Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
Tuesday, Sept. 20, 1955.
53rd Year, No. 5
Enrollment Declines In 3 ROTC Programs
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
All three ROTC units—Army, Navy, and Air Force—have had a drop in enrollment for the fall semester. The Army suffered a drop from more than 500 to approximately 400. The Air Force had its freshmen quota cut from 125 to 100. The Navy accepted a total of only 56 freshmen.
however, spokesmen for each unit insist that the decline will prove beneficial in helping shift the emphasis from group training to individual training.
Must Learn Flying
vital training.
Col. Thomas B. Summers, professor of air science and tactics, said the decline was caused largely by the newly passed National Reserve Plan and increasing selectivity in the various programs. Under the reserve act, men between the ages of 17 and 19 may enlist for active duty for six months and then be placed in the reserves for the next 10 years.
The inauguration of a new system by the Army ROTC staff, both on the drill field and in the classroom should be aided considerably by the drop in enrollment. Drill will be replaced, in name at least, by "leadership lab," in which all freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors will train separately.
Col. Summers also said that all Air Force cadets who now enroll must do so with the understanding that they will have to learn to fly, which would affect the number of new enrollees.
More Individual Attention
an separator.
For the first five weeks the ROTC staff officers will instruct the freshmen and sophomores, and following this the senior officers will instruct them for the remainder of the semester. Only during the final few weeks of the spring semester will the cadet corps drill in battalion formation.
In the classroom, each freshman section of 30 men will be subdivided into sections of 10, enabling each new cadet to receive more individual attention. Staff officers are considering offering a new course in military mathematics to advanced officers. The course would include topics such as gunnery, time and space factors, and length of time it takes to move small troops to a certain objective.
The Navy accepted 24 contract freshmen and 32 "regular" freshmen. Contract freshmen do not sign a contract with the Navy until the beginning of their junior year, while the "regulars" are scholarship students whose four years of schooling are paid for by the Navy as well as receiving $50 a month.
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A change that will be met with enthusiasm by all Air Force cadets is the changing of the drill schedule from 7 a.m. Wednesday, as it was last year, to 9 a.m., 10 a.m., and 2 p.m., on Friday.
Except for this, the drill and classroom schedules for Navy and Air Force ROTC will remain the same as last year. The Air Force has four new faculty members while the Navy has two.
Drills About The Same
Air Force: Capt. Arthur Gilliam, assistant professor of air science and tactics; M/Sgt. Howard E. Graves, supply sergeant; M/Sgt. W. O. Mason, sergeant major; and S/Sgt. James E. Casteel, administrative assistant. Navy: Lt. Col. Rodney V. Reighard, USMC, executive officer; and Lt. Com. Ralph W. Corson, freshman instructor.
Hall Asks For Drouth Aid
Gov. Fred M. Hall has sent President Eisenhower a list of 48 Kansas counties he wants declared emergency drought areas. The counties lie mostly in northwest and central areas of the state. If the federal government approves the request, farmers in the affected areas will be eligible for department of agriculture drought assistance.
22 Enrolled In Honors Course
Twenty-two students are in the English reading for honors program.
Walter Meserve, director of the program, said, requirements include a 2.5 grade average in English courses and a 2.0 average in other courses.
In addition students must take English 12 and 14 and 10 hours of junior-senior English and History 100 or 5. English 94, the reading for honors course, consists of an hour credit for each of three semesters.
This spring eight students will be eligible for the examination. Completion of the program entitles students to recognition on their transcripts and diplomas.
Students in the program are Marianne Anderson, Lawrence junior; Carol Ann Bowman, Mission senior; Marvin Carlson, Eugene Coombs, and Beverly Harvey, Wichita juiors; Constance Cloyes, El Dorado junior; Carol Sue Cook, Fort Scott senior; Sara Deibert, Irving senior; Petrea Doty, Kansas City, Mo.; senior, and Roy Gridley, Oakley junior.
Title Bout Postponed
Edward Jones, Dodge City junior; Myrna Jo Jones, Kansas City, Mo.; junior; Sandra Keller, Lenexa senior; Dorothy Meier, Haven senior; Barbara Myers, junior; and Mary E. Parsons, senior, Kansas City, Kan.; Robert Ramsey, Topeka junior; John B. Runnels, Lyons junior; Jeri Lynn Sands, Prairie Village junior; Robert N. Schimke, Leavenworth junior; Gary Sick Russell junior, and Nancy Squyres, Wakeeyen junior.
