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NIKITA HANGS IN EFFIGY-A group of unknown students early this morning hanged Nikita Khrushchev in effigy. The stuffed image of Khrushchev had a 50-megaton bomb hanging from his neck.A sign which read "Baby Deformer" labeled the effigy. University maintenance employees removed the effigy at 8 a.m.
Bomb Fallout May Not Hit Lawrence
Lawrence may not receive any radioactive fallout from the Russian explosion of a multi-megaton bomb yesterday, Edward Shaw, professor of radiation biophysics, said.
Prof. Shaw said such bombs tend to blow straight up, scattering atomic debris in the stratosphere and not in the earth's atmosphere.
IF THERE ARE ANY EFFECTS from the bomb, they will not show up for a week or more, Prof. Shaw said.
PROF. SHAW AGREED WITH two radiologists at the Clinical Assembly of the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons who described the current public concern over
The big bomb the Soviets exploded last Tuesday still has not caused any rise in fallout here. Friday radioactive fallout measured 4.64 micro-microcuries per cubic foot of air. Saturday the average rose to 6.49 micro-microcuries per cubic foot of air.
Sunday's rain may show a rise in fallout if any debris was in the atmosphere. Prof. Shaw said. Figures for that will not be compiled until later today.
Weather
Slowly decreasing cloudiness this forenoon, partly cloudy this afternoon through Wednesday. Cooler tonight. The high today will be around 60 and the low tonight in the low 40s. Thursday's high will be in the 60s.
He said this is the reason why the department of radiation biophysics was giving a series of lectures at Lawrence high school on radiation and its effects.
radioactive fallout as "mass hysteria" and a "radiation neurosis."
The two radiologists, D. W. Hendrickson of Wichita, and A. G. Reed of Tulsa, Okla., said the country had gone wild over the effects of radiation. Dr. Reed charged the furor has been caused by "irresponsible and non-scientific publications which play upon the dramatic."
TOPEKA — (UPI) — The Kansas Board of Health has warned that radioactive fallout from the latest Soviet nuclear test warrants continuous, intensive surveillance in Kansas.
State Health Board Warns of Fallout
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J. Lee Mayers, chief of industrial hygiene, said consideration of protective measures is under way on national, state and local levels. He said fallout in Kansas in the past two months has been from low-level concentrations of the radioactive particles produced by the current Soviet nuclear tests which number over 20.
He predicted that rains and snows in early spring of 1962 will bring the major quantity of the fallout to the world from its present location high in the stratosphere.
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Students to Convene
All classes will be dismissed tomorrow morning at 9:30 for a convocation which will allow students to participate in the KU Statewide Activities. Convocation.
Students are asked to report to their county organizations as announced on placards around the campus. Each county in Kansas has its own student organization, headed by a student chairman. These groups are the centers of public relations work within the Statewide Activities.
The convocation tomorrow will follow regular convocation scheduling, with classes as follows:
Kansas City, Mo., area students should report to Summerfield 411, rather than Summerfield 166 as is posted on the convocation placards.
8:00-8:30, 8:40-9:10, 9:20-10:00
Convocation, 10:40-11:10, 11:20-
11:50
Opinion Voiced On ASC Group
The ASC Student Liaison Committee initiated last week has been generally approved by the governor of Kansas, the mayor of Lawrence, the speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives and the chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents.
But both Gov. John Anderson and Whitley Austin, chairman of Board of Regents, have voiced reservations regarding the new committee.
The function of the committee, as stated in the ASC resolution introducing it, will be to "endeavor to meet with the Lawrence City Council, the State Board of Regents, the State Legislature and the governor
Negro Student Says Protest Successful
A spokesman for the Negro students who held a protest march against the University's housing policy Oct. 13, said last night he believes the march was a success.
"I'm very optimistic about it (the administration's policy)" he said. "I feel something is being done, even if it's not dropping names off the housing list, as we had asked.
"The march accomplished what it was meant to accomplish," said Elmer Jackson, Kansas City senior. "It has brought the problem into the open."
He said that since the problem had been brought into the open, he now felt the administration's policy of working on the problem quietly and on an individual basis was the best way to proceed.
"Our list of grievances was merely
JACKSON SAID IF THE MARCH had created conflict, it was an unfortunate side effect.
a suggestion, and if the administration has seen some other way to solve the problem, I'm for it," he added.
"I'm a student here, too, and I don't want to spread a bad name for KU," he said. "The main thing I want as an individual is to see the thing solved, or to see some sort of action."
