SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
46th Year, No. 5
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, June 24, 1958
History Author To Speak Thursday Night
A literary convocation lecture by Paul M. Angle, director of the Chicago Historical Society, will highlight the KU Writers' Conference here this week. The lecture, open to the public without charge, will be at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
Dr. Angle's subject, "This Our History: By Those Who Were There," is based on his book of similar title to be issued by Rand McNally this fall.
Dr. Angle is author of many historical volumes and an authority on Lincoln and early American history, "By These Words," "The Lincoln Reader," "Here I Have Lived." "Created Equal" and "Bloody Williamson" are a few of his better known.
PAUL M. ANGLE
The annual dinner which precedes the convocation is also open to all interested persons. It will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union. Reservations must be made by Wednesday morning. Call Dana Leibengood at KU 390.
Dr. Angle is also non-fiction leader for the conference and will speak Wednesday afternoon on "Writing History and Biography" in a workshop session. Only regular enrollees may attend workshop events.
Funeral Today For Mrs. Ellen Werner
Other workshop leaders during the week are: Mrs. Virginia Scott Miner, who will open today's session with a talk on verse techniques, "Pegasus and the Gadfly"; Francis Kroll, author of young people's stories, who will talk on "The Hero From End to Beginning"; Bob Wormington, who will speak this evening on television writing, and Mrs. Elizabeth Gregg Patterson, short story writer who will speak Wednesday evening, Special speakers include Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism, and James E. Gunn, managing editor of alumni publications.
Funeral services will be held here at 2 p.m. today for Mrs. Ellen Werner, widow of Henry Werner, who served the University as dean of men from 1929 until 1947.
Mrs. Werner, 69, died in a Kansas City hospital Sunday after a brief illness. Survivors included two daughters. Her husband died in 1955.
NEW HOUSING FOR MEN—These construction men are working on one of the two new dormitories on the Daisy Field, west of Allen Field House. (Summer Kansan photo)
Buildings Cost $8 Million
Contracts for present construction or buildings planned for the immediate future at KU total more than $8 million.
Construction was started last winter on a new School of Business building east of the Music and Dramatic Arts Building. It is scheduled for completion by the fall of 1959 at a cost of $1,200,-000. Work on the building is on schedule.
The 10 new Stouffer Place units will add 120 apartments to that project at a cost of $1 million.
Work on the Lewis and Templin dormitories located on the Daisy Field west of Allen Field House was started this summer. One is to be completed by September 1959 and the other by February 1960. They will house 432 students each and will cost a total of $3 million.
The Joseph R. Pearson dormitory on West Campus road is another million-and-half dollar project that is to be completed in February 1959. It has the same basic plan as Carruth-O'Leary halls and will accommodate 416 students.
Keith Lawton, director of physical plant operations, said another big project will be a mammalian genetics addition to Snow Hall. The architect's plans were put out for bids last spring but they came in too high. Architects are modifying the plans and they will be re-let for contract this fall.
Architects are now preparing plans and specifications for a $1 million addition to the Kansas Union building. The drawing should be ready for bids this fall.
Late Fee Payment Fine Begins Today
"Students who pay their fees late will find it costly," James K. Hitt, Registrar, said.
Those students who failed to pay their fees Friday or Monday will be charged two dollars extra if they pay today. Two dollars per day will be added to their regular fees through next Thursday.
After Thursday, the student will be disenrolled. In order to be reenrolled, the delinquent fee payer will be charged five dollars for re-enroll and six dollars for paying his fees late, a total of $11.
Fee payment may be completed at the Business Office in Strong Hall.
Builds Parking Lot On Old Baseball Field
Work started last week on a new parking lot southeast of the stadium on what was formerly the baseball field. The new 'triple-threat' lot according to Keith Lawton, will probably be ready by the fall semester.
The lot will be zoned for student and faculty parking during the day and will be a pay lot after class hours. On days of football games, when parking space is at a premium in the stadium area, the charge will probably be $1 per car.
In calling this a 'triple-threat' lot Mr. Lawton meant it will furnish close-in parking for students and
faculty during the day and will be near one of the big activity areas of the campus in that it will be across from the Kansas Union and near the football stadium.
The recent State Legislature refused to give any of the schools money to build parking lots so they must be built on a 'pay-as-you-go' plan with the receipts from one paying for the next one to be built.
The new baseball field will be near the Allen Field House.
GOING UP!-The new School of Business building continues in its climb toward completion.
The new building is located south of the Military Science Building.
Whistle May Mean Tornado
Four blasts on the University power plant whistle means run for cover. That is the signal a tornado funnel has been sighted touching the ground in this vicinity.
Civil defense director Howard Lindley is the man who gives the signal to sound the warning. His office is in constant touch with the Topeka weather bureau during times of severe storms and also with local police, highway patrolmen and others watching when the weather bureau gives an alert.
A warning means a funnel has been sighted touching the ground in this vicinity and people should take cover.
The civil defense office is in direct touch with the Topeka weather station by means of teletype located in the Lawrence police station. The Topeka bureau is equipped with radar to spot tornadoes and is constantly receiving reports from highway patrolmen and other spotters when severe weather conditions exist in this area.
Mr. Lindley pointed out that many people are confused between an alert and a tornado warning. An alert means that conditions exist that could produce a tornado in the area.
Student's Death Ruled Accidental
A Douglas county coroner's jury Thursday ruled there was no proven felonious action in the traffic death of George Carrier, Lawrence sophomore.
Carrier died Wednesday of a skull fracture received Tuesday when his motor scooter collided with a truck driven by Donald Collins, Baldwin.
Carrier's body has been shipped to Fawtucket, R.I. for services and burial.
Weather
Clear to partly cloudy today. High today 80s.