Daily hansan
Tuesday, Oct. 15, 1963
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
61st Year, No.23
HOMECOMING QUEEN CANDIDATES—Front row, left to right, Sherry Zillner, Patricia Behen, Susan Merrick, Patricia Cram, Chestina Barnes, Pamela Rice, Nancy Edwards, Joyce Neaderhiser, and Cindy Snyder. Second row, Karen Vice, Janice Klusener, Nancy Litton, Patricia
Kendall, Dianne Turner, Maryce Fleming, Mary Jo Cecrle, Joan Ashley, and Roberta Smith. Third row, Beverly Nicks, Priscilla Osborn, Rebecca Williamson, Mary Gast, Nancy Keens, Carol Jo Weber, and JoAnne Holbert. (See related story page 5)
Adenauer's 14 Year Reign Ends; Back to Deputy Post in Parliament
BONN —(UPI) —The "Adenauer Era" came to an end at an ond today as the West German chancellor officially retired from the government and returned to his parliamentary seat as a deputy.
"Der Alte," just three months short of his 88th birthday, thanked the German people for their help, then returned to the seat he left 14 years and one month ago today to become the first West German chancellor.
"BUT I WON'T just listen," he promised the Parliament. "I'll talk, too."
In the audience was Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, the man chosen to succeed Adenauer as chancellor. Adenauer will remain technically head of a caretaker government until Erhard presents his cabinet to parliament tomorrow.
Lima Professors Plan Exchange
Two officials from the national University of Engineering in Lima, Peru, are visiting KU to talk about a cooperative program with ten Midwestern schools.
Dr. Mario Samame, rector, and Jorge Succar, dean of the faculty of industrial engineering, are on tour to become acquainted with some of the schools in the Mid-America State Universities Association (MASUA).
The association is planning an exchange of staff, and possibly of Peruvian students, between engineering schools of MASUA-member institutions and the Latin American university. All Big Eight schools, plus the University of Iowa and Colorado State, are members of MASUA.
The Peruvian officials will also visit Iowa State, Nebraska and Missouri universities.
The exchange project is an outgrowth of a 1963 mission to Peru by G. Baley Price, chairman of the KU mathematics department, and 11 other U.S. engineering and science educators.
Reviewing his years in office—beginning in the days when Germany was a rubble heap and ending when it is the world's second greatest trading nation—Adenauer told Parliament:
"We Germans can again walk with our heads up."
he said the greatest development of his administration was the recovery of friends in the world.
WHEN HE CAME to power, he said, the Germans' name was a curse.
Today, the German name again rings true, he said.
He warned his successors agains trying to make a separate deal with Russia in hopes of reuniting West Germany with Communist East Germany.
"The solution of the German problem," he said, "is not possible only between us and the adversary. We need our friends. Thank God we have found friends in the world. Imagine what Germany would be today if we had not again found friends."
Weather
Gerstenmaier opened the meeting by reading a letter from President Heinrich Luebke saying Adenauer resigned effective today.
The lower house of the Bundestag was jammed when Speaker Eugen Gerstenmaier walked in at noon. Most of the 499 deputies were in their places, and the press, diplomatic and public galleries were overflowing. Some of the distinguished guests had been given seats on the main floor, separated from the deputies by silken ropes.
The speaker then rose and addressed the chancellor, who rose too, in his place at the head of the ministerial box to Gerstenmaier's right and facing the members.
ADENAUER WORE a cutaway coat and striped trousers, and high starched white collar.
The low tonight will be in the upper 50s. Wednesday skies will turn partly cloudy and it will not be so warm with a high near 80.
Gerstenmaier was interrupted by applause a dozen times. But the Social Democratic opposition members, who have never forgiven Adenauer for his decision 14 years ago never to form a coalition with them, remained silent.
There Adenaer stood motionless, supporting himself lightly by resting the fingers of his left hand on a railing for 35 minutes, while Gertenmaier read a eulogy on behalf of the whole parliament.
The Socialists rose, too, but sat down immediately after Gerstenmaier finished, and without applauding.
IN CONCLUDING, Gerstenmaier asked the members to rise while he declared "Konrad Adenauer has deserved well of the father."
But the members of Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union and his coalition partners, the Free Democrats, and most of the galleries remained standing and applauding while the old gentleman proceeded to the rostrum.
Marine General Presents Gem III
By Fred Frailey
GEM III, the flying machine that caused a motorist to run his car into a ditch, was to be presented to KU this afternoon for research.
A KU alumnus, Brig. Gen. William K. Jones of the Marine Corps, was to present the ground effects machine to the University in a short ceremony at the new engineering building.
Resembling a fictional "flying saucer," the 22-foot-long, 11-foot wide machine startled more than several motorists while being transported to KU last week by truck.
