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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, Jan. 18, 1962
60th Year. No.74
FACE LIFT BEGINS—Construction on the 6,500-seat addition to Memorial Stadium and a new pressbox is in high gear. Giant cranes like the one pictured here have been moved in on the west and north sides of the stadium by the Martin K. Eby Construction Company of Wichita, which has been contracted to do the work
for $680,000. The contract price includes architectural fees, but does not include the cost of an elevator under the stadium structure to the new pressbox and a new public address system. KU officials hope to have the new addition and pressbox construction completed for the 1963 football season.
Red Chinese Continue FightWithMoscowPolicy
BERLIN — (UPI) — Communist Chinese delegate Wu Hsiu-Chuan — his voice drowned out by a riotous chorus of boos and catcalls — said today that Peking will continue its fight against Moscow's policy of coexistence with the West.
In a speech to the sixth East German Communist Party Congress he said Red China's battle will continue against "modern revolutionists," a move that rejected Soviet Premier
Explosion Rips Manhole Covers
The University's second explosion in 29 hours occurred east of Lindley Hall at 6:05 p.m. yesterday. No one was injured.
The explosion occurred when Ammon Andes, professor of mechanics and aerospace engineering, threw a disconnect switch to fans in the aerospace quanset building. A spark ignited a small gas leak to touch off the explosions. There was no fire.
Two manhole cover lids were blown from their roost and a concrete manhole cover was uprooted.
No damage was reported. Building and ground employees replaced the concrete manhole cover this morning.
Andes said there was a flash when he turned off the switch, followed by a similar flash in the adjacent fusebox. He added: "The next thing I heard was an explosion below me in the tunnel. There was a series of booms on the outside. I thought someone was trying to blow up the campus. I thought I was being blown up."
Harry M. Bucholz, superintendent of buildings and grounds, said the gas leak was a minor one and probably had existed for sometime. He
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Nikita Khrushchev's appeal for a truce in the Moscow-Peking ideological war.
He launched into such a violent attack against the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia that the East German chairman, Paul Verner, ordered him to stop.
Angrily ringing his bell, Verner warned he would not tolerate insults to invited guests.
Wu ignored the chairman and continued talking. But the official interpreters did not translate his speech at this point and his words were lost.
The scene was similar to those at recent meetings of the Italian, Hungarian and Bulgarian party congresses at which members of the pro-Soviet European Communist bloc lined up with Moscow against Peking.
In trying to stop Wu, Verner said his remarks "did not correspond to the norms of relations between Marxist-Leninist parties."
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UPI)— Former President Harry S. Truman today underwent "routine surgery" for a hernia in a two-hour operation.
East German Communist Politburo member Hermann Matern hit back at Wu with an appeal for Communist party unity, which he declared is "a vital necessity."
The 78-year-old former President, who received a general anesthetic, was wheeled from the Research Hospital operating room to the recovery room after the surgery. A hospital spokesman said he was "resting comfortably."
Truman Undergoes "Routine Surgery"
In a news conference after the operation, the hospital reported that Thruman's personal physician, Dr. Wallace Graham, had corrected "a simple rupture in the right sight of the abdomen."
The hospital stressed that there was no urgency in the surgery.
"The party can only hear with regret words directed against unity," he said. "Let us make an end once and for all with the dangerous words, minority, majority, and division."
"It is not right, here and now, to quarrel over them."
Referring to the Chinese, without actually naming them, Matern said:
"What is the party that has begun polemics against the other because it only wants to deepen the quarrels? It is known to all the world who began this."
East German Deputy Foreign Minister Otto Winzer backed Khrushchov's policy of coexistence with the West.
He added that the Chinese-Indian border conflict had harmed the Communist world movement.
A spokesman for the Soviet embassy in East Berlin refused to comment directly on Wu's speech. He predicted that the Moscow-Peking conflict ultimately will be "liquidated," although he said it is not clear at the moment how this will be achieved.
The spokesman said the Soviet Union considers the present situation too tense for a world Communist summit meeting such as the Chinese have proposed.
