THE MICHIGAN DAILY QArPTI'Dl*&A'IY ATTA'*TlCft% A lalrA - T.UE MICU..n Tva. Grs . IIanua.afWflWt-f Y.. %ATURDAY, AUGL ST 4, 1936 5 - MISS CEYLON: Beauty Queen, Starlet Visits Ann Arbor' By MARY ANN THOMAS In spite of her success as a beauty queen contestant and a year as a Hollywood starlet, Miss Ceylon of 1955. has remained a sweet, charming young girl. Maureen Hingert is now visit- ing Michigan and Ann Arbor for the first time since she came to the United States a year ago as Ceylon's entry ih the Miss Uni- verse contest. Her country's first entry in the international beauty contest, she walked off with third place and a movie contract with Universal Studios in , Hollywood. But it seems the sloe-eyed beauty will be the last contestant from Cey- lon, for several years at least. Buddhists Disapprove Miss Hingert explained that since the last contest a new poli- tical party was voted into power and a section of Buddhist priests, who disapprove of beauty con- tests, have come to be the dom- inating political force in Ceylon. "But I am trying to encourage my people that this is a good contest and not what they think it is," she said. "It is a real clean contest and no strings are pulled behind the scenes." Flashing her slow smile, she related how she happened to en- ter the Miss Ceylon contest. "The contest wasn't announced in the newspapers; people came around asking parents if they would let their daughters enter." Got Parents' Permission "When they asked mine, I was in school and they flatly refused to let me enter," she explained. ,"But when I returned from school and learned what hap- pened, I asked and asked until they finally let. me enter." "And when the nuns at school heard that I was in a beauty contest," she laughed, "were they ever shocked." Now under contract with Burt Lancaster's Bel Aire independent movie studio,, Miss Hingert has already acted in several movie and television productions. She did the dancing in the movie "Elephant Walk" which was made in Ceylon. On TV she co-starred with Tab Hunter in "Cross on the Sand" and she had a part in the movie -Daily-Harding Williams MISS CEYLON-Maureen Hingert, Miss Ceylon of 1955 and third place winner of the Miss Universe contest, displays a gold em- broidered sari. U.S. Group Plans Study Of Lamprey With control of the parasitic sea lamprey as its main objective, the International Great Lakes Fish- eries Commission will hold its first annual meeting at the University late in November. The Commission will receive ap- proximately $1,000,000 from the United States and Canadian gov- ernments to begin its work. Loca- tion of the Commission at the University was announced by its chairman, John L. Farley, follow- ing a meeting at Sault Ste.. Marie, Ontario, this week. Established by an international treaty that became effective Oct. 11, 1955, the Commission will set up headquarters on the first floor of a University-owned building on the north side of the campus. Canada Gives $600,000 The Commisison will receive an amount in excess of $600,000 from the United States government and about $300,000 from the Canadian government. This represents. the approximate ratio of water con- trolled by the two governments. Three Americans and three Canadians comprise the member- ship of the commission, which first visited the campus last month in search of headquarters. University officials said the Uni- versity was selected as the site for the commission's headquarters be- cause of the numerous facilities and organizations already on the campus that deal with fish and aquatic research. Studies Located Here These include the Great Lakes Institute, the Great Lakes Com- mission, the Great Lakes Fisheries Investigations (a branch of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service), the School of Natural Resources, and, the Institute for Fisheries Research of the Michi- gan Department of Conservation. The Commission will make use of the research agencies of the two nations in granting funds for re-J search, accordin gto James W. Moffett, who serves as temporary executive-secretary of the Com- mission.1 "We will continue with the elec- trical barrier defense against the sea lamprey," he said, "and will continue working on the 'selective poisons' that are still in the labor-a atory state." United States members of the commission include Farley, who is( director of the United States Fish1 and Wildlife Service; L. P. Vogt,i director of the Wisconsin Conser- vation Department; and Claude Ver Duin of Grand Haven.t summer when the red planet pays sunAll its seasons are nearly its closest visit in 32 years. twice the length of ours.I "Pillars in the Sky" with Jeff Chandler. Played in 'The King and I' In the musical 'The King and I" she played one of the wives. "I had a lot of lines in Siamese," she smiled, "but most of them were cut. I was just another 'face on the cutting room