Daily Hansan
Friday, May 9, 1958
LAWRENCE KANSAS
55th Year, No.143
K.C. Star Editor To Speak At Kansan Dinner
Bill Vaughan, Starbeams editor for the Kansas City Star. will be the speaker at the annual Kansan Board Dinner for University Daily Kansan staff members at 6:15 p.m. Saturday in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Winners of awards for outstanding work on the paper and scholarship recipients will be announced at the dinner.
Mr. Vaughan, a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, has been writing the Starbeams column since 1945.
The column is syndicated under the name of "Senator Soaper Says," and is sent to 100 newspapers across the country.
In addition to the column, Mr Vaughan has covered special events for The Star. These have included seven national political conventions, two presidential inaugurations, and a Kentucky Derby.
Awards for Daily Kansan work will be made by faculty members of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information
The awards will be for the best promotional advertisement, institutional advertisement, news story, feature story, photograph, and editorial.
Outstanding journalism seniors will be cited and the outstanding senior man will be recognized by Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity.
Special scholarships and awards winners to be announced at the dinner will be the recipients of the Sigma Delta Chi awards, Alpha Delta Sigma professional advertising fraternity award, Potts-Woodbury award, and the Henry Schott memorial prize.
Downing Names Board Members
Student body president John Downing, Kansas City, Mo. junior, announced the student members of the Union Operating Board Thursday.
Ex officio members are Downing; Carol Plumb, Overland Park junior and student body vice-president; Brooks Becker, Emporia graduate student; Creta Carter, Jennings junior; Bill Witt, Garden City junior and senior class president; Hulen Frank Jenkins, Kansas City, Kan junior, IFC representative; Mary Olson, Wichita freshman and Gene Anderson. Belleville junior.
Becker and Miss Carter are serving on this year's board. Miss Olson and Anderson are members-at-large from the student body. The other four are serving in their offices, rather than as individuals.
The board is a joint student-faculty-alumni organization, with three alumni members and five faculty members.
Downing said most of the other committee appointments would be announced Sunday. The screening committee has received nearly 300 applications, Downing said, and the work of checking them has delavled selection of committee members.
Weather
Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and Saturday. A little warmer Saturday. Low tonight 40 to 50. High Saturday 70s.
SENIOR ACTIVITIES BEGIN—Two unidentified seniors enjoy the food at the senior picnic in Holcomb's Grove Thursday. (Daily Kansan photo)
Military Pay Raise For Career Men
Relax men. That military pay raise bill being tossed around in Congress doesn't offer you much. Not for quite a few years at least.
KU's military science professors say the bill is designed to make a career as an officer more attractive. No one collects on the increases until he has had two years of service.
"It is designed to give better pay to the higher officers," Col. Ralph J. Hanchin, professor of military science, said Thursday. "Higher pay is what the people are looking for. I think these increases will be adequate to satisfy them."
An increase of at least six per cent in base pay is provided for almost all military personnel with two years or more of service. Raises for the higher-ups (generals, admirals, etc.) are much bigger.
Lt. Col, Rodney Reighard, associate professor of naval science, said a special pay raise given to medical and dental officers two years ago caused a substantial raise in the retention rate of those men.
It is hoped that the plan will increase the retention rate of commissioned men staying in the service after their required active duty time has run out.
"The last general pay raise was about two years ago," he said. "It was a fairly small raise for everybody."
Col. McHenry Hamilton Jr
proteessor of air science, said the plan was promoted by the increasing loss of high ranking personnel. The bill raises the pay of these officers as high as 60 per cent.
"There have been a lot of high ranking officers getting out of the service. The financial attraction hasn't been high enough. This increase is designed to keep them," he said.
Summer session orientation for all new undergraduate students will begin June 5. Registration and course enrollment will follow on June 6 and 7.
Summer Orientation To Begin June 5
George B. Smith, dean of the University and director of the summer session, said Thursday that he expected at least as many to enroll as attended last summer. Enrollment for the 1957 summer session was over 2,800 students. Schedules for the summer session are available at the registrar's office in Strong Hall now.
Bishop To Speak At Baccalaureate
The Rev. Edward Wells, bishop of the Episcopal Church for western Missouri, will give the baccalaureate address at 7:30 p.m. June 1 in Memorial Stadium.
