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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Dec. 19, 1957
Drive Safely—
Don't Crash The Party
DOWN THE HATCH—Gary Winfrey, Pratt freshman, demonstrates that a car radiator is a good place to put alcohol while driving. Breathe easy, the bottle was empty.
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Blasts Music
Why compete with the Campanile? The music coming over the Jayhawk Boulevard loudspeaker is too loud to be especially pleasing, but is tolerable—except at noontime.
The campanile program is more enjoyable and more appropriate, so let's hear it!
Lethem Sutcliffe Roden,
Instructor, Romance languages
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We wish to express our deep appreciation of your kind expression of sympathy in the loss of our daughter Virginia. We will always remember the many acts of kindness by members of the student body toward Virginia and us while we were in Lawrence.
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We wish also to commend Larry Boston for his very good editorial which appeared in The Daily Kansas of December 4, 1957.
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Arizona has more national monuments than any other state. It has 16.
The fellow shown emptying a bottle of joy juice into his automobile isn't daft, he's just illustrating what we all know: when it's time to drive, the best place for alcohol is in the car radiator.
Within a few hours, a lot of us will be on the road. The occasion for the trip is the longest, and undoubtedly the merriest holiday of the year—a time to whoop it up if there ever was one.
We won't presume to regulate your attitudes toward drinking, partly because our own are on pretty shaky moral ground. But it doesn't take a W.C.T.U. member to tell us that hooch and hot rods don't mix.
With the craze upon us to get home for the holidays, the cops will have enough trouble
There were early signs of bad weather in March when Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas suffered from thunderstorms, floods, and tornadoes. It was this area that had suffered only the summer and winter before from crop-killing and economically disasrous drought.
keeping the sober drivers within safe and reasonable speeds. Grim statistics show that a heavy foot on the accelerator is an all too effective killer. It need not be aided by a feggy mind.
While we're staying sober, we might as well stay sensible. Keep that road locomotive within the speed limits. If you're planning a long trip, schedule occasional "breaks" for a stretch and a cup of coffee. Make sure your car is in good mechanical condition.
Most important, just use your rare good sense while driving. Logic says that we young, alert drivers should be the best on the road—a theory that's blasted to smithereens by our disgraceful accident record. Drive carefully on the way home. Don't crash your own Christmas party.
From the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico violent storms played a prominent role in the lives—and deaths—of millions of persons in 1957.
And The Rains Came
Larry Boston
The first single weather tragedy of the year was at Dallas, where more than 1,000 homes were hit by a swirling funnel. The tornado was probably the most documented of the season. Because it struck during the daylight hours, photographers, radio newsmen and newspaper reporters were able to track the funnel from where it was first sighted.
The tornado left over 40 dead.
As the year wore on, bad weather continued in the Southwest and slowly moved north with warm weather. Tornadoes and violent storms first appeared in Kansas during April, but it wasn't until May 20 that the worst weather disaster in Kansas took place.
On that Tuesday afternoon a tornado had been sighted in north-central Kansas. The storm was tracked as it moved north and east until late in the afternoon, when it struck Ottawa, killing two persons. As late evening approached, the storm moved to Olathe and then swept into Hickman Mills and Ruskin Heights, suburbs of Kansas City.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
IN CONTRAST—DURING 600 A.D. THE...DURING 600...THE..."
More than 1,000 homes, plus a church, high school gymnasium and shopping center were demolished.
As the year progressed the hurricane season approached in the Deep South and along the Atlantic seaboard. The first big blow of the season was Audrey, which swept into the mainland, killing over 500 persons and inundating small towns in Louisiana and Texas.
the violent storms continued until mid-summer when they subsided. For the rest of the summer —in Kansas at least—tornadoes and vicious thunderstorms were few. The area east of the Mississippi however, suffered from bad summer storms.
So far, winter storms have been at a minimum. However, a severe cold wave swept into the South only last week, causing several deaths from exposure.
It is generally believed that 1957 will go down as a record year of nightmarish storms, which took heavy tolls in lives, crops, homes, and incomes. —Boo Hartley