Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
60th Year, No. 90
Flu Epidemic May Miss KU
The University of Kansas may escape the Asian flu epidemic that has blanketed much of the nation.
"KU students are enjoying unusually good health this year, said Dr. Ralph Canuteson, director of the student health service. He attributed this to the fact that about 5,000 students have received the proper immunization.
Canuteson said that it would be rather futile to start a new series of immunization inoculations now since the disease is definitely on the campus because immunization doesn't take effect until 10 to 14 days after the shot.
HE SAID THOSE students who have had the first injection, however, are definitely advised to report to the hospital for the "booster shot," since it will only take them about two or three days to renew their immunity.
Health officials in New York City have reported that during the first seven weeks of 1963, 818 New Yorkers have died from either pneumonia or influenza.
Canuteson said only one student is in the campus hospital at this time who might possibly have the disease and there are "several question marks" in his case.
ACROSS THE NATION, however, the death toll edged upward in the outbreak of flu that has hit 21 states. Thousands lay ill from some sort of respiratory ailments. Asian flu was isolated in 11 states.
This represents about 300 more victims than normally would die during a corresponding period in an average year. The health department said there was no accurate way to distinguish between the victims of the two diseases. In Johnson County, Kans., several elderly patients have died in a rest home.
DIFFERENT PARTS of the nation mostly in the East and South have been hit by the virus during the past six weeks and millions have felt the effects of fever, fatigue, cough and sneezes. Doctors in Summers County, W. Va., have been treating between 75 and 100 patients daily in their offices and making 15 to 25 house calls daily.
Monday. Feb. 25, 1963
The Syracuse, N.Y., health department confirmed six cases of Asian flu during the weekend, but A. Clement Silverman, director of the Bureau of Communicable Diseases, said he believed the flu had run its course this winter.
The Mississippi State Health Department said there were indications the Asian flu was reaching epidemic proportions in Marshall and Coahoma counties.
HOSPITALS IN MANY cities curtailed visits to patients in an effort to halt the spread of germs. "Send a card or write a note," hospital officials pleaded.
More than 4,000 cases of flu were reported in Alabama last week. Schools in Bullock, Houston and Macon counties were closed, but Bullock officials hoped to have classes again today.
A total of 2,497 cases of flu were reported in the Memphis, Tenn., area last week in what health officials called an epidemic. A nationally recognized authority on influenza, Dr. Goronwy O. Broun of St. Louis University, said he was sure an outbreak of Asian flu was underway in St. Louis.
Michigan, which had an estimated 30.000 flu patients in Detroit alone, reported its first death. But the Detroit city health commissioner, Dr. Charles P. Anderson, said there have been many deaths since the start of the year "which might have had a basis in influenza."
Cloudy and colder weather with scattered snow flurries is predicted for Lawrence and vicinity today. Highs today will be in the 30's, lows tonight will be near 10, and the high Tuesday will be near 20. It will be partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow.
Weather
Mostly cloudy and cooler weather over the rest of Kansas will bring scattered snow flurries in the northwest, scattered light showers or snow flurries in the southwest, and a chance of occasional light rain today in southeastern and south central Kansas.
Tuesday will be warmer in northwestern Kansas, but continued cool in the southwestern and south central parts of the state.
Northerly winds from 10 to 20 miles per hour are expected in the west.
Supreme Court Ruling Decided On Free Speech
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The Supreme Court, by an 8-1 vote, declared unconstitutional today the breach of peace conviction of 187 Negro students who held an anti-segregation demonstration on the grounds of South Carolina's capitol.
The court held that the convictions violated constitutional guarantees of free speech and assembly. The demonstration took place at Columbia, S.C., on March 2, 1961.
IN OTHER ACTIONS today the Supreme Court:
- Ordered further lower court proceedings in the case of Leon Bearden who was convicted with his son of hijacking a Continental Airlines plane over New Mexico in 1981. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals was instructed to take further action in the case of Bearden who was sentenced to life imprisonment.
