Daily Hansan
Friday, March 21, 1958
The finding of an object resembling a tombstone Thursday morning on the steps of Marvin Hall was neither denied nor confirmed by officials questioned by The Daily Kansan today.
Tombstone Reported Seen On Marvin Steps
THEY WERE TOPS—Members of the Alpha Omicron Pi social sorority as they appeared in winning the small ensemble division in the Inter-fraternity sing Thursday night. From left, Peggy J. Kallos, Horton sophomore, Ann Sutter, Leawood, Mary Sue Price, Coffeyville, and Marva Lou Powell, Topeka, juniors.
Persons who saw the tombstone said it was about 16 inches square. According to them the phrase "KU Department of Architecture, 1869-1958, RIP." was painted on it.
Joe Skillman, campus police chief. said no report of the incident had been made to police.
On March 4 an effigy hanging in front of Marvin was found by campus police. The effigy, police said, had a sign with one word painted on it. "Beal."
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Dean McNown said an investigation had discovered nothing about the effigy.
Student-Teacher Travel Plans Offered
Student-teacher travel plans are being offered this year for students who want to study the culture of foreign countries.
The trips include a 38-day tour of 11 countries in Europe, slightly less than $700, a 70-day bicycle tour of Europe for around $1,300, a trip around the world in 70 days for $3,200, and 61 days in South America for $1,900.
March 29 Rock Chalk Tickets Nearly Sold
For those who prefer a more exciting or exotic journey, a Belgian Congo hunting safari leaves New York by air every month of the summer for a 12-day big game hunt in the grasslands of Africa.
Tickets for the Saturday, March 29 performance of the Rock Chalk Revue are almost sold out, according to Ted Hall, Garden City junior, sales chairman. Hall said Thursday night there were a few seats left for the final performance, but still plenty of seats left for the Friday, March 28 show.
All are by ship and include all accommodations from the point of departure.
Some trips offer the opportunity to study while traveling. Fifteen students, accompanied by Victor M. Hyden, instructor of speech, drama and journalism, will visit the radio and television centers of Europe. Included in this tour is a stay in Moscow for five days.
A chance to earn college credit is offered by universities in many countries. The Universidad de San Carlos in Guatemala City, Guatemala. offers a summer session for visiting students from July 7 to Aug. 15.
Tickets are on sale at the Kansas Union ticket desk and the Information Booth on Jayhawk Boulevard.
The courses are designed for those who speak little Spanish and another for those who speak fluently. Those interested should see Seymour Menton, assistant professor of Spanish, in 119 Fraser or phone KU Extension 578.
George Anthan, Kansas City,
Kan. senior and sports editor for
The Daily Kansan, left Thursday
night for Louisville, Ky., to cover
the NCAA basketball tournament
there Friday and Saturday. Accompanying him is Eldon Miller,
sports editor for the Kansas State
Collegian. They will return Sunday.
UDK Sports Editor Leaves For NCAA
K-State will play Seattle University and the University of Kentucky will play Temple University tonight. The winners will meet Saturday for the championship.
Anthan's description of the tournament will appear in Monday's Daily Kansan.
55th Year, No.112
Greek Fete To End; Sing Winners Named
2 Sororities, Fraternity Receive Cups
Two sororities and a fraternity won first-place gold cups in the large and small divisions of the fifth annual Inter-fraternity sing Thursday night in the Kansas Union.
Alpha Delta Pi won first place in the women's large group division and Beta Theta Pi won in the men's large group division. Winners in the small ensemble division were Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, first, and Sigma Nu fraternity, second. Men's and women's small groups were judged together.
Second place trophies in the large divisions went to Alpha Omicron Pi and Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Alpha Omicron Pi was the only organization to enter and win in both divisions.
Alpha Phi sorority and Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity won the third place trophies.
Twelve sororites and 16 fraternities were entered. Eight groups presented small ensembles. Each entry sang a fraternity or sorority song and one other of their choice. The songs included ballads, spirituals, blues, and bounce numbers.
Contracts for construction of Lewis and Templin resident halls totaled $2,967,512. The funds will come from the sale of revenue bonds and from funds made available through the L. N. Lewis estate, said Hubert Brighton, board secretary.
General construction contracts for the KU buildings went to the Harmon Construction Co., Oklahoma City, for $1,955,384; plumbing, heating, air conditioning and sewer connections to Kendall Plumbing and Heating, Wichita, for $741,787, and electrical work to Beadnall Electric Co., St. Joseph, Mo., for $270,341.
The Board of Regents approved contracts Thursday for construction work of two men's dormitories at KU.
The board also approved contracts totaling $1,836,206 for 11 apartment houses for Kansas State College.
Most of the groups wore black suits or dresses except the Delta Gammas, who wore pastel pinafores with bouffant skirts.
