University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Tuesday, October 15, 1946
44th Year No.16
Lawrence, Kansas
I.S.A. To Give Undergraduate Scholarship
Plans for an I.S.A. sponsored undergraduate scholarship were approved in a meeting of the I.S.A. council Monday night. As decided in the evening session, an award of $50 will be made to some independent student once each semester on the basis of scholastic standing and financial need. The new scholarship will be put in operation immediately.
"Although the award is open to any independent KU student," Lorraine Carpenter, I.S.A. president said, "it is specially designed to aid a beginning freshman." Kansas high school students will be notified of the scholarship through the Registrar's office. In the case of entering freshman, high school grades, personal interviews and recommendations will be considered in the selections.
Application blanks for the scholarship are now available, to students at the dean of student affairs office, 228, Frank Strong hall. These blanks should be returned to this office as soon as they are completed. The deadline for scholarship applications is October 25. Selections for the award will be made by the University Scholarship committee with the assistance of the I.S.A. award committee composed of Edward Swain, Kristine Moe, and Shirley Wellborn.
K.U. Band Is Ready For Homecoming
Plans for the participation of the 118-piece University marching band at Saturday afternoon's Homecoming game are nearing completion, Russell L. Wiley, band director and chairman of the between halves committee, said today.
The University of Nebraska band, under the direction of Donald Lentz, will be heart during the first six minutes of the half-time. The remainder of the time will be given to the queen crowning ceremony and special formations by the K. U. band. Mr. Wilev pointed out.
As has been done in some years past, the band will go into a huge heart formation covering almost the entire field. The band will strike up the ever popular "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" as the queen is paraded by car around the stadium. Alighting from the car and entering the heart, the queen will proceed to the center of the figure and be awarded the customary honors.
Because of the shortage of cloth, the band Saturday will be minus a few uniforms, but as soon as cloth is again available the entire organization will be fitted in full dress, Mr. Wiley stated.
Quonset Study Hall Is Near Completion
Contractors have completed construction of the quonset hut study hall located north of Frank Strong hall, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, said today.
Lighting and heating fixtures have not yet been installed but some furniture has been moved into the building, he said.
By Bibler
Work continues on the combination laboratory-classroom quosset and being constructed adjacent to the aeronautical engineering building.
Classes 'As Usual'
No classes will be dismissed Saturday because of Homecoming day, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, said today.
Little Man On Campus
"Before the semester is over, we hope to take you through calculus."
Committee Plans To Promote Pep
A campaign to improve the quality of student pep at athletic events was launched by the traditions committee of the All-Student Council at a meeting Friday in the Pine room of the Union.
The committee decided:
To add to the attention-catching ability of the cheer leaders by the use of an effective public address system and the addition of tumbling acts:
To call for faster marches from the University band;
To request the use of Hoch auditorium for a daytime rally before each home game, primarily to teach yells to new students; and
To ask for A.S.C. action to increase the number of cheerleaders and to impose restrictions on cheerleaders who do not attend required practices and other events.
As a special preparation for the Homecoming game, the committee decided to substitute a "pom-pom" stunt for the card display stunt which was presented at the Wichita game.
The "pom-poms," which have the general appearance of feather-dusters, are to be home-made by fastening strips of red and blue crepe paper to one end of a short stick.
To insure uniformity, the committee has suggested the strips, 25 red and 25 blue ones, be 18 inches long and one inch wide. The stick is to be about one foot long.
All organized women's houses will be asked to provide a "pom-pom" for each member, the committee decided.
Prospective cheerleaders will be expected to know three yells, "Rock Chalk," "Kansas Fights," and "Spell Out Kansas." The tryouts.
The names of eighteen candidates for alternate cheerleader were taken by the committee at the Friday meeting. The time of the final tryouts was set tentatively at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
The "pon-poms" will be used to keep time with music. They will be waved high for two beats, and then kept out of sight for the next two.
Governor To See Game
Gov. Andrew F. Schoeppel is expected to attend the K.U. Nebraska football game Saturday, the chancellor's office has announced.
240 Persons Take Influenza Vaccine
Influenza vaccinations were given to 240 persons Monday afternoon at Watkins hospital.
This protective service, free to students, is another of many measures taken to prevent disease due to overcrowded housing conditions. Serum will be given from 1 to 5 p.m. each day until Friday.
Dr. Canuteson warns that the vaccination does not protect the inoculant from the common cold, and ordinary protective measures must be maintained.
The vaccination will take effect within two weeks and last up to six months. Some of those inoculated will suffer from after-effects for several hours, but the symptoms should disappear overnight, authorities said.
For faculty members and staff workers, the fee for vaccination is one dollar.
Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women, will speak at the Y.W.C.A. meeting at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas room of the Union. Her subject will be "Education-For What?"
Dean W.II Speak To Y.W.C.A. Tomorrow
Miss Habein will tell what she considers are the qualities of an educated woman, and how those qualities may be obtained.
After the speech the Y.W.C.A. will elect a treasurer to fill the position left vacant by Jean Francisco. All University women are invited to attend the meeting.
Student Directory Staff Begins Work
Work on the student directory will begin immediately, Ann Alexander, editor, announced today.
Although the large list of students will delay publication, work on the organizations section will start to day.
The large enrollment will hold up the publication until the middle of November, Miss Alexander said.
