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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
LAWRENCE KANSAS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2. 1941.
NUMBER 119
38TH YEAR.
HENRY WERNER
... "We'll go ahead with the wing soon."
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Union Wing May Boast Bowling Alley,Dance Floor
By DAVE WHITNEY
A bowling alley and a dance floor in connection with the fountain are two possibilities in the tentative plans for the new $100,000 to $200,-000 north wing of the Memorial Union building, to be built soon, Henry Werner, chairman of the Memorial Union building operating committee, said yesterday.
"We will be going ahead with the new north wing very soon, now that the state legislature has passed the bill giving authorization to finance the plan," Werner said.
Under tentative plans the north wing will be five stories high, will be from one-half to two-thirds the size of the present building, and will cover about 6,000 square feet of ground space.
Many New Facilities
Werner said that some of the facilities included in the new wing may be a bowling alley, a new dance floor, and a new recreation room in the basement; a suite of rooms for the Alumni association, the Faculty club, and the University club on the second floor; a browsing and music room on the main floor; various student organization offices on the fourth floor, including the Kansan, the LS.A., the Women's Pan-Hellenic Association, and the Men's Inter-fraternity Council; and
additional meeting rooms and dining rooms on the fifth floor.
The executive committee of the Memorial Union building is meeting this afternoon to discuss the architectural procedure, and financing to be followed in planning the addition.
Slight Added Assessment
To finance the building, there will be some added assessment to the student activity fee, perhaps $2 or $3 a year, Werner said. In addition,
it is hoped that there will be donations from the alumni and the faculty in return for providing rooms for their organizations.
At present the Memorial Union building fee is $2 a year, one of the lowest in the nation. This fee cannot possibly carry the load of the addition, Werner said, but the increase in fees will be small enough that it will not be a hardship on any student.
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Thief Takes $225 From Five Frat Houses
A chivalrous burglar who was apparently too gallant to enter a sorority house after closing hours, entered and robbed five fraternity houses of approximately $225 between 1:30 and 5 o'clock this morning.
The houses reporting robberies are Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Pi Kappa Alpha, Phi Kappa Psi, Alpha Kappa Psi, and Phi Chi.
In all of the thefts, the burglar gained entrance to the houses by walking through an unlocked door. He apparently made a
Lawrence Votes Airport Improvement
Both Mrs. C. D. Clark, wife of the professor of sociology, and F. A. Russell, professor of civil engineering, were successful in winning offices. Both were unopposed. Mrs. Clark was elected to the school board and Russell to the city council.
The voters of Lawrence overwhelmingly approved both the $15,000 bond issue for improvements at the municipal airport, and the $20,000 bond issue for paving south Massachusetts street at a quiet city election yesterday.
Passage of the airport bond issue nearly assures continuance of the advanced flight training now offered by the C.A.A. at the airport. C.A.A. officials had ordered improvement (continued to page eight)
systematic search of each room,
taking only bills and change.
Sig. Alphs, Leng. $185
Sig Alphs Lose $125
Heaviest loser was the Sig Alph house where $125 was taken.
Members and the amount they lost are Bill Leo, college freshman, $60; Tom Thompson, college sophomore, $18; Robert Forgy, business junior, $18; and Keny Hamilton, college senior, $5. Smaller losses were suffered by other members.
Approximately $20 was lifted at Pi Kappa Alpha, where Bill Mathews, sophomore engineer, lost $7, Walter Needels, college senior, $8; and Joe Crawford, college freshman, $2. Other men lost smaller amounts.
Small Loss for Psi
More than $14 was taken at Phi Kappa Psi where Bob Brown, college junior, lost $13 and Jack Singleton, college freshman, lost some change.
The chivalrous thief took nearly $50 at Alpha Kappa Psi, professional commerce fraternity, where Carl Barben, special student, lost $7 and 13 others only lost smaller amounts.
Phi Chi, professional medical fraternity, was robbed of $12 with Le- (continued to page eight)
Butler, Kiehl Receive Scholarships
Carter Butler, college senior who is a political science major, has been awarded a two year fellowship in public administration at the University of Minnesota, Walter E. Sandelius, professor of political science, was advised yesterday.
Otto Kiehl, also a senior in the (continued to page eight)
Pass Deadline In Essay Contest
When the door of Chancellor Deane W. Malott's office closed yesterday afternoon, it closed on all tentative outlines of essays to be entered in the Hattie Elizabeth Lewis essay contest.
Yesterday was the closing date or the annual competition in essay (continued to page eight)
Bobcats Are Hepcats Dixie Jazz
The band with a distinctive style of its own—that's Bob Crosby's Dixieland Swing Band which will give out at the Junior Prom Monday night.
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This style, which was given to the band by four of the members from New Orleans, is a take-off from the old, original Dixieland jazz band style. It emphasizes a relaxed "drop tempo" rhythm which is best described as the rebirth and streamlining of the original New Orleans music.
The Dixieland jazz is the contribution of the "Bobcats," the "band within a band." Featured with the "Bobcats" are three members of music trade magazine Metronome's all-star swing band-Jess Stacy, pi-
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BOB CROSBY
. . emphasizes "drop tempo."
Flora's Prediction Rings the Bell; Dandelion Day Dampness Arrives
Today's the day we don't pull dandelions.
Today there are only a scattered few dandelions blooming on the campus. Lots of people predicted that the little weeds wouldn't cooperate.
Today the ground is wet from rain, and the sky is cloudy. Federal Meteorologist S. D. Flora predicted it would be that way.
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Wright's Prediction Right
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Last Sunday Charles Wright, dandelion field marshal, predicted that the predictions would all come true, and he postponed Dandelion Day for obvious reasons. Postponed until April 23.
Postponed but not cancelled. The Dandelion Day program is being retained, revised, and transplanted to the new date. More carnival concessions are being planned, Wright says.
BILL BEVEN AND MARGARET BUTLER
... they'd have looked like this at noon today,
    if Dandelion Day hadn't been postponed.
Newsreel companies now can give us more definite assurance of movie coverage for the event. Life and Look magazines can arrange more easily the schedules of their photographers to allow them to be on Mount Oread for the day.
The prizes of theater tickets and ice cream will keep until April 23, and perhaps additional contributions will make possible second and third prizes.
Students will have their fortunes told, all right. They will play Bingo, shoot rifles on the ranges, and dance in the street-on April 23.