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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
55th Year, No. 129
Monday, April 21, 1958
JAYNE LEADS THE WAY—KU Relays queen attendant Jayne Allen, Topeka junior, and her escort lead the way on the Memorial Stadium field Saturday down an aisle of ROTC representatives. Miss Allen and the co-queens and other attendants presented gold watches to Relays winners. (Daily Kansan photo by Ron Miller)
Lots Of Relays Excitement Weather Fails Vandals Break Many Exhibits To Slow Relays Utility Pole Will Be Junked
By ALAN JONES and JOAN JEWETT Of The Daily Kansan Staf
(of The Daily Kansan Staff)
In weather alternating between a hot spring sun and threatening thunderclouds, Kansas' spring homecoming—the Kansas Relays and the Engineering Exposition—came off with only minor delays.
Both events started Friday, but the big crowd arrived Saturday. A total crowd of 16,000 watched the 33rd running of the Relays and the exhibits at the Exposition drew about 20,000 to Marvin Hall.
Eleven new Relays records were set, including a world record sprint medley relay time of 3:19.5 by the Oklahoma University team and an intercollegiate mile relay record of 3:09.1 by Texas University.
About 10,000 persons lined Massachusetts Street in Lawrence to see the Relays parade, which started at 10:30 a.m. Saturday after a half hour delay. All four of KU's weekend queens appeared in the parade.
At the Exposition, the department of petroleum engineering won its fourth consecutive first place award for "Geographical Frontiers of Drilling." Second place was won by a display built jointly by the departments of architecture and architectural engineering. Third place was a tie between the departments of civil and chemical engineering.
Triangles Win Division
Tringue
Winner of the float competition between KU organized houses were; men's division; first, Triangle; second, Teu Kappa; Epsilon; third, Lambda Chi Alpha; women's division; first, Delta Delta Delta; second, Alpha Chi Omega; third, DeltaGamma.
At the stadium, Relays co-queens Emily Mohri, Kansas City student from Fort Meade, Md., and Kay Winegarner, Arkansas City junior.
A utility pole was broken off at 1144 W. 11th and a window screen torn at the Alpha Chi Omega sorority house in two incidents of vandalism last weekend.
Campus Police Chief Joe Skillman said the utility pole was apparently broken off by a large diesel tractor-scraper which was driven from the Engineering Exposition at Marvin Hall to Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall early Saturday morning.
Prowlers at the Alpha Chi Omega house broke a window screen on a basement window early today. Some of the girls in the house heard noises on the south front porch after midnight and called police about 1:45 am, after hearing someone cutting wire in the basement window later.
The clouds stayed around all evening finally cutting loose in time to drench some of the people going to the Relays dance in the Kansas Union. The rain didn't slow things down much, though, as 250 couples attended—the largest crowd ever for the Relays dance.
Dr. Paul W. Merril, noted astronomer, will speak at 7:30 p.m. tonight in 124 Malott Hall, at a public Sigma Xi meeting. His subject will be "From Atoms to Galaxies."
Chief Skillman said the vandals have not been found, but both incidents are being investigated.
awarded medals, trophies, and prizes to the winners from the queens' stand on the west side of the stadium.
Astronomy Lecture Is Tonight
250 Couples Attend Dance
Harlan Livingood's band, from Kansas City, Kan., played before a backdrop of a papier-mache rocket that carried out the parade theme of "Sports in a Scientific World."
By JIM CABLE
BY JIM CABLE
(Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
After the show is over, what do you do with the props?
Apply this question to a show as big and varied as the Engineering Exposition and you get some unusual and odd replies.
The Theta Tau archway which spanned the entrance to Marvin Hall is destined to end up on a junk pile.
Robert Rehagen, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore, archway committee chairman, said the missile model would probably be saved—"just in case we think of something to do with it."
The Naval Air Base at Olathe is planning an open house in May and has invited the departments to bring their displays for exhibit. Most departments are hesitant to do this because of the amount of work involved in putting the exhibits together again.
Missile To Be Save $ ^{1} $
The civil engineering model of a section of the inter-state highway system has been junked. The concrete and asphalt roadways have been thrown out while the miniature road building equipment, which was on loan from equipment companies, has been returned.
The half shell cardboard structure built by the department of architecture and the department of architectural engineering will remain up for testing for a full year. It will be sprayed with fiberglass to make it completely waterproof.
