University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Tuesday, Dec. 10, 1946
44th Year No.53
Lawrence, Kansas
Candidates Take Rhodes Exams Tomorrow
Five students, who have been chosen to represent the University in competition for the Rhodes scholarships, will compete with nine other candidates from Kansas in Topeka tomorrow.
The K.U. candidates are Jack Button, College senior; Jack L. Kendall, graduate student; Garland S. Landrith, Jr., graduate of West Point, former K.U. student, and now serving with the army in France; Dean Ostrum, College senior, and James N. Winblad, College junior.
Winners of the scholarship will be entitled to attend Oxford university in England for two years, with a yearly stipend of about $1,600. They are not restricted as to the type of course they must pursue. A third year of study may be approved by the trustees of Oxford if a definite plan of study is given.
Scholarship, character, interest in athletics, attitude toward fellow men, and instincts for leadership were considered in choice of candidates.
Those not eliminated by the preliminary examinations will compete with representatives from other states for the scholarships in competitive examination to be held in Des Moines Dec. 14.
Offered for the first time since 1938, the scholarship carries with it no age limits, and eligibility rules require that the candidates be or have been engaged either in the armed service, war work, or agriculture during the time of war. Candidates must have completed two years study in some recognized college or university.
Pre-Medics To Take Aptitude Tests
Professional aptitude tests for applicants to the 1947 School of Medicine will be given January 11, T. E Christensen, administrator of the testing division of the guidance bureau, said today.
All applicants to the 1947 class are expected to present results on the aptitude test as auxiliary evidence of preparation for medical study, Mr Christensen said.
Applicants may register in 2a Frank Strong hall, and inquiries concerning the test may be addressed to the student's pre-medical advisor or the institutional examiner. They will supply the student with a statement describing the tests and registration forms.
A two-day drive to collect contributions to send Army ten-in-onerations to hungry European families will be conducted Friday and Monday in the rotunda of Frank Strong hall.
The Care organization, an international agency, seeks to aid the starving peoples of Europe through voluntary contributions. Alpha Phi Omega, men's service fraternity, will sponsor the drive on the campus.
Little Man On Campus
Pan-Hellenic To Meet
APO Will Sponsor Foreign Food Drive
"Of course I don't need them but you'd be surprised how much they help my grades."
Registration for the test, which will be administered on a nationwide basis, must be completed by noon December 27, Mr. Christensen said. Registration hours are from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and from 1 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The Pan-Hellenic council will meet at 4 p.m. today in room 222, Frank Strong.
Art Students Win Design Prizes
Five design students in the School of Fine Arts have received cash prizes for their silverware designs in competition sponsored by the International Silver company, the Fine Arts office announced today.
Mary Lucille Newland, a graduate student from Lamar, Mo., received $25 for first prize. Peggy Hissem, senior from Ft. Smith, Ark., won second prize of $15. Honorable mention and $10 each went to Virginia Parry, senior from Augusta; Austin Harmon, junior from Lawrence; and Robert Caldwell, senior from Dodge City.
The company may offer another competition in the spring for tea ware, according to Miss Marjorie Whitney, chairman of the department of design. This was the first time such a contest had been offered exclusively to one school.
Nominations for queen may be turned in from unorganized houses in the form of a petition signed with 13 names. "All petitions and nominations must be accompanied by pictures." Noble stressed.
Slobbovian Jinx Gung Be Named At Class 'Stomp'
January 11 is the date when Li'l Abners will swing their gals in Hoch auditorium to the music of Warren Durrett and his orchestra at the sochromore Slobbovian Stomp.
Highlight of the evening will be the crowning of Miss Jinx Raspuntburg, queen of Slobbovia. Each organized woman's house will nominate one girl whose picture is to be turned in to Wilbur Noble, class secretary, before Wednesday noon Dec. 18.
The queen will be chosen from the pictures and Mr. Noble said there was a possibility that Al Capn, creator of the Li'l Abner comic strip, would be the judge.
Bibler Book Sales Continue Tomorrow
The Bibler books of LMOC cartoons will continue on sale on the campus tomorrow, as long as the few remaining copies last.
Containing 33 cartoons half of them printed for the first time, the book is distributed in front of the library, in the Memorial Union lounge, and in the lobby of Frank Strong hall.
The art work has been done by Richard Bibler, staff artist for the Daily Kansan, which carries his Little Man On Campus cartoon daily.
K.U. Correspondents Meet Tomorrow
The correspondents, who keep the hometown newspapers informed of Jayhawker activities on Mount Oread, will receive further instructions in the art of column writing. There will also be a question and answer session.
The 170 county correspondents of the Student Statewide Activities commission will meet Wednesday afternoon from 4 to 5 in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building, it was announced today by Dwight Deay, 49, chairman.
Virginia Lu Daugherty, College freshman, chairman of correspondents, will preside.
The Men's Glee Club, Joseph Wilkins directing, will sing over radio station KFKU at 9:30 tonight. Featured at 9:45 will be a woodwind ouintet by Marcus Hahn, Wade Fite, Edward Allsup, Jack Moehlenkamp, and William Spence.
