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University Daily Kansan
Monday. May 4, 1959
Rains, Tornadoes, Floods Hit Midlands
By United Press International
Eighteen - inch rains triggered deadly floods in east Texas yesterday and tornado-dotted thunderstorms lashed the plains and midwest.
The drenching rains were blamed for at least four deaths, three of them in Texas floods and one in Michigan when a cabin was washed down an embankment on the shore of Lake Superior.
Tornadoes were reported neat Leedey, Okla., and Formoso, Kan., but apparently caused no injuries and only minor property damage.
The twisters struck from a squall line which broke a May "heat wave" in much of the West. In the East, the forecast today was for continued hot weather with readings in the 80's and 90's.
No letup was seen in the east Texas rains which ripped open
dams, closed highways and turned the area into a sea of mud. Rains up to 11 inches were common around Henderson, Tex., and up to 18 inches of water was reported at Lake Cherokee, northeast of Henderson.
High water and stalled cars blocked highways. One man was believed drowned when a car carrying five Jacksonville, Tex., Negroes was swept from a bridge near Jacksonville by 16-inch deep floodwaters.
A dam east of Jacksonville burst under the pressure of the heavy rains, draining a 100-acre lake behind the dam. Two breaks occurred in a dam near Henderson, draining a 35-acre lake.
Some homes were evacuated at Henderson and Lake Cherokee. High winds accompanied the rain, blowing down a barn near Henderson and uprooting trees.
A line of severe thunderstorms pushed across the plains during the night, carrying locally heavy rains, hail and a few tornadoes. Hail the size of golf balls hit Leedey, Okla., at the same time a tornado was reported north of the community.
Half-inch hail and winds up to 60 m.p.h. struck Aurora, Ill., and a thunderstorm knocked Chicago radio station WMAQ off the air for a half hour when lightning struck power lines.
The hot weather in the East set a record at Columbus, Ohio, for the second straight day Sunday when the mercury hit 89, topping the former high of 87 set in 1938. Saturday's top of 88 also was a record for the city.
Elsewhere, Chicago had an 88,
Louisville 91, Atlanta 86, Washington
83, Miami 83, and Kansas City
80.
Official Bulletin
Ph.D. German Reading Exam. 9-11 am. May 9, 214 Fraser. Books for prepared part of exam must be turned in at 206 Fraser by Wednesday noon. No books accepted later. Only candidates approved by Graduate School are eligible.
Senior Class (1960): Committee membership and chairmanship applications must be turned in to the Alumni Office. 127 Strong.
TODAY
Kansas Society Archaeological Institute of America, 7:30 p.m. Room 306A nationron University Colgrave, visiting professor of English, the Sutton Hoo Treasure ship."
By contrast, a blast of cool air
Radio Programs KANU
5:00 Twilight Concert: "Sonata for Violin and Bianq" by Ravel
7:00 Ballet Music: "Ballet Russe"
by Shootakwitch
7:30 Keyboard Concert (harpsichord): Featuring Wanda Landowska
7:55 News
7:33 University of the Air; And
8:00 The World Istand
8:30 University of the Air; Doorway to the World
8:45 University of the Air; Curtain
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9:00 Starlight Symphony: "Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73" by Brahms
10:00 News
10:05 A Little Night Music: "Quintet for Piano and Strings in E-flat Major" by Dohanyi
11:00 Sign Off
KUOK
Radio station KUOK will be off the air tonight. The staff and management will attend the annual radio and television banquet.
International Folk Dance Club, 7-9 p.m. Jawkey Room, Kansas Union.
Hometown Correspondents. Deadline or turning in Stringbooks is toddy at the end of school on Wednesday.
TOMORROW
Statewide Activities, 7:30 p.m., Jayhawker Room, Kansas Union, year-end meeting for all executive board members, chairmen and hometown correspondents.
Epicaprio Morning Prayer, 6:45 p.m.
break followed. Canterbury House.
Newman Club Mass, 6:30 a.m., St John's Church, 11th & Kentucky.
Society for the Advancement of Management, 7:30 p.m., Kansas Union, Bob Remley, general manager of Myer and Co. "Case Problems of a Small Colony."
Centron Motion Picture Corp. staged reading of "The Long Shadow," 8 p.m.
Experimental Theatre KU students 50c with LD, regular tickets $1.
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ADVENTURES IN SOCIAL SCIENCE: NO. 3
Today, ranging again into the fascinating world of social science, let us take up the subject of anthropology—the study of man and his origins.
The origin of man was indeed a puzzle until the Frenchman, Jean-Louis Sigfafoos, discovered the skull and shinbone of Pithecanthropus Erectus in Java in 1891. What Sigfafoos was doing in Java is, incidentally, quite an odd little story. Sigfafoos was a Parisian born and bred. By day one could always find him at a sidewalk cafe, sipping barley water and ogling the girls; each night he went to a fashionable casino where he gambled heavily at roulette and go-fish; in between times he worked on his stamp collection, which was one of the largest in Paris.
Well sir, one summer Sigafoos lost his entire fortune gambling at the casino. He was seriously contemplating suicide when, quite unexpectedly, a letter arrived from one Lotus Petal McGinnis, a Javanese girl and an avid stamp collector, with whom Sigafoos had been corresponding from time to time through the international stamp collectors journal. Until now the nature of their correspondence, though friendly, had been strictly philatelic, but in this new letter Lotus Petal declared that although she had never laid eyes on Sigafoos, she loved him and wanted to marry him. She said she was eighteen years old, beautiful and docile, and her father, the richest man in the tribe, had agreed to give half his fortune to the husband of her choice. Sigafoos, penniless and desperate, immediately booked passage for Java.
The first sight of his prospective bride failed to delight Sigafoos. She was, as she said, beautiful—but only by local standards. Sigafoos had serious doubts that her pointed scarlet teeth and the chicken bones hanging from her ears would be considered chic along the Champs Élysées.
But sobering as was the sight of Lotus Petal, Sigafoos had an even greater disappointment coming when he met his father. The old gentleman was, as Lotus Petal claimed, the richest man in the tribe, but, unfortunately, the medium of exchange in his tribe was prune pits.
Sigafaos took one look at the mound of prune pits which was his dowry, gnashed his teeth, and stomped off into the jungle, swearing vilely and kicking at whatever lay in his path. Stomping thus, swearing thus, kicking thus, Sigafaos kicked over a heap of old bones which—what do you know!—turned out to be Pithecanthropus Erectus!
But I disgress. From the brutish Pithecanthropus, man evolved slowly upward in intellect. By the Middle Paleolithic period man had invented the leash, which was a remarkable technical achievement, but frankly not particularly useful until the Mesolithic period when man invented the dog.
In the Neolithic period came the most important discovery in the history of man—the discovery of agriculture. Why is this so important? Because, good friends, without agriculture there would be no tobacco, and without tobacco there would be no Marlboro, and without Marlboro you would be without the finest filter cigarette that money can buy, and I would be without a job.
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