Honor Day Slated For ROTC Units
More than 800 cadets and midshipmen from the ROTC units will participate in the all-services Honor Day ceremonies at 3 p.m. Friday in Memorial Stadium.
Forty-three cadets and midshipmen will be presented medals and awards before the combined personnel of the ROTC units.
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Following the presentation of honors; the three units led by the Army ROTC Band under the direction of Lee Lord, East Rochester, N.Y. junior, drum major, will pass in review.
The medals and honors will be presented by Chancellor Murphy, Col. Hanchin, Col. Hamilton, Capt. Krieger, Judge Hugh Means, Charles R. Nagle, Richard F. Allen, and Bryan Beevy, representatives of the National Society of the Sons of American Revolution, and Paul J. Schofer, assistant football coach.
Reviewing officers will include Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, Col.Ralph J.Hanchin, professor of military science, Capt.K.M. Krieger.professor of naval science, and Col.McHenry Hamilton Jr., professor of air science.
Military Order of the Loyal Legion-Robert A. Cooper Springfield, Mo. senior, and Dale L. Gerboth, Council Grove junior.
Those receiving Army medals and awards:
Superior senior cadet ribbon-
Robert A. Nebrig Jr., Leavenworth
freshman; Howard E. Crotchett,
Louisburg sophomore; Chester A.
Bottert, Eureka junior, and Tom J.
Knorr, Wichita junior.
Chicago Tribune medal — Thomas J. Kennedy, St. Joseph sophomore; Larry L. Jones, Milford sophomore; James R. Barbour, Independence, Mo. junior, and John B. Hunt, Leavenworth senior.
American Revolution med al-
Richard I. Barr. Ottawa sophomore.
KU Athletic department rifle team medal—Omar G. Conrad, Overland Park junior; Warren G. Riekenberg, Topeka junior; Frank A. Williams, Olathe freshman; Cooper; Middleton W. Tompkins, Long Beach, Calif freshman.
Those receiving Navy medals and awards.
Society of American Society Engineers—Dean L. Smith, Topeka senior, and Raymond H. Dean, Kansas City, Mo. junior.
Marine Corps Gazette—Max Mardick. Iola senior.
U. S. Naval Institute award—Richard A. Butler, Lawrence senior and Kenneth W. Miller, Overland Park senior.
Naval Academy Alumni Assn award-Mardick.
Kansas Society of Sons of American Revolution-Robert Hanna, Winfield senior.
Military Order of the Loyal Legion—John L. Lightstone, Coffeyville senior.
KU athletic department rifle team medal—James D. Scrivner, Winfield sophomore; Richard L. Dulaney, Mulvane senior; Gary W. Bean, Kansas City, Mo. junior; Henry C. Jeffries Jr. and William T. Stutzer, Kansas City, Mo. sophomores.
Scrivener will also receive the PNS trophy for the outstanding member of the NROTC rifle team.
PNS award for outstanding class members-Homer E. Paris III. Kansas. City, Mo. junior; Wendell C Ridder, Higginsville, Mo. sophomore and James R. Gibbens, Phoenix Ariz. freshman.
Last Jayhawker On Sale Monday
Thursday, May 16, 1957
The fourth and final issue of Jayhawker will be distributed Saturday in organized houses and will be on sale at the information booth and the Hawks Nest Monday.
The issue will contain the senior class pictures, sports, from basketball to intramurals, eight pages of party pictures, eight full color pages, and pictures of the Jayhawker Queen, Peggy Garrison, Phillipsburg sophomore, and her two attendants, Jean Eckles, Fond du Lac, Wis. junior and Virginia Kihm, Hutchinson freshman.
The four lead parts of the Summer Theatre presentation, "Come Back, Little Sheba," by William Inge, have been cast by Lewin Goff, associate professor of drama and director of the play. The play will be given June 19 and 20 in the Student Union Ballroom.
Lead Parts Chosen For 'Little Sheba'
The main characters are William Kuhlke, Denver graduate student; Lee MacMorris, Hutchinson senior; Kay Ewert, Abilene junior; and John Husar, Chicago sophomore.
Convair Award—Lighthouse.
Those receiving Air Force medals and awards:
Air Force Assn. ROTC silver medal—Robert S. Boyd, Prairie Village senior.
Sons of the American Revolution ROTC medal—Roger W. Gramly, Canev junior.
Military Order of the Loyal Legion—Gary D. Miller, Wichita senior and Frank J. Becker, Emporia junior.
Chicago Tribune ROTC medal— Gale I. Harris, Lawrence senior; John T. Hedrick, Ellinwood junior; Charles D. Roberson, Des Moines Iowa sophomore and Beckwith Horton, Kansas City, Kan. freshman.
