko, University of Kansas City and Miss Martha Abbott, Kansas City, Mo. The contest is sponsored by Miss Marjorie Whitney.
Forensic League Ends First Year
Sketches showing the Forensic League activities for the past year lined the Kansas room Tuesday night at the banquet and program marking the end of that organization's first year on the campus.
"Words" was the theme of the entire program, that included a report of the honors committee; by E. C. Buehler, professor of speech and faculty advisor of the club; Forensic Briefs by William Tincher, Dorothy Heschmeyer, Benjamin Foster, and Otis Hill, and the keynote address by Kenneth Beasley. William Conboy was toastmaster.
Officers elected for the coming year were Hal Friesen, president; Otis Hill, vice-president, William Vandiver, secretary-treasurer, and Dorothy Heschmeyer, recording secretary and historian.
Wesley Foundation Chooses Officers
The Wesley Foundation, University Methodist student organization, has appointed its cabinet members for 1947 and 1948.
Students appointed are J. Sterling Baxter, president Warren Shaw, vice-president; and Anna Hemphill, secretary.
Milton Coughenour, Dean Jordan,
Carole Ruhlen and Helen Scamell
have charge of programs; Keith
Bradley, Betty Guyer, Norm Hill,
and Alice Wismer, personnel; Warren
Shaw, Frankie Freeman, Sam
Peacock and Nora Lea Temple, recreation.
Jack Hollingsworth and Helen MacLean, worship Martha Myers and Dexter Welton, music; Hugh Gibson and Shirley Sondker, world community and social action; Roger Adams and Denny King, service and conferences; Virginia Daniels, publicity; Hal Mahuron, finance; Raymond King, intramurals; and Howard Hallman and Robert Stewart, student religious council.
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He's a man to whom conversation affords no difficulties except when discussing his favorite subject, the St. Louis Cardinals. For lack of more adjectives, his comments are mostly variations of "they are the world champions, y.know."
This freshman law student carries 210 pounds on a five feet, seven inch frame and his black, quarter-inch mustache is usually spread from ear to ear. The cement supporting columns of Memorial stadium vibrate when he laughs.
Omega Psi Phi is his fraternity. He is a member of the All Student Council and the memorial student committee and is chairman of the veterans affairs committee of A.V.C.
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Yesterday's caricature was of Owen Peck.
Betty Boling, Who Fell From Car, Is Better
Condition of Betty A. Boling, College sophomore, admitted to Watkins Memorial hospital yesterday with a skull fracture, is reported as good today. She fell from the running board of a car driven by Laird S. Campbell, College junior, and struck her head against the pavement.
Truman's Aid Program Takes Britain By Surprise
London. (UP) — A government source said today that President Trump's decision to include Turkey with Greece in his aid program and his plan to send military personnel to that area took Britain by surprise.
The source said Britain neither asked the United States to advance funds to Turkey nor suggested that the United States send troops to the eastern Mediterranean.
Labor Government Receives
Vote Of Confidence
London. (UP) - The British house of commons gave the labor government a vote of confidence of 371 to 204 Wednesday. It was the second time in the government's 20-month history that more than 200 opposition votes have been cast, however.
The vote of confidence was preceded by the defeat of Winston Churchill's plea for a vote of "no confidence." That motion was defeated by 374 to 198.
Severance Tax Asked For School Assistance
Topeka—(UP)—Sharply conflictviews on whether Kansas should levy a gas, oil, and mineral severance tax to raise new revenue were presented last night in a public hearing.
Representatives of schools claimed that the severance levy would furnish a sizable share of the 10 million dollars needed to finance state school assistance.
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