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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Sept. 23, 1950
St. Joseph Damaged By Heavy Rain, Flood
HOW ABOUT SIRLOIN?—Planning the men for the men at new Templin dormitory this year will be dietitians, Carrie Davis, left, and Shirley Griffith.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo.-(UPI)—Contrary Creek flashed from its banks here last night, inundating residences and industrial plants as the city was battered by rains measuring as much as eight inches.
Early reports indicated the Quaker
Academy Head Denies Charges
REDMOND, Wash. — (UPI) — Thomas H. Hopkins, charged with third degree assault for using a "guardhouse" to enforce discipline at his military academy near here, lashed out on his own today, saying "someone has a hatchet out for me."
Hopkins, 60-year-old superintendent of the school he started 11 years ago, was arrested Monday and charged with assault for holding a 14-year-old cadet, John Goodwin, in solitary confinement, on bread and water, for five days.
Hopkins' wife, Lenore, 53, a partner in the administration of the academy, also was charged with third degree assault. She was accused of striking Goodwin with a swagger stick.
Parents Complained
King County Deputy Prosecutor Charles Z. Smith said the charges were the result of a long investigation. He said that parents have complained to his office from time to time for at least three years.
Hopkins described his guardhouse as a "bathroom with toilet facilities, a shower and a bed." He said he confined students there for serious infractions of school rules, such as going absent without leave.
The superintendent also was accused of placing microphones throughout the school to overhear pupils, of making cadets walk eight hours guard duty with heavy rifles, and of drinking whiskey in the presence of students.
Have Microphones
"We do have microphones," Hopkins said, "but they are no different than those in any modern school. They are not hidden from the students and serve as an intercom system. We give parents demonstrations of how we can hear anyone in the kitchen, dormitory or classrooms. The children are perfectly conscious of where the speakers are. They are not hidden."
As for the guard duty punishments, Hopkins said no student has ever been forced to walk eight consecutive hours. He said each demerit warrants one hour of walking, but breaks are given for meals and whatever else necessary.
Hopkins also denied the drinking accusations, saving he takes medicine for heart trouble and "the boys may have seen me pour medicine into a cup. It could have been a harmless mistake on the part of the boys."
Oats plant suffered the heaviest damage. It was closed today, but employees were summoned to the plant for rehabilitation work.
Firemen, police and civilian volunteers worked much of the night evacuating residents from low-lying homes in the southern part of the city.
Many were removed by boat, officials said, but the number could not be determined immediately.
The rain measured only 1.45 at the weather station across the Missouri River from the area hardest hit, but a gauge at KFEQ radio and television station measured 5.60 inches and one in the southern part of the city recorded 8.15.
The storm was "extremely local," weather observers said, adding that it appeared cold and warm fronts collided above the southern part of St. Joseph. Hail and strong winds accompanied the rain.
Flood Threatens Great Bend Area
GREAT BEND — (UPI) — Sandbag crews worked feverishly today to strengthen improvised dikes as new torrents of rain poured into the watershed of rampaging Walnut Creek.
Heavy rain began falling upstream, at Albert, about 4:30 a.m. The flooding creek already had forced residents of half a dozen small communities from their homes.
By daybreak, flood water was pouring through the protective ditch
EL CENTRO, Calif. - (UPI) — a veterinarian facing possible charges for refusing to enroll his three children in a public high school claimed today they could get a better education from correspondence courses.
Vet Claims Schools Bad
"The schools here are not equipped or organized to give them the best education," said Dr. B. J. Shinn. "That is why they are not enrolled at El Centro High School.
Shinn said he has enrolled the children—Mary, 13; Barbara, 12, and John. 10—in the International Correspondence School and that they already have begun high school courses with that organization.
Imperial County School authorities indicated they referred the case to the district attorney yesterday for possible prosecution under the state education code which requires schooling for children between the ages of 8 and 16.
Shinn said that as far as he was concerned his children were getting better schooling with the correspondence courses than in the public school.
Shinn withdrew his son from school last January and his two daughters last May, explained he didn't want them influenced by their "typically, anti-intellectual, shallow-minded, superficial contemporaries."
Assistant Professor Joins Latin, Greek Department
Radio Programs
Assisting on the project will be Gale Harris, Cunningham, Denny Watson, Pratt, and Kasturi Rangan, India, graduate students; Stephen Little, Topeka junior, and George Dalke, Olathe sophomore.
