Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
55th Year, No.37
Monday, Nov. 4, 1957
—(Daily Kansan photo)
THE GOOD OLD DAYS — The well-dressed traveler of 1910 would not think of motoring to some faraway place like Topeka without the proper attire. Left to right are Marcia Jones and
Bob Cook, Topeka, Joan Moffet and Roger Mofet, Norton sophomore. They wore these costumes to the costume spook rally held Saturday night by the Jayhawk Sports Car Club.
Students Drive Jaguar To Spook Rally Victory
John Russell, Great Bend junior, and Don Hagar, Lawrence senior, won the costume spook rally held Saturday night by the Jayhawk Sports Car Club.
Driving a Jaguar XK140, the two were penalized the least number of points over the 150-mile course which took them through Bonner
Short Circuit Cuts Power
KU, Lawrence and the surrounding area were without electric power for over an hour Friday because of a power failure at 1:35 p.m. at Mocking Bird Hill switching station about four miles southwest of Lawrence.
Eldon Ulrich, KU power plant superintendent, said KU was without power for slightly over an hour. The area bounded by Leavenworth, Atchison, Lawrence, Bonner Springs, and Olathe was without power for 55 minutes.
The areas affected by the black-out switched to emergency power as soon as was possible. The last major power failure was in 1955 when the power was off for about 80 minutes.
Those appearing are James Avery, Burlington junior, pianist; Mary Jo Woofer, Colby senior, soprano; Mary Warren, Muskegon, Oklahoma junior, pianist; and Beverly Runkle, Pittsburg senior, contralto.
The blackout occurred at press time and delayed publication of The Daily Kansan over an hour.
Kansas Power and Light Co. officials said the cause of the power failure was a short circuit at the switching station, possibly due to the storm.
Four To Appear In Honor Recital
Four students will appear in the School of Fine Arts Honor Recital at 8 p.m. tonight in the Recital Hall of the Music and Dramatic Arts Building.
The students were chosen last semester by a music faculty vote for the best performances in a series of informal recitals.
Springs, Olathe and Stanley
Dave G. Smith, Memlo Park Calif. and Don Hoelsher Topeka seniors won the prize for the best costume combination worn by a driver-navigator.
They were outfitted to represent a fuel injected supercharged engine. One wore a miniature electric fan to represent the "blown" or super-charged engine and the other constructed a large working model of a hypodermic syringe to designate fuel injection.
Thirty-two cars competed in the event which started north of Allen Field House.
The next club event will be a rally Nov. 15.
Grade School Art On Display In Bailey
An exhibit of art from Kansas elementary schools is now being shown in the hall between 109 and 110 Bailey. There are approximately 20 pieces in the show.
The Kensas Art Education Association collects art work done in elementary and high schools throughout the state each year and circulates shows to schools of all levels. Pat Baylor, 1956 graduate, is director of the exhibits.
3 New Books By Faculty Member
Two books written by faculty members of the history department are off the press and a third will follow this spring.
George M. Beckmann, associate professor of history, wrote "The Making of the Meiji Constitution," and Oswald P. Backus, associate professor of history, wrote "Motives of West Russian Nobles in Deserting Lithuania for Moscow, 1377-1514." Both books were published by the University Press.
"The Struggle for Madrid: The Central Epic of the Spanish Conflict (1926-37) written by visiting assistant professor of history Robert G. Colodny will be released in the spring by Paine-Whitman Publishers in New York City.
The book by Dr. Backus throws light on the reasons West Russian nobles deserted Lithuania for Moscow in the 15th century. He considers the land-tenure system, economic, cultural and military pressures, rivalry between the Catholic and Orthodox Church and other factors.
Japan's Political Problem
Japan's Political Problem Dr. Beckmann's book deals with the chief political problem of Japan from 1888 to 1891, the making of a constitution acceptable to both political leaders and liberal groups.
Dr. Colodny's book is a study of battles waged between armies of the Spanish Republic and of General Franco for Madrid in 1936-37. The book had its beginning 20 years ago when Dr. Colodny was in the emergency ward of Madrid's largest milli-
Mr. MacLeish served as assistant secretary of state from 1944-45 and was director of the Library of Congress from 1939-44. He also organized and for a year directed the Office of War Information.
Notable among MacLeish's verse plays are "Panic," "Fall of the City," written for radio, and his most recent play, "This Music Crept By Me Upon the Waters."
Mr. MacLeish was chairman of the American delegation to the first conference of UNESCO in 1946 and recently served as Chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Democrats, Scientists Call For U.S. 'Crash' Program
Red Missille Lead Feared
A student reception in honor of Mr. MacLeish will be held from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Nov. 15 in the Browsing Room of the Student Union. His public appearance will follow at 4 p.m. in Fraser Theater.
Mr. MacLeish is now Boyleston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard, a position first held by President John Quincy Adams.