Meat Controls Off Officially
Meat supply of the Union cafeteria and dormitories will not be altered by the dropping of O.P.A. ceilings for at least a week, Miss Libuse Kriz, dietician, said today. The cafeteria's meat supply has already been ordered a week in advance.
Meat ceilings went off today at the opening of your nearest butcher shop. Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson today signed an order formalizing President Truman's decision to take price controls off meat.
Mr. Truman announced the freeing of meat and the decontrol speed-up in a radio address last night. He said congress had given him a law so feeble he could not make it work.
"The cafeteria has been getting a 'fair' supply under the circumstances," Miss Kriz reported today.
(By United Press)
Flour and related products such as bread, and radios, electric irons and coffee are expected to be among the first to be decontrolled under Mr. Truman's speedup. Dairy products already are free of ceilings, and Mr. Truman's action left little prospect that they would be recontrolled.
Republican party leaders welcomed the action but hinted that it was a pre-election "trick" to gain Democratic votes by ending the meat famine.
Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O., singled out by Mr. Truman as one of the leading opponents of controls, termed the decision "just what I've been urging all along."
The various spokesmen differed, however, on the effect the removal of meat price controls would have on the economy as a whole, with labor officials, for the most part, prophesying a race toward inflation, and industry leaders complaining that the action "didn't go far enough."
National Republican Chairman Carroll Reece said that the action should have been taken "months ago," and observed that "it is like locking the barn after the horse has been taken to the butcher shop."
Jack Kroll, national director of the CIO's Political Action committee, expressed disappointment over the decontol of meat but implied that his organization would continue to support the administration.
At least two AFL unions, however, heralded the action and demanded an early end to wage controls as well.
Lift Restrictions To Solve Housing Problem, Representative Scrivner Says
By lifting restrictions and controls on the production of building material, the country's housing shortage can be solved within a year. Rep. E. P. Scrivner, congressman from the second district on a tour of the campus, predicted today.
An alumnus of the University, Representative Scrivner was graduated from the School of Law in 1925.
"I am here to breathe in the atmosphere of Mt. Oread and attend my first Homecoming in many years," Representative Scriven said.
Congressman Serviren's tour of the campus was conducted by Ogden S. Jones, University staff geologist, and he visited several offices on the Hill, including that of Chancellor Deane W. Malott. The chancellor thought him for his "efforts in K.U.'s behalf during the war."
Representative Scrivener was a member of the House sub-committee on veterans legislation and is a veteran of World War I.
Basketball Team To Give Preview Friday Night
An intra-squad basketball game, in which Coach Forrest C. "Phog" Allen will present a preview of the biggest basketball team in the history of the University, will be a Homecoming feature Friday at 8:15 p.m. in Hoch auditorium the Homecoming committee announced today.
Friday's festivities will get under way at 3 p.m. with the opening of registration in the Union building. Alumni will register there by classes. At 7:30 p.m. alumni and students alike will take part in the parade of floats from South Park to the WREN radio building. In front of WREN, a rally will be held.
After the intra-squad basketball game, which will be highlighted with between-half skits, the Freshman Frolic will be held in the Military Science building at 10 p.m. Ted Weems and his orchestra will play.
Registration of returning alumni will continue all Saturday morning at the Union, starting at 9 a.m. At 11 a.m., the curtain will come up on the "hullabalo," a program of all Homecomers in Hoch auditorium.
The first official event Saturday will be the coffee and doughnut dance with singing waiters in the Union. Jimmy Holyfield will play, at the same time, at the "Howdy Hop" in the Kansas room. Adjoining rooms will be available for dancing through the use of a transmission system to carry the music.
The lack of lodging facilities was expected to keep many old grads from arriving Friday, but the announcement of the intra-squad basketball game Friday night may change that.
Playing for the lettermen will be four former starters—Charlie Black, Wendell Clark, Owen Peck, and Gib Stramel.
Other members of the letterman team will be Ray Frisby, Dean Corder, Homer Sherwood, Sparky McSpadden, Herb Heim, Don Auten, and Jordon Haines.
Coach Allen lists six non-lettermen, coached for the game by Howard Engleman, as leading threats. They are Ted Bean, Van Cittens, Bill Sapp, Sonny Enns, Harold England, Albert Lukken, and Jack Winter.
Other non-lettermen playing will be Jack Eskridge, Kenny Thompson, Alfred Apitz, Dick Ashley, Larry Bates, and Larry Kennedy.
One of the leaders of the prebasketball game rally will be Sandy Windsor, president of the alumni association, who was a former head cheerleader at the University.
The I.S.A. council, at a meeting Monday night, discussed a Halloween party to be held Oct. 25, in the Military Science building. Kass Kassinger and his band will play for the informal party which will feature games, dancing, and other entertainment. Masks are to be worn throughout the evening. Admission will be free to I.S.A. members on presentation of membership cards and to non-members, $1 per couple. Mr. and Mrs. C. Hess Hagen.
I.S.A. Party Will Be Oct.25
Final topic of the meeting was the distribution of Kan-Do, the I.S.A. newspaper which will be issued Friday. Possibilities of mailing the issue to independent-at-large members was considered.
WEATHER
Kansas — Mostly cloudy today, light showers and cooler in northwest half late this afternoon and over most of state tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight in upper 30's in northwest to 50 in southeast.