Daily hansan
56th Year, No. 6
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, Sept. 19, 1958
25,000 Fans Expected for Mitchell's Opening Game
It's Jack Mitchell Day tomorrow and an estimated crowd of 25,000 will surge into Memorial Stadium to view the season's opener at 1:30 p.m.
Coach Mitchell will have a delegation from his hometown, Arkansas City, here for the game, and his football players will meet a delegation from Texas Christian University, ranked eighth in the nation in pre-season polls.
The weatherman, evidently not a KU fan, predicts scattered showers throughout the day tomorrow. Temperatures under the partly cloudy skies will probably rise into the mid-70s.
Students are expected to start seeking seats for the game shortly before noon. Sections on the east side of the stadium will be reserved for students wearing white shirts.
Football enthusiasm on the KU campus is mounting high today as students and fans anxiously await the first game coached by Mitchell at KU.
Traditions Rally Tonight
The annual Traditions Rally is scheduled for 7:15 tonight in Hoch Auditorium to start off the festivities. The rally will be followed by a send-off for Coach Mitchell and the team, which will spend the night in Toneka.
A Traditions Dance will be held in Hoch from 8:30 to 11:30. George Tidona and his orchestra will provide the music.
Saturday's activities include a pre-game performance by the KU marching band. During half time the Pensacola, Fla., Naval Air Base drill team will perform.
Special Groups Coming
Auto caravans from Arkansas City will be organized to come here for the game. The delegation will be headed by Mavor R. C. Young.
Another caravan will come from Wichita, where Mitchell formerly coached.
New Features for Band
The KU marching band will be on display Saturday before the TCU game under the direction of a new member of the faculty, Kenneth
Bloomquist, assistant band director and an instructor in trumpet.
Mr. Bloomquist is planning to introduce some new formations for the marching band, to go along with uniform changes.
Prepare for Traffic
Campus police said 20 men would be added to the force to help handle the traffic on Mount Oread before and after the game.
A group of Kansas City, Kan police will aid Lawrence police and off-duty Lawrence men will work also.
Post-Game Coffee
In any case, rain or shine, coffee will be available for everyone after the game. The SUA is sponsoring a coffee in the south lounge of the Kansas Union. Students and visitors are invited.
Lunch for TCU Fans
Former Texas Christian University students in the Kansas area will hold a buffet luncheon at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
TCU Athletic Director, L. R.
(Dutch) Meyer will speak at the luncheon. A bloc of tickets in the TCU section will be available at the luncheon.
Business Building Is Summerfield Hall
The Board of Regents this morning voted to name the new School of Business building Summerfield Hall.
It will house the department of economics and University Computation center as well as the School of Business. The late Solon Summerfield was an alumnus and one of KU's greatest benefactors.
State Geologist Given First Professorship
The principal state geologist of the State Geological Survey, Raymond C. Moore, professor of geology, today was appointed the first Solon E. Summerfield Distinguished Professor.
Dr. Moore has three times served as chairman of the department of geology and for 38 years was state geologist of Kansas.
The appointment by the Board of Regents was made following nomination by Chancellor Franklin D Murphy, who described Dr. Moore as being "without question one of the world's greatest geologists and invertebrate paleontologists."
Dr. Moore's appointment to the Distinguished Professorship, the first of five filled at K.U., will become effective October 1. It means that his regular salary from the State of Kansas will be supplemented by the equivalent of income from a $100,000 endowment, paid by the K.U. Endowment Association from unrestricted income of the Solon E. Summerfield bequest.
One more Summerfield Distinguished Professorship and one named for Elizabeth M. Watkins also may be filled by appointment from within the K.U. faculty. Two distinguished professorships to be supported by a $200,000 endowment created by Roy A. Roberts, president of the Kansas City Star, will be filled from outside the faculty.
Weather
Cloudy with rain and scattered thundershowers over east and south tonight and central and east Saturday.
PARK YOUR CAR, MISTER—X Zone, by the stadium, will be available for game parking
Saturday. The fee will be $1 from 11 a.m. until the game ends.
WAITING FOR TOMORROW—Martha Crosier, Lawrence senior, and Jim Cable, Independence, Mo., senior, are attired in white blouse and shirt so they may sit in a special booster section at the football game.
White Shirt Plan Support Divided
Many expressed interest on the grounds that wearing them is a needed boost for school spirit. Others feel that white shirts are unnecessary, but plan to wear them anyway to get good seats.
Student opinion is divided between anxiety and apathy about the idea of wearing white shirts to games in order to be permitted to sit in the best student section seats.
Here are some specific students' views:
The consensus is that more women than men will wear the white shirts.
Donald L. Welch, Moran junior: "I don't especially care for it. I'm uncomfortable wearing a white shirt. Anyway, I'd just
as soon wear what ever I wanted to."
Judi Neil, Abilene junior: "I think it's a good deal. It will mean more pep, but with arrangement."
Judy Platt, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore: "I think it's a very good idea. It will be much more colorful and look better from the other side."
Myron L. Morris, Augusta freshman: "It's a good idea. The students will get a chance at good seats. Also, it will give a sense of organization to the students at the game."
Operation White Shirt is in the air. Saturday's game will show how much of the student body is behind it.
Speeder Turns Traffic Tipster
One student probably saved a dozen of his fellow students a week's gasoline by getting them to slow down before they could become snared in a campus police speed trap on Jayhawk Boulevard.
The student, who prefers his name not published, is a member of the black sports car set. His altruism took place between 7:15 and 8:30.
"I was just idling along in third gear when those guys stopped me and told me I was exceeding the limit," he said.
"I don't even have a speedometer in my car, so I didn't know what I was doing."
Spare Others Similar Fate
After he got his ticket, which told him to appear in court at 9:30 a.m. Monday, he decided that was a fate which others should be spared.
The speed limit on Jayhawk Boulevard is 20 miles an hour.
He spent the next hour standing 100 yards down the boulevard from the speed trap, waving a crudely lettered sign at motorists, announcing, "Slow—Radar."
Earl Steck, campus policeman, said the student had probably saved quite a few drivers.
"We caught about a dozen in the first hour we were out there." Steck said, "then he showed up with his sign and we caught only one more after that."
Ironic Reward for Motorist
That one motorist was stopped when his car passed another car that had slowed down when the driver saw the warning sign.
Were there any laws broken by the student with the sign? Could the campus police have stopped him?
"We didn't stop him." Steck replied. "We were out there to catch the speeders and to slow people down."
As it turned out, campus police caught one speeder who took it upon himself to slow everybody else down.