Chinese while West Berlin Mayor
Meanwhile West Berlin Mayor
Willy Brandt considered today
whether to take up Soviet Premier
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Weather
A cold wave is expected to sweep the state this afternoon, tonight and Saturday. The cold will be accompanied by snow and 20 to 40 mile an hour winds, with blizzard conditions developing in the northwest and west. The temperature is expected to fall to zero in the north and to five to ten above in the southern portion of the state.
State Regents Vote New Fee Increases
TOPEKA, Kan.—(UPI)—The Kansas State Board of Regents today voted an across-the-board raise of $15 in the fees paid by students attending state colleges and universities.
The board took action to raise student fees, which are paid in lieu of tuition, from $70 to $85 per semester for the University of Kansas and Kansas State University; and from $50 to $65 per semester for students at the state colleges.
THE FEE HIKE, estimated to produce an additional $1 million in revenue, will be effective July 1, 1963.
Non-resident fees at the universities would be raised from $225 per semester to $250 per semester; and at colleges from $110 to $135 per semester.
Regent Henry A. Bubb of Topeka made the motion to raise fees, and regent Ray Evans seconded. The vote was unanimous.
Now, KU and K-State have the lowest in-state tuition in the Big Eight. Beginning next semester, they will be tied for fourth.
After the new fee increases take effect, KU and K-State will have the second highest out-of-state tuitions of eight schools. The University of Colorado will have the highest out-of-state fees in the Big Eight.
After today's meeting, professors were officially elevated to new positions today by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
THOMAS M. GALE, assistant professor of history, was appointed an assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Marilyn Stokstad, an associate professor of art history, was confirmed as director of the Museum of Art and chairman of the department of art history.
Prof. Gale is en route to Costa Rica to direct a KU-Peace Corps project and will coordinate other KU programs in that country. He will return in January, 1965, and will assume general responsibilities in the College.
White Award Winner Named AP President
Paul Miller, president of the Gannett group of newspapers and winner of this year's William Allen White Foundation award, was named president of the Associated Press (A.P.) yesterday.
Miller, who lives in Rochester, N.Y., will be in Lawrence Feb. 11 to receive the White Foundation award, in recognition of "service to his profession and his community."
Miller succeeds Benjamin M. McKelway, editor of the Washington Star, who resigned as president of A.P. in Phoenix yesterday.
Miller started work on newspapers in Oklahoma at the age of 18. He has been in the newspaper business for 38 years.
He was graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1931, and in 1932 joined the Associated Press in Columbus, Ohio. He worked for A.P. for fifteen years, serving as news editor of the Kansas City bureau and as chief of the Washington bureau.
In 1947 Miller joined the executive staff of the Gannett papers, and in 1957 became president of the Gannett group. He is a member of the Associated Press Board of Directors and the Pulitzer Prize Board. He is chairman of the advisory board of the American Press Institute at Columbia University, and in 1962 was honorary president of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity.
Last year, Miller was one of a group of American editors who attracted world attention with its reporting tour of the Soviet Union.
MU Housing Policy May Go to Courts
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — (UPI) Possible court action has been threatened against the University of Missouri at Columbia unless it changes its housing policy to eliminate the question of race on its housing forms, UPI learned today.
The university director of housing, Herald Condra, said no policy changes were planned. The Board of Curators was expected to take up the question tomorrow.
The Columbia Chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) said it had been advised by its national legal advisor to take court action. The chapter indicated it may bring charges of violations of provisions of the federal and state constitutions.
The action would be against the state of Missouri.
CORE objected to a clause in the form the university uses for the assignment of dormitory rooms. The clause requires the applicant to state his race. CORE also has charged that the university asks landlords if they have any racial or religious preference in accepting roomers.
Condra said CORE had brought the question before the university housing committee, but that his office planned no policy changes at the present, with the exception of the addition of a question to the housing forms.
The new forms request: In order to gain a wider experience in intercultural living, check here if you are interested in living with a student of another country or race (providing this can be arranged)."