Rick Barnes Injured In Auto Accident
Richard M. Barnes, Seneca junior, is in serious condition today after he drove into a creek bank at 7 a.m. Sunday near Oneida.
Barnes was driving west toward Seneca when high winds forced his 1957 automobile off the pavement onto the right shoulder near the Oneida highway junction.
Skid marks on the shoulder indicate Barnes failed to steer his car back onto the pavement because the shoulder was about a foot below the edge of the pavement, his father, Dr. Conrad M. Barnes of Seneca, said this morning.
The car crashed into a 20-foot creek bank, about eight feet from the bottom of a ditch.
"Rick is in critical condition with severe lacerations of his lower face, and a possible skull fracture," Dr. Barnes said.
Barnes is president of next year's senior class and general chairman of Statewide Activities. He is on the cabinet of Wesley Foundation and a member of Phi Chi medical fraternity.
THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM-A quiet afternoon nap for A. Carlton Syler, Hutchinson junior, is about to be disrupted by a fiendish Peter W.Abbott, Washington, D.C., junior. When that stream of icy water strikes the slumbering Syler a new record in the high jump is likely to be set on the patio at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house.
Giorgio Tozzi Concert Is Tomorrow Night
Giorgio Tozzi, bass-baritone with the Metropolitan Opera Co., will present a recital at 8:20 p.m. tomorrow in the University Theatre. His appearance will end this year's KU Concert Course series.
Mr. Tozzi was prevented from appearing here at an earlier date because of emergency surgery.
After pursuing a career in Italy. Mr. Tozzi made his Metropolitan debut in 1955.
but in 1953. During the 1958-1959 Metropolitan season, Mr. Tozzi sang Sastroro in Mozart's "The Magic Flute." Banquio of Verdi's "Macbeth," and Pogner in Wagner's "Meistersinger."
Wagner's Muse Mr. Tozzi was born in Chicago in 1923. Both his parents were Italianborn. He studied singing from the time he was 13 and made his first professional appearance in an Italian operetta in Chicago when he was 17 years old.
Mr. Tozzi sang for a Chicago radio
Weather
Considerable cloudiness tonight and tomorrow with showers and scattered thunderstorms. Thunderstorms most numerous and intense west and north portions today and northwest and north-central tonight. Cooler west and north this afternoon and tomorrow. Low tonight 50 northwest to 70 southeast portion. High tomorrow 60s northwest to 80s southeast.
station and with Skitch Henderson and his orchestra. He has recently appeared with the San Francisco Opera Co.
Daily Hansan
Monday, May 4. 1959
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
56th Year. No.139
Winning Original Play Will Be Staged Tomorrow
A staged reading of the play "The Long Shadow," winning script in the original play contest, will be presented tomorrow through Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Experimental Theatre.
Student tickets will be 50 cents, while non-students will pay a dollar.
"The Long Shadow" was written by Miriam Roffman. The original play contest was sponsored by the KU department of speech and drama and the Centron Motion Picture Corp. of Lawrence.
Mrs. Roffman lives in Hawaii and attended the University of Wisconsin. Although "The Long Shadow" is her first full length play, the University of Hawaii is currently producing a one-act play by her which won the annual play contest there.
"The Long Shadow" deals with an aging convict who is released on parole and has difficulties before society allows him to become a normal citizen.
In the play the blame for his situation is not placed on individuals, but on society.
Appearing in the production are John S. Callahan, Independence senior; Jeanne Rustemeyer, Leavenworth sophomore; Charles Kephart, Salina graduate student; Michael Jackson, Kansas City, Mo. freshman.
Dan Palmquist, Lillian Howard, Herk Harvey, Glenn Hunt, Erik Wright, and Leyton Buchanan, all of Lawrence.
Miriam Roffman
Horseplay Ends In Broken Bone
Joseph A. Mize, Atchison sophomore, was taken to Watkins Hospital yesterday with a broken collarbone received after the Sigma Chi Bontz Memorial Mile Run.
Mize was being carried to Potter Lake to be dunked when his head and shoulders hit the ground. It is tradition to dunk the winner of the run from the preceding year if his record is broken.
