25,000-a-Month To Be Drafted Starting July 1
Mr. Stevens also told a Senate Military Appropriations subcommittee that it will be necessary to continue the draft as long as the Army maintains a strength of more than 600,000 men.
During the fiscal year starting July 1. Mr. Stevens said, the Army
Draft Test Interest Shown
An increased amount of interest in the Selective Service College Qualification tests was evident when the registrar's office received a great many requests for applications; James K. Hitt, registrar, said. The deadline for the applications to be placed in the mail was Monday, March 8. Any student who failed to obtain an application or who has any questions or problems concerning the test is welcome to make an appointment, the registrar said.
will have to draft nearly 300,000 men
Draft calls have been running at the rate of 18,000 men monthly for the past several months. In July, however, the Army enters a year of heavy personnel turnover.
Although Army strength is to be cut by about 250,000 men in the coming fiscal year, Mr. Stevens said manpower losses through men getting out of service will exceed this reduction in strength.
The "New Look" military strategy calls for the Army to be reduced to slightly more than 1,000,000 men compared with the present strength of about 1,400,000 men.
'Mr. Formal' Search Starts
The annual "Mr. Formal" contest got under way at the University today. The contest, sponsored by After Six Formal Wear, is to determine the best formal-dressed man on the campus.
Applications for the contest will be accepted from all men's organizations, fraternities, athletic, or independent groups. Each group will choose one man to represent them. Each entrant will be photographed at a local campus shop in a new dinner jacket. Final judging will determine who will be "Mr. Formal."
Judges for the contest will be coeds from the campus, and judging will be based on each man's appearance in the dinner jacket. Entrants will be based solely on neatness and general all-around appearance. Final judging will be held during the week of March 23.
First prize in the contest will be a complete After Six summer formal outfit. Other prizes are a lighter, a complete formal set, and a white briar pipe.
For details on how to enter a representative persons interested can contact Dave Riley or Jerry Jurden, journalism juniors.
Hob-Nail Hop Set For Friday Night
The Hob-Nail Hop, engineers semi-formal ball, will be held Friday from 9 p.m. to midnight in the Student Union ballroom.
Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
The dance is sponsored by the Engineering Council's Engineering association. Music will be furnished by the Varsity Crew.
Lit Ning Ma, engineering senior and council president, said all council members are selling tickets. Admission for Engineering association members will be $1 per couple and non-member admissions will be $1.75 per couple.
Students Resent Race Bias, Poll Shows
Three of four students on the campus are opposed to discriminatory practices in theaters and restaurants, according to a poll taken during the enrollment period for the spring semester.
The poll was released Saturday by Jayhawk Brotherhood, an interracial group seeking to eliminate discrimination.
Approximately half of the student body took part in the poll, which was conducted by passing out mimeographed ballots to students in the enrollment line.
The ballots read, "Racial discrimination is now practiced in the theaters and most of the restaurants in Lawrence. Are you for or against this policy?"
Students were asked to check one of the three choices provided: (1) For, (2) Against, (3) No Opinion. They were asked to indicate their
The actual data shows a total of 3,479 students polled with 2,630 (75.6 per cent) against discrimination in theaters and restaurants, while 361 (10.4 per cent) were for discrimination, and 488 (14 per cent) expressed no opinion.
school and class. Students in the Law and Medical schools who did not go through the regular enrollment lines were contacted in their classes.
The per cent vote against discrimination was fairly constant for all schools except the Schools of Law and Education which cast votes against discrimination of 38 and 50 per cent respectively. The Graduate school had the highest per cent vote against discrimination—89.9 per cent.
The poll in regard to classification was:
Freshmen: of a total 741 polled.
Sophomores: of a total 561 polled, 418 voted against, 63 for, and 80 had no opinion.
549 voted against discrimination, 86
for, and 106 had no opinion.
Juniors: of a total 544 polled, 426 voted against, 50 for, and 68 had no opinion.
Seniors: of a total 375 polled, 268 voted against, 47 for, and 59 had no opinion.
The poll in regard to schools was:
Business: 143 polled, 100 against,
19 for, and 24 with no opinion.
Education; 90 polled, 45 against,
19 for, and 26 with no opinion.
College: 1,125 polled, 882 against,
111 for, and 132 with no opinion.
111 for, and 132 with no opinion:
Engineering: 522 polled, 359 against, 68 for, and 95 with no opinion.
Fine Arts: 225 polled, 180 against,
23 for, and 22 with no opinion.
Graduate: 196 polled, 174 against,
8 for, and 14 with no opinion.
Journalism: 36 polled, 30 against,
2 for, and 4 with no opinion.
Law: 111 polled, 65 against, 22
for, and 14 with no opinion
Medical freshmen: 96 polled, 68 against, 17 for, and 11 with no opinion.
Pharmacy: 41 polled, 27 against,
6 for, and 8 with no opinion.
Discrimination existing in Lawrence restaurants was shown earlier by Jayhawk Brotherhood when it conducted a survey of the rest. The survey consisted of询问 the question, "Do you serve Negroes at tables?"
Five of a total of 38 restaurants did not discriminate. Three of these five were owned by Negroes, and of the remaining two, only one served Negroes without restrictions.
