The Kentucky Kernel

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KENTUCKY

NUMBER 19

LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1950

VOLUME XL

Vocational Conference
Begins Here Tuesday

Cats Seeded
No. 2 In NIT
Racketeers Draw
Bv Earl L. Conn,
Assistant Sports Editor

Departments

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Deadline Is

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Increasing Cloudiness

Kentucky's Wildcats may have
been snubbed by the NCAA selection committee, but they certainly
received a narm reception by the
Wednesday Is the last day groups
National Invitation Tournament.
The Wildcats were seeded second may enter the fourteenth annual
in the NIT tourney which starts to- All Campus Sing.
No changes may be made in ac- morrow with only the Bradley
Braves from Peoria, 111, ranking companists, leaders, or songs alter
above them. The Duauense Iron Wednesday, according to Martha
Dukes were seeded third and St. Shindlebower, Phi Beta president.
Only two or three songs may be
John's was fourth.
Coach Adolph Rupp will lead his chosen by each group because of the
Eight minutes is
Wildcats Into their fifth NIT Tues- - .time limitation.
day night at 9 pm. when they meet allotted each chorus to get on and
n
Fran- - 0ff stage and to sing the selections.
the winners of the CC
cisco first lound games. A.'l four of
in the last thirteen campus sings.
the seeded teams were riven byes Delta Tau Delta fraternity has won
into the quarterfinal round.
the men s contest eleven times.
First game in the tourney will pit Aipna Xi Delta won the women's
western tt.em.ucny against Kiagara competition last year and Jewell
Saturday at 1 p.m. (all times are Hall won in 1948.
Central standard Time.) ccny win
usuai ,aDaCitv crowds are ex
tangle with San Francisco, last pected in Memorial Hall for the con
year's winners, at 2:45 p.m. Satur- test March 29. 30, and 31, Miss
day night's twin billing will find
Shindlebower said. The sing will
meeting Arizona at 7:15 p.m. be
attended by 50 Omicron Delta
and LIU playing Syracuse at 9 p.m. Kappa delegates who will be on
In the upper bracket quarterfinals campus for a regional ODK conBradley will meet the winner of the
game at 7:15 p.m. vention.
local Judges
Both
with St. John's scheduled to play will be used, and anddifferent set
a
the winner of the Western-Niagar- a
Judge each night.
will
game at 9 p.m.
Twelve women's organizations will
Kentucky Plays Tuesday
Play in the lower bracket quarter- compete Wednesday night, March
30, and eight men's groups will sing
finals will be held Tuesday.
the next night. Four choruses from
plays the winner of the
game at 7:15 pm. each division will compete for men's
with Kentucky scheduled against and women's winner and runner-u- p
trophies on Friday, March 31.
Francisco winner at
the CCNY-Sa- n
Sing Is sponsored
The
9 p.m.
The semifinal round will be held by Phi Beta. Phi Mu Alpha, ODK,
Thursday with the first game set and Mortar Board.
for 7:15 p.m. between the two upper
bracket winners and the second at
9 pjn. between the two lower bracket winners. The final game will be
played at 9 p.m. Saturday with
the two semifinal losers playing for
third place in the first game at
7:15 p.m.
The tournament field in the InNineteen students of the College
vitational tourpey this year is loaded with powerful clubs which repre- of Agriculture and Home Economics
sent the cream of the crop for the who have received 'Sears Roebuck
1949-5- 0
season. Nine of the 12 teams scholarships were honored at a banwere in the top 20 in the final AP quet last night In the Football Room
poll while CCNY, Niagara, and of the SUB by the Sears Foundation.
Syracuse received honorable men- The chief speaker was R. C.
of the Foundation.
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tion.
Students who have received schol
Six of the teams finished in- the
top 10 for the year. Bradley was arships are Lawrence E. DeMum-bruMarlin W. Crowe, Gordon
rated first: Kentucky third; Du-quesne, sixth; Western Kentucky, Rupard, Kenneth D. Stahl, Warren
m
K. Dublin, Larry N. DeJarnette.
eighth; St. John's, ninth; and
A. Parker, William B. Wash,
tenth.
Tony B. Cocanougher,
James P.
Kentucky will be trying for its
second NIT win since the tourna- Fehr, William B. Baumstark. Oeorge
E. Burton, Robert V. Moyers, John
ment was started In 1938. The Cats
won the title in 1946 when they de- E. Allgeier, Charles E. Broaddus,
John C. Robertson, Edgar W.
feated Rhode Island State
That year the Cats stopped Arizona Knight, Claude E. Hensley, and Glen
on H. McCauley.
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and West Virginia
All of the students are freshmen
their road to the title.
Of course, everyone remembers with the exception of DeMumbrum
that the Cats also participated In who is a sophomore.
Guests from Sears Roebuck were
the NIT last season in their attempt
to annex both the NIT and NCAA Charles L. Hagan. Robert Howard,
were defeated in a great and O. B. Fowler. All were from
titles, but
upset by Loyola of Chicago in their the local branch of the company.
Faculty members present from the
first game, going on to win the
College of Agriculture and Home
NCAA crown later.
Economics were Drs. Thomas P.
12 Mm W ill Go
s,
Kentucky will be allowed to carry Cooper, L. J. Horlacher, W. B.
Lee H. Townsend,
a
team into the tourney and
W. D.
plans call for the Wildcats to leave Nicholls, Martin E. Weeks, and
Lexington Sunday. They will stay Profs. L. A. Bradford and D. G
at the Paramount Hotel in New Steele.
York City during the tournament.
Of the teams appearing in the
tourney this year, St. John's has
Students Desiring Jobs
made the most appearances in the
Should Give Info To Y
show.
The Redmen have played in eight
Students who have applied at
previous InvitationaLs while Long
part-tim- e
Island University wil be making its the YMCA forrequested towork or
odd-jophone
are
seventh appearance in this year's
event. Kentucky owns one of the or send in their schedule of
better tournament records with a classes and phone number for
total to date of four invitations for this semester.
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By Kathryn Whitmer
The program for the Vocational
Information Conference, which will
begin on campus Tuesday, has been
announced.
It will consist of 17
speakers, representing as many University departments, outlining career
opportunities for women in specific
neias.
Each speaker will describe the
current Job outlook in his particular
field and give detailed information
on professional training needed by
Job applicants.
will
conference
The three-da- y
meeting
open with a campus-wid- e
at Memorial Hall at 4 o'clock Tuesday. Guest speaker will be Virgil
L. Couch, a University alumnus now
serving as personnel director for the
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Freshman Attendance Required
All freshmen and sophomore women are required to attend the convocation in Memorial Hall, Dean
Sarah B. Holmes said. Only 4 o'clock
classes will be considered an auto- matic excuse.
A vocational dinner in honor of
the guest speakers and committee
members will be given Tuesday evening in the Student Union Building
by members of the staff of the Dean
of Women and the House President's Council. Miss Rilma Buck-mainstructor in vocational guidance at Purdue University, will
speak on "Women and Women's
Work."
Vocational information will be
available in the following subjects
at 4 p.m. Wednesday:
Elementary education. Music
Room, SUB; speaker. Mrs. May K.
Duncan, head of the Department of
Elementary Education.
Medical technology, room 124.
Funkhouser Biological Science
Building; speaker. Dr. Morris Scher-aghead of the Department of Bacteriology.
Music, room 17, Fine Arts Building; speaker. Dr. Edwin E. Stein,
head of the Music Department.
Home Economics, room 203. Home
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Miss Wilma Buckman

