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Rats Migrate In Sunnyside
Sunnyside residents are angry.
Bv Thomas Hough
Disturbances of the past several weeks culminated Sunday when a large rat, driven in the cold from the wreckage of 13 Sunnyside units, was killed in one of the apartments.
Phillip W. Prawl, Lawrence senior, a resident of building 7, apartment 6, heard a woman's scream from 7B at 3 p.m. yesterday. When he barged in the door, Mrs. Vernon Bishop, an expectant mother, was standing on a table clutching her two-year-old son, Vernon Jr. (Bo).
"A rat. He ran right under my chair. He's over there . . ." Mrs. Bishon cried.
More Help Comes
Another resident, Charles H. Morgan, Lawrence senior, heard the scream. He grabbed a baseball bat and sprinted to 7B.
Prawl poked the creature from behind a pile of books and clothes in a makeshift, hallway closet, and Morgan clubbed it to death on the living room floor.
Prawl wrapped the thick bundle of hair in a newspaper.
"It's hard to corner these things. They're very fast." Prawl said.
Kansan Called
Morgan helped Mrs. Bishop and Vernon Jr. off the table. She began hunting for a mop. Prawl called the Daily Kansan. He sounded angry.
"We've had about enough of this. They've been crawling all over the place for a week. I've heard them scratching in the bathroom ceiling. They're coming from across the street and are trying to get out of the cold weather we've been having."
When the Daily Kansan reporter arrived, the apartment floor was
Monday, Nov. 16, 1959
Prawl whipped out a yardstick and measured the rodent.
"It's 14 inches long. I don't like the idea of our children crawling on the floor after rats have run over it all night." Prawl said.
still wet where Mrs. Bishop had mopped. A number of angry Sunny-side residents had crowded into the room.
Rat Is 14 Inches
Mrs. Bishop said she hears noises at night.
"One night I could hear them rattling pots and pans in my kitchen. I got up five or six times to look. I could hear them thumping their tails in the walls and clicking their nails on the linoleum.
"Vernon (her husband, Vernon S. Bishop, Lawrence graduate student) told me it wouldn't do any good.
"One day I left some potatoes in a plastic bag on the sink. When I came back about an hour later, there was a hole in the bag, and one of the potatoes was half-eaten."
Complaints Are Made
Prawl said his wife had complained to William Chestnut, housing manager of dormitories, on Tuesday.
"One of the maintenance men stopped—just like me talking to you—and said 'we've been expecting this'. Mr. Chestnut said that was a misstatement." Prawl said.
"A couple of maintenance men came down and put a little poison at each end of the building (7) and set a couple of rat traps. That's two rat traps for 55 apartments. From my experience, a rat trap will just hold a rat until he squeals, and you come and beat him to death.
Mr. Chestnut Explains
Mr. Chestnut today called the re-
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LAWRENCE. KANSAS
57th Year, No. 42
Leaves Recital Unfinished
Guy Criss Simpson Dies After Concert
Guy Criss Simpson presented his last organ recital Sunday.
The associate professor of organ and theory collapsed in the middle of a Bach fugue. His body slumped over the keyboard and the notes rang into sudden silence.
He died as he was taken to the hospital. Cause of death was apparently a heart attack.
Funeral services will be at 4 p.m. tomorrow at Plymouth Congregational Church with the Rev, Paul Davis officiating.
Prof. Simpson had been a member of the KU fine arts faculty since 1930. He was 57.
Thomas Gorton, dean of the School
of Fine Arts, expressed the shock of the fine arts faculty.
"Prof. Simpson's insistence on carrying a full teaching and performance schedule in the face of declining health was an indication of his devotion to KU and to his art," said Dean Gorton.
Landlady Sorrowful
Mrs. Wilma McKenzie, Prof.
Simpson's landlady for the past four
years, spoke with sorrow about her
roomer's death.
"He was so well and happy when he left Sunday. Music was his whole life and he worked very hard. We all warned him to slow down.
"He was like one of the family-
Judy Gorton Chosen Homecoming Queen
The announcement was made at 12:45 today at a pep rally in front of Strong Hall.
Judy Gorton, Lawrence junior, is the 1959 KU Homecoming Queen.
Miss Gorton, representing Pi Beta Phi sorority, will reign at the KU-Missouri football game Saturday and at the Homecoming Dance from
Marjorie Critten, Kansas City junior, representing Kappa Alpha Theta
Dance tickets can be purchased for $2.50 at the Hawklet in Summerfield Hall, at the information booth on Jayhawk Boulevard and at the Kansas Union.
A limited number of tickets will be sold at the door.
he was going to have some of my birthday cake when he came back Sunday. I'll never find a roomer like him again," she said.
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Harry James, nationally known trumpet player, and his Music Makers will play homecoming dance.
Music will be piped from the ballroom to the cafeteria which will also be decorated for the dance.
