Topeka, Ks.
14082 C051079
Daily Hansan
53rd Year, No. 22
Thursday, Oct. 13, 1955.
Hiatt Picks Up Pay, Criticizes State Board
TOPEKA—(U.P.)—Eugene W. Hiatt picked up his back pay today and brought to a close his attempts to gain civil service reinstatement as Kansas purchasing director.
He did so with a statement critical of the decision of the three-member civil service board that sustained his dismissal as director of purchases, while ordering that he be given a comparable state job if one could be found.
Turns Back On State Job
Turns Back On State $50
Hiatt apparently turned his back on that thin possibility by asserting he will "chart my future business and professional career without any delay."
An attorney at law, Hitt did not disclose his immediate plans.
In his statement, he said, "I feel the facts which were presented at my hearing . . . required my reinstatement as director of purchases."
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Hitt said he appreciated that the civil service board members "fully removed any cloud which Gov. Fred Hall attempted to place on my character and reputation."
In its decision, the board said Hatt had been a valuable state employee whose services should be retained outside the purchasing division.
Has Right To Appeal
"Has Right 14"
"Although I am the right of appeal, the cases exists." Haita said. "I feel that I must forego any further action in the matter."
Hatt accepted state checks totaling $1,938.22 as back pay, less $276 in federal income tax deductions, for the period of July 21-23; he was dismissed at the governor's insistence, to Oct. 11, date of the board's decision.
Hiatt said he also was due pay for 18 days of earned vacation time and was advised by state personnel director Walter Kuiken to claim it by letter.
Hiatt Case Ruling Hit
TOPEKA—(U.P.)—An opinion of the Kansas Civil Service Board in the Hiatt case may serve to block most appeals of dismissed state workers in the future, Arthur J. Stanley of Kansas City, Kan. said today.
Stanley, an attorney for Eugene W. Hiatt, referred to a paragraph of the board's decision in the ousted state purchasing director's appeal.
The board said it deplored the fact that civil service employees were called to testify, and added it hopes "such practice will be discontinued whenever possible in the future."
Stanley and James Smith of Topeka, another Hiatt attorney, said the civil service law specifically requires merit system workers to testify at appeal hearings when asked to do so by the appellant.
"The board's attitude so publicly expressed," said Stanley, "is certainly a deterrent for civil service workers to testify. It might well handicap the case of anyone dismissed to the point he would not file an appeal."
Thief Forced To Alter Plans
McCALLSBURG, Iowa —(U.P.)— Charles Layton Cox, 22, told police today he had to cancel his plans to rob the Zearing, Iowa, bank when he was arrested driving a stolen car near McCallsburg.
December Draft Call Will Be 18,000
WASHINGTON —(U.P.) -The Defense Department announced today that 18,000 men will be drafted in December.
The Army will take 8,000, which is 2,000 fewer than its November call, and the Navy will take 10,000.
The Pentagon said all 18,000 men will be inducted between Dec. 1 and Dec. 10 and, because of the Christmas holiday season, no more men will be drafted after that until Jan. 3.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
DENVER—(U.P.)-Bakers at Fitzsimons Army Hospital started mixing ingredients today to make a birthday cake for President Eisenhower and 2.123 Fitzsimons patients and staff members.
Ike's Birthday To Be Celebrated
The President will be 65 Friday Every patient and staff member in the hospital will get a slice of the white cake and probably more than the President.
He is on a 1600-calorie-a-day diet and the size of his slice has already been fixed at a weight of an ounce-and-a-half.
There will be 25 cakes. A round cake of two tiers, one 16 inches in diameter and the other 12 inches in diameter, will be sent up to the President's suite. It will be decorated with crossed American flags and have "Happy 'Birthday like' inscribed on the top in red seing.
Then there will be 24 separate one-layer cakes, 36 inches by 18 inches each, for the rest of the hospital staff and patients. The cakes will all be made of the same ingredients and iced with the same icing.
Maj. Helena Quinn of Aurora, Colo., director of food services at Fitzsimons, said Secret Service agents who are "very fussy about what goes into the President's diet," are carefully checking the ingredients.
KANSAS—Fair this afternoon,
tonight and Friday. A little warmer
Friday. Low tonight generally in
40s. High Friday around 80
extreme west to 70s east.
Weather
Capacity Audience Sees Studio Theatre Opening
First nighters flocked to Green Theater last night to view the season's opening bill of the Studio Theatre series. Three short plays were seen by a capacity audience.
24 Counties Disaster Areas
WASHINGTON—(U.P.) —Twenty four Kansas counties—just half the number requested—were designated drought disaster areas today by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson.
Eligible farmers and stockmen may buy certain feed grains at a reduction in price of $1 per hundredweight.
In Topeka, Gov. Fred Hall said "I am disappointed that Secretary Benson did not declare all of the counties I requested as disaster areas."
The counties are Cheyenne, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Greeley, Harvey, Jewel, Lincoln, Logan, Marion, McPherson, Mitchell, Ottawa, Rawlings, Reno, Republic, Rice, Saline, Scott, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace and Wichita.
"Notwithstanding the very beneficial rains which we have had there is still a need for immediate relief in all of the counties requested," he added.
He said he has had additional requests to include several other counties.
MIAMI—(U.P.)-J. Addington Wagner, an attorney of Battle Creek, Mich., and purple heart winner in World War II, was elected national commander of the American Legion today.
