1946
DECEMBER 18. 1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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K.U.'sNo.1 Cage Fan Keeps Record Intact Thanks To Team Member
Anonymous members of the Kansas basketball team made certain that the number one K.U. cage fan didn't miss the first home game even though her ticket entitled her to see just four of the other games.
Miss Florence Black, mathematics professor who said last week that she was "just another victim of the crowded conditions along with the other sports on enthusiasts" was foeced with $ \textcircled{8} $
the probability of missing her first home game in 20 years when K. U. played the Idaho Vandals.
She was spotted, however, on the front row in Hoch auditorium enjoying the game and keeping her record entact.
When asked how she was able to get in she said, "Well, I guess you're going to put me on the spot. One of the squid members whose name I can't mention gave me a ticket. It must have been because of all the publicity I received through a Daily Kansan story last week."
Miss Wealthy Babcock, also a mathematics professor who has a similar attendance record, received a ticket and was able to go along with Miss Black.
In addition to the tickets, Miss Black's fan mail has increased considerably.
"I received a postal card after the story appeared," she said, "commending me for my selection of players who have appeared in the past. The writer claimed that he was the number two fan and was especially elated over one of my choices, Paul Endacott. He went on to say that he may be prejudiced in that choice because he is Paul's father. Mr. Frank Endacott."
Miss Black was ready to throw one letter in the waste basket until she found out that the contents were intended as a ioke.
"This letter from a member of the department of mathematics at Central Missouri State College,"she said, "began by telling me they had read about the 'unhappy and unfair conditions under which I was forced to work at the University of Kansas.' I was ready to throw it away because I wouldn't trade K. U. for any school. Then I found out that it was all a loke."
"I was really happy to be able to see the Idaho game," she said, "this whole thing has been a lot of fun."
The writer offered a solution to the problem by guaranteeing Miss Black a job as timekeeper at all basketball games and a seat near the 50-yard line at all football games. One stipulation in the offer was that Miss Black was to teach three or four courses in mathematics each term.
K.U. Basketball 'B Will Play Midland
The Kansas "B" squad will go after its third victory in three starts tomorrow night when it takes on the Midland College cagers in Hoch auditorium.
Coach Howard Engleman's squad has worked steadily on developing set plays and screening and on improving fundamental work since the last game Dec. 7.
The Jayhawker seconds have two victories, one at home, and one on the road.
Kansas State "B" was downed, 40-32, and Emporia State "B" fell, 41-33.
The only remaining game on the "B" schedule is a return match with Kansas State "B" at Manhattan Dec. 21. Coach Engleman expects to have four or more additional games scheduled after Christmas vacation.
Topeka Defeats Lawrence
Topeka High School defeated Lawrence High, 45 to 27, in a basketball game played at Lawrence Tuesday night. Topeka won the "B" team game, 22 to 21.
No Quack Club Tomorrow
Because of Christmas vacation there will be no Quack club meeting tomorrow. The next meeting will be Jan. 9, Olivia Garvey, president, announced.
New Orleans. (UP)—No matter what you think about Confederate money, you're probably wrong. Few bills are extremely valuable, yet the money is always worth at least the paper it's printed on.
Confederate Money Is Valuable, Suh
Charles A. Williamson of New Orleans has made a hobby of collecting Confederate money. If this were 1863, he'd have about a million dollars in neat stacks lying around his house.
But it's not 1863, and even as collectors' items, the bills are never worth more than $70. And you can buy the $70 only for the most rare of items.
Collecting Confederate money is much different from collecting any other type of money, Mr. Williamson explains. For one thing, the date of the bills means absolutely nothing.
Only the rarity of the bill ascertains value. And there were so many types of bills printed, even expert collectors get confused.
A11 Confederate money was printed within a three-year span 83 to 85 years ago.
For instance, every Confederate state printed its own money in the name of the Confederacy, and many of them printed several types. For one brief period, even individual stores and banks were printing their own money.
Theft there's the odd case where United States money was used by the Confederacy. It seems that just before the war broke out in 1861, the U.S. mint in New Orleans issued 330,000 half-dollars.
Came the war, and the Confederate government seized the mint and began turning out more coins from the same die. In all, more than 1,240,000 half-dollars were struck. They were issued as Confederate money, even though they bore the U.S. seal.
The most amazing thing Confederate money collectors encounter is the hopes of some folks that the U.S. eventually will redeem the money for face value. Many an old Southern family keeps a shoe-box of the stuff—just in case.
Orono, Mc. (UP)—Married fraternity men at the University of Maine have solved the problem of "sitters"—at least during the rush season. When Sigma Nu had a party, some of the members brought their children along and turned them over to the care of the pledges.
Pity The Pledge
The Rubber City Kennel club all breeds dog show, held at Akron, O., included automobile tires in its list of trophies and awards.
Eight Women Cage Teams Play Tonight
Games scheduled for tonight in the women's intramural basketball round-robin in Robinson gymnassium are:
MERRY CHRISTMAS
HIXON STUDIO
Corbin versus Kappa Kappa Gamma and Sigma Kappa versus Alpha Delta Pi at 7 p.m.
Jolliffe hall versus Gamma Phi Beta and Chi Omega versus Harmon Co-op at 8 p.m.
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In the women's IM games last night, Watkins edged out Tem-Ruth hall, 10 to 8, while Pi Beta Phi won over Alpha Omicron Pi, 18 to 12.
Locksley was defeated by Kappa Alpha Theta, 15 to 22, and Delta Delta lost to Alpha Chi Omega, with a final score of 6 to 9.
Overpowering Miller hall, Delta Gamma pushed ahead to win 26 to 9. In a long drawn-out battle, Sleepy Hollow surged ahead in the final canto to pass the Independent team, 20 to 13.
Two Dead End Kids Held In New York Fire Killing 21
New York. (UP)—Two Dead End kids who bragged that they had started "one hell of a fire" were held on arson charges today as rescue workers dug with little hope through the rubble of a shattered tenement house for possible additional survivors of one of New York's worst building disasters.
Seventeen persons still were missing and presumed dead beneath the tons of masonry and brick in the wrecked six-story tenement. Police listed 21 known dead, 15 missing, and more than 40 injured.
Army Will Meet Illinois In 1947 Football Season
Prisoners Will Smoke
Columbus, Ohio (UP)—No longer will inmates of Ohio penitentiary march directly from their breakfast to their jobs without a smoke. In recognition of general good conduct, Warden Frank E. Henderson has permitted smoking in the dining halls after breakfast.
West Point, N.Y., Dec. 18 (UP)—Army, the nation's leading football team for the past three years, and the University of Illinois, 1946 Big Nine champion, will meet in a game next fall, it was announced today by U.S. Military Academy athletic officials.
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