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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Dec. 19. 1963
Pentagon to Study Closing Shipyards
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—A Pentagon study group is going to explore the possibility of closing some of the government's 11 Naval shipyards employing nearly 100,000 persons.
The defense department announced establishment of the survey board, headed by Navy Secretary Paul H. Nitze, yesterday, less than a week after Secretary Robert S. McNamara's decision to shut down or reduce 33 military bases—26 in the United States and 7 abroad. That action eliminated 16,300 civilian and military jobs.
The shipyards run by the government are located at Brooklyn, N.Y.; Portsmouth, N.H.-Kitterty; Maine; Breemington, Wash.; San Francisco; Long Beach, Calif.; Philadelphia; Boston; Charleston, S.C.; Norfolk Va; Mare Island, Calif; and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Their replacement cost is estimated at about $3.5 billion.
THE SURVEY could presage massive shift of the Navy's overhaul and repair work from government to private shipyards. The cost of such work presently runs close to $1 billion a year.
McNamara's announcement of the
Union, Library ToRemainOpen
The Kansas Union and Watson Library will be open during Christmas vacation on a limited schedule.
Watson Library will be open from Dec. 22 through January 6, when it resume its regular schedule.
THE LIBRARY will be closed Christmas Day, New Year's Day, and Sundays. Saturdays and Christmas Eve the library will be open 8 a.m. to 12 noon. At all other times the library will be open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The schedules for departmental libraries are posted on their entrances.
The Kansas Union and concessions counter will be open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Christmas Day and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on New Year's Day. It will be open 7.30 a.m. to 7 p.m. before Christmas and New Year.
THE UNION will be open 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 29 and 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 5. It will be open 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. at all other times.
The Prairie Room and Hawk's Nest will be closed except Christmas and New Year's Day when they will serve special dinners 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The cafeteria will be open every day for all meals.
The Jaybowl will be open every day on a limited basis. The bookstore will be open every day on a limited basis except Sundays, Christmas, New Year's Day and Saturday, Dec. 28.
Catering will be by reservation only. No catering service will be offered Christmas and New Year's Day.
Chinese Communists Support Conference
TOKYO — (UPI) — Communist China yesterday backed Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk's demands for a 14-nation conference to guarantee the neutrality of his strategically placed country.
The Communist China news agency broadcast the text of a note from the Red Chinese foreign ministry to the Cambodian government, supporting Cambodia's plea for "an international conference to examine and insure the neutralization of Cambodia."
The American leadership reportedly feared that such a conference might also take up the question of the civil war in South Vietnam, where the United States is determined not to stop fighting until the Vietnamese government has crushed communist rebels.
The Chinese note to Sihanouk's government blamed all of Cambodia's troubles on the United States.
base closings touched off a storm of Congressional criticism. Any attempt to close the shipyards would do the same.
At that time McNamara said there would be further reductions, some in the shipyards, which he said "provide capacity in excess of our needs."
HE SAID HE WAS certain the intensive study of the yards over the next 12 months would show that it is "necessary and desirable . . to reduce the operations in those yards."
During the fiscal year ended last June 30, the government yards got $598 million in Navy repair work compared to $326 million contracted to private yards. But the private yards got $1.8 billion in new Navy construction—almost 87 per cent—compared to $274 million for the Navy yards.
Arthur Andersen & Co., a private accounting firm employed by the Navy, reported last summer that savings of from 25 to 35 per cent on repair and overhaul costs could be made by shifting the work to private yards. The Navy's budget for these purposes including ship conversions, runs close to $1 billion a year.
The firm said that operating costs of the government yards were running much higher than those of the private yards. The report said the principal reasons were "higher overhead and higher costs for fringe benefits" per unit of work.
AT THAT TIME the Navy said that its shipyards had to remain open in case of emergency and could not operate on a strictly commercial basis.
The Nitze board will study the present capacity of all shipyards, both public and private, analyze operating costs, study their prospective work loads for the next five years, and consider strategic and mobilization implications of their present locations.
Nitze also created a task force headed by Rear Adm. Eugene B. Fluckey to assist the board in its study. Fluckey is president of the Navy board of inspection and survey.
With Nitze on the board will be Assistant Defense Secretaries Charles J. Hitch, Thomas D. Morris, and Norman S. Paul; Adm. David L. McDonald, Chief of Naval Operations; Assistant Navy Secretaries Kenneth E. Belieu, and Victor M. Longstreet; Vice Adm. William A. Schoech, Chief of Naval Material, and Rear Adm. William A. Brockett, Chief of the Bureau of Ships.
