Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, January 19, 1955
52nd Year, No.78
Stassen to Take Responsibility For Ladejinsky
Washington—(U.P.)—Foreign A j d Chief Harold Stassen assumed full responsibility today for hiring Wolf Ladejinky after he had been ousted from the Agriculture department for security reasons.
He said Mr. Ladejinsky has a 19-year history of government service "without a blemish on his record."
Mr. Stassen said Mr. Ladejinsky, a Russian-born land reform expert and former agricultural attache in Japan, "is not and has never been a Communist."
Mr. Stassen gave Mr. Ladejinsky a job in the Foreign Operations Administration's land reform program in South Vietnam even though Mr. Ladejinsky had been ousted from the Agriculture department for "security" and "technical" reasons.
Mr. Stassen said he respected Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson's "sincerity and understandable difference of judgment" in the Ladetinsky case. But he added:
Mr. Ladejinsky had been cleared for his post as agriculture attache in Japan by the State department but was dropped when the Agriculture department assumed control of the post.
"I sincerely believe that my decision was right—right for our country, right for President Eisenhower's administration and right for Mr. Ladeinsky."
—Kansan photo by Cliff Meyer
President Eisenhower told a news conference last week he at first questioned Mr. Ladejinsky's status but then changed his mind after learning Mr. Ladejinsky had written articles critical of Communism. The President said Mr. Stassen would have to take responsibility for giving Mr. Ladejinsky another government job.
Diploma fees for graduation should be paid by the candidates for the degrees before they leave school, the registrar's office said today. The fee is $12 for the first degree and $10 for subsequent ones. There is no specific deadline, but the degree cannot be awarded until the fee is paid.
Regulations Listed On Graduation Fee
GETTING READY FOR ASPEN—David McCampbell, graduate student practices his skiing tactics before he travels to Aspen, Colo., for the student ski trip between semesters. McCampbell, who is chairman of the trip, is supervised by a well-known figure on campus, Sarge.
Physics Instructor Dies; Had Taught Here Since '43
Grant L. Pistorius, an instructor in physics since 1943, died shortly before midnight last night at Watkins hospital. He was 63.
Mr. Pistorius was born at Maquon, Ill., Jan. 7, 1892. He was a member of the Pittsburg Masonic lodge and many scientific organizations.
He earned his bachelor of science in education degree in 1921 from Emporia State college. In 1928 he earned his master of arts in physics degree from KU. He taught in high schools at Delevan and Pittsburg. From 1928 to 1943 he was an instructor at St. Joseph, Mo., junior college.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ruth Pistorius, of the home, 1729 Mississippi st.; a daughter, Mrs. Gerald Taylor, of 29-B Sunnyside; a son, John K. Pistorius, of Ottawa; two brothers, Arthur Pistorius, of Nowata, Okla., and Glenn Pistorius, of Avoca, Texas, and four grandchildren.
Funeral services, at 2 p.m. Friday at the Rumsey chapel, will be conducted by the Rev. Edwin Price
Kansan photo by Nancy Collins
FINAL WEEK—Hitting the books is Paralee Y. Neeley, college sophomore, shown here in the library preparing for coming examinations.
Free China Planes Blast Red Vessels
Jayhawker Picture Deadline Looms
Seniors leaving the University this semester should call Estes studio, 151, for an appointment to have pictures taken this week for the Jayhawker.
Tachen Islands Not Vital-Ike
Washington—(U.P.)—President Eisenhower said today that the United States does not regard the Tachen Islands, where fighting is underway between Communists and Nationalist China, as vital to the defense of Formosa and the Pescadores islands.
President Eisenhower also said at a news conference, in response to a question, that he would like to see the UN attempt to exercise its good offices to arrange a cease fire, if possible, between the two warring Chinese groups.
The President said a powder keg always exists where there is open fighting, and that therefore it might be good for the UN to take a look at the Chinese fighting.
He noted that the United States by treaty now before the Senate would be committed to the defense of Formosa and the Pescadores.
The President said the two outlying islands near the Tachens are not occupied by Chinese Nationalist regular troops. The situation is different on the Tachens, he said, because they are occupied by a division of Nationalist troops.
9th Street Is Roped For Sledding, Skiing
An area between 8th and 10th streets on Louisiana has been roped off for sledding, skiing, and skating, Campus Police Chief Joe Skillman said today.
The city police have roped off the area for the use of Lawrence children and ask that anyone who plans to take advantage of the snow for these purposes use the roped-off area.
Taipei, Formosa-(U.P.)—A "large number" of Chinese Nationalist warplanes carried out a retaliatory air raid against Communist vessels along the southeast coast of mainland China today.
A military communique issued here said the "punitive attacks," which also sent Nationalist fighter bombers to the Amoy and Swatow areas off the China mainland, inflicted "heavy losses" on the Reds.
The raids were in reply to the Red invasion of Vikiangshan island and Communist shelling of the Nationalist held Tachen islands to the north.
Nationalist military spokesmen said all of the raiding bombers returned safely.
Meanwhile, a communique from the Tachches indicated the Nationalist garrison there still was resisting the Red attack and would fight "to the last man."
Red Chinese warplanes hit Tachen, Chiang Kai-shek's main northern outpost, in a massive air raid earlier today, and the Communists were reported menacing another island to the south of the key bastion.
The Nationalists said a full-scale war raged in the chain of outposts protecting Chiang's Formosa stronghold.
Ykiangshan island, to the north of Tachen, was written off as lost to Red invaders who stormed ashore yesterday under air and naval bombardment. Pishan island, south of Tachen, was expected to be attacked in a giant pincer move against Tachen.
More than 200 Russian-made planes bombed Techen this morning in what the Nationalists called the greatest air raid since World War II.
The Nationalist Ministry of Defense said a huge Red force was menacing the entire Tachen network, which lies only 250 miles north of Formosa.
Nationalist official quarters took exception with U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' statement in Washington yesterday that Yikiangshan and the Tachens were militarily not important to the defense of Formosa.
These quarters termed Yikiangshan "very important," and maintained that the loss of northern outposts to the Reds would deal a severe blow o Nationalist Chinese morale and support overseas.
Nationalists also objected to reports from the United States that Mr. Dulles might favor a truce between Nationalist and Red China.
KU Social Life Subsides As Final Week Approaches
By AMY DE YONG
The whirl of social events and enthusiastic crowds at basketball games is over. The Hawk's Nest sadly relinquishes its popularity, in some cases, as many students go to Watson library for a last look at the reserve list.
Final week is here.
Schedules are packed with all-night study sessions, and coffee and cigarettes, the mainstay of sleepy scholars. The midnight oil nurses brightly into the wee hours of the night, and the snowclad stretch of Jayhawk boulevard reflects the light from busy labs and classrooms in Strong and Lindley halls.
Behind the windows there's a different picture. Here clutters of notebooks are the center of attention and students search frantically for class outlines.
And in the midst of all this turmoil the contagious spirit of the first snow draws many a wellmeaning scholar to the icy slopes. Tray sliding will do if you can't
find a sled, and crowds of laughing,
screaming college students skid
happily, crazily down and trudge
eagerly back for another ride.
Snowball fights imperil the paths to classes, while shivering greetings are tossed joyfully at friends. Ice skates are hopefully brought out and cleaned in anticipation of Potter lake's shining ice surface.
But soon the gayest of enthusiastic sledding parties is shattered by the remembrance of approaching exams. Back to the books, the labs, and the libraries, and the thoughts of students turn again to the task at hand.
The snowy streets are quiet now and the tap-tap of typewriters is the only sound as final week gets under way.