Daily Hansan
Friday, November 6, 1959
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
57th Year, No. 36
Pressure on Parlay Pushers
This KU student might be marking his last parlay card.
Western Civ Notes Booming Business
Western civilization - means an overwhelming amount of studying to most students—but to a few others the course means money in the bank.
The select few are those who compile and sell western civilization study notes. Their yearly profit often lies between $1,000 and $1,500.
Dealers Are Anonymous
Last year Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity sold the notes. This year four students, who wish to remain anonymous, have taken over the enterprise business. They are advertising 100-page mimeographed volumes of the notes for $4.
"There are about 1,200 students taking western civilization and we have saturated approximately a quarter of the market," one of the four partners said.
Lee Lord, Atchison senior, and one of the students who sold the Lambda Chi notes the last three years, said it took him and his partners about 250 man hours to collect and organize the study notes. They added information to the booklets each year.
The western civilization department approves the notes as a supplement to studying the material, but not to replace the readings. They
"During the past three years the notes have netted my partners and me approximately $2,500," Lord said
Notes Net $2.500
AWS Fashion Show Set for 8:30 Tonight
Associated Women Students will give a fashion show at 8:30 tonight in the Kansas Union ballroom for high school women visiting the campus for the ninth annual High School Leadership Day.
Leadership Day is tomorrow, but most of the students will arrive on campus early tonight. The fashion show is open to the public.
may be used outside class but can not be taken into the discussion periods.
"As of yet we have taken no official stand. Even if we did, it would be very hard to supress the notes when students can get outlines for other courses in the book store. They also get notes for biology.
James E. Seaver, associate professor of history and western civilization, voiced this opinion on the notes:
"We do not encourage it but if the student wants an aid to his reading, the notes are very good. But they are no substitute for the readings."
"Around the World in 20 Days" could be the theme of a hot-ski tour Joseph H. Burckhalter, professor of pharmacy, is taking.
The U.S. Public Health Service is sponsoring Professor Burckhalter's trip primarily because of his work on the anti-amoebic agent. The KU professor has developed a new drug that shows promise of controlling dysentery, a disease of the large intestine, which is a serious problem in many parts of the world.
He will speak on two topics,
"A Promising New Anti-Amoebic Agent" and "Cancer Chemotherapy in the United States." on his tour.
Professor on Hurried Tour
Prof. Burckhalter left Tuesday for a month's lecture tour during which he will stop in eight different countries.
Weather
The major stones on Prof. Burckhalter's route will be London, England; Frankfurt, Germany; Cairo, Egypt; Lucknow, India; Bangkok Thailand; Hong Kong; Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, Japan; and Honolulu, Hawaii.
Fair and warmer tonight. Saturday and Sunday. Low tonight upper 20s, high tomorrow 50s.
Students Not Welcome To Continue Betting
By Ralph Wilson
Bookies in the Lawrence area have received word from their boss to stop the sale of cards to college students because, as one bookie told me:
The dedicated college parlay player is probably going to have to do without his card for the rest of the football season. But the rest of the local population can find them in abundant quantities.
"— said for us to stop selling them to you guys because he thinks that it was a student who blew the whistle on him in that raid earlier this month. But I understand — — — is still selling them."
On Oct. 16 the Veterans of Foreign Wars Club, American Legion, Golden Gate, and Sanders Shoe Shine Parlor were raided. A large number of cards were found. Six men were taken into custody.
Two weeks before the raid I had gotten my first card for the usual price of one dollar. And as is customary I was unable to pick three winners is as many tries. My dollar became only a figure to the racket heads who take in an estimated $5 million a week.
But this week I was unable to obtain a card.
Students seem to be drawn to the cards by the smell of the fast buck. So cards naturally are easier to locate in a university or college town. But it became easy to see that the fast bucks are few and scattered.
Syndicate Gets Money
Law enforcement officials have
LAW LOVELY—Melinda Kirkman, Russell sophomore, representing Gamma Phi Beta sorority, was named the 1959 Law School Homecoming Queen yesterday. Judges were James K. Logan, assistant professor of law; Paul E. Wilson, associate professor of law; William A. Kelly, associate professor of law; James B. Smith, professor of law, and Robert Edmonds, Lawrence 2nd-year law student.
estimated that about $5 million changes hands during an average football weekend. Who is on the receiving end? The syndicate and bookies get the fast buck, not the bettor. This is because the cards are hard to beat. In fact it is almost impossible to do so.
A long-time card player around Lawrence said:
"I wouldn't advise your playing them unless you have a lot of money. I usually play them every year and lose more than I win. I play them as an incentive to keep up on football."
"Once a week a guy comes around with a fist full of cards and I get one. I doubt if you could get one though, because they wouldn't know you."
"The cards are getting hard to get because they are illegal and the cops have been cracking down."
The pressure the bookies were under was pretty obvious when I went to pick up my second card on Oct. 15. The card was dropped in my lap and I was told to put it away quickly.
The Lawrence card, which I put away, is identical with the Kansas City card. This leads me to believe that the same man heads both rings.
Cards Sell Bi-Weekly
There are about 30 games listed on the card. The cards are available to the better only on Thursday and Friday. In the column headed —plus—the underdog is given additional points if he balances the final outcomes of some of the games. This becomes the hard part. The better must not only pick the winner but must consider the point spread.
As an example, in the Southern California - Washington University game of Oct. 17, Washington was given eight points. Southern California won the game 22-15. But on the card Washington got eight additional points and thus won as far as the better was concerned.
Still there is another possibility. The game could be a tie, as happened in the Northwestern-Michigan game of the same weekend. In regular play Northwestern won, 20-7, but the card gave Michigan a 13-point handicap. When this handicap was added on to the Michigan total the final score was a tie.
Better Does Not Win in Tie
Who wrote in case of a tie? It isn't
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Car Tumbles Down 'Mount'
The "Mount" of Mount Oread is no joke to Lola Harris, Lawrence second-year law student.
Her car, a 1952 Ford, rolled down the steep embankment southwest of Flint Hall about 4:30 p.m. yesterday.
Miss Harris was in the journalism building when the accident occurred. When she returned, her car was up-ended on its right rear side between the sidewalk railing and the eight-foot wall.
"I put the emergency brake on, but I guess it didn't hold," she said. One side of the car was bent in badly.
Wreckers were busy for almost one hour trying to get the car upright.