University Daily Kansan
Friday, Jan. 4, 1957
Page 3
-(Daily Kansan photo)
CONCRETE, BRICKS, STEEL and manhours go together to form the music and dramatics arts building at 16th and Naismith Drive. The building will have about 700,000 bricks and 9,000
cubic yards of concrete in it. Fine arts students will be able to use the building next fall. Construction started in October.
Cards, Dancing, Theater-An Early-Day Lecturer Objected
"Public balls involve a wicked waste of time and expose the virtuous and pure-minded who may attend to improper associations."
Such advice would be strange to the ears of most KU students today, but in 1873, when the Rev. W. K. Marshall offered this opinion, it was probably all too common.
Large Crowd Assembled
A report in the Daily Kansas Tribune, an early day Lawrence paper, says a large crowd assembled to hear the Rev. Marshall talk about what entertainment was proper.
"Many of the modern dances," he said, "are indelicate, producing a promiscuous intermingling of the sexes that should never be permitted."
A Russian nobleman, who went to a dance in this country, saw persons on the dance floor "throwing their arms around one another." He followed suit with the lady sitting next to him, according to the lecturer. The lady was highly insulted
The efficiency of the staff has caused a delay in distributing the second issue of the Jayhawker until Saturday instead of Thursday as had been planned.
Able Staff Causes Late Jayhawkers
This believe-it-or-not situation was made possible because art work was prepared early and plates for covers of all four issues were engraved last September. In most years the staff has prepared each cover as the year progressed.
As the printer began turning out the second section of the Jayhawker last week in plenty of time for the planned Jan. 3 distribution, he discovered the second issue cover plates were missing.
Calls to the engraver and to the staff, scattered for the holidays. proved only that the plates should have been at the printing plant in Kansas City, but weren't.
Finally, just before the order was given to re-engrave the plates, they were found among the first issue engravings that had been returned to Lawrence.
Had the covers not been made in advance, the packing error could not have been made, and the Jayhawkers would have been here Thursday.
'Separate The Sexes
and the nobleman couldn't understand why.
This, said the Rev. Marshall, shows that we should "separate the sexes and put the men in one room and the women in another to dance by themselves."
"Theaters have always been moral pesthouses, and actors and actresses are nonproducers of good," he charged.
The theater was his prime target for it, he said, "could never be reformed."
Billiards and cards were described as being monopolized by professional gamblers, so the only amusements left were croquet, which was "innocent," and chess, which "requires entirely too much hard thinking to become general or dangerous."
The Hillel Counselorship will hold its first services of the new year at 7:30 p.m. today in the recently renovated Jewish Community Center at 1409 Tennessee St. Services will be followed by a discussion on the current situation in Israel, led by Zvi Henry Luft, Tel Aviv, Isreal, senior.
Hillel Counselorship To Meet Tonight
CHICAGO — (UP) — The National Safety Council said today that 1956 highway slaughter in the United States was the greatest in any year of the nation's history.
Hillel will hold a cost supper Sunday. Following the supper a discussion on the topic "What is a Jew?" will be led by Dr. Irving Levitas, educational director of the Congregation B'nai Yehuda, Kansas City, Mo.
Figures are as yet incomplete. But the council estimated the number at 40,200. Its figures were based on actual reports from the states' traffic authorities for 11 months, and took into account the trend shown in December and the great number of year-end holiday deaths.
1956 Traffic Toll Highest In History
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A KU graduate from Arecadia, John P. Corporon, has been appointed manager of the New Orleans bureau of the United Press. Mr. Corporon was graduated from the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information in 1951, and received a master's degree in political science in 1953.
Mr. Corporon joined the United Press June 27, 1955 at New Orleans after his discharge from the Army. He was later transferred to Baton Rouge, La., where he was bureau manager and covered the Louisiana legislative sessions.
KU Graduates Promoted By UP
Lloyd T. Holbek of Dodge City, who was graduated from the Journalism School in 1951 and joined the United Press at Dallas in June, 1956, was transferred to the New Orleans bureau. Mr. Holbek was also a former Daily Kansan assistant managing editor. He did graduate work in the Journalism School in 1955-56 after working on the Dodge City Globe.