Wasps Invade Campus To Hibernate
tary hospital as a casualty of the Brunete battle. Between the end of the Spanish conflict and World War II the author met many captains of Madrid's regiments who had gone into exile in Mexico. He gathered documentary evidence while working for the Mexico Federal Government and Inter-Allied Information Bureau until he enlisted in the U.S. Army.
The poet is the author of "Conquistador," a long poem on the conquest of Mexico which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. His "Collected Poems, 1916-1952" was a second Pulitzer Prize winner in 1933 and also obtained for him the Bollingen Prize in Poetry and the National Book Award. His most recent volume of poems, "Song for Eve," was published in 1954.
Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Here Nov.15
Dr. Robert E. Beer, associate professor of entomology, answers this question:
Mr. MacLeish is sponsored by the department of English. He is a former assistant secretary of state and director of the Library of Congress.
Archibald MacLeish, American poet and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, will be at KU Nov. 15 to read and discuss poetry.
WASHINGTON — (UP) — Sputnik II raised new fears today that Russia, already first into space with a data-collecting projectile and a living animal, may pile up an unbeatable lead in death-dealing missiles. The dog-carrying missile is called "Muttnik" by many radio and TV announcers.
Bears aren't the only animals that hibernate. Wasps are also in this select category and Lawrence may be the next target for mass hibernation of these pesty stingers.
Last week Richland and Tonganoxie complained of hordes of wasps converging on their towns. Wasps are beginning to congregate around the doors of Snow Hall and residents of Lawrence find them increasing around doors and windows.
Why do wasps become such a bother this late in the year?
"The wasps are assembling for bibernation at this time of year and they are around everywhere, although they might be noticed more in certain areas." Dr. Beer said.
Dr. Beer said that the waeps form resting colonies during the summer and then form larger groups in the fall to seek hibernation and reproduction spots.
"It will take a prolonged freeze of about a week before the wasps can be driven deeper into hibernation and some of them killed," Dr. Beer continued.
A Good Year For Wasps
"This year has been particularly bad because it has been a good year for wasp reproduction," he said.
A Good Year For Wasps
Are They Dangerous?
"The wasps are usually mean and constitute some danger to children," he said. "Their sting is not severe at this time of year, but they are more easily bothered."
How do you get rid of them
Dr. Beer said they are seeking shelter and places of hibernation on the west or south side of buildings where it is warmer.
"DDT is the best way to get rid of them," he said. "They are highly allergic to DDT mixtures, and an acerosol bomb will do the trick."
At least the wasp is one animal who hasn't developed an immunity to DDT.
Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D-Wyo.) urged that Mr. Eisenhower call a special session of Congress.
Russia's second successful satellite prompted some Congressional Democrats and scientists to voice new demands that President Eisenhower put the U.S. satellite-missile program on a "cash basis" in an attempt to wrest the initiative from the Soviets.
But the administration, which at first deprecated Sputnik I as a "neat scientific trick" and then subsequently ordered a speedup in the U.S. satellite-missile program, said Sputnik II came as no surprise. Defense Secretary Neil H. McEloy said there would be no new speedup. "We are already under a pressure program," Mr. McEloy said.
Astronomers Have No Orbit Timetable
"All we know is what we read in the newspapers," Dr. N. Wyman Storer, associate professor of astronomy, said of the new Russian satellite this morning.
Dr. Storr said he has received no timetable on Muttnik. As far as he knows, none is available in this country vet."
The KU astronomy department has no affiliation with Operation Moonwatch, he said.
The velocity of the higher altitude satellite would be slower than Sputnik I, but the power required to get it into orbit is much greater, Dr. Storer said.
Dr. John Rinehart, associate director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory at Cambridge, Mass., commented that "no matter what we do now, the Russians will beat us to the moon." He said he "wouldn't be surprised" if the Soviets sent a rocket to the moon "within a week."
Rocket authority Willy Ley agreed there is nothing to prevent the Russians from sending an unmanned rocket to the moon. However, he said the race to get a man there is still "wide open." Mr. Ley said the United States is at least a year behind the Russians in satellite development.
The State Department declined comment on the new Soviet moon. However, officials privately conceded the Russians will score a new propaganda victory with it and that they will reap an extra dividend. The dividend will be that Sputnik II will divert some world attention from Russia's internal troubles, particularly from the dissension in the Communist Party Hierarchy evidenced by the ouster of Defense Minister Georgi Zhukov.
The Soviets indicated today they are going to try to bring the dog "Curley," in their second satellite back to earth safely. Moscow radio said "Curley" was a husky, a rugged but unstandardized breed used to pull sleds in the Arctic.
Outside the administration, Sputnik II was causing new alarms that U.S. security is dangerously threatened by Russia's demonstrated advances in rocketry and in crossing the frontiers of space.
Preliminary data show that the animal behaved calmly during the first few hours of the flight and its general condition was satisfactory.
Weather
Cloudy with intermittent rain or drizzle through Tuesday. Precipitation freezing at times in northwest portions. Little change in temperatures. Low tonight 30 northwest to 40s southeast. High Tuesday 35 northwest to 45 east.