Daily hansan
56th Year, No. 152
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, May 21, 1959
HEAVE-HO—Buildings and grounds workers are shown clearing from the campus the hundreds of tree limbs left by the 58 mile-an-hour winds last night.
Choral Director Krehbiel Receives HOPE Award
Clayton Krehbiel, associate professor of music education and choral music, was announced this morning as the winner of the HOFE award for 1959.
HOPE—Honors for Outstanding Progressive Educators-is the gift selected by this year's senior class.
A $100 award is to be given annually to a University faculty member who has made the greatest contribution to insuring the welfare of his students and increasing the prestige of the University in the arts or sciences during the year.
Expressing his surprise after being informed of the selection this
This is the last issue of the spring semester Daily Kansan. The summer session Kansan will appear bi-weekly, beginning June 9 during June, July, and August. The fall semester Kansan will begin publication on September 17.
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Tornado Seen Over Campus As High Winds Slash Town
Winds ranging up to 58 miles an hour broke glass doors in University buildings and sent tree limbs flying through the streets last night, but damage was held to a minimum and no injuries resulted.
Two glass doors were blown out of the entrance to the Music and Dramatic Arts building about 9 o'clock last night, and another glass door gave way in the entrance to Joseph R. Pearson dormitory a few minutes later.
Many parts of Kansas and Missouri were under severe weather alerts until after midnight last night. Funnel clouds were spotted at many towns in the area.
Howard Lindley, Lawrence and Douglas County Civil Defense Director, brought radio station KLWN on the air at 8:20 p.m. broadcasting tornado alerts to city residents.
Only two of the tornadoes were reported to have touched ground, however. They touched ground in open country and there were no injuries or damages.
Residents Take Cover
Residents were told to take cover in basements as tornadoes had been sighted in the immediate area.
Lindley told the Daily Kansan this morning that attempts were made last night to sound the tornado warning on the KU whistle.
Temperature Drop Tonight Predicted
The U.S. Weather Bureau said there could be cloudiness, and a few showers and thunderstorms in the Lawrence area late this afternoon, tonight and extending through tomorrow.
The weather in Kansas during the next 24 hours will be 10 to 15 degrees cooler, but without the severity or violence of the last couple of days.
The high temperatures in the state yesterday were 91 at Abilene and 63 at Goodland. Last night Goodland went down to 42. High last night was 63 at Topeka.
The low tonight for Lawrence is expected in the 50s. High tomorrow will be 65 to 75.
"The KU switchboard was blocked with calls and the police dispatcher could not get the operator." he said.
"By the time the dispatcher reached the operator, there was no funnel sighted in this area, so we canceled the warning."
The KU warning whistle can be activated only upon order of the Civil Defense. Mr. Lindley said a private line is now being installed from the Lawrence Police Department to the KU power plant.
"This special line will ring the power plant as soon as the receiver is picked up at the police station. It will not be a dial system, so the warning will not be blocked by other calls." he said.
Mr. Lindley said the inability to sound the whistle was no fault of the operator, as "one call is just like another."
Two students reported they saw a tornado cloud above the city at about 10 p.m. Just about that time, a large branch from a tree south of the fraternity house was blown down, causing some shutter damage to the house.
The only report of tornado activity in Lawrence was received by the Civil Defense and came from the Sigma Chi fraternity house.
One Report Over Lawrence
The two students reporting the tornado were Lance Johnson, Wymore, Neb., junior and John Reiff, Wichita sophomore.
Other towns reporting funnel clouds in the air included Emporia, where there were two funnels, and Iola. Gilman City, St. Joseph and Bethany in Missouri also reported tornadoes.
Hail as large as golf balls plastered an area west of Liberal.
Winds reached 75 miles an hour at Fairfax airport in Kansas City, Kan., and 52 miles an hour at Municipal airport, Kansas City, Mo.
K.C. Lines Down
Winds brought power lines down in the 3400 block on Prospert and Wabash in Kansas City, Mo., and tore up telephone lines at 57th and Agnes in the same city. In south Lawrence the power was off during the height of the storm, preventing many residents from receiving warning.
Shvyam Bhatia, technical assistant in geography and head of the KU weather station, reported that the campus received .12 inches of rain during the storm.
But the storm didn't stop campus pranksters. KU police found a can of detergent in the Chi Omega fountain at the height of the storm.
morning by William Witt, class president from Garden City, Prof. Krehbiel said:
"I knew that the HOPE award was the senior class present, of course, but I had no idea that I would even be nominated. I learned of my nomination just yesterday afternoon."
