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53rd Year, No. 143
Miss Peterson, Hankins Honored At SUA Dinner
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Dean Peterson was commended for her work on the Student Union Operating Board. Dean Peterson will be at the University of Wisconsin next year.
Miss Martha Peterson, dean of women, and John Hankins, professor of English, were honored at the Student Union Activities recognition dinner held Wednesday in the Student Union.
Both students and faculty who helped with Union activities were honored.
Prof. Hankins was honored for his work in arranging the poetry hours and book reviews that have been presented weekly at the Student Union. Dr. Hankins will head the English department at the University of Maine next year.
Mementoes were presented to this year's SUA board in recognition of service. Members of the new SUA board were introduced.
L. C. Woodruff, dean of students, thanked the students and faculty members on behalf of the operating board. Frank Burge, director of the Student Union, espressed appreciation for the activities which were provided at the Union.
Marine Head Clears Brass
WASHINGTON (UP)—The commandant of the Marine Corps today absolved officers at the boot training camp at Parris Island, S.C., of any blame in the drowning of six Marines on a disciplinary night march last month.
Thursday, May 10, 1956.
Gen. Randolph McCall Pate, Corps Commandant, cleared the officers in a letter to Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore.). Mr. Norblad recently suggested that the Marines had gone too easy on the officers in meting out punishment for the tragedy.
Gen. Pate announced last week that S. Sgt. Matthew C. McKeon would be court-martialed on four charges, including involuntary manslaughter, for leading recruits to their deaths on the night of April 8. He said a Marine court of inquiry had found that S-Sgt. McKeon had been "under the influence of vodka at the time."
WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower enters Walter Reed Army Hospital late today for a medical checkup, including a new appraisal of his recovery from a heart attack.
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Doctors To Check President Today
His physicians agreed that the President appeared to be in good physical condition, but they will have a more definite picture when he leaves the hospital Saturday. Dr. Paul Dudley White, the Boston heart specialist, and the White House physician, Maj. Gen. Howard Snyder, agreed that the President was in good shape.
Considerable cloudiness and quite windy this afternoon with local blowing dust west and central. Partly cloudy tonight and Friday with diminishing winds tonight. Cooler west and central tonight and over state Friday. Low tonight 50s northwest to lower 70s extreme southeast. High Friday 70s northwest to 80s southeast.
Weather
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THEY MUST BE LOSING—A group of seniors, who appear to be unhappy about leaving this glorious establishment, watch the baseball game held on the intramural field Wednesday afternoon.
Fun, Food, Crooked Umps Highlight Senior Picnic
Undaunted by the rainy weather, the senior class members had their last organized party of the year Wednesday with a softball game, followed by a picnic in Holcom's Grove.
Approximately 50 persons took part in the softball game with nearly 200 attending the picnic.
The senior women tied the senior men 19-19 in a softball game on the intramural field during the afternoon.
There was a rumor that Lawrence Woodruff, dean of students, and
Breaded shrimp, baked beans, potato chips and beverages were served to the group.
Dulles Opposes Foreign Aid Cuts
WASHINGTON (UP)—Secretary of State John Foster Dulles warned Congress today against making any "reckless" cuts in the administration's proposed $4,900,000,000 foreign aid program.
He said President Eisenhower and the entire administration regard this program as vital to the security of the nation and the entire free world.
Mr. Dulles said peace prospects have improved, but "nothing has yet happened which, in my opinion, would make it prudent to terminate or curtail the present program."
Nicholas E. Lindsley, Salina freshman, jirured in an automobile accident Sunday north of Lawrence, is still unconscious and in serious condition at Watkins Memorial Hospital. Donald A. Harris, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, is doing very well, according to Dr. Ralph I. Cannuteson, director of Watkins Hospital.
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Guided Missile Praised
WASHINGTON (UP)—Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker said today the Nike guided missile, now protecting many of the nation's key cities, can knock down "any Russian bomber in existence or heard about." Mr. Brucker and Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, Army chief of staff, praised the Nike in testimony before a Senate military appropriations subcommittee.
ROME (UP)-U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce flew home unexpectedly by plane today on doctor's orders for a checkup on her run-down physical condition. The Embassy announced that Mrs. Luce was suffering from a "run-down condition." Mrs. Luce has suffered sporadically from indigestion, sinus trouble and colds.
Clare Boothe Luce Is Ill
Student Is Still Unconscious
Value Of Production Techniques Reported
"Set Designing" an illustrated talk, was given by Milton B. Howarth, instructor of speech, at the "Behind the Ivy" coffee series Wednesday in the Student Union.
