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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
DECEMBER 10,1946
Evans, Fambrough Snare Post-Season Gridiron Awards
Statuettes For Year's Top Back, Lineman Presented At Annual Football Dinner
Capt. Ray Evans, K.U. halfback, and Don Fambrough, guard and place-kick expert, received awards as the outstanding back and lineman of the 1946 Jayhawker squad at the annual football banquet held at the Hotel Eldridge Monday night.
Sponsored by the Lawrence chamber of commerce, the dinner was attended by 200 persons, including the Varsity football squad, members o
the coaching staff, alumni, and spot writers. The program included talks by Frank L. Hagaman, lieutenant governor-elect, members of the coaching staff, and E. C. Quigley, director of athletics. Musical numbers by the Sherwood Negro quartet were also a feature of the evening.
the coaching staff, alumni, and sports
In presenting the statute to Evans, Tom Van Cleave, Jr., president of the Greater Kansas City, K. U, alumni association, said that "it was difficult for the committee to decide among all the outstanding candidates which make up the Kansas backfield."
been received the bronze figure
Eric said that even though he was
honored by the award he "hesitated
to take it because I believe the spirit
that the team has shown this year
has made it possible for us to have
a successful team and all of the
men deserve equal credit."
men after
After daming Don "Red Dog" Ettrich, the runner-up for the outstanding lineman, Al Haas, former president of the K.U. alumni association in Kansas City, presented the award to Fambrough.
"Fambrough has been outstanding in his performances this season," he said, "and the fact that he has an educated toe would tend to make him a star on anyone's gridiron."
Fambrough has also been notified that he has been chosen to play in the annual East-West game to be played in San Francisco New Year's day. He will play with the West team of which George Sauer is to serve as one of the coaches.
serve as one of the coaches Mr. Hagaman praised the KU, squad and coaching staff and commanded them for bringing the honor of victory to Kansas and to the University.
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"I can remember the time when appropriations for the school were doled out piece by piece," he said,
"but you can rest assured that with the honor that you men have brought to Kansas appropriations will come easier than ever before."
Mr. Hageman outlined what a winning football team can mean to a state and told the group that it had every reason to be proud of its achievements.
"We used to try to be loyal alumni," he said, "but heaven only knows that it was sometimes hard to do. We are proud of you and know that you men will make your place in the world when you leave the University."
Mr. Quigley said that he knew all that has been done has been, the work of everyone pulling together and commented that "the stadium debt is no longer a headache to us"
Chi Galloway, chairman of the Chamber's sports committee, presented a plaque to Mr. Quigley and praised the director for his contribution to Kansas athletics.
Mr. Galloway presented pen and pencil sets to assistant coaches Vic Bradford, Mike Getto, Don Pierce, Bob Ingalls, Dean Nesmith, and Wayne Replogle. He then introduced Head Coach Sauer and presented him with a wrist watch and said that "we still can't believe what has happened on the Hill this year."
Sauer further explained what he termed "has been said many times before—that the victorious season was largely because of the spirit, unity, and determination of the men to win.
"I knew after the Tulsa game that the men were going to make some-one pay for that 55 o 0 defeat," he said. "Mv hat is off to the members of this squad. They certainly deserve to be honored."
Among the guests attending the banquet were Cal Morrow, Kansas City alumnus; George Nettels, Pittsburgh, captain of the 1920 squad; and C. J. McCay Emporia alumnus.
EVAN9
FAMBROUGH
New York. (UP)—The North and South Poles are proverbially far apart, but in recent months—and days—both the North and the South Pole have appeared in the world's newspaper headlines in dispatches loaded with military and diplomatic significance.
North, South Poles Make Headlines
The North Pole and the Arctic regions have been given thorough attention, if not as a prospective battleground, at least as of the highest strategic importance in any possible future war.
The South Pole has suddenly become the focus of attention in international discussions for two reasons: (1) The decision by Allied headquarters in Tokyo to permit a Japanese whaling expedition to Antarctica, and (2) the announcement that Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd is heading a United States Navy expedition for further studies of the vast icebound area.
