SORORITIES Submit your candidates for LIFE magazine's Valentine Queen contest today.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1940
WEATHER
Continued mild weather is expected for Lawrence tomorrow. No break in the high temperature is seen before Sunday.
38TH YEAR.
Z-229
NUMBER 68.
Roosevelt OK's Application For Military Science Building
Still Hold Hopes For Minerals Project
Ratner Fails to Ask For Appropriation
Despite Gov. Payne Ratner's failure yesterday to include a recommendation for an appropriation for the proposed Mineral Industry building here in his 1941-43 budget, University officials, the Board of Regents, and students have not lost hopes for obtaining the building.
10-Year Building Program
According to reports, Fred M. Harris, Ottawa, chairman of the Board, said the removal of the building from the governor's budget recommendations is not a final verdict against the building.
This building topped the list of requests submitted to the governor by the Chancellor in his recent biennial report.
10-Year Building Program Although no new buildings for state educational institutions were recommended by the governor, it is
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Sororities and organized houses were busy green-eyeing the Valentine Queen's crown today as they met all over the Hill to choose candidates for next Thursday's election.
Houses were working fast to get their candidates under the Saturday noon deadline set by the contest committee set up by the Men's Student Council and the Daily Kansan, contest sponsors.
Chi Omega, whose machine ran rough-shod over opposition in last spring's world premiere popularity contest, indicated another strong bid for queen's honors. Meeting after lunch today, the Chi O's chose Mary Kay Brown, college sophomore, to represent them in the race. Miss Brown is the first candidates to be announced.
Close behind was Margaret Anne Summers, education freshman, who was announced by Sigma Kappa today.
Ballots and pictures of each girl will be printed in the Kansan. From there on the election will be up to the males, theoretically, as only men will be allowed to cast ballots in Thursday's polling.
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Kaleidoscope: Bustle Chief Clinic Feature
In the midst of visiting supervisors wanting to say hello, staff men asking questions, bands and orchestras giving out with more A's than any Summerfield ever thought of, Russell L. Wiley clinic chairman, took time out from running the three-ring-an-hour, clinic today to say that the whole noisy thing was going off on schedule, and that he is very $ ^{2} $
pleased with things so far.
Registration had reached over 125 by 10 o'clock this morning, and Wiley said that they were continuing to come in. Another 125 is expected by 3 this afternoon.
Concert At 8 Tonight
The band and orchestra gave a three hour reading session last night in Hoch auditorium, with the crowd clamoring for more until the band had read through 14 numbers.
The biggest doings today are the supervisors dinner at 5:45 in the Union ballroom, and the gala concert at 8 this evening in Hoch auditorium. Wiley promises surprises for the dinner. The man at the gate will demand 65 cents plus tax.
The big concert this evening will be, for most of the visitors and students, the big gun in the musical bombardment. The band, orchestra, and a cappella choir will, under Wiley, Karl O. Kuersteiner, and Dean D. M. Swarthout, vie for the most applause in the only feature of the clinic open to the student body on activity tickets.
Balding, plump, Vincent Bach
(almost in Paris)
175 Educators Here For Meet
Kansas educators who will attend tomorrows' education conference on the campus will be officially greeted by Chancellor Deane W. Malott. He will speak to them in the Memorial Union ballroom tomorrow morning at 9 a.m.
This year's conference, which is expected to draw about 175 Kansas teachers, will have as its theme "Guidance and Counseling Program in the Secondary Schools."
Among these speakers will be Mr. Armin Soph, vice-principal of Atchison high school, Dr. Harold C. Hunt, superintendent of schools, Kansas City, Mo., nad W. S. Davison, dean of Ft. Scott junior college.
W. T. Markham, state supervisor of occupational information and guidance, will summarize the conference at the end of the day, and draw conclusions from the discussions of the speakers at the meeting.
Rout 'Flu' Virus---
More Than 400 Students Take Influenza Vaccine
Four hundred and forty inoculations for influenza were given at Watkins Memorial hospital up to yesterday evening. The hospital now has 45 patients, 27 of which are influenza victims, Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, diretcor of the health service, announced this noon.
The influenza vaccine was recently developed by the Rockefeller Institute. The University is one of two universities selected to determine the effectiveness of the vaccine. Volunteers are members of sororities, fraternities, and other organizations. Hall of each organization works as a control group, and the other half takes the inoculation. Persons outside of organizations may take the vaccine as long as it holds out.
Medical authorities hailed the accidental discovery of the new vaccine yesterday as "one of the most promising practical leads in research of recent decades."
The discoverers of the vaccine Dr. F. L. Horsfall, jr., and Dr. E. H. Lennette of the Rockefeller Foundation, found later that it stimulates the development of immunity against several types of organisms.
The Journal of the American Medical Association states that the accidental discovery occurred about a year ago. Several ferrets inoculated with human "flu" virus developed distemper, and animal disease also. Vaccine to prevent distemper
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Court Still Works On Huge Docket
A midnight session of the Student Supreme Court last night was not quite enough to finish up the 119 parking violation cases which were heard by the court yesterday afternoon in the first session of the school year.
Most of the testimony has been received and the majority of the cases have been adjudged, but the court will not publish the decisions until the complete docket is finished.
Assessments in fines ranging from $1 to $48 are charged against the various defendants, and the court intends to spend part of this weekend investigating licenses and ownerships of cars.
Freshman Undergoes Operation
Theodore Young, college freshman, underwent an appendectomy at Watkins Memorial hospital just before noon today.
$18,000 From Local Source Now Needed
President Roosevelt has signed the WPA application to furnish federal funds for the proposed $125,000 Military Science building on the south side of the campus, it was learned from unofficial sources today.
With the signing of the WPA application by the President, the state architect now can begin work on detailed plans for the building.
Total estimated cost of the building is $125,000, with about $18,000 of this amount required to be raised locally. Upon the University's ability to raise this amount now depends the fate of the structure which four schools have sought. Efforts now are being made here to raise this amount, besides supplying stone for the structure, equipment, and supervision of construction.
Colonel Karl F. Baldwin was in Washington the latter part of December conferring with officials on the prospects for the new building which would give R.O.T.C. units more space than a section of Fowler shops.
A musicale will be presented over KFKU at 6 o'clock tonight by five fine arts students.
Preliminary plans call for the construction of a two-story limestone building by the WPA, using both WPA funds and an allotment from National Defense funds. This building would be a part of the new National Defense program.
The proposed site for the building is about 100 yards southwest of Hoch auditorium.
Five Students To Give Musicale On KFKU Tonight
Eugene Ninger, fine arts junior, will begin the program with a violin solo. "Finale from Concerto in C minor" (Mendelssohn).
This will be followed by four vocal numbers by Mary Louise Belcher, fine arts freshman, with Lois Worrel, fine arts junior, as her accompanist. She will sing "Lilacs" (Wragg), "Shoes" (Manning), "Were My Song With Wings Provided" (Hohn), and "My Johann" (Grieg).
An ensemble will close the program. Donald Michel, fine arts junior, violin, Eugene Ninering, fine arts junior, violin, and Eltrude Elliott, fine arts senior, piano, will play "Sonata for Two Violins and Piano" (Corelli).