51st Year, No. 107
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thirty-seven miles from the present highway route distance between Topeka and Wichita should be eliminated by the road. It was
—Kansan photo by Wilson Ayars
AII, SPRING!—Two campus monuments, one usually prominent and conspicuous, the other hidden in a glen west of Potter lake are shown here. In the distance is the World War II Memorial campanile, erected to preserve the memory of those who died in the war. In the right foreground is a garbage can, "erected" to erase the memory of those who might otherwise strew their leavings all over the picnic area.
$140 Million Turnpike Cost OK'd-1957 Seen as 1st Year
Topeka—(U.P.)—The Kansas Turnpike Authority was told today that a 234-mile super-highway would cost $140,000,000, but could be paid for from toll revenues in 19 years from a projected 1957 start of operation.
The authority authorized a final, written engineering report leading to the sale of bonds and, perhaps, to a construction start this year.
The New York firm conducted a traffic study and investigation on whether the contemplated highway would pay for itself. The Kansas City engineers estimated the cost of the road.
The route outlined is from Kansas City, Kan, by Topeka and Wichita to the Oklahoma line at a point where a planned turnpike from Oklahoma City will terminate.
Preliminary reports by two engineering firms were presented orally to the authority in the state Senate chamber.
The overall average toll charge for the route route was placed on 17.7 cents, imml.
Kansas City to Topeka: 75 cents.
Kansas City to Wichita: $1.15.
Joseph Sorkin of Kansas City gave the Authority the $140,000,000 total cost estimate. He said the per-mile cost would be 35 per cent greater than the Turner turnipke in Oklahoma and 50 per cent higher than the Denver-Boulder turnipke in Colorado.
estimated passenger cars using the turnpike would save 86 minutes—nearly an hour and a half—in driving time between the two cities.
Forecasts of traffic flow and transportation are based on tentative schedule of toll charges.
Between Kansas City and Topeka the saving would be six miles and 18 minutes.
Monday. March 15, 1954
Dean Paul B. Lawson of the college was reported "still fair" today by his doctor after he saw the dean at 10 a.m. Nurses at Watkins Memorial hospital reported that Dean Lawson had a "fairly good night."
Lawson Condition Called 'Still Fair'
Scott City (U.P.)—Officials of dust-damaged western Kansas counties gathered today with state and federal officials to work out details on a concerted campaign to curb wind erosion of valuable topsoil.
The money can be used to buy county no-fund warrants issued to pay for the work. Tax levies will have to be issued to take up the warrants next year or later.
Anti-dust Plan To Be Proposed
The meeting was called by Gov. Edward F. Arn after the Agriculture department in Washington assured Kansas it would furnish the necessary cash—on a loan basis—for organized working of the land to minimize the blowing dust danger in times of strong winds.
Murphy Dedicates Ness City Hospital
While throwing the meeting open to representatives of any county which has a soil blowing problem, the governor issued special invitations and urged attendance of officials of the westernmost 31 counties of the state.
The meeting delved into how much acreage in each affected county is currently subject to soil blowing and the percentage of acreage the counties probably will have to work, rather than the individual landowners.
Chancellor Murphy, in his address, traced the recent advancement of the medical profession in Kansas. He told the group that death rates from diseases once considered fatal have dropped to record lows through professional advancement and the increase of adequate treatment facilities such as the modern hospital.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy was the principal speaker at dedication ceremonies at the newly completed Ness county hospital yesterday in Ness City.
It would include major structures spanning the Kansas river near Lawrence and the Arkansas river near Wichita There would be 21 bridges over minor streams and 227 grade separation structures.
Statehood Bill May Not Pass
Knowland predicted, however, the
head within the foreseeable future.
Washington—(U.P.)—Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland believes the Senate may not pass the Statehood bill for Alaska and Hawaii this year or next.
Knowland made the statement on former Snell. Blair Moody's Dumont television show "Meet Your Congress" last night. Appearing with him were Snell. Warren Magnuson (D.-Wash.), Sen. George A. Smathers (D.-Fla.), and Joseph R. Farrington, Hawaii's delegate to Congress
Sen. Magnuson advocated giving statehood to Alaska and Hawaii at same time. Sen. Knowland favored statehood for both, but first to Hawaii and later to Alaska. Sen. Farrington argued in behalf of Hawaii without opposing Alaska.
Sen. Smathers opposed admission of either on the ground that no area ever has become a state that was not continuous with the rest of the United States. He opposed admission of Hawaii particularly, mainly because of its large Oriental population.
Kansas was given an "outside chance" for some warmer weather today by state Weatherman Ronnie
Sen. Smathers suggested that any residents of either Alaska or Hawaii who want to become American citizens should come to the United States to live. This can be done, he said, without going through any immigration procedures.
Weather
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it all over, and it
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though the temp-
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go up. I mean, it
being almost
Spring and all."
Lows yesterday
ranged from 15
above, recorded in
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in Spring like
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sit in Brookville
Highs were 45 in Crafton and 60 in Saffordville. Tomorrow, the highs should be up around 45 in western Kansas, but no more than 30 in the eastern end of the state.
Students Invited Out to Lunch Women students from foreign countries were guests of the Omicron chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, national honorary fraternity for women, at a luncheon at the Faculty club Saturday. Dr. Nabih Amin Faris, visiting professor from the University of Beirut, was the guest speaker.