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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, October 6. 1954
Indiana Prison Guards Strike;WatchmenAlert
Michigan City, Ind. — (U.P.)—Guards at the Indiana State prison went on strike today and national guardsmen were ready to take over the policing of 2,300 convicts.
The strike started ahead of schedule early today as the night shift came off duty.
Matriculation Fee Same As 1866 Cost
In these days marked by the high cost of living it costs no more to matriculate at the University than it did the first students in 1866.
"An Act to organize the University of the State of Kansas," passed in 1864, stipulated that "the fee of admission to the University shall never exceed ten dollars." If construed to mean the matriculation fee charged every student upon his first enrollment, the fee still is $10 for Kansans.
The act, however, was not observed to the letter in another respect. It specified that "there shall be two branches of the University, viz., a male and a female branch. The female branch may be taught exclusively by women, and buildings for that branch shall be entirely separate from the buildings of the male branch."
But the University, which held its first classes in Old North College Hall in 1866, was co-education from the start, with 29 men, 26 women, and faculty of three men. It was the third state university to accept the principle of co-education, and the first west of the Mississippi river.
The act of 1848 further stated that the University should consist of six departments, which were the liberal arts and sciences, law, medicine, elementary instruction, agriculture, and the normal department. Actually the normal department was not up set until 1876, law in 1878, medicine in 1899, and agriculture was left wholly to the K-State.
In 1954 there are 10 schools, adding to the original list the schools of business, engineering and architecture, fine arts, pharmacy, journalism, and the graduate. The School of Education consolidates the elementary and normal departments.
The same act set up a 12-man board of regents to oversee the administration of the University, with a stipulation that no more than three be of the same religious denomination. In 1925 the board was consolidated with those of the other state schools, and today's nine-member board conducts the affairs of eight state institutions.
In 1864 the legislature defined as the purpose of the University "to provide the inhabitants of this state with the means of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the various branches of literature, science, and the arts."
Geology Professor To Deliver Address
Dr. H. T. U. Smith, associate professor of geology, has accepted an invitation to deliver the graduation address to the Photo Interpretation class at the Army General school, Fort Riley, Oct. 19.
The class consists of nine officers and 54 enlisted men. Following the commencement address Dr. Smith will conduct an informal seminar for the school instructors.
Union leaders said prison officials demanded that the guards sign cards pledging their loyalty "to the state of Indiana." Those who refused were fired, union officials said, and the strike got underway.
About 20 pickets began marching around the big gray prison and state police were rushed to prevent any outbreak.
The union kept about 35 men on duty to prevent any convict attempt at a break. An equal number of guards had signed the "joyalty" cards and stayed on duty, a union spokesman said.
The guards have warned that many "lifers" would riot if national guardsmen enter the walls. Fifty guardsmen were on duty at the Gary, Ind., armory, only 20 miles away, ready to rush to Michigan City if they are needed.
A sympathy walkout was threatened, meanwhile, at the nearby state reformatory at Pendleton, where 2,150 younger convicts and minimum security prisoners are housed.
Throughout the state about 350 guardsmen were alerted to go into the prison if necessary. A national guard sergeant at Gary said early today, there had been no immediate appeal for troops.
The state's security precautions were also strengthened by 100 state policemen who could reach the prison within an hour's notice.
Mr. Beatz warned that the union pickets will bar all trucks except those carrying mail from entering the prison walls. AFL and CIO truck drivers have agreed to honor the picket line, he said.
The strike was authorized Monday when 109 of the prison's 197 guards voted to walk out unless state officials recognized their independent guards union.
Merlin W. Griffith, union vice president, warned earlier last night that the strike would take place unless Gov. George N. Craig agreed to meet with union leaders by 7 a.m. this morning.
State officials maintained that an attorney general's ruling barred them from recognizing unions in state institutions and that no changes in prison conditions can be made until the legislature meets next January.
The guards have complained that they are required to work a sevent-day week at salaries as low as $245 a month. Warden Ellis admitted the prison staff was "woefully inadequate."
