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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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NOVEMBER 11. 1946
Turner's Field Goal Was 'Thrill Of A Lifetime'
'Entire Team Helped Make Kick Good,' Shawnee-Mission Athlete Declares
By JOHN FINCH (Daily Kansan Sports Editor)
Paul Turner once made a hole-in-one during a golf match, but even the thrill of that great event has dwindled in the memory of the Shawnee Mission athlete as a result of his 41-yard field goal Saturday.
"I thought I was thrilled when I made that hole-in-one," he said, "but it was nothing compared with the way I felt after the Oklahoma game. That was the climax to my athletic career."
Turner played football at Shawnee Mission high school during his junior and senior years and lettered in basketball for three years. He was on the school's golf team when he made his 223-yard drive which rolled into the cup to give his team the margin of victory over four other entries.
The kicking specialist preferred not to mention anything about his field goal but in answer to questions he replayed the final crucial seconds and took into consideration the odds that were against him.
"I didn't think much about it until it was all over," he said, "but there are some things you could consider."
From the sideline everything lookeded wrong. The ball was 15 yards in from the east side of the field, and Ray Evans was going to hold it 41 yards away from the goal in a spot which was plenty muddy.
"If you want to get technical," Paul said, "the ball weighs around 15 ounces, and the distance between the goal posts is $13\frac{1}{2}$ feet. The cross bar is 10 feet from the ground."
At this point it was plain to see that all Turner could possibly think about was to kick the ball over the goal.
"The entire team was responsible for the success of that kick," he said. "Ray Evans played an important part by holding the ball just right, and he received a perfect pass from Center Howard Fischer."
Turner has kicked one other field goal this season. Against the Iowa State Cyclones he booted one from the 21-vard line.
He pulled another Kansas athletic contest out of the fire when, in 1942, he rushed onto the basketball court against the Kansas Aggies, leaped into the air with a spin shot, and dropped the ball through the hoop in the last five seconds to tie the game.
Kansas won that game. 46-44, in overtime, on a goal by Ralph Miller. Prior to Turner's basket, the Wildcats were leading 44-42.
In 1944 he married Miss Dora Felt, a former K.U. student who was graduated the same year. She was a physical major specializing in physical therapy.
Paul returned to K.U. last summer after three years in the navy He had previously lettered in football in 1942 and in basketball during the 1941-42 and 1943-44 seasons.
The 24-year-old Turner, also a physical education major, will graduate in June and expects to be a coach.
"I don't know where I'll be located," he said, "but it would be nice to be situated in this part of the state."
Wherever he goes, the name of Paul Turner certainly will be prominently entered in the annals of K.U. football.
Communist Vote Heaviest In French Election
Paris (UP)—The Communists became the strongest party in France today, pulling ahead of the Popular Republicans in Sunday's election, and a spokesman said Maurice Thorez, Communist leader, will try to take over the premiership from Georzes Bidault.
Dominant political power now is centered in the Communists and Popular Republicans. Negotiations will result to determine whether both parties will join a coalition government, possibly including smaller parties, or whether one of the giants will try to form a government without the other.
Speaking Contest Will Begin Tuesday
The annual campus problems speaking contest will begin Tuesday with the first round of talks at 7:30 p.m. in the little theater of Green hall.
Anyone planning to enter may notify Prof. E. C. Buehler, of the speech department, before 4 p.m. Tuesday. Four-minute speeches will be judged on content, organization, and presentation. Judges will be Richard Schiefelbusch, Margaret Anderson, and Orville Roberts, graduate students and instructors.
The finals will be held Nov. 19 in Fraser theater. Speeches will be eight minutes long.
400 Journalists Attend Annual Conference
More than 400 students an instructors from 57 Kansas high schools were registered Saturday at the 24th annual Kansas high school journalism conference.
Representatives from Manual and Southwest, Kansas City, Mo., high schools, also attended.
The program included speeches by William A. Bailey editor of the Kansas City Kansan, and Meredith Cromer, journalism director at Pittsburg High school. There were also round table discussions directed by staff members of the journalism department and University students.
Ex-P.O.W.'s To Meet In Kansas City
Men who wish to attend meetings in Kansas City tomorrow at which Henry Soderberg, representative of the War Prisoners' Aid, will be guest speaker, may sign up in the Y.M.C.A. office in the Union.