5:00 Twilight Concert: "String Quartet for Flute, Guitar, Viola and Cello" by Schuhert.
Prof. Seagondollar and his assistants will investigate properties of certain energy levels in light nuclei. They will use the Van de Graaf electrostatic generator in the research.
KANU
7:50 Wednesday Evening Opera: "The Saint of Bleecker Street," by Menotti.
7:35 Patterns of Thought
7:30 News
7:00 Concerto Concert
Austin M. Lashbrook has joined the department of Latin and Greek as an assistant professor.
His special field is teacher training
The National Science Foundation has granted KU $37,000 for research under the direction of L. Worth Seagondollar, associate professor of physics.
Research Grant To Seagondollar
10:05 A Little Night Music: "Trio No. 2 in B-Flat Major," by Mozart
11:00 Sign Off
10:00 News
We are all clever enough at envying a famous man while he is alive and at praising him when he is dead —Minnermus.
surrounding the Western Power and Light Co. plant, which furnishes power for the city. Sandbag emplacements were installed there a elsewhere in northern and western sections of Great Bend and its immediate suburban areas.
The little town of Heiser, about 10 miles above Great Bend, was deserted as its 50 residents left their homes for higher ground. Like earlier evacuees, from Nekoma, Alexander, Bazine, Timken, and Albert, they found shelter with friends and relatives, officials said.
in the language arts, especially in Latin, English and the modern foreign languages.
He has been a Carnegie Fellow at the University of Michigan and Nyman Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. He was an assistant professor in the College of Education, University of Tennessee.
Recreation School To Be Held at KU
He has an M.A. from the University of Kentucky and will soon receive his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
The Red Cross was standing by to provide temporary quarters or other emergency relief if needed, but civil defense officials said no one had requested such help.
The flood was caused by nine inches of rain that fell Sunday night over Ness and Rush counties, west of here.
CLEVELAND — (UPI) — A daring gunman kidnapped the manager of a branch of the Cleveland Trust Company today and tried to hold the banker's family hostage in an unsuccessful robbery attempt. He shot himself to death when cornered by police.
The National Guard also was standing by for flood duty.
Cleveland Gunman Killed in Robbery
A woman accomplish and another man believed involved in the plot were sought by police.
Kansas Recreation Superintendents school at the University of Kansas will be held November 13-14. The Kansas Recreation Society will hold its annual meeting November 12, at K.U.
The robber's body was found in the basement of the bank after an hourlong gunfire with police. Bank employees held captive in the bank cowered as the shots were exchanged. The robber had released the employees before the final police fusilade.
Topics for the school, a joint project of the Society and KU, will be operations of the Kansas cash law, life of a bill in the Legislature, implications of the home rule amendment, and trends in liability.
Dates for the 1960 Midwest Recreation Executives school will be February 22-26, at the University.
When no further shots were fired by the robber, police entered the West Side Branch Bank and found him dead. He was reported to have shot himself.
K-State Enrollment Remains Near 6,700
MANHATTAN —(UPI)— Enrollment at Kansas State this fall is almost identical to what it was a year ago.
The registrar reported that 6,515 students have enrolled, compared to 6,519 a year ago. Late enrollment last year brought the final figure to 6,706. About the same number of late enrollees is expected this fall.
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MIAMI — (UPI) — Hurricane Gracie, with 100-mile-an-hour winds, churned through the Bahamas only 450 miles from Miami but the weather bureau said its course created no threat to the U. S. mainland today.
Hurricane Not Threat to U.S.
The weather bureau said the storm, seventh of the season, showed some signs of weakening. But a slight increase in size was indicated. The hurricane remained almost stationary last night.
Gracie was expected to move northwestward at about five miles per hour today. This would take the center northeast of the island of Eleuthera late today.
"The present rate and direction of movement will not bring any dangerous weather to the southeast coast of the United States today," the weather bureau said. "But all interests from Florida northward to the Carolinas should keep in touch with later advisories."
Dr. Lewin A. Goff, director of the University Theatre and associate professor of drama, has been named treasurer of the National Theater Conference for the coming year. Directors of college, university, and community theatres comprise the membership.
Goff Is Treasurer Of Theatre Group
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