Kansas State Historical Society
Toroka. Ks.
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Tuesday, February 15, 1955
52nd Year, No. 88
Students to Help City to Clear Park
With the University Inter-fraternity and Panhellenic councils supplying manpower, the city will begin clearing the Centennial park land plot Saturday, March 5.
The campus organizations, central governing bodies of KU's 12 sororities and 27 fraternities, proposed the move to open Greek week, to be held from March 6 to 12.
The 38-acre tract, located between 7th and 9th streets on Iowa, was purchased by the Centennial committee and donated to the city for use as a recreation area.
E. R. Zook, secretary of the chamber of commerce, said, "All that remains to be worked out are the details." J. H. Wigglesworth, city manager, reported he had given a go-ahead to the "basic idea" of the project.
Work had previously been delayed on the park because it was feared the new Kansas turnpike might cut through part of the area. Mr. Zook reported, after talk with the turnpike engineer, that "there would be only minor molestation."
"We hoped we could find a project which would approximate the North Lawrence clean-up following the flood of 1951." Bill Buck, Inter-fraternity council president, said today. "We feel that this park reclamation fills the bill. We hope to help Lawrence and promote better Lawrence-University relations through the project."
Ray Krahenbuhl, Inter-fraternity council member in charge of the project, said that final details will be worked out with a Lawrence committee and with Mr. Zook next week. "We hope we can delegate certain areas of the plot to the different fraternities and sororities," he said, "and run the cleanup on a competition basis."
Mr. Zook said that much of the area is heavily timed, and some of the land is covered with rocks and debris. "It is the latter area we would assign to the sororities," he said.
Said Mr. Wigglesworth: "I think it is a splendid idea and we are happy to have the cooperation of the fraternities and sororites—a great deal of good can be done."
'Right to Work Bill Due Today
Topeka—(U.P.)—The House Industrial Development committee voted yesterday to introduce a new "right to work" bill in the legislature's lower chamber.
Chairman Elmer C. Russell (R.-St. John) said his group considered the measure "as an advertisement for new industry to come into the state."
The original bill has been in the House Labor committee since Jan. 19. Mr. Russell's committee intends to include the same general principles now in the first measure.
Mr. Russell emphasized the original has been in "the Labor committee more than 10 legislative days and we think it's time the members of the House have a chance to vote on this issue."
Meanwhile Swen, Richard Woodward (R-E] Dorado) proposed that the Senate Labor committee vote to outlaw closed shops, but to legalize maintenance of membership contracts.
Sen. Woodward explained his proposal as the best prospect to satisfy both management and labor.
Under a maintenance of membership agreement, workers do not have to join the union—as in a closed or union shop—but if they do they must continue as members until the end of the union's contract.
Clerks School To Deal With City Problems
A three-day school for city clerks, begins tomorrow at the University.
The subjects for discussion will be such matters as "Getting Along with the Citizen," "Operating Problems," "Municipal Liability," "Special Assessments," budget and election problems, and new wrinkles in office machines.
Each regularly enrolled clerk who attends all class sessions will receive a certificate indicating his completion of the course.
Elbert Beard, chief of the collection division of the Bureau of Internal Revenue's Wichita office, will discuss "Federal Tax Obligations of the City" in the first session tomorrow. Hilden Gibson, chairman of the University department of human relations, will follow with "Getting Along with the Citizens" and Miss Dixie Davidson, instructor in secretarial training, will tell "What's New in Office Machines."
Dr. Francis Heller, associate professor of political science, will talk Thursday on "Municipal Liability." Albert Martin, Topeka, director of research for the Kansas League of Municipalities, will speak on "Election Problems" Thursday afternoon.
A panel on "Special Assessments"
Friday will be made up of three
city clerks, Merle Smith, Dodge
City; Dorothy Soderbloom, Hays,
and Eldon Steinhaus, Kingman.
State Sen. John Crutcher of Hutchinson, member of the Senate Committee on Municipalities, will speak on "City Legislation."
The planning committee for the school includes city clerks Harold Fisher, Lawrence; Walter Kaufman, Anthony; Dale Raymond, Parsons; Maxine Rogers, Baldwin; Vera Schweppe, Fort Scott, Eldon Steinhaus, Kingman, and John Whitney, Concordia.
Pineau Trying to Form French Government
Paris—(U.P.)—Socialist Christian Pineau started urgent talks with political leaders today in an effort to become premier on his party's platform.
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE—Nora Kaye and Igor Youskevitch depict a scene from the Ballet theatre to be presented in Hoch auditorium at 8:20 p.m. Friday.
U.S. Says Evacuation Of Quemoy Probable
Benson Ready to Retire From Agriculture Position
London—(U.P).The United States has given Britain guarded indications that she foresees evacuation of the Quemoy and Matsu islands off the Red China mainland "Sometime, but not now," it was reported reliably today.
