Daily Hansan
Tuesday, Dec. 12, 1961
59th Year, No. 58
PRINCESSES—Kathy McCarthy, Kansas City, Mo., senior, left, and Peggy Shank, Hiawatha senior, right, will represent KU as princesses at the Bluebonnet Bowl in Houston on Saturday.
News Briefs
NATO Chairman Charged by Reds
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
By United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union today formally charged West German Gen. Adolf Heusinger, chairman of NATO's permanent military committee in Washington, with "war crimes against peace and humanity."
The charges were contained in a note which the Soviet Foreign Ministry handed to U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson this morning. They were publicly denounced in a Soviet press conference later.
The charges were strikingly similar to those for which Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was convicted in Jerusalem yesterday.
Mikhail Kharlamov, the Foreign Ministry's press chief, told foreign newsmen the note demanded that the United States arrest Heusinger and extradite him to Russia for trial.
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL — An Israeli court today found Adol Eichmann responsible for the death of the 93 children of Lidice Czechoslovakia, after that town was wiped out by the Nazis in World War II.
The three-judge court yesterday found Eichmann guilty on four broad charges which may send him to the gallows for the wartime extermination of Jews. Today it continued the reading of the decision and found the former Nazi officer guilty on all 15 counts of the indictment against him.
Tomorrow, Chief Prosecutor Gideon Hausner is expected to ask for the death penalty for Eichmann.
Then Eichmann's counsel, Dr. Robert Servatius, is expected to follow with his plea for leniency on the grounds of mitigating circumstances.
SANTO DOMINGO — An opposition appeal for outside help in settling the Dominican political crisis today brought a sharp attack against the United States from Army Chief Maj. Gen. Pedro Rodriguez Echevarria.
KARWAR. INDIA - Goan nationalists were reported today to have hoisted Indian flags in two villages of the Portugese enclave of Goa on India's west coast.
Reports reaching here also said a mine planted by the pro-Indian underground blew up a Portugese army jeep at Pangim, capital of Goa and Portugese Inda killing all three occupants of the vehicle. Two other Portugese soldiers were reported killed by an explosion while they were mining a road at Kanakoam.
"The U.S. is helping to aggravate the (Dominican) political crisis," Echevarria told the San Juan, P.R. newspaper El Mundo. "Americans are the ones to blame for all this (unrest)," the Army charge said.
PARIS — The United States, Britain and France have agreed to make a joint appeal through the United Nations for an end to the fighting in Katanga, an authoritative French source said today.
The appeal probably will be made to acting Secretary-General Thant, the source said.
Crisis Day Schedule
Tomorrow's Kansan will present a focus on World Crisis Day. The time and speakers at the seminars during the day will be listed. Background information on the discussion groups will be presented. Students may attend any of the seminar sessions but they will not be excused from classes.
Chi Omega-Dorm Talkathon Ceases
Residents of Carruth-O'Leary men's residence hall and Chi Omega sorority have ended their telephone marathon, but the Lewis-Templin marathon entered its 279th hour at noon today.
The Carruth-O'Leary and Chi Omega talkathon was ended by mutual consent at 11:30 p.m. Friday, 192 hours and four minutes after it began. Residents paid 50 cents for an unlimited conversation, and approximately $25 was collected for Campus Chest.
The Lewis-Templin talkathon will receive nation-wide attention this weekend. Three employees of WDAF-TV, Kansas City, were at KU Friday taking films of the Lewis-Templin marathon for NBC-TV, to be shown on the "Up Date" program Saturday at 11 a.m.
The Carruth-O'Leary marathon originally was planned to go only 120 hours, the record held by the University of Illinois. James Standefer, Lenorah, Tex., senior and president of Templin Hall, has said he expects the Lewis-Templin marathon will continue until next Tuesday, or approximately 475 hours.
Pregnancy Causes Republican Loss
DENVER — (UPI) — State Chairman Jean K. Tool told Republican leaders yesterday they might have captured the Colorado House of Representatives if one candidate hadn't been wounded while hunting and another had not withdrawn to become a mother.
Democrats retained control of the House in the last election by one seat.
"I'm going to ask the state assembly next summer." Tool joked, "to pledge all potential candidates to give up hunting for the campaign and refrain from all activities that might lead to pregnancy."
The weather bureau said there should be some daytime moderation of temperatures today. Tonight was expected to be clear and cold.