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Chooses New Leaders

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The Henry Clay chapter of Phi
Alpha Delta, national lfgal frater
nity, announces the election of their
officers for this year.
The ofiicers elected were Robert
G. Lentz, justice; James V. Marcum,
Charles Gray, secretary; Boyd Taylor, marshall; Letcher White, treasurer; and Sam Cooper Kill, reporter.
Formal pledging was held March
6 by the chapter in the Law School.
The men pledged will be eligible to
be initiated in May when the chapter will have its ceremonies in the
chambers of the Court of Appeals.
Pledges of Phi Alpha Delta are
Fred Coplin, Joseph T. Currence,
James A. Dixon, Guy Duerson, John
Duncan, William V. Fishback, Ben
Forman, W. H. Getty, Robert L.
Gullette, Godloe McDowell, Andrew
J.j Palmer, Jr.. Shelly T.'Riherd,
Joseph L. Schoopf, David B. White,
Jr, and Donald L. Woods, Jr.
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National Conference Is Held
Here By Ta u Kappa Alpha
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Named Tomorrow

Dr. Gifford B'.yton, director of forensic. gies last minute instructions to the students representing
CX at the Tau Kappa Alpha speech convention bein held here." The meeting started yesterday, and will
last until tomorrow.

Seniors To Be Officials Are Main Speakers
Alum's Guests At State Highway Conference

SGA has announced that one outstanding graduating senior from each
college of the University has been
chosen to be dinner guests of the
Alumni Association Executive Board
during their April meeting.
Seniors named were: Clyde Watts,
Commerce; Dale' Barnstable, Education; Chester Travelstead, Graduate
School; Kathy Barnett, Arts and
Sciences; Ryburn Weakly, Agri- culture; Robert Hubbard, Law; and
Harry Washburn, Engineering.

Tuesday Is Deadline

For Mortar Board Entries
Applications for Mortar Board,
senior women's honorary, must be
submitted to the Dean of Women's
office by Tuesday.
Women with a 2.0 overall standing and classified so that they will
graduate before August, J.951 are
eligible.
...
Students are asked to leave their
names, addresses, and a list of activities in the Office of the Dean.

