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U.S. Rushes Aid To Stricken Isle
AGANA, Guam—(UPI)—The United States today rushed massive relief shipments to the island of Guam, where Typhoon Karen Sunday caused destruction "like a whole army of workers with big scythes."
As U.S. Air Force C130 transports landed on the island's battered airfields with the first consignments of tons of tents, food, and medicine, the death toll rose to seven.
Officials said they expected to find others dead in the wreckage of buildings on the island, which received a worse battering from Karen's 200 mile an hour winds than it did from two World War II invasions.
U. S. Air Force typhoon trackers in Tokyo said Karen, its winds down to 150 miles an hour, was moving in the direction of the U.S. military bastion of Okinawa. It was about 500 miles south-southeast of Okinawa early today, moving at about 15 miles an hour.
Acting Gov. Manuel Guerrero warned the islanders against drinking water except that inspected at stations and told the 9,000 persons who lost their homes that help was on the way.
One of the first pilots to fly in with emergency personnel and equipment, Col. William H. Lewis of Pasadena, Calif., described the 209-square-mile island as seen from the air:
"It was just hell. It was total destruction. It looked to me like a whole army of workers with big scythes had just gone across the whole place and chopped down everything they could see. Everything was lying down. Smeshed. Even the forests were lying down."
Wednesday, Nov. 14, 1962 University Daily Kansan
The KU chemistry department has received grants totaling nearly $190,000 for six faculty research programs.
Large Grants To Chemistry
Robin T. M. Fraser, assistant professor of chemistry, received a National Science Foundation grant for $39,000 for three years for his project with electron transfer mechanisms.
PROF. FRAASER ALSO was awarded a $15,000 grant by the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund for three years for work in redox reaction.
The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) will renew its contract with F. S. Rowland, associate professor of chemistry, fo., a sixth year of study on a radiation -chemistry project. He will receive a $60,000 grant.
Ralph N. Adams, associate professor of chemistry, will receive $26,800 for the sixth year of his research on complex electrochemical reactions.
REYNOLD T. IWAMOTO, associate professor of chemistry, has received a $21,785 Air Force grant for the purchase of a high resolution infrared spectometer for use in two projects on the nature and behavior of ions in solution.
Joint research by Jacob Kleinberg and Ernest Griswold, professors of chemistry, will continue under their AEC contract. They received $15,400 for the eighth year of a study on unfamiliar oxidation states of metals.
Earl S. Huyser, associate professor of chemistry, received a $9,992 United States Public Health service grant for research on stereochemical aspects of free radical reactions.
Poetry Hour Tomorrow
Sidney M. Johnson, professor of German, will read a translation of Walther Von Der Volgelweide at the Poetry hour at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union.
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To Figure '62 Election Look Back Two Years
WASHINGTON-(UPI)—Congressional returns from the 1960 election must be considered in judging last week's polling.
By Lyle C. Wilson
For example: the judges have ignored the fact that the Democrats lost 21 seats in the House of Representatives in 1960 although they elected a president.
Most or all of these were in marginal congressional districts.
MARGINAL districts tend to swing in a presidential election year. A presidential nominee who wins by a big margin usually generates political momentum sufficient to elect his party's House candidates in marginal districts.
The 1960 presidential election was a squeaker. President Kennedy barely made it. The Republican candidate in 1960 lost the White House but the Republican Party gained 21 seats in the House of Representatives.
It was these areas of tenderly balanced congressional districts that developed a tradition of American politics: that in an off-year election, the in-office party must expect to lose rather heavily in the House. The average of such off-year losses suffered by the in-office party is 40 to 50 seats.
The Republicans needed last week to gain 44 House seats to become the House majority. They didn't make it. The Republicans gained two seats; the Democrats lost 4.
WHEN AN in-office party loses that many or more in an off year, the out-of-office party reasonably may anticipate an improving chance to elect its presidential nominee two years later.
Some or all of the 21 House seats the Democrats lost in 1960 would have tended last week to swing to the Republicans if the Democrats had not already lost them.
IF THE LOT had remained Democratic in 1960 and gone Republican last week the 1962 won-lost tally would have been: Democrats lost 25 seats; Republicans won 23 seats.
In the clouded light of that calculation, Republican presidential prospects in 1964 look somewhat better, but not much. It is a fairer estimate of the immediate political climate, however, than are the comparisons of President Kennedy's first off-year election with FDR's spectacular first in 1934.
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DETROIT—(UPI)—Mortimer M. Caplin, commissioner of the internal revenue service (IRS), today warned that expense account living as a "way of life" will soon become extinct.
Caplin told a convention of the National Association of Real Estate Boards a new Revenue Act passed this year makes it possible for the IRS to eliminate most of the widespread abuses which have developed through too-casual use of the expense account. He said the government has had revenue losses because of "misused or disguised
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But, Caplin said, legitimate business expense deductions "need cause little concern."
SPRINGFIELD, ILL — (UPI) No aircraft flying over Illinois is more than 50 miles from a hard-surfaced, lighted airport. The Department of Aeronautics said this geographical spread is not matched by any other state.
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