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University Daily Kansan
Monday April 25 1955
Benson to Start 3-Day Tour of Dust Storm Area
Washington—(U.P.)—Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson leaves today for a three-day tour of the drought and dust storm damage area of the southern Great Plains.
Mr. Benson will get a first-hand look at the damage wrought by crop- choking and soil-destroying dust storms in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. In these states and in Nebraska and Wyoming, March dust storms caused severe damage to more than 5 million acres of land. Since last November, more than 10 million acres in the Great Plains have been eroded by wind. Another 20 million acres are so sparsely vegetated that they would lose valuable top soil to any strong wind.
Mr. Benson and members of Agricultural agencies will inspect the damaged areas with a view to reshaping government efforts in treating problems, brought on by drouth in the southern Great Plains region.
They will cover a wide territory.
After spending the night at Denver, the party will drive by bus and automobile across eastern Colorado, one of the most severely damaged sections. They will make brief stops at Limon, Kit Carson, Lamar, and Springfield, Colo.; and at Johnson, Ulysses, and Liberal in Western Kansas. They will confer with affected farmers from the general area during a lunch meeting at Lamar.
On Wednesday, the party will travel to Guymon, in Oklahoma's Panhandle; Stratford and Amarillo, Texas and Tucumcari, N.M. The group will return to Washington Thursday.
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2 Go to Meeting Of Ceramic Group
Two staff members of the ceramics division of the State Geological survey, W. B. Hladik and Clarence Edmonds, left Saturday to attend the 57th annual meeting of the American Ceramic society in Cincinnati, being held through Thursday.
The membership of the society is composed of persons in the clay products industries, research workers concerned with ceramics, and those persons who utilize clay for design purposes.
The two men will be especially interested in obtaining new ideas concerning structural clay products, white ware, and refractories.
Star Fashion Editor Given Tea Friday
Miss Nell Snead, fashion editor of the Kansas City Star, was honored at a tea given by Theta Sigma Phi, women's journalism fraternity, Friday in the home economics dining room.
Miss Snead spoke to the Communications in Society class earlier in the afternoon.
Big Three to Meet in Paris To Plan Big Four Meeting
Washington—(U.P.)-The U.S., French, and British foreign ministers will meet May 8 in Paris to discuss "concrete plans" for holding a Big Four meeting with Russia, it was announced today.
The department said West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and leaders of the other North Atlantic Treaty governments will be consulted on plans for the Big Four meeting.
It said U.S., Britain, and French experts will meet in London Wednesday to make a preliminary study on problems in preparation for the foreign ministers' discussions.
The State Department said in a brief announcement that the three Western governments "earnestly hope that a Four Power conference can meet as soon as possible."
"Moved by the same desire, the three foreign ministers will meet in Paris on May 8 in order to discuss concrete plans for holding a Four Power conference with the Soviet government," the statement said.
It said the United States, Britain, and France have consistently shown they want to seek through negotiations "the just and peaceful settlement of questions which might disturb the maintenance of enduring peace."
The meeting being planned would be a broad one seeking solution to a number of critical issues in the European area, particularly the question of German unification. It would apparently be in addition to a Big Four foreign ministers meeting which may eventually be held for formal signing of an Austrian State Treaty.
The three Western powers last week proposed in notes to Russia that Big Four ambassadors meet in Vienna May 2 to settle final details of an Austrian treaty. The Western powers suggested the Big Four foreign ministers meet to sign the treaty at the earliest practicable time thereafter.
Riss Chairman Of KU Fund
The most easterly town in t United States is Lubec, Maine.
Robert Riss of Kansas City, youthful president of the Riss trucking firm, has been elected chairman of the advisory board of the University of Kansas Greater University fund.
He will take office in May succeeding Ray Evans, Kansas City bank executive, who has been advisory board chairman since it was founded in 1953. Mr. Riss was graduated from KU in 1949.
Chester L. Mize, Atchison businessman and rancher, was elected vice chairman. Mr. Mize also is president of the KU Alumni association.
The final report by Mr. Evans showed that contributions totaling $53,372.93 have been received by the fund from almost 2,000 persons during the past year.
Geographers Visiting Here
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will hold a dinner tonight for a group of geographers who have been visiting the University over the week end.
The group will include Dr. Edward A. Ackerman of Chicago university, Dr. Reuben G. Gustavson, former chancellor of the University of Nebraska, Dr. Charles Colby, visiting professor of geography at KU, and Dr. Thomas R. Smith, acting chairman of the Department of geography at KU.
The geographers spent Friday visiting classes, and Saturday and Sunday they were in the field surveying water problems of Northeast Kansas.
Dean Is Attending Publishers' Meeting
The convention, which starts to tomorrow and ends Thursday, will be high-lighted Wednesday by a panel discussion on methods of cutting newspaper production costs. Henry Ford II, president of the Ford Motor company, will also address the group.
Dean Burton W. Marvin of the School of Journalism is attending the 69th annual convention of the American Newspaper Publishers' association this week at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York.
Two More Candidates Named Two names of winning ASC candidates were left out of the Daily Kansas story April 21. They are Dodd Myers, POGO senator from the Graduate school and L. A. Hollinger, AG-I senator from the School of Medicine.
Grant was the first to have a salary of move than $25,000 as president of the United States. He began getting $50,000 for his second term.
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