Daily hansan
56th Year, No.83
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Monday, Feb. 9, 1959
DIXIE CUP RUSH—Informality was the keynote at a Kappa Kappa Gamma rush party yesterday afternoon. Left to right, Susan Maxwell,
Kansas City, Mo., sophomore pledge, and Julian Rayl, Hutchinson junior active, chat with Joyce Tobiasen, Kansas City, Mo., freshman rushee.
Rushees Visit Sororities
About 300 KU women began the first spring rush in University history Saturday and Sunday by attending open houses at the 13 sororities.
The 300 women signed up Feb.2 with the intention of joining a sorority. First invitations to parties will be issued Feb.28, and formal pledging will take place March 18.
The early rushing will help in determining ahead of time the housing needs for women students next fall.
There will be three dates of invitational parties. The first invitational will consist of eight parties
Register Your New Car Tag Number
"Any student or staff member who fails to register his 1959 license number will also invalidate his University car registration." Joe Skillman, campus police chief chief said today.
All students who did not report their 1959 car license numbers in the enrollment line must do so at the parking and traffic office within 48 hours of the change.
Chief Skillman did not announce a deadline for license registration, but said one would be given later.
Reports can be made by telephone to the parking and traffic office.
per sorority on Feb. 28 and March 1. Each house will hold five parties March 14, the second invitational, and three parties March 15, the third invitational.
The matching of names and sororities will take place in the Dean of Women's office March 16, foll-
lowed by formal pledging in the houses March 18.
The spring rush system which KU is employing this year has been used for many years by a number of major universities and colleges in the country. Women going through rush must pay a $5 fee.
Students Don't Need Warning About Ice
Students who slid to classes this morning were ready to agree with the weather man's "extreme caution" warning.
Freezing rain and snow to continue today and tomorrow in the Lawrence area. Today's weather conditions have been described as a severe ice storm.
O. E. Ingle, maintenance man for the state highway department said, "I think the highways were the worst I've ever seen them this morning. I've been on this job for 20 years."
Lawrence police had 10 accidents reported to them by noon with only one resulting injury. Joel Robinson, a Lawrence taxi driver, was admitted to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. KU police reported only one accident by noon.
C. G. Bayles, superintendent of the building and grounds dept., said that about 40 of his men began sanding the streets at 5 a.m.
The KU Weather Bureau gave the
overnight low temperature as 25 degrees. There was one onehundredth of an inch of precipitation by 8 a.m. Relative humidity was 98 per cent at 8 a.m.
Van Sickle Attacks Docking's Budget
Rep. Tom Van Sickle (R-Fort Scott) said Friday Gov. George Docking has submitted a "deficit budget" to the legislature.
Rep. Van Sickle, a KU student last semester, spoke at the Current Events Forum. He said that Gov. Docking's budget calls for 240 million dollars in expenditures, but only 230 million dollars will come into the treasury in the next two years.
"But he won't be here then," Van Sickle said. "He wants to be in the Senate."
Asked whether deficit spending is the general practice of the state and national governments, James Drury, associate professor of political science, said the concept has not been used to any great extent on the state level.
"I would not defend borrowing to pay for current operations," he added.
Rep. Van Sickle emphasized he feels the present one half cent increase in the sales tax, which Gov. Docking has asked the legislature to repeal, is needed to keep the budget balanced.
"The Republicans aren't opposed to repealing it if we can carry out these functions by financing them some other way," he said.
He also said the governor has not provided for capital improvements which the Republicans feel are necessary. "The improvements will have to be made sometime. When the bind comes the present governor won't be governor and he just doesn't care," he said.
The young Republican said that the governor's budget is actually "too conservative" because of its failure to provide needed state services.
11th Brotherhood Banquet Is Feb. 19
Jack Issellhardt, executive secretary of the Kansas anti-discrimination committee, will be the featured speaker at the 11th Annual Brotherhood Banquet.
The banquet will be held at 6:30 p.m., Feb. 19, in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union. Tickets for the dinner can be bought for $1.50 from Mrs. Howard Baumgartel, 2138 Mitchell Rd.
Rep. Van Sickle said he felt five seats in the House, including his, would be reapportioned during the present term.
"Are you sure?" asked Prof.
Drurv.
"They couldn't agree on one seat last time," Prof. Drury said.
