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Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
Monday, Sept. 27, 1954
52nd Year, No. 9
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
—Kansan photo by Harold Tretbar
READY, HIT-IT!—Fifty-one high school bands Saturday filled the football field to play the National Anthem prior to the game. The bands, which had no preliminary rehearsal, were in the city for the annual high school band day and also participated in the centennial parade that morning.
University Plans Fete For Students' Parents
The University will be thrown open to the parents of the approximately 1,500 new students here Saturday in annual Parents' day events.
Kim Giffin, associate speech professor, and Stitt Robinson Jr. assistant professor of history, co-charimen, have planned the program so parents may see their children "at home" at KU.
The highlight of the day will b. the Colorado game. Tickets can be purchased by parents for $2 during registration from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Grade and high school students can buy tickets at the north end of the stadium for $1. Prof. Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and orchestra, is planning a special half-time ceremony honoring the parents.
All schools, departments, and divisions of the University will hold open house from 9 am. to noon. Staff members and advisers will be present to talk with new students and their parents. The Student Health service, Guidance bureau educational and speech clinics, and the library will be open.
Parents will meet the chancellor, the dean of students, and the deans of men and women at an informal reception at 10 a.m. in Spooner- Thayer museum.
Organized houses will serve buffet luncheons to parents, and the Union Cafeteria will be open.
Registration desks will be located in the Union, Spooner-Thayer museum, the information booth, Strong hall, North College, and at the east side of Memorial stadium. Members of KuKus will register parents, and Jay Janes will pin label badges.
All departments are cooperating to make the third annual Parents Day as successful as in the -past two years, Mr. Giffin said.
The following professors will sell tickets: Kenneth Beasley a n d Rhoten Smith, instructors of political science; George Beckman, assistant professor of history; Frank Nelick and Walter Meserve, assistant professors of English; Dayle Bockhorn, instructor in engineering, and Karl Edwards, assistant professor in engineering.
Richard Jordison, instructor of architecture; William Crews, assistant instructor of speech; Harold Pontius, accountant; Albert Palmerlee, professor of engineering drawing; Richard Wintermote, secretary of the Alumni association, and Walter Mikols, assistant professor of physical education
Science Displays Viewed by 700
About 700 persons visited the centennial entomology department open house Friday and Saturday, the exhibition marking the 100th year of professional entomology.
A display of Chinese cricket cages was loaned by the Nelson-Atkins Gallery of Art of Kansas City, Mo. The crickets are kept in the cages to provide music and later sport in cricket fights.
A living black widow spider attracted attention with her mass of offspring which hatched Friday morning. A colony of more than 20,000 human body lice was viewed through a microscope. The department uses them for research, feeding them on rabbit's blood.
Living bumble bees and yellow jacket wasps, dug up in Lawrence, also were displayed. Carl Rettemeyer, graduate student, found the bees in an abandoned mouse nest. In connection with the anniversary, the botany department also held an open house.
Whirligig beetles from the Lawrence area swam through water containers. Their two sets of eyes enable above and below surface vision.
A nine-year-old Cattleys orchid's growth was traced from its original pod. The plant had blossomed for the second time.
Pathogenic fungi, species of penicillium, primitive molds, and exotic lichens were shown. The plant diseases research, being conducted now in Kansas, was explained.
Baseball Owners Meet Tomorrow On Fate of A's
Kansas City, Mo.—(U.P.)—Chicago realtor Arnold Johnson left today for the meeting of American league club owners in New York saying he felt he had better than a 50-50 chance of obtaining the Philadelphia Athletics there tomorrow.
Mr. Johnson spent Sunday in Kansas City settling terms of sale and lease of the Kansas City Blues stadium, which he owns, with a special stadium committee.
Possible transfer of the Athletics franchise to Kansas City has been in a state of suspension since August, when the city voted to purchase and expand the stadium now occupied by the Blues, a New York Yankee club.
Mr. Johnson left predicting a long-awaited settlement of the fate of the A's tomorrow. He said he expected Roy Mack, reportedly a stumbling block to a decision by the Mack family to sell, to attempt to postpone settlement in his effort to gain financial backing to keep the A's in Philadelphia.
The ball park realtor said there have been times, "I must admit, when I have been tempted to drop the deal. But I have been encouraged by various factors to go on... Tuesday we should solve this thing one way or the other."
But he expected better than an even chance of a favorable vote despite opposition from Clark Griffith and Senators to a shift to Kansas City.
Terms of the lease that were discussed yesterday with Mr. Johnson were to be presented to an emergency meeting of the city council today.
One member of the committee going to New York, John McDermott, called on baseball fans in this area to register their support of the move by wire to league President Will Harridge.
The committee, appointed by Mayor William E. Kemp, included Mr. McDermott, City Manager L. P. Cookingham, chamber of commerce President Karl Koerper, Councilman Robert J. Benson, and Don Jackson, Les Milgram, president of the Ban Johnson baseball league, and Ernest Mehl, sports editor of the Kansas City Star.
