Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
youth Year, No. 17
Monday, Oct. 8, 1962
RESEARCH IS THE KEY—Dr. Harry Hanson (left), assistant Surgeon General of the United States, is shown touring KU's Nuclear Reactor Center with Ross McKinney, professor of civil engineering.
Hanson Stresses Role of Research
Research is the key to control of today's health problems, U.S. Assistant Surgeon General Harry Hanson said Saturday, speaking at the dedication of KU's Nuclear Reactor Center for research.
"We now deal with health problems of radically different orders of magnitude from those of former eras," he said.
Hanson said the hazards of a new environment have been added to the bacteriological concerns of the past.
"We live in a nuclear-chemical environment."
These hazards are more subtle and act more slowly, and are much more difficult to diagnose, Hanson commented.
"THROUGH RESEARCH we seek to unravel the mystery of the single or combined effect of these micro-forces."
Citing the Environmental Health Letter, Hanson said thalidomide is symbolic of our new environment.
"It is a prescribed chemical, but who knows how many unprescribed chemicals make up our daily environment?"
Hanson said the new synthetic chemicals—plastics, detergents, and pesticides—are examples.
Hanson said the KU center is operated by scientists dedicated to developing the full power of modern science to analyze and combat modern health hazards.
"IT IS GRATIFYING to anticipate the effect of the center on water purification, stream sanitation, air pollution control and radiation itself."
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Large Scale Public Outbreaks May Have Erupted In Russia
According to word sifting out of Russia, officials said, the rioting began after butter and meat prices were raised June 1.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — U.S. officials said today they have received reports of "large-scale" public disturbances in a southern industrial section of the Soviet Union.
There were unconfirmed reports that between several dozen and several hundred people were killed in the most serious outbreak, in the industrial city of Novocherkassk, near Rostov.
The State Department, asked for public comment on the violence, said only that. "We have had reports there were disturbances in the Rostov area this summer."
Privately, U.S. officials said two facts appeared to bear out the rumors:
U. S. officials noted, however, that the "epidemic" did not interfere with the 8th all-union Spartakiada labor meeting in Rostov in August. Nor did it interfere with the Rostov soccer team playing in Moscow Aug. 10.
- During large parts of the summer the area was closed to foreigners, including Western diplomats. Soviet officials at one point attributed this to a "cholera epidemic."
- A curfew was imposed in the area July 12 to keep youngsters under 16 off the streets at night.
Cuban Goes Before UN; Asks For Censure of U.S.
According to some reports, Soviet army units were called in to restore order. U.S. officials said they had no definite information on the number of people killed or wounded.
Weather
The weather bureau forecasts mostly fair weather today and tomorrow for the Lawrence vicinity. The high today will be near 76, with a low tonight in the 50s. The high tomorrow will be in the 70s.
Britain Asks For Quick Entry In Trade Group
BRUSSELS — (UPI) — Britain resumed full-dress negotiations with the six Common Market nations today and asked "fastest possible bargaining of terms for its entry into the European trade group.
Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath, the British chief negotiator, also appealed for better terms for Commonwealth nations to ease their anxieties over their economic future.
Heath and ministers of the European Community met here after a two-month recess in talks on Britain's entrance bid. He told the conference in private session that Britain has decided to resume negotiations "with renewed determination" and with hopes for successful conclusion, informed sources said.
But the signs were that hard bargaining lies ahead, with France maintaining its stuff position. British entry terms are not expected to be fixed before April of next year, or later. British parliamentary approval of the terms is not expected until late in 1963.
It was French insistence on special financial arrangements for agriculture which led to the recess in Common Market negotiations two months ago.
SINCE THEN the Commonwealth prime ministers, at a meeting in London last month, voiced strong reservations against British entry. But they did not tie Britain's hand at the Brussels conference table.
However, at home, British Labor Party leader Hugh Gaitskell has rallied opposition to Common Market entry unless much better conditions can be obtained.
Heath underlined "the need to press on as fast as possible." He said there is "harmful uncertainty" in the political and economic fields in Britain, the Commonwealth and other countries.
HEATH DID NOT propose reopening of agreements already negotiated in the 11 months since the talks began. But he asked the European community to take these actions to benefit the common-wealth nations:
- Consult on possible alternative economic arrangements for Ghana, Nigeria and Tanganyika, which have rejected association with the Community.
- Suspend application of the Common Market tariff against India, Pakistan and Ceylon for a "reasonable" (as vet undefined) period.