floor," Life in Hollywood is hard on a young. starlet. "When you are working on a movie," she ex- plained, "you have to be at the studio at 5:30 a.m. every day and you worXs untli 7:30 p.m. Everyone tells you to 'hurry, hurry' and then you sit around waiting for them to finish putting up the scenery." "And when you work like that for three months, you don't feel like doing anything in the even- ings," she said. "Going from the hot lights out into the cold is also a wonderful way of catching pneumonia. The 19-year-old star- Cole Urges Credit Immunity For Fringe Benefits in Wages Fringe benefits due wage earners should be paid in full and not made subject to prior claims by creditors, according to Howard A. Cole, legislative analyst at the University's Legislative Research Center. Writing for the 1955-56 edition of "Current Trends in State Legislation," scheduled for publication by the Center this fall, Cole notes that nearly one-fifth of the nation's. payroll costs now go toward pension plans, supplemental unemployment pay, and other fringe benefit programs. He believes that the social values of these plans would be greatly impaired if creditors had a right to attack payments or employees were able to borrow against future " benefits for which they were eligi- ble. Prof. "Most of the kinds of benefitsr contemplated by private employee To benefit plans are also furnished o Talk H ere . under government auspices," he notes, "And these are usually About Gullahs given statutory immunity from creditors." Prof. Lorenzo D. Turner, of the Social Security benefits, unem- English department at Roosevelt ployment compensation, and old University will speak Monday in age survivors insurance are ex- the University's summer series on amples of government programs in "Patterns of American Culture: this field. Contributions of the Negro." Nine states have enacted so- l called "spendthrift statutes" to The thirteenth lecturer in the protect payments under private "Ter African Influecspeak on benefit plans from advance claimsLage andIfle fnthe by creditors. The states are: Mas- Language and Folklore of the ycrsedts. ThnnesotateMssirs:ipps-Gullahs" at 4:15 p.m.g in Audi- sachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, torium A, Angell Hall. New York, Oklahoma, Pennsyl- vania, Rhode Island, Texas, and Prof. Turner, also a lecturer in Wisconsin. - Arfican culture at Roosevelt Uni- But, Cole points out, wide varia- versity, was at one time chairman tions in these laws from state to of the Department of English at state may make their application both Howard University and Fisk to an individual case quite com- University. plex. Besides doing research and Cole suggests that the "spend- field work, Turner has written thrift statutes" should be put on numerous books and articles in more of a blanket coverage basis, his field. His most recent book was applying to all reasonable benefit "Africanisms in the Gullah Dia- programs and means of adminis- lect", published by the University tering them. of Chicago Press in 1949. I1 let described her 'normal' days (when not working on a film) as starting at 8:30 a.m. when she must report to her first acting class. Takes Many Classes She also must take classes in diction, horseback riding, English and singing. "The studio wants me to lose my accent, but not quite," she said, smiling at the incongruity. "And if you are late, do they ever bawl you out!" Although she seems to be tak- ing life in America in her stride, she expressed amazement at the freedom American girls have. "Girls are so independent here," she said, "and I like that, to a certain extent." In Ceylon, she explained, girls are chaperoned whenever they go out of their houses, even for a walk or to school. Speaking of her dates in the United States, she said dating without chaperones is "much more comfortable." "However," she said seriously, "many American girls take ad- vantage of the great trust their parents place on them. After a couple of drinks girls act so silly; I don't like it. If your parents trust you so much, you should live up to it." Tax Bas,,e Should Be Diversified' (Continued from Page 1) tempts to diversify the tax base have been fruitless. And it is unlikely the city will get a greater share of state-col- lected, locally-shared taxes. Prof. Brommae declares, "We have prob- ably reached out peak now." So the city has had to look else- where for additional revenues. Sewage utility rates have been raised by 50 per cent to make them self sustaining, the Univer- sity has been approached frequent- ly for additional payments and miscellaneous fees and charges have been increased. But these are all small meas- ures, insufficient for any long- rang attempts to achieve financial prosperity. Larcom, asked what the city plans to do, replies, 'We'll con- sider the amusement tax again, repeat attempts to get state auth- orization