(Scientists in Western Europe and Japan reported that the big Soviet blast yesterday was about 2.5 times as large as the Oct. 23 explosion of 30 megatons — making it equal possibly to as much as the detonation of 75 million tons of TNT. In Washington, however, the United States Atomic Energy Commission said preliminary indications were that the latest explosion was equal to 50 megatons.
"I don't know what or when the administration's action will be put before the public, but from my talk with the chancellor and from talking to others who have met with him. I definitely feel the administration is concerned," he said. "This is what we wanted," he added.
Khrushchev Admits Bomb Size Is Mistake
"We shall not punish them (the scientists) for it," he said. The crowd in the auditorium burst into applause and laughter.
MOSCOW — (UPI) — Premier Nikita Khrushchev said today Soviet scientists made a mistake yesterday and exploded a nuclear bomb more powerful than 50 megatons.
(New Zealand's deputy foreign minister, F. H. Corner suggested at the United Nations yesterday that, since it is difficult to control the strength of a thermonuclear reaction of such size, Russia accidently might
Informed sources said Khrushchev told a cheering session of the 22nd Soviet Communist Party Congress that the scientists had intended to set off only the 50-megaton blast he had predicted in an earlier speech to the Congress.
But Khrushchev said, according to the sources, that the explosion turned out to be bigger than the scientists figured.
Khrushchev joked about the "mistake," according to those who heard him speak in the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses.
have loosed more power than it planned. Khrushchev's statement today apparently bore out that conjecture.)
One megaton is equal to one million tons of TNT. Yesterday's blast was by far the most powerful explosion yet triggered by man.
Khrushchev's statement was the first announcement from the Communist world acknowledging yesterday's explosion.
Khrushchev said only that the big blast was "multi-megaton" and did not specify the exact power of the test explosion.
Students Receive Downs This Week
Downslips, the University's way of indicating failing marks or incomplete work in a course, will be sent to KU students this week.
Duplicate downslips will be sent to the parents of all students with low marks in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. This procedure will be followed in most, but not all of the other University schools and departments.
For freshman and sophomore students in the College, the downslips will be followed with a student-adviser conference period from Nov. 7 to 10. All freshman and sophomore students in the College — including those who receive no downslips — will be asked to see their advisers during this period.
of Kansas to advise them in matters concerning KU students."
IN A TELEPHONE interview, Gov. Anderson said the committee could be very helpful. But he added that it would be effective only so long "as it stays within the realm of that which is reasonable and if it stays within a limited volume of proposals.
"If a group of this sort makes too many proposals," he said, "its batting average goes down and it loses its effectiveness."
Max Eberhart, Great Bend senior, will head the liaison committee and appoint its members. When told last night of the governor's comments about "proposals," Eberhart said that he conceived of the committee as not making proposals, but giving student opinion on proposals already made.
Eberhart said the committee wants to cooperate and show the groups that the students are interested in what affects them.
He said the governor probably thought the group might make proposals because people generally think that when a group forms, it wants something.
"I don't think our proposals will be different from ones to substantiate the chancellor," he said. "Most of our proposals will go through the chancellor. He is our direct representative.
"THE ADMINISTRATION knows these things. They live with them every day. I'm not sure what the committee could do but back up the chancellor," Eberhart said.
He did not rule out the possibility of the committee coming up with a plan that the chancellor had not thought about.
He also said the chancellor thought the liaison committee had merit.
The chairman of the Board of Regents, Whitley Austin, said he did know about the value of the liaison committee.
"The committee will have to be tested pragmatically," he said. "Of course, we always welcome student views, but we have to be careful that the committee does represent the views of the students."
The sponsor of the student liaison committee bill, Jay Deane, Kansas City junior, said last week that the committee "will, in effect, set up a lobbying group for KU students." Mr. Austin doubted the committee's effectiveness in this capacity.
"I HESITATE TO SAY that KU would gain by applying the committee as a lobbyist group," he said. "The last thing for the University to do is to be in politics."
"The Board of Regents can't sanction a political lobby as such. We're not political. We wouldn't recognize a lobbyist group."
Eberhart said he did not think of the committee as a "lobbyist group." He said the committee "was powerless to control" the governor, the mayor of Lawrence, the Kansas Legislature and the State Board of Regents.
"In contrast," he said, "a lobby group can use some power of influence."
Eberhart said the committee is an "informative group, not a lobby group," and added that "we just want to eliminate the guesswork."
TWO OTHER officials questioned strongly supported the committee.
William L. Mitchell, Hutchinson speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives, said the legislature would appreciate the committee.
"The more expert opinion we can get, the better off we are," he said. "The students know what the University needs. But we (the legisla-
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