Authors of the 160-page study are Dr. Edward O. Stene, professor of political science at KU., now on leave as director of the governmental research bureau of the University of the Phillipines in Manila; and Dr. William H. Cape, now associate professor of political science at the University of South Dakota. They prepared the history while Dr. Cape was studying for the doctorate degree and teaching at KU.
Research Center Releases Study
An administrative history of State Civil Service in Kansas has been released by the Governmental Research Center at the University.
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YMCA Names KU Revue Staff
Publications Travels Shown
Appointed to new positions were; director, John Ryberg, fine arts sophomore; assistant business manager, Allen Sweeny, engineering sophomore; assist stage manager, Dean Matthews, engineering junior; stage managera, Dick Murray, engineering sophomore; publicity director, Shirley Lytle, education junior; assistant publicity managers, Rollin Peschka, journalism junior, and Bryce Cooke, college sophomore.
A production staff for this year's Rock Chalk Revue has been appointed from a list of almost 22 applicants, Bill Allaway, YMCA secretary, announced today.
The world-wide publications exchange program and the travels of Sir John Mandeville are the two exhibits on display in Watson library during October.
Norman Capps, business senior,
producer; Joe Muller, college juni-
tor, assistant producer; and Chuck
Goldenberg, business senior,
business manager, were appointed by
the YMCA last year.
On display are a map showing the location of 700 foreign and 500 American educational institutions from which KU receives approximately 4,500 subscriptions a year, examples of publications which KU send to more than 1,800 educational institutions, gift subscriptions to publications which require no exchange, and an example of publications from ichtheology departments over the world.
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Exhibited in the reference room are writings of Sir Thomas Mandeville, 15th century fiction writer. Two of the earliest printed editions are on a microfilm reel filmed for the KU library by the Library of Congress.
The Inter - Fraternity council named Emil L. Telfel, associate professor of journalism, as faculty adviser and set up a committee to investigate student seating at football games at a regular meeting last night, Prof. Telfel succeeds Lt. Joseph D. Faull, USN.
IFC Names Telfel Faculty Adviser
Joe Steinbacher, business junior; Joe Galbright, engineering senior; Crandall Melia, Pharmacy junior; Bob Worcester, engineering senior; and Bill Sayler, college sophomore, were named to a committee to investigate the possibility of enlarging the student section at football games. The committee will also study the "block" seating system by which members of an organized group may get special tickets allowing them to sit together.
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Washington — (U.P.)— America has done much to get set for possible attack by A-bomb and H-bomb.
Get Ready for Anything Say Civil Defense Experts
Civil defense planners base everything they do on one grim assumption—that Russia can nut every potential target city in America with atomic weapons.
Much remains to be done in whatever amount of the time is left.
Even if no attack comes, preparation for it will have been worthwhile, officials say. Their theory:
Effective civil defense can make a potential target less worth hitting than one where no defenses would make the casualties and chaos greater.
So a strong civil defense, like a powerful strategic air command, is a deterrent to attack.
The best defense, assuming sufficient advance warning, is evacuation of targets, the planners said.
At least 40 U.S. cities already are making "urban vulnerability studies" to find out what evacuation plans and other measures will work best.
Stockpiles of emergency equipment and supplies are being increased, preparations are being made to care for survivors. 4.5 million trained workers have been mobilized, and more than 100 emergency hospitals of 200 beds each are available for storing near target cities. The federal Civil Defense administration hopes to get approval of at least 537 similar hospitals this year.
States and cities have put up nearly $15 million in funds matched by the federal government for civil defense equipment.
FCDA and other agencies have supplied states and cities with detailed plans for carrying out their bomb-day responsibilities. They have given instructions on how to strengthen buildings against shock and flying debris, and on what kind of shelters, private or public, would stand up best in areas of less than total destruction.
The army and FCDA have provided field kitchen training in the feeding of large numbers of persons quickly and with a minimum of supplies.
The office of industrial mobilization has a defense program for manufacturing centers. It is encouraging dispersal of new plants outside recognized target areas, and strengthening of plants inside target regions, by offering fast tax writeoffs.
ISA to Operate Lost-Found Setup
The Independent Student association will operate a lost and found department for the convenience of all students, 3 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, in the ISA office in the Student Union.
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