Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, May 5, 1958
55th Year, No.139
Services Today For One-Car Accident Victim
Funeral services were to have been held for Charles Crank, 20, Overland Park sophomore, at 2 p.m. today at St. Mark's Methodist Church Chapel in Overland Park. Burial was to be in the Mount Moriah Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo.
He died early Friday morning in Stormont-Vail Hospital in Topeka from injuries received in a one-car accident, which seriously injured another KU student, about 14 miles north of Lawrence Thursday night.
Injured in the accident was William L. Cunningham, 22, Kansas City, Kan. sophomore. He received a fractured lumbar vertebra, a fractured collar bone, and lacerations.
Highway patrolman Harold Tuttle told The Daily Kansas Sunday that if charges are filed it will not be done until after an investigation of the accident by the Shawnee County Attorney.
Tuttle said the car left Newman Curve about three miles west of Perry on U. S. Highway 24 between 10:15 and 10:30 p.m. Thursday. He said the car was apparently thrown approximately 45 yards through the air before it hit the ground, then bounced and flew another 35 yards before stopping.
Tuttle said Cunningham told him at first that he was driving the car, but later denied it. Tuttle also stated that a blood alcohol test was given to Cunningham and he registered 195 for alcoholic content. Tuttle said .150 is the limit without being considered under the influence.
The patrolman said Cunningham admitted the two were drinking beer and whiskey at two local taverns before the accident. Cunningham said he did not remember leaving Lawrence,
Both men were in the engineering school. Cunningham lives at the Fred Ellsworth home, 1641 University Dr.
Hospital officials at Stormont-Vail said Cunningham was in "satisfactory" condition and was "resting well."
LAW QUEEN—Celia Welch, Hertington sophomore and a member of Delta Gamma sorority, was selected Friday night from 19 candidates as Miss Res Ips Leoquitur, the Law School's queen. She was selected at a dance which about 200 persons attended.
LAST SEMESTER'S EXECES—These five persons were executives last semester when The Daily Kansan made All American rating. From left, Dick Brown, St. Mary's, Larry Boston, Salina, Bob Hartley, Winfield, George Anthan, Kansas City, Kan., and seated, Marilyn Mermis, Hays. All are seniors.
Mr. X' Is Bomber, Bugger,'Brager
KU's "mad bomber" is getting a little irked at the lack of publicity and credit available to a person who spends quite a bit of time and "ingenuity" on a practical ioke or two.
In an "X"-signed, handwritten letter to The Daily Kansan last Tuesday the ignored individual took all the "credit" for two stunts pulled on the campus this winter.
One was the planting of a stink bomb in the Kansas Union Dec. 6 which routed over 400 persons who were attending 15 meetings.
The second was the "bugging" of the campanile to make it ring more than the usual number of times when announcing the hour.
"I perpetrated both of these tricks personally," the letter-writer said, "and I am rather proud of these jokes."
Derwood McCabe, Union building engineer, said at the time of the bombing that the person or persons responsible probably dropped the bomb near the marble entrance to the building or on the roof.
As proof that he was the one who did the deeds, "Mr. X" got specific. "The stink was caused by a chemical called ethyl mercaptan," he wrote. "This chemical was poured in the ventilating system in the attic of the Union. It definitely was not administered outside of the Union."
When asked last week if a student could have access to the attic and ventilating system, Mr. McCabe said there were several places where a chemical could have been poured.
The prankster couldn't have chosen a better chemical to get the results he wanted. Ethyl mercaptan does stink, chemistry students said. In fact, it stinks so much that the University chemistry classes have
Clear to partly cloudy through Tuesday. Warmer this afternoon. Low tonight 40 to 50. High Tuesday 70 to 80.
Weather
High Sunday 67, low 52. Low this morning 42. Total weekend precipitation .85.
largely ceased experimenting with the stuff. One person described it as smelling very much like a dead skunk.
The "fun-lover" also enclosed the key he claimed he used to enter the campanile and cause it to ring extra times.
