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Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
52nd Year. No. 14
Monday, October 4, 1954
Wilson Appointed Housing Director
Joseph J. Wilson of Lawrence will become director of housing at the University, effective Oct. 15.
Mr. Wilson has been general manager of the Rapid Transit company the past three years. Although he will retain a part ownership in that company, he will devote full time to his University position.
He previously was administrative assistant to the chancellor for physical plant operations for two and one-half years, leaving that post Jan. 1, 1952, when he became a partner in the transportation firm.
Robert Van Der Meid, director of dormitories the past year and a half, has resigned, effective Dec. 1. He will move to Long Beach, Calif., to accept a sales position in the institutional management field.
Mr. Wilson will be responsible for the entire student and faculty housing program, both current operations and future development. He will report directly to the office of the chancellor.
Although permanent facilities for 200 men are be built and contracts may be let this month for a unit serving 440 women, KU now has permanent dormitories only for about 400 persons, all women. About 400 more units are classed as temporary and are in need of immediate replacement.
Since KU's share in the state educational building fund will be needed to develop the physical plant for the anticipated enrollment, the expansion of student housing must come from gifts and revenue bonds paid by dormitory earnings.
Mr. Wilson is a native of Pittsburg. He managed the Lawrence Transit company from 1935 until 1949 when he became an assistant to Chancellor Deane W. Malott. He is a past president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and is active in civic affairs.
Drunks May Sue If Sprayed
Los Angeles—(U.P.)—The Los Angeles City Council unanimously adopted a resolution yesterday asking the police department to keep sleeping drunks off the City Hall lawn. A suggestion to "turn the sprinklers on them" was rejected. The city fathers feared the inebriates might catch cold and sue.
JOE WILSON
Parent's Day Attracts1,800
Jayhawk drive was packed, and organized houses were overflowing Saturday as about 1,820 parents of new students attended the third annual Parents' day.
Parents saw both the academic and social sides of KU. In the morning they toured schools and departments of the University and talked with staff members. They met the chancellor, the dean of students, and the deans of men and women at an informal reception.
The parents ate lunch with their sons and daughters in organized houses and sat in the student section during the football game. Chancellor Murphy welcomed them to KU, and the band saluted them during the halftime. Fathers and sponsors of the football players sat on the team's bench and were introduced to the crowd.
Nine Powers Restore German Sovereignty
Lawrence eating places were filled Saturday night with students and their parents. Many students took their parents to a movie, and some even went dancing. O n e father made an appropriate comment for the day, when, in a rather tired voice, he said, "Oh, to be 18 again!"
MU Investigates Riot of 400 at Beta Fraternity
Columbia, Mo. — (U.J.P.)—University of Missouri officials today sought to determine what and who were behind a barrage of bottles and potatoes that pelted the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house here.
Police called it a riot in which an estimated 400 students participated. University officials called it regrettable. Whatever it was required the services of the entire Columbia police force, plus auxiliary enforcement units.
Preliminary surveys of damage revealed numerous broken windows in the Beta house, a smashed windshield on a police car, a lawn littered with debris, and two students, both Betas, nursing minor injuries. They were too close to a window when a bottle arrived, police said.
Two members of a rival fraternity, Phi Delta Theta, were at liberty on $50 bonds, Andrew Hudson LaForce, Columbia, was charged with throwing bottles "after he was told to go home." Tom David Eilers, Omaha, was charged with resisting arrest. Police said he and three companions had tried to free LaForce from the police car.
Differing views on what started the four-hour free-for-all early yesterday ranged from a long-standing feud between the Betas and the neighboring Phi Delts, to an incident that "just grew, like gold-fish eating and panty raids."
Jack Matthews, dean of students, said it was broader than a two-fraternity dispute and that "ceritally representatives of more than two organizations were involved." He added he was looking for "evidence of organized action."
He said he would be interviewing students all day in his office.
OH, DADDY!-One of the many special features of Parents' day Saturday was the playing by the band of several numbers for the parents. In this halftime picture, the band formed the word, "Dad," as it played a selection for the fathers. Shown on the bench in the foreground are fathers of the KU players, each with his son's number on a card on his back.