The deadline is January 7 for undergraduate students to submit abstracts of their scientific research for presentation and awarding of prizes totaling $200.
Jan. 7 Is Deadline On Science Abstracts
Any undergraduate who has conducted scientific research at KU this year is eligible. He should submit an abstract of not more than 300 words to Frederick Sanson, professor of comparative biochemistry and physiology, Haworth Hall.
Judges will be Delbert Shankel, assistant professor of microbiology; Clark E. Bricker, professor of chemistry, and Joseph Camin, professor of entomology.
The number of undergraduate researchers at KU is about 100, Prof. Samson estimated. Of these, a large share of participants are receiving stipends from the National Science Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation and the Kansas Heart Association.
PROF SAMSON said about 10 students will be selected to present reports of their research. First, second and third prizes of $50, $25 and $15 respectively will be awarded. Other participants will receive some recognition of their work.
The presentation, sponsored by the Kansas Heart Association will be at 10 a.m. January 11 in Summerfield Hall. Researchers will be allowed 10 minutes for their reports and five minutes for discussion.
Art Students Are Awarded National Honor
Michael Brady, Kansas City, Mo. senior, is the third place winner in a national competition for fabric design.
The Arthur H. Lee & Sons firm of New York City has awarded $100 to Brady in a scholarship competition that involved professional art schools and college art departments. Six entries from each school were allowed.
Brady also has rights in subsequent production of the fabric.
Marcia Lasater, special student in fine arts from 544 S. Broadview, Wichita, was awarded one of five honorable mentions in the competition.
Brady's design was multi-colored, "jeweled" cats rendered on a jet black background. His rendering of an interior scene to suggest use of the fabric illustrated it as a drapery in a women's lounge.
Mrs. Lasater submitted an impressionistic floral design for interior use.
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Race Strife Plagues IronCurtainCountries
LONDON—(UPI)—The demonstration in Moscow by Africans yesterday and today appeared to be a culmination of racial tensions within the communist bloc that have existed for some time.
These tensions resulted in several other racial incidents involving African students earlier this year.
Last May 10 organized groups of Czechoslovakian students marched through the streets of Prague and beat up every Negro they came across, according to Western observers who witnessed the incidents.
AS A RESULT, several African students in Prague abandoned their scholarships and left the country.
Rioting broke out in the streets of Sofia on Feb. 12. Reports said club-swinging police broke up demonstrations of Ghanaian students calling for the release of seven leaders of the Pan-African Students Union who had been arrested.
Last February, African students who had studied in Moscow and Bulgaria reached the West and charged that they had been exploited by the Communist authorities.
Seventeen Ghanaian students left the country,charging Bulgarian racism and brutality.
MORE STUDENTS left later and one of their spokesman in Sofia sent out an appeal for help. The spokesman said Bulgarian authorities had made it difficult for the students to leave and that 80 of them were restricted to a compound near the city.
Three weeks later five more African students left Bulgaria. They charged that despite communist claims of no discrimination they sometimes were called "black monkeys" by residents of Sofia.
Later other African students left their studies in the Soviet Union. An Ethiopian veterinary left Brno, Czechoslovakia, because of alleged inferior schooling and political indoctrination.
THE LONDON TIMES said that yesterday's African demonstration in Moscow's Red Square provided Chinese Communist Premier Chou En-Lai with a convenient propaganda issue during his tour of Africa.
"Ordinary color prejudice is beginning to raise its head in Russia," the newspaper said. "African students do not find communist countries the paradise they have been told to expect."
"Yesterday gave Moscow its first sight for many a long day of a large, unofficial organized outburst of public opinion," the Times said. "The (Russian) authorities must realize that the only gainers will be the Chinese—what a gift for Chou En-Lai in Africa!"
THE CHINESE COMMUNIST leader currently is in Cairo on a two-month tour of Africa.
An article in the Guardian said:
"The Africans in Russia have been so constantly told how much better off they were . . . than African students in the West that they could hardly fail to draw the appropriate comparisons—and to find that all was not sweetness and light in the East, either.
"There is much in all this that is reminiscent of the causes of racial prejudice in the West, but instead of recognizing that they have a real problem on their hands the Soviet authorities seem content . . . to blame it on Western propaganda."
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