Daily Kansan staff members tried the key in the campanile locks. It didn't work. A quick check with Ronald Barnes, carillonneur and assistant professor of music history, revealed that the lock had been changed after the intruder's visit.
He may be able to find out the reaction of one rather influential campus group. The Daily Kansan turned the letter over to Chief Joseph Skillman of the campus police.
The letter-writer reveals he is anxious to collect the opinions of students and faculty members on his feats.
May Day Posters Just A Prank
Russia's May Day celebration had its effects on the campus the morning of May 1 when campus police picked up about 32 paper posters tacked to tree trunks advocating the overthrow of the capitalist system.
The posters were found along Javhawk Boulevard and around Green Hall about 2:30 a.m. Police quickly stripped the trees of the posters and took them to the police office, putting the deed down as this year's May Day prank.
There were indications from students who were early-risers on that morning that the posters were widly spread over the campus and some students hinted that the act was done by "red-blooded college boys."
Kansan Gets All American
The University Daily Kansan has been given an All American rating for the first semester of this year by the Associated Collegiate Press.
The grade, highest given by the ACP, is given only to college papers who have the highest standards of coverage, content and physical makeup.
The Kansan was judged in comparison with other four-year college and university daily newspapers.
The ACP guidebook, which explains the judging and rating procedure, says, "We instruct our judges to give bonus scores above those earned in this scorebook for papers showing unusual imagination and initiative, within the bounds of sound journalism."
The Daily Kansan earned seven bonus scores.
The factors of Kansan quality given extra points were accompanied by personal comments from the judge.
News sources developed by the Kansan were given special recognition.
"You certainly showed enterprising journalism with your interview with the governor," the judge commented.
The interview he referred to was the January 11 interview with Governor George Docking by two Kansan editors.
"Your alertness to spot news is commendable," the judge said. "Page one, for example, has a lot of 'news' as opposed to 'publicity.'"
Copy treatment by the editors was rated high.
News stories, the judge stated, were "written objectively, freed from editorial comment, 'puffs' and superlatives."
Speech and interview stories reported in the Kansan were "especially well written."
Editorials included in each issue of the Kansan were termed a "significant voice for students."
"I like your short 'pity' editorials! They have a lot of variety." was the comment.
Sports coverage was given a top score. It was "free from partisanship, cliches, objectional slang, and 'trick' or vulgar writing."
Sports page makeup, which contained "originality and vigor," was given special commendation for use of action pictures.
Headline writing throughout the paper was "easily understood, specific and active."
"Your pictures are blurred and fuzzy," the judge said. "Your paper is a little lean on pictures."
KU Canoers Get Second And Soaked In Contest
Mud-specked and soaking wet, members of the KU and K-State Alpha Phi Omega chapters drew up on the shores of the Kansas River at Lawrence Saturday afternoon after a $5^{1/2}$ hour canoe race from Topeka.
The canoes left Topeka at 7:50 a.m. and crossed under the turnipke bridge at Lawrence at about 1:15. Bob Channell, Chicago, Ill. senior and president of the KU chapter, said the paddlers spent about four hours underneath the pouring skies.
Along the route, Channell said, one KU canoe attempted to catch up with the leading K-State canoe by having the three KU crew members carry the canoe across a sand bar instead of skirting it.
The canoe from the Kansas State chapter of the national service fraternity was first by about a mile. KU was second, another K-State canoe was third, and a second KC canoe was last.
The three KU men grabbed the canoe and started running, Channell said, but found the sand was so soft that they lost time instead of gaining.
A trophy was given to the winning chapter after arrival, and then the paddlers, not yet wet enough, all took showers. A picnic was held later Saturday.
The KU chapter members who took part in the race were Roy Mock, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore; Ted Bud, Kansas City, Mo. freshman; John Sholeen, Paloe Heights, Ill. senior; Joe Palmer, Kansas City, Kan. freshman; Eldon Good, Louisburg senior, and Channell.