Transportation will be provided Ned Linegar. Y.M.C.A. executive secretary, said.
Mr. Soderberg, Swedish Y.M.C.A.
secretary, was admitted to European prison camps during the war because of his neutrality.
A reception will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Kansas City, Y.M.-C.A., auditorium for all ex-prisoners and their relatives.
Nikolai Novikov Soviient ambassador to the United States, told the U.N. trusteeship committee that Britain had failed "to comply with the U.N. charter" by neglecting to propose Palestine's transfer to U.N. trusteeship.
Lake Success, N.Y. (UP)—Soviet Russia demanded today that Britain give Palestine independence or place the embattled Holy Land under a United Nations trusteeship.
Russia Demands Britain Grant Palestine Freedom
Reporter Will Analyze Election At Smoker
A. L. "Dutch" Schultz, political reporter for the Topeka State Journal, will speak on "Forty Years of Kansas Politics" and analyze the past election for a University club men's smoker at the Massachusetts street club rooms at 8 p.m. tomorrow.
This event replaces the smoker originally planned for Friday night.
Little Man On Campus
"Now tell me about that field goal all over again."
No Trumpets, Reviews, or Kilmer Please, For Helen Rhoda Hoopes
BY WILLIAM SMITH Daily Kansan Staff Writer
A session with Miss Helen Rhoda Hoopes, assistant professor of English, is revealing.
She read choice excerpts from two burlesques on the Brownings, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett. The talk drifted to bowlsings in a book store and to book reviews.
"I have sunk pretty low," Miss Hoopes declared, "but never low enough to give a book review."
Miss Hoopes spoke to several poetry lovers in the Pine room of the Union Friday on "Patterns and Perspectives in Poetry." She read from her collections of poems and interpolated bits of comment on poem and poet.
“Trees,” Miss Hoopes said, referring to Joyce Kilmer's poem, “is a terrible poem, absolutely terrible.”
She recalled a woman who was
scheduled to review a book before what she expected to be a small audience. When the reviewer stepped onto the stage, 2,000 faces greeted her. Miss Hoopes re-enacted the reviewer's plight with hoarse and strained shouts.
On British poetry, Miss Hoopes warmed to her subject with what sounded like an authentic Oxford accent. Then she read a selection of A.P.Herbert's with a characteristic cookney dialect.
Some how or other, Americanborn World War II traitor-poet Ezra Pound creent into the conversation.
"Oh God, oh Montreal, and they called him a poet," Miss Hoopes cried.
About 9 p.m. a dance band began to warm up in the adjoining Kansas room.
"I can't fight against a trumpet," she said. "We'll have to quit."
We quit.
'Work Together,' Truman Asks New Congress
Washington. (UP) - President Harry Truman, admitting the possibility of "serious difficulties" in runnin gthis government, today appealed to the new Republican congress to cooperate with him for the welfare of the people.
Mr. Truman made his declaration in a statement to an Armistice day news conference.
The President emphasized the bi-partisan nature of our current foreign policy.
"It will continue to be a bi-partisan program insofar as the secretary of state and I are concerned," he said. "I firmly believe that our Republican colleagues who have worked intelligently and cooperatively with us in the past will do so in the future."
After reading his statement, Mr Truman denied numerous resignation rumors involving prominent members of the executive branch.
Asked whether he planned now to call a special session of congress, the President said he had no present plans to do so.
He admitted, too, that issues between the President and the congress would be inevitable.
He warned that national frustration would result from an effort by either the executive or the legislative branch to embarrass the other for partisan gain.
The President was asked whether he would hold regular conferences with the Republican leadership of congress. He said that would be taken care of when congress meets.
Asked whether his statement today was an answer to the suggestion by Sen. William J. Fulbright, D., Ark.), that he resign, the President declined to comment.
Union Carnival To Be Nov. 23
The new date for the annual Union carnival in the Military Science building is Nov. 23, according to Joan Woodward, president. The previous date set was Saturday.
Each organized house may enter a booth and its intention of doing so must be submitted to the Union office by Nov. 18. Judging will be done by the party chaperones on the basis of originality and attractiveness.
Limitations on the size of the booths are not definite yet, she said. Charles Steeper's band will provide music for dancing.
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