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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 11, 1954
Democrats Push to Add Alaska; Chavez Election Still Contested
Washington — (U,P)— The Senate was expected to vote before nightfall today on a Democratic-sponsored move to alaa Alaska to a GOP-backed bill to make Hawaii the 49th state.
The fate of Hawaii's statehood hopes may hinge on the outcome of the vote which is expected to be close. Republican leaders have warned that the House-passed Hawaiian statehood bill would be jeopardized if Alaska is tied to it.
Most Democrats were expected to support the move to lump the territories into a single statehood package while Republicans generally were expected to oppose it. Both sides were reluctant to predict the outcome.
The Senate scheduled an early session and several hours of debate was expected before the first key vote in the week-old debate is reached.
President Eisenhower threw his support behind GOP efforts to keep the bills separated at his news conference yesterday. He said he personally favors the plan to have separate Senate votes on the two issues.
Democrats contend that Republicans want Hawaii admitted because it normally votes Republican and probably elect two GOP senators.
However. Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland said "any possible partisan advantage" is of no importance to him. He said he would actively support statehood for normally Democratic Alaska and renewed his pledge to bring that measure before the Senate "at an early date."
Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D-N.M.), author of the merger motion, said "I think we are all right." But Knowland and Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson would go no further than predicting a "close vote."
Sen. Knowland and chairman Hugh Butler (R-Neb.) of the Senate interior committee said a merger of the two bills would hurt the chances of either territory being admitted as a state. Sen. Butler said each should be considered on its own merits.
Anti-Red Drive Urged by Dulles
Caracas, Venezuela—(U.P.)—T he U.S. pressed today for quick action in the campaign against Communist infiltration of the Western hemisphere, fearful that Latin American wrangling on side issues may delay the crucial anti-Red drive.
Perhaps in response to U.S. urgency, the committee conducting hearings on the U.S. anti-Communist resolution scheduled double sessions today and tomorrow, meeting afternoons as well as mornings.
Peru and Ecuador dragged their long-standing border dispute into yesterday's meeting of the committee, starting an argument that was ended only by adjournment of the session.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles hopes for a showdown vote on the anti-Communist issue before the weekend. He told a reporter he has not set a date for his departure for Washington, but that he expects his airplane here today to "stand by."
The length of future debates on the anti-Communist issue may be clarified when Guatemalan Foreign Minister Guillermo Toriello speaks at one of two committee sessions. He has voiced opposition to the U.S. resolution, and might offer one of his own if he thought it could block the rapid action wanted by Mr. Dulles.
American officials are confident they will gain majority support for their resolution, although it probably will be amended. The measure condemns Communist intervention in the hemisphere, calls for emergency consultation if it spreads, and sets up machinery to uncover Red agents and their propaganda.
Name-Dropper
East Haven, Conn. — (U,P)— A bible salesman was using his name without authority as a reference until a warning was issued to fellow townsmans by Police Chief Edward B. Priest.
Mightiest Explosion Ever Expected in Pacific Soon
Honolulu—(U.P.)-The mightiest nuclear explosion in history is expected to take place on remote Eniwetok island in the Pacific sometime between Monday and March 28.
Chairman Lewis Strauss of the Atomic Energy commission is reported due in the Pacific between those dates. They roughly fit the travel schedules of others known or believed to be among guests invited to witness the tests.
The government announced March 1 that the 1954 series of nuclear tests had begun at the Lonely-eniwetok-Bikini proving grounds, which al-
though have been lands wiped out by the explosion of a hydrogen device in the 1952 tests.
Favorable weather and the absence of some high-ranking guests appeared to be the only factors delaying the test detonation.
Two members of the joint congressional committee on atomic energy passed through Honolulu Tuesday to task force 7 at Enuwetok.
The device to be tested this month is the 1992 device, the violation of the 1992 device.
- Washington —(U.P.)— The GOP majority of the Senate elections subcommittee will make a recommendation of "no election" in the disputed 1952 New Mexico senate bid in Iowa in 1953. Sen. Dennis Chavez was declared winner, an informed source said last night.
One member, Rep. Chet Holifield (D-Calif.) said the weather would determine how long he would be in the test area.
He said he was not free to discuss whether he would see the main detonation, which Washington reports indicated would be an air-dropped hydrogen bomb.
