Daily hansan
56th Year. No. 47
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, Nov. 17, 1958
Melodrama Opens Tonight
Bob Potter, Kansas City, Kan, senior, and Marvin Carlson, Wichita graduate student, have a slight disagreement in The University Players' "Ten Nights in a Bar-Room."
The melodrama will open tonight in the Experimental Theatre at 8 p.m. The show will run until Saturday night with a matinee on Friday.
Allen Crafton, professor of speech, is directing
the play. Prof. Crafton said that this year the melodrama would be handled as much as possible in comparison to the manner in which the melodramas were staged years ago.
There will be no deliberate hamming on the part of the actors. The melodrama will be played "straight." As straight as a melodrama can be played.
Military Ball Begins Queen Selection
Finalists in the competition for queen of the Military Ball will be guests at two social functions between now and the night of the ball, December 6.
The 12 finalists will have an informal coke date with their ROTC escorts Thursday at the Stables and then will be guests at a formal tea December 3 at the Castle Tea Room.
At this tea they will meet with the ROTC department heads Col Ralph Hanchin, Army; Capt. John W. Newsome, Navy, and Lt. Col. Robert Ash, Air Force. Scabbard and Blade advisers Capt. B. J. Pinkerton, Army, Lt. Louis M. Sappanos, Navy and Lt. Donald L. Hunter, Air Force. The officers' wives will also be present at the tea.
The escorts will meet after the tea and select the queen and two attendants. The queen selection will be announced at the Military Ball.
The escorts for the finalists are Stan Severance, Kansas City, Kan., Lee Lord, Ridge Manor, Fla., John Girotto, Pittsburg, Bill Witt, Garden City, Jerry Simmons, Rosemead, Calif., Vernon Hay, Ottawa, Wendel Ridder, Higginsville, Mo., Maynard
Morris, Augusta, John Bourret, Mission, Ron Womack, Lenexa, Don Meserve, Mission, and Kim Wiley, Witchita, All are seniors.
Audubon City Mo.
Shares Maxwell Kansas City. Mo.
sophomore; Sharon Skaggs, Dodge City sophomore; Helen Walker, Ft. Leavenworth senior; Cheryl Frazee, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore; Dyre Dheher, Iola sophomore; Linda Greene, Brookline, senior; Sue Weston, Overland Park freshman; Sharon Dey, New York junior.
Sharon Tillman, Clay Center freshman; Judy Allen. Lawrence junior, Kay Kessler. Johns Hopkins junior, Bell, Sallina sophomore; Sue Simpson, Newton freshman; Carolyn Drake, Clay. Jameel Moore. James Wells, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore; Arden Weston, Kansas City, Mo. senior.
Cathy Gunter, Des Moines, Iowa
freshman; Beverly Davidson, Kansas
sophomore; Emily Calhoun, climat
 Ohio, junior; Joy Benjes, Kansas
City, Mo. senior; Carol Lou Kranzer,
Brookings, Dakota, freshman;
Stake, Dakota, junior; Joan Dodder, Overbrook junior.
Judy Randall, Colby freshman; Janet
Miller, Colby freshman; Janeh
Lynch, Omaha, Neb., sophomore;
Barbara Hodgson, Lawrence junior; Jo-
Coppage, Braggadocio, Moe. sophomore.
The Military Ball is sponsored by, Scabbard and Blade, an honorary military society for students in all three ROTC units.
Accident, Theft Involve Cars
Campus and Lawrence police records over the weekend show two KU students involved in a car accident here on the campus, and a car reported stolen from the Music and Dramatic Arts parking lot.
Two cars belonging to KU students were damaged in an accident in front of the Kansas Union Saturday.
Campus police said today that the cars driven by Farrokh Shahrokhi, Tehran, Iran, senior, and Richard R. Bower, Norton senior, collided as Shahrokhi's car pulled away from the curb on Jayhawk Boulevard heading south. Bower's car also was heading south. No arrests were made.
Campus police estimated the damage to Shahrokhi's car at $150 and to Bower's car at $200.
A car belonging to John S. Callahan, Independence senior, was reported stolen from the Music and Dramatic Arts Building parking lot last night.
The car was found at 21st and Iowa later last night. The only damage was a rain-soaked interior.
Concert Has Modern Flavor
Bv Robert Harwi
A crowd of about 100 KU jazz fans was treated to a two hour concert of big band and small combo jazz last night in the Kansas Union Ballroom, sponsored by the Student Union Activities and the KU Jazz Club.
The concert's flavor was definitely modern jazz, but there was enough "solid" music to satisfy anyone liking the popular idiom at all.
The first group, a 12-member band called the Jays, was led by saxophonist Dean Perry. Standout numbers included "Laura," "Tenderly," "Early Autumn," and "9:20 Special."
Although playing well together, the group kept a certain sameness
In fact, long notes seem to be a hazard of this genre of music. There is little drive in modern jazz. The notes come forth and are interesting, but never seem to lead anywhere. It is hard to be part of this brand of music.
in most of the arrangements. It seemed it felt more at home playing slow numbers. Faster pieces ended abruptly just as they were about to lead somewhere. Solos were filled with notes held much too long.
