SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
45th Year, No.14
Tuesday, July 30, 1957
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
—Pnoto Bureau
SUNNYSIDE BITES THE DUST — Fortyeight apartments in the Sunnyside housing area are being torn down to make way for the new business and economics building. McHugh-
Smith Wrecking Co. will complete work by late August. Bids for the new business and economics building have not been let yet. The buildings razed are on the western side.
Anthropologists Find Signs Of Ancient Life In Kansas
Human occupation dating from about 8,000 B. C. to sometime prior to the Coronado expedition to Kansas has been revealed in Marshall and Pottawatomie counties according to Dr. Carlyle S. Smith, associate professor of anthrology
Dr. Smith and a party of 13 persons returned to KU Saturday after eight weeks of salvaging artifacts from ancient Indian sites near Bigelow. The artifacts collected were brought to KU where they will be analyzed by Dr. Smith.
"The Blue Valley was a very popular place to live 2,000 to 3,000 years ago," Dr. Smith said. "We found evidence of human occupation dating from about 8,000 B. C. to about 1541, but there was no evidence of intensive occupation until the settlement of Europeans in the area."
The most outstanding discovery was half of a clay pot made in the form of a human head. It is the first find of that nature made in Kansas, Dr. Smith said.
The artifact relates the Kansas culture with those along the Mississippi River and finds made in Mexico and Central America, Dr Smith said.
The KU expedition worked three main sites during the eight weeks of field work beginning early in June. The first sight revealed two different civilizations, centuries apart. From the first two levels, the group found tools made from flint and broken pottery, bones, mussel shells and cracked, burned rocks.
The most important find there were several large spear heads and knives of flint. The absence of pottery indicated the second level to be from 2,000 to 3,000 years old.
A second site was passed over as not worth investigation. The third site, in Pottawatomie County, the anthropologists found pottery fragments, arrow heads, stone scrapers, and pieces of grinding stones.
Much laboratory work will be required to assess the significance of the findings that have been made. Dr. Smith said he probably will not be able to submit a report on the findings for about a year.
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Psuedo 'Prince Gets 30 Days
Edward L. Woods, alias the Crown Prince of French Equatorial Africa, appeared in the Lawrence City Court Monday morning and was sentenced to 30 days in jail on a vagrancy charge.
Woods was hospitalized at Lawrence Memorial Hospital with a kidney ailment when police filed the vagrancy charge against him.
The man told a long story of how he was to inherit a vast tribal kingdom in Africa. He had many authentic-looking documents to back up his story.
The documents later proved to be false. Some were simply change of address forms and telegrams that he had sent to himself containing fictional material concerning his realm in Africa.
Woods admitted that he was born in Maclenny, Florida in 1932. Since June he has traveled throughout the northeastern sections of the United States using the false documents.
He said he was coming to Lawrence to give a speech at KU. Later he said he was headed for Winfield, Kan. to speak at a meeting of christian youth. Both stories proved false.
Woods first appeared in this area at the Truman Memorial Library at Independence, Mo. There doubt was cast on his story when he introduced himself as "Prince Edward Kaustiour."
Weather
Kansas -- fair and cooler north.
Storms north and central. Today
fair and warmer northwest, high
today 90s north to near 100 south.
Low tonight: 60s northwest to 70s
east and south.
Kansas UNESCO To Hold Elections
The reelection of Miss Anna Reed of Abilene as 1957-58 chairman of the Kansas Commission for UNESCO will be recommended by the nominating committee, it was announced Monday by Wesley Darrow of Hutchinson, chairman of the committee.
Miss Reed is the immediate past-president of the Kansas Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs.
Other nominees will be: for vice chairman, Dr. John E. King, president of Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia; recording secretary, Miss Velma Hinze, teacher in the Hutchinson public schools; treasurer, Miss Mary R. Williams, teacher in the Seneca public schools, and executive secretary, Clayton M. Crosier, associate professor of civil engineering at KU.
Outstanding Students Receive Camp Awards
Outstanding students in the various divisions of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp were announced Sunday night during the final concert of the 6-week program on the KU campus.
Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts conferred certificates upon the honorees,who were chosen by votes of the instructors.
Robert Isle, Jacksonville, IL, received the special award of Phi Mu Alpha, national professional fraternity for men in music. The award is a medal and a $50 scholarship to the school of his choice, and was conferred for his being the boy making the greatest overall contribution to the music division of the camp. Isle played first trumpet in the symphony orchestra, first coronet in the band, and sang tenor in the chorus.
Elizabeth Fleming. Larned, received the special Sigma Alpha Iota award, a silver pendant, from the national professional fraternity for women in music, as the girl making the greatest overall contribution to the music division. She played tympani in both the orchestra and band.
The outstanding boy and girl awards in the other camp divisions, chosen from among the 556 students from 32 states, were:
Mathematics—Mary Gale Schuster, Topeka; and Gilbert D. Chaitin, Philadelphia, Pa.
Debate—Carolyn Shull, Lawrence;
and David Gray, Lawrence.
Drama—Vickie Sue White, Great Bend; and Bill Paronto, Kansas City, Mo.
Ballet—Carmelita Hogan, Pampa, Texas; and Max Gourley, Waynoka, Okla.
Art—Dottie Leech, Columbia, Mo; and Leland Payton, Sedalia,Mo.
Chorus-Judy Mayhan, soprano, Emporia; and Calvert Shenk, tenor and organist, Osage City.
Orchestra—Judy Gorton, violin, Lawrence; and Robert Grace, clarinet, Brentwood, Mo.
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The band, orchestra, ballet and chorus presented their final concerts with a number of guest artists on the program.
Victor Alessandro, conductor of the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, was guest conductor of the orchestra and Lloyd Paufscht, director of choral music at the University of Illinois, was the chorus guest conductor.
CONGRATULATIONS—The outstanding girl member of the Mathematics camp demonstration class receives her certificate from Dr. G. Baley Price, director of the Mathematics camp. She is Mary Gayle Schuster, Topeka.
Ivask Is Named Assistant Prof
George Ivask, who was visiting professor of Russian at KU in the spring of 1956, will return in September as an assistant professor of Russian, the chancellor's office announced today.
Dr. Ivask will replace Werner Winter, assistant professor of German, who has accepted a position as assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Texas in Austin.
GEORGE IVASK
Dr. Ivask now is teaching at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vt., where he has taught during the summers since 1951. He was a visiting professor at the University of California in Berkeley last spring. In 1950-52 he was a lecturer of Russian at Harvard and in 1954 taught Russian conversation there.
Now an American citizen, Dr. Ivask was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1907. He received his high school education in Estonia and was graduate in 1932 with a "jurist" degree from the University of Tartu in Estonia. From 1946 to 1949 he studied at the University of Hamburg in Germany where he majored in Slavic studies. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Slavic languages and literatures in 1955 at Harvard University.
Among his many publications are magazine articles, poems, essays, short stories and sections of books. He has been editor in chief of the Russian Literary Review "Opyty" since 1954.
Dr. Ivask and his wife will move to Lawrence in early September.
Change Announced In Movie Series
The film, "Martin Luther" will be shown Wednesday at 2 and 4 p.m. in Room 3, Bailey Hall, instead of "Hemo the Magnificent," as previously scheduled, the Bureau of Visual Instruction said today.
"Hemo the Magnificent" was not received because of production difficulties. This will be the last movie of Summer Session Film Features of Fact and Fiction, a film series for faculty and students.