Daily Hansan
54th Year, No. 127
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, April 23, 1957
Billings Bids For ASC Enters AGI Primary
Bob Billings, Russell sophomore, turned the Allied-Greek Independent party presidential primary election into a two-man race last weekend when he declared his candidacy for Student Council President.
Billings was elected to the All Student Council this year as a senator from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. While on the ASC he served on the elections committee.
Billings issued the following statement Monday:
"The invitation to participate in student government must be sincere and must be out of interest, not just a way to claim another activity. In choosing leaders, voters should choose natural leaders instead of tools of party machines.
The administration must not dominate the ASC and the students. That the main channels for communication between the administration and the students should be kept open is the main objective of the Student Council President.
"There must be a clear understanding between authority and responsibility. Student government has to be responsible to students and not to coalitions.
"The whole function of student government is to voice student wishes to the administration. If there is not a capable leader doing this, the students may lose their opportunity to govern. This is definitely a "make or break" year for the All Student Council."
Speech Assembly Tonight In Bailey
The second in a series of speech assemblies will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Bailey Auditorium. Students and faculty members in radio and TV will present the program.
The assemblies, presented by the various divisions of the speech program, are designed to introduce students to the different areas of speech.
The next assembly, featuring speech correction, will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Bailey Auditorium.
Eisenhower Summons Mitchell
AUGUSTA, Ga.—(UP)—President Eisenhower summoned Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell today to a conference Thursday on legislation the administration may recommend to protect union funds from racketeering.
Asian Authority To Talk Friday
An internationally known authority on Asia will speak here Friday. He is George B. Cressley, Maxwell professor of geography at Syracuse University.
Prof. Cressey has traveled widely in Asia and has written six books about the continent. He has also written about 140 professional papers and journals. Among the books he has written are "Asia's Lands and Peoples," "China's Geographic Foundation," "How Strong Is Russia" and "Land of the 500 Million"
Prof. Cressley will give two lectures Friday. They will be "Geological Aspects of Deserts in Asia" at 2 p. m. in 426 Lindley and "Aid for the Near East: Much or Little?" at 4 p. m. in 124 Malott Hall.
He is honorary president of the Assn. of American Geographers and in recent years has acted as a government adviser on Asian programs.
Flooding River Threatens Waco
WACO, Tex., — (UP)—Hundreds of persons fled their homes in this central Texas City of 100,000 today and officials feared that as many as 6,000 residents may have to evacuate their dwellings within a few hours.
Fed by torrential rains, the Brazos River, which flows through the city's eastern side, was rising a foot every 15 minutes. Authorities said there was a possibility it may flood out the entire eastern side of Waco.
Civilian and military authorities met in an emergency session to plan the evacuation if it should become necessary. It was feared that the river may start spilling out of its banks by 3 p.m.
Summer school students wishing to transfer schools within the University should notify the registrar's office as soon as possible.
Transfers: Notify Registrar
State Suffers From Violent Wind Storms
The Lawrence area received only a hard 20-minute rain Tuesday night but other areas were not so fortunate as violent tornadoes and thunderstorms battered central and eastern Kansas, critically injuring one man and damaging numerous farm buildings.
A twister swirled down about 10 miles south of Concordia smashing a garage and several outbuildings. The funnel then skipped to the country club at Concordia and tore up a maintenance garage about 200 yards from the club where a party attended by 100 persons was being held.
At Courtland, about 20 miles north of Concordia, the funnel plowed into a barn and several other buildings. The twister missed the town itself by about one-half block.
At Clay Center. about seven farm buildings south of town were blown down by high winds.
Other funnels were reported in the vicinity of Arkansas City, Ellinwood, Great Bend and Cunningham.
The violent squall line moved into eastern Kansas early today. Electrical power to sections of Kansas City, Kan., was temporarily disrupted due to transformer failures caused by the storm.
No leupin is expected from the rains as showers and thunderstorms are forecast for the eastern part of the state tonight. It will be continued mild today, cooler west and central tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy with little change in temperatures. High today generally in 70s. Low tonight 40s west to 50s east.
Traffic Deaths Up To 151
TOPEKA —(UP)— The traffic death toll for Kansas this year jumped to 151 today with the belated report of the death Easter Sunday of an Oklahoma man. His death was the 35th for April.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.--(UP)—Alex F. Sachs, Kansas City postmaster for eight years, will retire today because of health.
K.C. Postmaster Retires
POGO Candidates For ASC Named
Following are the All Student Council legislature candidates and their districts:
The Party of Greek Organizations has issued its list of candidates for the primary contest Wednesday.
College of Liberal Arts and Science-Pat Little, Wichita sophomore.
School of Engineering-Bob Griffith. Pratt sophomore.
Graduate School—Bill Crow, Logan senior.
School of Education—Dee Daniels,
Beloit junior.
School of Fine Arts-Carolyn Yates, Kansas City, Mo. junior.
School of Business—Bob Wagner, Concordia junior.
School of Law—Jay Ott, Lawrence senior.
School of Pharmacy—Jim Rosecrans. Winfield sophomore.
Social fraternities—John Downing, Kansas City, Mo. junior; Dale Waller, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore; Don Elmore, Duquoin sophomore; Mike Klein, Mission sophomore, and Richard Harris, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore.
School of Journalism—Evelyn Hall. Wichita junior.
Freshmen women's dormitories—Pat Sortor, Kansas City, Kan. and Sharon Edgar, Mission, freshmen.
Social sororiles-Judy Anthony Kansas City, Mo. junior and Betty Alexander, Onawa, Iowa, sophomore.
Chigango County, Calif. junior.