Committee Asks McCarthy Censure
Spicy Words Stole Show At Hearings
Washington - (U.P) - Capsul summary of the nine-day hearing from which the Senate census committee drew material for it report today:
Charge—Sen. McCarthy, abused his fellow senators with "vulgar and base language," calling Sen. Ralph E. Flanders (R-Vt.) "senile" characterizing Robert C. Hendrickson (R-N.J.) as a "living miracle without brains or guts," and accusing members of a 1951-52 Senate elections subcommittee of "improper conduct."
Reply—Sen, McCarthy, said he had a "perfect right" to call Sen. Flanders "senile," because Sen. Flanders had criticized him. Sen McCarthy said Sen. Hendrickson's actions on the elections group "justified." the "living miracle" statement. And he insisted the elections subcommittee report was "completely dishonest."
Reply—Sen. McCarthy admitted that he told Gen. Zwicker he was not to wear that uniform. Sen. McCarthy said Zwicker was “one of the most arrogant, most evasive, . . and most irritating” witnesses he ever saw.
Charge—McCarthy impugned the loyalty and defamed Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker during a secret subcommittee session in New York.
Charge—McCarthy "incited" government employees to violate law by acting as his personal informants.
Reply—McCarthy repeated his plea to government employees to give him information about wrongdoing in governmentism or treason in the, government.
Charge-He "contempuously" refused to comply with the request of a 1951-52 Senate elections subcommittee to appear and answer charges against him.
Reply—He claimed the subcommittee was acting outside its legal jurisdiction, was illegally spending the taxpayers money to investigate his background before he was a senator, and that it submitted a "completely dishonest" report.
KU Players Elect Offcers
Shirley Lytle, college junior, was elected secretary-treasurer of University Players recently. Jane Pecinovsky and Joan Ryan, college sophomores, were elected social chairmen. Joe Nickson will be the new house manager for the Studio theater.
Weather
Kansas temperatures today were substantially above late September
normal levels for the second straight day, and weatherman P. N. Eland says little change can be expected. K a n s as warmed up more than any other state Sunday in comparison
with Saturday temperatures. T h e high was 93 at Hutchinson. A warm night found minimums at 67 degrees in Concordia and Wichita. The coolest spot in Kansas was Good-land, with a low of 54. Some widely scattered thunderstorms should develop in far Western Kansas late today. Eland said. Northern counties may get some moisture tomorrow.
» Washington — (U.P.) A special Senate committee unanimously recommended today that the Senateensure Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy(R-Wis.) on two grounds—for contempt of the Senate and for abusing an Army general.
The Senate has been called back into session Nov. 8 to consider the recommendations of the six-man censure committee headed by Sen. Arthur V. Wakfins (R-Utah.)
The committee spent nine days from Aug. 1 to Sept. 13 hearing five general censure charges against the Wisconsin Republican. In today's 68-page report it criticized him in strong terms for his conduct in connection with three of the charges but did not propose censure on those counts. The two charges on which the committee did recommend censure were:
1. ) That Sen. McCarthy was in contempt of the Senate when he failed to appear before a 1951-52 elections subcommittee that investigated his finances and other activities.
On the other three counts in the "indictment" against Sen. McCarthy the committee found:
2) That he abused Brig. Gen.
Ralph W. Zwicker, World War II
combat hero and former commander
of Camp Kilmer, N. J.
1. ) That charges Sen. McCarthy encouraged federal employees to violate their oath or executive orders, "do not, under all the evidence, justify a resolution of censure." But it said his conduct in inviting federal employees to supply him secret information "cannot be condoned and is deemed improper."
2. ) That charges he improperly received and used secret government information do not justify censure. But the committee said he "committed a grave error" in this respect.
The last time the Senate censured a member was Nov. 2, 1929, when it voted 54-22 to censure Sen. Hiram W. Bingham (R-Conn.) for taking a tariff lobbyist into a closed meeting of the Senate Finance committee, which was considering tariff legislation.
3. ) That he used abusive language toward some of his Senate colleagues does not warrant censure. But the committee said his remarks about Sen. Ralph Flanders (R.-Vt). whom he had called senile, "were highly improper." But the investigators said Sen. McCarthy's remarks were brought about by Sen. Flanders" conduct in respect" to him.
Washington — (U.P.)— Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy is prepared to wage a "vigorous and lengthy" fight in the Senate against the recommendation that he be censured, his lawyer said today.
But the lawyer said it would be "mere speculation" for him to predict how long.
The attorney, Edward Bennett Williams, told newsmen he "of course" thinks the report of the Senate's special censure committee is wrong "where it recommends censure."
Mr. Williams repeated his argument, made originally during the censure hearings, that it is against all precedent for the Senate to censure a member for conduct during a previous Congress.
"If Sen. McCarthy did anything wrong, it was the duty of these senators to rise on Jan. 3 (1953, when Sen. McCarthy was seated) and call attention to it." he said.