Nansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
52nd Year, No.115
Missouri Valley Forensic Meet Begins on Oread
Thursday, March 24, 1955
—Kansan photo by Dee Richards
SHORTCUT TO SHANGHAI—Employees of the department of buildings and grounds, with the help of a few spectators, dig a hole in the campus in front of the Journalism building in search of a break in the main water line to the west end of the campus. The break, which occurred at noon yesterday, was repaired in the late afternoon and service was restored to the campus.
The annual Missouri Valley forensic tournament will begin at 3 p.m. today, with registration in the lobby of the Student Union, and ends at 12:45 p.m. Saturday with the announcement of tourney results.
Competing this year are Louisiana State university, Creighton university, Washington university (St. Louis), Kansas State college, and the Universities of Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Kansas.
Seven KU students are entered in the tournament. They are Walter McMullen, college senior, oratomy; Gary Sick and Robert Kimball, college sophomores, extemporaneous speaking; Hubert Bell, college senior, and John Fields, second year law, who will take the affirmative on the debate squad, and John Eland, college sophomore, a nd William Arnold, college senior, who will take the negative.
The schedule of events is as follows: 3:30 p.m. oratory preliminary, 306 Student Union; 6:30 p.m. banquet, Jayhawk room, Student Union; 8 p.m. oratory contest, Green theater.
Tomorrow, 8:30 a.m., extemporaneous speech preliminaries, 305 and 306, Student Union; 11 a.m. debate, Round I; 2 p.m., extemporaneous speech finals, Green theater, 3-8 p.m. debate, Rounds II, III, IV
Saturday, 9-11 a.m. debate,
Rounds V and VI, and 12:45 p.m.
announcement of results and
presentation of trophies.
Russia Offers Plan on Arms
London — (U.P.)— Russia has put forward a "new" disarmament proposal providing for world arms reduction "and the banning of atomic hydrogen and other types of mass destruction," it was learned today.
Full details of the plan—disclosed by Moscow radio and confirmed by diplomatic sources in London—were not known.
However, it was said to contain concessions previously made by the late Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky and also to be based on a proposal made by Britain and France at last year's disarmament conference in London.
Only 3 Apply For ASC Posts
with petitions and certificates of nomination for the ASC primary elections due at midnight todav only three names have been received by Elections Chairman Robert E. Pope, third year graduate.
Petitions fled are those of William Jon Littell, fine arts sophomore, for vice president of the junior class; James J. Nero, college sophomore, for secretary of the junior class, and Theodore B. Ice, college junior, for president of the senior class.
A total of 12 class officers will be elected this spring—president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer for the senior, junior and sophomore classes. Freshman class officers are elected in the fall.
Neither political party has turned in its certificate of nomination for ASC Senate and House positions.
Class officer petitions are turned in by the candidate with 25 signatures and $1. Names of candidates for ASC positions are presented on a certificate of nomination turned in by the party president.
Famed Expert on Squirrels Finds None at White House
Washington—(U.P).—Not a squirrel was to be seen today on the presidential putting green by Bernard M. Baruch, an old squirrel feeder, and a professedly puzzled President Eisenhower.
"Funny thing," the President replied. "I didn't know anything about this until I read it in the papers."
Mr. Baruch, financier and elder statesman who spends some of his spare time on park benches feeding squirrels. smiled.
"Where is that squirrel," Mr. Baruch asked the President jocularly as they looked down toward the green from the steps of the White House door.
The President explained his use of the green to Mr. Baruch, an early morning guest.
By "this," the President referred to extensive steps being taken by grounds keepers to keep the rodents away from his putting green on the White House grounds.
"I bet you that from the edge of the green, you can't make it every time in two (put(s))," Mr. Baruch said.
"I go all around here and pitch up to the green," he said. "I go out whenever I can."
"No, not every time," Mr. Eisenhower said, "but you could do it easily eight out of ten, or probably nine out of ten."
That started a mild controversy. Sen. Richard Neuberger (D-Ore.) criticized Mr. Eisenhower for attacking "an American tradition" by deporting the squirrels.
Bright Lights Atmosphere Set for Revue
Mr. Baruch declined to discuss his private conference with the President.
A searchlight donated by the aeronautical engineering department will lend a carnival atmosphere to the Rock Chalk Revue at 8 p.m. tomorrow and Saturday in Hoch, auditorium.
At 1 and 2 p.m. today and tomorrow balloons advertising the event will be distributed in front of the Journalism building and in front of Bailey.
Houses participating are Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Nu, Pi Kappa Alpha, Alpha Tau Omega, Gamma Phi Beta, Pi Beta Phi, Delta Gamma, and North College.
