Kansas State Historical Society Topcka, Ks.
EISENHOWER MUSEUM—President Eisenhower today in Abilene dedicated the new museum. which is not completed. Pylons will be erected in the front of the building. The President's brother, Milton, delivered the address-Photo by the Abilene Reflector-Chronicle.
Ike Opens Kansas Museum
By STAN HAMILTON and GRETCHEN GUINN
Abilene — President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicated the Eisenhower museum in Abilene this morning before a crowd of 7,500 persons. He spoke for 6 minutes, 40 seconds.
The President was introduced after the dedicatory speech by his brother, Milton Eisenhower, and a welcome by Gov. Edward F. Arn.
President Eisenhower had no prepaired speech because "I was afraid I would be swept by emotion, so I will say whatever comes to mind. A particular satisfaction comes from knowing that your neighbors
and friends should gather and wane do something to commemorate the armed forces of the United States."
Speaking of the museum, the President said, "I'm bold enough to speak for every Eisenhower I have made, known, expressing humble pride that today we may be here to participate in this ceremony. I feel nothing else ever could have induced the Eisenhower brothers to attach their name to something with an element of self glory except for the future good of American principles of freedom."
After his speech he clipped a crepe ribbon to officially dedicate the museum. After that he spent about 16 minutes inside the museum. Then he went to his boyhood home on the main property and spent about a minute inside.
President Eisenhower stopped twice during his speech because of the distraction of a plane overhead. He also squinted throughout his speech because of the bright sunlight.
The President's brother, Milton Eisenhower, president of Pennsylvania State college made the museum dedication address.
The President's brother said, "In our thinking, we naturally associate this spot with our God-fearing parents who believed so deeply in the cardinal principles of our religious tradition that they measured the success or failure of their sons not in terms of fame or position, but only in terms of the good and the non-good."
Milton Eisenhower said the museum is "a silent but telling reminder of the most bewildering, rapidly changing, and perhaps most significant period in American history."
"The Eisenhower museum, majestic and representative of the best in modern architecture, is typical of the mid-20th century," he said.
Thursday, Nov. 11, 1954
He concluded:
"We of the family see this project as honoring all living members, in the memory of the deceased members of the armed forces of the United States—particularly the men and women who served in World War II."
53rd Year, No. 42
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KUBandGains New Member: The President
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
By GRETCHEN GUINN and STAN HAMILTON
Ablens—The 110-piece KU band today gained a new and very coveted member, the President of the United States.
The brief induction of the Chief Executive came after he was met as he was about to enter his boyhood home on the grounds by Prof. Russell L. Wiley, band director, Prof. Raymond Zepp, assistant director, Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts, Thomas Siegfried, drum major, and Richard Fritz, band president.
Mr. and Mrs. Eisenhower and the official party viewed the 15-minute parade from the marquee of the Sunflower hotel. The President stood throughout and occasionally waved to participants. In lull periods he waved back at spectators across the street.
Prof. Wiley presented Mr. Eisenhower a band shako, size 74, and placed it on his head. He also gave him a gold band key but then took it back with a promise to have one specially made and sent to him later.
The President grinned at the unexpected honor as newsmen and cameramen clamored for pictures, Siegfried and Fritz were plainly awed.
He was dressed in a conservative brown suit with matching tie. He turned occasionally to comment to Mamie and several times turned to his grandson, who was standing beside him, to muss his hair and point things out to him.
He turned to Dean Gorton and Prof. Wiley and expressed his gratitude for the band's part in the ceremony and parade preceding it, and congratulated the unit for its playing.
The President squinted in the bright sun and asked Prof. Wiley, "Now does this make it possible for me to blow a trombone? I am now a beginning drummer. I just wish I could play an instrument."
Kansas can expect another fair day tomorrow. The weather bureau predicts fair skies with temperatures in the 70s. The low tonight is expected to be in the low 40s.
Weather
AEC Must Present Signed Contract
Washington—(U.P.)The Congressional Atomic Energy committee suspended hearings on the controversial Dixon-Yates power contract today until the Atomic Energy commission produces a signed contract.
The commission was expected to report on the status of the negotiations today. Chairman W. Sterling Cole (R-N.Y.) of the Congressional committee said he hopes for a report that the contract has been executed.
Rep. James E. Van Zandt (R-Pa.) said he will ask for a committee showdown tomorrow if the commission comes up with a binding contract today. He said, "We've had enough of this hassle."
The administration has asked the committee to waive a provision of the Atomic Energy act requiring a 30-day review of all such contracts while Congress is in session. Mr. Van Zandt said he would call for a vote on that request.
Battle lines were already forming, however, for a bitter fight on the issue in the next Congress, regardless of what the committee does. Democrats were reported ready to concentrate their fire on President Eisenhower himself.