It is known that the Antarctic holds a great many secrets of western hemisphere weather. The South Pole holds the key, weather men believe, to what happens in the Caribbean, the Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, the Southwest Pacific.
As for minerals, the National Geographic society states that the South Polar regions are almost certain to hold valuable mineral deposits. However, it does not, as others have hinted, say the region may become a source of uranium, the main ingredient of atom bombs.
Marietta, Ohio. (UP) — Marietta College has a new floating dormitory to ease its student housing problem.
Students Use Floating Dorm
Absenteeism Low As Miners Return
Pittsburgh. (UP)—Soft coal production climbed toward pre-strike levels today as John L. Lewis' 400,000 mine workers returned to the pits in full force.
In western Pennsylvania, several operators reported absenteeism "unusually low."
At Detroit, the automobile industry, which had laid off more than 20,000 workers, was back to normal.
Nashville. (UP) — Former Oak Ridge atom bomb scientist Milton Burton has predicted that an entire city would be operated on atomic power within 10 years.
Some car manufacturers anticipated production difficulties from steel shortages resulting from the coal strike.
Atoms May Operate City Entirely Within 10 Years
Mr. Burton, Notre Dame professor and former head of the radiation chemistry section of the Oak Ridge project, said that a municipal atomic energy plant might also be used to purify the city water supply and sterilize city waste.
Hotel Fire From Cigaret
Atlanta. (UP) - Investigators decided today that Atlanta's disastrous Hotel Winecoff fire started from a cigarette thrown into a mattress.
Fire Marshall Harry Phillips said that drunks set fire to mattresses and furniture in Atlanta hotels virtually every night. He added that occasionally one may be arrested for drunkenness, but never for arson.
Connally Urges Spain Vote
Lake Success, N.Y. (UP) — The issue of Franco Spain moved toward a decision in the United Nations political committee with Sen. Tom Connally, D. Tex., challenging delegates to vote immediately on whether to break diplomatic relations with the Franco regime.
Oklahoma City. (UP)—W. Stuart Symington, assistant Secretary of War for Air, urged congress Monday night to merge the armed forces as a defense measure against the possibility of an air-borne invasion over the north pole.
Merger Seen As Defense
'Juno And The Paycock' Is Really 'A Darlin' Play'
BY WILLIAM SMITH (Daily Kansan Staff Writer)
Twas a "darlin' play," Sean O'Casey's "June and the Paycock" which opened before a near-capacity house in Fraser theater Monday night, as the 100th production of the K.U. speech and drama department.
The play will be presented tonight, tomorrow and Thursday in Fraser theater.
In the hands of veteran performers Allen and Jessica Crafton, Robert
1500 Student Directories Distributed By This Morning
KATHRYN O'LEARY
Student directories are going slowly, with only 1,500 copies being called for up to this morning, the registrar's office reports.
Procedure for obtaining a copy is to call at the office and have your name checked off in a master registration book.
The hindery at the University Press is keeping almost 2,000 copies ahead of distribution at the present rate, according to the registrar.
College Basketball
Notre Dame 70, Indiana 60.
Minnesota 65, South Dakota 33.
Missouri 48, St. Louis U. 44.
Kentucky 65, Idaho 35.
Nebraska 48, Drake 44.
At Women's Council Meeting
iowa State 47, Iowa State Teachers. 38.
Molotov, Byrnes Confer
New York (UP)—Russian Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov conferred with Secretary of State James F. Byrnes today to iron out differences in approach to the German peace treaty problem.
It was believed that they sought to bring into line Soviet proposals that all consideration of the German treaty be postponed until early next year and Mr. Byrnes' proposal that special deputies go to work on the treaties at once.
Columbians Confess Plot
Atlanta. (UF)—Georgia Atty, Gen. Eugene Cook today announced confessions by two members of the Columbians, Inc., which implicated the organization in a Hitler-like scheme to take over the government of the United States.
