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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Oct. 14, 1958
Sometimes It Doesn't Pay To Be a Good Samaritan
"You can't win for losing" may be just an adage to most people, but for two KU students from De Soto it's a fact.
Last July the rain came just about every day of the week. The sportsmen - students, Charles Johnston, sophomore, and Frank Dernovish, junior, were target shooting and checking the Kansas River flood stage near the old De Soto bridge when they became winners.
Fishmermen on the bank told the students a green and white boat with a steering wheel and no driver had just drifted by. Dernovish walked downstream along the bank and caught a glimpse of the boat.
Driftwood and debris kept the 18-foot outboard just out of reach. The current was too swift to swim.
The boat swirled out of sight as they watched helplessly, trying to decide what to do.
June Farm Income Reaches New High
Kansas farm income in June 1958 reached a new high, reports the September Kansas Business Review, published by the KU Business Research Center.
Nationally, farm income in June was up 6 per cent over May and 17 per cent over June 1957.
June farm income, totaling $108.-
553 million, represented a 180 per cent gain over May and a 57 per cent gain over June 1957.
The remarkable June gain in Kansas farm income was accounted for by crop receipts of $77,324 million which were 20 times as large as for May. Livestock receipts of $31,229 million were down 10.4 per cent from May.
For the 12-month period ending with June, Kansas farm income equalled $933,407 million, up 14.9 per cent from the corresponding period a year earlier.
K-State Decides On Decorations
MANHATTAN — Kansas State College will have homecoming decorations as usual despite a disagreement between Greek organizations and their student government.
The games and rallies committee of the student council had cut the announcement of house decorations winners from halftime ceremonies on the basis that the presentation was not a part of the halftime ceremonies and had placed it at the beginning of the game.
Greek organizations said they must have a part in the halftime ceremonies or there would be no decorations.
In a joint meeting of the two factions, it was decided that the trophies would be presented before the game, and the winners would also be announced at halftime.
2 Professors Attend Accounting Meeting
Two accounting faculty members attended accounting meetings Saturday through Monday in Detroit.
Howard F. Stettler, professor of business administration, attended a meeting for the secretaries of the State Boards of Accountancy. Keith W. Weltmer, associate professor of business administration, attended a Certified Public Accountants examiners meeting.
There are three scheduled civilian helicopter services in the U.S. and 105 commercial operators of whirlybirds.
Johnston thought of his own boat—he'd hate to lose it. The one in the river looked newer.
Even though driftwood was piling up faster and it was getting dark, sympathy for the owner sent him hurrying home to get his own boat and try to save the derelict.
Dernovish helped him slip it into the river. They jumped in, ready to start the motor and take off. But it wouldn't start.
Johnson labored with the starter cord and coaxed the motor for 40 minutes. "When she wound up it was pitch dark," he said, "We didn't think we'd have a chance to find the outboard but I pushed her along as fast as she'd go."
Thirty minutes later they caught it, about half a mile beyond the bridge on Highway K-7.
Johnston's boat was almost out of gas. They rode back to De Soto in the "lost" boat and towed his boat behind. The Good Samaritans, with an eye for salvage rights, "split the fees" and put an ad in a local
newspaper. They asked the owner to describe the boat and identify its contents: two oars, some rope, tools and a pair of gloves.
Salvage rights would be from one-fourth to one-half the boat's value.
They got a letter describing a lost boat but it was a 10-ft. craft with a spotlight.
After four days it stopped raining. The ad had two more days to run. They went to the river to check the boats' anchorage Saturday.
The driftwood had disappeared both boats were also gone.
"We lost twice as much as we found." Johnston said. "We didn't go after one or any of the three lost boats. They could have been out to the Mississippi river by then."
The students are not thinking of getting a new boat. After ending up in the same boat with the guy who's up the creek, they're going to stick to fishing on the bank.
6 Join Education Staff, One More in January
The new assistant professors are: Dr. Allen Jack Edwards, Dr. William John York, and Dr. Vernon E. Troxel.
It is hard to buy chocolate Zebu milk.
The School of Education has six new faculty members, three assistant professors and three instructors. Another assistant professor will join the faculty Jan. 15.
New instructors are: Mrs. Marguerite Kerfoot, Miss Jane Moorman, Miss Janet Presutti.
Dr. Paul C. Burns will join the faculty in January, after completing work for the Ph.D. at the State University of Iowa. He will teach in the elementary education section. He has taught in the public schools in Kentucky and is a graduate assistant at Iowa. He holds A.B. and M.A. degrees from Moorhead State College in Kentucky, earned in 1945 and 1947.
Miss Moorman earned the A.B. degree in 1948 at Austin College and the M.Ed. degree in 1951 from the University of Missouri. She has been a residence hall counselor at Indiana University and the University of Kansas.
education degree from Teachers College, Columbia University, earlier this year. He earned the A.B. degree from Iowa State Teachers College in 1952 and the M.A. degree in 1955 from Columbia, where he was a Lydia C. Roberts graduate fellow, Mr. Troxel will soon receive the Ed.D. degree from the University of Illinois, where he earned the M.Ed. degree in 1955. He holds the B. S. degree from Illinois State Normal University.
Dr. Edwards received the Ph.D. degree from the State University of Iowa this year. He earned the A.B. degree in 1950 from Birmingham-Southern College and the M.A. degree in 1955 from the University of Alabama.
Mrs. Kerfoot earned the bachelor of fine arts degree from KU in 1939, and the bachelor of art education at the end of the 1958 summer session.
Dr. York received the doctor of
Miss Presutti earned the B.S. degree in physical education last June from Ohio State University.
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