Music Featured Tonight
Speaks To Geologists
A. R. Glockzin, graduate student of geology, will speak at 7:30 tonight to Sigma Gamma Epsilon, geology fraternity, in 315 Lindley. His subject will be "Structural Geology of the Rocky mountain front range."
FWA Approves Sites For 10 New K.U. Buildings
First Units To Arrive Here Probably Watkins Hospital Dormitory Annex
The Federal Works agency has approved plans submitted by the University for the design and location of 10 surplus army buildings that will be used to expand instructional facilities for veterans, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, announced today.
Speakers Set Debate Record
Six Contests Won At Iowa Conference
The buildings will be moved from the Coffeyville army air base and the Lake City Ordnance works near Kansas City, Mo. The FWA will bear
Debating "Resolved: that labor should have a direct share in the management of industry," the University of Kansas won six of their eight debates to set a record that stood up against 28 colleges in the inter-collegiate speech conference at the University of Iowa recently.
The speakers also took part in after dinner speaking and extemporaneous speaking contests.
The affirmative team won all of their rounds, and tied with Northwestern University for the highest ranking. Debating were William Conboy, Richard Royer, Henry L Miller and Jack Button.
Four University debaters took part in non-decision debates at Washburn College, Topeka Monday. They were Benjamin Foster, Herbert Coles, Robert Bennett and Edward Stollenwerk.
Jean Moore and Kenneth Beasley, University debaters are representing the University this week at an invitational tournament at the University of Texas.
Union To Fill Sleigh For Needy Families
A Christmas sleigh, to be loaded with toys, books, clothing, and food for needy families in Lawrence, will be set up in the Union lounge, the Student Union activities committee announced today.
Christmas Seals On Sale From Prof. Doering In Snow
Students may make contributions until December 14, when the Union Christmas party will conclude the drive. The party will be from 1:30 to 3 p.m. and will feature the modern choir, folk dancing, and games.
Students and faculty members who did not buy Christmas seals before the end of the seal campaign Friday, may buy them from Prof. Kathleen Doering, department of entomology. 308 Snow hall.
Karl Mattern Will Speak To K.U. Dames Tomorrow
Karl Mattern, associate professor of drawing and painting, will be the speaker at the K.U. Dames meeting at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Myers hall.
The Public relations committee or the All Student Council, which sponsored the drive, is tabulating returns from organized houses. The committee asks that all collections be turned by 4:30 today.
Mrs. Maurice D. Kellogg is president of the group comprised of student's wives. Other officers are Mrs. John Hayne, vice-president; Mrs. Robert Daniel, secretary; Mrs. Donald McConnell, treasurer and Mrs. Carl Hird, corresponding secretary.
the cost of moving and reassembling the buildings. The University has furnished plans and will lay all utility lines, Mr. Nichols said.
Prof. George M. Beal, University architect who prepared the plans, says that work will be pushed on a 153' x 25' building to be placed in rear of Watkins Memorial hospital for use as a 42-bed hospital annex. The other nine will probably not be ready for use until late summer.
Two buildings, each $120^{\prime}$ x 25' , will be placed in rear of Blake hall where they will be used for laboratory work in advanced physics courses.
A gymnasium building, 112' x 88'
with two small wings, will be
located between the hockey field and
the west Sunnyside apartments on the south foot of Mount Oread.
It will be used for physical education
classes which are now heavily overtaxing Robinson gymnasium.
Two buildings will be combined and placed just south of the Military Science building and used for army and navy ordnance. Part of the new building will be used as a garage as the NROTC has already had to use the Military Science building garage for its ordnance.
A large T-shape cafeteria building will be placed southwest of Lindley hall.
Three buildings will be placed on the promontory north of Frank Strong hall. One, approximately 125' by 60', will be erected opposite the new quonset emergency study hall. It will be used for a general classroom building and is the only two-story structure among the 10.
The other two, each having approximate dimensions of 170' x 25', will run along the walk on what will some day be the site of the memorial companion. One will be used for the new Western Civilization course and the bureau of veterans training. The other will house secretarial training instruction and general classrooms.
Music Lovers Hear Orchestra Concert
The University's 85-piece symphony orchestra under the baton of Conductor Russell L. Wiley presented its first concert of the year last night to an audience which filled most of the arena floor and first balcony of Hoch auditorium
Marshall Butler, Fine Arts senior, was featured in the piano solo part of Tschaikowsky's "Concert No. 1 in B Flat Minor." Other numbers included Mendelssohn's "Scotch Symphony in A Minor." "Romeo and Juliet, Overture-Fantasy" by Tschaikowsky, and "Emperor Waltz" by Strauss.
Union Coffee Todav
A coffee sponsored by the Union coffees-forum committee will be held at 5 p.m. today in the Kansas room of the Union. Attendance is required of all members of Union committees.
WEATHER
Kansas—Fair west, clearing east,
not quite so warm extreme east today.
Fair tonight and Wednesday.
Somewhat cooler east half tonight.
Wednesday slightly warmer. Low
tonight 20 extreme west to 35-49
east.