Ideas Given on Fallout Shelters Radiation Effects
Five speakers discussing several aspects of "What is a Megaton?" last night found only one point of agreement: a nuclear war should be avoided.
At the People-to-People forum in the Kansas Union, Roy Laird, assistant professor of political science; Edward Shaw, associate professor of radiation biophysics; John A. Weir, associate professor of zoology; the Rev. Paul Davis, Plymouth Congregational Church and William Kiang, Hong Kong senior, presented their views on atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons and the feasibility of building bomb shelters.
Disagreement on nuclear testing in the atmosphere centered around the question of its effect on the world's health.
REV. DAVIS SAID:
"I ran onto this statistic the other day which says that any 20 megaton bomb detonated in the atmosphere means that 15,000 children yet unborn will be born with defects and that another 15,000 people now living will die of leukemia or bone cancer."
Prof. Shaw commented:
"Only five per cent of natural mutations are caused by radioactivity. A doubling of background activity (radiation) would only cause a small increase in the mutation rate."
Presenting a similar view, Prof. Weir said:
"You hear that mutations are harmful, but this is not necessarily so. Usually mutations are 50-50 good and bad."
PROF, LAIRD QUOTED one Soviet scientist as saying that a 50 megaton bomb would claim from 200 to 300 lives a year.
"Because of the 100 megatons released by the Soviets recently, nearly 2 million people have been condemned to death and another 200,000 babies will be defective at birth," he added.
Turning to the question of bomb shelters, the speakers were also in disagreement.
Rev. Davis said that he opposed building bomb shelters because they would enhance the war psychology and push the nation nearer to the point where people will be willing to take the chance.
He said: "If we must build fall-out shelters they ought to be public and not private. They should be built according to federal plans."
Prof. Shaw said that shelters are effective. In an adequate shelter people could survive, he added.
"COMMUNITY SHELTERS ARE not the answer," he continued, "because of panic and the time available for getting to the shelter. The shelter would have to be within
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UTOPIAN IDEA—"If it's utopian to speak about survival, then let's be utopian," explains Prof. Laird (on the left) at the People-to-People Forum last night. William Kiang (in the middle), another speaker, and Bruce Whisler, moderator, listen.
Effigy Hanged; Peace Made
Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of students, was hanged in effigy Friday evening, apparently because of his action in confiscating more than 2,900 ATAP buttons from students planning to sell them.
Dean Woodruff had told the students distributing the buttons they would be expelled from the University if they continued selling the buttons.
HE ALSO told them they would face expulsion if they did not give him the buttons. They turned in the buttons.
The ATAP buttons are a reply to AHAB (All Hawks are B----s) and AHAMF (All Hawks are "My Friends") buttons which were being circulated at Missouri University.
Daily hansan
ATAP supposedly meant "All Tigers Are Pushovers," though it has been interpreted in an obscene manner as has the "My Friends" buttons at MU.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, Nov. 20, 1961
59th Year, No. 47
Rockefeller's Son Missing On South Pacific Expedition
By United Press International
A Dutch Navy ship today rescued the companion of missing Michael Rockefeller, youngest son of the New York Governor, who last was seen trying to swim to the wilderness shore of New Guinea from a disabled boat.
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller flew to
Tokyo today en route to the South Pacific to join in the search for his son.
The Republican State Committee headquarters in Topeka said Gov. Rockefeller's advisers in New York said to continue with plans for the governor's attendance at the KU-MU game Saturday.
Calendars Err on Schedule
Contrary to several calendars posted around the campus, school will not resume Tuesday. Nov. 28 after Thanksgiving vacation. Class will begin 8 a.m. Monday. Nov. 27.
Officials at Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, radioed a terse report to the defense ministry at the Hague, The Netherlands, saying that Rocke-
ROCKEFELLER WAS informed of the possible family tragedy last night, barely 48 hours after he and his wife announced they were ending their 31-year-marriage with separation and divorce. No cause was given.
feller's companion, Dutch ethnologist R. S. Wassink, 34, had been picked up safely.
Michael was one of five grown children of the couple. His twin sister, Mrs Mary Rockefeller Strawbridge, accompanied the governor on his flight. The mother remained in seclusion near New York.
In New Guinea, Wassink was reported to have told his rescuers that he and young Rockefeller were exploring the remote and crocodile-infested south coast of Dutch New Guinea when their native boat lost its power and started drifting out to sea near the mouth of the Elanden River.
The engine fell off and the small shallow-draft boat started drifting out into the Arafura Sea. The craft was sighted by search planes Saturday, but darkness closed in before help could come.
THE BOAT, CALLED a prahu, is made of two small Mayalan canoes lashed together catamaran style. Normally, it is powered with sails and oars, and sometimes an engine—as was the case this time.