New Legion Head Named
Wagner, who has traveled an estimated 86,000 miles in the last two years in behalf of the Legion and his candidacy, was named with only 35 votes against him.
"THAT ONE'S GOOD"—Looking at some pictures now being displayed in the William Allen White Reading Room in Flint Hall are, (from left), Ralph E. Butler, Leavenworth junior; Richard Lumpkin, Kansas City, Mo., senior; Edith Sortor, Kansas City, Kan., senior and Paul Malone Lawrence junior. The pictures are part of a display of
the National High School Photographic Awards Contest winners.
The plays, "Lord Byron's Love Letter," "Summer Comes to the Diamond O," and "Finiculi Finicula," will be presented again at 8 p.m. today and tomorrow.
The setting of "Lord Byron's Love Letter" is at the New Orleans Mardi Gras in 1890 where an old woman famatically treasures a letter from Lord Byron.
Plays Spinster Role
The role of the spinster is portrayed with much dignity by Isabel Bolin, Kansas City, Mo., junior. The domineering grandmother is Lois Harder, Hawatha junior. Joan Ryan, Prairie Village junior, is a curious visitor and Jack Gorelick, Kansas City, Kan, sophomore, is her drunken husband.
The climax of the play is a vivid contrast in moods and is intensified by a dance of Mardi Gras revelers.
They are Janice Cooper, Kansas City, Mo., freshman; Dave Johnson, Lawrence senior; Martha Samuel, Wichita junior; Carol Stockman, Hutchinson junior; Terrence Sullivan, Harrisburg, Pa., freshman, and Ruth Taggart, Topeka junior.
Tale Of Hollywood Cowboy
In the play "Summer Comes to the Diamond O," a Hollywood cowboy enters the lives of some rea cowpokes at the Diamond O ranch in Montana. The contented cow pokes become happy under the spel of his charm although they learn the stranger, Windy, is as "loco" as his yarns.
Duke Howze, Mission junior, portrays the personable Windy. He is ably supported by John Branigan, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore; Henry Walling, Independence, Kan., sophomore; Lawrence Griggs, Marion freshman; Richard Lewis, Kansas City, Kan., freshman; Paul Culp, Overland Park junior; Dee Richards, Hutchinson senior and Alan Austin, Arkansas City senior.
Greenwich Village Setting
A dirty, shabby Greenwich vilage flat is the setting for "Finciculi Finicula." The role of a young mother who will not take the responsibility for proper care of her child is played by Laurice Messing, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student
Excellent performances are given by Glenn Pierce, Lawrence junior, and Don Idea, Hope senior.
Joni Grotenhuis, Independence, Kan., junior, has an off stage part. A recording of David Rosario, Bronx, N. Y., senior, also is used off stage.
Directors are Jack Brooking, Nathaniel Eek, and Charles Dodrill Choreography is by Shirley Hughes, dance instructor.
Cowley To Lecture Twice Tomorrow
Malcolm Cowley, literary critic and poet, will give two lectures tomorrow.
At 9 a.m. he will speak to the American Literature I class of Edward Grier, assistant professor of English.
The lecture, open to the public, will be held in the Art Museum lecture room. Mr. Cowley's subject will be "The Actual Conditions Facing American Writers in the Early 19th Century."
At 8 p.m. Mr. Cowley will speak in Fraser Theater on "American Literature: A Reassessment." His speech, part of the English conference tomorrow and Saturday, is sponsored by the University lecture series.
Student Council Kills Bill For Directory Sale
A committee report was given on the moving of the student section in Memorial Stadium further south of its present location. Action on this report will be taken sometime in the near future.
A bill on the selling of student directories was voted down last night by a joint meeting of the Student Council's Senate and House in the Student Union. It was decided that the directories would be given free to the students this year like in the past years.
It was decided that the Campus Chest Drive will be held during the first two weeks in March instead of the usual November date.
First readings were heard on two bills, the most important being the proposal of having a floating holiday after major athletic victories, one each semester. The possibility of establishing a World University Service Council was read for the first time.
Plans were made for the sending of severa' representatives to the Kansas-Kansas State peace pact dinner at Manhattan Monday night.
MacFadden Dies In Hospital
JERSEY OITY —(U.P.)-Bernard MacFadden, a leading American exponent of physical culture for more than a half-century, died at the age of 87 last night.
The wiry little man, who pyramided muscles, magazines and manly daring into fame and fortune, succumbed to a blood clot on the brain, attending a relapse of a complicated liver and gall bladder ailment.
He died in Jersey City Medical Center, where he was brought from his hotel room last Friday, after fasting himself into a coma in an effort to cure himself of a jaundice condition.
Funeral services will be held at noon on Saturday and burial will follow on Woodlawn Cemetery.
Will It Be Yes Or No?
LONDON—(U.P.)—A radiantly-
happy Princess Margaret followed
Peter Townsend today into a London
 breathless with excitement over
whether they will—or will not—
narry.
The 25-year old Princess, just at the age of consent for British Royalty, arrived by train from her Scottish vacation 14 hours after the sandsome RAF group captain flew some from Belgium.
The Princess' trip was the routine, previously-scheduled end of the royal family's annual vacation at Balmoral. Townsend said he also was back home on routine home leave.
But the timing heightened the fever of British curiosity over the Princess' future.
Traditional politeness to royalty barred any newsmen asking Margaret the question that filled British newspaper headlines. It simply isn't got
Townsend himself refused to answer it.