SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Official Summer Session Publication of the University of Kansas
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1943
VOLUME XXXI
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WEC Changes Closing Hours For Five Weeks
Closing hours for University women during the five week session were set by the Women's Executive Committee to the All-Student Council at a meeting Tuesday.
The new closing hours are 10:30 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday; 11 p.m. on Sunday and Wednesday; 12 o'clock on Friday night; and 12:45 o'clock on Saturday night. The committee also decided that closing hours on the nights during registration and enrollment and on nights preceding and ending vacations will be 12 o'clock.
As a result of a poll recently conducted among University women, the committee found that the 1 a.m. hours on Friday and Saturday nights were not favored among many of the women. Because there will be classes on Saturday this fall, authorized student activities will not take place on Friday nights, and there is no need for the later hour then, according to Doris Larson, president of the WEC.
"The Saturday night closing hour was set at 12:45 o'clock instead of 1 am." she stated, "to enable the men in the armed services on our campus to reach their barracks by 1 o'clock after leaving the women."
Miss Larson said that the 11 o'clock hour on Wednesday night will be tried out during the five week session to find if the later hour is as successful during the fall as it has been this summer. She explained that there has been some objection to the 11 o'clock hour on a school night in connection with causing the grade average to go down.
Theater Tickets To Purchasers In Bond Drive
Free tickets to the premier showing of "So Proudly We Hail" at the Jayhawker theater September 9 will be available this afternoon at all authorized war bond agencies in Lawrence, according to Stan Schwahn, manager of the theatre. One free guest ticket will be given to every purchaser of a bond in the third war bond campaign in Douglas County, he said.
The showing will be a contribution of the Jayhawker management and Paramount Pictures, Inc., which will not charge any rental on the film. All expenses of the showing will be borne by the local theater, Schwen said.
All attendance at the theater on the opening day will be limited to bond purchases or persons who have signed bond purchase pledges, and special souvenir tickets are to be used.
Two showings of the picture will be given on the ninth, a matinee at (continued to page four)
200 A-12's Express Interest In YMCA
Letters to A-12 men at the University were sent out this week by the YMCA office, asking them if they cared to join the Y.
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Those wishing membership were asked to answer indicating their choice of joining. According to a statement issued from the Y office, some 200 A-12 men have already come to the office and expressed a desire to belong to the organization.
The show consists of a variety of novelty acts headed by Bonnie King, stated Schwahn. Miss King was featured on the Al Pearce Camel cigarette show and has just completed a year as featured vocalist on Bob Crosby's "Dixieland Music Shop."
Stage Show Signed For Service Party
Highlighting the service men's party at the Community building tomorrow evening will be a stage show from the KMBC artists' bureau of Kansas City, according to Stan Schwahn, manager of the Lawrence theatres and in charge of entertainment for the Saturday night affair.
Music for the program will be furnished by the KMBC "Rhythm Riders," a nine piece ensemble which plays western, hillbilly, and swing arrangements, according to Schwahn. Nelson Thomasson will do hand-balancing feats and a variety of acrobatic tricks. Rounding out the evening's entertainment will be Nadeen Hayworth, who will do special and tap dancing. Al Phillips will be master of ceremonies.
Graduate Killed In Sicilian Campaign
Lieut. George R. Koehler, 22-year-old son of Col. George R. Koehler of New Brunswick, N.J., has been killed in Sicily according to word received from his father Tuesday by Mrs. Delon A. Williams of Kansas City, Mo.
Koehler, a first lieutenant, was killed five days after the Allied landings in the Mediterranean area.
He had been awarded the Silver Star for meritorious service in the Tunisian campaign and had received the Order of the Purple Heart after he was wounded last February.
Lieut. Koehler attended Wentworth Military Academy and the School of Engineering here at K.U., where he was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity.
He studied an advanced R.O.T.C. course at Rutgers in 1942, receiving his second lieutenant's commission that year. After his officer's training at Ft. Benning, Ga., he was sent to England and then to North Africa.
Professor Loren Eiseley of the department of sociology will speak on "Racial Origins and the Problem of Modern Races," at the Unitarian Church Sunday morning. Professor Eiseley will be introduced by Bob Stuart, University freshman. The program is in charge of Alex Roth graduate.
Eiseley to Speak
Buhl Announced Navy Promotions At Happy Hour
A rousing cheer filled the air in Hoch last night when Herbie Price and his band opened the Navy Happy Hour by playing the "Star Spangled Banner." Dorothy Mae Nelson, graduate of the School of Fine Arts in 1943, assisted by the Navy chorus of ten voices, led the singing.
The first feature of the program was the official notification of promotions by Lt. A. H. Buhl, Commanding Officer. The following men were promoted: Harry H. Wilson, Yeoman, first class to chief yeoman; Dawson Alexander, machinist mate; first class to chief machinist mate; Dallas Harvey, pharmacist mate, first class to chief-pharmacist mate Charles Kaeser, carpenter's mate, second class to carpenter's mate first class.
Alexander Fahl, hospital apprentice,
first class to pharmacist mate
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V-12's May Play In School Band Wiley Indicates
"The final details will have to be worked out with the commanding officers, of course," he stated. "Several of the boys have come in to ask about having a band," Mr. Wiley added, "and the University is willing to furnish equipment to the boys in setting it up."
