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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Dec. 14, 1962
Chinese Withdraw From India Posts
NEW DELHI—(UPI)The Communist Chinese have made a massive withdrawal from India's North East Frontier Agency (NEFA) a government spokesman said today.
The spokesman said that reports from "civil scouts" indicated that the Chinese invaders had pulled back beyond Dirang Dzong, Bomdila and Walong, three important points seized in their attack which started Oct.20.
"According to our information," the spokesman said, "there are no Chinese up to these positions."
AMONG THE PLACES he named as being free of the Chinese at this time were Dirang Dzong, which is 6 to 10 miles north of Bom-dila on the Bomdila-Se La ridge road; Mechuka, which is due east of Longju in the Central Siang division of the NEFA; and Walong, which is near the Burma border and only 16 miles south of the disputed McMahon frontier line.
"It seems there are no Chinese up to these positions," the spokesman said. "It hasn't been fully confirmed. Some civil scouts are going up to confirm this information."
The spokesman said if the information turned out to be correct, civil admittors would move in to re-establish control.
He declined to say if any military forces would follow.
Earlier, eyewitnesses reported from Tezpur that they had watched the Communist Chinese withdraw from Bomdila, marching three abreast and riding in captured Indian trucks and their own vehicles. The reports said the Chinese started pulling back last Sunday.
THE SPOKESMAN also announced that a "twin-engined Chinese jet aircraft" was sighted flying over Chabwa village near the oilfields in Assam State on Dec. 10. He said the plane was flying in a northeasterly direction toward Tibet. He placed Chabwah 20 to 30 miles east of Dibrugarah on the south bank of the Brahmaputra River, well beyond the line of any territorial claims made by the Chinese.
The announcement was the first mention of any Chinese aircraft sighted since the invasion started in October.
Meanwhile, informed sources said the first four of 12 promised MIG 21's will arrive here from the Soviet Union on Jan. 1. They will be flown by Indian Air Force crews. The informed sources said the MIGS will be used for training and as models for production at a factory to be supplied by Russia and staffed with Soviet technicians. This perhaps was a hint that the Soviet fighters would not be used in action against the Communist Chinese, who are troublesome but important allies of Moscow.
ORIGINALLY, the Chinese had announced a unilateral cease fire effective midnight Nov. 22 and said they would withdraw to the positions they held Nov. 7, 1959, starting Dec. 1, and follow this by negotiations. This would put them completely out of the NEFA, but leave them in effective control of large portions of Ladakh in the Northwest.
India has not accepted the ceasefire terms, saying it would talk only after the Chinese had withdrawn to positions held on Sept. 8, 1962. This would put the Reds virtually out of Ladakh, too, since the Indians had reoccupied Ladakh territory by this year that the Chinese had held in 1959.
The disclosure of the withdrawals today meant that the Chinese had pulled back 85 road miles from the point of deepest penetration into the eastern section of the NEFA, and possibly the same distance in the easternmost Kameng division.
There also is no accurate information about how deep the Chinese penetrated into the Siang Division of the NEFA. Mechuka is roughly 10 miles southeast of the McMahon line.
"THE CONFIRMATION process is going on and will go on for a few days," the spokesman said.
Previously, the government would not confirm any Chinese withdrawals, saying only that there was "some thinning out" in the forward areas with indications of withdrawals in the Chinese rear.
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He holds the B.S. degree from Randolph-Macon College, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois, the latter in 1939.
PROF. McKINLEY became professor of civil engineering at KU in 1960, after having taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for seven years as an assistant and associate professor. He set up and is director of the Environmental Health Research Laboratory.
He is a pioneer in the development of micro-biological processes to engineering systems for the handling of sewage and industrial wastes. For this work he has been awarded the Harrison Prescott Eddy medal (awarded) by the Water Pollution Control Federation.
He is author of more than two books and more than 50 published articles. In the past eight years, Prof. McKinney has been consultant to more than 30 firms in 10 states and three foreign nations on industrial waste and air pollution problems.
This year he was appointed to the Environmental Sciences and Engineering study section of the National Institutes of Health. For the American Society of Civil Engineers he has been chairman of publications for the sanitary engineering division and chairman of the Rudolf Hering award committee. He is a member of the committee on the evaluation of membrane fibers of the American Water Works Association.
After World War II service in the Navy, Prof. McKinney returned to Southern Methodist University and earned both the A.B. and B.S. degrees in 1948. He received the M.S. from M.I.T. in 1949 and the Doctor of Science in 1951.
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Confidence Man May Visit KU
A young man, allegedly victimizing foreign students at several Kansas colleges and universities this week may be on his way here.
Clark Coan, KU foreign student advisor, said yesterday the man poses as a Latin American student, solicits money for a foreign student dinner and leaves the campuses.
JACK BLANKENSHIP, state People-to-People chairman and a student at Kansas State University, said in a telephone conversation Wednesday that P-t-I officials at Ft. Hays State Teachers college, Wichita University and Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina have reported similar incidents.
Blankenship said some reports say the man promised foreign students free transportation to and from a foreign student weekend conference in Denver, Colo., or Kansas City, Mo.
The man, he said, charged the students a $10 or $30 registration fee "for administrative expenses."
He said the man occasionally uses the name Roberto Louis Barreda.
JOHN COURTER, dean of students at Kansas Wesleyan, described the man as 5'8" tall, weighing 150-160 pounds. He said the man has a dark complexion, long black hair, thick lips and crooked teeth. "KU has not approved this solicitation," Dean Coan said. "Anyone so approached for money should report the incident to the Dean of Students office in Strong Hall."
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ELEVATOR COST has been estimated at about $20,000. The architectural fees are unknown at present, but they will be a fixed percentage of the total estimate (approximately $600,000) and anticipated to be $25,000-$30,000.
These two additional costs, not included in the Eby Company bid, would make the total cost of construction approximately $750,000 if expenses are not reduced.
Because of this difference in figures, the Corporation Board suspended previous plans to announce the letting of a contract yesterday and has authorized the Stadium Expansion Committee to negotiate with the Wichita firm in an effort to reduce the bid.
Members of the Expansion Committee are chairman D. Don Haines, associate professor of civil engineering; Albert Palmerlee, professor of engineering drawing, and William Martin of the Martin Tractor Company of Topeka.
BALDWIN ART THEATRE
"Jules & Jim"
By
A Truly Exceptional Film
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT (The 400 Blows)
December 17, 18, 19 & 20——
We are beginning this film on Monday so that KU patrons may have an added opportunity to see it.
7:30 p.m. - Gem Theatre - Baldwin, Kan.
Ancient Car-
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The former U.S. Naval officer says his 1931 vehicle is "more substantial" than modern cars, because "the metal is thicker, there are fewer moving parts and the maker wanted the car to last longer."
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Welsch's car differs from today's cars in other ways. There are two accelerators—one on the steering wheel and the other on the floor—and a "spark advance" lever. And the gears always grind when they are shifted, for there was no synchro-mesh system when the car was made.
Then too, insurance costs Welsch about twice as much as the average owner. But the proud jalopy owner comforts himself with the thought that he pays no personal property tax on his car—it is too old to be taxed—and his license tags are only $10 per year.
THE FOUR-CYLINDER car travels about 15 miles on a gallon of gasoline, Welsch says. It burns one quart of oil every 400 miles, so he plans to do some work on the motor. Top speed for the car is about 57 miles per hour.
Although the aging vehicle has no heater, no radio and none of the other "superfluous excesses," according to Welsch, girls like the car. He says they think it is "distinctive, sturdy and mature."
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