Mr. Howarth emphasized the importance of color, costumes, and scenery in making a production a success. The talk was illustrated by sketches showing the preliminary colors and stage plan, and then showing slides of actual scenes from the performance.
Teachers, Classes To Be Evaluated
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy has approved a plan by the scholarship committee of the All Student Council for an evaluation of courses and instructors.
The program will be carried out from May 14-19, and will include all undergraduate courses with an enrollment of five students, law and medicine courses, and all faculty members, Herbert Horowitz, second-year law student from Kansas City, Mo., and chairman of the committee said today.
Boeing Revises Scholarships
The scholarship program at the University supported by the Boeing Airplane Co. has been revised.
Poeing has been providing four $500 awards for seniors in engineering and one $400 scholarship for a senior in business administration.
Lynn Whiteside, management and development director for Boeing's Wichita division, said that the program will be continued on an annual basis of $2,400 but that "Boeing scholarships will be made available to entering freshmen and will be renewable for a four-year course of study.
Each scholarship will cover all fees and an allowance for subsistence, based on need, totaling up to $550 a year. KU fees for a resident of Kansas are $172 a year.
The fields of study permitted are aeronautical, mechanical, civil and electrical engineering and those sciences useful in the airplane industry; and accounting, marketing and production management in business.
"Selection of the Boeing scholars will be accomplished through the statewide competitive examinations given each spring for the Summerfield scholarship competition." Mr. Whiteside explained. "It is hoped that about 60 per cent of the scholarship can be given to engineering and science students and 40 per cent of those choosing business administration."
"The purpose of this evaluation is two-fold," Horowitz said. "First it will give the student an opportunity to express his feelings about courses and teaching methods, and second, it will give the instructor an idea of how he is judged by his students. Of course, the instructor is under no obligation to change his methods," he added.
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It is the first time since January, 1953 that such an evaluation has been made. The scholarship committee has been meeting for several months with a group of faculty members to discuss the program.
Other members of the scholarship committee are Bill Dye, Wichita junior, and Nan Noyes, Troy graduate student.
The faculty members are J. Neale Carman, professor of Romance languages; Ambrose Saricks, assistant professor of history; H. Baumgartel, assistant professor of business and human relations; William Paden, professor of English, and Gordon Collister, chairman of the guidance bureau and professor of education.
The evaluation procedure has been worked out by Harvey Bodker, Mission junior. Thirty-eight thousand questionnaires have been distributed to departmental heads who will pass them on to instructors of 2100 courses.
"We hope that all students will print or type the comments about the instructor so that they will not be identified." Horowitz said.
CHOW DOWN—From left: Donn Duncan, Kansas City, Mo., Sally Rendigs, Lee's Summit, Mo., and Carolyn Cook, Topeka, all seniors, line up for chow at the picnic held at Holcom Grove south of Lawrence.
The questionnaires will be given to students during classes, beginning Monday, May 14. and may be filled out there or at home, according to the instructor's wishes, he added.
Correction
People Against Candidates Who Oppose Labor, Hall Says
Richard Beck, head of the department of modern and classical languages at the University of North Dakota, will give a public lecture at 8:15 p.m. Friday in the Student Union Pine Room, instead of at 7 p.m. in the Sunflower Room as it was incorrectly reported in The Daily Kansan Wednesday.
TOPEKA (UP)—Gov. Fred Hall told the Kansas Federation of Labor in convention at Topeka today the people would not support a candidate who "follows the lead of the fanatical lobbyists dedicated to the un-American proposition of destroying the rights of the workingman."
Gov. Hall accused his opponents of trying to make the "right-to-work" bill an issue in the campa-
Rep. Warren Shaw of Topeka has come out in favor of right to work laws. The 1955 legislature passed such an act, but Gov. Hall vetoed it. "Right-to-work" laws prohibit
"Right-to-work" laws prohibit closed and union shops and are opposed by organized labor.
Hall Uses Tax Money Representative Says
EMPORIA (UP) —A charge that Gov. Fred Hall used taxpayers money to repay political debts in the state park authority was made Wednesday by Rep. Clyde Wilson (R-Lyon County) in a political speech before a group of sportsmen.
Mr. Wilson displayed photostat copies of pay vouchers which he said showed that the park authority was "nothing more than a blind political tiger, a place where Fred Hall could use taxpayers money to pay his political debts owned to his not too savory henchmen."
KuKu Rush Smoker Tonight
The KuKu rush smoker will be held at 7:30 p.m. today in the Pine Room of the Student Union. There will be an election of a cheerleader and a president for the coming school year.