KU athletic department rifle team medal--Donald L. Johnson, Hickman Mills, Mo. senior; Daniel F. Schrepel, Pratt junior; Larry L Rice, Hoisington sophomore and Ronald B. Strong, Abilene freshman
William Randolph Hearst Rifle
medals--Donald W. Catlin, Olathe
freshman; Johnson, Schrepel, Rice
and Strong
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Jobs Open On Campus Chest Committees
Positions are now open on the Campus Chest drive Steering Committee.
Drive Scheduled For Fall
Davies said that the solicitations committee is the largest committee.
Jim Davies, Dodge City junior and chairman of the drive, said there are 35 to 40 members on the committee and that they are divided into three different subcommittees
The subcommittee chairmen and their committees are Len Parkinson. Scott City sophomore, solicitations; Betsy Shankland, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, special events, and Ken Wagnon, Wichita freshman, publicity.
Other Campus Chest drive officers are Betty Seltsam, Topeka, cochairman, and Sally Rice, Abilene, secretary. Both are juniors.
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All persons interested should make a written application to Davies at 1537 Tennessee St.
He said the drive is tentatively scheduled for the fall semester, but he added that this won't be determined until the steering committee is formed.
He said the applicant's interest is the main qualification and that he is asking for written applications only because he feels it is an indication of the person's interest.
Four members of the All Student Council will attend the Student Body President conference Aug.17- 19 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
The KU representatives are Bob Billings, Russell sophomore, student body president; Creta Carter, Lawrence sophomore, student body vice president; Richard P. Patterson, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore, Kansas City, Mo., ASC chairman, and Sue Stout, Wichita sophomore, ASC vice chairman.
Davies stressed that he is looking for an interested group to fill out the committee and that he intends to make effective use of each individual.
Written Applications
Four To Attend Student Conference
The funeral of Roger M. Sommer,
St. Joseph, Mo. senior who was
killed Monday when his car struck
a bridge abutment on the Kansas
Purnpike, was held at 2 p.m. today
at the Wyatt Park Baptist Church
in St. Joseph.
Characters Good In Workshop
Roger Sommer Rites Today
"Departure," the first of three plays or vignettes by William Inge, was a slow beginner for the evening's entertainment. The play began at a high pitch of emotion, built itself up to a feverish level, then went nowhere, leaving the audience up in the air.
A variety of good character acting was predominate in the final Actors' Workshop presentation of the season last night in Green Theater. Notwithstanding a mass of double-casting (four actors assumed dual roles), the student directors surmounted their problem of an insufficient number of actors and produced some highly enjoyable moments in the scenes.
The audience took a breath of fresh air when Roger Stanton, Marysville freshman, pirouetted
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
around the stage with Sandy Blankenship, Great Bend sophomore, in "The Sounds of Triumph," directed by Betty Harrison, Bettendorf, Iowa junior. The setting took place at a college track meet.
Bill Kuhlk, Denver graduate student, recipient of the best student director award, proved himself able again with his intricate direction of "The. Mall." Kuhlk masterfully wove nine actors with seven motivations into a hilarious comedy, surprisingly ending on a tragical note.
The famed Don Juan's return to earth from the provinces of Hell, and his frustrating encounter with two degenerate Americans, aptly played by Vera Stough, Lawrence junior, and Dee Richards, Lawrence senior, was, in essence, the plot of an excerpt from Ronald Duncan's "The Death of Satan."
Tragic Ending
Spoke With Brogue
Last night was a good night. Four out of five scenes were successes. It can be said that the experiment was worth the effort.
Then the scene changed to a Dublin tenement during the Irish Revolution for Sean O'Casey's "The Plough and the Stars." Directed by Kay Brown, Larned junior, the play had an enunciation problem because all the actors had to speak with an Irish brogue.
At KU we regard the Studio Theatre as the experimental theater. In that case, the little-known Actor's Workshop must be called "the most experimental of experimental theater." One attending a "Workshop" presentation can never know just what to expect. At any performance the scenes can suddenly skyrocket up to brilliancy, and just as suddenly zoom down to futility.
Billings Fills 35 ASC Jobs
Thirty-five students have been named to student body committee positions by Bob Billings, Russell sophomore, and student body president.
The students were selected from applications by mail, over the phone or by personal contact.
Benson Hits Soil Bank Kill
WASHINGTON. —(UP)— Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson today denounced the House move to kill the multi-million-dollar soil bank program next year as "False economy...without justification."
He conceded that the soil bank, approved by Congress last year as a $1,200,000,000 a year program for four years, is temporarily expensive. But he said it would save money for taxpayers eventually if permitted to continue.