Shell Up For Year
Mry displays used laboratory equipment or student work projects. These will be returned to their usual classwork function.
The model car of the future as built by the industrial design department will be taken apart and stored for future exhibits.
Joint Sessions Set For ASC New Council, Officers To Be Sworn In April 29
With Vox Populi, campus party, holding a 17-7 majority in next year's All Student Council, it appears certain Vox members will be elected to the ASC executive positions.
However, Jim Austin, Topeka sophomore and Vox president, said he would let the ASC select its officers without recommendations from the party.
Ford Grant For 11-School Study
The Ford Foundation has made a 3-year grant of $39,600 to the University of Kansas and 10 other colleges and universities for an interuniversity social science faculty seminar on "Urbanization in the Missouri River Basin Area."
The Governmental Research Center at KU will serve as secretariat for the program and will provide its administrative headquarters.
Will Be Published
Members of the seminar will try to find solutions to problems arising as a result of the coming of industrialization and urbanization to a once predominantly agricultural area. Results of the study will be published by the University.
"We will have our first meeting as soon as plans can be arranged and members of the seminar can be brought together," Dr. Ethan P. Allen, director of the Governmental Research Center, said. He said that the project might get underway during the summer, but "certainly by next fall."
The seminar will be composed initially of three representatives each from KU, the University of Colorado, the University of Iowa, the University of Missouri, the University of Nebraska, the University of North Dakota, the University of South Dakota, Kansas State College, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis University, and the University of Wichita. The representatives will meet quarterly for 3-day sessions.
Of the $13,200 annual budget,$5,000 will be allotted for pilot research on one comparative project.
Dr. Allen said that papers will be presented at the seminars by outstanding scholars in the field of social science.
"We want to bring practitioner and academician together to obtain their separate contributions to common problems." Dr. Allen said.
Letup In Rain Is Forecast
A cold front pushed its way across Kansas today setting off small showers and some thunderstorms, but the weather forecast shows a letup during the next 24 hours.
The forecast for the Lawrence area and Kansas tonight and Tuesday calls for showers and thunderstorms in the west and southeast portions tonight, cooler over most of the state tonight. The low temperature tonight should be in the 30s northwest to upper 40s southeast, the high Tuesday in the 60s.
The weather bureau's five-day forecast, from Monday through Friday, calls for warmer temperatures and little or no precipitation.
The new Council will meet for the first time at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Kansas Union Pine Room. It will be a joint meeting with this year's ASC.
The new Council members, together with John Downing, Kansas City, Mo. junior, and Carol Plumb, Overland Park junior, newly-elected student body president and vicepresident, will hold two joint meetings with the present ASC, Tuesday and on April 29.
At the April 29 meeting, the new Council, Downing, and Miss Plumb will be sworn into office. The Council's first meeting as a governing body will be May 13, when officers will be elected.
Business for Tuesday's meeting includes the Elections Committee's report on last Wednesday's spring elections and the second reading of an amendment which would kill Squat, the official campus humor magazine.
Discussion of the amendment will follow the second reading, and Squat's staff members will attend to present their side of the case. Jerry Blatherwick, Mission senior and managing editor of Squat, said the staff will meet with the Committee on Committees and Legislation before the ASC meeting to discuss the amendment.
(Related editorial Page 2.)
Two KU Students In $1,950 Smash
Charges of driving without a driver's license and failing to reduce speed to avoid an accident were filed against a KU student after a 2-car collision causing an estimated $1,950 damage Friday night.
The charges were made by Lawrence police against John Schick, Kansas City, Kan. junior, driver of an MG sports car, which collided with a 1958 convertible driven by Sharon Lynch, Salina senior. The accident occurred at 7th and Arkansas Streets.
Damage to the MG was estimated at $1,500 and the $450 to the convertible.
British Economic Adviser To Speak
Richard Miles, senior economic officer of the British Information Service, New York, will deliver a lecture on "Monetary Policy and Economic Stability" Tuesday at 8 pm, in Bailey Auditorium.
The lecture, sponsored by the economics department, will deal with the British system and its economic policies.
Miles has been at his present post for four months. Prior to that he was a press officer and spokesman for the British Treasury office in London. A graduate of Exeter College, Oxford. Miles has been with the British government at the Breton Woods Conference and was part of the United Kindom delegation to the United Nations.