Dale M. Flanagan, Columbus senior and master of ceremonies, entertained the audience with ad lib comments while the judges were making the decisions. About 300 heard the singers.
Flanagan got an unexpected assist in entertaining the audience when a table on the side of the ballroom collapsed under the weight of four or five students who were sitting on it.
Judges were Mrs. Robert Zilliox, Lawrence, John Pozdro, assistant professor of music theory, and Clayton Krehbiel, associate professor of music education.
Inter-fraternity and Panhellenic council co-chairmen are Julie C. Nicholson, Lawrence junior, and Hulen F. Jenkins, Kansas City, Kan. junior.
$3 Million Hall Contracts OKd
BULLETIN
Mary Olson, Wichita freshman, who filed Wednesday night to run on a nonpartisan ticket for vice president of the student body, withdrew her name from the ticket this afternoon.
Miss Olson told The Daily Kansan that "by my withdrawing a better campus political situation will evolve." She said pressures had nothing to do with her decision.
She and Ed Prelock, Cleveland, Ohio senior had filed together for the two offices Wednesday. Prelock was not available for immediate comment.
Miss Olson said she would file her withdrawal with a notary public this afternoon.
Evidence supporting the theory that all continents were once one super-continent will be presented at 4 p.m. Monday in 426 Lindley by Dr. S. K. Runcorn, professor and director of the department of physics, King's College, University of Durham, England.
British Physicist To Talk Monday
Dr. Runcorn is one of eight scientists in the Distinguished Lecture Series of the American Assn. of Petroleum Geologists and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists for 1958. Dr. H. A. Ireland, professor of geology, is also one of the eight lecturers.
In his talk, "Paleomagnetism," Dr. Runcorn will support the theory of "continental drift." According to this theory, all continents were once one huge continent and were separated by an unknown force.
If this theory is valid, many geological phenomena can be explained, such as origin of mountain ranges and huge oil and gas reservoirs.
Women Stricken By Strange Illness
About 50 women from the Gamma Phi Beta sorority have been ill since Wednesdav night, and 15 have entered Watkins Hospital for treatment.
Johanna Walsh, Oak Park, Ill. sophomore, a member of the sorority, said today that the illness started about 9 p.m. Wednesday when eight women went to the hospital. She suspected either influenza or food poisoning. More women became ill Thursday morning and went to the hospital.
Three are still there and about four or five are ill in the sorority house.
Dr. Ralph I. Canuthes, director of the Student Health Service, said Friday morning he had no information to give out on the matter.
Tonight partly cloudy to cloudy and warmer. Saturday mostly cloudy and cooler with some rain or snow west and possibly rain eastern half late afternoon. Low tonight 20 to 30 northwest and north-central 30 to 40 elsewhere. High Saturday mostly 40s.
Weather
Work, Race Dance End Activities
City-campus work projects begin at 9:30 a.m. with sorority members canvassing the city for multiple sclerosis fund donations.
Work clothes, Greek togas and semiformal dress will be the costumes of the day Saturday as fraternities and sororities conclude Greek week with work projects, chariot races and the wind-up dance.
Fraternity men will form a temporary buildings and grounds crew to spread dirt and haul rocks for the Music and Dramatic Arts Building landscaping project. They will also paint pedestrian crosswalks on Jayhawk Drive and move rocks in Pioneer Cemetery west of Lawrence.
Jayhawk Drive from the west end of Strong around the Chi Omega fountain and back to the drive between Strong and Snow will be the course for the fraternity chariot races beginning at 2 p.m.
Twenty-three fraternities will enter homemade chariots in the races. Each chariot will be driven by a toga-clad driver and will be pulled by two men in white shorts and T shirts.
Stuart S. Gunckel, Inter-fraternity Council president, will judge the races. Timers will be Milton Wade, Herington and John V. Meyer, Cincinnati, Ohio, both sophomores.
The Greek Week finale will be the dance from 9 p.m. to midnight in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Woody Herman and his Third Herd band will play.
The Greek Week queen will be crowned at intermission by Dale M. Flanagan Columbus senior.
(Related story, "Sigma Phi Epsilon Herserman." Page 8.)
Floods Seen For Kansas
Compiled from United Press
The record-breaking snows covering the northwest quarter of Kansas now pose a flood threat, the U.S. Weather Bureau reported today.
With a moderate rate of melting practically all streams in the snow covered area will rise to bankful or higher.
The weather bureau said the Republican River will rise to near bank-full from Harlan County Dam to Concordia. The Solomon Rivers are expected to flood moderately from around Alton and Gaylord to near Minneapolis. The Saline River will flood moderately above Tescott.
Fresh snows lashed a 13-state northeast area of the country with new snows today extending from North Carolina to New England and west into Ohio.
Atlantic City, N. J. was without electric power for about seven hours. Areas of Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. and Long Island, N.Y. without power affected about 900,000 persons. The near blizzard claimed at least 22 lives so far.