He said the program was intended to cut down on price-depressing surplus crops, but there is "every likelihood" the surpluses will pile up further if the House action stands. The House voted Wednesday 192 to 187 to eliminate authority for 1958 acreage reserve program and reduce the long-range conservation reserve section of the soil bank from 450 to 250 million dollars annually. Farmers receive government payments for taking farmland out of corn, cotton, wheat, rice and tobacco production and placing it in the so-called acreage reserve.
Area Rains To Continue
Rain continued to drench Lawrence this morning and the weatherman said it should continue until Friday. Rainfall at noon amounted to 87 inch.
Rain amounting to nearly half an inch at Lawrence at 9 a. m, today, brought additional moisture to the rain soaked area and Kansas.
The forecast: Rain this afternoon and tonight. Friday continued cool with diminishing rain. Low toight 40 northwest to 55 southeast. High Friday 55 north to 65 south.
Rainfall was the heaviest in Southern Kansas. Wellington reported over six inches of rain east of the city near the turnpike toll gate. In other Southern Kansas areas, numerous other stations reported between one and two inches of rain in the 24-hour period ending at 6:30 a.m.
Cold air from Canada, swept in on winds with gusts up to 40 m. p. h. at Hutchinson, brought cooler temperatures. The severe squall line also spawned twisters which apparently stayed aloft and caused no damage.
Purdue Professor To Lecture Today
Dr. A. E. Bell, professor of poultry science, Purdue University, will lecture on the evaluation of selection methods in quantitative kinetics at 4 p.m. in 206 Snow. Dr. Bell will describe his research which combines mathematical and experimental approaches. The characters he has been measuring are the weight of beetles and the egg size and egg counts for fruit flies. He has been conducting this research for the last eight years.
The committees:
Student Athletic Board—Allen Smith, Lawrence junior, chairman; Dale Brethower, Nevis, Minn. sophomore; Mary Sue Poppe, Kansas City, Kan. sophomore, and Dick Peterson, Kansas City, Mo. freshman.
Film Series — James Steerman, Emmaoria junior, and Judy Dold, Wichita junior, co-chairmen; Sally Montgomery, Lawrence freshman; Rex Doherty, Dellvale freshman; Ilo Henning, Ottawa sophomore, and Warner Sorensen, Kansas City, Kan. sophomore.
Convocations and Lecturers Alan Morris, Caney junior, and Janice McElhaney, Lawrence sophomore, co-chairman; Patricia Adams, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore; Paul Willey, Caldwell freshman; Sandra Blankenship, Great Bend sophomore, and Edward Dolson, Kansas City, Mo. freshman.
Community Lecture Series Dorothy Wohlgemuth, Cummings sophomore, and Barbara Everley, Eudora sophomore, co-chairman; Lucygne Cornett. Wichita sophomore, Judith Mills, Russell freshman and Barbara Criss, Wellington freshman.
Calendar — John Thompson, St.
Joseph, Mo. sophomore, and Jane
Idol, Robinson sophomore, co-chairman;
John Lonborg, Liberty, Mo.
sophomore, and Ann Underwood,
Emporia sophomore.
Orientation -- Barbara Wurst, Russell sophomore, and Douglas Scott, Ottawa sophomore, co-chairmen; Rosemary Jones, Timken sophomore; Robert Garrett, Wichita sophomore; Elaine Gill, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore, and David Allen, Webster Groves, Mo. freshman.
Commencement — Max Fuller,
Kansas City, Mo. junior, and Miss
Poppe, co-chairmen: Melisande
Magers, Mission sophomore, and
Betty Lowell, Kansas City, Mo.
junior.
Highway patrol Capt. J. W. Blackwell said 19 were killed in Silverton itself. He said at least 58 were injured. In addition to these, Mrs. E. E. Puckett, 30. who lives near Silverton, was killed and her two children hurt.
Tornado Rips Texas Town
SILVERTON, Tex.-A tornado that looked like a beserk cloud of red sand smashed into Silverton late last night, killing 20 persons in the town and its outskirts and injuring at least 80.
"It dipped and popped and looked like red sand boiling and rumbling when it hit." Mrs. Billy Stevens said. "It looked like a real low cloud that had a belly on it and then it began moving through town."
The tornado was one of at least a dozen that rumbled around over the Texas Panhandle last night, injuring at least six other persons and shattering homes and barns at scattered points.
Twenty-five homes were destroyed in Silverton, a town of about 850 residents. Fifteen more were badly damaged and another 15 slightly damaged. A cotton gin was destroyed, along with four grain elevators and a barracks that in cotton season houses Mexican workers.