University DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, Nov. 19, 1946
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
44th Year No. 41
Lawrence, Kansas
Topeka Air Base Will Train A.A.F. Reservists
Applications for training of former Army Air Force members will be accepted at the Reserve Training base, Topela Army Air field beginning Friday, Maj. James H. Meyer, reserve commander, announced recently.
The training will include extension courses, instruction at the base, and flying, plus 15 days of duty a year with the A.A.F. Individual flight training will be given priority over all other training. As soon as the program is started, training will be given to all categories of the A.A.F. personnel.
Aircraft to be assigned to the base include P-51 Mustangs, AT-6 Texans, and twin engine AT-11's. Flying will begin as soon as the pilots have regained their proficiency.
Before a pilot may be scheduled for flight, he must evidence the following:
ONE. Proof of his appointment in the Air Reserve.
TWO. Personnel order, indication flying status and rating.
THREE. A medical examination (form 64) not more than one year old.
If the form is not available, arrangements for the examination will be made.
FOUR. A.A.F. form five.
All reservists who wish to apply for the program may contact Major Meyer for classification, assignment, and training at the Topeka base.
Four College seniors were elected Monday to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, honorary scholastic society.
Four Elected To Phi Beta Kappa
Those honored were Judson Goodrich, Topeka; Maxine Millhuser, Preston; Dean G. Ostrum, Russell; and Marjorie Shryock, Kansas City, Mo.
The annual fall election will be followed by initiation ceremonies Dec. 4, Raymond Nichols, organization secretary, said today. Candidates were elected by the Phi Beta Kappa council, which is composed of society members connected with the University.
Requirements include a straight "A" average, and the meeting of residence and distribution pre-requisites, Mr. Nichicks said.
Mission Secretar To Speak
The Rev. Robert Dawson, secretary of the Mexican-Indian mission, will speak at 7 Wednesday night in丹福orth chapel to members of the Inter-Varsity Christian fellowship.
Basketball Ticket Deadline Tomorrow
The deadline for student priority on basketball ticket applications is 5 p. m. tomorrow. Earl Falkenstien, athletic business manager, emphasized today.
Applications are being taken for half the home schedule of eight games. A surprisingly low total of only 1,700 students had applied for those tickets to today.
Trophy Presented Tonight To Winner Of Speech Event
A trophy will be given to the winner of the campus speaking contest to be held at 8 tonight in Fraser theater, Prof. E. C. Buehler, department of speech and drama, announced today. The contest will be the 20th of its type at the University.
Fine Arts Recital Over KFKU
A School of Fine Arts recital, featuring Merton Anderson, tenor; Jack Mohlenkamp, piano; and Mark Hahn, flute, will be presented over radio station KFKU at 9:30 tonight.
The monthly meeting of the College faculty will be held at 5 p.m. today in Frank Strong auditorium.
Faculty Will Meet Today
Dr. James Coleman Is The Poor Man's Dunninger
Almost every student realizes that there is no basis for mental telepathy, Dr. James Coleman told the members of the psychology club but he soon had them looking perplexed.
At a meeting of the club in Frank Strong hall Monday, afternoon Dr. Coleman demonstrated a form of extra-sensory perception or mental telepathy as he exchanged names of famous persons, telephone numbers, and wishes by mental powers with his assistant, Evan Stevens. His card tricks and mental gymnastics had the older members of the club scratching their heads in bewilderment.
Dr. Coleman ended his program still contending that there is no such thing as mental telepathy and then added that he would betray no professional magic secrets.
Tumblers Will Form Team In Gymnasium Today
Tumblers will meet at 4 p.m. today in Robinson gymnasium to organize a K.U. team.
The tumbling team in the past has presented exhibitions for various group meetings on the campus, and for between-halves entertainment at basketball games.
Stumps Pulled, Pianos Moved; Call Carla
'I'm Not So Big, But Boy, Am I Strong!'
"You ought to take up weight lifting. The ideal exercise! You don't have to leave the house and you don't have to spend any money," she heard a business man say.
Her specialty was linseed oil, but she ended up holding a couple of dumbbells.
It all began four years ago in San Francisco, when she was buying linseed oil for a paint manufacturing company.
So Carla Eddy, second year law student, purchased 120 pounds from a high school boy—two dumbbells and a bar bell.
In no time, she had developed a pair of surprised biceps and two theories on weight lifting:
TWO. If you're skinny, you need to hoist the dumbbells only now and then.
Later Miss Eddy, who is the thin, strong type, took the dumbbells on to Oregon, where in one year's time she became a truant officer, a member of the boiler maker's union, a ship yard laborer, a city bus driver, and a law student in night school.
ONE. If you're a bit pudgy, according to Miss Eddy, you must lift a lot of weight, since you already have a lot of weight to lift.
But she still has the dumbbells. She keeps them in her basement and "lifts them every other day."
In fact, she can practically lift her own weight—she is 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighs 133 pounds, and raises a 120-pound bar bell with little trouble.
they were worth."
o Lawrence - dumbbells and all.
