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University Daily Kansan Monday, March 17, 1958
The Kress Fight's Over
About-Face Taken By Rush Kress
A change of mind, a change of personnel, and a change in management have resulted in the cancellation of the fight for control of the S. H.Kress variety store chain.
The Kress Company's management has been the focal point in a dispute between Rush H. Kress, 80-year-old chairman of the company board and president of the S. H. Kress Foundation, and the foundation trustees including Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
Chancellor Franklin D. Trump
The changed mind belongs to Mr.
Kress, who Feb. 14 charged the
trustees with "attacking and criticizing the policies" of the Kress board and "invited" them to resign.
The change in personnel came when three officers of the Kress board resigned on March 11.
Last week he called the trustees "my closest and most loyal friends in the world."
The change in management resulted when four new directors, the foundation's choice, filled the vacated positions.
According to a New York financial writer these changes mean that the foundation may now be in control of the management of the company.
If this is true it will be the first time a foundation has gained control of the company which developed it.
Midsemester Grades Due
Midsemester grades are due in the registrar's office today, according to James K. Hitt, registrar.
Mr. Hitt said Sunday the registrar's office acts as a central receiving agency for all the students grades. The office then sends the grades to the dean of each school Mr. Hitt said each school has a different way of handling the grades once they reach him.
Students who wish to find out about their grades can find out through their dean.
Midsemester grades are out early so the student can know how he stands academically before the spring vacation.
Official Bulletin
Items for the Official Bulletin must be brought to the public relations office, 222-A Strong, before 9:30 a.m. on the day of publication. Do not bring Bulletin material to the Daily Kansan. Notices should include name, place, date, and time of function.
Students who plan to take the English Proficiency examination Saturday must register in offices of their deans today. Tuesday or Wednesday.
TODAY
Job interviews, Engineering School—Gulf Oil Co.；Wright Air Development Center，Dayton，Ohio; California State Personnel Board，San Francisco; Consumers Retail Co.，Johannesburg, Mich.; Pittzs Flute Plants，Pittsburgh, Pa.; and Crystal City, Mo.
KU Engineerrettes, 8 p.m. 1103 Massachusetts
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applicant. bapell.applicant
TUESDAY
Job interviews, Engineering School—Harrington and Cortelyou, Kansas City, Mo.; General Service Administration, Kansan City, Mo.; Procter & Gamble Co., Inc.
Episcopal morning prayer, 6:45 a.m.
Episcopal Holy Eucharist, 7 a.m., St.
Anselm's Chapel, Canterbury House,
Breakfast follows.
Snow Zoology Club 7:30 p.m. 101 Snow. Speaker Dr. Kenneth B. Armilage, assistant professor of zoology. "By Jeep across the Land of Four-Eyed Fish." Slides
College faculty meeting Bailey Auditorium, 4 p.m.
Job interviews, Engineering School—Procter & Gamble Co., all locations; Continental Oil Co., all locations; Sheffield Steel, Coal, Kansas City, Mo.
WEDNESDAY
Episcopal morning prayer, 6:45 a.m.
Episcopal Holy Eucharist, 7 a.m., St.
Anselm's Chapel, Canterbury House,
Breakfast follows.
Museum of Art record concert, 11 a.m.
and 1 p.m. Beethoven: "Emperor" Concert
Faculty forum, unison. English Room. Kansas University. Speaker. Harold Krogh associate professor of business administration. "University Retirement Plan"
University Women's Club style show 7:30 p.m. Ballroom, Kansas Union.
Quill Club, 7:30 p.m. 400 Indiana St Meet at Kansas University at 7:15 p.m. for rides. Program manuscript reading
Actor's Workshop, 3:30 p.m. Experimental Theatre.
The Kress Foundation is a philanthropic organization devoted to furthering interest in art and medicine. It has given financial grants to the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.
Dormitory Bids Await Approval
Bids totaling $2,967,512 for construction of two 432-men dormitories will probably be formally accepted by the Board of Regents at a meeting at Fort Hays Kansas State College in Hays Thursday, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, said today.
"The bids are within the funds available and there should be no question about them because John Brink, the state architect, is recommending them." Nichols told a Daily Kansan reporter.
The Community Facilities Administration has approved a $2,700,000 loan to the University for construction of the two dormitories. KU will provide an additional $500,000. With costs such as legal fees, inspection, interest during construction, and contingencies estimated at $191,000, the dormitories, Luther N. Lewis Hall and Olin Templin Hall, will cost about $3,158,512 without furnishings and equipment.
The proposed contracts are about $200,000 above the apparent low bids opened Wednesday in Topeka. The latter included only building costs and omitted such necessary facilities as streets, sidewalks, grading, parking areas, and built-in wardrobes for rooms.
The Harmon Construction Co., Oklahoma City, Okla., submitted a bid of $1,955,384 for the general contract. Beadall Electric Co., St. Joseph, Mo., bid $270,341 for electrical work. Kendall Plumbing and Heating Co., Wichita, bid $741,787 for those items and air conditioning. Other alternates might finally be accepted, but nothing was likely to change the firms receiving the contracts, according to J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories.