That was indicated late yesterday when Sen. Albert Göthe (D-Tenn.), one of the contract's sharpest critics, brushed aside testimony that President Eisenhower has been ill-advised on the contract.
"I've excused the President on the basis of bad advice as long as I care to. As far as I'm concerned the gift tag on the Dixon-Yates contract has President Eisenhower's name on it."
Chest Total Climbs to $318.24
After collections of $119.48 yesterday the Campus Chest total reached $318.24.
four organized houses turned in
the following incomplete collections:
Pi Beta Phi, $26.50; Stevenson
hall, $32.05; Alpha Phi $21; and Phi
Delta Theta, $39.93.
Washington—(U.P.)—Drought a n d federal crop controls have trimmed this year's farm production prospects 3 per cent below last year, pointing to the fifth largest on record.
Controls Trim Farm Products
George Sheldon, chairman of collections in organized houses, urged that contributions be turned in as soon as possible so the progress of the drive can be determined.
An Agriculture department report yesterday pointed out that while farm output this year still will be "relatively large," it has been topped in four of the past six years.
Next month's report will give final production figures for basic crops. But according to current harvest-time reports, record crops of soybeans, rice, and sugarbeets have helped to keep this year's farm output as large as it is, offsetting federal cutbacks in wheat, corn, and cotton.
Farmers also are expected to harvest above average crops this year of oats, barley, rye, flaxseed, and sorghum grains. Farmers planted more of these crops this year on acreage idled by controls on basic crops.
McCarthy Camp Seeks to Blunt Censure Move
Washington—(U.P.)—Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's forces worked hard to whip up a compromise formula to blunt or at least soften the apparently unbeatable move to censure the Wisconsin Republican.
Some of the Senator's chief supporters said privately they were drafting amendments aimed at taking the sting out of the Watkins committee's censure resolution and possibly scuttling one part of it entirely.
They made the disclosure as Sen Homer E. Capehart (R-Ind.) proposed that the Senate call off the debate until January to remove the issue from the present atmosphere of post-election fatigue.
The Big Senate debate rolled into its second day today with Sen, Francis Case (R.-S.D.), a member of the censure committee, slated as the first speaker.
At the windup of a turbulent initial session yesterday, Sen. McCarthy and Chairman Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah) waged a fist-pounding argument over the merits of the censure committee and its report.
There were reports in some quarters that Republican leaders have shown some interest in the compromise possibility. But there was no confirmation of this from reliable sources.
sources. Meanwhile, the sporadic nature of yesterday's debate prompted several predictions today that the historic special session might be shorter than first expected. Sen. Watkins said "we could finish in a week if everybody would cooperate."
The Democrats were so conspicuously silent yesterday that the debate nearly collapsed at one point. If the Democrats leave most of the oratory to the Republicans, the debate might be bobtailed considerably.
Sen. McCarthy demanded yesterday afternoon that Sens. Watkins, Case, and other censure committeemen let him question them on the floor about various aspects of their recommendation that he be censured. Sen. Watkins agreed to submit to "reasonable" questioning but not to serve as a prop for presentation of Sen. McCarthy's case.
Students Hurt In Car Wreck
Five women students were injured in a car which rolled over a curve into a ditch at about 9 p.m. yesterday on Lakeview road, four miles northwest of Lawrence.
They are Judy Nichols, driver of the car, and Barbara Butler, Jane Pecinovsky and Donna McNett, all college sophomores, and Ellen Meador, fine arts sophomore. They were returning to Lawrence after an Alpha Chi Omega pledge party at Riverside school.
Miss Nichols suffered a fractured right leg and pelvis, and the passengers received cuts, bruises, and shock.
Miss Nichols was driving east about 50 mph around a curve when the car turned over into a ditch. Three passengers were thrown from the car.
Miss Nichols was taken to Lawrence Memorial hospital and the passengers to Watkins Memorial hospital. Their condition is reported as satisfactory.
Disney Classics Are Feature Of Film Series Tomorrow
A program of Walt Disney classics, featuring four "Silly Symphonies," three recent cartoons, "Pecos Bill," and a True-Life adventure, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Hoch auditorium.
Third in the University film series, the Disney revue is filmed in Technicolor.
The "Silly Symphonies" include "The Grasshopper and the Ant," "Funny Little Bunnies," "The Practical Pig," and "Farmyard Symphony." They were first shown in the mid-1330s, when Disney's cartoons were revolutionary.
The three cartoons are "Laughs from the past," "Mickey's Birthday Party," and "The Old Mill."
First appearing in "Melody Time" in 1948, "Pecos Bill" is sung by Roy Rogers.
A true picture filmed in Florida, "Prowlers of the Everglades," will conclude the program. An organ recital will begin at 7:15 p.m.