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University Daily Kansan Monday. Nov. 23.1959
Homecoming Crowd Watches More Than a Football Game
By Carol Heller
KU alumni bravely met the challenge of campus hills and countless stairsteps Saturday.
MIAMI BOUND—An unidentified Missouri fan celebrates a Tiger touchdown during Saturday's homecoming game with a whoop and a holler.
They smiled as they leaned forward and trudged up the hills and laughed as they gasped at the summit — but knees were weak and breath was precious by the time they reached Memorial Stadium.
By noon the choice seats in the stadium were gone.
But still the stream of alumni and students flowed into the stadium until 40,000 seats were filled long before game time.
The alumni were armed with cameras and binoculars. Some of them played cards and others knitted.
Alums in Jubilant Mood
They looked for old friends and bridged the gap of years with smiles and jokes.
"Hey, where's Springer?"
"He just fell over the back of the stadium."
The sun shone and the wind whipped scarves and flags and mum petals.
"I wonder if TNE is going to do its sky writing again this year?" Later an airplane scrawled the letters above the stadium.
The excitement of the students in the cheering section mounted to fervor;
Band Lends Atmosphere
"Are we going to win this game?
Hell, yes!"
The band practicing fast march cadences behind the stadium lent an exciting beat to the animated crowd.
"We had Dorsey for homecoming one year — Dorsey's band anyhow. But I didn't go for all that cha-cha stuff."
"Did you hear about the Chancellor losing his good seat at the game?"
A massive roar of delight exploded from the crowd when a band of KU men stole MU's flag.
KU's mascot perched on a jeep and tossed oranges into the crowd.
The crowd laughed when MU scored and rang KU's victory bell.
Queen Crowned
"Daddy, I'm going to buy a helicopter so I can see the game next year."
The homecoming queen ceremony was a riot of color as bands and pep clubs colored the field.
A silver jet stole the show as it flew low over the stadium and tipped its wings in the sunlight.
Campanile Hill was covered with spectators.
The game was fast and good and KU played hard.
The afternoon was beautiful and vendors sold mountains of popcorn and Kappa Alpha Theta coeds squealed with happiness because
Have a WORLD of FUN!
their homecoming decorations were best of all the sororities.
shoulders in frenzied happiness,
"Huroch for the Orange Bees!"
"Hurrah for the Orange Bowl. KU students looked the other way."
But KU lost the game.
The great crowd oozed slowly from the stadium. MU students hoisted Coach Dan Devine on their
An hour later they were smiling at open-house teas and the girls were pressing party dresses.
Budget at a Glance
11. Ten additional classified employees for operation of KU Medical Center hospital—$33,234
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12. Two additional faculty members (for Medical Center)— $17,920
13. Other operating expenses (for the Medical Center)— $96,255.
Recommended
The budget committee recommended the following items:
1. Salary increases for classified staff (maintenance, office, and all others)—$107.179
3. Utilities for new buildings—$30,000
4. Increases for the classified staff at the KU Medical Center — $153.543
2. Janitors for new buildings (three)—5,245
5. To replace hospital balances being exhausted this year on Legislative orders—$232.036.
Quiz Kids Needed To Represent KU
KU undergraduates may try out today to represent the University on the nationally televised College Bowl quiz show.
Interested students may take oral examinations for a place on a 4-man team at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. today in Fraser Theater. About 16 persons will be chosen. The final team will be selected after Thanksgiving.
All expenses for the trip to New York are paid by the show's sponsor. The winning team continues to play until there is a new winner. Each week's winning team receives $1,500 for its school's scholarship fund. Each loser receives $500. The contestants and their coach receive personal gifts. The KU team will participate on Jan. 3.
The Federation of Nigeria is nearly seven times the size of England. Its population of 34 million is larger than that of Canada, Australia and New Zealand combined.
Horsedrawn vehicles moved at an average speed of 11.5 miles an hour through New York City's streets in 1907, according to a traffic study at the time. Today, in congested areas, an automobile crawls at an average of 6 mph.
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