Wassink said he stayed with the prahu, and young Rockefeller decided to try for shore to get help.
MICHAEL LASHED TWO empty gasoline cans together and started swimming toward the swampy and jungle-choked coastline more than 15 miles away, using the cans for buoyancy.
"I saw Mike swimming in the ocean toward the New Guinea shore yesterday (Saturday New York time)," Wassink told his rescuers. "I don't know if he made it. I haven't seen him since."
"He was pushing two empty gasoline cans ahead of him," Wassink said.
Weather
Considerable cloudiness today and tonight and becoming warmer by Tuesday afternoon. High today 35 to 40 and low tonight 25 to 30. High Tuesday afternoon in the 40%.
DEAN WOODRUFF said he confiscated the buttons because they "have become a sort of symbol of poor sportsmanship on the part of both the institutions."
PAINTED ON the effigy's hat was "Woodie" and on the pants "Woodie the Wise."
The effigy was found by police Saturday morning. It was dangling from a tree in front of Flint Hall. A sign on the dummy read "If not ATAP then how 'bout WAIP," "Sic Semper Tyrannus" and "Eliminate Autocracy at KU."
Dean Woodruff declined to comment on the effigy.
KU-MU Pact Signed
Four KU students met a delegation from MU Sunday in Kansas City to officially sign a "peace pact" between the two schools.
The pact, similar to the one signed several years ago between KU and Kansas State University, recognizes the animosities that have arisen between the two institutions and makes two recommendations:
- That acts which may damage the reputations of both institutions be defined to include assault and battery, acts to incite riots, property destruction and obnoxious or disorderly conduct
- That offenders be punished according to the severity of their act, including suspension from school as the maximum penalty.
FRATERNITIES AND SORORI-
ties will support the pact by
holding open houses for MU
students before and after the game,
and a reception for independent
students and alumni of both universities
will be held following the game.
Newspapers on both campuses will appeal to students and alumni to support the principles of the pact by conducting themselves in a mature fashion.
THE PACT REQUESTS SPECTATORS to remain seated during the game to prevent milling on the track and in the stands
A statement released by the KU delegation reports the pact will be enforced by Pinkerton Dectectives, Lawrence policemen and "the discretion of those attending" the game.
Plans for the peace pact began last May with letters, telegrams, and telephone calls between student leaders of KU and MU. The principles of the pact were decided upon before yesterday's meeting
The pact will continue to be enforced at all KU-MU athletic events.
See page 4 for statements
Last Kansan Until Tuesday, Nov. 28
This is the last UDK that will be published until Nov. 28.
A Kansan Series-Part III
Lack of Funds May Slow Hospital Expansion
By Richard Bonett
Editor's note:—This is the last of a three-part series on Watkins Memorial Hospital.
It appears that another private gift or state beneficence will have to provide the revenue if the hospital is to expand to meet present and future needs.
Watkins Memorial Hospital was founded on the generosity of the late Mrs. Elizabeth M. Watkins as a memorial to her late husband. Mrs. Watkins provided the gift that made possible the construction and equipping of the present building.
Keith Lawton, administrative assistant to the chancellor for physical plant development and coordination, said the University is aware of the hospital's space problem.
"It (a plan for expansion) is in the University's 10-year building program," he said recently. He added, however, that there are no immediate plans for expansion of Watkins Hospital, indicating the project is low on the priority list.
HOW SOON the University will be able to act in any expansion program for the hospital depends almost entirely on how rapidly the Kansas Legislature wants to fund the 10-year building program.
Asked if he believed such expansion would take place in the next 10 years to meet the anticipated increase in student enrollment, Mr. Lawton answered:
THE LINEUP — Students wait for service at Watkins.
"I hope it can be done within the 10-year period."
Mrs. Watkins, in her will, specified a cash bequest to provide a yearly income for the hospital, but the revenue from that amounts to about $11,000 a year, earmarked primarily for new equipment and equipment maintenance.
In 1947, the need for additional hospital space was established to the satisfaction of the Federal Works Agency and an allocation for Hill-Burton funds, which provides a federal grant on a matchingfund basis, was approved.
However, a well-known Kansas City, Mo., architect and KU alumnus, drew plans for a 3-story addition to be added to the rear of the present building and stretching out toward Sunflower Drive.
ACCORDING to Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, hospital administrator, a change in the agency's administration in the Kansas City office occurred and the project was never carried out.
The extension, approximately 45 feet long and 38 feet wide, would have added more than 5,000 square feet to the present structure.
At that time, the hospital had built up a cash reserve of about $105,000 and the construction estimate for the expansion was about $205,000.
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