Page 5 Edible Hat Moves Play; Cast for Next Month The complications that arise when a horse eats an expensive straw hat will be the subject of the next University Theatre show Feb. 10-13 in the Music and Dramatic Arts Building. The play, a 19th century French farce titled "An Italian Straw Hat," is popped with philandering brides, outraged husbands and the furious owner of the consumed hat. Gordon Beck, instructor of speech, will direct. LD. cards may be used by students to pick up reserved seats at the theater box office in the Music and Dramatic Arts Building and the Kansas Union concessions stand. Cast members include Lou Lyda, Lawrence, and Marvin Carlson, Wichita, both graduate students; Karl Garrett, Lawrence junior; Bob Moberly, Excelsior Springs, Mo., sophomore; Douglas Halsted, West Medway, Mass., graduate student; Michael Jackson, Kansas City, Mo., freshman; Terry Kiser, Omaha, Nebr., sophomore; James Gohl, Kansas City, Mo., freshman; Janice Beaty, Parsons, sophomore; Molly Hoover, Manhattan freshman. Other cast members are Elizabeth Jarbose, Parsons, and Clenice Roberts, Lawrence, both juniors; Edith Valentine, Lawrence special student; Sandra Powell, Wichita, Julie Harris, Prairie Village, and Ann Runge, Higginsville, Mo., all sophomores. Paul McKee, Ferguson, Mo. grad uate student; Paul Decker, Lawrence junior; Gerald Snell, Topeka senior; Larry Sneegas, Lawrence, and Bruce Ritter, Higginsville, Mo., both sophomores. Suzanne Calvin, Lawrence freshman; Sandra Rogers, Independence, Mo. junior; Lorain Clark, Lawrence sophomore; Karen Lipe, Kansas City, Kan. junior; Barbara Foley, Lawrence, Henry Asbell, Kansas City, Mo., and Ardith Webber, Bartlesville, Okla., all sophomores. Professors Get Leaves University Daily Kansan Two professors in the School of Business have been granted leave of absences to continue study. Wiley Mitchell, professor of business administration and assistant dean of the School of Business, will have a one-year leave beginning in the summer to take part in a management development institute in Lausanne, Switzerland. W. Keith Weltmer, professor of business administration and director of executive development, who is a lieutenant colonel, will spend the spring semester attending the officers' associate course at the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth. Maintenance Faces Pay Cut some janitors of the University will run as high as $5,578.86. (Continued from Page 1) Mr. Nichols said today the abnormal number of hours claimed by the workers is caused by a shortage of employees with many special projects to be completed. Every crew but power and watchmen crews are shrot-handed, Mr. Nichols said. The University has eight janitor vacancies and two electrician vacancies. Common laborers formerly paid $1.05 to $1.62 an hour will receive $1 to $1.34 under civil service and janitors, $83 to $1.10. They formerly received $1 to $1.34. KU pays its electricians, plumbers and steamfitters a starting wage of $1.79 an hour, with that figure climbing to a maximum of $2.63 after 20 years of service. Under civil service, the rates would be $1.47 minimum and $1.98 maximum. Mr. Nichols said the University has had no resignations from maintenance employees so far. But he said most had not been notified of the exact amount of their wage cuts. Gov. George Docking also made an attack on Mr. Nichols' salary The governor said Mr. Nichols' salary was increased from $8,000 in 1953 to $13,500 last year, while an economics professor got only a three per cent raise in the same period. Over $70,000 Received for Grants, Scholarships in Science Research KU received more than $70,000 in grants and scholarships in the past week. The National Science Foundation granted $60,800 for an 8-week summer institute for elementary school teachers and supervisors in biological and physical sciences. The Foundation also granted $7,800 to the University for botanical research. The Shell Companies Foundation, Inc., will renew the Shell Fellowship in geology for the academic year 1959-60. The Garvey Drilling Company, Wichita, has again made $500 available for an undergraduate scholarship in petroleum engineering. KU is one of 12 schools in the nation selected for the first elementary school institutes ever sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Fifty teachers will receive stipends while other qualified persons may be accepted as members of the institute. "Applications for the KU institute are due March 1," said Dr Items for the Official Bulletin must be brought to the public relations office, 222-A Strong, before 9:30 a.m. on the day materialization. Do not bring Bulletin material. The only Kansan. Notices should include name, place, date, and time of function. Ph.D. reading examination, French. Saturday, Jan. 10. 