Weather
Today's highs are expected to range from 10 northwest to 15 southeast. Lows tonight will be from zero in the southeast to a minus 10 in the west.
Snow was on the ground this morning in every sector of the state.
Russian May Talk to Classes
Alexander Fomin, counselor to the Soviet Embassy, has accepted an invitation from KU's World Crisis Day steering committee to spend an extra day at KU.
Mr. Fomin and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., assistant to the President, are the keynote speakers for the special convocation at 9:20 a.m. Thursday in Hoch Auditorium.
Although plans for Mr. Fomin on the extra day have not been announced, it was learned last week that a letter had been sent to the Russian Embassy suggesting the possibility of having him speak to several history and political science classes on Friday.
It was also learned last week that if the Soviet counselor accepted the invitation the steering committee would try to make arrangements to have him speak at either the Current Events Forum or at the Presidential Forum.
KLAUS PRINGSHEIM, instructor of political science, said last night that the Russian would probably arrive late tomorrow. He will stay at the Eldridge Hotel.
Mr. Schlesinger will fly into Kansas City early Thursday and will be brought to KU by car. He is scheduled to arrive about 8:30 a.m. at which time he will meet with the Chancellor. Following the convocation at 9:20 a.m. he and Mr. Fomin will be guests at a special luncheon for the members of the Crisis Day steering committee.
It is reported that Mr. Schlesinger will be unable to spend the whole day here and will leave for New York at approximately 3 p.m. He is now reportedly serving as an aide to Adlai Stevenson in the United Nations.
A DINNER MEETING that day will be held in honor of Mr. Fomin and a prominent American. It is not known at the present time who the American will be.
Mr. Pringsheim, however, said that the Chancellor has invited John Anderson, governor of the state, and Alf Landon, former governor of Kansas and the Republican candidate for President in 1936, to attend the Crisis Day and that possibly one of them will be present for the dinner.
He said that the Chancellor has also invited a number of Kansas State legislators for the day.
In other Crisis Day activity yesterday, Charles McReynolds, Coffeyville graduate student and co-chairman of the Evening Summation sub-committee said that plans for the session have been completed.
The summation and evaluation meeting will take place at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
"An informally conducted panel will consider questions arising during the course of World Crisis Day. The panel members will attempt to clarify issues and examine possible alternatives," he said.
Prof. O'Connor will serve as moderator for the panel.
THE PANEL MEMBERS are: Raymond O'Connor, assistant professor of history; John Ise, professor emeritus of economics; L. R. C. Agnew, professor of history; Oswald Backus, professor of history; Klaus Pringsheim, instructor of political history and Mr. Fomin.
McReynolds said that questions will not be accepted from the audience unless they have been previously written and examined by a screening committee.
A box in which questions are to be submitted will be placed at the entrance to the Forum Room.
McReynolds explained that the discussion groups will be given forms for questions that the groups would like to hear answered. These forms will be reviewed by the sub-committee before the Summation meeting.
Future Sees Automated Christmas
Bv Dick West
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Like any other normal, red-blooded, misguided American boy, I have always pictured Santa Claus workshop as being populated by elves, gnomes, leprechauns and other cheerful little figures.
NEVER, EVEN under the influence of egg nog, did I ever fancy that Santa's helpers would one day be replaced by Univac machines and other electronic computers.
But such a trend has been established this year, and it is only a question of time. I fear, until we will all be celebrating a fully automated Christmas.
The fact that automation has reared its head amid our Yuletide activities was brought to my attention when I dropped in on the National Computer Conference being held here this week.
Delegates to the conference are boning up on the latest developments in the data processing industry, including new ways that electronic brains have taken over the functions of the human cerebrum.
LET US SAY that you are stumped over what to give your rich old Uncle Eebert. You go to a store and fill out a card listing as much information about him as you dare put in writing.
A conference official informed me that some of the more progressive department stores are using computers this season as a gift suggestion service to Christmas shoppers.
The card then is fed into a computer and — prestol — out comes a list of about 50 items that theoretically would make suitable gifts for someone fitting Uncle Egbert's description.
In a manner of speaking then, even ideas are now coming pre-packaged and gift-wrapped. I trust that the computers perform this service while softly humming a few bars of 'Jingle Bells.
ASC Meets Tonight
The All Student Council will meet at 7 tonight in the Cottonwood Room of the Kansas Union.
Elections for ASC officers will be held. Offices open are vice chairman, secretary, and treasurer.