Commencement will be June 2, also at 7:30 p.m. Some 1.975 will receive degrees, an increase of about 200 over last year.
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Governor George Docking and A. W. Hershberger, chairman of the Board of Regents, will give greetings. Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will give a farewell to the graduates. There will be no commencement address.
The senior class breakfast will be held at 8 a.m. June 2 in the Kansas Union, and a reception for seniors, parents, and alumni will be held at 3 p.m. the same day in the Union lounge.
The alumni classes and the Gold Medal Club, all students of more than 50 years ago, will hold luncheon June 1 at noon in the Union.
Reunions for the classes of '08, '18, '33, and '48 will be held over the Commencement weekend, starting with a welcoming dinner at 6:30 p.m. May 31 in the Union.
ROTC commissioning ceremonies will be at 11 a.m. June 2 at the Music and Dramatic Arts Building.
BISHOP EDWARD WELLS
Wilt Denies Tour Plans; Harp Is Optimistic
Basketball coach Dick Harp said today he is in the dark on the facts behind this week's rumors concerning his 7-foot star, Wilt Chamberlain.
"I can't say anything about Wilt's plans until he gets back and I can talk to him. But, knowing him as I do, if he said he will be back next year, he means it," he said.
"I have been gone most of the week and haven't talked to Wilt," he told The Daily Kansan this morning. "When I came back to town, he was gone to Denver."
Chamberlain said Thursday in Denver that he is not planning to take a basketball tour of Europe this summer and then return for professional bail as rumored.
Chamberlain conceded that Dr. Sam Mossafer, a Seattle psychologist, who is trying to put together a team of college stars for a European tour, has been calling and writing him. "In fact, he called me up a couple
"In fact, he called me up a couple of nights ago, but I never agreed to join up.
"He hasn't offered me anything but a chance to see the world," he said when asked about a $40,000 offer supposedly made to him if he would join.
He denied specifically the story that he would join a professional team instead of returning for his senior college year.
"The story is not true. I've been drafted by the Philadelphia Warriors and I can't play for them until the 1959-60 season because of their National Basketball Assn. rules. And I may not play for them then."
He would not discuss the possibility that he might join the Harlem Globetrotters. The Globetrotters are not bound by NBA rules.
To Teach In Montana
Cayle H. Smith, associate professor of design will be visiting professor of applied art at the first quarter of the summer session at Montana State College in Bozeman this summer. He will teach courses in design, jewelry and silversmithing.
They May Be Unclassified But We Love Them
Did campus elections or IBM cards end the old system of classifying students simply as men and women? The new maze of titles gave just about everyone a complete identification tag such as, "organized unmarried fraternity district college junior." But even though one student may have six "names," the moniker makers forgot to title one segment of the campus population.
So far this year campus mothers haven't had a week set aside in their name nor have they even had a week end. In fact, they weren't
even recognized on the student ballot—but their day is coming.
Sunday, Mother's Day, they'll be showered with more cards, gifts, thanks, national publicity and love than any other non-campaigning group.
Just as there are classifications for students there could be classifications for mothers. Those "on campus" are the student, office, or faculty mother.
When they leave their 8 to 5. Monday through Friday, offices or class room they head for their "organized living districts," their homes. There the candidates carry the districts and automatically win when they're called "mother."
Although they don't campaign for recognition, they often use many campaign tactics. Such things as kissing babies, out-lining platforms to fight juvenile delinquency and convincing husbands that frozen dinners are just as digestible as minute desserts are all in a day's work.
Other mothers with "grown up" children are in school part-time to fill the free hours they now have.
If the student-mothers' children are young, they hire baby sitters or enroll the children in a nursery school. If their husbands are also in school, they sometimes work out shift schedules to attend class and baby sit.
There are a few mothers who are in college with their children.
Another classification, the office-mothers, are usually full time University employees. They probably employ full-time baby sitters because most of their husbands are student-fathers.
Last, but probably most familiar to the students, are the "off campus" house mothers. Many are "mom" to two or more children of their own, but they are all "mother" to exceptionally large KU families.
All campus mothers will have "their day" Sunday but the title will continue on into the next week and year, and even through the next campus elections.