Daily hansan
Monday, April 29, 1957
54th Year, No. 131
KU Coed Named Miss Lawrence
Norma Cook, Winfield freshman, was crowned Miss Lawrence at the Junior Chamber of Commerce pageant in Hoch Auditorium Friday night.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
She received a $300 scholarship given by Lawrence mechanics and a key to the city. Miss Cook will go to Pratt June 6 and 7 for the Miss Kansas pageant
"I hope I can represent Lawrence as well as Mary Ann has," Miss Cook said after she had been crowned by Mary Ann McGrew, Wellington junior, last year's Miss Lawrence. Miss Cook, representing Winfield, was runner-up to Miss McGrew in the Miss Kansas contest last year.
Miss Cook is 19 years old, 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighs 125 pounds and has dark brown hair and brown eyes. Her measurements are 35-23-35½.
Louise Tomlinson, Wichita freshman, was awarded a $200 scholarship as runner-up. Carol Rea, Branson, Mo., senior, was awarded a $100 scholarship as second runner-up.
Polly Peppercorn, Lawrence junior, and Judy Allen, Lawrence freshman, were also two of the five finalists.
The contestants were presented in evening gowns, gave talent demonstrations and then were presented in bathing suits.
The five finalists were chosen and required to give impromptu answers to three questions: "What do you think of going steady?" "If you were to receive $75,000, what would be the first three things you would spend it for?" and "Should a woman give up a career when she marries?"
(Related picture, Page 8.)
Botanist Gets Fellowship Grant
Rufus H. Thompson, associate professor of botany, has received one of the Guggenheim Fellowship awards for 1957.
Bright orange-red algae, one of the causes of higher-priced coffee, will be the subject of his research work.
He will leave for Central America in the late summer to study a genus of algae which is parasitic to land plants, especially coffee and tea. Because of the serious epidemics of this disease, coffee yields are cut down and coffee prices go up.
Dr. Thompson hopes to explain the taxonomy (classification of animals and plants according to their natural relationshipsp) of this difficult and poorly understood group of algae.
He will be accompanied by his wife and their 12-year-old daughter. The field,work will take at least a year, according to Dr. Thompson.
Nine To Attend Science Meetings
Nine staff members and graduate students of the botany department will attend the Kansas Academy of Science meetings at Manhattan on Thursday and Friday.
Those attending and reading research papers on original research in the botany and microbiology section are Robert W. Baxter, associate professor, Norvel M. McClung, and Ronald L. McGregor, assistant professors.
Graduate students are Emily L Hartman, Lawrence; Burdette Wagenknecht, Franklin; Ind.; Dan Marsh, Jonesboro, Ark.; William Keith, Hot Springs, Ark.; Robert Ireland, Topeka, and Earl Lathrop, Lawrence.
NORMA COOK
The seniors will reap the rewards of four years of hard work Tuesday when they are excused from 10 a.m. classes to decide on the senior gift to the University.
Seniors Meet To Pick Gift
Tickets for Senior Day cost 50 cents and may be purchased at the meeting.
Senior Day activities will be discussed and class dues set at the meeting in the Student Union Ballroom.
Senior Day will begin at 1 p.m. Thursday with two softball games at the intramural field. The senior all-stars will play a faculty team and the senior men will play the senior women. A picnic at 4 p.m. in Holcom's Grove will follow.
Want To Be A Cheerleader?
Weather
Occasional rain southeast and east central this afternoon and tonight. Otherwise considerable cloudiness this afternoon, tonight and Tuesday, and continued mild. Low tonight 45 northwest to 55-60 east. High Tuesday 65-75.
A cheerleading school will begin today for students interested in trying out for cheerleading positions next fall.
The school will be held at 7:30 p. m. today, Wednesday, and Thursday in Robinson Gymnastium. Finals will be next Monday.
Kentucky Prof To Tell Of South
"The Changing South" is the title of a talk to be given by Prof. Thomas D. Clark, chairman of the department of history at the University of Kentucky, at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Bailey Auditorium.
Prof. Clark has been president of the Southern Historical Assn. and editor of the Journal of Southern History. He is now president of the Mississippi Valley Historical Assn.
An author, his books include "Rampaging Frontier; Manners and Humors of Pioneer Days in the South and Middle West;" "Pills, Petticoats and Plows; The Southern Country Store," "The Southern Country Editor" and "The Rural Press and the New South."
Dr. Clark is the president of Phil Alpha Theta, national honorary history fraternity, and will be a guest at the initiation banquet of the local chapter of the fraternity to be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the English Room of the Student Union
He will hold an informal talk with faculty members, graduate students, and members of Phi Alpha Theta at 4 p. m. Tuesday in the Oread Room of the Student Union.
