The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 39, No. 163, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 11, 1953 Page: 1 of 12
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Look Out!
Meters Are
In Order
Advising Sectioning Will Roll Today
pARKlXG meters anil red tickets
will be in rogue this summer
In case you are one of the few stu-
dents who was exiiecting some five
lanre work on the university's
lurking areas ?
In the event this is your first
fling at college life on the OU cam-
pus a parking over time ticket
will cost you 25 rents They are
)ayaMe at the controller's office
in 211 Administration An accum-
ulation of three or more will wilt
for -you- a citation jfrom: the uni-
versity to "pay up" ' i t-
oTUDEXTS ' enjoyed a £ vacation
front having to drop ' pennies
'and nickels in meters dpring the
final exam period when the uni-
versity permitted car- to rest on
campus-streets "rent f
YlsHors to the campfis may park
in a reserved lot north of the
union Others attempting to take
advantage of this area will be re-
cipients of a red ticket marked
‘"illegal parking"
Enrolment begins officially at
8 a in today At that time students
ran pick up their enrollment pack-
ets at the foyer in the lobby of the
Administration building
Advising will get under way im-
mediately Students will report to
their respective deartment advis-
ers When the enrolment packet has
lieen approved they ran rcsrt to
the Fieldhouse for scctioningThey
will lie admitted at the east en-
trance according to their last
name
Those whose names begin with
- A through K will be admitted
from tdO to 11-10 am today F
through L from 1 to 4 pm to-
day M through R from MJt to
:lldO am Friday and H through
Z from t to 4 pm Friday
r Official enrolment will close at
4 pm Friday however the office
of admissions and records will con-
tinue to' accept any completed en-
rolments until noon Saturday Late
enrolments will begirt Monday and
be accepted until June 23 It will
Vs' '
lie up to Individual teachers as to
hnw late enrolment cuts will tie
counted The university has a re-
quirement that students must at-
tend SO er cent of class meetings
Freshmen orientation began
Tuesday Placement tests were
completed Wednesday Entrant's
medical examinations will be
completed today
Freshmen will see tlielr ad-
visers beginning at Hu'MI am
Friday They will then report to
the Fieldhouse for sectioning
according to their last name
By Wednesday afternoon 104
entering fi-eshmen had reported to
the university college
Clase will begin at 7:10 am
Monday The first and only holi-
day of the summer session will be
Saturday July 4 Final exams will
be given August 7-8
PAINTING Fieldhonse pouters
that will gnlde yen
today is Mrs Mary
Lou Ktrleklaad (Photo by James
Carey)
The Oklahoma Daily
A Student Newspaper Serving die University of Oklahoma
39th Year No I3
XORMAX OKLAHOMA THCRHDAY JCXK 11 1933
Member Associated
Writers’ Course Breaks
Record for Attendance
The 15th annual professional writing short course which
doses Thursday night after a 3-day conference in the Union
has broken all previous attendance records1
Nearly 400 are registered for the courses aimed to aid
aspiring and selling writers Walter S Campbell director of
courses in professional writing at OU and chairman for the
annual conference said v
Enrolled are manuscript makers
r from- a dozen state Including Ida-
ho Calif ornia Nevada and -Wisconsin
as well as several huh-
dred from over Oklahoma- The con-
centrated short courses for would
be authors was instigated on OU
in 1938 It Is one -of the jnost wide-
ly known professional writing pro-
grams in the country Austin Ol-
'ney associate editor of Houghton
Mifflin Co Boston said the OU
course Is widely and favorably
known in the publishing business
Olney spoke at tlie opening session
Tuesday-on hard cover book ub-
lishing and - participated In the
Tuesday night round table discus-
sion - Thursday's closing session will
lie a 7:30 pm round table with
Dwight V Swain OU instructor
in professional writing iresiding
On the panel will be Paul Rey-
nolds widely known New York
literary agent Miss Jane Ilawe
Norman author Foster Hair Is as-
sociate professor of Journalism and
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Floor Duties
-WASHINGTON'- June 19— (AV-
Senator Robert A- Taft (R-Ohio)
disclosing he Is suffering from a
painful and "serious" hip ailment
gave up his day-to-day floor lead-
ership of Senate Republicans Wed-
nesday Senator Knowland of California
chairman of the Senate GOP Pol-
icy Committee took over as act-
ing leader
Hobbling on crutches Talf told
newsmen he will retain his title
as Senate Majority leader— gen-
erally regained as second only to