The Honolulu weather bureau refused to discuss specific weather conditions in the Marshall islands. Other reports indicated the general
With Rep. Holifeld was Sen, John O. Pastore (D-K.I.), Other Washing-
ton reports said more congressional leaders leave for the Pacific this weekend.
If the full Senate should adopt the report the effect would be to unseat Sen. Chavez, New Mexico Gov. Edward Mechem, a Republican, could fill the vacancy by appointment until next November when a special election would be held.
It has been generally accepted that previous nuclear tests in the Pacific were conducted only when northeast trade winds were blowing. They usually come with clearing weather toward the end of March and continue into April and May.
southwest Pacific area was getting rain yesterday, with prevailing west winds.
However, in a showdown on the Senate floor, the veteran New Mexico Democrat probably would be the winner. Democrats, who hold a 48 to 47 voting edge over the Republicans, would likely give him solid support and they might pick up the vote of independent Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon.
The giant B-36 bombers which, according to indications from Washington, would be used to make America's first H-bomb drop have not been seen in Hawaii.
Sen. Chavez, who has served in the Senate since 1935, was declared winner in the 1952 election over Republican Patrick J. Hurley, former ambassador to China, by about 5,000 votes. Mr. Hurley contested the election on charges of fraud.
However, the B-36's have a nonstop flying range of some 10,000 miles and could easily bypass Hawaii.
"I have just recently finished attending a school where special nuclear weapons were discussed as to their potentials and if this is the big one, I want to be 8,000 or 80,000 miles away when it goes off.
One Marine officer, asked his view of the impending tests, said he did not know if, when, or how the bomb will be exploded. He added:
Under a "no election" ruling, Mr. Hurley would not get the vacant seat should the Senate vote to unseat Sen. Chavez.
"From what I gathered, nobody knows for sure how big a bang each new bomb will make until after it goes off."
Republicans on the committee are chairman Frank A. Barrett (Wyo.) and Sen. Charles E. Potter (Mich.). Sen. Barrett would not comment on the subcommittee report except to say that it has been finished and may be made public today.
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The Democratic member of the subcommittee is Sen. Thomas E. Hennings (Mo.) who is expected to file a minority report asserting that Sen. Chavez was the legal winner.
Before the subcommittee report can go to the Senate floor for final action, it must be approved by the parent rules committee. It could be pigeonholed there.
The informed source said the majority report would declare that a canvass of the vote showed Mr. Hurley ahead of Sen. Chavez on the basis of limited corrections which take into account allegedly fraudulent ballots.
The source said, however, the subcommittee's decision against declaring in favor of either Mr. Hurley or Sen. Chavez would be based on the Senate's action last session in cutting off subcommittee funds before a statewide canvass of the vote could be completed.
School Colors Result Of Years of Wrangling
The rules committee, meanwhile, tentatively called a meeting for next Tuesday to consider Sen. Barrett's subcommittee report. Democrats, irked by the 14-month delay, are so eager to settle the issue that they have threatened to force the report out of committee if it is not sent to the floor promptly.
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"Far above the golden valley crimson and the blue . . ." These colors are automatically associated with KU in '54. But it took months of wrangling before the combination became official at Mt. Oread.
Back in the 1880's, there were few occasions to warrant the display of school colors; since intercollegiate digs were usually unknown. When those rare times occurred, maize yellow and sky blue were used. Where and when these colors came into existence remains a mystery. One theory is that they were the symbols of the first graduating class. Another says that oratorical team members identified themselves by being pinned with yellow and sky blue ribbons.
cheers besides. It was too much trouble to shout, "Fight on for the glory of the maize yellow and the sky blue."
When athletics became popular in the early 1890's somebody brought up the question of suitable KU colors. This point was kicked around in numerous campus bull sessions until it was agreed that yellow and blue were too delicate to decorate football and baseball uniforms. And they fouled up the
What the school needed yellow and blue foes urged, was something flaming, something "crazy." Crimson was picked by a wide majority. A few say Harvard had some influence in the selection since student newspapers in the area often referred to KU as the "Harvard of the West." And the Harvards were nicknamed "The Crimsons."
The athletic board decided on Oct. 19, 1891, to adopt crimson as the official color for the football team. But a few diehards still preferred yellow and blue. The University Courier then suggested that both combinations be given a trial at the Missouri game in Kansas City.
Crimson and blue or crimson and black combinations were nominated. Debates raged through the campus during the 1895-96 school year Finally in May 1896, the athletic board adopted crimson and blue as the official school colors. They've stuck ever since.
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