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Party Formed

To Oppose Constitutionalists
By Joe Coyle

party, to be known
5. The SGA will have control and
Party was oras the
ganized this week. It is composed approval of student loans from the
student loan fund. They will also
of Greeks and Independents.
Don Rogers, spokesman for the reduce the interest rate from these
Broup. said Thursday that the party loans from its present four percent.
6. Lights are to be installed on
was lormed to create interest in
campus government, and to provide the intramural athletic field.
an active opposition to the Constitu- - 7. A cooperative food store will be
tionalist Party."
set up to supply food for all student
Rogers presented the platform of resident units.
the new party to the Kernel for 8. The candidates of this party, if
publication, and commented, "We elected, are to vote as the majority
challenge the Constitutionalists to of the students wish, on issues con
formulate a platform that has as fronting SGA, not according to the
many student interests in mind as individual candidates preferences.
ours has."
9. Student control of the conces
The platform for the
sions at the new fieldhouse.
Party is as follows:
10. Continued
1. The Student Government Assoand a thorough and completely orciation is to have full and complete ganized system by which students
control over its own funds.
may rate professors (the professors
2. The seating arrangements for to be advised by each department
the student section of the football head as to their student ratings).
stadium are to be revised.
11. Students are to be informed of
3. The class and holiday calendar issues presented to the administra
for the coming year will be sub- tion by SGA and the answers there
mitted to SGA for suggestions and from, in timely announcements in
recommendations prior to approval the Kentucky
Kernel, or other
by the faculty.
media of information.
4. A program is to be set up
According to Rogers, the slate for
whereby Kentucky students are paid the new group is being made up now
to sell the merits of the University and will be announced in the near
to their local high schools.
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The I'niversity of Kentucky Wildcats walked off the Louisville Armory
floor last Saturday with their seventh straight Southeastern Conference
Stuchampionship after whipping Tennessee to a pulp in the finals
dents, faculty, and friends of the I niversity poured into Louisville to watch
the Cats roinn over three foes in little more than 24 hours. Ravine photographer Ben Williams causht many interesting scenes which headlined and
sidelined the tournament.
Shown in the upper left hand corner are Mrs. Adolph Rupp and son
Herkimer (seated, with Jim Line's mother Islanding). Mrs. Line had much
of which to be proud as Jim was named to the first team of the
squad.
At the top right. Fred Luigart and Betty Elliott (right) stand up to
cheer the Cats on to victory. Fred and Betty, along with a few thousand
other students, found the game and Louisville weekends very much to their
liking.
At left center. Coach Adolph Rupp is congratulated by Gov. Earle C.
Clements for the great team victory as the governor presents Coach Kupp
the championship trophy.
It seems to be a tense situation for the basketeers as the cheerleaders
are taught in one of their quieter moments at the lower right.
"THAT'S MY BOY", seems to be the words on the lips of Coach Rupp
as he congratulates long Bill Spivey for eriia!in- - the tournament
for individual points in a 'single game. Big Bill poured through 37 points
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to tie the mark net in last yr.ir's tournament by former Wildcat renter Alex
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Mickey Compton, Betty Hammock,
Mary Arrowwood. Betsy Bilir.er.
Barbara Burkhardt. Dorothy
Ellen Drake. Hal GrUfin. and
George Creedle are participating in
the discussion groups.
The program this morning will
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Malone Talks
On Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was characfi

mitic man

Glee Club, Pianist To Open
University iMusicale Series

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day has 46.773 miles Of roads and
highways that must be classed as
deficient in terms of their ability to
accommodate safely present and expected future traffic.
Commissioner Keck, in outlining
the responsibilities of Highway Department personnel, asked field employees to help the department's
public relations program through
courtesy and helpfulness to the traveling public and by always remembering "that the motorist pays the
freight as far as roads are concerned."
Dr. Webb Speaks
Featured speakers on the open- ing day s program were Robert B.
Brook. St. Louis transportation spe- ciaUst. and Emerson Beauchamp.
State Commissioner of Rural High- -

by r Du:na.s Makne
address on -- Jefferson Then and
Now., at tne Fine ArtJ Building Fri.
day nighL M. MaloRe Fr,)lessnr
ways- of history at Columbia University. Li
Dr. William S. Webb, heao of the the author of a muiti-voluBio- University uepariment oi
of Jefferson."
- graphy present issues, such as
discussed "Aspects of Atomic Enerthe
On
gy at a luncheon meeting of the formation of the Dixiecrat Party.
conference Thursday.
Malone said he believed Jefferson
would favor human rights over
state's rights. He said Jefrersoa
would regard communism as a forStudents Mav Gaze
eign idealogy not in keeping wuh
At 'Crystal Ball Today
his values of integrity of persoi.tt
"Crystal Ball," starring Paulette freedom among powerful poUt.cal
Ooddard, Virginia Field, and Ray structures.
Mr. Malone's address was or.e in
Milland. will be shown today in
Memorial Hail at 3 p.m., 7 p.m., a series of social science loctirc
and 9 p.m. Admission is 30 cents. sponsored annually at theG.UniverEiaaer
sity by Mr. and Mrs. Paul
of Ashland.

