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JANUARY 21, 1947
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
A Bloody Club Planted In A Barn And
Willie Got His Class Assignment
Prof. L. N. Flint, the retired head of the journalism department, took time Thursday, on the 35th anniversary of the University Dally Kansas, to lean back in his chair and think back over the more than 40 years he has spent in the department.
"In earlier days," he said, "I think the students were a little wilder. They were full of pranks and stunts, and every class had its leading practical jokester."
And through all those years, he remembered, there had never been a practical joker to equal little Willie Ferguson, who pulled his biggest stunt in 1911, when the Kansas first moved into the Shack.
Willie W. Ferguson was a short, active young man. Like all the other students, he wore high celluloid collars and string ties, and parted his hair in the middle. Under those straight-combed locks, Professor Flint recalled, dwelt an active mind.
In 1911, Willie went home to Olathe, for a short vacation. Because he was a journalism student, he spent his time there thinking up an imaginary murder story. He said it was a class assignment, but Professor Flint denies he ever made such a demand.
Anyway, Willie went so far as to stage an imaginary murder of his own.
He got some hair combings from his sister, killed a chicken and saved the blood, found an old curb, and went to an old abandoned barn. He planted his props, scarred the floor to indicate that a body had been dragged across it, and left.
A caretaker discovered the set-up a day later, and summoned the sheriff. Fortunately, Willie was on hand to write the stories that went all over the middlewest. The Kansas City Star and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch were two of the many papers that accepted long, detailed
stories of the search for the "murderer."
When Willie discovered how things were getting away from him, he confessed, and the officials just let it drop.
When he last wrote to the alumni office, William W. Ferguson who left K.U. in 1913, was working on the Los Angeles Times and was part owner of an advertising agency. That was in 1940.
Before that time, he had been a reporter in Texas, where he received national recognition for his work in exposing the activities of Ku Klux Klan units.
Experts Predict Increase In Sugar
New York. (UP)—Sugar experts here agree that housewives may expect more of it in 1947.
They based their prediction on an expected increase in the sugar crop, promised increases in prices, an expected removal of controls altogether, and reduction in overseas allotments.
"If things go as we expect, there will be an easing of the shortage through the year," D. L. Pollock, statistician of the New York coffee and sugar exchange, said.
Another commercial expert cautioned that while sugar supplies probably would increase, more than the pre-war supply will be needed because of the increase in population.
One sugar broker said prices would probably rise 25 cents to $1 per hundred pounds, and that even a slight improvement in prices will bring more sugar to the market.
Downtown Quail Hunt
Mt. Carmel, Ill. (UP) — Two sportsmen went hunting in here in the downtown business district. Returning from a day in the fields, they stopped in town when a quail, which they thought dead, got out of one of the hunter's pocket. They cornered the bird, and this time made sure it was dead.
Hypnotism Helps In Pulling Teeth
Bakersfield, Calif. (UP)—Hypnotism, long thought of as a good stage trick and now used in medicine and in curing mental illness, has found a happy place in dentistry here.
Mrs. Violet Nicola went to Hendrick's medical-dental clinic. She had two teeth that had to come out and she was allergic to all types of anesthetic.
Dri. Niel Norton, consulting psycho-therapist, and two other doctors were called for consultation by Dr. Mordedh Hendricks, who was to remove the teeth. Norton began talking to Mrs. Nicola. Within a few seconds she was in a hypnotic trance.
Thirty minutes later she was brought out of it, minus her two teeth, but completely unaware that they were gone. Though the doctors and two other witnesses told her the operation was over, a mirror was the only thing that convinced her.
Dr. W. G. Hendricks, a brother of the doctor who performed the operation, reported Mrs. Nicola suffered no ill after-effects such as bleeding, swelling or shock.
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