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University Daily Kansan Thursday. April 16, 1959
GEOLOGY STUDENTS CHECK DISPLAY — William Ward, Hays junior, and Ellis Miller, Langdon senior, look over the geology department exhibit, "Exploration by Land, Sea, and Air."
Mrs. McNown to Open Engineering Exposition
Mrs. John S. McNown, wife of the dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, will cut the official ribbon to open the "Pioneering in Engineering" exposition at noon tomorrow.
Nancy O'Brien, Great Lakes, Ill. junior and KU relays queen, and Carol Earls, University of Missouri sophomore, the Big Eight relays queen, will witness the opening ceremony.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, Dean and Mrs. McNown, Associate Dean and Mrs. Donald E. Metzler, School of Engineering, and Edwin R. Phelps, vice president of the Pittsburg and Midway Coal and Mining Co., Pittsburgh, Kan., will go on the first tour of the exposition.
They will view 16 displays constructed by engineering, industrial design, mathematics, and ROTC students. The exhibits will show new advances, processes, and concepts in engineering and its associated fields.
Engineers of 3 States Hold Soil Meet Here
About 150 engineers from Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska attended the 9th annual Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering Conference here today.
The conference is sponsored by the department of civil engineering, the School of Engineering and Architecture, and University Extension. Dr. James Peoples, associate professor of geology, will be one of the speakers.
Valentine Will Speak To Lawrence Group
Charles A. Valentine, assistant professor of sociology, will speak on "The People of New Britain" at a Lawrence Rock and Mineral Club meeting at 7:30 tomorrow night in the Community Building.
New Britain is an island off New Guinea in Melanesia inhabited by a people known as the Lakalai
Step In-Get Acquainted!
The exposition will be open from noon to 9 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.
First National Bank 8th & Mass.
Myron Bernitz, Fudora senior and exposition publicity chairman, said he expects 25.000 people to view the exhibits.
Class Break Set For Engineers
Junior-senior classes in the School of Engineering and Architecture will be canceled tomorrow and Saturday during the Engineering Exposition.
Freshman and sophomore classes will meet as usual except in classrooms needed for exhibits.
Classes to be held are: engineering manufacturing processes 1, engineering mechanics la and 48, and architecture 2,6,10,11,14,15, 16,21 and 47.
Freshmen and sophomores will be excused from classes if they are needed to work on exhibits. Students helping with the Exposition can get class excuses from the student chairman of each departmental exhibit.
KU Photogs Ride with Law
Six members of Kappa Alpha Mu, photo-journalism honor fraternity, got plenty of action Saturday as guests of the Kansas City, Mo., police department.
The photographers rode from 3 to 11 p.m. with patrol cars assigned to the Accident Investigation Unit. One member rode in each car and patrolled the Kansas City streets with the officers.
During the evening the students covered wrecks, shootings, fights, injuries and intoxication cases with their cameras. Most of the members also experienced a "siren run" in which they went screaming through the streets at 60 m.p.h.
Arrangements for the photographic expedition were made through Major Don Bishop. Chief of the Detective Division of the Kansas City Police Department.
3 KU Men Write for Texts
Three engineering drawing professors at KU have added expression in literary form to their list of accomplishments.
Albert S. Palmerlee, professor of engineering drawing, George J. Hood, professor emeritus of engineering drawing, and Charles J. Bacr, associate profes or of engineering drawing, have recently collaborated to write several sections for the new 10-volume McGraw-Hill "Fncyclopedia of Science and Technology."
Prof. Baer is also the author of a chapter on electrical drawing which appears in the second edition
of the text "Engineering Drawing," and of a book entitled "Electrical and Electronic Graphics," which went into production on March 6.
Business Group Gets 4
Four students have been elected to Beta Gamma Sigma, national honorary business society.
They are:
Gary L. Carrico, Beloit, Janet Inez Douthitt, Augusta, Robert Crawford, Salina, all juniors, and Arun Joshi, Chaudigarib, India.
Mr. Joshi graduated from the School of Business in February.
THIS
April 17 and 18
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
Dance to the Music of
9:30 - 12:30 p.m.
COMBO
The
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KUOK
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TEE-PEE
Tonight
4:00 Music in the Afternoon
6:15 Jayhawk Jump Time
7:05 Musical Pathways
7:40 Editorial Time
7:45 Lucky Strike Melodies and Sports
8:05 KUOK Album Time — "Dean Martin Sings"
9:05 Music from Beyond the Heavens
10:05 Rich Wood Show
11:00 Lucky Strike Melodies
11:15 Rich Wood
12:00 Sign Off
SAC bases have automotive hobby shops where airmen may spend their off-duty hours.
Fire losses in the U.S. averaged $3 million per day last year.
KANU
Tonight
5:00 Twilight Concert: 'String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 76, No. 4' by Haydn
7:00 Concert Hall
7.30 Contemporary Concert:
"Second Chamber Symphony"
by Schoenberg
7:55 News
8:00 University of the Air:
Asian Institute Lectures — "Divided Korea"
9:00 Everybody's Classics
9:55 News
10:00 A Little Night Music;
"Quintet Op. 143 for Guitar and String Quartet" by Castelnuovo-Tedesco
11:00
11:0f Sigh Off
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New Angel Re-Issue
Tristan and Isolde with Kirsten Flagstad
on LP Records
Bell Music Co.
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Relays Dance
Tomorrow Night
Friday, April 17
9-12 p.m. Kansas Union Ballroom
$2.50 - Semi-formal
Tickets on Sale at Union and Information Booth