London—The United States, Britain, and seven Western European nations formally agreed yesterday to give West Germany its sovereignty and the right to controlled rearmament.
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SEN. ARTHUR CAPPER
ArthurCapper To Journalism Hall of Fame
The election of the late Sen. Arthur Capper of Topeka to the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame was announced during the Editor's Day program Saturday and Dean Burton W. Marvin of the School of Journalism.
Senator Capper, five times United States senator and former governor, died in 1951, and became eligible for election this year. He is the 38th Kansas editor thus honored since 1931. Selection was made by members of the Quarter Century club of Kansas editors. The Hall of Fame was established at KU in 1931.
The Capper Publications include the Topeka Daily Capital, the Kansas City Kansan, Capper's Weekly, Capper's Farmer, Household, five state farm papers, radio stations WIBW in Topeka and KCKN in Kansas City, and WIBW-TV.
A picture of Senator Capper will be hung in the Hall of Fame in the Journalism building.
one hundred forty-six persons attended the Editors' day event and heard George Matthew Adams, president of the George Matthew Adams syndicate in New York and donor of the William Allen White first edition collections to the University, give an informal anecdotal account of "William Allen White As I Knew Him."
Preceding Mr. Adams' talk was the traditional wrangle session in which the editors discussed some current newspaper problems. The session was presided over by Wharton Hoch, editor of the Marion Record-Review.
DiMaggio, Marilyn Split
Hollywood—(U.P.)-Film star Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio, whose marriage had been considered one of Hollywood's top matings, have separated, her studio announced today.
Entomologists Plan Picnic
The Entomology club will hold its annual fall picnic and initiation of new members from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday. The picnic will be held at Potter lake pavilion.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said the agreement, reached after a six-day conference, was stronger than the European Defense community, the joint Western European defense plan killed by the French National assembly.
The pledge by Britain to commit four British divisions and a tactical air group to Europe until 1998 gave the new agreement added strength, Secretary Dulles said, before flying home to the United States.
France remained the most doubtful as to the final action its assembly will take. However, French sources said Premier Pierre Mendes-France was ready to stake the life of his government on ratification. This he did not do when EDC was defeated.
The 47-year-old premier flew back to Paris last night. The sources said he planned to push for assembly ratification of the agreement before the end of the year.
Premier Mendes-France insists that a Franco-German agreement be reached on the Saar coal basin before the German rearmament treaty goes before the French parliament, the sources said.
The treaty will:
1. Restore West German sovere-
eity as soon as possible.
3. Expand the 1948 Brussels mutual defense and economic treaty to include Germany and Italy.
1. Restore West German,
eighty as soon as possible.
2. Permit controlled rearmament
of Germany. As under the EDC,
500,000 Germans will be armed in
12 divisions, and a tactical air
force of 80,000 men and a coastal
navy of 20,000 men created.
4. Admit Germany to the North Atlantic treaty organization. The eight NATO members at the talks will recommend to the Oct. 22 meeting of the NATO Council of Ministers that Germany be made a member of the alliance.
5. Ban the manufacture in West Germany, under a declaration made by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, of atomic biological and chemical weapons as well as guided missiles, warships over 3,000 tons, submarines of more than 350 tons and bombers.
6. Set up a Brussels treaty agency to control the level of armament stocks in each country, and police the manufacture of certain armaments.
7. Provide powers to the NATO supreme commander (now U.S. Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther) to control the movement of troops under his command in peace as well as in war. Thus, Italy would not move troops to the Yugoslav border as she did last winter with NATO's permission.
Weather
Considerable cloudiness is expected over most of Kansas today and tomorrow. Scattered showers and
thunder st o r m are expected in the south a n d east central portions of the state due to the same period. Cooler temperatures will follow the rainy spell. The temperatures today
will be in the 70s in the north to 90 to 95 in the south, and the lows will range from 45 to 50 in the north to near 70 in the south. Heat records were broken yesterday in Chicago, when the mercury rose to 91 degrees.