Daily hansan
Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
52nd Year, No. 76
Monday, January 17, 1955
War's Outcome Worries Costa Rican Student
Rv STAN HAMILTON
At least two University students are vitally interested in the maneuvering and eventual outcome of the current Costa Rican armed fighting.
One of the two, Fernando Torres a graduate student in chemistry from Costa Rica, spent several hours in the Kansan newsroom this morning watching the teletype machine for news to relay to his roommate and brother-in-law, Luis Bianchini, a first year medicine student also from the Central American country.
The 32-year-old Torres explained his intense interest in the struggle because all communication from his family has been severed since the warring began.
"I don't think the Nicaraguan actually are conducting the offensive, just backing it with arms and advice." Torres said. "And I am sure there is nothing to do with Communism.
"While I hope the current regime defeats the rebels, I can see their (rebels)' reason for attacking. Our economic situation is very poor, and the high taxes that have been levied have brought discontent."
Torres, who has been at KU six years and has been home only once.
in the summer of 1950, said his main worry is that his country may be turned into another Korea because of foreign intervention, such as the airplanes provided yesterday by the United States.
"We don't want to be another Korea," he said. "But with Nicaragua and the United States already committed, and possibly there is Venezuelan aid to the rebels, the UN or some others may feel they have to step in. We don't want that to happen."
He shrugged the strife off as an internal dispute, but quickly went back to the teletype to watch for news.
Wrong Photograph In Paper—Sorry
A photograph in Friday's Daily Kansan of V. J. G. Stavridi, director of external services of the United Nations department of public information, was incorrectly identified as David H. Popper, a State department officer.
13 Feared Dead In Ocean Crash Of Navy Plane
Stephenville, Nfld.—(U.P.)A Navy super-Constellation crashed in the stormy Atlantic today and all 13 men aboard are feared to have lost their lives.
The four-engine transport, flying to the Patuxent Naval Air base in Maryland, went down 70 miles southwest of Stephenville, on the southwest coast of Newfoundland.
The plane carried seven passengers and six crewmen, but the Air Force withheld their names pending notification of next-of-kin.
Search planes reported sighting five life rafts but no sign of survivors.
The plane reported two engines out over Prince Edward Island and attempted to return to the Ernest Harmon U.S. Air Force base here when an escorting B-29 lost contact with it.
Messages received by the U.S. Coast Guard in New York said the escorting aircraft sighted five life rafts and life jackets as well as plane debris, but there were no signs of survivors.
Ike Urges Cuts In U.S. Spending
Washington—(U.P.)—President Eisenhower sent his fiscal 1956 budget to Congress today with a call for more cuts in government spending and no cuts in taxes. | * * * * * *
The new budget outlined spending plans and revenue estimates which would leave the government about $2,500 billion in the red at year's end.
This would mean that the Eisenhower administration again has missed its target of a balanced budget.
Mr. Eisenhower already has asked Congress to extend for one year the current rates of corporation income taxes, and excise taxes on liquor, tobacco, gasoline, and automobiles.
Federal revenues were expected to rise a little in fiscal 1956, if the general predictions of better business and higher employment are borne out. The estimated tax take for fiscal 1955 is $59,500,000,000.
National defense and mutual security again accounted for two-thirds of all government spending.
And he made it clear in his State of the Union message that tax cuts were out this year, but that there might be reductions in 1956, a presidential election year.
The government's annual outlays have dropped by about $10 billion in the two years since the President took office.
Spending in the current fiscal year 1955 is estimated at $64 billion. Because of the large chunks which already have been cut off, the fiscal 1956 figure probably is not much more than a billion dollars or so below that.
Missouri Basin Funds Sought
Washington—(U.P.)—President Eisenhower asked today for a $15 million boost in funds for construction of navigation and flood control and reclamation projects in the Missouri basin in fiscal 1956 over the amount being spent this year.
Among the requests for Army engineer projects were these:
Navigation—Missouri river; Sioux City to Omaha, 5.8 million; Omaha to Kansas City, $3.3 million; Kansas City to mouth, $2 million.
Flood control—Missouri river at Kansas City, $400,000; Missouri river agricultural levees in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraska, $330,000; Toronto reservoir, Kan., $2.8 million.
A total of $16,480,000 was proposed for work on the basin transmission network by the Bureau of Reclamation. The bureau is spending $12,491,000 this year.
Other reclamation projects:
Bostwick Division,
Kansas, $6784.000;
Kan., $1.4 million;
Kan., $3.5 million.
Child Falls in Potter; Saved By 2 KU Students
Nebraska-
Kirwin unit,
Webster unit,
ICE RESCUE—Richard Walters, nine-year-old son of Mrs. Mildred Bellinger of Lawrence, was playing on the ice on Potter lake Saturday with two of his grade school friends, Freddy Farmer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Farmer, and Mike Wiley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Odell Wiley, both of Lawrence, when the ice gave way and young Richard found himself in a very cold situation. At the same time two University students, Max Woodburn and Bernard Jezak, both college freshmen, were at the lake throwing ice at each other.
Picture 1 shows Jezek throwing ice just as Richard is shoe-sledding on the thin ice. Picture 2 shows the unhappy plight of Richard as the ice breaks and he takes an unwanted cold bath.
Picture 3 shows Richard reaching for a rope that the University students got and then threw to the boy in the attempt to rescue him.
The fourth picture shows Richard, hanging onto the rope, being dragged across the ise by Jezak, who is walking into the lake to assist the boy.
The final picture shows Richard, cold but safe, on dry ground again, getting a change of clothes and a few comforting words from his rescuers. The outcome—Richard was taken home to his grandmother and a hot bath.
(Editor's Note: These on the spot pictures were taken with two 35 mm cameras by two students who happened upon the scene while taking some pictures of the campanile. They are: Dee Ihde, college freshman, and Lyle McDermed, pharmacy freshman.)