KU To Train Army Engineers
Missouri Stannard, Johnson Place for Kansas
BY ALAN HOUGHTON
Takes Big Six Indoor Meet
Kansas City, Mo. — Joe Shy, Missouri, tied the world's indoor 60-year low-hurdle mark of 6.9 seconds, as the Tigers won the Big Six indoor meet here last night. Faculty representatives of the conference voted to continue athletics for 1943-44, but failed to touch upon negro eligibility.
Scoring was as follows: Missouri 56 11-12; Nebraska, 32 7-12; Iowa State, 19 1-4; Kansas State 14 1-4 Klighoma, 5; Kansas. 4
The only double winner of the meet, Al Brown, Nebraska, took the quarter in 51.1 seconds and won the half in 1 minute 9.1 seconds. Howard Debus of Nebraska won the pole vault with a jump of 13 feet, 2.5 inches. Iowa State was victorious in the mile relay, 3 minutes, 28.8 seconds.
Will Command Army Reserves
Vic Schleich, Nebraska, set a new conference indoor record in the shot put with a heave of 50' 5/3" 8". Al Norcross, Iowa State, established a new indoor Big Six broad jump record of 28' 4/3".
Placing for Kansas were Frank Stannard, who took second in the high hurdles and Don Johnson, who placed fourth in the shot put.
Col. William C. Washington has been appointed commandant of the University of Kansas Reserve Officers Training Corps, and professor of military science and tactics Chancellor Deane W. Malott announced today. Col. Washington, who 'reports here from Ft. Eustis, Va., was graduated from Texas A. and M. College in 1912, with a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering.
Col. Washington is a graduate of the Command and General Staff School in 1931, and the advanced course in the Coast Artillery School in 1929. His hobby is golf, although he has participated in football and track.
Daily Kansan
40th YEAR
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28.1943
NUMBER 83
Ten Per Cent Salary Raise Bill Passed
Topeka (INS) — State employees generally are going to get a 10 per cent salary boost for the duration and six months, according to action of the Kansas legislature today.
The House Ways and Means committee has agreed upon a general bill applying to some 5,000 classified employees. Today the Fees and Salaries committee brought in a bill to give the boost to all unclassified employees making less than $2,500 a year.
Today's bill also increased the salary of the secretary of the State Historical Society.
The special senate committee appointed by Lt. Gov. Jess C. Denious to work out a new bill placing labor unions under state control was working on the proposal this afternoon. Members predicted the measure would be prepared and agreed upon early next week.
Next week a drive will be made in both houses to clear calendars of major appropriation measures so that adjournment may be had on the agreed date—March 17.
The Jayhawker magazine will be out at 3 p.m. Tuesday, and students may call for their copies at the WSGA Book Exchange in the Memorial Union building, John Conard, editor, announced yesterday.
Jayhawker To Be Out Tuesday
Some of the articles which will appear in thIs issue are a story on the Naval Reserve entitled "These for Victory," by Alan Houghton; a humorous sketch, "Arabian Nights in a Barroom," by Stan Kreider, with illustrations by Yogi Williams.
The "Yogi Girl," is introduced. She is "Yogi" William's idea of the collegiate girl. A full page is devoted to the "Yogi Girl," and it is something boys in the service will want to hang on their tents," Conard believes.
"Ours for Religion" is a discussion of the School of Religion by Stan Kreider. Stories on men and women's intramurals, and basketball covered by Don Keown are also in this issue.
The Jayhawk Nursery is represented by "They are Jayhawklets Old Bean," an article by Gerry Dick. Pictures taken in England are included with the story.
Choir Concert Tomorrow May Be Last
"Because of the heavy draw on manpower at the University by the call to military service, the A Cappella choir's concert at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening in Hoch auditorium may be its last public concert for the duration of the war." Dean D. M. Swarthout of the School of Fine Arts said yesterday.
The program as announced by Dean Swarthout is: Part I, 16th and 17th century music—"Misericordias Domini" (Durante), "Lovely Month of May" (Jannequin), "Forsake Me Not" (Rosenmueler), and "Haec Dies Quam Fecal" (Pestrina).