Covers Ready Staff Announced For Yearbook
Hurricane Ione has caused the peatpement of the heavyweight title fight between Rocky Marciano and challenger Archie Moore which was scheduled for tonight at New York's Yankee Stadium. Weather permitting, the 15-round fight will be held tomorrow night. If the weather is still bad, the bout will be put off until Thursday night.
The cover of the 1956 edition of the Jayhawker is now being distributed to the students upon purchase of a Jayhawker. The cover was printed during the summer.
Editor Henry Wittenberg, pharmacy senior, said the cover, of black and gray with white lettering, is better than those of previous years. Two campus scenes, one of Strong Hall and the other of Green Hall, are on the inside of the cover.
Wittenberg said that the senior pictures and summaries will be placed in the third edition rather than the fourth and that the last issue will be devoted to picture features of campus organizations. A composite index will also be placed in the last edition.
The editor also announced his completed editorial staff, which includes Jocelyn Dougherty, Dodge City, associate editor; Jane Pec'novsky of Leawood, copy editor; Allen Sweeny of Wichita, senior editor; John Nangle of Burlington, art editor; George Kreeve of Lawrence, editorial assistant, and Dick Walt of Girard, sports editor.
Jane Hill of Abilene, party picture editor; Connie Cloyes of El Dorado, organizations editor; Edwina Frohwerk of Kansas City. Mo., index editor, and Bill Jackson of Florence, photography editor.
PARIS-The French Cabinet has authorized Premier Edgar Faure to proceed with removing the present Sultan of French Morocco and replacing him with a 3-man regency for an indefinite period, during which the protectorate's government will be reformed. The action was taken at a stormy 3-hour meeting of Faure and his ministers.
The first issue of the Jayhawker, the fall edition, will be distributed in early November.
French Cabinet Ousts Sultan Of Morocco
ing of Fauvel and the minister for Moroccan and Tunisian affaires. Pierre July will name the regents.
Two more Americans crossed the border from Red China into Hong Kong and freedom today. The two are American missionaries 63-year-old Sarah Perkins of Tennille, Ga., and 34-year-old Dorothy Middleton of Cicero, Ill.
2 Released By Chinese Reds
Lee A Traitor? By No Means, U.S. Post Office Insists
Peron Followers Hint General Strike
Kansas Expands Free Polio Shots
TOPEKA—(U.P.) An expansion of the Kansas Free Salk anti-polio vaccine program to include all the state's five to nine year olds was announced today.
A federally-financed state program will assure that no child of eligible age wil be deprived of the vaccine because of financial reasons.
The rest of the approximately 207,000 Kansas children in the five to nine age bracket will now be incubated under a state government program financed with $422,000 in federal funds.
Two shots will be given before the end of the year for those 5-9 children who have not been vaccinated under the foundation program.
WICHITA—(U,P).The determined mothers of Fabrique school who last week formed a human chain across a busy street to protect their children were impressively victorious today in their fight for a traffic light.
Free clinics will be set up in each of Kansas' 105 counties, on schedules to be announced locally. Shots also may be obtained from private physicians.
Kansan Assistant City Editor
By THE KANSAN'S NEWS SERVICES
By BOB LYLE
Approximately 100,000 Kansas youngsters have been given vaccine shots under the program of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
Mothers Win In Wichita
The new 30-cent stamp is one of a series of 18 coming after the 1938 series honoring the presidents of the United States. The next stamp will have the picture of Patrick Henry.
BUENOS AIRES—The Rebels in Argentina have broadcast a report that the country's big labor federation planned a general strike today in an effort to return ousted President Peron to power. The six million-member General Federation of Labor comprises the backbone of the ousted President's popular following.
ment "were to use the Twelve Apostles on the face of a stamp it probably would arouse ire from some persons."
post office. In a letter to the Post Office Department earlier this month, Judge Means said honoring Lee was the "singling out of a rebel, a turncoat, a traitor and a perjurer to share a place of honor with patriotic men."
But Judge Means, who says his "main activity in life now is getting downtown once in a while," has his own method of counter-acting the Lee stamp.
