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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, December 15, 1954
'Iwas the Night...
'Twas the night before Christmas and I was aglow Some from excitement and some from Old Crow. I climbed in my car, on my face was a grin, I was taking my girl for a holiday spin.
We spun down the highway, our chatter was light. We paid no attention to snow in its flight. When I saw the truck coming I put on the brake Without even knowing my life was at stake.
The car skidded sideways, she uttered a cry.
"Don't worry," I told her, "we're too young to die."
The car and truck met with a splintering smash.
And all I could think of was, "this will take cash!"
"Twas the night before Christmas and back in my home My father looked grim as he laid down the phone. He turned to my mom, and that's when he said: "He was terribly hurt, dear, he's better off dead!"
—Don Tice
(Editor's Note: This poem, printed for the first time last year aroused so much comment that we're printing it again.)
Businessmen Attend Clinic
Business leaders throughout the state are attending the second annual Association Management clinic today in the Student Union.
Harold Wallace, executive vice president of the Associated Credit Bureau of America, Inc., of St Louis, spoke at the opening session "Stimulating Membership Participation" was the subject of his talk.
"Your Association and the Legislature" will be the subject of a talk by C. E. Holmes, executive secretary of the Kansas Oil Men's Association, Wichita.
George Catts, executive manager of the Kansas City, Mo. Chamber of Commerce, will speak on "Committee Activity."
Discussion topics for the conference include "Membership Education," "Group discussion techniques," and "Ways to improve inter and intra-association relationships."
Although the United States Trust Territory of Pacific Islands—from the western Carolinas to the eastern Marshalls—is as wide as the entire United States, its 2000 coral and lava atolls and outcrops contain only enough solid land to make half a Rhode Island, the National Geographic Society says.
The wild boar has its practical uses. Its strong, stiff bristles end up in paint brushes.
Washington —(U.R.)— President Eisenhower said today the United States must be strongly prepared for as long as 50 years to fight a big war.
Long-Time War Preparation
But Mr. Eisenhower added quickly that he hopes and prays it will not be necessary to carry the defense program forward on current levels for so long a period.
He made the statement at his news conference in response to questions about defense planning.
The President also said the military manpower reserve program outlined to Republican and Democratic congressional leaders yesterday is a far cry from Universal Military Training.
He declined to go into detail, saying this will be done Friday at a defense department news conference.
Sources familiar with yesterday's White House briefing said Mr. Eisenhower has put a top priority label on his reserve program which, according to military experts, is a step in the direction of Universal Military Training.
Mr. Eisenhower, in a lengthy news conference exposition of current defense theories in a changing world, emphasized that it would be impossible to buy 100 per cent security in every little corner of the world.
The President also said today that an Air Force official told him some time ago that so-called flying saucers do not come from outer space.
But he said that for the foreseeable future—50 years if necessary—the United States must prepare to remain strong and able to cope with what a reporter referred to as "a big war."
The President said this in response to a question. He did not, however, say whether he thinks there are any such things, or, if so, where they come from.
Congressional leaders said Mr. Eisenhower has put a $63 billion price tag on the 1955 legislature program he will submit to Congress next month. This is about the same
as the estimated bill for this fiscal year, which ends next July 1, and will mean a $3 billion deficit—even if the corporation and excise tax cuts are postponed.
The President confirmed what had been an open secret since his Monday meeting with GOP congressional leaders: that the administration would ask postponement of the scheduled five-point drop in the corporation tax rate and the reduction of excise taxes next year.
Mr. Eisenhower said he was thinking in terms of a one-year extension of the current tax rates, but that the Treasury department might have some other ideas.
He said the tax reduction of about $2,200,000,000 should not go through as scheduled because taxes should not be lowered without a corresponding decrease in expenditures. He said that, when the new budget figures became public, it will be apparent that planned expenditures for the next fiscal year have been cut as far as safety permits.
Graduate Heads Rocket Society
Dr. Richard W. Porter, '34, general manager of General Electric company's guided missiles department, has been elected president of the American Rocket society.
914 Massachusetts Street LAWRENCE, KANSAS
After receiving his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University, Dr. Porter attendedcole university under a fellowship granted him by General Electric's Charles A. Coffin educational fund and received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1937.
Dr. Porter has been an authority in the rocket and guided missile field since 1944 and received the alumni award from KU in 1851.
Maine's liquor commission suspended a proprietor's license to sell beer for 10 days because he allowed a visibly intoxicated person in his barrroom. The person? The proprietor.
Texas has 263,644 square miles of land area.
Giraffes, because of their poorly developed voices, communicate with each other mainly by switching their tails.
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