Plans are being formed, according to Prof. Russell L. Wiley, to work out a system whereby V-12 men can play in the University band.
"Most of the V-12's have their own instruments, and uniforms will be the regular Navy attire."
Mr. Wiley said he would be pleased if the V-12 men could play with the regular University band, but he indicated that two separate organizations would have to be set up because of the Navy's full curriculum. If, however, the two rehearsals each week could fit into the Navy schedule, this plan might work out.
"In case there are two bands," he went on, "I think the V-12 personnel will be approximately 50. I hope to have at least 75 or 100 men and women in the regular University band. Tryouts for both bands will be held at the same time soon after the five-week session begins.
"It is open for speculation that the V-12 men may play at the football games. The commanding officers said they hoped the band could be used on the Navy Happy Hour program," Mr. Wiley commented.
Tuesday's issue will be the last of the Summer Session Kansan. Any notices or news items should be in before noon Monday.
Injured Boy To Be In Bed a Month
John Elvig, 10-year-old boy who has been in Lawrence Memorial hospital since August 20, was taken home Wednesday afternoon. He will be confined in bed at home for at least a month, according to his mother, Mrs. F. H. Elvig, 1511 Strattford road.
John suffered severe injuries to his left leg when struck by a truck near Lindley hall.
Robert Burchett, driver of the truck which hit John, was fined $15 in police court Monday morning on charges of reckless driving.
Thirteen Passed English Proficiency
Those who passed the examination are Ethel M. Green, Katharine Ann Hall, Norma Ashlock Hardman, George Hiatt, Erwin Janzon, Effis Lee, Phyllis Martin, Louis McCormick, Juanita Riedel. Mary R Steele, Roland D. Stucky, Marjorie Swarts, and Phyllis Wickert.
All students enrolled in the College must pass this examination and afterwards complete 24 hours of credit before being eligible for graduation. Professor Virtue said that the next proficiency examinations will be given Oct. 9 and Nov. 20.
Thirteen students passed the proficiency examination in English composition which was given August 7, according to an announcement by Prof. John B. Virtue of the English department.
Chandler Announces Teacher Placements
The following placements have been made by the Teacher Placement Bureau according to H. E Chandler, director of the bureau:
Patti M. Myers, BME, 1941, teacher of music in the Roosevelt schools at Phoenix, Ariz.; Delma Oyler, AB, 1941, teacher of Spanish in Bonner Springs high school; Monte Robbins, AB, 1940, teacher of social science in Eudora high school.
Jobelle Anderson, AB, 1943,
teacher of home economics in Lebanon high school; Betty Roberts, BME, 1943, teacher of music in Winchester high school; Evelyn Taylor, AB, 1943, teacher of English in Linwood high school; and Mary Ann Berthelson, undergraduate, teacher of history and chemistry in Tescott high school.
Graduate Was Guest Of Prof. Hopkins
Paul R. Snider, announcer for the WGN Mutual network, and Mrs. Snider of Chicago, were Wednesday guests of Mr. Snider's former instructor, Dr. Edwin M. Hopkins, retired professor of English.
Mr. Snider was graduated from the University in 1933, and two years later received his master's degree from the English department here.
He was honorably discharged Aug.
24 from the armed forces at Fort
Jackson, S.C., and will resume his
work with WGN at Chicago.
New Building To Be Done By Nov. First
Exterior construction work on the new military science building at the University, which represents an investment of approximately $235,000, has been completed, and the interior work is expected to be completed a few days ahead of the contract deadline—November 1, Basil Green, Lawrence contractor, said yesterday.
The project, which was launched in the spring of 1941, has been a combined University, State, and Federal affair. In order to secure the assistance of the Federal Government in financing the building, it was necessary for the University to put up $25,000 in cash, which was secured through individual donations. When this requirement was met, the Government appropriated $142,709, largely in NYA labor. The state legislature appropriated the $69,000 necessary to complete the structure.
Work on the building, which had been going on for nearly two years, was suspended in February, 1943, with the dissolution by the government of the NYA. When the state appropriation became available, the contract for completion was let to Green who started work in July this year.
Green said this morning that painting and floor laying constitu- (continued to page four)
A trip to the Tri-State area to inspect the zinc, lead, and coal mines was made by Prof. Tell Ertl of the department of mining engineering last week-end. This area, made up of southeastern Kansas, southwestern Missouri, and northeastern Oklahoma, has the biggest zinc district in the world. A new zinc field is now being opened up southwest of Melrose, Kansas.
Steam Shovels Take Attention Of Professor
Professor Ertl's greatest interest was in the huge shovels used in the coal mining. Two of these are used for removing the over-burden in the fields near Cherokee, Kan.
"These shovels are higher than a four-story building and have a boom of 200 ft. The dipers are big enough for a truck to drive into them and capable of holding 45 tens. Four caterpillar tractors form the foundation for the shovel. They're the biggest equipment for coal stripping in the world. With them 10 to 20 acres of coal are stripped each month. You have to remove 53 feet of the over-burden to mine 22 inches of coal. One of these shovels costs about $200,000," said Professor Ertl.
American ingenuity has developed these shovels so that the coal car be mined at a profit of one-tenth of
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