"I made only a two-year commitment," Mr. Benson said. "I have had it out with the President and I'm still on the team."
Mr. Benson quickly added, however, that he "certainly hopes" that President Eisenhower will run for re-election in 1956.
The U.S. has left the timing of any such evacuation of the off-shore islands open and has declined so far to commit herself firmly on when it should be, the informants said.
Washington—(U.P.)—Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson has made it clear he doesn't like his job.
Secretary Benson strongly indicated at a news conference late yesterday that he could not be persuaded to serve another term in the cabinet post even if President Eisenhower is elected to a second term next year. ◎
Mr. Benson also told reporters
"I didn't seek this position," Secretary Benson said, "and I will be very happy when I am relieved of it."
Britain considers evacuation of
Mr. Benson had revealed earlier that he had to be persuaded by Mr. Eisenhower to remain in the cabinet post even for the duration of his present appointment.
yesterday that he is making "no deliberate efforts" to put more Re-publicans in his department's top policy-making jobs.
Republican leaders are reported to be disgruntled because 43 of 76 top Agriculture department policy jobs are filled with Truman hold-overs.
Asked if he planned to appoint any GOP leaders to policy-level jobs still not filled, Mr. Benson replied: "We are anxious to have people sympathetic to the administration in policy-making jobs. But we don't think anything should be done along this line in a drastic manner."
the offshore islands by the Chinese Nationalists to be the next important step in the Formosan cease-fire effort.
The British are counseling the United States to persuade Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to agree to evacuate the islands and to pull back to Formosa and the Pescadores. Britain has announced officially that it regards Quemoy and Matsu as Communist China's rightful property.
But the British are not pressing Washington on the issue. They realize the U.S. difficulty in obtaining Chinese Nationalist approval, particularly in the light of yesterday's declaration by Chiang that he planned to hold Quemoy.
The sources said Communist balkiness in the latest cease-fire moves has "put the timetable back" and has delayed any further evacuation of the offshore islands beyond the Tachens for an unspecified period.
More concrete arrangements are expected to be made by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden when they meet for the SEATO conference in Bangkok on Feb. 23, the sources said.
The issue is different from the Tachen operation because, in the case of Quemoy and Matsu, American covering ships would be virtually under the muzzles of Communist guns on the mainland.
Few observers gave him more than the barest chance of rallying enough support from the rightist and center elements of the national assembly to form the 21st postwar government. The 11-day-old crisis which began with the ouster of Premier Mendes-France has delayed ratification of the Paris pacts and put the issue of German rearmament in doubt.
The suave, balding 50-year-old Pineau said last night the Socialist party platform would form the basis of his own program. For this reason politicians gave him little chance of forming a cabinet and getting assembly approval.
The Socialist platform has few supporters in the assembly aside from the party's 105 deputies, the largest single party bloc. Its main planks are reduction of taxes on consumer goods, improved training of unemployed workers, heavier taxes on large companies, and consistent backing for separation of church and state.
Pineau's first meeting this morning was with Pierre Pflimlin, Catholic popular Republican (MRP) deputy who acknowledged defeat yesterday in his three-day struggle to form a government.
If Pineau fails it was considered likely President Rene Coty would ask the radical Socialists to try to form the new government.
Failure of Pfilimlin, the second man to try to reconcile the conflicting interests of the 626 deputies, shoved Pineau into the crisis. Independent Antoine Pinay tried and failed after the fall of Mendes-France.
Most frequently mentioned candidates from this party are outgoing Foreign Minister Edgar Faure, outgoing Education Minister Jean Berthoin, and former Premier Rene Mayer.
Tests Slated Today For AWS Hopefuls
Tests will be given today to 55 University women who have petitioned for positions on the AWS Senate. The examination may be taken at 5 p.m. in the library, or at 7:30 in 205 Journalism building.
Candidates will be tested on AWS organization and regulations which were explained at a briefing session Thursday. Those who pass will be entertained tomorrow at a tea in the English room of the Student Union.
5 KU Men to Visit Chicago Institute
Five representatives of the State Geological survey and the University mining and metallurgical engineering department will attend the annual meeting of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical engineers in Chicago, Feb. 14-17.
Those attending the meeting are Norman Plummer, ceramist, who will speak on Kansas clays and their suitability as a raw material for aggregates; Russell Runnels, geochemist; William Ives, geologist; Kenneth Rose, metallurgist; and Hubert Risser, mining engineer.
Weather
The weather forecast for Kansas calls for increasing cloudiness throughout the state with occasional light rain and considerable fog expected in the extreme southeast tonight and early tomorrow. Mild temperatures are expected to continue throughout the state.