University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Monday, March 10, 1947
44th Year No. 97
Lawrence, Kansas
Little Man On Campus
By Bibler
"So I finally had to draw the line."
Justice Wedell Will Open Drive
Justice Hugo T. Wedell, Kansas supreme court judge and president of the Memorial association, will speak at 9:20 a.m. Wednesday at an all-student convocation which will open the World War II Student Memorial drive. Goal set is $25,000.
Howard Engleman, K.U. basketball coach, will introduce Judge Wedell who will speak on "K.U.'s Future". Bruce Bathurst, College sophomore and chairman of the student drive, will preside as chairman of the convocation.
The a cappella choir, directed by D. M. Swarthowt, dean of the School of Fine Arts, and the University band, directed by Prof. Russell Wiley will appear on the program. Judge Wedell's talk will be broadcast over KFKU at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Watson library, the Union building, and restaurants near the campus will be closed during the convocation in support of the drive.
The drive beginning Wednesday will continue until March 29 when a student carnival and dance in the Union will close the campaign.
A $25,000 goal for students has been set, Bathurst said; however, included in that goal will be the $4,000 received in the drive last spring, the 1946 senior class gift, and a donation from the Women's Pan-Hellenic council.
"More than money we want the whole-hearted support of the student body in the acceptance of the campanil| carillon, and parkway as the World War II memorial," Bathurst emphasized.
After the convocation a luncheon will be held in the English room of the Union for Judge Wedell and the district captains of solicitation. Speakers from the Forensic league will talk to organized houses during dinner Wednesday.
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Members of the executive committee of the campaign are Bathurst, chairman; Mary Breed, College senior; Jean Francisco, College Junior John Robinson, engineering Sophomore; Ralph Kiene, engineering sophomore; Everett Bell, first year law student; and Wilbur Noble, College sophomore.
Flu Is Declining Says Canuteson
The influenza situation is on the decline Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of the University health service said today. He added that he did not want to be "unduly optimistic."
Complications resulting from influenza have increased over the week end, however. Four new cases of pneumonia were reported bringing the total of these patients in Watkins Memorial hospital to six.
"Beginning Saturday there was a sudden decline in hospital admissions. Although this might be due to a normal week end decrease, this morning we have admitted only two new cases," Dr. Conutson said.
"March 6 was the worst day. We had 96 patients that day, and facilities were crowded to the utmost. But since then we have had a steady rate of decline," Dr. Canuteson explained.
This morning there were 25 hospitalized cases of influenza in the hospital. Twelve students were discharged this morning.
"It may be too early to say definitly, but we are fairly well convinced that the residual protection from the influenza inoculations last autumn, plus the early and widespread use of vaccine at the first signs of an epidemic here, has materially reduced the severity of the epidemic," Dr. Canuteson said.
At the University of Missouri an emergency hospital of 35 beds was not being used because of the lack of nurses and other employees. The health service has asked the Red Cross to assist in obtaining trained nurses to help in the emergency. By Saturday 282 people had been hospitalized with influenza.
Classes which ordinarily meet in the hospital will continue to meet elsewhere this week. Sunnyside is no longer being used as a convalescent ward.
The total number of reported influenza cases was 151.
A varsity dance was cancelled at Kansas State College over the weekend. This followed the cancellation of a convolution at which President Milton Eisenhower was to speak.
Lilienthal Approved By Senate Committee
Washington—UP—The senate atomic energy committee today approved, 8 to 1, the disputed nomination of David E. Lilienthal to be chairman of the E.U. Atomic Energy commission.
Sen. John. W. Bricker) R..
Ohio, cast the only negative vote.
Committee Chairman Bourke B. Hickenlooper said he would ask the senate to consider his committee's action at the completion of present senate business—possibly Wednesday.
Costumes Late Show Goes On
Last of the costumes for "Mid-
summer Night's Dream" arrived at
5 p.m. Sunday, two days before the
play's opening. As he ripped open
the box of costumes, Prof Allen
Crafton, director, expressed relief
that it finally had arrived.
A dress rehearsal at 3:15 p. m.
Sunday found many of the actors without costumes. Long stockings for the men, Snug's lion skin and head, and Hermia's wig were among the articles still missing.
The costumes arrived just as the curtain went down on the first dress rehearsal.
Tickets for the production which will open Tuesday for a three-night run are now on sale at the ticket office in the basement of Green hall. The office is open from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 4 p.m. Tickets can be bought, or obtained by presenting a student activity ticket.
Outfitting the actors was one of the most difficult jobs in this production, Professor Crafton said. Most costume houses have been hard hit by wartime shortages and have been unable to replace worn out garments. To get complete costuming it was necessary to contract with two widely separated houses.
Gas Blast Hits Fuel Supply K.U. Plant Uses Oil, Coal
Situation Is 'Worst In 14 Years After Explosion In Oklahoma Station
The housing office has been moved to the office of the dean of women and is under the direction of Mrs. Faye Elledge Netzer, '44. The new executive secretary of housing will handle all inquiries regarding private housing for men and women students.
Ridgway's Gang Is Handy With Needles They Repair, Paint, Unpack For KU Athletes
Kansas—Mostly cloudy, occasional light rain southeast and rain or snow northeast. Somewhat warmer extreme west today. Cloudy east with occasional light rain extreme east, partly cloudy west, little change in temperature tonight. Lowest temperatures lower 30's. Partly cloudy and warmer Tuesday.