The Jays had obviously rehearsed. They were in good form. The trumpet section hit crisp, clean notes and the sax section was unusually strong.
Outstanding soloists included sax-
ophonist Gary Foster, trombonist
Chuck Malone and trumpeter Bob
Isle.
The trumpet and the sax exchanged solos in each of this series. But there was nothing to distinguish one solo from another. The notes poured forth and ran together. Economy was not the order of the evening.
It was necessary to be a modern jazz fan to appreciate their five numbers.
The second group, described merely as a "Piano-less Quartet," had Gary Foster on sax, Don Conard on bass, Jim Lovelace on drums, and Carmel Jones on trumpet.
The music was cool, all right, but it built up hopes and then let one down too quickly to take one anywhere.
All this is not saying the musicians were incompetent. It was the method that was at fault.
TNE 3 Out Before Heard
University Suspends Trio Before Hearing or Trial
The three students charged last week with painting TNE signs in Lawrence and on the campus were first suspended before they had a hearing. The Daily Kansan has learned.
An administration spokesman said today the University acted in accordance with a policy of several years' standing which specifies dismissal for vandalism. The students were suspended the day they were arrested, Nov. 8, pending further investigation of the case, the spokesman said.
The students, Robert Elliott, Wichita second-year law, John Madden, Wichita first-year law, and Milford Johnson, Iola junior, were also told the suspension would stand regardless of the outcome of their trial in Lawrence police court. The trial opens Wednesday.
The administration spokesman explained that the University had made its decision on the facts it had investigated, and the court action was a matter between the students and the city.
The students met with Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of students, on Monday, Nov. 10, to discuss the case. They first learned of disciplinary action against them when they read the Nov. 8 issue of the Lawrence Daily Journal-World. The newspaper reported:
"Dean of Students Laurence C. Woodruff told the Journal-World the students were suspended immediately. 'This may amount to a day, a week or forever—depending upon investigation of the matter.'"
On Wednesday, the dean met with the students again and told them they were suspended indefinitely. Dean Woodruff suspended them for implication in "vandalism against the state, city, (and) county..."
The suspension was originally made on the strength of the arresting officers' report, which Joe Skillman, chief of campus police, gave the dean.
TNE signs, the symbol of Theta Nu Epsilon, banned drinking fraternity, were found painted on Strong Hall, Watson Library, Memorial Stadium, the Chi Omega fountain, and on sidewalks and streets at KU. In Lawrence, the signs were found on traffic signs and on a liquor store window, and other signs were painted on the Kansas Turnpike and highway entrances to Lawrence.
In police court, the students were arraigned Thursday on five counts of painting property, and one count of loafing and loitering. They were arrested at about 4:30 a.m. Nov. 8 by campus police, and were booked at the Lawrence police station.
(See Editorial Page 2)
The Campus Chest fund drive began today with solicitations from students.
Today First Day For Campus Chest
The drive will last all week and end with the announcement of awards at the Kingston Trio concert at 8 Sunday evening in Hoch Auditorium.
A permanent trophy will be awarded the group with the highest donations per capita, not the highest group total. All houses will compete with separate floors of the freshman dormitories and GSP upperclass dormitory. Solicitations will be taken by house representatives. Donations of Student Union Book Store rebate slips will be accepted.
Rain hinders and helps around the KU campus. See page 5 for details.
The Mr. Campus Chest contest will begin Wednesday in Strong Hall. Each women's house will nominate a candidate whose picture will be placed with a container for donations in the Strong rotunda.
The solicitations drive will end Saturday morning. The Mr. Campus Chest contest will close at 4 p.m. Friday.
More than 1,000 concert tickets have been sold, but 700-800 downstairs seats are still available. Tickets are $2 for downstairs seats, $1.75 for first balcony, and $1.50 for second balcony. Tickets may be purchased at the information booth on the campus or at the Kansas Union.
Campus Chest drive fund allocations are:
fund, 10 per cent; CARE, 10 per cent; National Scholarship fund for Negro students, 10 per cent; Committee on Friendly Relations Among Foreign Students, 10 per cent, and Save The Children Federation, 10 per cent.
All funds, with the exception of CARE, go to student groups.
Chairman of the 1958 Campus Chest Drive is Tom Van Dyke, Kansas City, Mo., junior.
Other committee chairmen are;
Kenneth Wagnon, Wichita junior, co-chairman; Alice Gould, Kansas City, Mo., junior, solicitations; Martha Crosier, Lawrence senior, publicity; Annette Johnson, Hutchinson senior, special events; Karen Lumm, Wichita junior, publicity co-chairman, and Don Logan, Prairie Village sophomore, special events co-chairman.
Solicitations co-chairmen are:
Mary Ann Mize, Salina, sororities; Bill Godfrey, Arkansas City, fraternities; Terry Elliott, Ft. Scott, men's residence and scholarship halls; Elinor Hadley, Kansas City, Mo, women's residence and scholarship halls. All are iuniors.
Nancy Baber, Webster Groves, freshman dormitories; Mike Ryan, Emporia, unorganized students. Both are sophomores.
Dick Peterson, Kansas City, Mo. junior, is the All Student Council representative.