Prof. Drury said the current impasse between the Republican controlled legislature and Democratic Gov. Docking will end in a compromise.
"There is give and take," he said. "Through this interrelationship we arrive at public policy."
The Student Union Activities Current Events Forums are held Fridays at 4 p.m. in the Kansas Union music room. The moderator is Melvin Mencher, assistant professor of journalism.
K-State Game To Be Televised; Ticket Sale Slow
Only a few students have taken advantage of the sale of bus and game tickets for the KU-K-State game Wednesday night at Manhattan, but many more will see it on television.
Kansas State Athletic Director H. B. (Bebe) Lee has announced that the game will be televised over a five-station network.
Carrying the game will be television stations WIBW-TV in Topeka, KTVH in Wichita, KMBC-TV in Kansas City, KVC in Dodge City and KAYS-TV in Hays. The game starts at 7:35 p.m.
Space for 76 students is available on the bus trip which the upperclassmen's pep club, the Ku-Kus, is sponsoring for the trip to Manhattan, William D. Martin, Kansas City, Mo, junior and chairman of the migration to K-State, said that most of the tickets have not yet been sold.
A $4 ticket will give the student a bus ride to and from Manhattan and a seat at the game. Tickets will be sold in the information booth on Jayhawk Boulevard from 2-5 p.m. today and tomorrow and from 2-4 p.m. Wednesday. The buses will leave at 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Ben Hibbs Arrives for Annual William Allen White Day
Glare, ice and glaring flashbulls greeted Ben Hibbs, editor of the Saturday Evening Post, when he stepped off the train at 11:55 this morning.
Stepping gingerly over the ice and smiling graciously at the cameras, one of the University's most famous graduates cast a bespectacled glance at the sky and remarked that Kansas certainly puts on a poor show as far as weather is concerned.
Pulitzer Prize Poet Speaks Again Today
Pulitzer prize-winning poet Karl Shapiro said last night that the main problem of the Jewish writer is regaining a Jewish consciousness
This consciousness, he said, does not mean religion, for religion is merely a by-product. He said that only in Israel and the United States do Jewish writers have the freedom to establish this consciousness.
Mr. Shapiro will present a University Lecture at 4 o'clock this afternoon in Bailey Auditorium. He will speak on "The Critic in Spite of Himself."
After his speech Mr. Shapiro read some of his poems from his recently published book, "Poems of the
Reactions to this book, Mr. Shapiro said, seemed to be most favorable among non-Jewish intellectual critics and least favorable among Jewish intellectual critics.
Jew." the title of which he said "seemed obstreperous in tone to some book reviewers."
Introductory remarks were made by Jerry Sattler, president of the KU Hillel organization, which sponsored Mr. Shapiro's appearance, and Roland Leiser, the program chairman for the evening.
Mr. Shapiro is professor of English at the University of Nebraska and editor of "The Prairie Schooner," literary magazine at the University of Nebraska.
Mr. Hibbs, a 1923 graduate of the School of Journalism is here to give the Tenth Annual William Allen White Lecture.
He will speak at 3 p.m. tomorrow in Fraser Theater after receiving the William Allen White Foundation's 1959 national citation for journalistic merit.
An old friend of Mr. Hibbs, Fred Ellsworth, executive secretary of the Alumni Assn., who knew him when Hibbs worked on the University Daily Kansan, grasped his hand and shook it vigorously.
Then, while Mr. Hibbs turned to speak to Dean Burton W. Marvin of the Journalism School, Mr. Ellsworth greeted the smiling Mrs. Hibbs with a light kiss.
"I hardly know where to start looking," he said. "It's been so long since I've been here I don't know who I'm going to see or where I'm going to go."
Mr. Hibbs didn't forget how nasty
Kansas weather can be in February. He wore a hat and a topcoat with a muffler around his throat.
As he stood on the platform and talked, he pushed his hat on a bit firmer and turned up the collar of the coat. He obliged another old acquaintance by standing in the
As he walked in, a woman who said she had "cut her teeth" on the pages of the Saturday Evening Post, smiled.
cold rain for a photograph near the railroad tracks.
"So that's Ben Hibbs," she said. He's done all right."
NATIVE KANSAN RETURNS—Ben Hibbs, editor of the Saturday Evening Post and a 1923 KU graduate, arrives in Lawrence.