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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, April 24.1956.
Five Receive St. Louis Trip
Five coronautical engineering senlors will present papers at the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences student paper competition in St. Louis, Mo., Wednesday.
KU students winning prizes were
The papers were judged earlier in St. Louis and students with winning papers are asked to St. Louis to present their work before the institute.
KU students winning prizes were James E. Moore, Kansas City, KN, second prize of $75; Richard B. Knapp, Parkville, Mo, $80 for third place; Herbert E. Prozmann, Kansas City, Mo, James D. Woodward, Lawrence, and John E. Yates, Parkville, Mo, honorable mention.
The students' expenses will be paid by the institute. They will be eligible to compete for the $100 prize for the best presentation during the institute.
Robert K. Hughson, Belle Plaine John C. Kidwell, Uniontown, Car R. Kulp, Memphis, Tex., Donald H Landauer, Fresh Meadows, N.Y., Alfred L. Polski, Kansas City, Kan and Richard J. Reich, Steelton Pa.
Other aeronautical engineering seniors making the trip will be Jack M. Abercrombie, Beoitol, Robert P. Blackburn Alan D. Levin, and William D. DeWitt, Kansas City, Mo., William J. Dixon, Beoitol, Wis., Thomas E. Edmonds, and Nathan W. McGrew, Topeka, and Marjorie A. Heard, Russell.
A. S. Andes, associate professor of aeronautical engineering, J.B. Tiedemann, assistant professor of aeronautical engineering, and N.W. Hoecker, a member of the aeronautical engineering staff, will accompany the group.
Roman coins unearthed at the medicinal springs of Balneario de Panticosa, high in the Pyrenees mountains, prove that this resort was popular in the first century.
—(Daily Kansan photo)
NOT BORED, JUST STUMPED—Members of the losing faculty team on KDGU's "Quote Quiz" are puzzling a hard question during the program
Dulles: Russia's Hold Weakening
WASHINGTON (UP)—Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today that Russia's hold on her satellites is beginning to weaken.
Mr. Dulles said there is evidence this is resulting from recent changes in Soviet policy which is putting a premium on "Titoism." He said some of the satellites are asking why they shouldn't follow Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito's example of trying to set up a national Communism.
The secretary told a news conference that Tito felt he should be permitted to have a Communist state devoted to Yugoslavia's own national interests and not necessarily be a part of international Communism. Stalin insisted that communist nations be part of the international communist movement.
Monday night. They are, from left: Calder M,
Pickett, Victor Hyden and Maurice C. Lungen.
Students Defeat Faculty At Own Game-Knowledge
By defeating a faculty-team on KDGU's "Quote Quiz" Monday night Alpha Chi Omega sorority seemed to prove that at least some students pay more attention to current quotations than do some faculty members.
Alpha Chi Omega's team of JoAnn Brown, Massena, N. Y., and Jane Cornick, Newton, sophomores and Kay Davis, Kansas City, Mo. junior, scored 15 points.
The faculty team of Maurice C. Lungren, assistant director of William Allen White Foundation; Victor Hyden, instructor of speech and drama, and Calder M. Pickett, assistant professor of journalism, scored only eight points.
Dream Of Sunken Garden Is Hope Of Nurseryman
(Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
By JOHN BATTIN
On the south slope of the Hill behind Flint Hall where the sun shines brightly, stands a glassed-in building that's tended to by Floyd Weinberg, the nurseryman who grows flowers and greenery for the University.
After 35 years in the nursery business, including 22 years north of Detroit operating his own nursery, plus operation of a greenhouse in Missouri, Mr. Weinberg has a plan he would like to see materialize.
At the west end of the campus lies a natural location for a sukunen garden. He dreams of a conservatory and three greenhouses, set just above rock-buttressed terraces.
"It would be the show place of Kansas," he said. For the time being, though, geraniums, snapdragons and other flowers thrive under the glass of the present building
"One rule of a greenhouse is never to move a plant unless you clean up by sale, picking off leaves and removing roots from the bottom of the pot."
Geraniums will be planted about May 10 in front of Watkins Hospital, Green Hall, near Miller, and in other beds. He estimated 800 more plants will be needed for commencement to decorate Memorial Stadium and Union Building.
Commencement Plants Needed
Phlox, dahlia, grape ivy, african violets, and other flowers grow in the warm, humid air. Snapdragons are grown for scholarship halls and face ice cubes. He said more flowers are grown in the winter than in the spring.
"Temperature is controlled by a thermostat," Mr. Weinberg said, which controls steam in pipes under the growing beds. In the old days I controlled temperature manually by turning a valve."
"The soil will have to be changed this year," Mr. Weinberg said. "It should be changed every four years, but some has been in here
A spider fell from above onto the writer's coat. The first reaction was to kill it, but Mr. Weinberg said the velvet spider is one of his good friends. It helps the nurseryman in hiding insects and harmful spiders.
seven years. I steam sterilize it myself."
Mr. Weinberg grows a plant that blooms at sunup and closes at sundown. Each flower opens this way three or four days before it dies.
FLOYD WEINBERG
Spider Helps Plants
A call came in from Home Economics. Someone wanted flowers,
but Mr. Weinberg said he didn't
have any for that particular night.
He offered greenery.
Beginning Monday, the format of "Quote Quiz" will be changed. Telephone calls will be made from KDGU studios during the program to residents of University dormitories that receive the station.
The student called will be asked to accept or challenge the decision of a panel in the studio as to whether or not the panel has identified correctly a quotation taken from current events.
If the student is successful, he will then attempt to identify a well known voice and win a grand prize.
William Harmon, Topeka junior, is master of ceremonies of "Quote Quiz."
