Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
56th Year, No.137
Thursday, April 30, 1959
HOPE Put on Ballot; Seniors Vote for Gift
HOPE—Honors for Outstanding Progressive Educators—was included as a late suggestion on the senior class gift ballot.
About 500 students gathered at the senior coffee at 10 this morning in the Kansas Union Ballroom to hear reports on class progress and to vote for the traditional class gift.
The HOPE gift was suggested in an editorial in yesterday's Daily Kansan. Under this plan, the portion of senior class dues designated for the class gift would be invested with the KU Endowment Association. The 4 per cent interest which it would draw annually would be awarded each year to an outstanding KU professor or instructor.
The three other suggestions included on the ballot were trophy cases for Allen Field House, accessories for the new Kansas Union ad-
Billings, Kindred Receive Awards
Robert Billings of Russell and Lynn H. Kindred of Emporia, both three-letter guards on the KU basketball team, will share the "Phog" Allen Award for 1959. Both men are seniors.
The $50 prize is given each spring to the graduating senior with the highest scholastic average among those participating in intercollegiate sports.
Billings has also received the Alpha Tau Omega Thomas Arkle Award, the highest award the national fraternity can give an undergraduate.
The winner of the award is chosen from candidates of 118 chapters.
Billings was presented the award by the national president at the fraternity's Founders Day Banquet in City Mo., April 17.
TV's Godfrey Has Cancer
NEW YORK —(UPI)— Surgeons found a cancer in Arthur Godfrey's left lung today and began to remove the section of the lung affected by it.
Man Flees From Woman's Scream
There was no indication from the announcement that Godfrey would be an invalid as a result of the operation—the thing he said he feared the most. But a long convalescence can be expected as in most lung operations.
An unidentified man who grabbed a KU woman in Robinson Gymnasium last night was frightened off by her screams.
by her scream. In a report to the campus police, the woman said she had been practicing dancing in Robinson Gymnasium. After she showered, dressed and was about to leave, an unknown man grabbed her by the shoulders. The man told her not to scream and that he would not hurt her. She screamed and the man released her.
A male student who was in the building said he got a glimpse of the fleeing man.
The Lawrence police department has assigned a detective to investigate.
Weather
Mostly fair tonight, increasing cloudiness tomorrow, continued warm. Low tonight mid 40s northwest to lower 60s southeast. High tomorrow in the 80s.
dition (room furnishings, a memorial campus map, a grand piano for the Big Eight Ballroom, or furniture and accessories for the new patio), and a Kansas scene in a panel display for the Museum of Natural History.
All three were suggestions of the senior gift committee.
"We tried to be as fair and complete in the suggestions as possible. An example of this is the fact that the ballots were all run again last night by Dick Wintermorte after working hours in order to include HOPE," said Robert Billings, Russell, and chairman of the gift committee.
Billings listed four criteria used by the gift committee in selecting its recommendations: practical need and use, actual benefit for as many people as possible, a tangible object, and an object of lasting value.
"In addition to the final suggestions included on the ballot, the committee also considered a huge sun dial for the campus, a fellowship for a professor, a tuberculosis ward for a hospital in Southeast Asia, and "University of Kansas" painted on the KU smoke stack." Billings said
Ballots will be counted late this afternoon and the results of the voting will be announced in tomorrow's Kansas.
Ann Underwood Kindred, Lawrence, class treasurer, announced that the class was now $750 in debt and would be approximately $1,500 in debt by the time senior dues are paid.
"The senior class always runs on deficit financing for 90 per cent of the school year." she said.
Profits come from the senior calendar,announcements,class rings and ticket sales.
The class dues will be $3.50. This will include senior caps and gowns, one-half of the senior picnic costs, the class gift, and other miscellaneous expenses.
Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the Alumni Association, congratulated the class on the honors which its members had received.
"However, the honors aren't the most important element of a good class. It is the class unity and pride with a friendship and interest in one another that really counts," he said.
"All universities are run backwards. They ask little of the students while they are in school, but expect help and cooperation after they graduate.
"There are always alumni who hold back and are not willing to do any work for the University after they graduate. It is the alumni who are active and interested that keep a university going," he said.
Seniors Subdued Spiritless at Coffee
By Saundra Hayn
An apparently spiritless senior class listened quietly to committee reports and voted for a senior class gift this morning. Students who are approaching the long-awaited Commencement seemed unexcited about caps, gowns, picnics, and breakfasts.
"What is all this about HOPE what is it for?" one senior asked his neighbor.
Although some of the will-be graduates chatted with friends, most of the group sat in stony silence.
If the coffee had been for obedience school students, the audience would have been ideal. When speakers made jokes, the audience laughed. When Bill Witt, Dodge City senior and class president, told
everyone to stand and stretch, the audience stood and stretched. When they were told to sit, they sat with the promptness of first grade children.
