University Daily Kansan
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Next Door Neighbor Gets Mummy, Ashes
CAMDENTON, Mo.—(UPI)—When retired undertaker John Hollihan died about three weeks ago he willed his dilapidated house, several caskets, a tomb stone, a skeleton, a mummy and a box of ashes to a friend.
"Then, in the garage, I found a pine casket under a pile of junk. It was nailed shut, So I opened it, and there was this body wrapped in a rubber sheet. I decided then I'd better open the steel casket that was closed. I found the skeleton in that one."
Houlihan, 71, died Jan. 22 in a St. Louis hospital following a long illness. He named Edward Thibeault, 64, the sole heir. Thibeaut was Houlihan's neighbor and only companion during the past year.
The third casket was found beneath the eaves of the three-room house. Houlihan used it to catch rain water. An unmarked tomb stone served as the front step to the house he had lived in for 16 years.
At first, Thibeault was happy with his inheritance. He hoped to rent the frame house near this Ozark Mountain community and was cleaning out the unkempt home Sunday when he discovered the remainder of his inheritance—the skeleton, the mummy and the ashes.
Today, the friend wasn't sure he liked what he got, and authorities were investigating the skeleton, the mummy and what may be human ashes.
"I found two steel vaults in the yard," Thibaeult said, "but didn't pay much attention to them. Houlihan had told me he had been an undertaker before he came here."
"I guess you could say the place is kind of creepy," Thibeault said. "I still can't believe it."
A preliminary examination was conducted by Dr. Ted Garrison, deputy coroner of Camden County.
Garrison at first speculated that the skeleton, the mummy or the ashes may have been the remains of Houlihan's wife, Emily, who died in 1954 at a state mental hospital in Fulton, Mo.
A later check of records, however, revealed that Mrs. Houlihan was buried in Calvary Cemetery in Kansas, City, Mo.
Garrison said that soon after it was learned Mrs. Houlihan was buried in Kansas City, he received a telephone call from a man who claimed he knew Houlihan about 25 years ago.
"The man said Houlihan kept a cadaver at the funeral home he
The military careers of twelve KUROTC men began Wednesday when they were commissioned. Most of them are already on their way to distant lands and seas.
ROTC Men Commissioned
One other man must wait for word on his physical examination before being commissioned. All have completed requirements for a bachelor's degree.
The men and destinations are:
Army—William J. Emerson, Bartville, Okla.; R. Dale MacCallum, Kansas City, and John D. Ragan, Lawrence. These men are en route to the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md., to train in ordinance. Jerome M. Mosier, Colby, will remain here to study law.
Air Force—Dee D. Brecheisen, Eudora, who was honored as a "distinguished graduate" in both academic and military subjects; James L. Hayes, Martin City, Mo., and David G. Vincent, Wichita, will begin pilot training. David A. Kirkman, Tulsa, Okla., has not yet been assigned.
Marines—Charles O. Burke, Wichita, studied at KU in the Navy Science Enlisted Education Program which sponsors study in the physical sciences. Burke is waiting the results of his physical examination.
Navy—Thomas O. Pugh, Kansas City, Mo., and Ronald L. Lindsay, Muncie, are en route to Pensacola, Fla., to enter the Navy school for pilots. John R. Riley, already in the Navy, has gone to the nuclear power unit at Mare Island, Calif. Jerry A. Wiens, Hutchinson, has been assigned to the U.S.S. DuPont, now in the Mediterranean.
"We're working on the theory now that the cadaver and the mummy are one and the same," Garrison added.
operated in Kansas City," the deputy coroner said. "He said Houlihan would show it to his friends.
He said a newspaper dated 1942 was found in the casket with the mummified body of a man, which, Garrison said, seemed to substantiate his theory.
"We're not sure about the ashes yet," Garrison said. "They could be the remains of one or maybe more persons."
In any case, the skeleton, the mummy and the ashes were sent to the pathology department of the University of Missouri for examination.
Thibeault said Houlihan once told him he had cremated a body while working as an undertaker and was holding the ashes until he received payment for the service.
"I thought he was kidding," Thibault said. "I guess he wasn't kidding about a lot of things."
The Fifth Seminar on Higher Education in the Americas opened here Saturday. This is the second consecutive year the seminar has been held at KU.
Latin Educators To Hold Forum On Education
Twenty-one participants, representing 12 Latin American universities, and guest speakers from the United States will attend the six weeks' seminar.
The Latin American representatives will meet each morning from 9:00 until noon to hear American speakers discuss the various problems and challenges facing higher education in Latin America. The first series of lectures will cover university organization in the United States and Latin America.
Dean George R. Waggoner of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the director of the seminar. He is assisted by Dr. John Augelli, director of the Center of Latin American Studies, and Carl Deal of Universities Libraries.
In past years the Latin American seminars have been held at the University of Colorado and the University of Chicago.
The seminar is sponsored by the United States Department of State and the Conference Board of Associated Research Councils. KU participants were selected by the sponsoring agencies in cooperation with the American ambassadors in the represented countries.
A bill introduced at the last All Student Council meeting concerning delegates to student conferences will be debated at the ASC meeting tonight.
ASC to Consider Conference Bill
The bill would provide for an orientation of all delegates to student conferences and for a mechanism through which delegates would be elected to these conferences, Bob Stewart, Bartlesville, Okla., junior said.
That resolution was defeated then. A resolution on "stop week" would have to be in the form of a request to the Faculty Senate, which must approve the move before it can go into effect.
In addition, a new resolution concerning a "stop week" will be introduced by Stewart and Dick King, Kansas City sophomore.
This "stop week" resolution would require class attendance in the week before finals but no tests would be given. A "stop week" proposal introduced at the last council meeting suggested a program of no classes, but only review sessions for students who wished to attend.
JOHN GIBSON CLARKSON, ADMITTED to the Baseball of Fame in 1963, finished 63 of the 70 games he started for Chicago of the National League in 1885, winning 53 and losing 16.
Minneapolis Symphony to Play Saturday
The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, directed by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, will perform here at 8:20 p.m., Saturday, in Hoch Auditorium.
The program will include Brahms' "Variations of a Theme by Haydn", Piston's "Symphony No. 7", "Tone Poem" and "Don Juan" by Strauss, and "An American in Paris" by Gershwin.
The Minneapolis Symphony, from the University of Minnesota, the eighth major orchestra established in the United States, is now in its 60th season.
Skrowacezwski, a 39-year-old, Polish-born conductor has conducted other major orchestras in the United States and Europe. In 1956 he was awarded first prize in an international competition for conductors in Rome.
Tickets are available at the Murphy Hall Box Office and at the Bell Music Company. Students may present their identification cards at the door for free admission.
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The concert is only one of the University's current musical events. The Vlach String quartet performed last night in Swarholt Recital Hall as part of the University's Chamber Music series.
The quartet, now making its first American tour, played compositions by Beethoven, Janacek, and Dvorak.
Another concert, by Karel Blaas,
volist, will be presented at 8:00 p.m.
tomorrow in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Mr. Blaas, a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, was formerly violist in the Modern Art Quartet
of Rochester and staff violinist of radio station WHAM there. He has been a faculty member here since 1949.
Mr. Blaas will play Brahms' "Sonata in F minor", "Duo for Violin and Viola" by Heitor Villa-Lobos, and "Kleines Konzert" by Alfred Uhl.
He will be assisted by Richard Angueletti at the piano, Theodore Johnson, violinist and Don Scheid, clarinetist.
There will be no charge for the recital.
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