Mize won the event for the "most-out-of-shape" freshman with a time of 6:04 last year. Richard Black, Wichita freshman, broke the record this year with 5:42.
The fraternity has held the race for the past eight years in honor of an alumnus.
U.S. Losing Propaganda War, Two Seniors Say
Rab Malik, Karachi, West Pakistan, and Richard Kraus, Lawrence, were featured speakers for the topic "The Communist Appeal in the East."
Two seniors said Friday afternoon at the Current Events Forum that the United States will have to get busy and do something to prevent the spread of communism in the East.
"U.S. foreign policy is non-committal in the East," Malik said. "Russia and China, on the other hand, are working very hard to get these Asian and African nations on their side.
"Communism has more appeal for people who have nothing to eat. The people are interested in developing their own resources becoming rich
and at least having a bed to sleep in every night.
They do not want to listen to the virtues of a democracy and the pitfalls of communism being told by the U.S." Malik continued.
Malik concluded his statements with:
"The present situation is not very encouraging to me."
Kraus stated, that he felt the suffering of the people living in the under-developed countries in Asia and Africa is the greatest problem of the United States.
"Communism is a threat to the U.S. since communism has promised an answer to the suffering.
Weather Problem Solved: Air Condition Mount Oread
By George DeBord
Everyone complains about the weather, but no one does anything about it. Why not!
It was really pretty stinking riding down here in a closed car this morning. I mean hot, sticky, and dripping. I opened the window at 65 m.p.h. and caught a cold to go with the flu I have had since last week.
So, it's hot today. But can you believe it, about half of the old campus population is sick with colds. I eased into the hospital about 9 this morning, and the waiting list was arm-length. Every chair and bench in sick-alley was occupied.
There is a certain togetherness in that place. It's the same pseudo-friendship that a married man has for his mother-in-law, or a freshman for his biology instructor.
Everybody sort of sits around in the heat, hating everyone who is ahead in the line, and feeling sorry for the new arrivals.
"In order to stop the spread of communism, the U.S. will have to present itself as a creative power out to construct good things in the various countries.
Well, I was complaining about the weather and wound up in the hospital. What I'm getting at is that we ought to do something about the heat and the wet air. I mean, look at all the nice kids that are sick because the temperature won't stay at one level.
I was so depressed by the time she arrived, I didn't even try to strike up a conversation. Well, if the weather can do this to me, and make a healthy-looking girl like that sick, something ought to be done about it.
My doctor told me I should move to Arizona, but that was after the blonde came in and sat down next to me. She was one of the prettiest girls on the campus, but the weather had got her down.
This is where the senior class comes in. Instead of fighting it out every year over what to give the University, the class ought to give the hill a new climate. This could be done by building a Bailey
Hall entrance-type enclosure over the entire University.
Then, the next class could air condition the enclosed space, and the temperature would remain constant. A constant temperature would eliminate about 90 per cent of the cold and flu cases, and the students wouldn't have to work in hot, sticky buildings like old Flint here.
Or, we could forget the senior gift, and all meet in the Music and Dramatic Arts building every day. The temperature remains conditioned down there, unless someone makes a remark against the orchestra. Then it gets hot. But we could keep our mouths shut.
So, I bought some pills and said goodbye to the blonde. It was hot and humid outside as I walked to class. May is really a pretty poor month to go to school.
I finally got in to see the doctor, and she told me I was sick, and that the changing spring weather was probably the cause of it.
"This, of course, would be hard for Americans to do. We think we have arrived at the ideal but we have not," he finished.
Friday's Current Events Forum was the last one of the semester.
Hundred Books Back Home Free
Watson Library is considering sponsoring another fine free program next year because Saturday's program was successful.
About 100 books were returned to the main library. Included in these were some reference books and some important government publications.
Robert Quinsey, chief of the library reader service, said two or three students returned books which saved them from paying fines of $10 or $15 each.
There were less than a dozen reserve books returned and only about six books returned that had never been checked out. he said.
The fine-free policy applied only to last Saturday. No other Saturday has been designated as fine-free day.