Cox, Los Angeles, Calif. married — Patrick
Unorganized, married — Patrick
White Lawrence junior.
Unorganized, unmarried — Frank Cox. Los Angeles. Califf. junior.
Living Cost Up For The Month
WASHINGTON — (HR) The government reported today that the cast of living reached a record for the seventh straight month in March.
It brought automatic wage rises of 1 to 3 cents an hour for 1,400,000 workers, under the semiannual wage escalator clause in their contracts.
The government also reported that the purchasing power of the average factory worker's pay check declined in March for the second month in a row.
The average factory take-home pay in March for a worker with three dependents was $74.65 a week, a decline of 30 cents.
Price increases were reported for rents, dry cleaning and laundry services, water rates, mortgage interest rates, and home maintenance costs; clothing, used cars, gasoline and motor oil, medical care, haircuts, toiletries, movie admissions, newspapers, and television sets.
The BLS price division, said the outlook for April is for further increases in major groups of goods and services, including food.
Two Arn Associates Indicted
WICHITA—(UP)—Two one-time associates of former Gov. Edward F. Arn pleaded innocent to charges of conspiring to defraud the federal government "to promote their own financial gain" in Federal District Court Monday.
The two, Edmond B. Chapman, Arn's former secretary, and Richard F. Mullins, a Wichita attorney, will stand trial before Judge Delmas C. Hill. Court Clerk Jay Setter said date of trial still is to be set.
The two were indicted by a federal grand jury in Topeka earlier this month in an action stemming back to the time that Chapman was Kansas director of the Federal Housing Administration.
Poor Night For Duke Shoop
They were charged with collusion in land deals and apparent influence
WASHINGTON —(UP)— Attendants said today that Duke Shoop, chief of the Kansas City Star's Washington bureau, had a "poor night" at Garfield Memorial Hospital. Mr. Shoop, 52, is suffering from an abdominal malady complicated by hemorrhaging. His condition has been critical since April 4.
pedding by Chapman in his capacity as Kansas FIA director.
Meanwhile Arn, new a law partner of Mullins in Wichita, said last night that he had "every confidence in the world" that Mullins is innocent of the charges.
Cervantes Day Set For Saturday
Teachers of Spanish and their students from elementary schools through college in Kansas and Missouri will be the guests of the faculty and students of the Spanish department at the 33rd annual Cervantes Day Saturday.
Cervantes Day honors Miguel de Cervantes, author of "Don Quixote" on the 341st anniversary of his death on April 23. 1618.
Dr. Walter Starkie, author, and director of the British Institute in Madrid, will talk on "The Wandering of Don Quixote and Sancho" at 10 a.m. in 110 Fraser. He will give a public lecture at 8 p.m. Friday in Bailey Auditorium on "Gypsy Life, History and Music."
Operas To Be Final Performance In Fraser Theater
With the last performance of the two operas, "Trouble in Tahiti" and "Gianni Schicchi," the final curtain will fall on Fraser Theater, the veteran of more than 150 major dramatic productions and 860 nights of performances.
The new theater in the fine arts building will have many more conveniences for production, but it will be another half century before it can top the memories Fraser holds.
The idea of transforming Fraser chapel into a theater began in 1926 when the Lawrence legitimate theater became a movie house (Jayhawker). The University dramatists moved into Robinson Gymnastium for their shows, sharing it with the basketball team.
Chapel Becomes Theater In 1927 Ernest H. Lindley, who was then chancellor of the University, secured $10,000 to remodel the old chapel in Fraser. When it was completed it was one of the best college theaters in the country, for in 1928 few colleges had well-equipped stages of their own.
Chapel Becomes Theater
The first play given on the Fraser Theater stage was "Hamlet," directed by Robert Calderwood professor emeritus of speech. Allen Crafton, professor of speech and drama, was Hamlet and Mrs. Crafton was Gertrude.
Many Firsts
With Prof. Crafton's play, "Yankee Crusade." William Inge, famous Broadway playwright, made his first appearance on the KU stage during the 1934-35 season.
In 1922 Robert Braccos" Fidelites opened at KU for its first presentation before an American audience.
Timeliness A Factor
Timeliness has always been a major factor in choosing scripts, but no one foresaw the timeliness of "Thunder Rock" which opened Dec. 9, 1941, two days after Pearl Harbor. It was a play dealing with men who felt overwhelmed by the mess the world was in before Hitler's attack on Poland.
Brock Pemberton, A KU graduate and a Broadway producer for 30 years, returned to KU to open his show "Harvey" in Fraser Theater in 1948. After only two dress rehearsals he appeared as Elwood P. Dowd in his play,
which ran on Broadway for the fifth longest run in theater history.
Mrs. Frances Feist, a faculty member in the speech and drama department, played Elwood's social
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PROF. ALLEN CRAFTON
climbing sister, Veta Louise Simmons, in the KU production. Mr. Pemberton liked her performance so well that he asked her to New York where she played the same part on Broadway with Jack Buchanan, an English actor, as Eilrod.
In 1953 Fraser had its face lifted. The footlights were torn out and a power rigging system for flies, the area above the stage floor, was set up.
Recounts Early Days
Prof. Crafton who began building KU's speech and drama department in 1923, recounts the early days of Fraser Theater.
"The roof leaked, when it rained and stained the scenery, the wind blew in making it too cold for performances many times in the winter, there was no room for storage, no place to build sets, but it was a stage," he said. "And on it appeared actors, playwrights, and directors both amateur and professional."
Prof. Crafton has directed over 100 shows for about 450 performances in Fraser. Since the day the old pipe organ was removed and the chapel became a theater, he has spent at least 10,000 hours of his life directing plays in the theater.