OU Wins In KU Tourney
The University of Oklahoma debate team won the second annual Heart of America debate tournament by out-arguing a team from Dartmouth University in the finals Saturday in the Kansas Union.
Ranked 12th after the preliminary rounds, the KU team defeated Oklahoma's second team, Illinois, Emporia State College and St. Olaf's College while losing to Northwestern, Houston, Pacific Lutheran College and Washburn.
The judges rated Irby as the second best speaker of the tournament behind Phillip Hubbard of Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill.
KU's representatives, Kenneth Irby, Fort Scott senior, and Ray Nichols, Lawrence sophomore, were eliminated in the octofinals by Southwest Missouri State College.
The Oklahoma team was awarded a traveling trophy which they will keep for one year. Last year the trophy was won by KU.
Debaters winning trophies were Dusty Bonner and Gerald Lalyer of Oklahoma, and Anthony Rolsman and Ronald Snow of Dartmouth.
Another KU team composed of Lee Baird, Newton senior, and Don Bowen, Salina junior, failed to make the octofinals. Their record in the preliminaries was three victories and five defeats.
Rifles Named 'Outstanding'
The Pershing Rifles, Co. E., 7th Regiment, from KU, was awarded the trophy for the outstanding company in competition Firday and Saturday at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.
In competition with 15 other companies the KU unit also won the first place trophy for machine gun squad drill. The rifle team received fourth place in the postal match.
Robert. Nebrig. Leavenworth sophomore, tied for second as the outstanding basic ROTC cadet. Avrom Rosen, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore, won second place in rifle disassembly.
This is the second year the KU unit has won the outstanding campany trophy.
Opera Singer Delights 1,200 At Final Recital
Thirteen KU cadets made the trip
An inch of topsoil takes three to 10 centuries to build, but it can wash away in a single storm, the National Geographic Society says. Vegetation breaks the force of rains, prevents splash erosion, and retards runoff.
Miss Mildred Miller, Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano, delighted an audience of nearly 1,200 in the final KU Concert Course recital Sunday in the University Theatre.
Completely controlling her voice, Miss Miller never expended too much energy, but on the other hand, never under-sang her roles.
She made every number into a role, interpreting the meaning of each with her voice and with facial gestures. To those of us not too versed in foreign languages, this is quite an asset. It added a great deal to the enjoyment of her performance.
Her charming personality was apparent in her stage presence. The audience even warmed up to her when she began "Sweet Spring" (Serge de Gastyne) on the wrong line and had to start over.
Miss Miller's recital was not sensational, however. Sometimes she tried to force quality into her voice, quality that was already apparent. When she did this she showed strain, which made us a trifle uncomfortable. Yet these moments were rare and did not detract much
from the sum total of her performance.
Most outstanding was Miss Miller's rendition of the aria Una Voce Poco Fa. from "The Barber of Seville" (Rossini). She built the piece up to an astonishing climax.
Other numbers we liked best were "Von Ewiger Liebe" (Brahms), the aria Tu N'est Pas Beau, from "La Perichole" (Offenbach), a group of five Viennese waltzes arranged for the "Telephone Hour" and the American folk song "Go Away from My Window."
The last was sung with such high degree of excellence that the conservative KU audience was held spellbound.
The piano accompaniment was by Theodore Schaefer, who aided Miss Miller with professional competence.
—John Husar
Stan Smith (left) discusses characteristics and color coding of polyethylene insulated cable with A. A. Little, Nebraska Area Transmission Engineer,.
A Campus-to-Career Case History
In October, 1957, only four years after graduation, Stanley W. Smith was appointed District Plant Engineer in Northwestern Bell Telephone Company. Here Stan tells what his responsibilities are and how his promotion came about.
"Growth makes opportunities in the telephone company"
"I'm responsible for outside plant engineering in a district which includes about one-third of all Bell telephones in Nebraska outside of Omaha," Stan says. "That's about 35,000 phones, and the number is growing every day.
"The most important part of my job is to plan for growth and have facilities ready when needed. This means planning for pole lines, aerial and underground cable, and conduit lines to the central office. I also make cost estimates for all
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planned construction so that money can be budgeted for it.
"This is the kind of job I really like one which combines engineering and management. And it was the continuing growth of the business," Stan points out, "that opened up this new assignment for me. My predecessor was appointed to a newly created position and I was selected to replace him.
"What the future holds for me depends on a lot of things. But I can see from my present job that growth will keep opening opportunities for myself and other engineers like me. I'm more convinced than ever that the telephone company is the place to get ahead in an interesting and challenging career."
Stan Smith graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1953 with a B.S. in E.E. degree. He is one of many young men who are finding rewarding careers in the Bell Telephone Companies. Find out about opportunities for you. Talk with the Bell interviewer when he visits your campus, and read the Bell telephone booklet on file in your Placement Office.
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