Daily hansan
Tuesday, March 8, 1960
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LAWRENCE. KANSAS
57th Year. No.98
CURTAIN TIME NEARS
. . . for "The Ballad of Baby Doe."
KU-K-State Playoff Tickets Go on Sale
Students with KU I.D. cards may purchase tickets for $1 today through 3 p.m. tomorrow for the KU-K-State basketball playoff to-morrow night at Manhattan.
Quake Costs Soar
Some 6,000 tickets for the KU bloc will be sold at the Kansas Union, the Information Booth on Jayhawk Elvd., and Allen Field House.
RABAT. Morocco —(UPI) The Moroccan government estimates that 100 million dollars will be needed to rebuild earthquake-ruined Agadir, informed sources said today.
Extended closing hours have been authorized for women going to the game.
Three buses have been chartered for the game and will leave the Kansas Union at 4:30 p.m.
General admission tickets for non-students are on sale at Allen Field House and the Kansas Union for $3.
The estimate was in addition to the more than one million dollars in relief aid already spent on the city, where 12,000 were killed in the Feb. 29 quake. The United States, Britain, and France have been the largest donors.
This debate will be the first in a series of Political Science Club debates. Later topics will include foreign policy, social welfare, and national defense policy of the current administration. No dates have been set for the future debates.
Debate on Ike Features Ise
The Eisenhower administration's economic policy will be debated at 7:30 tonight at the Political Science Club meeting in the Kansas Union.
Robert Ellsworth, Lawrence attorney and a candidate for the Republican nomination for Second District U.S. Congressman, will join Charles B. Saunders, Jr., associate professor of business, in defense of the administration's economic policy.
John Ise, professor emeritus of economics, and Harry Shaffer, assistant professor of economics, will criticize the economic policy of the Eisenhower administration.
Final Rehearsal Wheels Whirl
Two stagehands ducked their heads and pooled their energies to push a motorless, horseless carriage back and forth across the stage of University Theatre last night.
"The back wheel keeps coming off and we've got to get it fixed before opening night... or it will come off . . . and send six chorus girls . . . spinning . . . out into the audience," puffed a stage hand.
The last dress rehearsal for the "Ballad of Baby Doe" was about to begin. Sunday's dress rehearsal was open to the public. The first performance of the opera will be given at 8 p.m. today.
"Twenty-nine! Four! Twenty-
ty-two!"
The lighting director chanted and floods of golden and blue light responded to his command.
"At first it took us 43 minutes to change scenes, and then we got the time down to three minutes. But we've got to get it down to 40 seconds by opening time..."
A promper chatted about the backstage toil:
A couple of fake champagne bottles cooled in a couple of fake ice buckets beside a big bouquet of red crepe roses.
Bill Butler, the visiting Broadway director from New York, strolled in and tweaked the toes of a stagehand who lay studying on top of a porch
The stage crew picked its way among the antique, velvetpadded chairs as the mellow plucked notes of a harp rose from the orchestra pit as a harpist began tuning up.
He walked quietly, a man smaller than most of his students, but under his guidance the disconnected backstage pieces began to fall together into an opera.
The All Student Council will vote tonight on the amendment providing for annual spring and fall elections.
Other bills and a resolution to be considered are:
1. A bill concerning the placement of campaign bulletin boards.
2. A bill concerning the selection process of the homecoming queen.
3. A bill proposing that KU not affiliate with the National Student Assn.
4. A resolution proposing that a central file of course outlines be established.
THE MEETING will be at 7:30 p.m. at 410 Summerfield.
Last week the Committee on Committees recommended that the ASC pass the amendments on election changes and Campus Chest.
They also recommended that the ASC not pass the homecoming queen amendment proposing that the queen be selected by a vote of the student body.
THE COMMITTEE on Committees suggested that a committee be set up to investigate KU's affiliation with the National Student Assn.
Ray Miller, Lawrence senior, will present a progress report tonight on Spectrum Magazine which is to be published soon. Spectrum is the official University academic and literary magazine.
It looks like it's going to be a long winter But according to U.S.weather reports the snow and freezing rains are expected to stop by noon tomorrow.
Snow May Stop Tomorrow by Noon
The northwest and north-central sections of the state have been plagued with sleet. The weather bureau has issued a warning of considerable glazing in that area tonight.