to diversify the tax base and continue to negotiate for in- creased University aid. Until the state comes through, there is little likelihood the prob- lem will be solved. (Tuesday: The University's Role.) MARS APPROACHES EARTH: Astronomers May Solve Mysteries By ALTON BLAKESLEE AP Science Reporter A day last 24 hours and 37min- reviving vegetation fed b PASADENA, Calif. (P) - Sum utes, but the Martian year is ing ice-appears around it. mysteries of life on Mars and its nearly twice as long as ours-687 Astronomers have long observed blue-green areas - first called canals may well be solved this days for one journey around the - aro darker inathe -- ll & - ..... __ _. _ _ - -__,- ; sea - t at bro da ker in the Many astronomers are sure there is life on Mars. Great areas change from brown to green with the seasons and other blue-green ares change in tint. This is pret- ty good evidence of vegation or plant life. But what kind? And is there an outside chance of some forms of animal life, even intelli- gent beings? Many astronomers have! glimpsed the strange *markings called canas, but photographs fail to show them clearly if at all. Perhaps this time they will, for, illumniating study. Hears Earth. Sept. 7 On Sept. 7 Mars will be only 35,163,000 miles away, almost as close as it came in 1924, and about as close as it ever comes. It will be five million miles nearer than it came just two years ago.- All summer and fall astrono- mers in 10 countries will be watch- ing and studying this tantalizing' sister planet. Tantalizing because it is the planet most like earth, though; only half as big; because it is hard+ to see it clearly, save for fleeting seconds, due to the shimmering of our own window of air above us, because it could be an early goal for visiting space ships when and; if man begins exploring the uni- verse. . Mars Shines Red Mars shines red in the sky be- cause more than half its surface is barren, bleak, swept by hot winds that swirl yellow dust clouds high in the air, Its atmosphere is thin and al- most devoid of oxygen, the life essential for us earthlings. There is so little moisture that it is esti- mated probably all the water on Mars would scarely fill Lake Erie. Temperatures near its equator may swing 200 degrees, from a noontime high of 50 to 70, to 150 below zero at night. Angell To Attend Sociology Meeting Prof Robert C. Angell, president of the International Sociological Association and professor of Soc- iology, will attend the third world I congress of the sociological as- sociation in Amsterdam, Holland, to be held August 22 throu2h 9. Great ice caps form as winter comes to each pole. But the ice is probably only a few inches thick on water-thirsty Mars. With sum- mer, the cap melts and a dark belt -believed to be mashy land or Sandstone ' Study Project A study of Lake Superior sand- stone in the Upper Peninsula is one of the current research pro-, .ects of the University's geologyl department. A cooperative project with the Michigan Geological Survey, the research involves aerial mapping to determin the extent and distri- bution of sandstone, and a detailed study to establish its geologic his- tory, the source of the sediments and the nature of the surface on which they were laid down. The project is being conducted by W. Kenneth Hamblin, a gradu- ate student from Saline, under the direction of Assoc, te Prof. Erwin C. Stumm and Assistant Prof. Louis I .Briggs. Hamblin and Prof. Stumm plan to spend a month this summer searching for critical fossils in the eastern part of the Upper Penin- sula. spring and spread toward the equa- tor and even beyond. The general guess is that it's plant life. Even the existence of intelligent beings is conceivable. Astronomers do not find any direct evidence that there is. Most of the speculation concerning sen- tient, intelligent Martians de- volves from the elusive .markings known as canals. The canal mystery began nearly 80 years ago when an Italian astronomer, Giovanni Schiaparelli, using a small telescope, reported seeing lines or markings which he called Canali, meaning channels. This was popularly interpreted as canals, raising visions of Mar- tians engineering great irrigation feats to bring water from the poles of oases or even underground cities. Canals Seen Many other astronomers have seen the canals, but still others, including some devoting major attention to planets, have never been able to see them at all. This doesn't mean they don't exist. Good glimpses of Mars are a chancy thing. Most of the time Mars is on the other side of the sun, out of sight. About every two years its orbit brings it closes to the earth, on the same side of the sun, anywhere from 35 to 63 million miles away from earth. Then for several months it is close enough to study. I,! 'Pu Come to Church Sunday i .--^ .--.'"" v v r''.v ila.''"caul---'--N- U --.-... 1. : r::