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Allen Fieldhouse! UNIVERSITY Topeka Press Daily hansan Reveals Secret
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
53rd Year, No. 65
Friday, December 17, 1954
Report on TV Channel Called 'Unauthorized'
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said this morning that reports that a plan for a non-commercial educational television station operating on Channel 11 at the University of Kansas would be presented to the board of regents today were "premature and unau- ved."
The proposal of the plan was announced yesterday by President James A. McCain of Kansas State college. Dr. McCain inadvertently released the information to the K-State student newspaper, The Collegian.
The plan calls for educational TV on Channel II by 1956.
Dr. Murphy this morning said:
Dr. Murphy this morning said, "I presume the project will now be presented at the meeting (of the board of regents), but it isn't appropriate for me to make a statement until action is taken by the board. ."
President McCain told the reporters the plan would bring educational television to every secuclal of Kansas in eight years at an annual cost of about $1 million. He added that the project would be offered by five state college presidents to the regents.
The $8 million would pay for construction and operation of eight transmitters, five production units, and a traveling production unit, he said. The major production facilities would be at Manhattan and Lawrence, with supplementary units at Hays, Emporia, and Pittsburg.
The proposed plan stipulates that once such station would be added each year until all eight are in operation. The first additional station probably would be opened in Hays in 1957.
Four of the proposed transmitters would be in the ultra high frequency class, which would require adapters for most television sets in use in this area, he said. The proposed additional stations would include Hays, Channel 7; Colby, Channel 22; Garden City; Channel 11; Pratt; Channel 36; Wichita, Channel 22, and Chanute, Channel 50.
Major programming facilities would be at Lawrence and Manhattan with modest facilities also at Pittsburg, Emporia, and Hays. Most programs originating at the latter three colleges would, however, be filmed or the participants would travel to KU or K-State for transmission.
Union Reports Vacation Hours
The Student Union will be open during Christmas vacation as a convenience to students staying on the campus, Frank R. Burge, Union building director, said today.
From Dec. 19 through Dec. 25, the building will be open until 9 p.m. Starting Dec. 26, the regular schedule of operation will be resumed to handle the YWCA-YMCA conference.
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Mr. Burge said facilities of the Music and Browsing room, the television lounge, and the game room will be available. He added that specific food service hours will be announced. The Hawk's nest will be closed until Dec. 26, so all food service will be concentrated in the cafeteria. Effective Dec. 27, the Hawk's nest will be open with service available for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Short orders will be available throughout the day.
The Union bookstore will retain its present hours, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Mr. Burge said the Jay Bowl recreation area will be open from 3 till 9 p.m. until Dec. 26, when the hours w!! be extended from 12 noon to 10 pm.
By STAN HAMILTON
The almost completed $21/2 million fieldhouse has been named the "Forrest C. Allen fieldhouse."
The announcement came from Topeka, where the board of regents is meeting today. It had been planned not to release the announcement until the building was to be dedicated, but the information was allowed to seep out.
allowed to seeEP Dr. Allen, 69 year-old basketball coach and member of more basket-takers than any other coach in history, was told of the naming by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy this morning.
morning statement, he said: 'In this hour of great recognition of my ser-
Chinese Agree To Meet on Case of Airmen
United Nations, N.Y. — (U.R.)—Red China's Premier Chou En-lai today invited U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to Red China, presumably to discuss the case of 11 U.S. airmen imprisoned there as spies.
Mr. Hammarskjold announced he will go to Peiping as soon as he returns to the United States from Stockholm, where he will accept his late father's seat in the Swedish academy. He will leave New York at 6 p.m. today and return Tuesday or Wednesday.
Chou sent two cables to Mr. Hammarskjold in which he bitterly attacked the United Nations for condemning the imprisonment and giving Mr. Hammarskjold a mandate to seek an audience in Peiping. But he extended the secretary genera a cordial welcome to visit Peiping The wording of Chou's inflammatory cable indicated he would say "no" to Mr. Hammarskjold's ef forts to win freedom for the air men.
meet. the same time Chou apparently left the door open for discussions of four other U.S. airmen and several hundred U.N. personnel still held as war prisoners who were not tried by Red courts.
A Red Chinese "peoples court" convicted the 11 Americans on spy charges after the prosecutors claimed they were shot down in China and not in North Korea as the United States charged.
In asking Chou for the meeting in a cable dispatched to Peiping last Friday, Mr. Hammarskjold suggested a date soon after Dec. 26.
vices to the University of Kansas. I feel very unworthy and deeply grateful."
The coach, who next year will reach the mandatory retirement age, expressed much surprise and gratitude at the action of the board. He gave much credit to the Kansan, which has been conducting a campaign to have his name put on the building. A total of 1,047 votes had been received to that effect.
been received by the regents decided in October to name the building, but decided not to make the announcement at that time. Chancellor Murphy said. The minutes were seen by newspaper men in Topeka, who confronted the board and asked if the announcement was true. The regents replied that it was.
DR. ALLEN
For the second time in five weeks the regents have by passed a long-standing tradition against naming University buildings for living persons. The new physical sciences building was named Nov. 5 in honor of Deane W Malott.
DR. ALLEN former chancellor and now Cornell university president.
The 17,000-seat arena is due to be completed in time for at least one or two of the late basketball games of this season to be played in. Construction began a year ago when long-awaited steel was obtained.
Two weeks ago the city commission named the new 4-lane road leading to the building "Naismith road," in honor of Dr. James Naismith, basketball inventor and KU faculty member for many years.
"I feel deeply grateful to the Kansan and to those who spontaneously added to the campaign," Dr. Allen said. "It (the naming) makes the Christmas cheer rise in my heart." Chancellor Murphy four weeks ago said, "Talk of naming it is premature. I am sure that no building will be named until it is ready to be dedicated." This morning he said, "It is my understanding that the press in Topeka got abound of the minutes of that (October) meeting. They asked the regents if such action had been taken, and the board said 'yes.'"
Snow, Low Temperatures Provide Highway Hazards
Snow, intermittent splotches of ice, and freezing temperatures combined to make Christmas vacation driving extremely dangerous.
combined to make C. J. Posey, local unofficial weather observer, reported one-half inch snow and .05 inch moisture last night, with possible snow flurries later this afternoon.
Elsewhere in the nation, a Pacific cold front, followed by a howling wind storm, surged through the southern plains today towards the Gulf of Mexico.
Towns in north and central Texas reported blowing dust, but the wind storm appeared to have lost some of the power it showed yesterday further west when it killed at least one person.
one person.
Dust closed Highway 36 from near
Downtown byers, Colo., and wind
reached 55 to 65 miles per hour.
In the mountains, the storm
brought up to six inches of new
snow.
snow Low temperatures early today included 3 below zero at Eagle, Colo., and 1 above at Laramie. Wyo. Below freezing weather continued for the third straight day in northern Florida, where the mercury went down to 29 at Cross, while it was only 32 at Minot, N.D. A band of snow and rain stretched from Minnesota and Wisconsin to east Texas. Des Moines, Iowa, reported two inches of snow on the ground and more coming down, and a half inch fell in the Chicago area.
Chicago area. It was moderately cool in the East, although snow covered parts of New England and upper New York state, including three inches on the ground at Albany, N.Y.
Here, with the Christmas vacation beginning, and some snow on the ground with the possibility of more to come, highways may be treacherous.