The KU Weather Bureau reports that temperatures reached a low of 19 degrees at 1 a.m. today. The high for the past 24 hours was 30 degrees.
Tonight's temperature is expected to range from 20 degrees in the northwest to 35 degrees in the southeast. The high for Thursday is expected to average in the 30s.
Murphy Shrugs Off Docking Bite
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said his answer to Gov. George Docking's charge that "we can get plenty of others for less" to replace him as KU's chancellor could best be expressed by an editorial in the Salina Journal.
Dr. Murphy sat calmly in his chair at a press conference today upon his return from a three-week trip to Latin America and said, "I think it's hardly worth comment. Certainly the governor is entitled to his own opinion. Whitley Austin's fine editorial would be my answer."
Museum of Art Gift Is Termed Most Valuable
The University of Kansas Art Museum has received 14 paintings and three pieces of sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, a nationally noted art benefactor.
The announcement of the gift was made this morning by Edward Maser, director of the museum.
The KU museum is among the first university museums in the country to receive a gift of paintings and sculpture for study purposes from the Kress Foundation.
"THE MAJORITY of these paintings are in the field of medieval and renaissance art, a field in which paintings are almost unobtainable today, except at prices which run into many thousands of dollars." Prof. Maser said.
He described the gift as the most important one which the museum has received since its founding 32 years ago. At that time Mrs. William Thayer donated her collection.
Among the paintings included in the gift are such well-known names as Sassetta, Bernardo Zenale, Guido Reni and Sebastiano Ricci.
"With the exception of the Murdock collection of American painting in wichita, there is no other museum in the entire state with a collection of such importance," Prof. Maser said.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy and Prof. Maser have recently worked with the Kress Foundation authorities in formulating a plan for distributing 150 to 200 works of art to university museums throughout the country.
These works have not been earmarked for the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., or for "regional collections."
The paintings and sculpture from the Kress gift will be incorporated into the permanent collections of the museum.
After a presentation exhibition from March 20 to April 20, they will be on display in the exhibition galleries of the museum.
Lind Named Regional Humanities Director
L. R. Lind, professor of Latin and chairman of the department of Latin and Greek, has been appointed the regional coordinator in Kansas for the American Council of Learned Societies, a professional organization devoted to the humanities.
Prof. Lind's duties will include sending regular reports to the council on humanities activities in the state.
"How iealous can a politician be!"
The Editorial reads:
Austin, editor and president of the Salina Journal Inc., is a member of the Board of Regents appointed by Gov. Docking about three years ago.
"Docking put envy to work. It is an old political trick. It is an old socialist technique...
"How jealous can a politician be!"
Dr. Murphy returned to Kansas
full of enthusiasm about the results
of his trip to further relations of
ugher education between North and
Latin American countries.
He is a member of the Commission on Higher Education in the American Republics. The commission held its annual meeting at Santiago, Chile Feb. 22 to 29.
"THIS GROUP is a tremendous step forward. It gives some of the top authorities on higher education in both areas a chance to get together," said Dr. Murphy.
"Increasingly, our government and the large foundations are using this
organization as a device to sense how best to use funds for education in Latin America."
Dr. Franklin Murphy
"It's hardly worth comment..."
Dr. Murphy said that the University's program with Costa Rica is attracting favorable attention in Latin America. He said that several Latin American university rectors had asked him about the possibility of creating such a program.
"OF COURSE, the University of Kansas has its hands full. We are going to do a good job with the Costa Rica program and not worry about other Latin American schools now." Dr. Murphy said.
He said that his party met Adial Stevenson's group on the way to see an Inca monument in the mountains of Peru.
"This was the first time I had met Mr. Stevenson. He had a tremendous impact upon me. I was greatly impressed. He has been making an honest effort to get the facts on the peoples' situation throughout the world in his recent travels," he said.
"MY GUESS is that when Mr. Stévenson completes his trip, there will be no better informed person on peoples' attitudes throughout the world toward the United States."
The Chancellor also had some decided opinions about the United States' policy toward Cuba. He said that our government is gaining great admiration from the people of Latin America for the restraint it has shown in dealing with Castro.
"As long as we are able to continue this restraint we will win more than we lose. We gain and Castro loses in the eyes of the people down there."