SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Tuesday, July 1, 1958
46th Year, No. 7
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
HOT TIME TONIGHT—Art Underwood, of Underwood's Gift Shop, sells a bag of firecrackers to David Ragle and Larry Regnier. (Summer Kansan photo)
What Will You Do To Celebrate?
What will you have?
1. A celebration at the mid-way point of summer school?
2. A jubilee to toast the only summer school vacation?
3. Merry-making because Friday is always a red letter day?
4. A flourish of fireworks and a conventional, grand and glorious fourth of July?
Choose any number from one to four and come Friday you will be the lucky winner of an almost all expense paid holiday. There's nothing (more) to buy and nothing to writie (except the last examination on Thursday). The free day is a gift from the colonists, the hierarchy of holiday proclaimers and the University administration.
What you do on your day of independence is up to you. You may choose to take a trip home, or you may stay here on the campus. If you stay here you will find Friday the quietiest day of the session on most of the campus, but the noisiest night of the year around the stadium.
When you are in that vicinity and see a brilliant whirling object disintegrate in the sky and send a spray of colors cascading to the ground, don't comb the hills for satellite souvenirs. Such an exhibit, along with echoing explosions, band music and pop corn, will be part of the annual fireworks show in the stadium.
No matter where you are for the Fourth, remember all the rules you've heard for a safe and sane celebration. If you handle fireworks be careful to intrepret the instructions correctly.
Fireworks Display Friday In Stadium
The fourth annual Independence Day fireworks display will be staged at 8:30 p.m. July 4 in Memorial Stadium. The Lawrence Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsors the event in cooperation with the University.
This $1,000 spectacle will light up the sky following a recital on the Carillon by Ronald Barnes. University carilloneur and instructor in music history.
Robert Harrell, chairman of the Junior Chamber committee said they are planning a 40-minute show that will feature the best aerial fireworks that are available.
Mr. Harrell recommended that
Advance tickets may be purchased at the concession stand in the Kansas Union or at the concession stand in the Music and Dramatic Arts Building.
everyone sit in the stadium and not on the hill to the south as that area will not be safe.
The proceeds from the show which is expected to draw a crowd of 8,000, will go to defray the expenses of the many youth activities the Jay Cees sponsor each year.
Dean Of Women To Have Two New Assistants
The appointments of Donna Younger and Eleanor Hawkinson as assistants to the dean of women were announced Friday by the chancellor's office.
They will assume their new duties today. The resignation of Miss Mary Hardman, assistant dean of women since 1952, becomes effective today. Miss Hardman plans to continue graduate studies on a full-time basis.
Miss Hawkinson, a 1957 KU graduate from Hutchinson, will divide her time between the dean of women's office and counseling in a freshman hall. She also will take some work in the Graduate School.
While an undergraduate student, she was active in the Associated Women Students, and the YWCA. and was a member of Mortar Board, senior women's honor society, and president of the Pan-Hellenic Council. She was an honor roll student She has worked in Dallas, Tex., the past year.
Miss Younger, whose home is in Denver, Colo., earned an A.B. degree in 1957 from Colorado State University and is now a candidate for the M.A. degree in sociology from the University of Alabama. She is currently serving a 2-year term as executive secretary of the Intercollegiate Assn. of Women Students and will continue those duties here.
Miss Hardman has been adviser to the Women's Pan-Hellenic Council. A successor has not been designated and Miss Emily Taylor, dean of women, said that she would probably serve in that capacity during the 1958 sorority rushing period.
KU Coed Is Miss Missouri
Margie Critten, Kansas City, Mo. freshman, was chosen Miss Missouri of 158. Saturday. The auburn-haired beauty, who is the former Miss Kansas City, will represent Missouri in the Miss America finals next September.
The Summer Session Kansan will not be published Friday because of the July 4 holiday.
No Kansan Friday
Will Alaska Be49thState?
After years of political jockeying, statehood for the Territory of Alaska moved a step closer to passage last week. The controversial Congressional statehood bill passed the House of Representatives and was sent to the Senate.
Fourth Of July Holiday Declared
Thursday afternoon and all day Friday have been declared a holiday for University personnel by Gov. George Docking. However, University personnel will still have to work until noon on Saturday.
12 Watkins Scholars Named
Twelve KU women have been appointed as Elizabeth M. Watkins scholars.