He was assistant managing editor of the University Daily Kansan in the spring of 1951.
The United Press also announced today that Wilbur G. Landrey, of Kansas City, Kan., who attended the University in 1941-42 and received his degree from Columbia University, has been appointed Mideast manager with headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. Mr. Landrey had been bureau manager in Paris since 1954.
Kansas sales tax collections on October retail trade, a barometer of business activity, were up 2.8 per cent from collections on September trade and were 1.2 per cent above the year-ago level, according to an analysis by the Bureau of Business Research. Collections totaled $3,676-045.
Sales Tax Take Up For October
The gain from October of 1955 was the first increase since the June figures. Previous 1956 months had produced three small increases, two no-change totals, and four losses.
K-State To Place Teachers
MANHATTAN — (UP) — Kansas State College reported today it expected to place more than 200 new teachers in the teaching profession durning 1957. This compared with 156 new K-State trained teachers placed during 1956.
State, National, International News
N. Y. Police Scour Suburbs In Search For Mad Bomber
(Compiled from United Press)
Police focused their search on surburban Westchester county today for New York's mad bomber whose homemade explosives have injured 15 persons in the New York area and touched off a nationwide bomb scare epidemic.
White Plains, the county seat, was mentioned as the likely residence of the elusive terrorist, mainly on the basis of six of his letters which bore that city's postmark.
Kansas City's rash of bomb threats continued Thursday night with a warning that an explosive had been placed among seats in the Granada theater in Kansas City, Kan.
A bomb-like device found in a grocery store in Wichita today "might have worked if it had contained an explosive" police reported.
The device was found by employees of a Safeway store shortly after the opening hour. Police were called and dismantled the device.
Salome Officially In Key State Post
TOPEKA — (UP) — Gov. John McCuish, the state's 1-day-old Republican governor, today appointed former Wichita Mayor William Salome, Democrat, head of the Department of administration, effective immediately. Gov. McCuish, Kansas' 34th chief executive, will serve the shortest term in state history—11 days.
Thursday's triangular political maneuver saw former Gov. Fred Hall resign to be appointed to the State Supreme Court after resignation by Chief Justice William A. Smith of the high court.
Gov.-elect Docking had designated Mr. Salome to head the administration department under his reign, but the former Wichita mayor was put on the job 10 days early by Gov. McCuish's action.
Ex-Convict Reveals Plot To Kill Truman
ALBEMARLE, N.C. —(UP)—A skinny ex-convict and former mental patient, the brother of the first U.S. soldier killed in Korea, says he plotted to assassinate former President Harry S. Truman.
Leroy Shadrick, 32, in a jail cell for attempted robbery, told a reporter he went to Independence, Mo., last march to "case" the Truman home, then bought a shotgun and ammunition. He said he holds Mr. Truman "directly responsible" for his brother's death in July, 1950.
Marie McDonald Is Missing From Home
HOLLYWOOD —(UP) — Actress Marie McDonald disappeared or was kidnapped from her palatial San Fernando Valley home wearing only a night robe, valley division police reported today.
Anonymous telephone calls were made to her mother and Harry Karl, former husband. Servants found her bed empty. The home is surrounded by a high fence with an electrically operated gate. Miss McDonald's boxer dog, Duke, roamed the yard.
Austria's President Dies
VIENNA—(UP)—Theodor Koerner, Austria's first directly elected president, died at his suburban home today. He was 83. The communique gave no cause of death. But a government source said Koerner died after he suffered a stroke.
Highway Toll Stands At 2
Highway Toll Stands At 2
TOPEKA —(UP)— The traffic death toll stood at two in Kansas today. Both victims were military men stationed in Kansas. There were 12 persons killed on Kansas highways at this time last year.
Cadar Enters Third Month
VIENNA — (UP) — The Soviet-imposed Janos Kadar regime began the third month of its uneasy reign over Hungary today, still unable to quench the fires of freedom.
Discuss Sinai Withdrawal
LONDON — (UP) — Maj. Gen.
E. L. M. Burns, commander of the United Nations emergency forces,
and Ben. Noshe Dayan, Israeli chief
of staff, are meeting today to discuss "technical details" of the
Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai desert, Jerusalem dispatches reported.
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