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College. Ball State. Lincoln Mem- wi:iwii.y oi ixmvmr.
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Murray Included
UK is also host to Mt. Union,
Murray. Muskingum. University of
New Mexico. Notre Dame. Purdue.
Randolph-MacoUniversity of
Richmond. Roanoke. Rutgers. University of South Dakota, Southern
T Methodist. University of Tennessee.
of Vermont. Wabash,
' University
and clogged drainage facilities.
Waynesburg. Western, Michigan, Vir- '".
roiywcnnic institute. Loyola,
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UK students participating
the
days Jiroam.Kere Highway Com.
activities .Te Bob Smith
?putHnd Klen Drake, for extempore a.:d
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include Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Alma. University of Arkansas,
Berea. Bridgewater. Brothers. Capital. University of Cincinnati. Cornell. University of Denver, Emory
and Henry. University of Florida.

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The schools visiting this campus

examinations of drivers
already been granted
operators' licenses and adoption of
driver training courses in all Kentucky high schools were proposed
Friday by State Traffic Director
W. P. Ringo in an address at the
closing session of the State Highway
Cnnfprpnr
meet was
The twn-da- v
sponsored jointly by the UK College
of Engineering and the Kentucky
Department of Highways.
The audience of approximately
500 city, county, and state officials
at the conference's final session also
heard an address on roadside im
provement by N. R. Ellio.t. professor of landscape architecture at the
University.
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By Betty Compton
Representatives of 41 colleges and
universities are attending the tenth
annual conference of Tau Kappa
Alpha, national forensics society, at
UK this week.
Dr. Gifford Blyton. director of
TKA here, said that this is the largest speech event ever held in the
United States.
The five outstanding "speakers for
the year 1949" will be named Satur- day at 2 o'clock. Since each speaker
will receive an award, the AP and
UP news services will carry the story
over their wires datehned Lexington,
These national orators, selected on
the basis of their contribution of
speaking to society, will be named
tfrom the fields of religion, educa-- !
tion, politics, business, and labor.
Student Cangress Featured
The TKA meeting is featuring dis- cussion, debating, extempore, and a
student congress. All UK students
and faculty members are invited to
attend the 140 debates and the five
rounds of discussion held in the
practice rooms of the Fine Arts
Building.
The debate question for the group
is "Should the United States Na
tionalize Their Basic
Industries?" The dLscussion
problem is "What Should the United
States Foreign Policy be Toward the

SEC Tournament

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By Bob Fain
The UK musicale series will be
resumed at 4 p.m. Sunday in Memorial Hall after a lapse of nearly
two months necessitated by Founders Week preparations. Featured
in the program will be a joint recital by Ford Montgomery, pianist,
and the University Women's Glee
Club under the direction of Miss
Mildred S. Lewis, associate professor of music.
Miss Annette Siler and Mrs.
Adelle G. Dailey. pianists, will accompany the
Glee Club in
numbers ranging from sacred to
contemporary American compositions.
Classical Selections Included
Mr. Montgomery, instructor in applied music at the University, has
selected for his recital compositions
representing the classical, romantic,
and contemporary periods. These
include Beethoven's ' Sonata in C
minor." Brahms' "Intermezzo No. 1
and No. 2," and Dohnanyi's "Rhap-- I
sotly in C major."
Special guests at the recital will be
members of Phi Mu Alpha fra- -

gram will begin with Richter's "The
Creation" played on the organ by
Arnold Blackburn of the UK faculty.
Following will be Brahms' "May
Night" and "I Hear a Harp." The
latter will feature a French horn
solo by Miss Virginia Rohde. mathematics instructor. This will be
by Strauss's "Devision."
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Part Two Listed
Opening
the second part is
Beethoven's "Sonata in C Minor"
which is the only sonata known to
have been named by Beethoven. The
following compositions are "Intermezzo. Opus 118. No. 1" by Brahms:
"Intermezzo. Opus 119. No. 2." also
by Brahms: and "Rhapsody in C
Major" by Dohnanyi.
The final part of the recital consists of "Clouds" by Bircsak: "Cap
Yo' H;inris. 'O Kay" by Gershwin:
and "Children of the Moon" by
Warron.
The next musicale scheduled will
be March 13. and will feature Air.io
Kiviniemi, tenor, and Ann English.
contralto, of the University.
All
terinty
Part one of the three part pro- - musicales are open to the public.
semi-popul- ar