Student placement in the five dormitories and residence halls for men students will be made by Dean Henry Werner. Women students will be assigned to the 10 dormitories and two residence halls by Margaret Habein, dean of women.
Irvin Youngborg, formerly director, now has charge of the maintenance of all dormitories, residence halls, and Sunnyside. His office, Dormitory Operations remains in the basement of Frank Rest hall.
A gas explosion Sunday night at Blackwell, Okla., has caused a critical fuel shortage for the University. The situation is the worst in 14 years, according to W.C. Sanderson, maintenance engineer of the University power plant.
WEATHER
Housing Office Under New Head
They tear 'em up, fix 'em, and wear 'em again. They even put new white laces in football players' shoes before each game.
Dale Ridgway, supervisor of athletic equipment, has charge of a crew of men under Memorial stadium who take care of all athletic clothing. They do everything from needlework on two-way stretch football pants to wielding 1,000 yards of socks
Even if clothing isn't torn up, it has to be clean, and the job of getting it all ready for the laundry falls to Ridgeway's gang. Normally, the athletic department has enough dirty towels, socks, and T-shirts to
Nevertheless, with Ridgeway's help, some of the husky lads have managed to shove their fingers into a thimble and sew up rips with a professional eye.
"The men are pretty hard on equipment in any sport," Ridgeway said. "See these football pants? They're half Lastex for freedom of movement and weigh less than two pounds. The men really tear 'em up, though. We'll have to erplace about eight pairs before fall."
The explosion, which killed three workers, happened in a booster
Marvin Small, Jayhawker end, would rather check out towels. "I'm no seamstress," he said. "That's clear out of my line."
to stretching 1,000 pairs of shoes. They repair torn equipment, oil shoes, paint helmets, and unpack new baseball, track, and football uniforms.
When needlework was mentioned, some of the men cringed but a few like Bill Fisher, a football squadman, resigned himself to the fact that he probably would have to give in and help out.
make Monday morning a nightmare.
"If you can visualize looting so dirty the laundry wouldn't even take it" the supervisor said. "you have an idea how the football equipment looked after the Oklahoma game last fall. We had to take out the thigh pads and then get rid of enough mud so the pants could be sent out. It was a mess."
Every piece of new equipment has to be stenciled with a "K. U." Ridgeway explained that "even when it wears out we can tell it belongs to us."
“Our biggest stenic job is on towels and socks,” he said. “I expect one man to be busy for several days stencing 1,200 towels and 1,000 pairs of socks. It’s permanent identification, too. We use ink which the laundry can’t fade.”
Any shoe-shine stand would be happy to have the business the athletic department could throw its way.
All shoes are polished after each contest and new spikes or cleats are added to worn-out football and track shoes.
And how about the new white laces in football shoes?
"Well," Ridgew,a,y explained "sometimes they get a little soiled, so we take them out and put in clean ones. And besides, the men have to look nice, don't they?"
station that helps supply the University with gas. It caused a shortage of the fuel in the Wichita and Kansas City areas.
The University heating plant started using fuel oil at 8:30 p.m. Sunday night, after being notified by Kansas Electric Power company officials that the gas supply was short.
At noon today the University started supplementing the oil with coal, using half of each. Mr. Sanderson said that he hopes for 3,000 gallons of oil to be delivered today, but that this is only a "twig on the fire" for what the University uses.
Concurrent with the heating difficulties is the problem of electricity. The University usually furnishes about three-fourths of its own electricity, the rest coming from Kansas Electric Power company.
"If this transformer gives out, we will have to use oil to generate electricity. In this case we would be able to run for only about three days."
"We are now forced to get all of our electricity from Kansas Electric," Mr. Sanderson said, "the trouble with this is that 1000 kilowatts from the power company must come through a 700 kilowatt transformer.
Electrical power to several University buildings was turned off for a few minutes this morning while workmen repaired a generator in the power plant.
There are two-by-passes past the explosion, Mr. Sanderson said. They are working on a third one now, which, when completed, may restore about 50 per cent of previous consumption here.
Fleisher To Present Program Tonight
A varied program of piano classics will be presented by Leon Fleisher, fifth regular attraction of the University's concert series at 8:20 p.m. tonight in Hoch auditorium.
As his first number, Mr. Fleisher will perform "Toccatta in D major"
Introduction (non troppo presto)
Allegro, Adagio-Fugio (molto sostenuto adagio)-Adagio, and Fugue
(Allegro Molto) by Bach. Second will be "Variations and Fugue on a theme of Handel" (Brahms).
After intermission, five selections will be played: "Invitation to the Dance" (Weber); "Kammer Fantasie über Carmen" (Busoni); "Mazurka in D major"; "Nocturne in A flat major," and "Ballade in G minor" (Chopin).
ASC Committee Talks KU Election Plans
Hoch auditorium was selected at the most suitable location for student polls in the spring elections by the All Student Council election committee at a meeting Friday.
The committee also discussed the number of candidates, representing the College district in the election. Each school of the University is allowed its share of office-seekers according to its enrollment. It was not decided whether the College district has a fair representation.
Election boards will be composed of one man from each political party
or one man from each political party,
Leland D. Postlethwaite, College
sophomore, will be sworn in at the
regular council meeting Tuesday
night as the representative from the
Inter-hall council.