FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1943
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Reserve Call Makes Cage Status Shaky
Rumblings of calls of the Army Enlisted Reserve threaten to take several members of Coach Phog Allen's basketball squad.
Of 15 men on the squad, 14 are enlisted in reserves. John Buescher has been rejected by the army because of physical defects. Eight are in the Army Enlisted Reserve where calls to active duty will be made during the semester. The "luck of the draw" will determine whether Jayhawk cagers are called during the basketball season or after its close.
Members of the Iron Five subject to immediate Army call are Ray Evans, Armand Dixon and Otto Schnellbacher. The top two replacements for the first quintet are Bill Brill and Jack Ballard and they, as well as lettermen Bob Fitzpatrick, Don Blair and George Dick, are liable to be called at any time.
Coach Phog Allen has asked several outstanding freshman cagers to report to help furnish opposition to the varsity if some cagers are called. The frosh will also go through a six-week preparatory course in the Allen system before becoming eligible for Big Six competition March 1.
The Navy has four cagers: Paul Turner, Max Kissell, Bill Forsyth and McSpadden. Charlie Black and John Short are in the Army Air Corps.
ADD SOCIETY-dinner guests yesterday were Miss Maude Elliott and her mother, Mrs. Sam Elliott.
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PHI GAMMA DELTA . . .
. . . guest this week is Guy Barton of Union college, Pa.
... has received news of the engagement of one of its members, Aviation Cadet Vincent Tharp, now of the engineering department of the Army air corp at Yale University, to Rosemary Utz, of Atchinson.
Tharp was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and was graduated from the School of Engineering in 1942; Miss Utz attended Mt. Saint Scholastica, Atchinson. The wedding will be in February.
ALPHA CHI SIGMA . . .
... officers elected recently are president, Jay Stewart; vice-president, Warren Lowen; master of ceremonies, Raymond Thompson; treasurer, Robert Slocombe; reporter, Henry Holtzelaw; assistant reporter, Archer Wilcox; and recorder, Richard Walje.
MILLER HALL ..
... dinner guests this evening are George Carroll, a student at Kansas State; and Donald Thompson, McPherson.
'Allie' Alligator
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Lives In Dyche
In a wire cage equipped with a water trough lives "Allie" the alligator, on the third floor of Dyche museum. "Allie" was brought to the University about six years ago from Florida, and is one of the few live exhibits in the museum.
"Allie" is, at present $5\frac{1}{2}$ feet long,
and if fed properly, she should grow one foot a year. When brought to the museum, the alligator was only eight inches long.
The cost of keeping "Allie" is very little, because she is fed only in the spring and summer. Her diet consists of meat, principally turtles, snakes, and birds.
During the summer months, "Allie" is taken to Green's lake where she is on display for spectators. Each winter she is brought back to her wire cage in Dyche.
FRIENDS A NECESSITY---
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dent with whom you are not well
acquainted calls you by name when
he passes you on the street?
Have you participated in private clubs, hill organizations, volunteer work, or church organizations laterly? Have you made a real attempt to meet new people during the past year? Have you been especially nice to elderly people? And do you join in any community doings, such as lectures, concerts, and charity drives?
Be Bold—Take the First Step
Don't be afraid. Try it. You may be surprised.
Man being a gregarious individual, years for company. But in order to make friends and keep them, you must make the first approach. Don't worry about the response from the other fellow. As soon as he knows you are interested, he will instantly return your friendliness.
Draft Board Cards Must Be Carried By Registrants
Beginning February 1, all persons between 18 and 45 who have been vulnerable to the Selective Service Act for six months or more must carry on their persons their classification card (Form No. 57) and their registration certificate (Form No. 2) to show that they are in good standing with their local board. Those who cannot produce them will be subject to fine or imprisonment or both, the Office of War Information said today in a last minute reminder.
Topeka Visitors See Legislative Power
Topeka (INS) — Kansas Day visitors at the House of Representatives today saw a demonstration of the power of the Kansas "dry" organization. Immediately after the House convened for today's session, made short for Kansas Day festivities, more than 80 petitions, containing over 3,000 names, were read to the legislators.
Congressman Ed Rees, Emporia, in town for the celebration, made a short address before the House.
A bill was introduced into the House providing that teachers in state colleges and universities may participate in the state teacher's retirement plan.
Committee at Work
A committee charged with returning students to Universities after the war, met Jan. 18, and is now functioning.
Small Colleges Imperiled
A congressional investigation to ascertain how small colleges may be kept alive during wartime draft drainage, has been started.
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'Old Sacramento' Cannon On Display In Library
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In the very building in which hundreds of students go daily —Watson library—lies "Old Sacramento," the cannon that fired the first shot in the struggle to make Kansas a free state before the Civil War.
Few persons realize that the Lawrence room in the northwest corner of the top floor of the library contains this shattered relic of the day when the;
Few persons realize that the Lawrence ro west corner of the top floor of the library co tered relic of the day when the state gained the title of "Bleeding Kansas" to the rest of the nation.
Cast from the bells of a Mexican church and placed in a Mexican fortification known as Sacramento near Chilhuahua, the cannon was captured by Col. Alexander Doniphan and his 1,000 Missouri volunteers when they routed 5,000 Mexicans from the fort. It thereupon gained its name from the fort.
Cast From Church Bells
Brought up the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, the cannon was kept in Western Missouri, and when the pro-salvency group under Sheriff Jones raided Lawrence, it was used to bombard the town hotel on the site of the present Eldridge hotel. The cannon was stationed on Mt. Oread and history records that it did very little damage to the hotel because of poor marksmanship. Recovered by Free-Staters
The anti-slavery forces got possession of the cannon when they attacked Fort Franklin after the murder of a Lawrence military officer. They found the instrument disguised as a dress model bearing a hat, veil and gown.
Recovered by Free-Staters
Brought to Lawrence, it was in later years fired in celebration of the Fourth of July, but on one occasion it was loaded too heavily and it exploded.
Now the more wreckage of its former self "Old Sacramento" is on display to the public as Miss Mary M. Smelzer, substituting for Miss Watson, explains to visitors today the significance of the exhibit.
Fine Arts Students Give Music Recital
Seven students from the School of Fine Arts took part in a student recital yesterday in Fraser theater.
Piano numbers were Rachmaniov's "Elegie" played by Ellen Utley, and Mendelsohn's "Variations Serieuses" played by Martha Dooley. Elaine Talley sang "La Capinera" (The Wren) by Benedict. The first movement of Tschaikowsky's Concerto was played on the violin by James Lerch.
The Andante from Brahms "Double Concerto in A Minor" was played by an ensemble of Ruth Vandenberg, violin; John Ehrick, cello; and Max Hughes, piano.
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