9-11 a.m. In Fraser, Room 11. Turn books in to Miss Craig, Fraser, room 120, by noon Jan. 8th. Official Bulletin TOMORROW WEDNESDAY Newman Club Mass, 6:30 a.m. St. John's Church, 11th and Kentucky Episcopal morning prayer, 6:45 a.m. and Holy Communion, 7:00 a.m. with breakfast following, Canterbury House, Newman Club Mass, 6:30 a.m. St. John's Church, 11th and Kentucky, KU Faculty Club, 8 p.m. square dance. Hosts: Mr. and Mrs. L. Worth Seagondollar. WEDNESDAY Graduates and seniors looking toward teaching in church college invited to attend a conference at Center with personnel representative of Methodist Board of Education. Call Rev. Dennis McNamara, 519-428-3011, lunch $.50 at noon or for appointment. Jay Jones, 5:00 p.m. Pine Room, Kan- Quill Club, 7:30 p.m. Pine Room, Kansas Union. Literary magazines from other schools will be examined and discussed. Jay Janes. 5:00 p.m. Pine Room, Kansas Union. Attendance required. KU Faculty Club, 7:30 p.m. Duplicate bridge. Hosts: Mr. and Mrs. James E. Seaver, VI3-4902. Call for reservations by Tuesday. Morse Code, visual signaling variety, was first used by the Army during the Navajo campaign in 1860. Episcopal morning prayer, 6:45 a.m. Holy communion, 9:00 a.m. with breaks after the service. Robert W. Ridgway, associate professor of education and director of the institute. "Applicants must be eligible for admission to the KU graduate School, "Dr. Ridgway said." Stipends for 50 persons with at least two years experience will be available up to $75 a week, plus up to $80 for travel and $15 for dependents with a maximum of four." Monday, Jan. 5, 1959 Research for the second N.S.F. grant, that of $7,800 for research entitled "Biosystematic Investigation in Haplopappus," will be director by Raymond C. Jackson, assistant professor of botany. The genus Haplopappus is in the sunflower family. The N.S.F. will provide for field work for three summers, in Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, southern Colorado and California. Dr. Jackson's assistant will be Ning Ii, Taipei, Taiwan, graduate student. The Shell Fellowship in geology, to be renewed by the Shell Companies Foundation, Inc., is open to graduate geology students. It bears a stipend of $1,600 annually, with an ★FAST Movie and 35mm Color Service (By Eastman Kodak) additional sum for fees, books and supplies. 1-Day Photo-Finishing (Black & White Film) Father de Bertier's newest book is "France and the European Alliance, 1816-21: The Private Correspondence Between Metternich and Richelieu." Another work, "Metternich and His Times," will be released later this year. Save at . . . HIXON'S Father de Bertier has taught at the College of Saint Jean, Versailles, and the Catholic University of Lyon. He has been visiting professor at the University of Ottawa and the University of Notre Dame. He studied at the College of Saint Jean, the University of Caen, and the Sorbonne, where he received the doctor of letters in 1949. Father de Bertier was ordained to the priesthood in 1936. 721 Mass. The Garvey Drilling Company scholarship allows the graduate recipient to participate in a major research project of the petroleum engineering department. The award will be made during the spring semester. VI 3-0330 French Politics Theme For 3rd Humanities Talk Among his academic honors are the Thiers Prize and the Gobert Prize from the French Academy. A French historian, the Rev. Dr. Guillaume de Bertier de Sauvigny, a Catholic priest, will deliver the season's third Humanities Lecture at 8 p.m. Thursday in Fraser Theater. A professor of history at the Catholic University of Paris, France, Father de Bertier will speak on "The Handicap of Tradition in French Politics." At 4 p.m. Friday, Father de Bertier will discuss "The New French Constitution" at a Student Union Activities-sponsored Current Events Forum in the Kansas Union Browsing Room. Melvin Mencher, assistant professor of journalism, will moderate the discussion. Refreshments will be served. Also on Father de Bertier's schedule are engagements to speak to four classes in history, political science and education, and to lecture in French on "How Frenchmen See the Foreigners." 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