Prof. Simpson was a KU graduate. He received his bachelor of music degree here in 1932 and his master's degree from Michigan University in 1942. He studied in Paris for two summers.
8-12 that night in the ballroom of the Kansas Union.
Attendants to the queen are Joann Hummel, St. Joseph Mo., senior, manager of staff.
Oxford Visitor To Speak Here
J. F. Bruce, professor of international relations at Oxford University, Oxford, England, will visit here tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday.
He was recognized as a music critic and reviewed campus musical events for the Lawrence Journal World.
Prof. Bruce will speak Wednesday in Bailey auditorium to the Political Science Club. His topic will be "The British Cabinet System and American Presidential Administration."
He will also participate in a political science seminar, attend a luncheon with members of the political science department and a luncheon with members of the history department, and speak to classes in political science and history.
Prof. Bruce has taught for 10 years in India and was a government consultant there. He was a consultant for the ministry of affairs in Australia and was employed by the League of Nations.
Memorial Fund Set Up
Memorials may be made to the Endowment Assn. in the form of contributions to the Guy Criss Simpson fund.
Prof. Simpson is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Kathleen Armstrong of Kansas City, Kas., and Mrs. Jean Collins of Wichita.
Third Cold Snap Brushes State
TOPEKA—(UPI)—The third cold wave this month swept across Kansas today on the wings of a gusty northerly wind that reached as high as 50 to 60 miles per hour in the west.
The cold wave was accompanied by no snow except for traces at Goodland and Wichita. The U.S. Weather Bureau said there probably would be little or no snow with the cold wave.
Temperatures plunged to near zero over the northwest part of the state by daybreak. The cold hit the more eastern parts of the state about daybreak and temperatures fell in this section throughout the morning.
Cold wave conditions were expected to continue tonight with the strong northerly winds gradually diminishing tonight.
Lows tonight were expected to sink under zero in the west and range as high as 10 above in the extreme southeast.
The weather forecast is: Continued cold wave warning. Clearing and colder southeast this afternoon otherwise mostly fair and continued very cold through Tuesday forenoon. Strong northwest winds diminishing this evening. Warming trend west portion Tuesday afternoon. Low tonight zero to 5 below zero west and north central portions to 5 to 10 above zero southeast. High Tuesday 29s.
Steel Interference Is Rivet to Socialism
An assistant professor of business said Friday that the government's interference in the present steel strike is another rivet in the growing tower of socialism in the United States.
Prof. Robert Lewis, who called him elf a "maverick Republican," was speaking to the little knot of people that gathered to question the speakers after the regular session of the Current Events Forum.
Prof. Lewis said there is a "pushing toward socialism" because of an historical trend toward the increase of government control in industry.
He defined this as a "giving up of personal liberties for economic security."
"Socialism Will Grow"
He said the idea of socialism
"Management and labor have gained in that they are not playing against each other, but they have lost in that they must follow that which they have agreed to."
"Socialism Will Grow"
personally repugnant, but that socialism will continue to grow
Speaking of the government's interference in the steel strike, Prof. Lewis said:
It is prone to the economic satisfaction of the country, but not to the satisfaction of the businessmen (management).
He said the issue itself was mainly a political emergency.
Prefers Fact-Finders
Ronald Olsen, assistant professor of economics said he was not sure it is desirable to have so many governmental restraints.
"Union and management should have free, collective bargaining. I would prefer a fact-finding board as an alternative of the injunction." "President Eisenhower acted in good faith, as he viewed the situation, but it would be better if he had kept still. The injunction seems to have solved very little."
"Neither party seems to be any closer to settlement than they have been."
He said there was "no really basic disagreement" when the strike began
Prof. Lewis said that the struggle is basically whether labor or management will actually run the plants.
"I don't think if I were in labor's shoes, that I would be at the point yet to trust the management to make
the work rules that would only affect production and not labor," Prof. Lewis said.
Prof. Lewis then asked if an emergency really exists.
He explained that too many of the men in steel mills are still "well aware of company practices during the depression."
Prof. Olsen said he was not sure we have really had a true emergency in the steel strike.
Foreign Steel No Threat Prof. Olson said foreign 'steel' i
"I don't feel there has been any great amount of economic loss because of the steel strike.
"The laborers in automobile plants and other plants that use steel are losing jobs and money as individuals, but is the strike actually hurting the national economy?"
not as much a threat as many people think.
"Most foreign steel is made by the Besseneur process, which does not produce steel that is as hard, with as high carbon-content, as the open-hearth process does," he said.
Prof. Lewis, speaking after the regular session, said there may be a transfer of dollars in buying foreign steel, but that the dollars would find their way back to this country in the purchase of other goods.
Prof. Oken said if labor had a choice, it would not have struck all the steel companies at once. He said a "struck" company is hurt if all the other companies are still producing.
He explained that production can either be geared ahead to meet a predicted demand or stepped up after a demand had been made.