"I was sort of a dumbbell about that change," she insists. "It cost me more to ship the weights than
And now Miss Eddy will tell you: "I'm not so big, but boy, am I strong! It's not the size, it's the substance that matters. I don't get much of a chance to show off my muscles, but wait until I'm graduated from the School of Law. You know, one encounters a lot of 'weighty' pedagogical problems in law."
The following year she returned to Lawrence, dumbbells and all
Women Outrank Men By 0.05 Grade Points
Hitt Releases 1945-46 Figures For University Scholastic Standings
Scholastic standings for the year 1945-46, tabulated for each campus organization and class of students, were released today by James K. Hitt, registrar.
The complete list of grade points is on page eight of today's Kansan. The standings revealed the following general facts:
The standings revealed the following general facts:
Karnival Kup To Winning Booth
A "Karnival Kup" will be presented to the organization sponsoring the winning booth at the carnival to be given Saturday in the Military Science building by the Union Activities committee.
Second and third place winners will be chosen but no prize is offered. Judges for the contest will be announced later.
The deadline to sign up for booths has been extended to Wednesday to enable more organizations to sign, Keith Wilson, party chairman, announced. There will be room for about eight more booths, he said.
Construction of the booths will be delayed until Saturday morning because of the R.O.T.C. dance Friday. Hammers and saws can go into action at 7 a.m., the chairman announced.
Music for dancing will be provided by Charles Steeper's band. Intermission entertainment is being planned by the committee in charge.
Strike Won't Affect K.U. Power Plant
The recent soft coal strike will not affect production capacity at the K.U. power plant, W. C. Sanderson, chief engineer, said today
"We are using gas, and have 90 thousand gallons of oil in storage for standby purposes. Also in our supplies is another 1,000 barrels of oil stored in Kansas City," he said.
Only one of the boilers could use coal and we have enough for it to run 10 days in very cold weather, but we would rather use gas, he added.
"The only threat to our present supply would come if the coal strike continues over a long time. A greater number of persons would change to gas which would reduce the amount allotted to us, and we would have to drain heavily on our oil reserve." Mr. Sanderson explained.
Gibbs Is Delegate To Scarab Meeting
Warren Gibbs, Engineering junior, will be the K.U. delegate to the national convention of Scarab, professional architectural fraternity, to be held here Nov. 24-28. Prof. Verner Smith, department of architecture, has announced.
Ten other universities will send delegates to the convention, Professor Smith said. They are University of Illinois, Washington university in St. Louis, Pennsylvania State college, Carnegie Institute of Technology, University of Southern California, University of Virginia, State College of Washington, Alabama Polytechnic institute, University of Minnesota, and the University of Cincinnati.
R. Van Buren Livingston, national president, and Professor Smith, secretary-treasurer, will be present.
Students in honorary fraternities got the best grades, their average being 2.36.
Women, with an average of 1.54, got better grades than men, with an average of 1.49.
Veterans, with an average of 1.52, got better grades than non-vets, with 1.46.
Students in social fraternities and sororities got better grades than independent students, but the lowest grades of all went to uninitiated fraternity and sorority pledges.
To compute the grade points, the office of the registrar gave three points for an A, two points for a B, one point for a C, no points for a D, and subtracted one point for a failure.
The closest race for first-place honors was among the national social sororites. Pi Beta Phi won out with a grade point average of 1.4744 over Kappa Alpha Theta with 1.4743 and Albua Chi Omega with 1.7454.
Beta Theta Pi took the national social fraternity honors with 1.97 points.
Alpha Sigma Alpha, with 1.67, led sororities not members of the Pan-Hellenic league.
Phi Delta Kappa led the profes-
sional fraternities with 2.31 grade
boards
Pi Delta Phi, honorary Romance languages organization, led the honorary fraternity-sorority group as well as the rest of the campus with a 2.90 mark. Phil Beta Kappa members had a 2.68 average.
Watkins and Miller halls had a close race in the women's residence halls group, with Watkins getting 1.9568 average and Miller getting a 1.9521 average.
Henley house led all organizations, other than professional and honorary groups, with a grade point average of 2.14.
Bridge Registration Begins Tonight
Registration for tonight's bridge tournament will begin at 7 p.m. in the Kansas room of the Union, Carl Henrichson, chairman, stated today.
Of the 96 couples entered, eight teams will be selected each night to compete in the finals scheduled on Nov. 26.
The split Mitchell method will be used in the tournament, and Prof. E. O. Stene will act as faculty adviser.
All contestants have been notified by mail or phone as to which night they play, Henrichson said.
Polio Cases In Kansas Set November Record
Topka. (UP)—Infantile paralysis, regarded as principally a hot weather disease, has visited Kansas with record intensity during chilly November, the state Board of Health reported today.
With more than a third of the month remaining, an all-time November high of 33 cases has been reported to the state health office. The previous high, for the entire month, was 40 three years ago.
WEATHER
Kansas—Partly cloudy, warmer east and extreme north today. Tonight increasing cloudiness and a little warmer. Mostly cloudy tomorrow followed by showers and colder-northeast and extreme north in afternoon.