While Elizabeth M. Watkins scholarships are awarded solely on merit, the amount of each award is determined by individual need, varying from a small honorarium to full support.
The Elizabeth M. Watkins scholarship is the highest honor the University can bestow on an undergraduate woman. Criteria are superior scholarship, character and demonstrated leadership and promise of future usefulness to society. The scholarships are awarded to high school seniors on the basis of competitive examinations and interviews and to women at KU on the strength of their records.
The 12 new scholars:
Marilyn Bell, McPherson sophomore; Alice K. Gould, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore; Marcia J. Hall, Coffeville junior; Karen Marks, Wichita freshman; Kala Lou Mays, Lvons junior.
Marilyn Mull, Chanute sophomore; Loretta Nauman, Alton sophomore; Sara Parker, Mission freshman; Cora Lee Price, Lawrence freshman; Karen Resner, Russell sophomore; Eileen Rhodes, Topeka sophomore; Norma Agnes Smith, Topeka freshman.
The KU association was cited for
Alumni Magazine Cited As One Of Nation's Best
The KU Alumni Assn. was singled out for special honors as the publisher of one of the nation's best alumni magazines during the 43rd General Conference of the American Alumni Council which ended Thursday at Lake Placid, N. Y.
Among institutions with more than 30,000 alumni, the KU Alumni Magazine received one of four honorable mentions for its class news sections and the only honorable mention given for featured articles. There were three place winners in each classification.
In the "special recognition awards" section the KU Alumni Magazine was cited for its "A Day in the Life of . . ." series, illustrating the way in which character sketches can demonstrate the accomplishments, problems and ambitions of an institution.
having the second best single piece of direct mail dues and membership promotion, and in the same category received an honorable mention for another mailing piece.
James E. Gunn, managing editor of alumni publications and the Alumni Magazine, was responsible for the "A Day in the Life of..." series and the featured articles. Dona Seacat, Emporia, who received her A.B. degree in English June 2, was the class notes editor. Dick Wintermote, assistant secretary of the Alumni Assn. and Fred Ellsworth, executive secretary of the Alumni Assn., planned the direct mail promotions.
Principal opposition to the passage of the statehood legislation in the Senate is expected from Southern Democratic factions. This group has long viewed with hostility any action which would reduce their strength in blocking legislation which they consider offensive to their region.
The South has provided the majority of the now decreasing opposition to statehood for both Alaska and Hawaii. In their position of power, the Southern factions have capitalized on the Republican preference to admit the normally-Republican Territory of Hawaii to statehood first and the Democratic preference for the normally Democratic Alaska.
In the first vote taken in the Senate since the Alaskan bill was sent to the floor last Monday, a substitute measure was proposed by three Southern senators.
Prof. Smith expressed doubt that the Alaskan statehood measure would pass the Senate during this session of Congress. His fears were based on the inclination of the Senate Democratic bloc to invalidate the legislation by amendment.
More states in the Union would mean more members of Congress but no more which would represent the Southern philosophy. Two more seats for each new state in the Senate would destroy the virtual veto that the South now enjoys.
Rhoten Smith, former associate professor of political science, said that Southern opposition to statehood is the result of political maneuvering on the part of the Democrats, as well as several other factors.
Prof. Smith also said that the issue for statehood was being buried in excuses and partisan motives. Opponents of statehood for the territories have said that the United States has too many domestic burdens to take on any additional responsibility.
Under the proposal, Alaska would have been given a commonwealth status similar to that of Puerto Rico. Commonwealth status permits the territory to elect its own governor, an office now filled in Alaska by presidential appointment.
The substitute measure was defeated by a 50 to 29 vote.
Alaska has been this close to statehood before. In 1954 when the Republicans controlled Congress, the House passed a Hawaiian statehood bill but the Democrats in the Senate managed to attach a rider to the bill that would have admitted Alaska also. In the deadlock that resulted between the two houses, neither territory became a state.
In the Democratic-controlled Congress this year, the House passed the Alaskan bill and it was recognized in the Senate that attaching Hawaii to the bill would kill statehood for both.
Weather
Mostly fair and windy this afternoon and locally warmer east portion. Generally fair east, partly cloudy west with scattered showers and thunderstorms northwest and extreme west today. Cooler northwest today. High today upper 80s northwest to 90s east and south.