- Granted a hearing to Harold Fahy who was sentenced to 60 days in jail by a Norwalk, Conn., court for painting swastikas on a synagogue on Feb. 1, 1960.
IN THEIR APPEAL to the Supreme Court, the Negro students had argued the convictions were not supported by the evidence and constituted a denial of free speech.
Justice Potter Stewart, speaking for the majority, said:
"These (students) were convicted of an offense so generalized as to be, in the words of the South Carolina Supreme Court, not susceptible to exact definition. And they were convicted upon evidence which showed no more than that the opinions which they were peacably expressing were sufficiently opposed to the views of the majority of the
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KU To Get New Phone System
KU expects to have a new telephone number next year under a proposal now being discussed with Bell Telephone Company.
When the new system goes in, KU will have a separate exchange, and each of the University's telephones will have a separate number which may be dialed directly. This eliminates dialing the University operator and asking for an extension.
Negotiations with the company have not been completed, and the details are not definite, said Raymond Nichols, vice chancellor of finance.
A COMPLETE NEW SYSTEM will be required, and a new switchboard installed, probably in the basement of Ellsworth Hall, Nichols said.
Nichols said the present telephone system is inadequate, and there is no room in the building and grounds building, where the present KU telephone switchboard is located, to install a new switchboard.
FOR EXAMPLE, the new number of the Registrar's office might be UNiversity 1-2345. A business firm downtown could dial the registrar directly. The Chancellor's office, however, could reach the registrar by dialing 2345.
Calls from one telephone in the system to another may be placed by dialing the last four digits of the new number.
DORMITORIES and other off-campus student houses will not be included in the new system, Nichols said.
The new system will require new cables leading into the University from the new switchboard. This will require a trench from the end of the utility tunnels to Ellsworth Hall. The tunnel nearest Ellsworth opens near the new engineering building. The Board of Regents approved the funds for the new trench a week ago.
- Photo by John Caswell
"GAWD, WHAT A FOXHOLE!!", scream members of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity at a weekend rehearsal in Hoch Auditorium for their Rock Chalk Revue skit, "Hill and Gully Raiders," Charles Hammond, Osage City senior, and Rodd Staker, Prairie Village sophomore, watch Ron Westfall, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, and Mike Bush, Lawrence junior, go through their paces.
Rock Chalk About Ready
"At this point there are no problems that we can't handle with practice," said Sherri Dobbins, Lawrence senior and assistant producer.
After a week and a half of formal rehearsals and about 8,000 man hours of work, this year's Rock Chalk Revue is nearing completion.
The groups have been rehearsing their skirts in their houses since the beginning of the semester. Formal rehearsals in Hoch Auditorium have been going on for only the past week and a half.
"COMPARED WITH last year's revue, enthusiasm is running at a much higher pitch and the skits seem to be in finer condition," said Charles Whitman, Shawnee Mission junior and producer.
He attributed part of this to the new limit this year of 40 members in each cast. He explained that fewer people make the operation run smoother.
"We're expecting the best show in Rock Chalk's 13 year history." Whitman said. "The emphasis this year is on the script."
The staff is working for a satirical show, "exemplary of college humor, whatever that is," he said.
He pointed out that one major change this year is the between-acts entertainment. "They are written to contribute to the skits themselves and musical numbers have been added," he said.
EACH SKIT HAS had nine rehearsals of about one and a half hours each in Hoch, besides the rehearsals held in the houses. Dress rehearsals begin tomorrow.
"We're right on schedule. All we need now is a lot of polish," said Don Perry, Wichita senior and house director for the Alpha Tau Omega-Kappa Alpha Theta skit. He said most of their costumes are finished and the scenery went up yesterday.
The Sigma Chi and Chi Omega skit is coming along just fine, according to Gerald Kepner, Wichita senior and the house director.
"The costumes will be done tomorrow or the next day. The props and scenery are all set," he said.
The Beta Theta Pi and Pi Beta Phi skit is taking shape and the cast is ready, said John Letton, Pittsburg senior and house producer.
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