The second part, a group of Russian songs, includes "Cherubim Song" (Glinka), "O Praise Ye the Name of the Lord" (Nikolsky), "Where'er I Roam or Linger" (Gretchaninoff), "O Be Joyful, All Ye Lands," (Gretchaninoff). Dr. W Otto Miessner's composition, "Ode to Music" will begin the third part, and it will be followed by "Dedication" (Franz-Cain) and "Song of the Aran Fisherfolk" (Hamblen).
Drives Begin This Week
Drives WSSF Drive To Begin Tuesday
With funds being raised entirely from students and faculty, the WSSF tag drive for $1.000 gets under way on the campus Tuesday, March 2. Organized houses and faculty members will be given a chance to contribute Monday, March 1, and will be given tags to wear during the drive on Tuesday.
Thornton McClanahan, chairman of the drive here, explains that the World Student Service Fund is a fund established to meet the needs of students as students. The organization is enabling many internees in Europe to study and enjoy advantages of recreation during their imprisonment.
In many of the prison camps, professors and students are confined together. In such cases, the fund is enabling the professors to continue to educate the young people.
At Tax Time, Too Checks Cut
Karl Klooz, bursar, announced yesterday that faculty members will receive only half of their salary check tomorrow; the other half they will receive on March 15th.
Hereafter, Klooz said, checks will be available on the 15th of each month and not on the first of each month as has been the custom in the past.
Montana Miners Trapped When Cave-in Occurs
Bear Creek, Mont., (INS)—Eighty miners were trapped today when an explosion rocked the Smith coal mine at Bear Creek.
Red Cross Drive Starts Tomorrow
The American Red Cross membership and war fund drive which will begin officially tomorrow, was off to a flying start with advance contributions totaling nearly $4,500. The quota for Douglas county is $17,150, a sum which is $10,000 more than the last war fund drive in December of 1941.
Dr. F. C. Allen, basketball coach,
is the chairman in charge of the
collection of University contributions.
Because of the greatly increased
amount of the quota over the last
campaign, an advanced gifts committee
has been appointed. This
committee is composed of the following:
Dean Paul B. Lawson,
chairman; Dean D. M. Swarthout,
Dean J. J. Jakosky, H. G. Ingham,
Dr. F. C. Nelson, and Sgt. William
Kollender. This committee has reported
the collection of $321.
Folioonous fumes that filled the mine immediately after the explosion made rescue operations difficult and grave fears were voiced for the safety of the trapped men.
Instruction To Begin March 15
The University has been selected for the advanced army engineering program, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, announced yesterday. The University had received notice from the Seventh Service Command headquarters that it was one of thirteen engineering schools that had been designated for the engineering phase of the army specialized training program, which is expected to get under way about March 15.
Contract negotiations with the schools have not been completed but all have indicated their agreement and acceptance the announcement continued. The schools include Kansas State college.
Student engineering units will number either 400 or 500 men, divided into classes to study the several types of engineering work most useful to the military service. Six hours a week will be devoted to physical conditions, permitting most schools to maintain their physical education staffs under the terms of the war department contracts, the announcement said.
Nichols said that an inspector and an engineer visited the campus about ten days ago and inspected the facilities here.
Former KU Dean Is Found Dead In Pullman Car
Dr. Raymond Asa Kent, 59, president of the University of Louisville, and former dean of the School of Education here was found dead on a Chesapeake & Ohio train on its arrival in Louisville Friday.
Entering upon his professional career as principal of a grade school
at Fountain Minn., in 1904, Dr Kent later became superintendent of the Maple, Lanesborough and Duluth, Minnesota schools and principal of the University High School at the University of Minnesota.
By 1916 Dr. Kent held the dual position of superintendent of schools in Lawrence and professor of education in the University. In 1921 he became dean of the School of Education, and two years later left this position to become dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Northwestern University.
While dean of the School of Education, Dr. Kent was chairman of the Lawrence Board of Religious Education. His attitude toward the place of the teacher in the community is found in an address delivered Feb. 9, 1922, when he said:
"The teacher is a public servant, not merely an individual living to himself. Therefore, if a teacher does not desire to comply with the standards set by the community in which he wishes to teach, he must not complain, but leave the profession."