Student Wages Hiked 5 Per Cent
The student wage scale will be increased approximately 5 per cent July 1 as funds appropriated from the state Legislature are made available, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, said today.
The 5 per cent is not an automatic raise and all types of student jobs will not be affected, Mr. Nichols explained. However, the money is in a fund and raises will be made by the various departments, he added.
However, these rates are merely estimates, and the departments will be left free to regulate their own student salaries, Mr. Nichols said.
The new hourly rate suggested by the University will be 65 cents for freshman stenographers, 60 cents for typists and 55 cents for clerks. An increase of 5 cents an hour every year for as long as the student holds the job is recommended.
Replace Damaged Stickers, He Says
Owners of cars with torn or lost traffic stickers are urged to replace the stickers by getting a new sticker and number at the traffic office, said Keith Lawton, administrative assistant for operations.
"With the wind and rain we have had, many of the stickers are unreadable. They may be exchanged by bringing in the remainder of the sticker," he said.
$10,000 Given For Hoyt Award
The establishment of the $10,000 Elizabeth M. Hoyt scholarship fund at the University was announced today by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
The income from the fund will provide for an annual scholarship of approximately $500 to either a junior or senior in the School of Business.
Gift of 1913 Grad
The scholarship was created by a gift to the Endowment Assn. by Homer Hovt, a 1913 graduate of the University, in honor of his mother.
The winners of the scholarships will be selected on the basis of need, academic record and character by a committee appointed by the dean of the School of Business.
Mr. Hoyt was one of the youngest persons to enroll at the University. He entered at the age of 13 in 1909 and received both a bachelor and a master's degree at the age of 17 in 1913.
He made Phi Beta Kappa at 16.
He later became principal housing economist for the Federal Housing Administration in Washington and is the author of three books. One of the books, "Principles of Urban Real Estate," is used as a text by over 40 colleges and universities.
Since 1946, he has been president of Homer Hoyt Associates in Washington, D.C., a firm of consulting real estate economists which conducts market surveys and offers consulting services to governmental units, business and industry.
North Africa Expert BeginsTalks Wednesday
Charles F. Gallagher of the American Universities Field Staff will arrive at KU Wednesday to start a 10-day schedule of visits and talks with University classes and organizations.
allagher is the fourth AUFS speaker to visit KU this year. is also the newest member of the staff, having joined July 1, 1956.
After becoming a member of the AFS staff he concluded a 3-year stay at Stanford and then material for his program of visits to colleges and universities.
In college Mr. Gallagher studied the Far East and during World War II attended the Japanese Language
CHARLES F. GALLAGHER
School in Boulder, Colo. He served as a Navy officer in the war, and during the occupation of Japan was
a fine arts adviser on Japanese cultural property.
He was graduated from Harvard University summa cum laude, (with greatest honors) and later studied at the University of Paris where he worked toward a doctorate on Fulbright and Ford Foundation fellowships.
During his graduate study he lived and traveled in North Africa. In the summer of 1956, while with the AUFS, he traveled across North Africa, visiting Tunisia and Libya and studying the conditions in the newly independent countries of the area.
On Wednesday his schedule will include lunch at noon with the Faculty Club. He will speak to the combined Reporting II and Editorial class at 2 p.m. in Flint Hall. That evening, he will talk before a graduate seminar in International Relations at 8 p.m.
At 9 a.m. Thursday he will speak to a class in Element of Sociology and at 1 p.m. to graduate seminar in International Relations. Thursday evening he will talk before Sigma Delta Chi and Theta Sigma Phi, professional journalism fraternities.
Billings Tops Whalen 48-20 In Survey Of 100 Students
Bob Billings, Russell sophomore, and student body presidential candidate on the Associated Greek-Independent ticket, has been named first choice for the office by 51 per cent of those polled in a Daily Kansan survey.
The survey, conducted over the weekend, included interviews with 100 University students. This constitutes a little more than 1 per cent of the student body.
Three questions were asked of each interviewee. Billings polled 48 votes, and Dave Whalen. Overland Park junior, Party of Greek Organizations candidate, had 20 votes. Twenty-two persons were undecided as to either of the two candidates. while 10 persons said they were not planning to vote in Wednesday's general election.
Following are the questions and results:
1. Are you going to vote in the general election Wednesday? No. 10.
Yes 86. Undecided 4.
2. Do you know the names of the two candidates for student body president? No. 25, Yes 30, Knew one candidate 45.
3. Which of the two candidates are you going to vote for? Billings 48. Whalen 20. Undecided 22
Of the 45 who said they knew only one of the two candidates, 32 named Billings and 13 named Whalen.
Three of the persons saying they were undecided about voting Wednesday did not know a general election was going to be held. Another person simply said "no."
(See comments by Billings,
Whalen, Page 2.)