Iran Troops In Azerbaijan
Tehran. (UP) — Iranian government troops today invaded Azerbaijan, the northernmost Iranian province adjoining Soviet Russia, in an attempt to enforce Premier Ahmed Ghavam's authority over the rebellious region.
These Two Will Help Bury The Hatchet
It will be another in a series of meetings designed to set up machinery for closer cooperation between the sorority and independent women on the campus, under a United Women's council.
These two University women will lead their respective factions in a "bury-the-hatchet" meeting at 5 this afternoon in room 222, Frank Strong hall.
On the left is Kathryn O'Leary, College senior and a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, who is head of the Greek members of the council.
On the right is Bonnie Chesnut, Education junior, who heads the independent council members.
The council meets today to discuss the new constitution and to set up a method for scholarship supervision in independent women's houses.
The United Women's council is the first organization of its kind on the campus.
BONNIE CHESTNUT
Allen and Jessica Crafton, Robert Calderwood, and Frances Feist, "Juno and the Paycock" was seldom in doubt from the opening curtain.
Vacillating between comedy and tragedy, the play toys with the audience momentarily, then suddenly socks it squately in the eye. O'Casey has used this device throughout the play and it is particularly effective in the last act when tragedy takes a holiday.
As the florid-faced, swaggering,
self-righteous paycook. Professor
Crafton was suspect. His dialect was
fitting. Writing with Professor
Calderwood who plays 'Joxer' Daley,
his unprincipled cohort, Professor
Crafton interprets the drunken orgy
in the final act with a realism that
is hard to forget. So are his frequent
bits of comic singing.
Herk Harvey, as the bitter, almost neurotic son of 'Captain' Jack Boyle (the paycock), polished off a difficult role in his memorable final-act exit, as he cowered plaintively before his executioners.
Professor Calderwood handled his part admirably. Surefire comedy is his 'darlin' line which he uses to describe everything from songs te funerals. In Act I, he chews magnificently over hearth-warmed sausages.
Surprising was the performance of Mrs. Frances Feist, who after a stage absence of 11 years, made the character of the effervescent middle-aged floozy, Maisie Madigan, a living, realistic one. Her tippling with Messrs. Crafton and Calderwood, in which she casually tosses off a couple of stiff drinks, is one of the play's comic high spots.
Noticeably weak is the dialect in the character of Mary Boyle, played by Mary Booth. Miss Booth began valiantly, but after her opening lines, abandoned the broog and went around with her American dialect showing. Otherwise, her performance was creditable.
In the role of Juno, Jessica Crafton was in a class by herself. Her theatrics were well-displayed in the prayer-scene of Act III when the audience was so quiet that no coughs or throat-clearings were heard for a full five minutes.
Dan Palmquist as Charlie Bentham, the school teacher, stuck to the American dialect throughout. His jargon was consistent, but seemed, nevertheless, discordant.
Steady performances were registered by the supporting cast which includes Don Dixon, Kathleen Howland, Tom Rea, Alice McDonnell, Sarah Heil, Vivian Rogers, Glenn Hunt, Jack Fellman, Jim Nelson and Alvin Haggard.
The Madonna on the wall lends a certain religious atmosphere to the play, which seems to be essential to the character of Juno. Poverty is further accentuated by the costumes which obviously have been carefully chosen, down to the last low-heeled run-down shoe.
Scenery and costumes appeared to be in keeping with the theme of the play. The dingy grey walls, the dilapidated fireplace, the broom hanging on the wall seem to set successfully the play's Dublin tenement locale.
As incongruous as tennis shoes with formal dress, however, is the bottle of Imperial Babst beer on the table in the last act.
Sometimes inaudible were the on-stage voices of Professors Crafton and Calderwood, and Mrs. Feist.
"Juno and the Paycook" is still the best play K.U. has seen in years. If you're not careful, you'll walk out after the performance with that Irish brogue on your lips.
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