The city commission not only voted to install a light on busy Kellogg Avenue at the school, but also approved the installation of sidewalks bordering Kellogg at that point, construction of an access road on the south side of Kellogg at the school, the provision of safety lanes at the Kellogg crossing, and the establishment of a junior traffic patrol there.
Judge Means has been kept busy the past month acknowledging correspondence about his one-man campaign to halt the issuance of the stamp.
acting the like.
"Even if the post office does get the stamp here in Lawrence, I won't use it, mainly because I doubt if I will be mailing anything that requires a 30-cent stamp anyway."
Assistant Postmaster Albert J. Robinson said that if the depart-
Mr. Means' argument that to print the picture of an enemy on a stamp of the United States would be "honoring a traitor," caused nationwide interest. The first stamps will be issued from the Norfolk, Va., post office tomorrow.
"But who is going to listen to an old man," he asked today.
Kansan Assistant City Editor Despite pleas to the contrary by Hugh Means, 84-year-old former Kansas district judge and Army officer from Lawrence, the Post Office Department will issue a new 30-cent stamp with the picture of Robert E. Lee, the South's famed Civil War leader.
patron For two days recently about 40 Fabrique mothers lined up across Kellogg in protest of the city transferring an existing safety light to a location farther down the street. It took several police officers to protect the mothers from the heavy traffic.
This IBM Wizard Bears a Grudge
Today's victory was not quite complete, however. The commission wouldn't promise to post a police officer at the disputed intersection until the safety facilities are installed. The commissioners intend to assign the officer, all right, but they declined to promise it.
Take the Machine (cap "M",
please). It's infallible. It doesn't
make mistakes. It has no emotions.
All except Registrar James K. Hitt's beloved IBM mechanical wizards, that is. One of them at least seems to have a private grudge against Gerald L. Thomas, journalism junior.
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On three class rosters the perverse machine has listed Thomas as: "IWS6N, Geral L."
The Rebel radio broadcast said that leaders of the paint labor body had decided secretly on the strike under Gen. Peron's inspiration. The same tactic was employed successfully by the Labor Federation in 1945 to return Gen. Peron to power after he had been jailed by a military clique.
In the meantime Gen. Peron's wereabouts were unknown. He is reported to have skipped the country. Resigning yesterday, he turned the reins of government over to a junta (group) of generals, designated to negotiate peace with the Army and Navy leaders who launched the revolt last Friday.
Four of Argentina's top generals comprise the group named to negotiate with the Rebels.
Negotiations Underway
Argentina's government radio reported that peace talks are under way to end the revolt which brought the resignation of President Peron. Both the junta and Rebel broadcasts announced a cease-fire. However, the Argentine state radio said this morning that the Rebel fleet had repeated its threat to bombard the oil refineries near the city of Eva Peron.
Publisher Wants Farer Back
Showers, Cool Air Coming Tomorrow
An exiled Buenez. Aires publisher now living in New York says he believes a new Argentine government would return to him the newspaper La Prensa. The 88-year-old daily was confiscated 4 years ago by the Peron regime.
TOPEKA — (UF) — The Kansas weatherman said today that cooler temperatures and more showers are likely tomorrow.
The publisher-Alberto Gainza Paz—said it is too early to predict when he would be able to return to Argentina and resume publication of La Prensa. He fled from Argentina to adjacent Uruguay in 1515, shortly after La Prensa was seized by the Peron forces. Since that time he has lived in this country, acting as a spokesman against the Peron government.
Speculation in Buenos Aires is that Gen. Peron has fled by plane to Asunción, capital of neighboring Paraguay. Negotiations to end the Argentine military revolution have begun between representatives of a committee of generals and the rebels aboard an insurged warship—shrouded in fog and rain in the River Plate off Buenos Aires.
are likely partly cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers this afternoon, tonight and Wednesday is predicted. It will be a little warmer in the north this afternoon with cooler temperatures in the northwest Wednesday. The low tonight will be in the 60s in the west to near 70 in the east. The high Wednesday will be 75-80 northwest to the upper 80s elsewhere.
For the moment the rains were over. But the five-day outlook is for a quarter of an inch of moisture in the west and a half to three-quarters in eastern Kansas through Sunday.
High temperatures for Monday ranged from 75 at Goodland to 92 degrees in Chanute and Garden City. This morning's lows were spread between 61 at Goodland and 70 in Pittsburg.