- "Do its best" to meet requests of Canada, Australia and New Zealand when dealing with tariffs on their industrial products, processed agricultural foodstuffs and temperate foodstuffs.
- Permit association of the dependent territories with the Community.
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—(UPI)—Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticos asked the General Assembly today to condemn President Kennedy's plan to deny U.S. ports to any country whose ships carry cargoes to Cuba. He called it an act of war.
Dorticos, in an hour and 45 minute speech interrupted at the start by shouts from the packed public gallery, denounced the joint Congressional resolution giving Kennedy power to use force to prevent Cuba from subverting its hemispheric neighbors.
Dorticos devoted most of his speech to castigation of the United States.
Taking the floor on a "point of order," U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson accused Dorticos of abusing the courtesy that denies the right of reply to a chief of state after an assembly speech.
"HE HAS SEEN fit to use this rostrum to attack my country with unparalleled slander." Stevenson said. "Yet I will not claim the right of reply this morning. I shall answer him outside this hall, and at once, and have my response distributed in printed form today."
Allies Protest Red Shooting
BERLIN — (UPI) — The Western allies today protested to the Soviet ambassador in East Berlin against the Communist refusal to allow a British ambulance to enter East Berlin Saturday to tend to a youth wounded by Red gunfire.
The Western allies feel the East German action violated the four-power accords under which unarmed vehicles of all four occupying powers have the right of free access to all parts of the isolated city.
English Pro Exam Set for Thursday
The English Proficiency examination will be given at 7.30 p.m. Thursday.
About 1200 students have enrolled for the test. Registration closed Saturday.
James E. Seaver, professor of history and chairman of the English Proficiency examination committee, said the tests should be graded in about a month. He said "about 100" members of the faculty would grade the papers.
- Stevenson's reply was expected
at a news conference this afternoon.
"Cuba is not a hemispheric problem," Dorticos told the assembly.
"The United States is a hemispheric problem. . .
"We are armed because Cuba has a legitimate right, given by history, to defend its sovereign decisions and to lead its country down the historic road it has chosen for itself in exercise of that sovereignty."
DORTICO'S gave assurances that Fidel Castro's government would not attempt to seize the huge U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay by force but would lay claim to it by legal means. At the same time, he said he wished "to denounce from this rostrum any effort to use as a pretext for aggression any self-provocation or aggression coming from Guantanamo."
He derided Secretary of State Dean Rusk and the conference of Latin American leaders he called last week and said criticism of Cuba's agreement for Russia to build a fishing port on the island's north shore was "raising to the level of a threat of war the use of codfish and herring."
Although he pleaded for peace and called for anti-invasion guarantees by the U.S. "in deeds, not words," Dorticos told the assembly;
"If we are attacked they shall find the resistance of our weapons and at the same time will meet the resistance of our patriotism."
Four Panelists Discuss U.S. Traits, Customs
Four panelists discussed the American way of life at the International Club meeting Friday.
They are Charles E. Patterson, Rockford, Ill., senior; Robert V. Mollan, instructor of political science; Bob Thomas, class of '62 and European manager of People-to-People (P-t-P) in Brussels, Belgium and Reuben R. McCornack, Abilene junior and campus P-t-P co-ordinator. Luis E. Mayor Placecus, Cuban senior, was moderator.
Patterson named a desire for equality, achievement and a search for security as typical American traits. He said the American is burdened sometimes with a fear of overgenerosity—of being a soft touch.
"I know prejudice exists in this country and all over the world, and I'm proud that our government is doing something about it in Mississippi." Patterson added.
Mollan said America is a nation with a high degree of personal freedom for the individual. He said the book "The Ugly American" and its picture of the United States overseas has been criticized highly, but it carries a message. While working
with the Peace Corps at the University of Minnesota this summer, Mollan said he discovered the government is trying to correct the handicaps described in the book.
Mollan said other countries no longer associate the U.S. with lofty idealistic motives.
"The foreigner cannot look to America as the land to start life anew because immigration has been deliberately restricted," Mollan said. "America is now engaged in an international game of politics, pursuing her interests.
"We are forced to use whatever means at our hands to achieve our own self-interests. Other countries don't like it. Americans don't like it." Mollan said.
Thomas said Americans are efficient and industrious, but uncertain that their way of life could or should apply to the rest of the world. He said America is the country where a man had a desire to get in and work against his neighbor for a common goal.
McCormack told of the American economic situation.
students work in the summer,
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