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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. Dec. 11, 1956
Nebraska in Lincoln. His prize was a leather gadget bag donated by the Mosser-Wolf Camera Store in Lawrence. Leonard Bacon, Topeka Daily Capital photographer, and Cliff Edom, who founded the fraternity 11 years ago, spoke at the convention.
THE WINNER — This picture of Memorial Stadium in the snow won first prize for the best picture taken at the annual Kappa Alpha Mu, national honorary photo-journalism fraternity, convention held here Saturday and Sunday. It was taken by Dale Lewis of the University of
Here's a student pastime to put on the list of the unusual—uranium prospecting in the rugged hills of Utah and Colorado. To Billie Charlene May, Mante senior, there is nothing strange about it.
The 'Big Chance' - Student Uranium Prospector Waits
Miss May prospects for uranium in the summer with her father, William May, who is a maintenance engineer.
The long hours of walking are the hardest part, she believes. Sometimes a person will walk for miles and miles or for days and weeks and never find a thing, according to Miss May.
Miss Mary and her father carry geiger guns when they are hunting. The guns are the shape and size of a target pistol and are carried in a holster with batteries attached to the wearer's belt. Mr. May's gun has a buzz which sounds when the needle moves.
"The buzz sounds like the fire alarm at Sellards," Miss May said. "and when it goes off, everyone iumps to attention."
The guns are expensive, especially if they have the buzzer attachment, which saves the wearer the trouble of having to watch the gun's needle all the time.
The May family prospects in Colorado, where they have found some small deposits. However, the Billie May Lode, found last summer is described as pretty "hot", although nothing will be known for certain until it is discovered how far down the ore goes.
Often Mr. May prospects using a large geiger counter and a helicopter or light plane which is flown low over the terrain.
Miss May believes the best uranium is in Colorado. Utah has rugged land so the uranium is hard to get too. If a rich mine were found, it would take millions of dollars to build roads to transport the ore, she said.
If the claim has only surface ore, the lode will probably be sold to one of the big uranium companies in Colorado, which buys claims at face value.
Mr. May became interested in prospecting three years ago when he was traveling through Colorado at the time the uranium rush was beginning. He bought a geiger counter and hasn't been able to put it down since his daughter said.
"I ting the whole thing is thrilling, because you never know what you may find. The next few steps may bring you a million dollars." Miss May said.
She says she and her father plan to keep hunting until they hit something, whether it be next summer or five years from now. Most lodes are found by chance, and "out chance" may be soon, she said.
KU-Y To Present Christmas Play
A dramatic presentation of "The Other Wiseman" will be given at the KU-Y all-membership meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Jay-Chawk Room of the Student Union.
The Christmas play, directed by Allen Crafton, professor of speecha will be presented without staging Members of the cast are Allegra Clark, Lawrence, Kenneth Evans Kansas City, Kan., junior; Williams Kuhlke, Denver Colo., Richard Ball Jey, Hood River, Ore., and T. Yat Hill, Dallas, Tex., all graduate stu dents.
Before the play, KU-Y members will divide into groups to discuss the commercialization of Christmas. The topic for discussion is entitled "The Crime of Christmas."
Correction
Maria Hall's escort in the Military Ball picture on Page 8 of Monday's Daily Kansan was incorrectly identified as Pat Canary, Wichita senior. He is Max Mardick, Iola senior.
In 1866 KU's staff, according to the University's first catalog, consisted of three professors, a lecturer on hygiene and a janitor.
'Socialism Not Desirable In U.S.' Debater Says
Two debaters agreed that the aim of the United States system of government was the welfare of the people, but they didn't agree on what to call it.
At the Graduate Club's Sunday debate, entitled "Is Socialism Inevitable in the United States?" Jorgen B. Anderson, Jutland, Denmark graduate student, held that an extension of "American socialism" is inevitable.
"The extension of parliamentary socialism, as we have in Denmark, is the only logical way to avoid the totalitarian socialism of the Soviet Union," he said.
D. Postlethwaite, assistant instructor of Western Civilization, in countering Anderson's position, said that socialism was neither designed nor desirable for America where the system of 'American free enterprise' exists.
"America has progressed because it has been pragmatic, using what is effective and discarding what isn't" he said. "Socialism would be undesirable because each country solves its indigenous problems on the basis of its own needs.
"The United States has done this, borrowing a miscellany of answers to its problems from other countries," he added.
Anderson said socialism is on the increase in the U.S. as indicated by social security and farm subsidies.
Mr. Postlethwaite denied this and cited the government's role in the postal subsidy for Life Magazine.
"The postal subsidy is a responsibility carried by the federal government to make information available to all, a responsibility laid down by the founding fathers," he said.
Foreign Students Plan Mexico Trip
With the Mexican trip only one week away, about thirty students who plan to take it were shown color slides of Mexico Monday night at a meeting in the Student Union. Philip L. Henderson, assistant professor of design, who has traveled extensively in Mexico, demonstrated the slides, which he took on his many trips to that country.
This will be the first trip outside of the United States organized by the International Club. It will begin when a chartered bus leaves the Student Union at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 19. The party will return to Lawrence on Jan. 2, after spending about five days in Mexico City and about three days in Acapulco on the Pacific Ocean.
Those who plan to take the trip must pay a fee of $80 by Friday to Byron Hershey, Florence, Ala., senior, chairman of the preparations committee.
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