"I am grateful, honored and appreciative of both the gift and the honor that goes with it," Prof. Krehbiel said.
"I am looking forward to thanking the senior class in person at the Senior Breakfast."
Prof. Krebbiel appeared somewhat dazed as he continued, "You go on doing your job regularly and don't expect things like this to happen to you. I am deeply honored."
"We hope the students will realize that the class is giving them an opportunity to honor outstanding professors in the years to come and will take advantage of this opportunity," Witt said.
The $100 stipend is the annual interest from the $2,500 given by the senior class as a percentage of its class dues. This year's award will be taken from the principal.
The criteria for judging the faculty was:
1. Willingness to help students.
1. Willingness to help students.
2. Success in stimulating students or challenging the students toward thinking.
3. Devotion to profession.
5. Publications and creative work
4. Contribution to general cultural life of the University.
5. Publications and creative work.
Prof. Krebiel directs all choral activities at the University and also directs the Midwestern Music Camp chorus in the summer.
He received the bachelor of music
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education degree from KU in 1942 and the master of music education degree from Columbia University in 1949. Before coming to the University of Kansas he was associated with the Robert Shaw Choral in New York and served for a time as its assistant director.
Prof. Krebbiel said that his only immediate plans concerned the coming summer music camp on the campus.
The HOPE award will be presented at the Senior breakfast, June 1, in the Kansas Unoin.
A woman student had a bit of bad luck in last night's storm.
A plaque is being designed by Maxwell M. Dunlevy, Emporia senior, to hang in the Union building. Each HOPE award winner will be listed on the plaque.
Windy Wish Brings Term Paper Loss
As she was sitting peacefully in front of open French windows at her sorority, she wished for a cool breeze to relieve the heat.
Her breeze came, in the form of a sudden partial vacuum, and out the window went a voluminous term paper which had not been stapled together.
Gone was a semester's work. A search of the grounds around the house yielded nothing.
Leaves Given to Educators
Five faculty members will be on sabbatical leave while the others will be on leave without pay. Sabbatical leave, which may be applied for after seven years on the faculty, provides one-half pay to assist faculty members in advanced study and other programs of professional improvement.
Eighteen members of the KU faculty have been granted leaves of absence for next year.
Max E. Fessler, professor of accounting; Walter Merserve, assistant professor of English; W Stitt Robinson, professor of history; Reinhold Schmidt, professor of voice, and Robert Vosper, director of libraries. Leaves without pay were granted
Sabbatical leave is granted to:
Leaves without pay were granted to:
Jack Brooking, assistant professor of speech and drama; Paul W. Gilles, professor of chemistry; Urs. W. Hochstrasser, associate professor of mathematics; Dan Hopson Jr., associate professor of law; Frances Ingmann, assistant professor of English; Albert R. Kitzhaber, professor of English; James C. Lillo, assistant professor of mathematics; A.
W. Kuchler, professor of geography
Wiley S. Mitchell, professor of accounting; Floyd W. Preston, associate professor of petroleum engineering; Robert E. Schofield, associate professor of history; Robert S. Sokal, associate professor of entomology; David Vieth, associate professor of English.
Police Chief Denies K.C. Vice
KANSAS CITY — (UPI) — Lt. Col.
Alert J. Gormley, chief of the inspection division of the Kansas City Police Repartment, said yesterday he has not received any details to back up charges of "open vice" conditions in the city.
Last week the Young Republican Federation charged that "gambling, prostitution and other immoral and illegal acts are nwo being condoned by the Kansas City Police Department and Board."
Extended Closing Begins Tonight
Extended closing hours for KU women and Watson Library begin tonight and run through next Thursday.
The AWS Senate has extended women's closing hours to midnight tonight, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Friday and Saturday will have the regular 1 a.m. closing hour.
The library has extended closing hours to 11 p.m. for four nights. The schedule:
11 p.m.—tonight, Friday, Saturday,
day, and Sunday.
10 p.m.-Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
5 p.m.—next Thursday, Friday,
and Saturday.
After noon Saturday, May 30, the library will be open only for visitors. No service will be available. The library will be open Saturday and Sunday afternoons to 5 p.m.
'Fastest Man Is Lecturer
The "fastest human on earth" will deliver the 23rd annual Noble P. Sherwool lecture at 8 tonight in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Col. John P. Stapp, a pioneer in space medicine research and chief of the Aero-Medical Research laboratory at Wright-Patterson Field, will speak on space medicine. Col. Stapp earned the title of "fastest human on earth" by a series of rocket sled rides.