the presidency in terms of jsiliti-
cal mwer — and will continue to
keep a close watch on legislation
But he said a schedule of X-ray
and other treatments will prevent
him from crarving out the heavy
duties of floor routine
1500 Earn
Sheepskins
The class of 1933 nearly 1500-
strong received degrees at' the an-
nual commencement exercises on
Owen field Monday’ night
Some 8000 parent' friends wives
and other relatives watched the
ceremonies held ' under clear blue
night skies - with a cooling south
breeze fanning the -colorful silk
tassels on hundreds’ of academic
mortar board hats ’ -
Only the 78- graduating medics
15 doctors of philosophy and 6
doctors of education heard their
names called by Academic Mar-
shal John Dunn and marched across
the platform to receive their de-
grees personally from : President
Cross Deans of the medical and
graduate colleges presented them
for their formal sheepskin awards
204 Receive blasters -'
The 1953 crop of graduates re-
ceiving masters’ degrees totalled
204 The number who received
bachelors' degrees was 1340 The
masters' and bachelors' degrees
were conferred in a massed cere-
mony after presentation of each
school and college group by the
I various deans
Dr Cross explaining the simpli
fUd degree conferring method said
its was estimated by a senior com
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Quick Truce Hopes
Hang on Swiss Reply
MUNSAN Thursday June 11— (ff)— Hopes for a quick
truce in Korea hung precariously Thursday because of persis-
tent South Korean opposition and refusal by Switzerland to
be a neutral observer unless South Korea consents to the ar-
mistice terms
South Korean government officials openly welcomed the
Swiss stand U S officials here and in Washington were con-
cerned lest the Swiss refusal delay and complicate an agree
ment which otherwise might be signed within a few days
The Swiss refusal wag decided
3 fore Staff
Additional staff appointments for
the Oklahoma Daily for the sum-
mer term were announced Wednes-
day by Fred Cook editor
Gordon Frank senior from Pat-
erson NJ and Kuyk Logan Junior
from Norman were named news
editors on the paper
Lawdis Gandy junior from Ana-
darko Vernon Enlow junior from
Oklahoma City and Jimmy Abe
sophomore from Yokahama Japan
will lie staff writers for the sum-
mer term
upon at Bern Tuesday and the de-
cision conveyed to the State De-
partment in Washington Wednes-
day ' however the Swiss foreign
minister Max Petitpierre told a
commission of the Swiss chamber
of deputies that Switzerland "could
be induced" to serve in order to
avoid delay in concluding an armi-
stice Already there was such full ac-
cord on principles that the truce
teams were in indefinite recess
Thursday while staff officers at
Punmunjom ironed out lesser mat-
ters But South Korean street crowds
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WRITING EXPERTS — Two of the headliners here for the 13th an-
nas) professional writing coarse are shown above with Wuller H
Campbell chairman At Irft A a Min Olney associate editor of Houghton
Mifflin Cm Ronton In renter laa Hallrntlae New York president of
llalleatlae Books lar nad Campbell at right (Photo by James Carr) )
Trial Planned
By Boys State
High school juniors here for the
14th annual Boys’ State conclave
have a full day scheduled for
Thursday Highlight of the day's
activities will he a mock trial pre-
sented by T Austin Gavin chair-
man of the Oklahoma Bar associa-
tion Boys’ State Is divided Into towns
and the city commissions of these
towns wilt meet from 8 to 8:45 am
Each city wil meet from 8:45 to
9:45 am to discuss the adminis-
tration of Justice At 9:45 am the
Boys' State legislature will con-
vene until the noon hour
The afternoon's schedule rails
for classwork in government from
ISS0 to 3:0fi pm The MX) high
srhool youths will have from 3:(X)
pm to MM) for recreation purposes
At 7:45 the Boys Staters will as-
semble to receive the official in-
vitation from representatives of
Girls' State to attend their dance
Friday evening at Chickasha where
they ton are meeting for a con-
centrated week of government
study
The invitation will be issued by
1st Vena Park Enid governor of
Girls’ State Aeeoinwnvlng Miss
Park will lie Jane Bailey El Reno
lieutenant governor and Mrs Q
H Grimelt Alius director of Girls’
State
The Thursday night assembly
will also include the mock trial
presented by Gavin and visiting at-
torney's who will Ite announced at
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HILL HAMILTON Roys' State governor signs n legislative dors ment
ns Fred Tillman lit Governor and Dr II V Thornton Hoys' Mato di-
rector look on (Photo by Juinrs Carry)
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