"THE TRUCK DRIVER told me that one driver ran his car into a ditch when he saw what was coming," said Kenneth C. Deemer, professor of mechanics and aerospace engineering, yesterday afternoon.
"He had to honk his horn at a half dozen other drivers to avoid accidents.
"He said he was really glad to get here."
Getting GEM III to KU from its earlier home in Virginia involved more than dodging gawking motorists. Special permission had to be obtained from each state before the extra wide load could travel on its highways. Permission was granted in all but Missouri which notified the Marine Corps that GEM III could not pass through that state.
LAST TUESDAY—a week behind schedule—the machine finally got started toward Kansas. Even then, though, it had to be rerouted through Arkansas and Oklahoma to avoid Missouri roads.
A wind storm caused damage to the skirts of the machine while enroute to KU. The damage, however, was termed minor by Prof. Deemer.
GEM III, powered by three gas turbine engines, was designed to travel above land or water at speeds up to 36 miles an hour. The compressed air generated by the turbines creates a cushion to keep the machine above ground.
BUT ALL IS NOT PERFECT with GEM III, KU researchers—led by Costas Choliamsmen, professor of mechanics and aerospace—will try to eliminate several problems under the Marine Corp's $10,000 research grant.
One of the difficulties is the machine's inability to travel more than a few feet above ground. Also to be considered will be stability problems and modification of aerodynamic configuration.
Prof. Deemer said GEM III will be flying within two weeks.
"WE HAD HOPED to receive it two weeks ago," he said. "It would have given us time to get it ready to travel."
The project was awarded to KU after 12 universities submitted suggestions for the research.
"The ground effects machine has all sorts of possibilities," Prof. Deemer said. "The military aspects prompted the Marine Corps to spend the money on its development. They are interested in its ability to go over rough terrain."
Load Shift Considered
KU students who have not taken the Western Civilization reading course will be glad to hear that the administrative committee of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is considering an upward change in the total course load.
This semester the department is considering the program as a two-hour load rather than the one hour that has been previously given to it. This is only a temporary change, however. The final decision will come from the administrative committee.
"OTHER POSSIBLE changes will be discussed by the Western Civilization Committee which will meet this month." David H. Jones, acting director of the Western Civilization department said. "At this meeting we will discuss the readings we now have and the contents of the course."
Jones said the Western Civilization department solicits suggestions from faculty members and students who feel the course may warrant revisions. Those with suggestions may return them into the Western Civilization office.
"Persons must remember that the course is run on one basic premise," Jones said. "That is that the course is a self-study program."
MANY STUDENTS and faculty members have suggested major course changes in the past, but they have failed to challenge the idea of the self-study program.
"If a person can show that the self-study program is not as successful as another type of program then we will consider a major change," Jones said.
Jones said most faculty members feel the University needs at least one self-study program. A dramatic change, such as making the course a three-hour lecture, cannot happen until the self-study method is proved unsuccessful.
Lecture on Da Vinci Tonight
The largely ignored musical abilities of Leonardo da Vinci will be discussed here tonight by Dr. Emanuel Winteritz in the first Humanities Series Lecture of the school year.
Prof. Winteritz, curator of musical collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, will speak at 8 p.m. in Fraser Theater.
The Austrian-born expert in law, philosophy, aesthetics, music and art has concentrated his studies in the past several years on the musical activities of da Vinci.
ELMER BETH, professor of journalism and chairman of the Humanities Series committee, said Prof. Winternitz will approach da Vinci's musical activities in relation to the artistic and scientific aims of the artist.
The speaker will illustrate his lecture with the use of slides and the piano.
PROF. WINTERNITZ will talk at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow in 330 Murphy Hall on "Bartolommeo Cristofori and the Origin of the Pianoforte" to the History of Music 101 class.
Four additional talks have been planned at KU for Prof. Winternitz. Monday afternoon, he spoke on "The Variation Form in Music and the Visual Arts" to the history of renaissance art class and on "Visual Arts as a Source for the Historian of Music" to the Music Literature I class.
Music was a familiar pastime in the family of Prof. Winnertniz in Austria in the early 1960's. His mother taught him to play the pianoforte. He later studied the violoncello and learned to play the organ.
After serving three years in World War I on Austria's southern frontier in the Tyrol, he studied law and aesthetics at the University of Vienna. Since prospects for an academic career in his country were poor after the war, he chose law as a career.
FOR TEN years, until the occupation of Austria by Hiter in 1938, he was a corporation lawyer. Prof. Winternitz left his country and became an American citizen in 1942.
In 1941, Prof. Winternitz was appointed to the staff of the Metropolitan Museum. There he reorganized the Crosby Brown collections of musical instruments, the largest such collection in the Western Hemisphere. From 1949 to 1960, he was visiting professor of music at Yale, and since then at Rutgers University.