A lively discussion on gift suggestions was expected, but only two seniors took advantage of the allotted one minute discussion period.
Appearing overwhelmed by the concept of inflation which may cause senior dues to be less effective and which has made the cost of senior activities more expensive, the Class of 1959 maintained a mummified state.
The class philosophy may have been typified by a senior woman who, at the first of the discussion, smiled and said, "I'm really not in the mood to think right now."
Watch Out Sarge, Here Comes the New Major
The four men, Robert Ohmart,
Scott City junior, who made the original purchase, Ralph Payne,
Robert Gillespie, and Alan Handle-
ley, all Prairie Village freshmen,
have been bottle feeding "Major."
as they named the pup.
The pet craze hit the campus with spring, and along with the usual dogs and cats one fraternity has acquired a three-week-old coyote.
Major's formula is milk, cream,
egg yolk, and syrup mixed and
Four members of Lambda Chi Alpha have adopted a small handful of orphaned coyote, which they purchased from Lloyd (Spike) Hout, janitor at the Military Science Building.
Hout found four pups southwest of Lawrence and brought them home. It didn't take long to find buyers for the little puppies even though the chances of keeping one alive was very slim, since they were only about two weeks old.
warmed under a hot water faucet. Feeding times vary between three and four hours, and by the looks of the pup it is in good health. It is almost as wide as it is long.
Major's home is a cardboard box filled with old sheets and a fur piece the men dug up. On cool nights a light bulb is placed in the box for heat.
"I guess we will have to change its name, though," said Payne. "It seems he is a she."
Her eyes are just beginning to open, the "parents" report, but even without eyes she can find her favorite resting place. All one has to do is put a hand down in front of her and she will crawl into the open palm, tuck in her tail, rest her head on the wrist and fall asleep.
Plans for her summer vacation have already been completed. A trip to western Kansas to spend the summer at Ohmart's home in Scott City is in the offing for the little prairie wolf.
West Diplomats End Paris Meet
PARIS — (UPI) — The four Western foreign ministers wound up their Paris conference today and announced "complete agreement" on Western strategy to meet the Soviet Union.
In an official communique, the ministers announced they had reaffirmed their determination to ensure the freedom of West Berlin.
They expressed willingness to engage in negotiations with the Soviets "to ensure a just peace in Europe."
Despite official secrecy on details, responsible sources said the foreign ministers of Britain, France, the United States and West Germany had agreed to seek unification of East and West Berlin under four-power guarantees. It could set the pattern for German reunification.
This would be an answer to the Soviet demand that West Berlin be made a "free city". If the Soviets did not accept it, then the West would call for maintenance of existing rights in West Berlin under
agreement with the Soviet Union and with a U.N. observer stationed in Berlin.
The closing communique made these points;
1. The ministers reaffirmed the West's determination to protect the rights of the West Berlin population and Allied rights and obligations there.
2. The ministers reaffirmed their willingness to negotiate with the Soviets "with a view to establishing a just and durable peace in Europe."
3. The ministers reached "complete agreement" on their position to be presented at the Geneva conference.
4. The results of their meeting will be discussed with the North Atlantic Council.
Highway Patrol 'Wrecks' Two Cars
The professionals are using every prank in the book to trick the students—or at least that's the way 16 members of the Highway Patrol police school see it.
The student troopers investigated a staged "accident" this morning on Naismith Road near Allen Field House.
Two highway patrol cars, which doubled as the wrecked vehicles, were parked off the street. One was resting on the shoulder near a fence, the second straddling the center strip.
Capt. Allen Rush, supervisor of the program, said the mock accident is just one method used to make the students practice the things they have learned.
"This accident has been set up for the student to derive certain logical
"We don't stop at any lengths to create a realistic situation," he said.
Pointing to the two wrecked cars, Capt. Rush told some of the tricks employed to test the prospective troopers' reasoning abilities.
“In one of those cars there is an open liquor bottle, but it isn’t filled with whiskey. Instead it has vinegar in it. I’ll bet the student who finds it will put the driver under arrest. It’s these things we are alerting them to,” he said.
conclusions. Each team works independently, being very secretive about the information they get," he said.
He said that there is no joking among the students investigating this mock accident.
Nor do prospective troopers find their day an easy one.
"This is serious and they know it," he explained.
"The training lasts for two months here at the University. They work from about six in the morning to midnight each day.
"The students go through such an intricate screening program that by the time they get here, they are a pretty diligent group. It took 350 applications to obtain these 16 students." he added.
Capt. Rush said several people had stopped to see if anyone was injured in the accident.
"Tomorrow we anticipate more spectators as we will have another mock accident using badly wrecked cars." he said.
COYOTE PUP—Members of Lambda Chi Alpha provide a feast for a newly acquired pet. From left are Robert Gillespie, Ralph Payne, Alan Handley, all Prairie Village freshmen, and Robert Ohmart, Scott City junior. The pup is Major.