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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Sept. 26, 1963
Scholarship Committee Organizes
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe met yesterday with a newly-formed 11-man committee appointed to encourage talented high school graduates to remain in the state for further education.
The meeting was organizational and no definite proposals were discussed, Francis Heller, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and chairman of the committee, said.
THE COMMITTEE will meet weekly to formulate recommendations to the Chancellor.
The committee was first proposed by Chancellor Wescoe in his talk at the All-University Convocation, Sent 16.
At that time, he said the committee would study ways to keep more top students in Kansas, to increase the KU scholarship fund, and to finance the building of more men's scholarship halls.
MEMBERS OF the committee are: Francis Heller, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Donald Alderson, dean of men; Emily Taylor, dean of women; Robert Baustian, professor of orchestra; Bob Billings, director of aids and awards; James Dykes, professor of journalism; James Hitt, registrar and director of admissions; Charles Leone, professor of zoology; Donald Metzler, associate dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture; Marilyn Stokstad, associate professor of art history; and Milo Stucky, associate professor of education.
U.S. to Launch Detector Moons
CAPE CANAVERAL—(UPI) The United States will attempt to send the first two of a series of watchdog satellites into space next month to guard against violations of the new nuclear test ban treaty.
A ten-story Atlas-Agena rocket is poised at Cape Canavasal for an attempt to shoot the two 485-pound satellites into orbits 60,000 miles up in a single push.
The satellites represent a first step in a Defense Department project called Vela Hotel, a program whose aim is to provide insurance against violations of the nuclear test ban by the simple expedient of putting sensitive electronic eyes in space to keep tabs.
Next year, the United States plans to put eight more Vela Hotel satellites—two at a time—in high orbits around the earth to serve as a system of nuclear watchdogs.
The information lid is clamped tight on project Vela Hotel. The Air Force refuses to admit even that it has heard the name.
The impending shot will be the first serious attempt at a secret launching from a land pad at Cape Canaveral since the earliest days of testing—although the Defense Department did try, with little success, to put a quietus on the submerged firings of Polaris missiles off the Cape.
The Vela Hotel satellites, valued at nearly $400,000 apiece in a program whose expenses already have exceeded $200 million, will take off into space mounted atop one another in the nose of the silvery Atlas-Agena.
Each of the moonlets is equipped with a small solid-fueled motor for an added kick designed to put it into a permanent, circular orbit 60,000 miles in space.
At this altitude and with the help of highly sensitive detection devices aboard, scientists claim, the Velva Hotel satellites could spot man-made nuclear detonations at distances of up to 200 million miles—or twice the distance of the earth to the sun.
Experts estimate that six such satellites could provide a 24-hour watch in the sky. This would make up the system that President Kennedy described as the capability . . . that would make tests (of nuclear devices in space) almost impossible to conceal.
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