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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 22, 1956.
'Operation Friendship' Well Received In Towns
"Operation Friendship" in which 22 foreign students toured western Kansas March 17-20 was well received by each community visited, said William R. Butler, assistant to the dean of men, who was in charge of the trip.
The group visited Colby, Stockton, and Atwood. The students were guests of a family in each town.
"The towns were unaware of the impact the foreign group would have on the school children and the communities," Mr. Butler said. "They seemed quite anxious to have us return," he said, and "I hope for another trip next year."
While in Colby, the students visited the various churches. In Atwood and Stockton they visited the elementary and high schools. They spoke about their countries, and held question and answer sessions.
Clodaoido H. Leocadio, graduate student from the Phillippines, said, "We found the friendliness of the people very outstanding. I also found the efficiency with which they operated the construction on a new dam near Stockton very amazing.
"It was a wonderful trip," said Esko Niemien, special student from Finland. "I was impressed by the vast flat landscape of that area."
Gerhard Fisch, graduate student from Germany, felt the most outstanding part of the trip was "the friendly acceptance and kind hospitality of all the people."
The students set up exhibits for the public in each town. They also presented a program of various acts representative of their country.
Surgeon Cites Smoking Danger
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UP)—Dr Richard H. Overholt, a throat surgeon from Boston, charged Wednesday night that smoking brings a "constant inhalation of irritating chemicals . . . that accelerate the normal aging process of the bronchi and lungs."
Addressing the third national convention of the American Temperance Society, he said that chest surgeons "who see, feel and work with damaged lungs should warn the public of the hazards due to smoking."
He said the injury from smoking is so gradual and slow that it takes several years to measure the damage.
"The majority of inhalers suffer from true drug addiction," he added.
Hawaiian Students To Present Program
Hawaiian songs, dances and a movie will be included in the International Club program at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Student Union Kansas Room.
The program will be presented by the Hawaiian students at the University. Those participating will be Gilbert Chun, freshman, Mary Kim, special student, Janet Chun, freshman, Dave Fugichi, freshman, Richard Kume, senior, and Mrs. Richard Kume, all of Honolulu; Gladys Takatani, Hilo sophomore, Roger Dow, Ohau junior, Leslie Higa, graduate student from Hawi, James Akagi, graduate student from Chicago and Minoru Yoshida, San Fernando, Calif., freshman.
Bid For Med Center Library
Low bids for the construction and equipping of a new library building for the University of Kansas Medical Center at Kansas City totaled $477,395. The building will be attached to the Center's existing "B?" building and will be a two-story brick structure with a basement.
Bet It Doesn't Work
SARASOTA, Fla. (UP)—Press agentry is about to hit a new high here at the expense of an elephant named Sunny. Promoters of the Sunshine Springs and Gardens resort have rigged up 15-foot long water skis for the 1,300-pound elephant and plan to take her water-skiing Friday.
Santee Case Continues
NEW YORK (UP)——P in cus Sober, chairman of the AAU committee that barred Wes Santee, was expected to testify further about his probe today when the Santee case was resumed in state Supreme Court.
Santee's attorney, Charles P. Grimos, argued Wednesday that Mr. Sober's committee acted improperly, contending that it was formed at the AAU convention in Louisville, Ky., last January not by a resolution of the AAU, but merely by the AAU's executive committee. He appeared to lose this round when the judge intervened to say he thought an action by the executive committee was sufficient to set up an investigating group.
I. The executive committee lacked the power to suspend Santee.
Santee's attorney contends the committee's action was illegal on two grounds:
2. A quorum was not present at the Feb. 19 executive committee which suspended Santee.
The AAU disputes both of these points, which are the points at issue in the trial.
In answer to a charge by attorney Grimes that no official appeal had been filed with the national AAU from the action of the Missouri Valley AAU in clearing Santee on a local level. Mr. Sober said he regarded a letter he received from Theodore Bland, chairman of the Missouri Valley AAU registration committee, as being such an appeal.
'Y'Elections To Be Tuesday
YM-YWCA elections will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 27 in the Pine Room and Room 305 of the Student Union.
YWCA candidates selected from petitions by the nominating committee are: president, Katherine Westgate, Lawrence sophomore; vice-president, Glover, Salina, and Marilyn Sue Reeder, Topeka, both sophomores; secretary, Barbara Baenisch, and Mary Jou Roise, Wichita juniors; treasurer, Joyce Cutting, Ottawa freshman, and Joy Yeo, Manhattan sophomore; program chairman, Elizabeth Havens, Poplin, Mo. sophomore, and Patricia Snyder, Great Bend junior.
VMCA Candidates
Candidates for YMCA are: president, Michael Mills, McPherson sophomore, and David Webb, independence, Kan, junior; vice president, Robert Downey, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, and Howard Hays, Miami Okla, junior; secretary, Willian Briden, topica sophomore, and Bobby Griffith, Pratt freshman; treasurer, Robert Berkebile, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, and Gerry Kelly, Cedar Vale freshman; program chairman, Ronald Groening, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore.
The candidates will be introduced at the meeting and additional nominations will be accepted from the floor.
A new constitution, suitable for present operations of the YM-YWCA, has been written by the constitution committee and will be explained to the members.
Additional Nominations
A new plan is under discussion of combining the YMCA and the YWCA Advisory Boards into one functional unit.
It's None Of Her Business
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (UP)—Mrs. Letha Juanita Leibert, 29, was granted a divorce Wednesday after testifying her husband, Richard, 29, turned her over his knee and spanked her with a shoe when she asked him about lipstick stains on his shirt.
Scholarship Winners To Be Announced After Return From Spring Vacation
Announcement of the winners of Watkins and Summerfield scholarships will not be given until after spring vacation, Spencer Martin, director of aids and awards, said Wednesday.
Hoeebel Discusses Political Evolution
Finalists who do not receive these scholarships are being considered for other awards, and a committee has been set up to decide on these. All the awards will be announced simultaneously. In this way "we will run less of a risk of losing some of them than if we went ahead and announced the Watkins and Summerfield winners." Mr. Martin said.
All finalists will be eligible for several other awards which are available. Some of the students who took the final examinations have been given other national awards. This will also have some bearing on the final decision, Mr. Martin said.
E. Adamson Hoebel, chairman of the department of anthropology at the University of Minnesota, discussed the evolution of political forms in terms of social and legal controls and leadership at a sociology and anthropology meeting Wednesday.
Wednesday.
Dr. Hoebel is one of a series of guest lecturers sponsored by the department of sociology.
New Zealand Librarian Here
F. A. Sandeall, librarian at Auckland University College, Auckland, New Zealand, is studying organization and functions of the University libraries this week. Mr. Sandeall is on a seven-month tour of American university libraries.
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