Rehearsals will be held at 6 p.m. today with complete costumes and make-up to make a final check on the eight skirts which will be presented by the organized houses.
in the in-between acts of the show Richard Rumsey, college sophomore, will do a take-off on "Why Do I Love You?" Myrna Schneider and Lynn Gaumer, college sophomores, will sing a duet in which they switch alto and soprano parts in the middle of the song. Marlin McCune, college junior, will do a trumpet solo, and Robert Sanders, college sophomore, will be master of ceremonies.
Tickets for the Rock Chalk Revue are on sale today and for the rest of the week at the information booth in front of the Journalism building at 75 cents each.
Charles Oldfather, associate professor of law, will play his guitar.
We Goofed
All freshman and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts are required to report to their advisers within the three-day period, March 29-31. At this time they will be given their mid-sc semester grade.
Grades will be sent directly to only juniors and seniors, not to all students as was reported in yesterday's Kansan.
Weather
Partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Friday. Colder southeast this afternoon. Low tonight 15 to 25. High Friday 30s extreme north to 40's south.
Deadline Nears For Capital Trip
Tomorrow is the last day students may register for the YMCA-YWCA spring vacation tour to Washington, D.C., April 2-11.
In Washington the group will attend two briefings at the State department, one on "Global Relations of the United States," and the other by Russell Riley of the International Educational Exchange service.
Sen. Andrew Schoeppel of Kansas will speak to the students. The group will visit the White House, Congress, a Senate committee meeting, and Mount Vernon.
The trip also will include a national "Y" seminar in New York, on the United Nations and a stopover in Philadelphia. Students will visit commission meetings and the U.S. mission to the UN. The group will hold discussions with representatives of other countries and attend a staff meeting with delegates.
The students will tour lower Manhattan, attend Faster services, and see the New York Easter parade before returning to Lawrence.
Kansas Senate Gets Schools Construction Bill
Appropriations that will enable the University to begin construction of the new Music and Fine Arts building, remodel Bailey, and draw up initial plans for the new School of Business were introduced yesterday in the Kansas Senate by the Ways and Means committee.
The appropriations are part of $221 million bill for all colleges and educational institutions in the state. A total of $7,579,165 will be received by the University as its share of the grant if the bill is passed.
According to Keith Lawton, administrative assistant to the chancellor, $1,700,000 of this amount, if it is appropriated, will be used for completion of the Music and Fine Arts building. The 1953 Legislature appropriated a token appropriation of $700,000 for work on planning of the structure. This amount, coupled with the $1,700,000 out of the next two-year period, will give a total of $2,400,000 for completion of the building.
In addition to the money to be used for the Music and Fine Arts building, $250,000 of the grant will go for the remodeling of Bailey laboratory for use by the School of Education. The 1953 legislature had appropriated $400,000 for this purpose.
A total of $50,000 of the new appropriation, if it is passed, will be used for planning and architect's drawings of the proposed School of Business, according to Mr. Lawton.
Part of the money of this appropriation also will be used for the acquisition of additional land for proposed campus expansions. The remainder of the grant will go for the usual expenses of the school and for use in the over-all budget.
New Sequence In Math Given
A new sequence in mathematics will be offered next year. The sequence will include courses 21, 22, 23, and 24.
Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean of the college, said the new sequence will incorporate a flavor of modern mathematics. The new sequence will be explained to students before enrollment.
Dean Ulmer said the course is being offered on a trial basis and will be open only to volunteers.
McClellan Says Adams Has Full Blame in Peress Matter
Washington—(U.P.)—Sen. John L. McClellan (D.-Ark.) told Army Counselor John G. Adams today he made a "bad decision" and must take full responsibility for letting Maj. Irving Peress out of the Army without a courtmartial.
Mr. Adams denied he had made a mistake, although he agreed with the chairman of the Senate Investigating subcommittee that he had "the last clear chance to shut the door" on Peress.
"You must take the full responsibility . . . you made a bad decision." Sen. McClellan told Mr. Adams, for allowing the New York dentist to be discharged Feb. 2, 1954, in the face of a demand by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) that he be courtmartialed.
Peress did not sign a loyalty oath when commissioned and later refused to answer questions put to him by Sen. McCarthy on alleged Communist connections.
"The man was put out of the Army," said Mr. Adams. "He belongs out of the Army. He was a subversive."
He said if Peres had broken any laws, he could still be prosecuted by the Justice department—and added that a year later, the Justice department still has not decided to try him.
Besides, he said, Peress was costings the Army more than $700 a month in pay.
Mr. Adams also denied that high administration figures hatched a "conspiracy" to attack Sen. McCarthy or block his investigations of Peress and of Fort Mornouth, N.J.