EUGENE, Ore. (IP)—Entrance requirements for out-of-state students will be stiffened at Oregon state-supported schools beginning with the fall term, 1956. Starting next September students from other states wishing to enroll in state-supported institutions must be from the upper half of their high school graduation class.
Oregon Schools Get New Entrance Rules
A statement by John R. Richards, chancellor of the State Board of Higher Education, read: "The privilege of attending a state institution in Oregon should be extended only to those non-resident applicants who show promise of contributing to the academic life of the college community.
"Flowers are free for University functions when they're available," he said, "but they can't go off the Hill.
He doesn't give out flowers on a whim, though. Sincere assurance must be given to him that the plant will be cared for.
"Office girls want flowers quite often. If many girls knew they could get flowers, I suppose the place would be crowded," he said.
"After your work with flowers for a time, they take on a human quality," he said, leaning down to care for a geranium with a gentle hand. Just as he plucked a dead leaf, the whistle blew, but the sweet fragrance promised further growth of happiness somewhere on campus.
Negro Stoned 4 Men Held
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (UP)—Police held four men and searched for a fifth today in the stoning and killing of a 79-year-old Negro preacher.
Formal charges may be filed later today, authorities indicated.
Witnesses said a 10-pound stone was thrown at the Rev. L. C. Baldwin from an open convertible Sunday. It knocked him down and he died.
A witness told police that the men had been "throwing rocks at all Negroes."
Rev. Baldwin's leg was shattered by the heavy missile and police said he apparently died when he collapsed and struck his head against the pavement.
The four white men arrested were identified as Charles Conally, 31, William Walling, 22, Doc Hill, 22, and Walter Thompson, 20, all of the New Hope community. The fifth suspect was identified as Jordan Vann, 20, also said to have been in the car.
At Birmingham, the regional secretary of the National Association for the Prevention of Colored People said the organization would investigate the incident
"We will start an investigation immediately to determine the facts in this case," Mrs. Roy Hutty said. "We will not offer our help in, any way, possible."
The stoning of the Negro was reported as Gov. James E. Folson praised a Birmingham judge for imposing jail sentences on four white men convicted in the assault on Negro singer Nat King Cole at Birmingham April 10.
100 Algerians Killed By Rebels
ALGIERS (UP)—Guerrilla cutthroats in northeastern Algeria slaughtered more than 100 natives loyal to the French over the week end.
The attacks started after hardy mountaineers living along the north coast of eastern Algeria pledged allegiance to France and asked for weapons to use against the guerrillas.
The rebels killed more than 100 men, women and children and destroyed at least three hill villages.
At Arbala, the guerrillas rounded up the entire population of theAGE and cut the throats of its 17 men. They killed their horrified wives and children
Algeria Minister Robert La Coste flew to Paris today to urge the cabinet to send further reinforcements.
Wheat Support Pegged At $2
(Compiled By Daily Kansan Editors)
(Compiled by Daryl Kanser Lester
Wheat, Kansas' staff of economic
life, had a price support floor of $2
set Monday by Ezra Taft Benson,
secretary of agriculture, in line with
the President's farm bill veto message.
The minimum corn support was set at $1.50.
Mr. Benson said he was prepared to launch a soil bank program if Congress would give him permission to make advance payments. They would be for cutbacks in planting next year with the balance to be paid farmers on compliance with contracts which would be made this year.
Speaking of the farm bill veto, Democratic Senate Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) charged in a nationwide address Monday that the "Republican party now is pushing us into a third farm depression."
Sen. Johnson's charge was the Democratic party's formal answer to President Eisenhower's recent radio-TV talk explaining why he vetoed the farm bill.
The President said he vetood the bill because it was "contradictory and self-defeating." He said rigid high supports would only lead to greater farm surpluses which depressed market prices for farm goods in the first place.
But Sen. Johnson, a possible contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, denied this. He used recordings of the President's own voice and TV image in an effort to show that Mr. Eisenhower himself promised the farmers 90 per cent of parity supports in the 1952 campaign.
The new support price set by Mr. Benson is 83.7 per cent of parity.
Graham Asks For Injunction
DENVER (UP)—Attorneys for John Gilbert Graham asked a Federal court today to issue an injunction preventing FBI agents from testifying in the accused airliner saboteur's murder trial here.
They also asked suppression of Graham's alleged confession that he planted a homemade time bomb aboard an airliner that killed 44 persons.
Prosecutor Bert M. Keating said his witnesses today would provide additional "backbone" material in the case against the 24-year-old explosives expert. Testimony in the trial began Monday.
The state contends that Graham placed in his mother's luggage a homemade bomb composed of 25 sticks of dynamite, a timing device, wires, two detonator caps anda battery. Graham's 54-year-old mother died along with 43 other persons when the airliner on which she was a passenger exploded in flight.
Mr. Keating told a jury of seven men and five women Monday that Graham should be sent to the gas chamber for the "diabolic" plot.
The defense indicated it planned to call the pretty 22-year-old wife of the defendant to testify in his behalf.
Although the state is barred from calling Mrs. Gloria Graham as a witness, the defense may do so.
House Passes Bill To Aid Gls' Children
WASHINGTON (UP)—The House Monday passed and sent to the Senate a bill which would give GI educational benefits to children whose fathers died as a result of service during World War II and the Korean War.
Chairman Olin E. Teague (D-Tex.) of the House Veterans Committee said there are about 100,000 such orphans with average ages between 10 and 14 years. They would be entitled to 36 months of educational training in accepted schools and colleges after graduation from high school. The program would cost about 150 million dollars, Mr. Teague said.
A full-grown elephant will consume 150 pounds of hay a day and drink 50 gallons of water.